Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-11-24
R MONDAYS DAILY
sALMAGuNDl.

this afternoon.
The case OF the United States
against John T. Jones hus been con
timed until next Monday.
Tom Harris is fixing up a lady's
dining room in the Commercial Hotel.
1t will be "a big Improvement.
Ostreicher & Mayer have put two
windows in the front Of their billiard
room. They will make the room light
and pleasant.
No. 4 vas over eight hours late yes.
terday, owing to tho wreck OF a
freight train on tho Union Pacific
near Cheyenne.
Mr.. Il. j. Parkinson has returned
to Carson and resumed the manage
mcnt Of the Tribune. He proposes to
make it lively for some people in the
Capital City.
Tom Hunter, Major Miller. j. j.
IIylton and A. w. Hesson will ship
twenty-four carloads OF beef cattle,
fourteen from Beowawe and ten from
Elko, to Omaha tomorrow.
Two bicyclists FROM Minneapolis,
bound for San Francisco, arrived Sat
urday evening. They remained over
night and continued their journey
westward yesterday morning.
Cars in which aluminium will be
used for all metal works save the
wheels and aNles, are to be put on the
state railroads OF France. The say.
ing in weight for an ordinary train
will be thirty tons.
Sheriff Hadley, OF Winnemucca.
passed through last evening on No. 4
with the rmains OF Charles Aiken,
his brother .in.law, who was killed at
the Dalton mill, Bingham, Utah, last
Wednesday night.
Rev. J. r.. Rice, the cowboy preach.
or, and his wife arrived yesterday
from Ogden. They preached and
sung on the streets yesterday morning
and afternoon, and i'll the evening
they held forth in the Presbyterian
church to large audience. They are
excellent singers.
Western Mining World:-.On of
the reasons given for not coming sill
yer dollars, is that they are too big for
use. We have our opinion OF the
person who would prefer "A dirty,
greasy piece of paper that bns passed
through all manner OF hands to n
bright silver dollar. \ silver dollar
is II Of the incest coins in the world.
The only objection raised to them ia
because OF their scarcity.
State censuses have been taken
this year by Massachusetts, Michi-
gan, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota
and the aggregate increase i'll popula-
ton Of these five stntcs since 1890 is
found to be 9Il $50. This percent
age applied to the whole country
would give nh increase in the past five
years Of 7,50o,0O0, 80 that it ID safe to
place tho present population OF the
United States at 10000. 900.
Ex.:-A boy can sit still on a sled
Fix inches square. tied tn IA sleigh go
ing eight miles an hour, who couldn't
sit still on II sofa five minutes for u
dollar. \ man will sit on IN inch
edge on n board fence and talk poll
tics for three hours: put him in a
church pew for forty minutes and he
getsnorvous, twists. turns and goes to
sleep. a man will ill his mouth with
filthy tobacco juice until il runs down
hi3 chin, but Il hair in the butter kills
him.
In an article concerning human
freaks and curiositics, the New York
Tribune alleges that i'll Paris there is
mn institution where infants are made
into freaks rs Systematically rs flour
is made into bread. Those i'll charge
arc skillful physicians, it is said, who
know just how much the human an.
atomy can he crippled and cramped
and distorted without injury to life.
Tho babies limbs are manipulated
when tender and pliable. md they
soon grow misshapen and g%rotesque.