Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1896-01-26
IFnoM WEDNESDAYS DAILY
SALAiAGUSDl.

No news from GOvcrnor Jones to-
day.
There was u light fall OF snow last
night.
Senator Allison was reelected by
the Iowa Legislature yesterday.
Sheriff Matcer lays Foster and
Hicks in the shade as a weather
prophet.
During 1875 there were 1913 sui
cides and 10000 murders. both more
than for the preceding year.
An exchange heads n local item:
sic pants for the bloomer girl"
That's what they are-@he pants"
Atchison Globe:-Hope is believing
that some stranger will saw your
wood while You sit in the shade.
Frank j. Cannon and Arthur
Brown were elected United States
Senators by the Utah legislature yes.
terday.
The Ormsby county tax rate for
this year has been fixed at S2 80 Oh
the 800, an increase Of 90 cents over
last year.
Boston Transcript:-T1e mule is u
demi Jack, and therefore Il demi-John,
which accounts for the spirit that is
within him.
Senator Hill of New York says that
all the women rhould be bundled up
and sent away from Washington in
the interest of legislation.
In almost every country the howl.
ing of Il dog it regarded rs a bad
omen. generally predicting death to
some person of the household.
Most estates are divided not be-
tween the heirs, but between the law.
yers. There are ii few grave legal
questions involved i'll Il poor estate.
\ contemporary remarks that you
can't keep a wonan away from we'd
dings. You don't want to. What
would a wedding amount To if there
'"D "'' - SAAh III IL
Three years q Hobart J. Ives of
New Haven, Conn. lent $1,000 to
Winfield 5. Stratton to develop Il
claim Mt Cripple Creek, and Strntton
Is o said to be worth > 100000.
There is Il SOUND worldly philoso
ply in the sentiment: There is such
Il thing rs adorable faults and insup-
portable virtues We prefer the
faults Of the true man to the alleged
virtues Of the canting h~ypocritc.
The corn crop of ls95 ia now put at
the record breaking yield of 2.l5l, l39.
600 bushels 10y the department OF
agriculture. The only crops which
came near IT were those Of 1889. >.
l~l2.S92,0OO bushels, and Of 1891. 2,OGO.
l5i,00O.
Appcal:-Trcnmor Coffin is at last
in the tolls of Uncle Sam. \ pitcher
that often goes 10 the we'll Is liable t.
get broken. lie will discover TINT
monkeying with the U. S. Courts i:
quite different with toying with
State Court.
The United States Court adjourned
yesterday without taking any actor
III the Collin case. 4 Carson dispatch
to the Virginia Chronicle a Y that
warrant will probably not be issued
bnt the case of Coffin and others i'm
plicated will, it is thought, be brough,
To the attention of the next United
States grand jury.
Custer battlefield, in Montana,
where Custer and his command were
~massacred, is to be greatly beautitied
next Spring and made into an attract.
i've park. Tho Government is To put
i'll Il system of water works. aud plant
trees, and Il substantial wall. three
feet high, will be built to take the
place of the present stake fence i'll
closing the battlefield.
Three New Jersey ministers have
bccn starved out by their ilocks with.
III II month. This starvation is a
worldly means, applied To enforce dis
approval of something the clergyman
has done, and it must evidently he
met by worldly tactics. The New
York Sun thinks that Il guarantee
from capitalists, or u bond with real
cstnte security, mny become the
necessary thing for Jersey preach.
era.
Acting Governor SadIcr received u
dispatch Monday from the St. Louis
! Republic asking tor II reply Of 300
words TO this inquiry: "If England
should purchase Cuba would it be a
violation Of the Monroe doctrine: in
event of war. how many men on tho
Nevada militia roll wonld be avail.
able for duty" At last accounts Act.
ing Governor Sadlcr had not replied
to the ncwsp paper.
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