Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-12-29
tFRoM DAILY
sALMAGuNDl.

The Coptis Mining Company has an
importance notice in this issue.
Mrs. j. II. Henry came in from
Shelton yesterday and returned to.
day.
Tho Good Templars OF South Fork
have postponed their dance until the
10th Of january, 1896.
Miss May Gardner arrived from
San Francisco last night to spend the
holidays with her parents.
Assemblymnn Weiland shipped 81
head OF mules from Elko to Yazoo
City, Mississippi, this afternoon.
An exchange says that already the
single gold standard has given the
farmers 16 mortgages to ! mule.
An admirer OF the wife OF President
Cleveland says that -her speech is a
continual song without words"
Bishop Leonard's mother died Ii
st. Joseph, Missouri, on the 10Th Of
this month. She was s3 years old.
Samuel Is. Thompson, u sixty-year.
old sinner was arrested in San Fran
cisco yesterday for ~debauching young
girls.
The Tribune says it is limited that a
change will SCOT take place in the
management OF the Orphans Home
at Carson.
Twenty-nlne degrees below zero
here yesterday morning and thirty
one at Halleck. To-day is not so cold
by three degrees.
The Sentinel says times are 30 hard
in Eureka that there will be no pub.
lie Christmes tree this year. Tho
same is also true OF Elko.
An exchange says that the winning
OF tho San Francisco Chronicle prize
for babies born ON Christmas will be
only a matter Of bull headed luck.
1t is all well enough to say that thir-
teen is an unlucky number, but this
country started in business with thir.
teen states, and seems to be holding
her own.
w. 5. Clayton Ii in from Hunting
ton valley to-day. He says the
weather is cold enough out that way
to freeze up the birthstone fires OF the
lower regions.
Post:-A man who WAS once the Sc
cret agent of two kings has just died
in poverty in Fresno. Tho man who
pins his faith to a pair OF kings does
not deserve wealth.
I~Iarper's Bazar:--"I can't sec why it
is said Bobby, that when little boys
are cross, folks say they are naughty;
and when papas and IN are
cross, folks say they are nervous"
The Atlanta Constitution thinks
that 1.-the gold bugs will climb mr.
and look over the transom they will
not think any more that the free coin.
age men are preparing for a funeral.
Tho girl who never screams when
she secs a mouse isn't Il safe girl to
marry. With her calm, cool, collect
ed and uncxcitable disposition she
would hit where she aimed with the
rolling pin every time.
According to tho decision OF the
interstate commerce commission just
rendered, it il highly probable that
the Southern Pacific company may be
compelled to make heavy reductions
in freight rates between Colorado
and California points.
Tho Senate has passed a reso.
luton directing the Commsttcc
ON Election to investigats the
efforts OF corporations to con-
troll elections OF Congressman, and
also to control legislation. Tho COM
mittec is directed to report n bill to
suppress such practices.
Mr.. Muller has received u fine line
OF Congo wood, olive, orange and
Kicker! canes that are just the thing
for old people. There ia nothing bot
tor for u Christmas present for an old
gentleman than onc OF these ano
Tho ladies should boar this in mind
when buying Christmas presents.
Tho new rotary snow pillow recently
taken 10 Sacramento makes the fifth
rotary which the company has pur
chased. Three ot them, including
the new one. will bc kept in the Sicr-
ar Nevada mountains. One ia in the
sorviDc of the Shasta division. and the
other ia on the border line between
Nevada and Utah. =
Elsewhere it will 10 soon that Tom
Van Driclan has taken unto himself n
better half. Tho newly married
couple are we'll known in Elko and
have a host OF friends who wish them
much happiness and II world Of pros.
pcrity. Mny they prosper, live long
and DO happy is tho carncot wish Of
tho INDEPENDENT pencil pushor.
We acknowledge tho receipt OF two
copies Of Hoods calendar for 1896.
Thoy IRE beautiful specimens Of tho
printers nrt and Gun be obtained from
druggists or by scndinR elk cents in
stamps TO Q. l Hood & Co. Lowell,
Mass. Tho demand for Hoods cal.
cndar Inns grown from II million
copies n fow years ngo to over thir
teen millions for 1906.