Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-01-20
tFRoM SATURDAYS DAILY
sALMAGUNDt

T. C. Plunkett came down from
Tuscarora yesterday and left for Car
son on the early train this morning.
1t is said that u sale Of some Of the
mines Mt Kennedy is about to be made,
and that the camp will soon rally from
its late setback
The house OF representatives Of Col.
orado has adopted a resolution in ia
vor Of foreclosure OF the government
mortgage on the Union Pacific.
An advertisement is better than a
feather duster. for it keeps the cob
webs from accommodating on goods,
while the duster is only good to brush
them of.
Under the new time card which
goes into effect tomorrow morning,
No. l will arrive al 7:l5 and depart at
7:35. taking breakfast here. No
change in the other trains.
Mrs. Catherine Storms, who voted
mt the recent municipal election in
Boston, has the distinction OF being
the oldest oma voter in the world.
She will be Sc June 2Sth next.
The National Rcformer says: 1.-The
goldbugs make the laws, the straddle
bngs make the platforms. the hum
bugs make the speeches and the
,lnn1Ia L,,,,, onlorso Il,a ,.ho1. tl;nn .
The name ~ the first steamship that
crossed the Atlantic WIS the Savannah,
III 1919. II took twenty-five days.
The usual time for one Of the fast clip
per shin was from sixteen tn twenty.
II days.
Governor Jones has commissioned
8. II. Young oi Lovelocks Il Notary
Public. The Governor hns also ap
pointed James l.. King Il Commissioner
OF Deeds for the Safe Of Nevada to
reside in San Francisco.
1.-The Princess Pauline now in New
York, is probably the smallest dwarf
living. She is seventeen inches tall
and weigs only nine pounds. She
was BON in Holland, and is 10 years
old. md speaks four languages fiu.
emily.
Silver State:-Parcnts should send
their children to school whether they
wish to go or not. 4 public school
education is one Of the ncccssarics Of
life. In after years there will be no
regrets ON the part Of both boys and
girls who were forced to go to school.
The Perkins men had Il bare ma.
jority OF the Republican members Of
the California Legislature ut their
caucus. 1t takes seventy-one votes
to elect and, unless all signs fail, there
will he lots Of Doodle floating around
before the cuucu nominee gets the
required number.
When John Edward Kelly's Illness
made him take TO his bed at his home
in Lambertyillc, n. j., for the last
time Blk weeks ago, the lad WIS 8 feet
IN height and very fleshy. When no
died on Friday last, he had fallen
away to u skeleton, but the under
taker found TINT his stature was @
feet 2 inches.
The Governor OF Alaska does not
think TINT section ready for Terri
legislation. Elections cannot
DO held with any regularity, tho
being so remote that a year
would pass perhaps before some Of
the returns would be in; and besides
the miners would have to bear tho
brunt Of taxation.
Tho Bostoon Transcript has heard Of
an economical man. He is a lock.
emith, and needing n sign no went to
to q Rign painter andgot nm estimate
for letters. Tbon he nailed two locks
to n board and asked tho painter to
paint after them the word "mith''. Tho
Philadelphia Ledger suggests,
that It would have been
cheaper to have used only ono lock
md paid tho painter for an 10
a grnphic idca OF tho immerso sizo
OF Siberia may 10 CLEANED from the
following comparison: All OF the
states, kingdomR, municipalities, en-.
pires, etc, Of Eurape Except Ruaaia)
md all OF tho United States. including
Alnskal. could be placcd side by side
In Siberia. md yet tho uncovered
apace would be equal to Il country
containing IN area OF 100000, coo
squire miles,
At the funeral Of Ex-senator Alcorn
mt Eagle Neat. Miss. recently thirty
old colorcd men, the majority of
whom wero tho former slaves Of the
deceased, woro conspicuous IN mourn.
era. They were in%consolable in their
griof and gave won't to thoir feelings
In shrieks, religious songs and ptny.
FRA. At the grave tho colorcd non
threw themselves upon tho coffin and
hhaily had to DO removed by force in
order to allow tho body TO 10 buried.
Hero AFRO some interesting figures
nbant traffic through tho Sucz canal.
During tho year 1909 tho number
u chips that passed. through tho On.
nal was 3,3t1, with ntonago Of 7,G2o.O00
yielding $4,000 900 to ducs. Ae TO
nationality OF tho Vessels, tho English
wore 2,i05; German, 273: French, 100.