Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1897-10-03
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY,
SALMAGUNDI.

WIN. Rvm is an arrival from
Mountain city.
!, W. Thompsrn went out to RUBY
valley yesterday.
Mrs. Dean Young. OF Tuscarora.
came down ON the stage yesterday.
Webster Patterson aud family are
m"ving into uneir fine new residence
f. S. harrington, the attorney. wen,
up to Gold Creek this morning.
l.. Pochart went Ito Bcowawe
tolay to 10 repair work at that sta
ton.
W. +. Ross team came in from
Mountain CITY today loaded with
wool.
w. G.. Price. Of the Il. r. NJ. Co.
came W from San Francisco last
night, and will remain several days.
Business has taken another squirt
on tl,e S. p, and the train loads Of
fruit and stock are rushing east ever!
LAY.
The Nevada Business College has
II prospect ~ an ther student from
Pin valley.
james Itutledge. the Carlin Justice
Of the Peace, and his son, William,
are in town today.
Ten new cases and two deaths from
yellow fever were reported ut New
Orleans yesterday.
Three car loads of lumber are being
uulnaded at the depot for the Dexter
Mining Co. Of Tuscarora.
Engines lT3O aud l7ii from the
west cni, in charge OF engineers.
Kramer and White, went to Ogden
this afternoon for repairs.
y Practical Lrdy.-"I love you.
Niil you be mine 2"
"Whv, yas, OF curse. What else
did you i'm IgIne | vas taking cookery
assons FOR"
It's Use.-Tracher-Wh What do you
know about II kangaroo?
'y-lt has IA pouch.
What dnes it do with il ?"
"Wh"n it is hunted il gets inside"
The Grotto restaurant will be OPEN
ed tomorrow. by George Lonnsbery,
in the Webster building. This is n
nelt. quiet place and George should
he well p%atroniz,d ID. See I'D i'll an.
other column.
TIE Chicago Timss-Herald tells Of
n Baltimore husband who Knocked
his wife down with Il amp tho other
night and seemed TO be very much
surprised III Police court the next
morning To learn that she didn't
make light OF it,.
4. horse in one OF the Ross teams
got his brldle of i'll front Of the Com
nercinl hotel this morning. md sue
ceeded in badly tancllng up the team.
II caused considerable excitement for
Il little while. but the team was final
nally Strengthened out with but little
damage done.
Sigmund Bachman. who started
from Vienna. Austria. ON Sept. II.
1896. III Il bet Of $4,000 that he would
travel completely around the world
within two years. arrived in Elku this
morning from the east. He is accom-
panied 10y f.. Pilz, Of Chicago, who
will lie his c"ompInion for the bal
ancc of the trip.
Clean sweep. -"What has become
Of that man who usrd IT, tali so much
about his horses ?" askel tho com
merriaI Traveller.
"Gone," said Darringer Dan. "hnd
tho worst Of il ia, We don't kno y
where"
"I):u no leave no tr zee =
"Trncc! He didn't leave as much
rs n hitching strap"
John II. W"bber. n Young man
who returned from Skuguay on Sep
tcmbnr LIST with about $1,000 md
I'M stcriou ly disappeared the next
day IL now on his way from San
Francisco to his home in Detroit.
Before leaving for the east he found
some friends tn whomL Inc con,ided
the fact that all Of his money had
been %squindcrcd with congcnill
spirits. and 'ha, no had barely enough
left 10 pay hiS fare home. lie is be-
licycd To have been buucocd by conf
dence operators,
II an old Idaho miner, who has
been talking to the Spokane papers,
knows what no ia talking about nnd
is telling the truth, the transportation
companies have bc playing II reckless
game and inveighliug miners into
larlships and dangers that could he
avoided. A,cording to this miners
tale. there is mn casy route To tho
klondike. we'll known 10 the trans.
portution companies. which 10 not
barred 10y mountains and impassablr
passes. IL this he true, the Dyca rnd
Skaguay boomers may have much to
answer Tor this winter.