Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-11-10
lFRoM THURSDAYS DAILY
sALMAGuNDI.

1om lfarrlS Is under the weather TO
day with u severe cold.
District Attorney Massey is expect
ed home in Il few days.
j. j. Hylton and Ed. Carville came
in from Mound Valley yesterday.
The thermometer at the telegraph
office showed ten degrees above zero
this morning.
The report OF Assessor Eggers was
inadvertently omitted from the Com
m%issioners' proceedings yesterday.
Judge Cheney will deliver II course
OF three or more lectures at the Uni
versity ON the clements OF the common
law.
The Democratic rooster got an
awfu w%alluping Tuesday. Too much
C~levelandism has nearly killed to
noble bird.
George Grant and Tom Van Dire
len are getting cat and hauling the
rock for the fouGdation Of the new
schoolhouse.
An exchange says: The man whose
conscience troubles Lin is not in half
as much agony Us the man who wears
a starched undershirt.
The destitute family that passed
through here several weeks ago was
shipped in Il box car from Reno to
Los Angeles Tuesday evening.
Mr.. Mcdonald began work ON the
foundation of the schoolhouse this
morning. The rock he is using is first
class and the walls will stand as long
as the world lasts.
Dallas Gilmore. of Pleasant Valley,
who has been under DR.. McDowen's
care for n few days, left for his home
to-day. He made the INDEPENDENT
man happy before he left.
Mr.. Ostrcicher received Il dispatch
from tho firm of Maxwell, Dorsey &
Soto, San Francisco, to-day stating
that Mr.. Dorsey, though not entirely
out Of danger is improving satisfacto,
rily. This is good news to Mr.. Dor
sey's many friends in Elko county.
Passenger train No. 1 ran into q
"hclper' the other side OF Kelton yes
tcrday morning and disabled both ell,
gines. One Of the iiremen had II hand
quite badly scalded and one of the
postal clerks was knocked Off his fee
and badly bruised. Aside from the
fireman and postal clerk, no one was
injured.
\ new luxury in the vegetable line
is announced. 1t Is called the Span,
ish odorless onion; it Is imported
from Spain; varies in size from six
to twelve inches, and in looks closely
resembles the ordinary onion. They
are sweet, and can be eaten rs apple:
Mt any time, with little fear OF an OF,
~fensive breath.
So many sheriifs in the West ant
South have added bloouhounds &c
their force Of criminal trackers tina
the price OF the animals is increasing
and the raising OF them is becoming
quite Il business, notably, perhaps
i'll Kentucky. One hundred dollars
is said to be an average price for {
good bloodhound pup now.
Chronicle Contrarysto the predic
tons of the Reno physicians, it is now
probable that Leo Ehrct, the ole
drayman who was badly injured in &
runaway in Washoc Valley on Sun
day, will recover Last evening he
was brought up from Cranes ranch
and placed in st. Mary's Hospital
He received no broken bones in the
runaway and the chances are that he
will pull through.
Dispatch:-There is n prospect of Q
new time card about the 10Th OF thi.
month and some changes in the make,
up of the passenger trains. The bag
gage, sleepers, and dining cars will &C
west in the morning and the mail al
night rs now, and the numbers OF the
trains will he changed around. About
the same changes will be made in the
cast.bound trains. The cause is the
change Oh the U. =.