Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-04-28
trRoM SATURDAYS DAiLY.l
S~ALSiAGUNDI

Virginia City mad another Earth
quake shock Wednesday night.
The neighboring towns and valleys
were we'll represented at the ball last
night.
In China ordinary day board can
be had, for Il Chinaman. at about 3
cents.
Everybody should 80 to the polls
on the Doth and cast their ballots for
the county high school.
Governor Jones Inns renewed the
commission OF Webster Patterson as
Notary Public for Elko county.
a large crowd attended the dance
at the Depot i.oiei last mght. The
music was excellent and all present
had a most enjoyable time.
The indications are that the Carson
Mint ia OH its last legs. Uncle Sam
Gems to DO very chary OF Nevada
bullion thieves.
Dispatch:-About every day finds
some miner with blankets ON his back
passing through Wadsworth enroute
to Butte, Montana.
4 unicycle. which can be run in a cir
Gle and guided ut will, is the invention
Of +. NJ. IIeigley Of Boston. 4 double
gearing operates the machine and tho
rider Is in 10 danger OF falling.
The article ON the county high
school in yesterdays paper was com
municated and should have been so
marked. Friday is "A very busy day
in the INDEPENDENT Office and the
mntter was overlooked.
Oliver Curtis Perry, the train. robbcr
who escaped from the State asylum
for insane criminals at Mattewan.
New York. with four other convicts
on Wednesday night of last week, has
been recaptured ut Weehawkcn, New
Jersey.
A Hanak, proprietor OF the Inter
national Hotel at Virginia, Inns offer
cd IL proposition to VIM. Thompson to
organize a stock company and remove
the international la Reno. Mr.. Han
ak offers to take half Of the stock.
Uncle Jimmy Clark and Miss Hat
tie came w from Humboldt last even.
ing and attended the dance at the
Depot Hotel. Mr.. Clark returned to-
day, but Miss Hattie remained to Wis.
it her old friends and schoolmates.
A bright advertiser said M tn nd
vertising methods. Tho gOat eats
the posters, the waste basket gets the
circulars, the ragman ecure the
hnnd bills, but the newspapers arc
saved and read by the people"
According to statistics furnished by
the Catholic directory the total Catho.
lie population Of the United States
il 0,077 $50, an increase OF 1882 owe
1891. Tho total number OF children
in Catholic institutions is 9lS,207.
Speaker Crisp is mentioned us n
probable candidate for the Presidency.
lie was born in England OF America
parentage, but tho lawyers say there
js no question M to his eligibility.
1t Is thought the Georgia delegates
will present his name ut tho National
Democratic Convention.
Secretary Morton, in order to pro-
vent the monthly grim reports OF tho
agricultural department from getting
to spectators in advance, has made
changes in forty.iour Of the state
agencies and further measures will be
taken to prevent leaks.
Now York eight
young women who arc supposed to
know law received diplomas to that
effect yesterday. All, or nearly all
ofthem. are unmarried. Tho first ap.
p%licntion thoy should make Of their
knowledge in to look for Il husband
and babcas corpus him.
General George w. Jones. OF Iowa,
celebrated his ninety.iirst birthday
last Sundnyby dining with his'old col.
tongues in the United States Senate,
James w. Bradbury, OF Maine, and
TX Governor q. n. Fitch. OF Michi.
gan. or the three, Bradbury IL tho
oldest and Fitch the youngest.
Chicago Dispatch:-I1e editor Of
the Tuscaarawas Advocate says Tint
q pretty woman with no other knowl.
Hlge thnn how to use II pair oi saucy
eyes, can control more men than u
score Of tho greatest female orators
in tho world, Does he introduce
that girl with tho saucy oyes TO his
wlto2
Tho examination OF John Il. Jones,
accused Of stealing bullion from the
Carson Mint, Ia TO DO held with closed
doors. This means that tho people
will DO kept in tho dirk regarding
tho steal until his trial takca place II
held to answer by Commissioners Ed.
wards. Tliorc is nothing Ia gain by
such n course.
Probably this, from tho Louisville
Courier journal, will DO conceded
In M mn American opinion: Tho law
Us a science does not gain In respect
from the many and diverse intcrprc
tations II receives in tho highest
court OF the land ID constituting the