Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1897-09-19
FROM THURSDAYS DAILY.
sAI,MAGUNDI.

W. Stduc VI ooull roIh IL III
town.
G.. &. Wallace was nm arrival on No.
this morning.
Geo. Williamson. one OF the grand
jurors, is in town.
Prof. Nesse Is rapidly improving
and will soon be around.
Surveyor L. Taylor came up from
Battle Mountain yester lay.
Reports from John Hibbets say
that be is improving in health.
See Reinhart's new al in another
column. 1t will interest you.
Ii. jacobson was a passenger ON the
stage for Tuscarora this morning.
a party OF volcali rs entertained
last night at the Western Union cor.
ner.
DIR Hood Of Battle Mountain came
i'll on no. l tn morning and return
ed on No. 4.
Joe Harris wrenched his back
quite severely yesterday while lifting
u heavy weight.
l.. Il. Bernard, OF Tuscarora. one OF
the Grand Jurors. arrived on this
afternoons stage.
The Grand jurors are beginning to
drop into town to assume their duties
ON the 18th instant.
-Four big teams loaded with coal
for the Dexter mine pulled ont for
Tuscarora this morning.
The cases Of the Corey Brothers
vs.. The Gold Creek Mining Co. have
been set for trial on the 9th OF Octo-
Der.
Harve McAdams reports that about
1 miles Of the Humboldt River caught
fire yesterday and burned to the wat
trs edge.
Two large galvanized tauks for
sheep dipping purposes are on the
depot platform consigned to w. f..
Mahoney.
Gardner & Son began work this
morning IN the new show windows
which are to be put into the post Of
flee building.
Jas. +. Holland returned this morn
ing from Tnscarora with GS head Of
beef cattle which he will ship to
Omaha today.
\ dispatch from jackson Missis-
sipri says that city is completely de
moralized and business Is at ii stand-
still. rs II consequence OF the yellow
fever prevailing there The people
are pouring ont and the dispatch
said that BY night two-thirds OF the
people would have been gone.
The Elko COUNTY assessment roll is
out. The rate OF taxation is Sl.S7 on
each 300 valuation. Taxes payable
November LIST. Tie real property
valuations foot somewhere in the
neighborhood Of s5,O0O,OOO and the
pcrs Dnal property ut about Sll5,OO
which should bring to the county a
total assessment OF something like
So, 900.
y Washington dispatch II the litli
says: The Secretary OF the Treasury
and the Postmaster General, after
consultation with the President. have
decided to chInge the color OF the
current twO.cent postage STAN ps from
carmine to green Of the shade now
used on Government notes. The ten
cent postage stamp, which is now
printed in green, will be changed to
some other color, possibly carnine.
II is Thought that green IL a more
desirable color than carmInc. besides
saving the Government about $4,000
in Ihc difference in cost between the
two inks.
DIR. q. NJ. Gardner, formerly OF
Guld Creek, has ARR we'd in Elko to To-
cate permanently. DR.. Gardner is II
Nevada boy. having been raised in
Carson City, and rs such he is en-
titled to the just consideration Of
Nevada people. liz is Il graduate OF
Stanford University and also OF
Cooper College Of Medicine OF San
Frau cisco. one OF the finest institu-
tons Of its kind in the United Suites.
lie has performed several operations
winch require an absolute skill in his
practice. prominent among them be-
ing the one, skin grating, performed
Oh jack Flynn at Gold Creek, which
il pronounced ono Of the neatcst and
most successful operations ever per-
formed in that line. Tho Doctors
Office will be in tho new Henderson
building, next to the drug store. be,
ing the rooms formerl, occupied by
the Elko refrrshment parlors. We
wish him every success attuinablc.