Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-11-24
IFRoM TUESDAYS DAILY.r
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Valley last night.
Remember the shooting match at
the Hot Springs Thanksgiving day.
Cap. Palmer came up from Carlin
tins morning and spent the day in
town.
Walter Gilmore made the I%NDEPES-
DENT office a pleasant call this alter
noon.
Barney Horn, the San Francisco
cattle buyer. came down from his
ranch yesterday.
w. Z. Morgan, coiner OF the Phila
delphia Mint, is at Casson in attend
nm &C on the Heney case.
John backward and John Berry
are in from Bullion. They report
everything quiet out that way.
Mrs. Johnson and Mr.. Rutherford
are in town from the North Fork
country laying in their winter sup
plies.
Governor Jones is under the care OF
DIR. Hirrchfclder in San Francisco
and last reports give his condition as
much improved.
1t is said that Cleveland. Olney and
Carlisle, will be the name OF a new
law firm in New York City after the
4th Of March, 1897.
Once get n flood Of printers ink
started i'll the right direction and it
will float almost amp man into promi-
nence, il not into fortune.
Ex:-Man is beyond doubt the most
excellent OF created beings, but the
sages agree that II grateful dog Ii bet
ter than an angrateful
g. II. Meeker, assistant Engineer OF
the Southern Pacific Company, COM
mitted suicide yesterday morning in
Oakland by taking morphine.
In Chicago there is a new club
called @The Society for the Discour-
agement OF Divorce" The sisterhood
includes women who are gricved that
the sex has lost the art OF managing
husbands.
Billy Simpson, formerly an all
around nuisance Of Elko, Is serving
sixty days in the Reno chain gang for
insulting girls and women on the
streets. lie ought to be thrown into
the Truckee river and drowned.
The United States Supreme Court
has confirmed the decision Of the low.
CT court i'll the case Of the United
States against W. Ii. Clunc, n Of
the strikers convicted at Los Angeles
OF obstructiug the mails during the
big strike.
james j. Hill, the railroad presi
dent and millionaire Of St. Paul.
Mimi. Il Protestant, who gave $500.
900 To build and cndow IA Catholic
theological seminary, says he did 50
because his wife il a Catholic and u
good woman
Ten years ago the logs in Wisconsin
ran four or five to l,O00fcct Of lumber
Now, twelve, fifteen. and yer twenty
logs a"e required to furnish n much,
In live years the decrease i'll diameter
Of the pune trees cut for lumber has
been - per cent.
Harry Butts and Lee Brooks are
tho two men who tried to get away
with SliJ from a Chinaman III Carson
last Wednesday night. Butts was nr.
rested and held in 81, 900 bonds to up
pear for examination. Brooks SIX ip
ped the country.
New Hampshire, is the following:
@Widow Susanna Brownson was born
August 81. 1869. and died June 18th
1902, aged 1903 years" Tho remark.
able part OF this record is that Mrs.
Brownson lived III the seventeenth,
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
1t is said that 300, 900 cubic feet OF
water plunge 100 feet downward over
tho Niagara escarpmcnt every second,
thus wasting l0,O00,0 900 horsepower of
energy to the second. II Niagara
were really "harncssed" SO as TO uti.
lie this energy, it would be sufficient
to turn moro machinery than there is
in the world.
Tho Silver State says .hat parties
from WRdsworth were in Winncmuc.
ca lust week catching minuOws from
the humboldt. Tie minnows are
sailed down and taken to Wadsworth,
where they sell readily for II cent
apiece to fishermen for bait.
EXIT man strikes a boy, that
boys father gets angry and makes
himself heard. Yet that saInc man
very often will not teach his boy to
respect his elders. How many small
boys we meet who speak respectfully
and clvilly to no man but their own
father, and only to him because they
know they will be chastised II they do
not. You can tell II well.brcd man 10y
his well.bred son.
Chicago Tribunc:--A Southern II,
linois woman saw u mouse In II pnstc.
boBrd box the other day and caught
tho animal by clapping tho lid on sud
denly. Then shc threw the box into
tho fire. IL had contained saltpeter
and there was nm instant explosion
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