Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1897-09-05
(FRoM TUESDAYS DAILY
3ALMAGUNDI.

Rev. Richard Mercer will leave for
Austin Thursday or Friday.
Attorney J. Il. Wheeler will leave
for San Francisco tonight to be gone
IA couple Of weeks.
Ilarve McAhams will open IL saloon
md lodging house in Iii Logs new
building in u few days. Look out for
his al.
Mr.. Fry. a tcamstcr Tor W. T.. Ma
money, was quite badly kicked by u
horse this forenoon at George Grants
corral.
Mr.. Kaye and Miss Adams are busy
to iny uhpackmg the chemical and
physical apparatus for the high
school. They find everything in good
shape.
Litton & Hunter are taking stock
today preparatory to selling their
butcher and grocery business to Mr..
arthur IIylamd formerly OF HALEY.
Idaho.
Mr.. w. S. Clayton got in from
Mound Valley this forenoon. The
odd gentleman is suffering from the
effects Of the hot weather while
stacking hay. DR.. Mcdowell fixed
him up and lie left for home this at.
teruoon feel'ug much better.
Mrs. \. f. Kaye will arrive from
Ogden IN No. , tonight. Mr.. and
Mrs. Kaye will stop at the White
Sulphur Springs with Mrs. Garrecht
until the Waller house is ready for
their occupancy,
Frank 4. Novak. the Iowa muir
dercr. who was chased to the Klon
dixie and arrested, has been turned
over Ia the olilc ,ns al Benton county.
Iowa. where the crime WINS commit
ted.
Mr.. Kcyscr and Mr.. Anderson are
harl at work lifting up the high
school labra,ory. When completed.
there will lie nothing i'll the State
outside Of the U iversity I compare
with it. The work il under the super.
vision Of Mr.. Kaye and is first class.
Everything will he in shape for the
opening OF school on Monday.
The GLz.tte says that the house
owned 10y NJ. Il. Coates aud occupied
by thas Burkc and family. on Front
street, opposite the school house. WIS
visit ii by IA lire tiend Sunl lay night.
\ ii5c was set in the cellar and Goa! oil
thrown on the sile of tile house. The
result WAS II dense smoke, which
awakened Mr.. Burke. No alarm WIS
turned III, as the tire wns discover
cd in time To enable them to put it
ont.
The Oklahoma Indians are getting
Il taste OF beng civilized. The Okla
lIoma Legislature recent! passed II
law f%orbiddmg pUlygamy and also
requiring all future marriages to be
conducted ON the white mans sys-
TEN. Several Indians have married
according to their oil laws and re-
fuse tn obey the new ones. and rs "a
consequence ar: spending thu ir
honeymoon in Jail in different cells
from their wives.
An Anaconda, Montana. dispatch
ot yesterday says: a fierce forest
lire ID raging n few miles west OF
here aud spreading with alar ming
rHpidi'y The tire ha- already burned
over 10000 acres IF timber. George
tOwn aud Silver Lake are both N the
track Of the lire and unless something
IL done to cheek the flames great loss
ot life and property may result
Near Georgetown IL terrible ire has
generated AMI flames u hundred feet
high can DE seen from the village.
a Kansas farmer who simply could
not get harvest hands put this sign
upon his fence: "iinrvest hands
wanted. Hired girl blonde and
genial. Cabinet organ music in the
evening. Pie three times Il day.
Three Spoons Of sugar with every cup
OF coffee. llammocks. feather beds
or leather divams at your option for
sleeping. Rising hour nine O'Clock
in the morning. Three hours rest ut
noon. Come onc. come ull.--Kun-
sns City journal,
a Chicago dispatch Of tho 10Th
says: Tho gram movement into and
ont Ut Chicago the pusi fort. eight
hours in n rccori breaker. Exactly
5.C75 cnrs ~ all sorts were received
including 1885, cars of corn. Ship
mcnts aggregate 2,iOO. 900 bushels Of
all kinds Of grain. including 1900
bushels Of wheat. l,G6G.O 900 bushels OF
corn and over 500,O0 bushels Of oats.
Tho receipt in bushels Of wheat WIS
10000; corn. l,2iI.iO0 bushels. The
remainder WIS rye and oats.