Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-02-03
IFRoM% SATURDAYS DAILY.l
s.I.sIAGUNDi

The Brooklyn strike Is not yet set
tied.
Eighteen degrees below zero this
morning.
PRECEDENT Faurc hts summoned NJ
Ribot to form n cabinet.
The snowfall at Truckce this season
up to January 23dhas been 2Gi inches.
Warden Bell las our thanks for Il
copy of his biennial report.
Rev. T.. J. Gillespie will hold SER
vices at the Presbyterian church to-
morrow morning and evening.
The Governor hns commissioned J..
4, Mcbride Of Eiko, Nevada, us
Notary Public, in and for Elko county.
Tho trial of Il. II. Mcdonald, the
San Francisco bank wrcckcr, began
before Judge Murphy yesterday morn
ing.
Mr.. and MH. J. Henderson and Mr..
and Mrs. l.. o. Henderson and Miss
Sadie left for the west on No. 1 to-
day.
Mcssrs. John Crosson. William
Henry and William Smiley. prominent
ranchcrs OF Starr Valley, are in town
to-day.
The Gazette says there are one
hundred carloads OF live stock await
ing ears for shipment west from
Reno.
Read the adj headed -F'rcc course
by mail with the Capital City Com
mcrcial College" 1t is n fine offer.
Apply for it.
Keep up the battle for bimetallIsm.
1t is cure To- win. and there can he no
permanent prosperity in the country
until it docs win.
w. $. Byrnc II former resident Of
Nevada, and Cashier OF the Mint III.
der Superintendent; Crawford. died i'll
tho hospital at Nevada City last Tues
day.
Edwin Quiu"lcy tho municipal
bond forger Of New York was scntcn.
ced to fifteen years and six months
imprisonment by Recorder Coil yes.
terday.
The Consolidated California aud Vir
ginia Company worked 2,ll2 tons Of
ore in December. netting S90.9gO Of
winch sis, 1856 was silver and 5i2.2Oi
gold. an average ofSlG Sc III gold and
81 9U i'll silver to the ton.
Bernard j. C~osgrovc, sent from
Elko county, September %. 1870. for
murder in the second degree, has
been i'll the p~cnitcntiary over ten
years longer than any Of his compan-
ions. From whnt We have heard of
his case lie should stay there the bal.
Hncc Of his life.
The IHDEpESDEsr would like to
know why the Board OF State Prison
Commissioners have provided for Il
chaplain Of the penitcntilry ut $40
per Sun lay when hcrc.otor, the min
listers Of Carson have oNrilted ut the
prison atS5 per Sunday. Not much
economy about That. q
y San Francisco dispatch says:
The committee has received a sub
scripiion Of five hundred thousand
dollars for the San joaquin road. The
subscriber liz presumed to bc Claus
~Sprccklcs, but while acknowledging
tho correctness Of the amount. the
committee withhOlds tho name forthc
present.
Florida will have an unique exhibit
ut tho Cotton States and international
exposition. II will consist of Il
phosphate pyramid one hundred feet
square Mt the bnsc and fifty feet high.
Tho exterior will be covered with
pebble phosphate md tho interior
will he finished in Florida woods. and
filled with the products Of the PENN.
suln.
y cable forty miles in length is he.
ing run through the snowshcds on tho
mountains for the use Of the ,clc
graph service. When completed il
will bo II great improvement over tho
old system of stringing The wires OH
poles. Nothing short Of II landslide
will interfere or cause u break i'm tho
cable. 40 that Geographic communi.
cation will not be Interrupted by or.
binary causes.
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