Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1893-04-23
lFRoM FRIDAYS DAILY.l
SALMAGUNDI-

Miss Barbara Lang haa closed her
school ut Columbia and returned to
ElKo.
Rev. Father Nix, a Catholic, clergy
map, died at Hawthorne Monday
night. -
A bill has been introduced into the
Ohio Legislature to. legalize profess
sional lobbyists.
Ne regret to learn OF the illness OF
Mr.. Geo. w. Litton at his ranch, o
few miles west OF town.
K. s. Osborne. Secretary OF the
State Of Kansas. was arrested for
criminal libel yesterday.
Senator Stearns, OF Eureka, has
accepted the principalship Of the Ely,
White Pine county school.
Hon. Geo. Russell and his .daugh-
tiers, Misses Ida aud Ruth, will leave
for Chicago to morrow night.
Senator Stewart has telegraphed to
Virginia City that he will DO unable
to attend the Ogden Congress.
The people OF Storey county have
elected Hon. F. NJ. Hufaker to rep
resent them in the Ogden congress.
Mondays issue will contain q full
account OF the dedication of the new
Presbyterian church. Send in your
orders II you want extra copies.
just received at Keyser's, in the
Muller corner, a new stock Of fresh
vegetables, candies, nuts, etc. Give
Ed. a call and inspect his brau-new
stock.
Fearful cyclones swept over the
Northwestern and Southern States
yesterday. twenty-five men lost
their lives on Lake Michigan, .near
Milwaukee.
Gazetto:-W. w. Rogers will leave
here Saturday for Golconda, in Hum
boldt county, where he will takc q
position in tho hotel and store at that
popular watering place. ,.
Tho highest recorded apeed ever
achieved by n locomotive was recently
made by a compound e3giua on q
New York road, when it covered a
mile in thirty-seven seconds.
Thero will be no services In st.
Paul's church on Sunday next and all
will attend tho ~dedicatory services in
the Presbyterian church. There will
be Sunday school as usual at 10
o'clock.
The Mason Valley TIdings sage ut
tho present time 10 tho southeastern
part OF Nevada alfalfa IL over two
feet high and in full bloom. Almonds
aud hgs are half grown and grain is
headed out.
Gazette:-Rumor hath it that an
Episcopal clergyman from the oast
will shortly lead ono OF Reno's fairest
daughters to the matrimonial altar.
Nevada is becoming noted at tho cast
for her attractive young ladies.
William Loohren, the o Pension
Commissioner, has n brilliant war.
record. He served ut Gettysburg Rs
First Lieutenant in a regiment of 800
mon. He emerged from q conflict
with Pickctt's division in command
OF FORTY men.
Tho Do licatorial serv ices OF the
new cdiice OF the Presbyterian church
will DO hold in tho new church next
Sabbath at IL 4. N. sharp. Rev. j. s..
Mcdonald, OF California, will preach,
and other exercieos OF au interesting
character will tnko place. All arc
cordially invited.
The N. Y. Posts London financial
dispatch says a silver crisis is geuer.
ally looked Tor In Anericu, although
tho issue OF government bonds to
provide gold 10 expected to come first.
Tho crisis, 1t 10 thought, will probably
DO postponed until after tho Chicago
exposition.
Ex:-The rosin weed, a species Of
silphium aud iirst cousin 10 tho bur.
dock, 10 a natural compass. II grows
everywhere 10 tho west, and wherever
II 10 found in open ground-that 10,
In ground not shaded by trees, houses
or fences, its leaves point directly
North and south.
Virginia Chronicle: - Tho Trans.
Mississippi Stateu, Il firmly united,
could dictate terms 10 Congress.
Thoir interests nre identical, thon
why should thoy not combine for
mutual benefit Tho New England
and Atlantic States bavo boon voting
solidly togott or In Washington for
generations past. Now lot tho Trans.
Mississippi States do a littlo solid
voting for Western interest.