Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1894-06-24
(FRon TurspAr's DAILr.l
ALMAGUNDl

Ahio uiotiilnS truln Was an nOur
late.
Some Australian gold veins arc 100
feet wide,
J. c. Mccoy, of South Fork, was in
town today.
Army inspectors say that blue eyes
make the. best shots.
Notes issued by the Bank of Eng
land cost one cent each.
Needles are a legal tender currency
i'll some parts of Africa.
William. Walter Phelps, died at
Englewood, n. j., Sunday morning.
r. NJ. Dorsey took n party Of sheep
shearers out to Lamoille this morn
ing.
/ A slight earthquake shock was felt
in Winnemucca at S:05 yesterday
morning.
After being abolished for twenty
five years, the deathpenalty has been
| ICsuLlltu VI ONllLCll uiiu. fol
Tho grass and trees in Elko could
not look frcsher or more green il it
was the beginning of Spring.
1t is no worse, says an exchange,
for a woman. to paint her checks
than for a man to paint his nose.
II the rainy season continues much
longer Il Nevadan cannot be distin-
guishcd by his feet from an Oregon
ian.
Judge o. II. Leonard, an old-time
Nevadan, but for several years past Il
resident Of Ogden, Utah, has gone to
Jacksonville, Florida, to reside.
In a review OF the school n mt
Carson there is a loss III the number
of school children OF 9G i'll one year,
and forty-onc families have left Car
o in the same time.
\ remarkable downpour OF rain fell
at Madrid, Ncb., yesterday. Tho
Government gague actually indicated
a fall of seven inches III three hours.
Much hail accompanied the rain
Americans are the greatest travel
crs on earth. About 100000 OF them
90 abroad annually and spend $780,
100000. From present appearances
the usual number will go this year.
On July 2nd, 3rd and the morning
OF the 4th, round trip tickets will be
sold to all local points on the line of
the G. p. railroad, good until July
9th, at the rate OF one fare for the
round trip,
At the examination of the appli-
cants for teachers certificates ut vi.
salia, Cal, last week, the whole
forty-tivef failed. Twelve were drop
ped because they could not spell, and
the remainder because they could not
solve the arithmetic conufdrums that
the Board propoundcd.
The old familiar joke about the in
ability OF women to drive a nail
should he relegatcd into silent and
sympathetic dust. The other day a
farmers wife III Oklahoma success
fully shingled one side OF her dwell
ing while her husband was in town
looking up Il carpenter.
Dayton Timcs:-Lindsey. the mar
BILE man, was III town Thursday. He
has disposed Of his Mono Travertine
quarry to Il company of capitalists
which will develop the property i'm.
m%cdiatcly. 1t is the only travertine
quarry in America so far discovered.
Mr.. Lindsey received $4,000 for the
property.
In Geneva, Ala, close to the Flori-
la line, Ed. Cowart and Miss Lizzie
Lunwood were to have welded. All
arrangements were made; the preach
or and the guests had arrived; the
wedding supper was spread, but the
bridegroom was missing. 4 delcga-
ton was sent after him but he de.
clined to come, saying he had changed
his mind. Tho assembled gentlemen
provided themselves with masks,
again called upon the bridegroom.
carried him into tho woods. buckled
him across a log and iashel him I'M
mcrcifully, the blood being made to
flow from his back.