Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-05-26
F-RoMTHuRsDAYrs DAILY.


A dreary day.
Silver was CTS yesterday.
The peeping Toms must lay low o
they will SEQ their names in the 1 sDE
PENDENT.
E. G.. Jones is putting up a Large
building which no intends to fill
with agricultural implements.
Anumber OF Good Templars wasn't
out to Lamosgyvo 10 qy so attend the
District Lodge.
When silver is remonetized, John
Sherman will be nc longer worship
ed as the golden calf by the Demo.
cratic cuckons OF tho East.
Phil Triplett, the INDEPENDENTS
foreman, went out to Lamoille this
morning 20 attend the Good Temp.
plar's District Lodge.
Angelica, the county reat OF ALE
cheney county, n. V, was nearly, de.
stroyed by fire yesterday morning.
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It is said that an Qkishpma squi,w
read TriIby and then went OF and got
drunk. An exchangesays:t.is is ths
greatesttribute the bool<ever got.
The First National Bank Of Reno
has bought the s52, 900 OF Humboldt
county 7.per cent bonds at u pre-
MUM of $1,000.
a Rochester death certificate gives
as the cause OF AN old lady's escape
form a troubled world, worried to
death by meddlesome neighborsr
The agency of the Nevada Bank in
Virginia City will suspend business
on the first OF June. The Chronicle
says the suspension is due to business
shrinkage on the Comstock.
In Carson no money is to be ex.
pended for flowers on Memorial Day,
but the graves of the Nations dead
are to be strewn with a profusion OF
wild flowers gathene ed from the hill.
sides.
Mr.. Boyce brought up $4,000 young
Eastern brook trout this morning
which he placed in the rearing pond
at South Fork. The young beauties
were in splendid condition.
Mr.. NJ. O'Brien, the San Francisco
mill man, arrived last night. He told
an INDEPENDENT reporter this morn:
ing that the Elko mill would be fitted
throughout with the latest improved
machinery for making flour. Mr..
O'Brien is thorough mill man and a
very pleasant gentleman.
The Enterprise says that Same
R~amlingan. a Hindoo who has lived in
Virginia City for nearly forty years,
has fallen heir to large fortune in
India. Same win leave for his native
land in about five months to tako
charge of his fortune. :
An exchange says u man that has
his enemies amounts to something.
Heis u live mop. He is a tighter.
People don't kick at a corpse. A man
can swim against the c%urrent.a corpse
floats down without hindrance. God
bless our enemies, We love them.
1t makes life worth living. , a!,.
The confederate silver half dollar
IL rcckoncd rs one OF the rarest of
American coins. Only four such
pieces we're struck. They have the
goddess of liberty on one side. and
a stock of cane, one Of cotton, and
the stars and bars OF the Southen
coat of arms on the other.
Ex.--The publisher of a newspaper
has N thing to sell and one thing to
rent. He has the newspaper to sell
and the space in his columns to rent.
Can anyone inform us why he should
be expected TO give away either one or
the other? He Fan do so il he chooses
and he does, as Il matter of practical
fact, furnish a great deal ofspace rent
free. But it does not follow that he
ought TO be recognized rs Il contri.
button exactly rs would be the giving
away OF sugar or coffee by the gro.
ceryman. But strange to say it is
not looked upon in that light. The
existence OF Il newspaper depends Ms
much on the rent of his space and the
sale OF his paper as the merchants
success depends on selling his goods
instead of giving them away.