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

FRoM SATURDAYS DAILY
sALMAGUNDi

Good ice weather.
The town is very dull and quiet.
Miss Ruth Triplett arrived from
Tccoma to day to spend Christmas ut
home.
Miss Nellie Sheehan came down
from Weiland's yesterday to spend
the holidays.
George Bruce was taken suddenly
quite III last night and is confined to
his bed to-day.
Mrs. George w. Cassidy is having
a monument erected Mt the grave OF
her husband in Hillside cemetery,
Reno.
The Carson Tribune says that APP
plications were fled in the State Land
Office Thursday for l4,403.93 acres OF
land, and the first payment, amount
ing to 1888. %, was made. Tho land
selected Is mostly located in Elko
county.
Two full moons will occur IN De
cember. 1t Is quite rare for Decem-
Uer, or any othor month for that
matter, to have two full moons. The
only instance before this was 1896
years ago, mt the coming Of the
Savior.
Fifty-threc years ago a Minot, Me-,
man attended IA school i'll that town,
and tells an interesting fact in connec
ton with it. The teacher and all the
pupils who attended that school are
living. Death has claimed none OF
them.
Rev. NJ. S. Riddle will 90 TO Wells
Monday tn unite i'll matrimony Mr..
j.. IL. Downey, nm engineer OF the S.
u. Company, and Miss Hattie Hol.
land OF that place. They will leave
on the night train for Oakland, Cal,
where Mr.. Downey's people live.
Tho INDEPENDENT acknowledges
the receipt Of a complimentary ticket
tn the annual ball Of the Order OF
Railway Conductors to be given at
Armory Hall, Winnemucca, on New
Years eve. Tho boys are working
hard to make this ball eclipse any
thing they have given i'll the past.
Prof. Joe Bowers and Frank Brown
camped out with the lluntingmn mail
last night altwecn Ten Mile and John
Yowell's place. They reached town
about . o'clock this morning and will
start on tho return trip tomorrow.
Prof, Bowers says il was rather tough
last night and that he didn't enjoythe
trip very much.
The receipts OF the State Land Office
for eleven months Of 1893. ending De-
combcr LIST, have been Si0O,9l5 IL,
,uhiaL 40 &" aHsSSa 81 any year since
1887, and cqualled only i'll the years
1873, 1885 and 1887 since 1865. II il
evident that there are people who
hive faith in Nevada and her lands
says the Tribune.
Cole Atherton's potato patch did
not nssay NJ well for the Government
NJ for the defense in the Heney case.
Twelve assays were made, three OF
which were as follows: No. l-silver
81 30, gold 81 OF. No. 2-silver 10
cents per ton, gold traces; No. o
silver 81 II, gold IL cents. All tho
rest OF the assays showed merely traces
or nothing
Bodio Mincr:-Some time ago we
spoke OF the bonding Of the Con Pac.
mine to Joe a. Brown by n. Tobias.
Tho U. Z. and Trust mines should
also have been included. Tho bond
is till July LIST aud Mr.. Brown is to
put two or more men to work within
90 days from date bond was given,
and keep at lonst twn men at work
for tho remainder OF tho time for
which the bond holds.
4 large audience greeted the chill.
dron mt Freeman Hall last night.
The programme was very interesting
and was we'll rendered. Tho children
showed careful training and reflected
much credit on their teachers. After
the exercises. the floor was cleared
and tho children danced till l2o'clock.
Tho older folks took tho floor after
the children quit and danced till 1
O'Clock. Quite u handsome sum wRs
realized for the library.