Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-07-21
[FRoM WEDNESDAYS DAILY.
sAhMAGuNDI.

Tho trial OF ivan hovRleo. the Rus.
sian accused OF the Weber murders,
has been set for Sept. 10th.
The list Of successful applicants for
teachers certificates at the recent ex.
animation will appear Tomorrow.
Ike woolyerton, son OF Commits.
sioner Woolverton. OF Ruby Valley,
had his right arm broken last week
by falling from a horse he was riding.
Commissioners Woolverton and Sam
Bachman are in town to-day. having
been brought here US witnesses in
the case OF the State against Jubal
Wright.
Willie Dock Jim. the Indian who
killed his wife at Lovelock on the
lOthiof April plead guilty to murder
in the second degree yesterday at
Winnemucca.
.Joufnal:-Out OF one hundred and
ninety.three patients at the Hospital
for Mental Diseases. one hundred and
sixteen were employed at some kind
OF work last week.
The New York Mercury says the
Mckinley boom shows u slight ten
dency to sag. To borrow from. Mr..
Cleveland's ph~raseology there is dan
ger that it may shrink and shrivel
On the MAJORS hnndSr
Crocodile tears are alluded to by
several Latin and Greek authors, it
beng u superstition among tho an
clients that the crocodile after killing
a man, ate all his body but his head,
and shed tears over that before eating
it also.
j.. ID. Castro, Justice OF the Peace
at Firebaugh, has petitioned the
Board of Supervisors OF Fresno coun-
ty to relieve him of his office, giving
as a reason that he cannot stay there
and remain sober, rs everyone in Fire
baugh is continually drunk.
DR.. Bergstein was thrown from his
buggy in Reno last Sunday and con-
siderably bruised The Journal says
this is the second experience OF the
kind the DR. has had this year and he
is seriously thinking of getting 4 BIZ
cycle and bridling it with a Spanish
bit.
Placed end to end in continuous
line, the streets OF London would ex.
tend from Mansion House across the
entire continent OF Europe and be.
yond the Urnl mountains into Asia.
The number of inhabitants exceed
the population of Paris, Berlin, Wen.
ma and Rome put together.
A special dispatch of thel2th to the
Denver Times from Cheyenne Wyol
ming, says: Reports reached here to-
day OF a fight in Jackson's Hole,
south of Yellowstone Park, between
settlers and a party of Bannock In
dians unlawfully killing game. One
Indian was killed and fifteen cap.
tured. >.
Carson Appeal:-A Mason Valley
rancher who was leading span OF
horses to water. tied their halters to.
gether for convenience. The animals
got away, started on n run, and went
on opposite sides Of Il cotton wood
tree at full gallop. The stoppage was
so sudden that il broke both their
Iiecks.
The Silver State says that while
Simon Remnant was out riding with
n young lady Sunday evening he was
ordered to throw up his hands by a
footpad. The command WINS obeyed
but, rs the robber reached for the
reins, the horse started off on a run
leaving the footpad in the middle of
the road.
j. IL. Call and j.. Charles Graft
were convicted in Justice Blacks
court at pceth yesterday OF cutting
tho fence OF G. L. Pearson in Mardis
and fined $50 each. They were
brought down to day and Graft went
to the hospital and Call. at latest ac.
counts, wds rustling for the money to
pay his fine.
Miss Mary Belcher, twenty-five
years OF age, lives with parents near
Russellvillc, Kentucky. Two years
ago she was a bright, dark-haired,
rosy. chekcd girl. She used n COG.
metic, which was recommended for
the complexion and now she is horri.
fled at the appearance OF u heavy
black beard all over her face.