Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-06-23
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battieof Bunker, Hill.
The report of the grand inry will DO
found in another column:
Several gardens IN town we're ru
ined last night by the frost.
Jno. Sparks, the ~cattleman, passed
througheas bound this monning.
Several fishing parties were ont
yesterday. Fair luck is reported.
Mrs. Edgar Remnant was taken
sick yesterday but IL some better to-
day.
Lander Taber has been appointed
local agent for the San Francisco
Call.
E. Penrod, of Tennessee Gulch,
came in Saturday evening and il still
in town.
j. 7. McDermott came in from La.
moille this morning and returned this
afternoon.
We have a new carrier. To dry. IL
you fail to receive your paper. inform
this Office.
Miss Bessie Mayer, has been CON.
fined to her room for a couple o fdayr,
with a severe sore throat.
Yesterday wastanother cold. disa.
greeable day, and last night. the Their
mometer u down tpr twenty-five. ,
H. G. lriand,of C9iumbia. who has
been spending a few days in town ON
business, left for the North yester-
day.
Foster says a warm wave will cross
the western slope, commencing to.
morrow. May his prediction by yeri-
fed.
Edgar Remnant and w. W. Booher
departed on NJ. 4yesterday for Wais.
worth to attend the /. o. o, F. Grand
Lodge.
A. G.. Dawley OF Ruby Valley, came
down from Halleck ON No. Q this
morning. He says everything is very
dry there.
I'D. Abel, Lou Burkhnrt and wife
and Mrs. Jos. Lang md children left
this morning for the mines at Island
Mountain.
Dr.McDowell informs us that Mrs.
Davis, OF Starr Valley, who has been
very low with typhoid fever, is slight
ly improved.
Tramps are becoming a regular
nuisance and are getting very bold in
soliciting aid. Seventeen were count
ed in one drove last evening.
Jesse Leach, OF Tuscarora, who has
been in attendance ct the Grand
Lodge +. Il a. NJ, departed for his
home on this mornings stage.
A letter received from Mr..Jas. Rus.
sell yesterday states that his sister,
MB. Hamilton, ia improving and
hopes are now entertained OF her re
covery.
a special n containing u delega-
that Of California crack.shot riflemen
passed through this morning on No.
!. en- route for the Eastern Shooting
Festival ut New York.
DR.. Wilson, the dentist, returned
from Mountain City Saturday after
noon and will remain home about Ton
days. The DIR. informs us that things
are quito lively there and that every.
body~is busy.
The annual clip Of wool OF the ". F..
Ross Coat Mountain City Is beng
hauled here for shipment east. So
far, seventy bales OF wool and seven
bates Of pelts have been unloaded.
More is to follow.
Fish Commissioner Geo. II. Mills
arrived from Carson yesterday Mr..
Mills came to mako an inspection Of
tho branch fish hatchery and will also
mako n trip to South Fork to inspect
the rearing pond on that stream.
While rodeoing on NORTH Fork last
week Sam Furniss was quite severely
hurt by being thrown from n horse
he wa riding and Charley Moody
had I'M ankle badly spraiEed by his
horse falling upon him. Both are
improving.
1t was stated through the columns
Of the INDEPENDENT u few da. s ago
that the bloDmer craze had not yet
struck Elko. Since then we hive
learned that the society editor erred
in the statement, ms we lave good in.
\ formation 10 tile effect that a couple
OF Elko fairest have been aeen donned
in tho airy garments.
Asscmblyman Frank Francis. who
has been in town for several days In
tho interest OF tho San Francisco Call,
departed ON No. l this morning for
Salt Lake and other Utah pointH Mr..
Frhncis says Elko is us prosperous as
my town in the State and that he
heard lcss complaint about hard
timo here than In any town on tho
line OF tho Central Pacific.
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No Flag over tho Mint.
Last evenings Tribune says7 The