Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1896-04-19
[FROM TUESDAYS DAILY
3ALNIAGUNDl.

This has been a very disagrecnhle
day and fires have been a necessity
Rumor has it that there will be Il
wedding i'll Elko in the near futunc.
\ special train conveying the IA.
nous Salt Lake Tabernacle Choir
passed west last evening.
Geo. Goodwin. an old.time resident
OF Austin. was found dead in his cab.
i'll at that place last Wednesday.
Mrs. NJ. $. Riddle left to-day Oh No.
4 for Sacramento where she will NEE,
her husband aud join the press cxcur.
sion.
Parties in from Huntington aud
Mound valleys report that a heavy
SNOW storm visited those last
week.
We are informed that Il weekly pu.
per, devoted to mining and agricul-
turc, will lie started in Wells III the
near future.
Miss Hattie Clark. who has been
visiting friends here for several days.
will leave for her home ut Humboldt
Tomorrow.
1t IL estimated that between ~
and 30 people are arriving at DeLa.
mar, New, weekly. At this rate the
town will soon have II popula ion "
1000.
X. w. Simpson, II pioneer Of the
State aud one OF Ncvida's first and
ablcst journalists, died Ill Ely, White
Pine county. last Thursday. after Il
long illness.
The order has gone forth that clean
er engines must he kept on the Salt
Lake division Of the Central Pacific,
and the iiremen are very busy III con-
sequence.
y California exchange says: Ne.
vada aspires to become Il great cop.
per producing State. With gold. sill
yer. cattle and many other resources
she ought to pull ont Of the ut.
Mexico is said to produce anything
that can he raised ia any other couu
try. so varied is the climate that in
the same State can be raised any
product Of the tropics and Of the 40.
lar region.
y Fresno county, Cniifornia. farm
or has figured up IN income III .g..
1872 i'll one year from l45 acres ~
land devoted to fruits, vegetables,
poultry, etc, but no grain. That is
at the rate Of SG7 per acre.
There died III Philadelphia within
II week recently twelve persons
more than eighty years Did, eight
men aud four women. and Of tiiesn
three were more than ninety years
old, IL being nincty-cight.
At the Pasteur institute III Paris
1870 persons were treated last year
for hydroplIobia. Of whom but two
died, the smallest proportion get ut
tanned. In 10 years 1887 persons
have been inoculatcd. 81 of whom
died.
Forty thousand acres oi virgin for
est in Southern Idaho will soon he
tur".'d over To the axcmcn Of a big
syndicate. II IL expected that this
area will yield more than 100000. 900
feet OF white and yellow pine. red and
white fir and iamarack.
John Gardner, of ST. L1nis has died
once too often. Twelve times his ply
aicians declared life was extinct in
Gardner and twelve times has Gard.
ucr revived. lie is dead again for the
thirteenth time and the Hateful ante.
ccdcnts Of the number leave little
hope for another recovery.
a California gcologist claims that
Mexico contains anthracite coal hcIds
SURPRISING IN richness those Of Penn
%sylyania. Virginia and the whole Of
the APPALACHIAN belt. This conl he
INSERTS, can he mined and delivered
IN San Francisco for &c a ton. and Il
handsome profit made ut that.
Last evening between & and 7 |
o'clock the roof oi tho old Humboldt |
Brewery Saloon was discovered on
fire around tho stove pipe. a few
buckets of water cXtinguishcd tho
blaze before much damage was done. |
A high wind was blowing nj the time,
but fortunately tho heavy rain Of yes
tcrday had wet the roof so that the
fire burned slowly.
During the year just cndcl. gifts to |
tho value 81 S~2S,0l3,5i9 were made to |
churches. colleges. libraries. charities \
aud the like. in the United States |
aside from their ordinary income. as
against Slo.DGi.ll6 in 1891. and yct |
tho money %cranlts cry that tho world
is getting worse instead ~ better. |
that every man who has saved up
n dollar uses It to oppose his follow
man.
White PnC News. That veteran
vauucr", Mr.. I'rn Payne. gold another |
bunch 81 steers "a the SmitE Bros. OF !
DcLnmar. He got siN cents II pound.
Tho borf ~ IA iorrl III tho upper
part 81 Whit" River Valley about
twenty-five utica fTon Fly. This in
an cyccp tondiiy gooi !rae to gather
beef from tie rangoH fit for tho mar.
kci gomcthing unkuowm for years.