Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-12-29
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II merry Snrlsttpas VI YOU.
Charley Greenberg is much better
to day.
The panic in New York and Lon
don Is about over.
The INDEPENDENT wishes it's friends
one and all, a Merry Christmas.
l.. d. Albert came in from the
soap mine yesterday. He reports the
property as looking well.
Miss Matte Keith, the Humboldt
schoolma'am, came up Saturday to
spend the holidays at home.
Don't forget the poor tomorrow.
Charity, yon know, covers a multitude
OF sins. Cover some OF yours.
The case against Frank jennings,
charged with having in his possession
counterfeit molds, was dismissed by
Judge Hawley Monday.
Tomorrow being u day OF general
good cheer, the INDEPENDENT force
will take u lay-off and join in it's OBJ
servancc, consequently no paper will
be printed.
Carson News:-The rumor that n
change is to be made in the manage
ment OF the Orphans Home comes
from no official source, and no change
is contemplated at present.
Mr.. Newlands has been appointed
on the committees OF foreign relations
and banking and currency, two of the
NEST important committees at the
present time Ill Congress.
Miss Ella Crosson has closed school
in Huntington Valley for the holi-
days. She came in yesterday and
left for her home i'll Starr Valley last
night to spend the vacation with her
parents.
Miss Pcarty Barton. Of Center
Moreland, Pa, went to sleep on Nov.
%, and has slept continuously ever
since, with no signs Of awakening,
though her breathing continued. The
case puzzles the doctors.
We got the item about Mrs. Oliver
all mixed up yesterday. 1t was Miss
Rose Gardner who came up from
Winnemucca Saturday evening in
stead OF Mrs. Oliver. Mrs. Oliver
arrived this morning. We beg par
don OF the ladies for mixing them up
30 and hope it will not occur again.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Van Drielen
sent "A liberal supply OF wedding cake
and u bottle OF wine to the ISDEPEN-
DENT Office this forenoon. The force
return thanks for the kind rcmem-
b-ance and wish the bride and groom
all The happiness and prosperity that
belong to the married state.
Tho official returns OF the state
election in Massachusetts, show that
out of the 5T5,0O0 omc entitled to
register and vote on the question Of
equal suffrage, only 23,06S went to the
polls; that in AZ towns not Il woman
--I-i --A ;.-1oa t--,s tiIeiI-rvto
averaged only 10; and that in not Il
bihSiO toAiil VI VINO 81 uh'JSA
ity given for the proposition.
The DeLamar company has doubled
It's crushing capacity at the mill, says
the Phoebe Record. a new Blake
crusher OF largest size was started up
a few nights ago. Two new Hcine
boilers Of go horse power are being
nat -, ,l,nn nlnnys;ln 81 kl,A tr-n oil
ones. The next step will be the ad-
dition OF extra pulverizers and leach
ing tanks to bring the works up to
the promised 80 tons n dry working
capacity.
a London dispatch Of the 23d says:
The afternoon papers to-day comment
editorially mt length on the Venczue.
Ian matter, but their remarks are on
the financial rother than the political
phase. While there is no abatement
OF the expressions OF belief that the
ground taken on behalf OF the United
States il %untcnable, the tone is alto.
gether more pacific. There is consid.
cradle display Of satisfaction Mt the
financial difficulties of tho United
States.
a correspondent OF the White Pine
News, writing from Cherry Creek,
says: aMcrrian Farrell and John
Bergman, OF Eureka, passed through
town this week on their way to Jas
per, Elko county. to work come slug
dumps at the furnace in that town.
We know that the Stag ut TINT place is
rich and the gentlemen will make Il
nice sum out of their labor. While
here they bought the Stag dumps ut
Hunter and will work them in the
Sgring.
Figures indicnte that the railroad
business is more dangerous in this
country than n war would be. For
the year ending June 80, 1895. Gi4i
persons were killed by the railways.
or these 1874 were passengers, 1923
employees and 1900 were victims Of
grade crossings or trcspnsscrs OH the
track. There we're 81 1899 people in
jured. or these 23,s00 were employ.
Gee, 1904 passengers, and 5ii3 other
persons, and still tho number OF poo.
pie injured fell of 02ll.
First sight Of n TaIIioHd Train.
a country boy who wnB brought up