Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-08-18
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sALMAauNDl.
Mn. H. Hale, OF winnemuccs, ,
here visiting Mn. E. E.. Bilkey.

VA sSAhls .... H.
When a Tartar invites o man TO
drink, he leads him forward to the ia.
BILE by the ear.
Mr. and Mrs. Ostreicher and Mrs.
Gleason have gone to Dorsey Creek
n a camping trip.
Judge Bigelow received u telegram
from the East last Friday morning
informing him OF the death OF his
father.
Mr.. Pearson has employed j. w.
Dorsey to defend him. Mi. Dorsey
it expected to arrive from San Fran
cisco next Thursday nigkt.
Sheriff Matter left for the north
ern country yesterday to enforce the
sheep license law. He expects to in
terview all the sheep men in that sec
ton.
Sometimes said Uncle Eben, 1de
tremendous SET esteem dat er man
gifts am intiahly due ter de iack
dat he am a bad iedge oh charac-
ter
The animal possessing the largest
heart it the Greenland whale. It's
heart is three yards in diameter, and
more than three yards round the larg-
est part.
The Times says quite a number of
cattle have died along the Walker
river in Mason valley lately, They
are apparently well one day and found
dead the next.
Leslie's Weekly:-Mrs. Doolan-
sits too proud yez are T. talk, Norah
Foley, since yex won tn bicycle in tn
tin.cint rattle; but il thin amt yer
old mans pants Dim a nagur."
The Good Templar News has
changed its name and now comes out
as the Weekly Tidings under the
management OF Mr.. G.. R. Vardy.
The INDEPENDENT wishes it SUCCESS.
a man in Illinois who put up forty
barrels OF quail killed in season, in a
cold storage cellar, has Just been
fined five dotiars per quail for having
them in his possession out OF season.
The fine aggregated $4,000.
Springfield, Missouri, has immor-
talized itself by appointing a woman
Sheriff. She If the widow OF the late
Sheriff Of the county and the first
woman OF which there is any record
that v held the Office OF Sheriff.
Senator Blackburn, in discussing
the gold bug papers OF Kentucky,
says: @If I WA running hell and had
the Courier journal, Times and Post
managers, editors and reporters sent
to me ! would turn the other inmates
loose lest thoy be contaminated
Terrence Dewitt was killed at De.
Lamar last Wednesday by the acct
dental discharge OF u gun in the
hands OF p. ii. Devlin. Both men
were shot gun messengers for the
DE Lamar mining company and were
engaged in cleaning their guns when
the accident occurred.
According TO a French professor,
tho rabbit il able to bear the greatest
cold. He shut a rabbit up all night
in Il block OF ice and the next morn
ing the animal seemed to be very
comfortable, and not to know that
anything unusual had been going
on.
Courier:-Last Monday and Tues
day the heat was intense, On Mon.
day the thermometer registered 100
at Jake Rodenbah's, l0l at Elwood
Wyatt's % Mt Gardnerville and % at
Genoa. A thermometer placed in the
sun at Gardnerville reached l27 de-
grecs and bursted.
Tho following is the indebtedness
OF Lincoln county: Area, 1918
square miles; population 1890, 2,4G6;
londed debt, January /, 1895, $751;.
462; interest s3l3,35S; funding bonds
slG,2is; floating debt s33,403; total
s5i4,471. or the floating debt 8 1000
wa paid in March, 1895.
On August z. 1892, Otto Lutgens,
agold Hill butcher, disappeared from
Rubicon Springs and no trace OF him
could be found though a deligent
ssarch was made. 1t is reported that
his remains we're found last week
near tho Springs by Il party Of sur.
veyors. A gold watch and chain
and sl40 in coin were found with the
remains.
Tho Southern Pacific Company has
abolished the drawback" checks
which wore given to passengers who
failed to purchase tickets and who
paid their money to conductors. Tho
passenger wns required 10 pay 10
cents extra and tho check would cnti.
Ito him to the return Of tho money at
any station.
A barber in Sacramento by the
namo OF Wolf was sent to jail for six
months for cnticing a young Spanish
girl into a house OF III ropute that he
might 1.-Two of her earnings. Tho Car.
con Appeal says that by calling the
monthe years and multiplying II by
ton, justice might be ablo to get 9
feeble wl,nck nj s,ich n parody on hu.