Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-01-06
IRON SATURDAYS DAILY
sALsiAG UNDi

e. ". Wullacc WIS III tOWn to-uhS.
Nine inches of snow fell last night.
Tho chicken pox is still getting in
it's work in Elko.
A%ppleman, the train wrecker, Is
proving an alibi.
Remember the masquerade ball at
Freeman Hall next Monday night.
Tie heavy fall of SNOW last night
interiercd with the ice harvest today.
II you own any mining claims. fila
the proper notice before Monday
night.
December came in like u lamb, but
it now looks MS il it would go out like
4 roaring lion:
Ex-Stats Senator ID. Is. Williams
died i'll Oakland Thursday morning OF
typhoid fever.
Miss Mamie Russell, after spending
her Christmas vacation at home, left
this morning for Fort IIslleck to re-
sumo her school duties.
Connecticut's automatic gailows il
winning much praise. Fe!ons who
have once patronizcd that method OF
execution will use no other.
IT used to be Eaid by the goldbugs
that the free coinage OF silver would
drive gold from the country. Ii looks
now us il no silver coinage had the
same effect.
IL the par.y in Wells who sent q
communication To the INDEPENDENT
will send his or her name the commu-
nication will be published, otherwise
il will find u place in the waste bas-
kct.
According To Addison, the woman
who does not make her family com
Portable will herself never be happy
at home; and she who il not happy
an home will never he happy my
where.
A St.Louis Grand Jury hos in
dicted forty.four persons for
completely in election frauds, and it
is thought the number will be III.
creased to 100 before the jury gets
through.
Tho Lcxow Committee has dug up
II whole lot Of %rottcnness in the New
York police department. 1t should
continue its good work till all the
guilty parties are safely in the pen.
itentinry.
II the leaders OF the Peoples party
now in conference mt St. Louis, cut
loose from the isms OF the Omaha
platform and make monetary reform
their platform. there will be u great
shaking among the political dry bones
in 1896.
Secretary Carlisle il said to be
ageing very rapidly. lIis step no
longer has the elastic t.,ad which
has been characteristic OF linn in
former years. And yet he in not nh
old man in years, being only in his
fifty ninth ycnr, being born in 1895.
EI:-This kind OF weather makes
the stage drivers sick. 1t makes the
newspaper man sick too. Thcrc isn't
news enough this morning to get out |
IN ordinarily good daily paper. lot
alone n high toned, moral, cducn
tional and agricultural weekly Of
fifteen years standing mud stability.
Stories OF the destitute condition OF |
tho farmers i'll Nebraska, in the sec.
tion Of which Perkins county in tho
confer, tell Of great suffering. in some
cnscs Of people starving to death.
Since the middle OF Juno no rain Inns
fallen, with the exception Of ono
light shower. II is estimated that g..
900 families. representing 10000 peo.
pie. are destitute.
a Democratic Senator from n
Northern State who was askcd whnt
he thought OF tho Carlisle Currency
bill, replied: "Do you think the
people OF .my State will intrust the
financial Legislation Of this country
to John q. Carlisle, Daniel W. Voor.
hocs and William NJ. SpringcrY
Ihey would not trust them with tho
names OF n Sunday school picnic"
jeremiah Prophet Elijah Kumlcr is
tho tull name OF tho moderator OF tho
Presbyterian synod Iust adjourned in
Tyrone. lilo is n graduate OF Miami
university and has been 81 years In tho
ministry. lilo IL pastor Of the East
Liberty church,, Pittsburg. mud IL mn
eloquent and iorcoful speaker. flo
hos a sister named "Come Thou
Fonnt OF Every Blessing Philadcl.
pima Times.
Tho funeral OF Miss Helen l.. Stubs
took plnco Sunday afternoon from
m'h Station, tho remains being ia.
'e''o' In Carson cemetery. At tho
s'"Ye says tho Tribune tho coffin VIVA
oponcd TO allow tho friends to view
enc bouy when II wp discovered TINT
n OF the girls armu had fallen hy
Lor sidn and tho fingers wero linn
This wa thought TO DO a sirn NJ iiic
but n careful examination proved iho,
Tho girl WnH dcnd bcyonl +, dn,