Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1896-03-29
GFRoM WEDNESDAYS DAILY
SALAIAGUNDI.


hohAAN !" -
The receipts OF the State Land or.
flee last week were slii2.G0.
The Carson Tribune says Senator
Skaggs started home Sunday without
Il wife.
1t now looks as il Mckinley would
have Il waiknver in the St. Louis con
vention.
The Colin case had not been
brought before the U. S. Grand jury
when it adjourned yesterday.
The New York Republican State
Convention met yesterday. 1t is lear
ly solid for Levi. p. Morton.
n. y. Hummel. Grand Chancellor
Of the Knights OF Pythias. will arrive
on No. 3 tonight to visit Elko Lodge.
Mr.. Pullman has his hearse house
well under way. lIc is building it OF
stone and when completed will be Il
very solid structure.
Atlanta Constit ution:-The Repub-
lican booms are all beginning to show
signs of weakness. Tom Reeds isn't
rs big rs Il scab potato.
Dick Dorsey found three tramps in
his barn this morning. He tied them
to a rope and turned them over to
Deputy Sheriff Watkins.
Since aluminium gives of no sparks
when struck, its employment for the
metal work III powder mills has proved
a source of greater safety.
There are seven prisoners i'll the
county Jail, five vags and two held 10
appear before the grand jury for
breaking into Il car at Carlin.
Observing that the census embraces
about eighteen million women, a
Yankee editor rapturously asks:
WHO wouldn't DC a census?'
Congressman Ncwlauds has secured
for Mrs. Butter'icld, late Of Reno, "a
pension, also one for her minor child
with back yiy amounting 10 about
5000.
Deputy Marshal Furguson took
NcElvavy and Kcilihor. indicted for
selling whiskcy To Indians, To Carson
to-day. They will probably go to the
pen.
The Carson Appeal understands
that the Government officials have
been told where new and startling
evidence can be secured in the Jones
case.
.Atchison Globe about the wisest
looking thing ill the world is Il coun-
try boy who has been boarding in
town and studying law three or four
months.
Mexico grows in proportion more
rapidly than Canada. the increase in
our southern ncighbOr in four years
having been 100000. or about eight
per cent.
President Lynch a Y Tangcrman
is officially dead rs superintendent of
the Hale IL NorcroSs mine. 1t is I'M,
dcrstood that Il. =. Heating will he
appointed Superintendent.
y letter received from Mrs. Lynn
last night stales that she has located
at Sonora. California. She writes
that she will open II store there in q
few days. The INDEPENDENT wishes
her success.
Tho Yellowstone National Park
contains several bottomlcss holes
which are, accOrning To geological
authorities, dry gcyscrs. Into one OF
these. known as %"lIcll's Back Door
10000 feet of line with Il weight at
tached has been lowered without
touching the bottom.
y correspondent Of the Plaindcaler
says goods shipped from the east
around 10y the Southern route-a
much longer ride 10y some hundreds
OF milcs-c can he laid down III Reno
nearly twenty per cent cheaper us re.
CARDS freight rates than il sen over
tho more direct line of the Central
Pacific.
According to the San Jose (Cal.)
Pioneer tho first American d~iscoycrcr
OF gold in California vas not Marshall
as history records ii, but Mrs. Sarah
n Arnm, who with her husband and
n purity of immigrants camped Oh n
branch Of the Yuba River in 1916
and while there found gold in the
stream.
An old deed has been found in the
County Clerks Office ut jamaica, l..
l.. IL was given by the chief of the
tribe of Indians that formerly inliab.
tied That part Of Long Island. II is
fully leo years older thnn the patent
TO the land granted by the English
rule. Tho document was discovered
10y Counselor Van Nostraud, OF
Flushing.
4 Moving Mountain.
Tho object Of greatest interest in