Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-07-07
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY
sALMAGUNDi.

day
Senator sknggs was in town to.
day.
Lot us all make the eagle scream
tomorrow.
Sheriff Matter collected sl67 so for
for licenses last month.
Applicants for teachers certificates
should be at the schoolhouse next
Monday morning.
We noticed Mr.. VIM. Myers, OF
Ruby. and Mr.. NJ. Bndt, OF Wells, on
the streets 10 day.
Large delegations of Elko people
will go TO Carlin and Iamoille to NOR
row to celebrate the Fonrth.
Mr.. Morgan has the fire apparatus
all ready for use should n fire break
out 10 morrow. Bully for him.
Quite a delegation of Elko's prom
ment people leave for Ogden TO.
night. Is there TO be a wedimgp
tThe INDEPENDENT acknowledge
the receipt of n complimentary ticket
to the Fourth of July ball Mt Car
lin.
Judge Beatty has decided that
draw poker, as! played in California, is
u game for recreation and not gamb
ling.
The latest report from Kennedy
says that G. II. Mcintosh is able to
be arourd and will go to LoveIock
next week.
The case OF Wines w. Williams
over the Ruby Valley Touring mill
occupied the attention OF Judge Tai
bot to-day.
One penny invested 500 years ago
at 8 per cent. per annun, compound
interest, would now have amounted
sto slo.25O,OOO.
Carson Tribune: Tho owners OF
the Silver Star group of mines, eoldto
Senator Wolcott, received the first
payment OF 100000 in Virginia City
this afternoon.
Tomorrow being the 10Th anniver
sary Of our Nations birthday, the INs
DEPENDENT force will celebrate the
day at Carlin and Elko, consequently
no paper will be issued.
Tho Moorhead Mclean company's
iron mills and plant at Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania, have been sold ut Sher-
IFS sale for s11 600. The plant is said
to be worth over 81, 100000.
John Sparks has lost ten head OF
his thoroughbred Hereford cattle by
alfalfa bloat. This is n serious loss rs
the cattle were among the best OF their
breed in the United States.
Captain uowgate was sentenced
yesterday to eight years. imprison
ment for forgery and classifying &C.
counts. committed in 1879, while in
the signul service of the Govern
}%6ncnt.
a dashing widow moved into town:
She has come to remain the edit
or wrote.
The stupid composition knocked ont
his j,
And the editor fled to a place Q
mote.
MIR. Sam McMullen is down from
Deeth to-day. He told the INDEPEN.
DENT that Mr.. Bradley arrived in
Dceth last evening with $50 head of
stock cattle which he had purchased
i'll White Pine and Lincoln counties.
Col, Moore is in from Ruby Valley
to-day. He informed us that about 5
or 6 o'clock Monday afternoon John
krcuka's stable caught fire and was
entirely destroyed with all its con
tents except three horses. The origin
OF the fire is unknown.
a French medical man has tested
the effect Of rancid butter upon the
health by making n daily use OF
about a half ounce of il for twenty
days. a cough with mild diarrhoca
resulted from this use Of STRONG"
butter OF moderate age, while that a
year old produced vomiting, collie and
severe dinrrh@a.
We are pleased to learn that little
Edith Hunter who has been quite
sick is improving. Her mother will
leave for San Francisco with her to-
morrow morning in the hope that the
climate OF the sea level will restore
her to health. The INDEPENDENT
wishes Miss Edith n speedy recovery.
Lode-Tho Indians in this section
are not slow in catching on, ms was
shown IN their horse race on tho last
day OF the races, rhe buckskin was
by odds tho best horse in the race, and
n gentleman approached tho rider and
asked him IL he would not win. The
Indian said; Maybe so no win, may.
be 80 you give me $40 the bay horse
win.r
The Southern Pacific north bound
express train was held up Monday
night by three masked men near Rid.