Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1894-02-04
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County Hospital.
Senator Jones has given $500, &c
the Midwinter Fair.
W. II. Smith returned from Sar
Francisco last night.
The subscriptions to tho bond is
u yesterday brings tho total up to
&36,l75,0Oo.
John T. Wright shipped ten car.
londs OF beef cattle from Hnlleck To
San Francisco yesterday.
President Cleveland appointed
Thomas d. Ferguson, Of Maryland,
Minister 10 Sweden und Norway yes.
to-day.
Tho photographers OF Carson are
doing II land Office business photo
graphing tho Chinese, registering
under the Geary act.
The Porter Brothers, Of Mound
Vallay, brought in ZOO head Of fat
sheep Yesterday which they will ship
to San Francisco tomorrow.
Mre. F.. J.. Frauk came in from
Bullion Tuesday and left for Califor-
nia yesterday. She will visit the
Midwiutor Fair before she returns.
There have been IA. different visi-
tors and callers ut tho County Hos
pIial for tho year ending February
LIST 1913 ladies and "a gentlemen.
The INDEPENDENT has made mr.
r~angemen;s whereby it will receive
weekly lettors FROM a San Francisco
correspondent. describing the Mid
winter Fair. Ne hope they will
prove interesting to u readers.
The Carson Appeal says Ed Rem
gan, Of Empire, has invented n mer-
curial alarm clock. 1t ia no arranged
that it will alarm when temperature,
where tho clock is placed, goes above
% degrees or below ?5 degrees, and
can be set for any range OF tempera-
ture desired.
The traffic over the Southern Paci-
tic lines during tho month OF Decem-
Der last shows an excess OF 1885 OF
west bound passengers over east
oound passengers. The total num-
Der OF west bound passengers wns g.
600, and Of east bound 1858. or the
west bound total 1887 wers FIRST class
travel.
S. F. News Letter:-In these de-
pressed times, when every city in the
Udited States has it's army OF unem.
ployed, clamorous for bread, it is
gratifying TO motto with what geueros-
ity the numerous churches and mis-
sionary societies continue to pour out
their money for tho purchase OF BIZ
bios and red shirts for the heather ia
foreign lands. b
O.. IL. Perry Inns several tons OF orc
from the Harris mine near Wastce
City Mt his place. In asserting the
ore he found n piece Of quartz abou,
four inches long, an inch thick AND
two-and ahalf inches wide ut the
bP se, which several persons who
have seen it pronounce it an excellent
likeness in profile of Hon. Thomas
Wren of Eureka. one OF Nsyuda's
silver cham pions.-Rcno journal.
Mrs. james, OF Arlin, Washoe
county, received a letter from Mime
sofa last week, stating that people 10
parts OF Wisconsin we're compelled tc
kill md ent their dogs in order Il
keep from starving. This almost
seems incredible. The peop'e OF Ne
xnda have had to suffer almost every
kind Of indignity, but thus far none
OF her citizens have been obliged &c
eat dogs to keep from starving Gu,
Zctie.
This year there will be four eclip,
sos, two Of the sun md two Of the
moon. On March 2lst there will be
n partial eclipse OF the moon, visible
more or less to the extreme western
portion Of North America; between
the Mississippi river ana tho Rocky
mountains the moon will set in the
morning dimmed with penumbrG
shndo. On April 9th thore will DO ar
annulur eclipse Of tho sun, inviaibl,
to America. On Sept. l4.l5, n par
tial eclipse OF the moon, visible moro
or less TO North and South America
Sept. 90, total eclipse OF the sun
invisible TO American.