Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1893-05-07
tFRoM THURSDAYS DAlLY.l
SALMAGUSDI.

No. 4 to-day.
Tho gold reserve figures yesterday
wero s97, o05. 90.
James Penrod came down from the
north yesterday.
1t is laid that Reno has $4,000 in
vested in bicycles.
Mr.. E. Penrod came down from
Gantz creek yesterday.
Mr.. Rosenetock left on No. 3 last
evening for Omaha and Chicago.
Sheriff Henderson collected the
sum OF $500 for licenses during the
month Of April.
Postmaster General Bissell pro-
nounces his uame with tho accent OF
tho last syllable,
Massey & Patterson moved thei,
law office to tho Commissioners room
in the Courthouse yesterday.
Tho east bound trains on tho G. p.
arc loaded to the guards with pas.
sengers bound toI the Worlds Fair.
Miss Llllio R~oscnstock went out u
South Fork yesterday to take charge
OF the school in Mr.. McCoy's District.
Mrs. Stevenson. tho venerable
mother OF the Vice President is quite
i'll at her homo III Bloomington, Iii
nois.
Twenty-three were gradu-
ated from n single law school on Mon
day last. WoInau's sphere is certain
ly widening.
Commissioner Shaw has recovered
sufficiently from his fall from the
train at Empire to return to his home
at Dayton.
Mr.. f. S. Mcclellan, o. Santa Rosa,
CAL, who is on his way to the Wolld's
Fair, stopped over yesterday 10 visit
his son, Z. g. Mcclellan.
The New Era says Henry Thies
has planted over q thousand male and
female hop roots, and he will also
plant IN acre Of sugar bcets.
Tho G. p. has made tho round trip
rate from Eiko to Chicago $500.
Tickets will DO good for nine months.
No stop-over privileges will DO al
lowed.
o. X. Stampley, formerly n member
OF the State Senate in Nevada, has
made application for tho position of
internal collector OF tho first
California district.
The Siivor State says Frank But
ton has struck rich placer diggings in
Grass valley, about 20 miles south of
Winnemucca. Some OF tho nuggets
are worth 40 cents.
A postage stamp lickor hos been in
vented. Romance is boiDg robbed OF
its sweetest pleasures. No young
man will hereafter lick the stamps. of
his sweetheart's letter.
Ex:-When Mr.. Gladstone is about
TO make n great sseech in tho House
OF Commons, somebody tides him up,
straightens his neckcloth, brushes
his coat and puts n flower in his
buttonhole.
An exchange says q little girl
wrapped in her little night robe and
whispering her evening prayer,
stopped her devotions and said: "Oh,
Lord, please wait o minute till 1
scratch my toe"
A number OF refrigerator cars are
to bc ordered and painted with the
advertisements, POTATOES from Lovo.
lock, Nevada" Tho cars will DO used
to transport potatoes to Chicago. So
says the New Era.
The bi-chloride OF gold movement
hns got into Kansas politics. A
"keeley ticket" was put up for city
officers ut Madison in that State and
was successful, every candidate, all
Keolcy graduates, being elected.
Tho Nevada State Prison Mt present
contains but 10 State prisoners; in
addition to this number thcre arc IL
United States prisoners aud 8 prircn-
ers awaiting trial. Tho last named
arc prisoners Of tho United States.
Phoebe Lole:-Tho Indian wLo has
boon hold in Jail for Insanity WIS
brought before County Clerk j. A.
Clark Yesterday, md upon "cxnmina.
ton OF DR.. Campbell was committed
to the State insane asylum at Reno.
Gazeito:-Tho San Francisco Call
says that n momber OF tho lato Nova
da Assembly has invented n machine
for Harvesting tho wind. Tho idca
doubtless occurred TO him during tho
debates in tho body OF which no was
n member.
Tho State capitol OF Texas ia tho
largest stato building In tho United
States and tho seventh IN sizo among
tho buildings Of tho world. II is n
vast Crock cross OF rod Texas granite,
with n central rotunda covered by n
dome 81 feot high. IL was begun in
1881 aud finished in 1888, having cost
about s~3,5Oo,Co0. II wns paid for
with 100000 ncrss OF public land,
decided to tho capitalists who executed
tho work.