Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-07-14
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY
sALMAGUNDi.
Sir. McBride Is better to day.

Mr.. Mcbride Is better to day.
1t. is estimated that the people OF
England spend s75o.OO0 a day in NOV
ing.
The Board of Pardons denied the
application OF BIZ. Cosgrove yester-
day.
The quarterly report OF the Auditor
and Treasurer for the quarter ending
June Both appears to dry.
Lizzie Murray, soiled dove, at
tempted suicide at Carson ON Sunday
by taking a dose of laudanum
The window of Thaxter's drug store
in Carson was broken Saturday night
and $50 worth Of razors stolen.
Peter Curren, a young man about
thirty.four years old, died very sud-
denly.at the county hospital y~ester-
day.
Judge Hawleyr appointed Mr.. s. NJ.
Henley United States Commissioners
Monday. Here's congratulations
Steve.
Buck English, the stage robber,
plead guilty yesterday at Napa, Gala,
and was given a life sentence in San
! Quentin.
William Hilderbrand, noted coun-
terfeiter, Was arrested in San Erancls.
co yesterday by United States Mar
shall Hilderbrand,
The Cornell crew won the boat race
yesterday. The English crew got into
u dispute with the umpire and the
Cornell crew had a walkover.
The increased value of cattle should
not result in rearing poorly bred and
runty calves. The sooner a bad calf
goes to the butcher the less money Is
lost on it.
a Reno preacher recently sent one
of his brethren Of the cloth n
cord Of wood and u buck saw. This
according to tho Gazette Is practical
gospel straight from the shoulder.
The bill of DIR. Samuel Mcdowell
for Si3.50, salary and medicines fur
nished for the hospital, was allowed
by the Commissioners Mt their last
meeting and inadvertently omitted
from the list of bills published.
Mr.. William Butler and Joe Fattier
have discovered what appears to be a
big deposit OF coal on the mountain
back of the II mile ranch. The samp-
les brought to town from the surface
resembles n fine quality of coal.
Ex-Governor f. a. Stevenson Of
Idaho, committed suicide near San
Louis Obispo, Saturday. Deceased
was well known here. His Brother,
G. G. Stevenson, was Governor OF Ne.
vada, dying in Carson in 1889, while
in office
The Pittsburg Dispatch says that
the pay rolls made up at the banks
show an average increase in amount
OFFS per cent. There must be more
work, with more pay, or else there
has been II fabulous increase in the
wage rate.
\ Chinaman at Carson Sunday
evening knocked u woman down in
the Capitol square and stole n pistol
from her. When the officers went to
arrest him he placed the muzzle OF
the revolver in his mouth and
pulled the trigger, killing himself in.
stantly.
Chinese dentists rub a secret pow
der on the gum over the affected tooth
and after about five minutes the pa.
tient is told to sneeze. The tooth
then falls out. Many attempts have
been made by European dentists to
secure this powder, but none ever
succeeded in doing so.
The Gazette says: Quite number
OF Reno people went up 10 Carson
this morning TO appear before the
Board of Pardons in behalf OF b. j..
Cosgrove sent from Elko county in
1870 for life for murder in the second
degree. Hcis now an old man and
strong efforts will be made to allow
him to spend his few remaining days
in liberty.
aThe country is filling up with men
all the time, machines arc constantly
throwing more men out of employ.
ment. and improvements enable the
unskilled to take the place OF the
skilled: what is going to DO the re.
sult?' asked II merchant u few days
ago. The Scientific Machinist thinks
that il a question M one man can
answer. The solution rests with the
American people.