Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-06-02
trRoM TUESDAYS DAILY.r
ALMAGuN
Cod and disagreeaLle.

y light fall OF snow last night.
The indications are good for more
storm.
Mrs. Sam Davis. OF Starr Valley. is
very low with typhoid fever.
Secretary OF State Howell has gone
to New York on legal business.
Mr.. j. L. French and family will
leave for Island Mountain tomorrow.
Our State exchanges all speak OF
heavy winds Saturday night and Sun
day.
The Silver State says that the
heavy wind Sunday did considerable
damage to trees in Winnemucca.
The Board of Police Commission
ers of New York has granted Superin-
tcndent Byrnes' request to be retired.
Let us all turn out on Thursday and
devote the day to decorating the
graves OF the dead. Wen all be bet
ter for it.
The people OF Winnemucca will
celebrate the Fourth OF July. The
ladies will have full charge OF the eel
ebration.
a New York sporting paper says
Reno has the largest number OF BIZ
cycles of any town OF its size in the
United States.
Indian agent Hargrove is down
from the Duck Valley Reservation to-
day. He reports everything moving
along smoothly with Uncle Sans
wards.
The sheepmen and cattlemen OF
Routt county, Colorado, had Il tight
yesterday near Steamboat Springs in
which two cattlemen were killed and
siXEwounded.
Phoebe Record: - The aluminium
coin issued by the DeLamarC Company
is getting very plentiful in town and
most of our merchants refuse to accept
1t III payment for goods.
Government surveyors are again
at work Oh the Nevada-C California
boundary, and now give ont that this
State will lose a strip of territory N
and n half miles i'll width.
The Gazette says that burglars
broke into LANCE & Schmidt's hard
ware stree i'll Reno Sunday right and
stole eight or nine pistols, a lot OF
cartridges and several knives.
y Washington dispatch says: 4
cablegram has been received mt the
State Department from the United
StUics Consu! ut Annoy, China. stat
ing that the soldiers occupying For
mosa have declared for u Republic.
The other day as Alpheus Vaughan,
the murderer Of the Ulster boys. was
being taken into court, the father OF
the murdered boys pulled his pistol
and attempted to shoot him. Friends
intcrfercd and took the pistol from
Lister.
/ have before me n letter from n
Parisinn friend, II gentleman OF some
literary note in his own country. who
informs me that he is learning Eng
fish by the aid OF a small textbook
and Il dictionary, without any other
instructor, and he adis: ain small
time l can learn so many English as l
think will 10 come at tho America
and go on the scaffold to lecture,"-
Detroit Free Press,
Journal:-The people OF Truckne
are Ieasting on mountain trout. Elev-
en- miles west OF Reno il is lawful to
catch trout in the Truckcc riy er. but
on the Nevada side OF the State line
hooking II trout is punishable 10y fine
or imprisonment, or both. If the
trout only appreciated the protection
afforded them in Nevada they might
remain i'll this State. but the bl amed
fish, like our millionaires. all get into
California.
Pacific Union Printer-Printers arc
threatened with q greater danger than
they feared from the introduction of
machines. a $4,000, 900 heiress of
Boston has inuugurated u new fed by
marrying n typo tourist. Head for the
woods, boys, when you take to the road
for there will not be Il ~corporal's
guard lett'of ua after tho epidemic
has taken u good hold Of the hcircsscs.
There are many of them md few Of us
who would make the sacrifice?
White Pine Ncws:-Judge g.. f.
Tatbut came in from Phoebe Satnr-
day. He returned recently from II
trip through the southern states, and
is much improvcdin health. Tho Lalmy
brcczcs and genial cline OF tho Sun
ny South have made II marked change
for the better III the Judges personal
appearance. lIc says that tho qucs.
ton OF the free coinage Of silver is tho
Chief topic for discussion in the Cen.
trail and Southern States, that wher.
ever you go, in tho hotels on the
street corners, on tho trains, the
champions Of the white metal can DO
heard earnestly advocating it's spec
dy restoration.
A wild Day,
Sunday, May %, was ono OF the.