Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-07-21
tFRoM TUESDAYS DAILY.l
NAG
About 100 in tho shade to day.

About 100 in tho shade to day.
Mr.. j. p. Thorpe. Of lamoille. was,
in town to-day.
Mrs. Ostreicher returned from Salt
Lake this forenoon.
District Attorney Massey went up
to Deeth this morning.
Pious Russians do not eat pigeons
because Of the sanction conferred on
the dove in the Scriptures.
Miss Becca Alexander is writing up
the assessment roll for Assessor Egg
gers. She is doing neat, clean work.
Lightning struck a well near Win
chester, KY, and since then the hole
in the ground has been MS dry as a
mummy.
Miss Ella Croeson, who has been
visiting friends in Mound Valley,
came in yesterday and left for her
home in Starr Valley last night.
Down in Newark, New Jersey, the
other day n child vas born with
twelve fingers, twelve toes and a
double palate. 1t lived but a few
hours.
The California silver convention
will meet in San Francisco on the 10Th
Of August. It promises to be a large
gathering of the friends OF the white
metal.
The National Educational Associ-
alton. now in session at Denver, has
adopted resolutions recommending
the teaching Of patriotism in the pub
lie schools.
Sheriff Williams, Of Douglas coun-
ty, denies that he knows the where
abouts OF Williams, the tramp that
murdered MB. Saarman, and says that
he Ii still on the look out for him.
The United States Canal Commits
sion at Colon has completed its in
spection OF both the Nicaragua and
Panama canals. 1t is reported that
the members Of the Commission in
private have expressed u favorable
opinion On the canal route.
The Good Templars of South Fork
will give a social picnic on Sunday,
July 18th. There will be a variety of
amusements during the day. The
arrangements for the picnic are in the
hands Of the ladies OF the Lodge and
all who attend will be assured of a
splendid time.
Journal:-There is said TO be no
question rs to the identity OF Kate
WEIGH, alias Anna Howard, now in
the Hospital for Mental Diseases.
The State will probably get 1920
for, the fifteen years and six months
she has been n patient, out OF the S10,-
go to her credit in the Hibernia
Savings Bank, San Francisco.
The Eskimo dogs, with the equally
savage mosquitoes, make life ashore
u burden during the summe in Lab
rador. A stick to beat off the dogs
and a veil as a protection against
mosquitoes are absolutely necessary.
1t is Il curious fact TINT the further
north yon go the moro pestiferous
mosquitoes become. They are much
worse in Labrador than in New Jer-
sey.
Tho Iron Trade Review, OF Cleve-
land, Ohio, says: with all wage
scales settled, the iron trade enters
upon the second half Of the year with
prospects Of the heaviest summer
output in years. Structural mills,
plate and bar mills, east and west are
we'll supplied with orders and rail
mills have a tonnage before them that
is in decided contrast to their beg
carly orders a year ago.
The envelope machine at the Cotton
States and international Exposition
will be one Of the most interesting
operative exhibits in Machinery Hall.
A roll OF paper is started i'll one end
OF a machine, and at the other end the
complete envelope, made, gummed
and packed in boxes zones ont. The
paper is cut into shape and gummed,
the envelopes folded, sealed, and
packed all by machinery. The gum
is dried on the envelope by n series Of
rapidly revolving fans. so that there is
no sticking together.