Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-10-27
THURSDAYS DAILY
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Mrs. r. S. Porch and daughter are
In from Huntington Valley.
Evan Williams is seriously i'll at his
home in Empire. y dose OF poison
oak Is the cause.
Ex.Sccrctary OF State John NJ.
Dormer is dangerously ill IN San
Francisco with u complication of dis
eases.
Miss Susan 3. Anthony has called
n State mass meeting Of woman SUI
fragists to be held IN Reno on Wed.
nesday, October Goth.
\ new steamer is to be built Mt Lake
Tahoe by the Union Iron Works OF
San Francisco. 1t 81 to be the larg.
est and fastest boat afloat on the
lake.
The married women OF China wear
their hair i'll a coil at the back OF the
head; the unma :ried women have
tho coil ut the side OF The head. and
ShlSh al Nllltc liONc! III H.
Baron Rothschilds IS quoted us say
ing: There will DO more chance
To make money i'll the United States
OF America i'll the next i've years than
i'll any part OF the world
Tho appeal papers in the Ease of
the United States VS.. the Stanford
estate reached the U. S. Supreme
Court yesterday and were docketed.
Tho transcript coversl $50 pages.
The first number OF E. -Congress-
ma Bartine's paper. The National
Bimetallist, reached our table to day.
1t is a 32.page pamphlet devoted to u
non.partisan treatment of the silver
question.
y few days ago Il prisoner escaped
from the Reno Jail by setting fire to
the building. \ bucket of water ex-
tinguished the blaze, but in the mean.
time the Jail bird had flown, making
his escape good up to date.
\ Missouri farmer figured it out
one rainy day that he had walked 300
miles i'll cultivating one acre OF corn.
He thereupon sold his farm and NOV.
ed to town, where he walked 600
miles to find a job.
Dispatch:-A young rascal with n
made sore leg victimiZed many peo-
pie in town this week, supporting
three healthy hobos by the traffic.
He showed the disgusting sore to
women to gain sympathy and coin.
The journal says the stockholders
Of the First National Bank OF Reno
have held Il meeting and decided to
change the concern from the National
banking system and organize under
the general banking laws of Nevada.
According to Auditor Bilkey's foot
ings the total valuation OF Elko coun.
tvs tax roll for this year Is a, 2S3,S 800
rs against S~i,25G,l55 last year. Tho
total amount of State, county and
poll tax. shown by the roll is So.
15G.GO.
The News says a company has been
formed in Carson VALLEY to establish
IL pork packing establishment not far
from GardnerSille. The contract for
the building has been let to Muckle
IL Elliott and work will soon begin on
the proposed structure.
1t is said that on the state railroads
of France aluminium will be used
hereafter in all the metallic work OF
car construction except the wheels
and aXles, and il is estimated the re.
duction i'll weight Of an average train
will be about thirty orns.
The two boys who escaped from
tho Carlin Jail Il short time ago were
indicted by the Humboldt county
grand jury last Monday for house.
breaking. Both plead guilty and lust
Tuesday Judge Cheney sent them to
the pen for two years each.
Ex:--Thcrc is a man down in Boone
county, Ky, who. it is said is Il
genuine crank on the silver question
Ho Is so cranky that he goes about
digging up all the ]goldenrod and
marrigolds, raises white corn, won't
speak To his wife because she has
golden hair, is forever deuounciug the
golden sun, has quit chewing tobacco
because Of its color, won't keep the
golden rule and says he don't want to
enter the Golden Gates"