Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1893-03-26
(FRoY WEDNESDAY S DAILr.]
eALMAGUNDI.

bor silver, u.
Local news is scarce,
Virginia City had q $4,000 fro
Sunday morning.
The State University will begin tho
Spring form tomorrow.
Tho late heavy storms in California
are doing considerable damage.
September 18th has been dosigna.
ted "Neradt Day" at the Worlds
Fair.
Remember tho calico apron and
nectio party at Freeman Hall on tho
3lst instant.
Reno il already discussing the ques
tion 81 having n grand Fourth OF July
celebration.
Spurious dollars arc in circulation.
Someo Of them boar dates OF 1892 aud
Others OF 1885.
There was a slight improvement in
tho weather to-day but there is con-
Siderable margin to go on yot.
Miss Mary Klippe. living with her
father about a mile from Glendale,
shot and killed herself yesterday.
George McIntire will leave this
evening for Austin, on a visit to his
mother, after which no will report at
Reno for duty.
kehlois Touring mills, at Litchfield.
Ill, the lurgest il the world, were
burned Yesterday. The loss ia esti.
mated at q million dollars.
A proposition ia made to conpect
Great B.itian and ireland by Il tun-
mel driven under tho North Channel
or tho Irish Sea mt its narrowest
point.
The jury in tho Panama cases ut
Paris yesterday rendered IL verdict OF
guilty in the cases OF Charles De Les
sops, Baihut and BIcndin and ucquit-
ted tho others.
The Kansas Legislature has passed
a law prohibiting the making OF IN
contracts PAYABLE in gold and making
both gold mud silver legal tender in
payment OF all debts.
Tao Carson Tribune asserted that
there ~ero several ladies in Carson
over Six tcot tall. The editrrss OF tho
News denied it, and now the disp uto
Is to DO settled by n t:peiino tour Of
inspection and measurement.
The Chronicle denies tho report
that families in Virginia City nro euf-
foring for tho necessities OF life. II
says the Comstock people are too lib.
eral to overlook my family in dce,i-
tuts circumstances.
Journal:-John r. Bradlo7 returned
from a visit to his stock ranches in
Eastern Nevada yesterday. TIe says
there is plenty OF snow and water out
That way, but stock is doing we'll and
thero ia no loss from Winter causes.
An exchange says that il people
we're us anxious to keep their news-
paper subscriptions paid in advance
as they aro TO have the paper run to
suit them, they would succeed far
bcttcr in the second particular than
they do.
One OF the oldest editors in tho
country is Caleb Footc. OF tho Salem
tMn5s.) Gazette, who celebrated his
Goth birthday recently. Mr.. Footo
entered 'he office OF tho Gazette in
1877, and was its editor-in- chief for Co
years. lilo atill does n good deal OF
work for that pnpcr.
Tho Sentinel Gays that Captain A..
ID. Rock, OF Eureka, it i'll with nj Mt.
tack nj crysipelas and that owing to
his advanced years tho case is likely
10 DO s%orious. Tho INDEPENDENT
hopes that Bro. Rock may speedily
recover and TINT ho may add many
moro years TO those he has lived 30
honorably.
John w. Mnckay, who vas shot in
San Francisco como timo Hgo by W.
G. Rippcy, is said to DO in q critical
condition. II was stated yesterday
that tho bullet wound healed all
right, but other internal complica.
tions hnvo arisen which may prove
fatal, although his physicians cay
there 10 no cause for alarm.
The Flocss
or George Watt, OF about 1000 sheer,
arc being shorn at his Fish Crock
ranch by n crew OF nino shcurers.
composed OF Marcel Dupuy and eight
others. Young George Wat. Is in
charge, hie father being in California,
AMI ho thinks tho shcop will produce
about $4,000 pounds OF wool, or about
sevon pounds 10 tho sheep. II 30 tho
Watt sheep will produce sou cthing
like 81 per hohd in wool, besides tho
lambs, and the Watt hand ia expected
to produce 1000 lambs in May.-tRcr.
ellie.
I. NJ.