Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1894-12-30
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lFRoM SATURDAYS DAILY.l
SALMAGUNDI

a telephone line il to DO put in
between Carson and the prison.
VIM. Myers, one OF Ruby Valleys
solid ranchers, is in town to-day.
The Chicago University foot ball
team passed west today i'll Il special
car.
Jerry Shehnn, Daney Calden, and
Mr.. C.. q. Smith will spend Christmas
in Elko.
What promises to be a big storm
set in Il little after threc o'clock this
afternoon.
WIN. Kennedy, J. b. Scott and l.
ID. Alberti cpme in from Mound Val.
ley yesterday and returned to day.
There is scarcely II village in the
western end OF New York state that
has not anywhere from four to half II
dozen cases of diphtheria.
Joe Tuber, Of Butte, Montana. and
Will Mayer, night operator at Teco.
ma, arrived Oh No. . this morning to
spend their holiday vacation in town.
The snowfall Mt Truckce since
December 9TH and up to the 10Th inst.
inclusive, from measurements taken
daily. amount to 80 inches or ! feet 3
inches.
The higher branch Of the South
Carolina Legislature has passed a
bill from the other House To make
drunkenness and profanity misdc-
mrnnors.
Adiutanl General Poujndo came
down from Tuscarora last evening.
md left for Battle Mountain on No. =
this morning, where he will organize
q militia company to-day.
Bob lngersoli one. said that he
wouldn't believe there was u hell
until Missouri went Republican, and
q the lola, Mo-, register demands
TINT he redeem his pledge.
The WadswortlI Dispatch says tina,
the strikers who went to work after
the trouble was over are being dis.
charged rs fast IN possible and their
places are being filed by cheaper
men.
The man who proposes 10 have
cotton picked by monkeys. providing
mn oversecr for every seven monkeys
gave up the idea when he found that
II took seven men to mind one mon.
key.
Misses Nellie and Dora Shcchan.
Miss Mamie Russell, Miss Ruth Trip.
lett and George Bruce and Arthur
Mcintosh. some Of Elko's popular
teachers, will spend tho holidays in
town.
The hnbit NJ turning round three
or four times before lying down has
survived IN the domestic dog from his
savage ancestry. 1t then served ia
hrouk down the tall grass and make
II bed.
Minister DENLY cabled the State
Department yesterday that tho
Chinese Government had appointed
two Peace Commissioners, VINO will
proceed a%t:.once III their mission from
Pekin to the japanese capital.
Nutshell Philosophy Willie
What's the difference between n crank
md a statesman, PAT PA crank lie
Il crnnk till he wins; then ho il II
statesman. 4 statesman il a states.
man till he loses; then he is Il crank.
World.
The INDEPENDENT acknowledges
the receipt Of II press ticket To the
first annual ball Of the George G..
Cornwall Division No. 81, Order Of
Railway Conductors TO he given ut
Armory Hall, Winnemucca, on New
Ycnr's eve.
Tho name 81 Lake Ontario was
first noted as S~kanodairo (beautifu
late). II wus also. ut various times
and by diTenert men. denominatcd
Lac do FrOntenac. Lac dc IroquOs
md Lac dc ST. Louis. Tho Moliawks
called It Caindaracqui.
"I' q mun loves q woman for her
looks, Ito will love her for five years.
II lie owes her mind, ne will love her
ten Yeas. II he lovcs her ways, hc
will JOYS her forever" And every
orn believes when shc murrica
that bct oyer loyes her ways.
There il u grocerymnu in Chicago
who wants the State of Ohio to pre-.
Won't his competitors fro selling
poisoned molnses In that State. JIG
scila ~ himself, and il conscience
strickon stjd wants to stop, but hc cunt
afford to stop while other grocera gc
On. Hence his philanthropy.
Special dispatches from Linn, Peru
say u riot OF the most serious mature
Ina occurred Mt Lima. President
C~arcocGrag, II appears, ordered q
crowd Of hungry men and women, nc.
comphnicd by many children. to dis.
pcrsc. 4 riot followed that lasted
three lonrs, during which mnny poo
plo were killed and injured.
Tho Atlanta" Constitution sayai
with gold cornercd and tho banks