Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1897-10-24
FROM THURSDAYS DAILY.
SALMAGUNDI.

Valley today.
Mn. j. r. Henry came in from
Mound Vallyy yesterday and return.
ed today.
Judge Cheney arrived on No. 3
last evening and returned OH No 9
this morning.
General Manager Krutschnitt. Su-
pcrintendept Agler and other rail-
road officials passed west today on a
tour OF inspection.
The United States Supreme Court
yesterday advanced the argument IN
the Durrant ease aud set it for hear
ing November 18th.
MIR. Fulton was well pleased with
what he saw at the soap mine. lie
thinks there's lots OF money in it. He
returned to Reno this morning.
An archaeologist says that the slot
machine was in vogue 300 years be-
fore the Christian era. Hard to tell
when the thing was invented but it is
too old to be beaten.
The Elko lnundr. has changed
hands again. Mrs. Oscar Miller is
now the proprietress. She makes a
specially Of gents laundry work and
repairing. Give the Elko laundry a
trial.
\ whale recently captured III Arc
tic waters WAS found to have imbed-
ded in his side a harpoon belonging
to a whaling vessel that had been out
OF service nearly half a century.
The funeral Of Admiral worden,
commander OF the Monitor in it's
famous battle with the Merrimac,
took place i'll Washington yesterday.
The remains were taken to Rawlings,
New York, for the burial.
New York Advertiser:-~What
kind o: a wife shall a young man
marry?' asks Il magazine writer. 1t
strik ~ us that he'd better not marry
any kind OF a wife. Let him take a
widow or q single young woman.
Richard Croker is credited with
saying that Van Wyck, the Tammany
candidate for Mayor of Greater New
York, will have a plurality OF 1900
and that 10000 is safe to bet on. We
are afraid Richard is counting his
chickens before they are Matched.
! The bad men OF the west, the New
York Herald says, will shortly have
an additional beans of being bad. a
pistol carrying eight shots will soon
he placed upon the market, and it is
said to be so perfect is every detail OF
workmanship that it vii! become the
acknowledged gun.
The Times. Review says that Mrs.
Logan arrived in Tuscarora Saturday
after serving 4 sentence OF sixty days
in the county Jail md proceeded to
make herself obnoxious rs usual.
She was arrested on two charges.
found guilty Of both and sentenced to
sixty days in the county Jail on each.
Four dollar gold pieces turn up &C.
~casionally. They are called sstellas."
and wnre coined mt the Philadelphia
mint about twenty years ago. They
each contain u grains Of gold LOCO
line three parts silver, seven parts
copper. There were about $50 OF
these coins struck, and they are worth
their face value and Il little more Us
curiosit les.
Commissioner Rigsby bought two
tickets TO Ogden last night for the
man and his family who we're put OFT
the train he.e the night before. This
was tho cheapest way to get rid Of
them, but tho practice OF buying
tickets for that class of people should
stop. Tho next lazy iout that comes
alous with II family and asks tho
comfy To pay ms fare to Ogden or
amy where else should he made to
iioOf it out Of town.
The jury in the case of Walter Ker
mcen, the Carson boy who was caught
i'll the act Of firing the Carson school.
house. failed to agree and were dis
charged. They stood . to 3 for con-
viction. Judge Mack has set the case
for trial on the Sth OF next month. In
the meanwhile II petition asking the
county commissioners to instruct the
district attorney to dismiss tho case
is being circulated and numerously
signed. The Carson people seem TO
he willing to stop the prosecution il
the father will take the boy to Bodie
and take care Of him.
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