Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1896-03-22
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Miss Rosa Alexander arrived from
Tuana last night on n short visit.
The beautiful "e.ti".: ni tic p.st
few days VAS s]upu!nn.ld 10y II very
raw wind to-day.
Ben Craighead and his mother
left ON No. 3 last night ge Salt Lake
City to be absent several days.
Tho receipts from passenger traffic
at Reno, were $1,000 more lust month
tnin they were the corresponding
month last year.
Tho comet which astronomers say
was to strike the earth t.. day has
failed To connect, ut least this vicinity
remains mdisturbcd.
T.. c.. Boycc, Dcput! Fish Com.
missioner, left last night for Carson
He will return about the first OF
April with II consignment Of spawr.E
Col. j. b.. Moore cam in from
Ruby Valley last night. He reports
considerable now i'll Ruby during
tho last storm and that it did Il vast
amount OF good.
On the first Of March the wages Of
men employed on the Miller n Lux
ranches i'll Mason Valley were re-
duccd from $50 to go per month.
The men including those who we're
feeding cattle quit work.
There ii II clerk Mt an Idaho Indian
agency who INDUCES in dreams Of
filling a niche III the temple Of fame
by reason Of wearing Il mustachc
which measures nine feet from tip to
tip, and, strange IL say, he bears the
commons SENSE name of Brown.
\ St. Paul jury has fixed the
market price Of kisses ut Sl.T5 each,
whereas III Massachusetts, it is under
stood. kisses ear going begging at II
premium for purchasers. Is the i'll.
tcrstatc commerce law operating to
offset tho law Of supply and demand q?
Carson Ncws:-Frank Parsons, an
inmate Of the State ~PcnItcutiary. ffes
patented Il cOutrivancc uf WIRE for lift
ing hot plates ont Of an oven, etc. Mr..
Paul Ii handling it for him and they
are already sending hundreds ali
over the country. 1t il needless to
say that they are making cansidcr
able money.
y ST. Paul couple quarrclcd the
other da! applied for Il divorce, went
Z" "A masquerade, ball. fell in love
with each other again III incognitio
and bitterly disappointed Il couple Of
lawyers. CUPID plays some queer
prnnks this year or else the special
correspondents are doing much better
lying than usual.
Several shots were fired last night
between 10 and IL o'clock 10y the gang
al railroad section men at tho section
house. Ii is understood that they
fired the shots III the air to brighten II
lot of boys who were "tic taCking- the
house. Tho boys will undoubtedly
give the Italian headquarters a wide
berth hcncctorth.
Passenger trains No. 3 and 1 col.
lidcd yesterday ut Golconda, train
No. I. west bound. WIS at tho tank
taking water, when No. 3, which was
due and should have taken the
Siding" dashed into il. The accident
was caused by the air brakes refusing
to work. Both engines and Il couple
Of cars were badly wrecked. Luckily
no II Was injured.
Mrs. J. Il. Williamson. OF Austin,
President at tho Nevada Suffrage
Association, arrived last evening from
Eureka where Rho lccturcd Thursday
night on equal suffrage. Mira.
Williamson. finding il impracticablc
la lecture here at present, will go to
Tuacarorn To morrow morning, and
will return here in June when sho
will deliver II public lecture and
organize Il league.
\ man in Indiana wns shot the
other day and would have been in
R~tuntly killed il his heart had bJcn
~ the normal position. for the ball
from his nssailmnt's revolver passed
directly through hiH body at the place
whore llis heart ought Ia he Fortu.
uatciy the man had trnnsposition of
tho ~viccra, his heart being on the
right side. Tho ball touched none OF
the grcnt vessels, and the man will
probably GOV