Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1897-08-29
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY.l
SALN1AGUNDI.

+. Z. Drown, the prosperous South
Fork runcher, is in town today.
Mr.. Quincy has opened a new bar,
Der shop in the old ~postofice corner
WHEN bilious or costive. eat q
Cnscaret, candy cathartic, cure guar
antecd. l0c. DC.
Judge Abel, Schuyler Duryee, end
Editor Sain started for Gold Creek
last evening.
Captain and Mrs. Pinder moved
into their new quarters in the Web,
ster building today.
Rev. Richard Mercer left for Eure,
ka last night. He will locate in Aus
tin on the first OF October.
Wheat took another big slump in
Chicago yesterday closing at 9l4 as
compared with SO on Monday.
Uncle Jimmy Clark and Mr.
Brooks, tho mining expert. struck
ont for Columbia this morning.
Babe Budar left the town last Fri.
day night md - number 81 hia cred.
itors are mourning his departure.
Congressman Bailey OF Texas de
MES that he will he Il candidate for
United States Senator to succeed
Senator mills.
Gardner & Son are putting m iron
front in Mrs. Henley's Store. IT will
be nm ornament to the town when
completed.
Rev John Dawson has accepted a
call at RoseburG, Oregon. lie will
leave here about the first Of October.
The INDEPENDENT wishes Mr.. and
Mrs. Dawson c in their new
home.
The postal authorities ar: working
on n new postal card. Tho st. PAU
Press predicts that il 1t can invent
N that can be used with invisible
ink, it will earn the gratitude OF nj
towns that have postmistresses
President Powning Of the Agricul
tural Society is arranging the details
for the State Far which will be held
the last OF next month. An an,
nouncemcnt o, the coming events
will be made in Il day or two.
All efforts to arrange a plnn for the
settlement Of the coal miners strike
failed yesterday and the strike goes
on. The miners insisted on the
60 cent rate. The outlook after the
close OF the conference seemed to be
encouraging to the miners.
about this time next year. re,
marks the Houston Post, "we will DO
loing business with the Klondike
widow Perhaps not il that para.
graph happens to be noticed by the
editors better half, suggests the
Chicago TImcs-IIcrald.
Jim Townsend u~ndoubtedl, speaks
from experience when he says
Somebody says TINT up in the Klon
dixie n miner often spends $50 in one
night Considering that the nights
are about six months long, it IL 9
cheap Jag
DR.. s. f. d. Pinningcr OF Ger Z
Nevada, il anxious to learn the where,
abouts OF rcnry Richard Bennett. m
old soldier. Mr.. Bennett was in Elkc
n few days ago mud anyone knowing
where he won't to from here will con.
Ter n favor on DIR. Pinniger by writ.
ing him.
Freddie, the f~iye.ycar.old son OF
James Mcaghcr OF Virginia. died
Monday morning Of diphtheria. An
toxinc was administered and It waf
thought the little fellow ehowod
signs OF Improvement, but shortly
after, the child grew worse unit
death relic 'cd his suffering.
The Kansas fasmcrs are rushing
their wheat to market. Teams block
the streets of many OF the towns ant
mills md elevators are crowded I,
their fullest capacity. Tho railroat
yards in many Of the larger towns arc
blocked with loaded cara which can,
not DO moved. Tho shipments were
ocvor boICro 80 large. AS result OF
tho boom in wheat, thero ia q boon
in real estate.
II IN rumOrcd that another dali,
paper will soon he started in Virgins
City. This leads the Reno Gazette Il
say that IL always Ind faith In thu
old Comstock and believed TINT Il
would yet put Virginia City in thu
front Of lively towns. We hnve los.
hope however. for "they say" Virgins
il soon to havo another newspaper
There arc two there now starving
10 death. aud for tho third to jump IL
il littlJ less than murder, ahd illus
trates that when n town becomes 8
burying ground for newspapers, IL Il
not worth much for anything else.