Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1893-03-19
IFRoN "WEDNESDAY s DA1LY.l
SALaIAGUNDL.


HALF Of the town OF Arkansas City,
Ark, was destroyed by fire yesterday.
Jno. NJ. Dorsey, OF Fort Halleck,
came in yesterday and returned to-
day.
John NJ. Dormor is proof reader at
the State printing Office in Sacra.
meuto.
j. r. Bradley, OF Deeth, and DIR. j.
". Petty, OF Wells, came down on No.
4yesterduy.
The ground is covered to-day with
a fresh fall of snow, about thrss
inches deep. ha.-
The Oregon Legislature broke the
record on appropriations. the nrpro-
priation bill ngGregating s2,G6S,oco.
Ten men from the Bclcher mins
and thirty-two from tho Savage were
drafted at Virginia City last Satur-
day.
Estimates place the loss by tho
Boston fire at s4,5Oo,Go0. Tho In
suranco will amount to about $1,000.
900.
The people OF Nevada havo the Sill
yer party 10 thank for n 10 cent raise
in the State tax ratio this year.-.(Tri6-
une.
One family out OF overy seventeen
in Toronto, Ontario, has TO be sup
ported during tho Winter by public
charity.
Nine mon were killed and several
dangerously wounded in an explosion
in Il coal mine ut Mc.Alister, /. r.,
yesterday.
Telephone communication between
Chicago and Boston is successfully
established. Tho distance ia nearly
LOO miles in n straight line.
Richard s. Heath and Frod W.
Policy, charged Hith the murder of
lawyer Louis b. McWhirtcr in Fresno
last August. hnvs been arrested.
A streot car in Minneapolis ran
over n dog the other day, and the
owner of the animal has brought suit
for $1,000 damages against tho com
pauy.
Attention is called to an ad elso-
whero. announcing Calico and Neck
ito Party to be given at Freeman Hail
on the 3lst instant. Read it over and
secure your partner for tho occasion.
Pardec, the non-pnrtisau candidate
for Mayor Of Oakland was elected
Monday, receiving 1881 votes Davis-
tho Pcoplo'sP Party candidate, rocoivcd
2,25S votes; Fitzgerald lDem.) 2,ls7,
and Barker (kcp.) $50.
An exchange says that persons sui
foring from chillblains will find i'm
mediate rolief by applying common
glue as hot as tho akin will bear.
Those who have tried it vouch for tho
efficacy OF the treatment
A sensation was created at At
Gibson, Kan, yesterday, when it
becamo known that thu Kansas Train
& Banking Co. had failed. Its Presi-
don't, OK Senator John j. Ingalls,, re-
fused to discuss tho failure.
In II Cabinet meeting at Washing
ton yesterday tho appointment OF Il
commission to visit Hawaii was dis
cusaed. Ex-Reprcsentativo Blount,
OF Georgia, was favorably considered
as one OF tho commissioners.
1t is proposed by the bimctnllic
League to start n FREQ cuinago papor
in Now York with IL backing OF $780,
600. And also to spend $1,000 in
printing pamphlets! to educate tho
masses on the silver question.
Gazette: Judge G.. II. Bolknnp
arrived on this mornings train from
San Francisco and took the V. & /,
for Carson. Tho Judge 10 looking
we'll. and has greatly improved IN
health during his last trip 10 lido
water.
Robert Louis Stevenson, who IL now
in Sydney, Australia, after n pro.
trnctcd visit TO tho Samoan Islands,
says the solo remedy for the present
unsatisfactory condition OF affairs in
Samoa, 10 tho annexation Of tho Is
lnnds 10y somo great power.
An Alabama church 10 split up the
back because at n Bugging bco to
ra,sc funds to pay or tho mortgage, n
farmer, after paying an quarter, was
blindfoldcd and allowed TO hog his
vito twenty minutes. lilo has sued
tho trustees for fraud md Bho has
gone 10 1.-Two with her mother.
Women Smokers.
IL is said that not ~ woman in
titty in tho social swim In New York
doesn't know aow TO smoke. In
Gotham n woman hftor dinner can,
when sho is in company, light n cigar.
otto and smolto probably half Of it.
Vc-y few smoke constantly. Now York
jewelers. cell ladies' cigarette holders
by the hundred tiny, jewolcd things
they aro; n shaft with II clnsP at tho
top TO hold tho tobacco roll and n ring
for tho littlo finger at tho bottom.
Some oi those dainty triilcs cost rs
high az 500 or $500 md aro richly
icwcled. Some nro extremely chonp.