Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1893-06-25
tFRoH THURSDAYS DAHL
SALMAGUNDI.

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Bar silver was sl1< yesterday.
Commissioner Russell wss 10 Car
500 yesterday.
John Sparks, OF tho firm OF Sparks
d Harrell, passsd east this morning.
Rev. E. T. Williams was a passsn.
ger on No. 1, to-day. bound for Wads-
worth.
The Tribune says that for the frat
time in thirty years Cursor IL with.
out u faro game.
Geo. Crum. an old resident OF Battle
Mountain. Is dangerously i'll, and bis
recovery 10 doubtful.
DR.. LaFary, tho dentist. always
guarantees satisfaction or no pay re-
CURED. Call when he arrives.
A special train OF members OF the
San Francisco Christian Endeavor
Society passed through last evening.
A number Of young ladies' from
Wadsworth and Reno passed through
last night on route to the Worlds
Fair.
II it DO true, az stated, that Score.
tary Hoke Smith has gained the on
nifty OF every pension attorney in
Washington. it is greatlg to his cred
it.
William Henry, a prosperous farmer
OF Starr Valley. ia at the county scat
today. He informed tho ISoEprSp.
EsT that crops we're very backward in
the valley.
Weston Gilbert, twenty. two years
old, at Jefferson, Ind, has decamped
taking with him his stepmother, aged
thirty-three, and her six children by
q former husband.
Boss-I've lost my time-book, Pat,
and I'll have TO depend upon your
honesty as to how many days you've
put in this MONTH" Pnt-"Well, let
me seei I think it do be 80 SIR"
DR.. j. b. Fitch, OF the Tahoe Mod
ical Co., came up from San F~rancisc,
this morning. The Dr.. looks we'll
aud says his condition ia due to the
fact that no takos his W medicine.
AT u fire in Georgia, there being no
water at hand, some little colored
boys pelted it with water melons
which were growing 10 a neighboring
fold. and the melons bursting soon
quenched tho flames.
Carson'a population is exercised
over the appearance Of q heavily
yelled woman, who nightly appears
on Capitol square and dogs the foot
stops Of pedestrians, but never raises
her veil or condescends 70 utter a
word when accosted.
Loving Internationally, darling.
Should / be prevented from coming
home to supper, I will send you q note
by ID messenger boy. .... .
Trusting Wife-Not at all necessary;
dear; l have already taken it out Of
your coat pocket.
Experiments made in the hygienio
institute in the Berlin university
have shown that cholera bacilli die
moro quickly on dry tobacco than on
dry glass plates, that they do not
multiply, but quickly die, on moist
tobacco. and that tobacco smoke
quickly kills them.
Orphan Tom, until recently Prssi-
dent Of Sixteen Mile Park, the onsis
botweon Elko and Tuscarora, is spend
ing a few days s%ojourning with his
many friends in Elko. He informed
an INDEPENDENT reporter last night
that it is his intention TO leave for
Salt Lake City in q few days, whore
no is to DO initiated into tho mysteries
OF tho church OF tho Twelve Apostles.
A China laundryman. rs . general
thing, is a good judge of the Caucus.
ian's ways. A Comstock Chiuaman
worry often speaks thus TO himself as
no irons n shirt. Picking up n shirt
showing evidence Of haying been we'll
cared TOR, no says: bachelor. Him
landlady fix him." Picking up another
buttonless and frayed at tho wrist end
neok, John remarks. "Him msllied
va. Chronicle.
Ed. Reinhart and w. w. Booher 70.
lnrpad Pro- thn 7 n n II r--
Lodge Mt Carson this morning. John
HiSbets. tho othor member OF tho
delegation, will take In San Francisco
before no returns 1t" was. quietly
whispered about that John might
bring n life partner with him whom
ho returns. Tho INDEPENDENT
noithcr CREDITS or discredits tho story
but gives II for what il 10 worth.