Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1897-04-11
FROM THURSDAYS DAILY.
SALNIAGUNDI.


Your back .ards.
a few more days like this and cases
OF Spring fever will be numerous.
The town is remarkably quiet. II
may be the calm just be fore the boom
Tho commencement exercises OF
the State University will begin Mon.
day. May 9th and close Thursday,
June 81.
The Hawthorne Bulletin says the
buds are, bursting on the frnit trees
aud the grass is peeping up i'll all the
gardens OF that town.
President Mckinley has signed the
resolution appropriatmg 100000 for
the relief OF the sufferers by tho
floods.
Jordan am a hard road to trabple-
is no lonrer true, Il steamboat having
recently been placed on the river,
which makes tho trip from Jericho to
Tibcrias i'll five hours.
One Pennsylvania congressman re-
ports about 500 applications for some
800 fonrth class postoilices in his dis
trict. not one OF which pays much
moro than the few stamps sold.
\ woman can never understand
why her husband has to work so
J much harder than other men to get
along when he is SO much smarter
til al they are.
Tho Supreme Court has rendered
Il decision in favor of Supt. Cutting.
awarding him back pay from Nov. !,
1879 To January 1897. amounting to
$3.50.
y unscrupulnus Georgia lawyer
had established "a divorce bureau of
his own by which he released mar.
riage ties without applying to the
courts, and now "they're after him."
~hy task in i:fe," said the pastor
complacently, consists III saving
young men, "Ah!' replied the
maiden with a soulful longing, @suve
a nTce looking IL for me-"
Congressman Simpson Of Kansas
created a scene in the House yester-
day by derouncing Speaker Reed for
his failure to appoint committees and
announcing that he would oppose all
attempts at legislation by consent
until the House organized.
The case Of the United States vs..
Charles Jones, United States District
Attorney, for an alleged assault on
S. p. Davis with brass knuckles. will
be heard before Commissioners Waldo
at Reno ON Saturday. Mr.. Jones is
entitled under the law to have the
hearing at his place OF residence.
Geo. T.. Mathcr and Eugene
Eisrnger left Gold Creek at 1 p. NJ.
Tuesday on ii go-as you-pleasc walk
to Eiko on Il wager and side bets of
nearly 1860. The one arriving here
first takes the purse. Mr.. Winans
who brought the item To the ISpEPEH.
DENT office late this afternoon passed
the men together mt Wciland's. They
will probably arrive tonight.
FIFTY DOLLARS A WEEK EASILY MADE
Agents wanted i'll every locality for
Hon. w. J. Bryan's great and only
book. THE First Battle" The best
seller ever produced. Agents are
taking as many as 200 orders pei
week. Beware OF fraudulent imita.
lions. Send for Quit and Begin work
ut once. W. H.. CoSKEY CoMpANY
Publishers. 81 Dearborn Street,
Chicago.
f.. {. Knapp was sen to the Mas.
sachusetts ~PenitcntiaTy Tor hye years
for stealing national bank funds. lie
is frequently seen in the streets at
RarnSiablc i'll prison ghrb giving hi.
cycle lessons To tho wife of his taller.
Another convict named Lewis Rogers
was recently permitted by the prison
authorities to take COW to Yarmouth
some distance from the prison, sho W.
ing that Massachusetts, Is far ahead
OF tho far aud woody West in the mat.
ter Of prison discipline.
The total vote cast in Chicago at
the recent election was 1894.
Carter II. Harrison, tho candidate of
the Bryan Democracy received H..
S2S, 4 majority OF 2.222 over tho com
bincd opposition and a plurality Of
T,1oG over j. NJ. Harlan, ndepcn-
dent. Washington Hcssing. the
candidate ot the gold Democrats,
mn. qucrading under the title Of
BueEcHs Men. received only l5.llG
votes. These Chicago gol1-bur
Democrats should either 20 over
body and soul TO the Republicans or
rcnouncc their financial hcrcsiea and
fight under the silver banner.