Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-09-01
lFRoM WEDNESDAYS DAILY
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a heavy frost last night.

Mr.. George Russell left for Reno
to-day
Hon. Thomas Wren departed for
Eureka oil No. 4 to-day.
Miss Cora Harris returned from
her Starr Valley visit this morning.
A distinguished Hiberniau remarks
that Washington is filled with absen.
tee officials.
Miss Hannah johnson, one OF Sarr
Valleys schoolma'ams, is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Armstrong.
Miss Nora NJ. Pollard, formerly Of
| Elko, was married in San Francisco
on August 10th to William II. Lake.
| Of Vallejo.
Will Randall, IN cmployeof the Car
| son Mint under the Harrison admin
istration, died in Baker City, Oregon,
last Sunday.
Call:-Soouer OF later the United
States will be the recognized leader OF
the nations, and che might MS well be.
gin by leading The return to bimetal-
lism.
Attorney j. w. Dorsey and w. j.
Triton left for San Francisco to-day.
They were accompanied by Mr.. Pear
sons three children who will be plac-
ed in school.
The sale of the Silver State mines
by Jim Yerington, says the Carson
Tribune, is only a question Of time
now. 1t is understood that there are
several syndicates who are willing and
anxious to buy.
The INDEPENDENT acknowledges
the receipt of a birds eye view of the
Cotton States international EXPOSE.
ton which opens ut Atlanta Georgia,
on the 18th OF September. 1t is avery
handsome picture.
\ bill to pension school teachers
has become Il law in Missouri. Under
1t male teachers will be retired on
half pay at the expiration OF thirty
years service, and female teachers af-
ter twenty-five years.
Are there many snakes about
here?" inquired an intellectual tourist
OF II landlord of a resort in Kansas.
"Yes,' replied the landlord. 4but l am
sorry to say that I am entirely out of
coal oil and soda for the bites
"Giye me a ROOM" said the tourist.
The empty bags which held the
$4,000 stolen from the Express Co.
last October when the overland train
was robbed in Yolo county, neal Sac.
ramento, have been found about fifty
feet from where the bandit Brady said
the money was buried.
The trustees are having the floor OF
the upper room Ill the public school
building covered with linoleum and
the steps OF the stairs covered with
v~ulcanized rubber. This ID IL much
needed Improvement and ought to
have been done years ago.
y man in Sioux Falls, S. d., poured
sour milk Oh a squash vine, and when
the squash was ripe he found 1t had
turned into Il substance that resem.
bled @Dutch cheese" The farmer
will plant the seeds next year, and
thinks he has a cheese garden on his
ranch.
Jim Fisk was worth about $1,000.
O when he was killed by Ed. Stokes.
To day Fisk's widow is living in II
humble frame house lii the tenement
district of Boston on mn income of $40
n month; derived from property
owned by her family in Brattleboro
VT. Fisk's estate has vanished utter.
ly.
The Carson Tribune sheds great
gobs Of tears because lIency, one OF
the suspected Mint thieves, is locked
up because of his inability to give n
$4,000 bond. II IIcncy robbed the
Mint, and there don't seem to he much
doubt OF it, he should take his medi.
cine like II man. His friends should
either go OH his bonds or stop their
s%qucalIng.
An old lady from tho interior Wis.
tied Golden Gate Park ut San Fran.
cisco not long since, and seeing II
largo flock of little grey birds hop.
ping about inquired what kind of
birds they were, 4 friend replied
they were chippics. well" she said,
"don't you know that my son Thomas
was in the city Il short time ago and
he got ten days in Jail for chasing one
OF them chippies.7