Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1893-09-03
(FRoM TUESDAYS DAILY.l
5ALsIACUNDI.

There viii he n dance at Freeman
Hall to .pight.
A sock-doilar ger is what the Dallas
News calls u money hoardar.
The Behriug Sea decision is salts.
factory to everybody but tho seals.
They haven't escaped with their skiing.
Money is like a good newspaper.
The larger the circulation the more
good it docs, and the moro useful it ie.
A whales throat is SO small you
could choke him with yonr fist, and
no feeds Oh tho smallest things in tho
sea.
Miss Hattie Clark came up from
the Humboldt House last evening to
visit her old friends and schoolmates
in Elko.
III. +. Schuldt, who was SO serious
~ hurt in the baseball game ut Car
lin n fsw weeks ago, left for his home
in Tuscarora this morning.
A hasty analysis OF tho vote in tho
House, or the free coinage OF silver ut
I6 to !, shows that 100 Democrats, -
Republicans and IL PopulIsts voted
for il.
George Francis Train livos on sl2a
week. II he had sl3 no says he would
not know ahat to do with tho extra
dollar. lie might lend il To George
Gould.
After the tirst OF next month, oil
the express messengers on the G. p.
will 10 discharged and tho baggage
man or each train will attend to the
express.
BY the tenth census 23,0lo,oOO in.
habitants Of the United States were
supported by agriculture, ll.520,CO0
by manufactures and l5,62o,OOU BY
coL nercc.
The Chicago fair is now enjoying n
net revenue OF about $4,000 a day .
with the present patronage this will
yield about Si,CO,OOO by tho time the
exposition closes.
Attention is directed 10 n notice
elsewhere under the head of Lawn
Party" Read i; over and be sure
to attend, It's you will miss a rare
treat il you fail 10 be there.
Hot weather and no rain have al
most caused a suspension OF naviga-
lion Oh tho Ohio. Few f~irst-cluss
steamers arc running, and river bust
ness is confined exclusively to local
trade.
The Connecticut tobacco crcp has
been well nigh ruined by n disastrous
STERN. But smokers can take comfort
in tho aGncuncem.n. that "the cab
bHge crop out Wsst Was never more
pro nising."
Prs len. Angel Of tho Boston hu.
mano society says that Prof. Louis
Agass'Z, tho greatest scientist we
ever had on the American continent.
was n firm believer in tho immortality
o. dumb animals.
Mrs. Believe, furiorRly-"Jnne, I
stood ut the Kitchen door last night
and heard Jake kissing you" Jane,
complncenily-"Snre, mum that'o
one time, thin, that IN ewes dropper
heard some thing good!"-Ex.
Geo. Wilson, President OF the old.
est bank in Missouri, is cut with q
scathing review of Clevcland's mes
cage, in which no charges tho Presi-
dent with being in n conspiracy 10 cs-
tablish n monarchy on the ruins Of
the Republic.
a 81 Irish greenbnck, issued by
"John O'Muhoncy, agent Of tho Irish
republic" under date Of March II
1896, and payable "six month after
the acknowledgement OF the indopen.
denco OF the Irish nation" was pre-
scntcd for payment IN n grocery storc
IN New York recently.
a French beauty, not as young rs
sho had boon, but still IA witty, was
seen to sigh heavily as sho glanced
Into n mirror. "What is il, why do
you sight" demanded a friend cyuipn.
thetically. "!Ah me-" eho. answered,
81 was only observing how tho look
ing glasscs havo changedr-E FIX.
Some person or persons stole forty
chickens from Tom Hunter last Sat
urday night. Tom Says hc don't like
to nccuse anybody OF tho theft but
ho !s keeping lis eyes on n or two
| Of Elko's prominent c,tizous. In nd.
dition TO tho above the ~cbicken.y7rd
mnrauders visited tho roosts Mt Mrs.
Laug's, Mrs. Rheinhnrt's md Mrs.
Fcrnnld's, ind carried OF n goodly
number Of fowls from each place. E
Captain licillcy left this morning
Tor Tuscarora. lie wns missing Sun
day night and some malicious person
started tho story that Wushburn had
engaged him TO perform on tho ira
pcze and that no had COMO to Ogden
with tho circus. Tho Gap. turned
up all right on Monday morning md
explained his mysterious disappear
anco OF tho night before by saying
TINT no Ind been doing pcnancc for
going to tho circns. II his conscience
troubles him any more, no will give
Ring In Tho moor.