Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1893-08-27
tFRon TUESDAYS DArLY.l
SALMAGUNDI.

There arc two prisoners in the
county Jail.
Silver is on the upgrade again. 1t
reached s.751S to-day.
Miss Laura Meigs has returned
from visiting her ruscarora friends.
There has been u decline Of 90 per
cent in the net receipts Of the Union
Pacific.
Tom Short and D. C. Kennedy.
prominent ranchers Of Ruby Valley,
are in town to-day.
Appeal:-M Mrs. w. c. Dovay and
daughter, Eva, will depart for Sebas-
tap"ol, near Santa Rosa, Cal, to-
night, to join her husband.
In New York city there 80 many
railway lines, stenm, elevated, cable
and horse cars that one may ride for
six hours at u total cost of5) cents.
1t is said that hailstones weighing
two pounds fell at Goodland, Kansas,
last Tuesday. doing great damage
and seriously iniuring three persons
The Miners and Mechanics unions
OF Storey County have unanimously
rejected the propositions OF the Mine
managers to reduce their wages %
per cent.
The Austin Reveille says the In
dians are abunt the best dressed peo-
pie in town. Having made u staks
in the hny fields they arc investing it
in good clothes.
Brakeman James T. Bruce has 30
far recovered from the effect OF his
wound, inflicted by tramp Fredricks,
who shot him at Gold Run, as to be
able to leave the railroad hospital for
his home.
David S. Patterson OF Nebraskn is
seventy FIVE years old and has been
totally blind from infancy, and yet no
has invented and patented an i'm
provement in the driving gear of To-
comotives.
a Citizen OF Sacramento. who hns
recently been in Washington, tells
The Dee that President Cleveland is
Il very sick man, worn out and in ub.
solute danger. What he needs is
rest, aud plenty OF it.
Daily consumption OF something
like 3,0o0.Oon needles all over The
world makes a pretty big total. Every
year the women Of the United States
break, lusc and use about 300, 900
OF these little instruments.
Appehl:-Gravo JUNIORS coma from
Wright City, Of a sensational divorce
case about to be sprung with II young
lady correspondent. II is also said
there arc eleven divorce cases now on
tho calendar in Virginia City.
w. j. Black, Of Starr Valley was
assaulted and badly benten ut Deoth
last evening by Goo. Porter, Tom
Taylor and Jim Campbell. Mr..
Black cnme down last evening to OBJ
tain warrants for their arrest.
a negro woman IN Now Orleans
fnakes n good living by changing the
complexion Of her fellow Africans
from black to white. She used n prop.
nration which o the Bkin, aud
tho new skin replacing it iY nearly
white.
Hay is worth Sl2 per ton ut To-
coma, Washington. and 1000 tons OF il
is to BIO shipped to Europe in wheat
ships. The cost Of transportation is sl0
per ton mud hay sold recently in Eng
land nj $50 per Ion. In July tho ex-
ports Of hay from New York to Europe
wore 40 900 tons.
Tho INDEPENDENT most respectful
ly informs the Reno Gazetto that
tbero wns no mistake nbout tho sam
ple nf orc, we mentioned last week,
being received at tho mining labora-
tory Of tho State University, IA tho
returns from it woro received lust
night.
Thos. Fitzgerald, OF Ogden, and
Cans. Cole. Of Wells, representing
tho Railroad Co., John Burns repro
scnting the County Commissioners,
nod A. Bruce ard Thos. Hunter, tho
cattlemeu, located the fences TO DO
built along the rnilroad track, TO day,
SO M not 10 intoreforo with tho couu-
W roads.
Tho bottom docs not seem to have
dropped entirely out OF tho horse
market. Two Sierra valley horse
raisers recently made shipments OF
horses to Chicago, which they sold,
and ono OF them realized $40 md tho
other 800 apiece for tho animals. It
costs nbout e22 per head 10 got tkom
to Chicago.
II tho silver ratio is TO DO raiscd
from 10 TO 20, why not at the samo
time lengthen tho yard stick 10: IL
inches aud the pound weight TO
20 ounces9 Tho idea Ut enhancing
the value OF tho silver dollar by
increasing the ratio on the motal
is like M attempt to increase tho OK.
plosive power Of n charge Of powder
by adding 20 per cent 10 the charge
Of shot.-Gazetto.
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