Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1894-07-15
lFRox WEDNESDAY s DAHL
sALMAGUNDI.
% shower last night.

AL ID quite in Sacramento to-day
II the trains do not arrive pretty
soon, the Independent man will go on
a strike.
Mr.. Darling came up from Carlir
this afternoon. He reports every.
thing quiet down there.
r. Sadler, OF Eureka. is in town to,
day from his ranch in Huntington
Valley. lie reports everything quiet
in the base range.
The late Sultan OF Morocco. deceas.
ed, had 1000 wives, but it must be
remembered that Oriental ladies do
not seal skin sacques.
The total loss by the recent earth
quake in Greece WIS 25l killed, 14G
wounded and about 81, 10000 worth
OF property destroyed.
Young Mems Era:-An honest man
tries to do right without an effort to
appear so; the mean man tries to ap-
pear right without making the effort
to do so.
The school trustees held Il meeting
Sunday and elected Miss Louisa
Adams teacher OF the intermediate
room and Miss Lou Craighead OF the
primary room.
The stone workers on the Govern
ment buildings at Victoria, b. c.,
struck because a contractor charged
a workman for a dressed stone which
he had accidentally broken.
One OF the INDEPENDENT readers
said last night that he did not believe
the Charleston would ever sail up the
Humboldt. Let him read our special
dispatches to-day and be convinced.
IL the first train should arrive here
i'll the night and you should go to see
it, do not be alarmed il you meet a
light, airy figure dressed in white
Our word for it that it will not be a
ghost.
Clara Barton and her noble asso.
ciates OF the Red Cross have carried
those hundreds OF poor people on the
Sea Islands through the Winter and
Spring on less than thirty-five thou
sand dollars.
The imports OF specie at the port Of
New York for the week ending June
lG, were SGG,97S, of which sl3,57l
were gold and s53,407 silver. For the
corresponding week OF 1893, the i'm
ports were slS2,425.
Mr.. Duvall received a despatch this
morning from w. j. Shotwell, Gener-
nj Agent Of the Denver and Rio
Grande, San Francisco, stating that
the outlook was good for an over.
land train with in f~orty-eight hours.
Premier Crispi i'll a dispatch to the
French Government expressing the
feelings Of the King OF Italy. says:
~Assassins have no country and the
country to which these criminals owe
their birth are the first to rcpudiate
them"
Mr.. WI Smiley and wife came down
from Star Valley yesterday and re-
turned to-day Mr.. Smiley informed
the Independent that flour and sugar
c getting scarce in the valley and
that the ranchers would have to go to
Ruby Valley or Oakley, Idaho, for
flour il the strike continued much
longer.
While the communication with the
world by rail is shut OFF, the people
of Nevada should agitate the PROPOSE
ton OF getting IN appropriation from
the government to improve the navi.
CATION Of the Humboldt river. If
steamers were running between Wells
and the Sink our people would not
care how long the strike lasted.
Le us get the appropriation by all
means.
1T has been n wonder how many
thousands of."green goods circulars
could pass through the mails and the
senders have such nm apparent immun.
ity from arreat. Now it turns out
that the police and certain eastern
post office officials have been In col.
fusion with tho rascals for bride
money. Consequently a considerable
rafting OF bones is in progress in
New York at this time.
Police Judge-"Aren't you ashamed
OF yonrselfH There can he no excuse
on earth for a man who will take n
razor and cut tho wife Of his bosom
half to pieces with it," Mr.. Black
IVY judge, wen l fust mot dat
woman says to myself dat ehe wa
my destiny and dat's what made me
marry her. Den You said in yo'
speech a couple Of nights ago dat dc
cullcd man had 10 carve his own des.
tiny or git lef' in dc shuttle, an l des
only done what yo' said, judge, nm
dat's all"-Indianapolis journal.