Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1896-02-02
IFRoM WEDNESDAYS DAILY
SALNIaGUNDI.

prove.
Senator Stewart has introduced .
bill in the serate for the opening oil
the Pyramid lake and Walker river
reservations.
The Salvation Army lasses are try;
ing to convert the Carson editors,
They have got Il tough. hard job be.
fore them.
4 small extra force of printers Is at
work in the State printing Office in
Carson getting out annual reports of
State officers.
Robert Grimnon, formerly Super
intendent Of the Orphans Home will
take charge Of the management of the
Arlington House at Carson.
Sousa's band left Washington on n
starring tour through Oregon, Cali
fornia and Nevada and are expected
here some time during the winter.
Nicola Tesla. the electrician. has in
vented an apparatus which he be-
lieves will curc any organic disease.
Tho apparatus gives 100 shocks Il
second.
Women are just four and onc-iifth
times better than men. This is shown
by the arrests made in New York
during the past year-9l, 900 men
against 2l,GSG.
J. L. Parkinson, Il Carson born and
raised boy, has been elevated to the
position of society editor of the Seat
tie Post -Intelligencer. leading daily
Of the northwest.
Appcal:-It is understood that at.
torney Coffin has secured the services
OF Pat Rcddy to defend him in cast
of Il Grand Jury indictment for brib-
cry i'll the Hency case,
Sheriff Rutfner, Of Yavapai county,
Arizona, passed through Reno Mon.
day with J. II. Boone, the murderer OF
Antoine liacoch. He is now in the
Esmeralda county Jail.
Mrs. Francis y. Williamson, OF Aus,
tin, addressed the Senate Committee
ON Woman Suffrage Yesterday
Call and PetTer were tho only mem.
bers Of the Committee present.
Reno Journal: C. w. Baker ar.
rived from San Francisco yesterday
He says it is conceded by politicians
that the Silver party will get a plur
ality Of not less than 10000 in Cali
fornia.
EX:- Never judge Il man by ont
side appearances. \ shabby Goa
map eawrap II newspaper publisher
while Il man wearing a high toned
plug hat and sporting Il gold-headet
cane may be a d~clinquest subscriber
Tho sixth ballot for u. S. Senate.
i'll the Kentucky legislature resulted
as follows: Hunter 81, Blackburn &c
Watterson .. John Young brown l
Wilson |. Wattcrson received the
VOTES Of the "sound money" Demo
Gratis.
The Phoebe Record says that ri
mors from the DcLamar mines sa,
the! are the largest and richest in III,
country. while the April Fool grouI
comes easily i'll for second place
thougii not nearly so far developed
The mines are stated to be good TO
profitable production for the next ter
years.
The Board Of Commissioners q
Douglass county i.red the taxes fol
ls9G at 81 - on the 800 valuation
The Courier says the tax is apportion.
cd as follows: State 30 cents. schoo
40. general 90. road 10. hospital 10
contingent D.. This is the same as
last year.
About two inches Of snow fell in
this part OF the Humboldt Valley last
night and this morning. From the
appearance Of the surrounding hills,
the snow was much heavier in the
mountains. That in town nearly all
melted during the day, leaving the
streets quito sloppy.
Tho Belmont Courier calls the at.
tcntion Of everybody to the fact that
Scientist Proctor says there will he no
water Oh this globe III fifteen million
years. 1t follows that you will then
have to depend upon something else,
and its hnrdly worth while 10 swear
OIL for such II triiling space of time.
John Dias who lives on the
Vaughan ranch in Lander county
shot his wife Sunday night aud she
will probably die. Tho ball entered
the abdomen Ia the right and below
tho navel, passed through the bladder
and was taken ont Mt the groin. Dias
fired two shots, the first missing.
There arc five witnesses to the shoot.
ing. Dias was arrested by Sheriff
EastOn and locked up in the Jail at
Austin.
n Denver dispatch Of tho 2Stli says:
Piukcrton detectives have arrested
express agent George Krout OF Color.
ndo Springs on II charge Of being i'm.
plicatcd in tho theft Of $4,000, stolen
from Wells. Fargo & Company sever
nj months ago. His father who re.
Gently went TO Colorado Springs, from
CcrrO Gordo, Illinois. was arrested on
the train at Watsonburg, as he was
leaving the state, and the sum Of si..