Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1894-03-18
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5ALMAGUNDI.


President Cleveland appointed H.,
j. Berry Postmaster OF Reno yester-,,
day.
Remember the ball at the Depot
Hotel Friday evening. 1t will be tho.
event OF tho season.
Charles Adams. tie prosperous
South Fork rancher, returned from.
San Francisco this morning.
Miss. Pollard is making il decided
ly interesting for the silver haired
Congressman from Kentucky.
The INDEPENDENT sincerely regrets
10 learn that Mr.. Grover is gradually
sinking and that there is no hope Of
his recovery.
The Silver State says the grass
is beginning 10 grow in Winnemucca.
and Some OF the lawns will loom up
in n month or SO.
Gazette:-rwo carloads Of onions
were shipped west from Carson yes
terdny Onions are good property
just new, being worth four cents per
p"und.
the daughters OF twelve members
Of Congress- and the wives Of fully
twenty members draw pay from
Uncle Sam az private secretaries Of
their husbands.
Among the boy authors OF the Old
World is the Crown Prince Of Siam,
who has written several stories for
English children's magazines fluently
in three European languages.
Times-R Review: The condition Of
Graf, the victim OF last weeks shoot
ing, is favorable for n speedy cov
cry. The wound in tire arm appears
To give him tho o trouble.
Mr.. Abner Wiseman, one OF Clover
Valleys prosperous ranchers, stepped,
over to-day on his way to California;
TO purchase jacks. lie reports every
body we'll and happy in his section.
A Sacramento girl, poor but %sensi-|
ble, says she would much prefer tc,l
be rich and live single, than to ac-I
quire, through marriage, the title of
Princess ind a lot OF half-oreed, nasal
articuiating children.
The people OF Austin are adrer-!
tisIng for another physician as thel
resident doctor charges five dollars al
visit in the city limlts notwithstand-I
ing the fact that miners wages have|
been greatly reduced.
Carson Appeal:-The frisnds OIL
State Treasurer Egan and family will
regret to hear that his physicians!
have given him up. Dropsy has SET
in. and he cannot recover, though heI
may linger for q few weqks.
The human hair is the most prcfta-!
BILE crop that grows. Fi.e tons OF i'll
are annually imported by the mer-i
chants OF London. The parisiansI
harvest upward OF 100000 pounds
equal in value to $4,000 per annum.I
Tho shooting tournament iu SAM
Francisco Sunday, between pickedI
OF the California NatiunalS
Guard and n team from the Carsous
Guards, resulted in n victory for they
Nevada msrksmen by q score Of 4i3S
TO 400.
The Now York Senate CommitteeE
on Judiciary without n dissentingE
vote has agreed TO report favorablyk
Senator Coggeshel's bill defningl
as a criminal offence. Thes
bill was introduced just after theE
Cornell affair.
A widow OF Butte, Mont is about
10 bring suit for damages againsL the !
city because her husband was boundt
when he had the smallpox TO preventE
him scratching his face. Sho sayss
that while bound flies poisoned hish
face and no died.
A mnstodon skeleton has recentlyl
been found at the Blue lakes nearS
Shoshone, Idaho, the teoth OF which,
nre n foot square. Tho ribs wore Isl
feet long, but were too much decayedI
TO DO handled successfully. DULY al
few teeth were saved.
At Greedy, Colorado, ]. A. Rankin,
last week sold forty April p;gs nver-S
nginR 90 pounds apiece. Hc receivedk
80 90 for each pig. These animals!
were fed on alfalfa until OotoberE
and then fattened on wheat. Mr..
Rankin asserts that he realized onea
dollar n hundred on his wheat.
Commissioner Yerlngton has in-s
formed tho Reno Gnzette that the1
Midwintor Fair business was in III
very good shnpe 90 far as thia State!
is concerned. lie has paid up theb
last debt on tho building and saysS
tho State exhibit will rank with the
bost OF them in n weok or two.
Senator White,ot Louisiana asauu..y
cd his new duties as Associate Jus.I
tice OF tho Supreme Court Of thcI
United States yesterday, after theE
ain plo but impressive ccremoniesy
usual on such occaBions. The %court.e
was crowded with friends andp
spectators to witness tho Induction.
silver coins ara exceedingly %scarce
and business men frequently have
difficulty IL getting such cuins fort
cbnnpe. Tho bapI, do not my outk