Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1896-03-15
IFRoM WEDNESDAYS DAILY
SALAIAGUNDI.

lie own If exceedingly qulct.
T.. N. Baum.. Of Pallsadc. came W
on M. l this morning.
Tho Comstocis pay roll for Fcbru.
ary amounted t. 3jl.3l3.l0.
l.. l.. Bradley. of Dccth. made the
county scat II visit yesterday.
l.. Wintermnutel has just received
IL soda fountain from tho East.
Two earthquake shocks Ws e fell
on the Comstock Sunday night.
a car load OF baled hay from Love
lock was unloadcd here yesterday.
We are enjoying a beautiful Spring
day. The birds were singing brigh;
and early this morning.
We are sorry To learn that Lew
Butler. brother of G. T.. Butler,
is quite sick with pneumonia.
The recent storm seems To be gen,
eral all over the State, and the pros,
pect fort supply of water is brighter.
Every West Point cadet signs M
obligation TO serve four years in the
academy and four i'll the army after
| graduation.
! Mr.. Harrison will bear witness
from personal experiencc-that it is
easier to get Il wife than to get nomi.
mated for President.
Chas. $. Young, formerly of this
State, has been appointed right.of,
way agen, at the San Francisco and
San joaquin Valley railway.
T.. G.. Mcclellan, who arrived from
Wells On No. 4 to-day, reports that
about ten inches of snow fell i'll that
vicinity during the recent storm.
The semi.annual meeting of the
Nevada Press Association is being
held i'll Reno to-day. q. II. Sproule
and w. W. Booher went down last
night.
Genoa Cuuricr:-You can judge
how clear the atmosphere of this town
Is when ii is stated that two bits
worth Of onions cooking in II restaur
II "a he smeilcd everywhere.
\ telephone line, connecting sever,
al Of the business houses OF the town
was put up today. With electric
lights and IL telephone line Elko is
now putting on metropolitan airs.
Tho most violent windstorm ever
known i'll Southern California pre-,
vailed yesterday. Tho sand siitcd SO
that railway traffic is blocked on the
Southern Pacific and Souther Califor
mia roads.
During the next three months
Southern California will be engage,
i'll picking its orange crop. which i:
estimated at 2.SOU.OCO boxes or two,
thirds OF Il full yield. The crop will
sell for S5.000.0UO.
Last Tuesday. says the Eureka
Sentinel. an old-fashioned snow storm
set III i'll the vicinity of Eureka and
continued during the night and II por
ton Of Wednesday. As a result
about Il foot or fourteen inches uI
snow fell.
An exchange says to its delin
qucnts. ali II starts tn pay his debt.
it puts Il row or men. a half mile long
in motion, each one starting TO pa!
his. 1t may he that you are the mar
i'll the row that has stopped the mo
ton. II You owe one. pay him.
Farmers Voice. In Pennsylvania
they have sent Il woman To the insane
asylum because she had no conf
dencc in banks and carried 100000 Oh
her person. III everybody who has
no confidence in banks is to be de
clarGd insane. we shall havcto enlarge
our asylums.
Peoples Paper:-A man in Ncbras.
ka wrote To ii friend III Washington
City tu know if lie wuuld help him To
sell a carload of horses. Tho friend
answered ms follows: @Tho people
of Washington ride bicycles, the
strcct-cars are run 10y electricity, the
Government is run 10y ]jackasscs. No
demand for horses
Tho foundation for Il colony is be.
ing laid near Battle Mountain by j.
\. blossom Of that place, where in all
probability several hundred families
will shortly settle. Tho land, says
the wadsworth Dispatch. is excellent.
II has Il south slope, the soil being
largely Il sandy loan. Artcsian
water can he reached anywhere and
the cost will he but Il few dollars IN
acre. An irrigation ditch il being
built there now. Several miles have
been completed and it will shortly
be finished.
wnr "Improbnbir.
There il not the least question TINT
the United States would he moro than
Il match for Spain both on land aud
nj sea. Our navy il the larger of the
two and Cuba is so near our coast
that il would not bc difficult Ia send
over large army to help tho insur
gents. Spain might commission pri.
vntccrss, but they would not do much
damage for comparatively little of the
IN Of this country is carried
in American ships, But it is i'm.