Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1893-08-13
[FnoM TUESDAYS DAILY.l
SALMAGUNDI.
Bar silver is s.1aIk today.


The Union Pacific railroad crosses
nine mountain ranges.
Hon. j. L. Wines aud wife went
west ON No. 4 to-day.
Sheriff Henderson cole sT37 80
for licenses during the month Of July.
Cochran. OF New York, and Rynum,
OF Indiana, will lead the antl.si!ver
forces in the House.
Worlds Far visitors are no LONGER
allowed TO ascend the tower or TO 20
n top Of tho main building.
Phil Trip.ett returned FROM Salt
Lake on No. 4 o.tday. lie looks az
II the trip agreed with him.
The coming session OF Congress,
says the Salt Lake Journal, will be n
bigger show than the Worlds Fair.
The value ~ tho hay crop Ct tho
United Sta'es this year promises TO
DO IT le'ist ten times that Ut the pro-
duction ~ it's silver mines.
A New Jersey man proposes to Cross
the e in a Norwegian xiii, l.
smaller cruft than any navigator has
yet employed "u Il like voyage.
Prayer meeting service, in the
lecture room Of tho Presbyterian
Church tomorrow evening ut ringinL
pf the bell.
Senator Bsckwi,h, Ut Wyoming
has resigned, aud il is rnI, rs,ood
that Governor Osborn has appointed
Hon. A. l.. Now 10 ill the vacancy,
On account Of hard times il il Sail
that churches OF different deuomina-
tons are uniting in Kansas aud dis.
charging all the mini, ters bnt one in
each town.
The Gazette says that w. Is,
Chamberlain relurnod from Quincy
Saturday night suffering from a
stroke OF paralysis affecting his entire
right side.
What must prscsls bIptism?"
asked the rector when cat, cbisins
the Sunday school. "A baby" ~
claimed "A bright boy with the mir oil
one stati' G a self evident truth.
Grasshoppers are go thick east oil
Atkinson, Kun, that u Rock Island
train waI delayed a f.-w minutes last
Wednesday,, 10y the pests getting on
the drive wheels mud causing them 10
slip.
1t is understood that the Southern
Pacific COMPANY has lopped eff -x
p,nss wherever il wRs found posi- bic
II is said IL reelection in the pay roll
Of over 100000 per month has been
made.
W'utermantcl, the J.weler, wants
the people Of Eiko county to know
that he has returned from tho Worlds
Far and is roady fnr business ut th-
Old stand Read his ad. and remem.
Der him when you want anything in
his line.
A heavy Z II "f SNOW occurred in
brewster county, Texas. july 2Sth.
That section has an elevation Of from
400 10 G,000 feet above the sea. but
sncw in July wns never before known
here. II isa stGck-ran IN country
and grass will be greatly benefited
10y the snow
The Treasury Department ycster.
day purchased 10000 ounces Of sill.
e ut ~ cent an ounce, an advance
OIL 10 cents per ounce over the price
paid on Wednesday. The OF ,rs
amounted to 3l2,OW &C. The
purchase thus far for the month ag.
greaies 30o,NO ounce.
A kentucky bride in the sleeping
car started to get a drink OF water
"Whon I come back" che said n her
husband, stick your foot out Of the
berth. 70 tha I will know which il is
The conversation wna audible. When
sii| returned a masculine foot pro.
truded from nearly every berth.
Some time ago m Iowa Cyclone
followed the route OF q railroad for
several miles, md nos there ia n the
orist on deck who proposes TO steer
these storms Gy means Of rails laid
and wires strung for the purp ee, in.
to oPen sections Of the country,
whore t"sy can spend ihsir foruo
without injury.
One morning last week We passed
u blackberry patch md Es~ two ladies
among tho treacl,erous bushes Of
thorns picking berries with mems
pants on, says the Trny"r Advocate,
whereupon the Woodland Mill rice.
to eIclnim that IL is time f"r Yolo
county to shut up shop Ahen Tulare
can produce fruit like that.
II Ia said TINT since Mrs. Lease
started IN with tho Populist move
ment she Is said 10 have cleared her
farm Of Il considerable morgtagc. set
her husband up 10 the drug business,
purchased n city hume la Wichita,
md sent all her children to
expensive schools. She must have
been ''hit" often by silver dollars.
A. Ban,a has about Fifteen acres Of
wheat on his ranch abnut tHo miies
south Of town which will yield over 40
bushels TO tho nero. The grain IL
shout 80 foot high nnd tho hends