Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-07-14
SATURDAYS DATLY.I
sALMAGuNDi

England has 200 men each worth
over Is. 100000.
j. r. Henry the Mayor OF Skel.
ton, was in town to-day.
No wind to-day. Something must
be wrong in the weather Office.
Judge Talbot will leave tonight
for Colorado Springs, where he will
remain Il few weeks.
Miss Mamie Russell went out to
Fort Halleck this afternoon to open
the school ut that place.
The school census marshal reports
587 school children in Gold Hill, u
decrease Of 225 in the last year.
The United States Court will be in
session next week. Will there be a
shaking up in the mint stealr
This year 100000 bicycles were
manufactured, and then the factories
could not keep up with the orders.
The postal service on the Central
Pacific is very rotton. Postmaster
General Wilson should weed out the
incompetent mail clerks.
The machinery for the new mill was
shipped from San Francisco to day
Mr.. Terry is ready to put it in place
rs soon IS il arrives.
James Poole and John Case alins
Mcdowell have been arrested on sus,
picion OF robbing the Oregon express
Mt Riddles Monday night. Both arc
ex.convicts.
Australia is Il country without
orphans or nm ornbanage. Every wait
is taken to the receiving house where
it is taken care OF until u country
home is found for it.
Fifteen hundred workmen in the
Chicago wire works are on a strike
and wire drawing is ut a standstill in
that city. The men demand an in
crease in their wages Of about Upper
cent.
II is proposedto connect New York
and San Francisco by an elevated
electric railway. The cost Is estimat
ed ut goo, 900 900, and five OF the pro.
moters of the scheme have subscribed
500 each to the capital stock.
During the month OF April this
country exported 76,95s,l4s gallons OF
mineral oils against 62,443,639 gal.
Ions for the corresponding month
last year. The value OF this April ex-
port was si,472, 922.against 90, ,795
last year.
4 little Elko boy WAS on his knees
saying his evening prayer. He was
barefooted, and his little sister was
scratching the bottom OF his bare
feet. This he could not bear, and he
said: 1Pleasc God, excuse me till I
knock the stufing ont OF Nell"
Tho State will probably put in a
claim to n large part of the money on
deposit in the Hibernia Bank OF San
Francisco to the credit OF Mrs. Kate
Wclch who is now in the Reno asylum
Tho law provides that the cost OF
maintaining insane persons shall be
paid out OF the estates.
Thore is a lake OF pitch in the Ia.
land Of Trinidad. 1t is about II mile
and a half in circumference, and
while the asphaltum near the shore
il sufficiently hard ut most season
TO sustain non and quadrupeds, it
grows soft and warm ns you go to.
wards the center, and there it ia in
II boiling state.
1t il removed that the catholics and
A. p. a. OF Carson and Virginia are
on tho verge Of Il combat. Mer.
chants and other business mon who
belong to the a. =. a.. or are su
spected Of belonging to the organ.
ization, are losing considerable Cath.
Ollie patronage. 1t is said the crisis
will soon be reached.
Chemists say that 1t takes moro
than twice'as much sugar to swecten
preserves, uce and the like, II put
in when they begin to cook, MS IL does
10 add IL after the process Is accom-.
plished. This il n fact that the aver.
ngc kitchen maid is not apt to know.
or ono that shc is particularly apt to
forget or ignore without Il frequent
reminder.
IT is charged that einco tho Pacific
Mail lias been running it's steamer
lines, the company has lost over 100
passengers. This Is u big death roll
especially when one considers that
the big Atlantic companies run along
for years and never lose a passenger
Tho Colima disaster was duo to grosf
cutelosness and bad seamanslip. and
the moro the case il investigated the
worse II grows.
Sensible Man.
I'm Tia onnenoob ~ tbo a,nnli,ns