Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1893-06-25
CFRox WEDNESDAYS DaILx.l
sALMAG UNDL.

oof sliSct oS/s yeeteroay.
Blackberries arc in tho market.
Tho latest things in shoes are feet.
The haying has opened in
Wahoe county.
F. ST. McPhetrea arrived last even
ing from Salt Lake.
June lie the month OF roses. and
sweet girl Graduates- :,
The victim OF tho bent pin knows
we'll when it is Spring timo.
Wilson Armstrong. proprietor Of
the Deeth Hotel, came down tn da y
]. NJ. Natter went down to Carlin
this morning to look after Geo. Rice
1t is not silver but rather the lack
OF it which ia causing banks to mako
assignments.
Senator Leland Stanford. OF Cali
f~ornia, died at his home at Palo Alto
last night. "a ''i.I.
There will he a matched game OF
base bali AT Carlin on the Fourth be.
tween the Terrace and Carlin mines.
DR.. La FAIRY, our coming dentist,
charges nothing for tho examination
of teeth. Give him a call whom he ar
rives.
Tho Carlin tug-of-war tsnm have
raised a purse aud challenged the
Elko team for a pull at that place on
the Fourth.
Boston spinster, who died recent
ly, left her entire fortune OF 5000 to
q pct Thomas cat. This was the only
claws in her will.
The time Of the year is here when
young girls find moro enjoyment in
lying in a hammock thnn 10 washing
the supper dishes.
Mrs. Q. w. Hull and two children
who have oeen visiting friends 10 Salt
Lake City for some tims past, re-
turned home last night.
The University Bank aud the City
Savings Bank, OF Los Angeles. and
tho Lane County Bank. OF Eugene,
Oregon, closed their doors yesterday.
The programme OF tho Fourth of
July celebration at Lamoills Cross
Roads, appears III our advertising
columns today. Read it aud mako
your preparations to 60 there and
have a good time.
Tho twenty.one boys and girls sent
to the Worlds Far by the Examiner,
were given n reception by the board
OF lady managers yesterday. After
the reception each was presented
with n silver spoon as q souvenir OF
the trip.
The coroner's jury ~impaneled to in
quire into the IL Of tho death OF
Ford's theater victims at Washington
have returned q verdict accusing Col.
Ainsworth the contractor; Superin-
tendent Covert and Engineer FIasse
OF criminal negligence.
Reno Gazette:-"McGinty" Thyes
modified Jeiis domesticG, succumbsd
to a dose ot cold pizen a few days ago,
administered probably with no muir
derous intent. McGinty was n feline
OF unoKceptionnl morals and his I'M
timely taking of is sincerely lamented
by a host CT bipedal friends OF the
human family irrespective Of age, eer
or previous condition OF political SER
yitude.
Surveyor-G General Turritiu, who 70.
turned yesterday from Humboldt,
says times are somewhat l~iyelier out
that way than for some time past.
Loyelock is improving rapidly; there
are several new buildings in course OF
erection ind CROPS look we'll. People
are improving the,r residences and n
largo hotel has been erected Mt Col
conda. Tho stock, farming and min.
ing interests arc looking up all
through tho county.-JournaI.
Origin Of the Stars and Stripes.
The stars aud stripos, modern
though they be, woro not made all at
m On the first day OF January,
lI76, the tri-colored American banner,
not got spangled with stare. but
showing thirteen stripes OF alternate
rod and white In the field, and the
united rod and white Crosses OF St.
George and st. Andrew on a blue
ground In tho corner, was unfurlod at
Boston. II was not until eighteen
months after this 6fss attempt that
the 6adge OF EpH1uhid disappeared
from tho new ensign. On Juno II,
l777. tho CROSSES wer struck out; on
that day Congress resolved that the
flag OF tho thirteon United States
should DO thirteen striprs, alternate
rod and white; that tho union DO thir.
faan oforo uhila IN n hi,a RnlI .ao