Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1894-12-23
lFRoM SATURDAYS DAILY.I
UNDI

More snow fell to day.
There will be five eclipses next
year..
Miss Woodward Of Jack Creek is
visiting friends in Elko,
1t is said that Hon. Lem Allen. OF
Churchill county, is booked for Speak
er OF the Assembly.
Mn. Hartley says that she will he.
yer go to ~prison-bhe will kill herself.
20 the people OF Reno say.
We noticed Ed Carville, Henry
Voigt. Senator Skaggs. George and
Bill Moody md John Crosson in town
to-day.
The English income tax has been
changed eighteen times since l8i2,
varying from > pence to the pound to
lG pence.
Donald Frazier, president OF the
national bank Of China, i'll Hongkong,
says that Ii Hung Chang is worth
$500, 100000.
On account OF w. Is. Armstrong, OF
Decth, giving u dance on New Years
night. Womnck and Rodgers have
cancelled their date here.
Hon. C.E. Mack has received his
certiiicstc of election. The vote in
the counties stood, Mack, 1876; Rising
1853. Mack's majority, 223.
Tho Christian Endeavor will hold
their regular services mt the Presby-
terrain church to morrow evening. 4
cordial invitation is extended to all TO
he present.
The cross mark instead 81 II sigma
ture did not originate in ignorance.
1t WAC always appended to signatures
in medieval times as an attestation Of
good faith.
We have just received about 500
samples Of mems suitings for custom
made clothing for Spring aud Sum
nor. Suits made Ia order from sl5
and pants from - up. VI. R%tISHARr
The Wellmcn Company OF Chester
Pennsylvania. has turned out the larg
eat steel plates eve manufactured. 1t
is $50 inches long. 40 inches wide and
IL ichcs thick.
Instrumentation new rifle which has
been adopted in the United States army
weighs only eight pounds and will
kill II man at IA distance OF two miles
With the use Of smokclcss powder il
is said TINT the man would be killed
before he heard or knew Of the re.
port. The bullet is To be OF nickle or
steel.
Hon. James Russell has n commu.
nication in the Reno Gazette on the
woman suffrage question in which he
says that, il the majority Of the women
OF the State want the right to vote, lie
would not defeat it with his vote.
The columns Of the INDEPENDENT are
open to anyone who wants to discuss
the question.
4 lady especially interested in the
question:. has discovered that there
are now no less than 35i distinct vo'
cations in which ONE engage. Tho
one drawback is that in the majority
they haveto compete with men. None
the lessthe figures are a striking proof
Of wonnn's progress in the path Of
independence.
a Chicago dispatch says that Eu.
gene Dcbs. President Of tho A. II. U.
and his colleagues have decided togo
Ia Jail and serve ont their sentence.
They will go TO Cook county Jail next
Monday. They reached this decision
yesterday morning without the advice
Of their attorneys. They think I'M
appeal would probably spc OF no
uBe.
Judge Woodp, Of Chicago, rendered
a long decision in the contempt case
Of Dcba, Kclihcr and Howard, mem
hers Of the Executive Board OF the a
H.. u. yesterday, finding thom all
guilty oi contempt in violating nm or
der OF the U. s. District Court during
tho big strike. lie sentenced Dcbs to
tx months Imprisonment in jail and
the others to three months each. He
granted II stay OF ten days To give the
defendants IL chance to appeal.