Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1898-09-16
FROM WEDNESDAYS DA1LY.l
sAbMAGuNDl.

Fred Manning came down from
Tuscarora yesterday.
Frark Gedney leaves tonight for
! Jackson rille florida to briug back
! Joe Huria and G Gorge Russell.
Another long string Of big freight
| team. lett For Tuscaroru this morn.
ing loaded with lumber for the Dcx.
ter Company.
Five pupils have come in from the
country during the past week to at
tend the High School and tie total
enrolment is now forty.
James Cotton arrested last week in
Lincoln county ch rrgei with the
murder Of Waiter Decks had nm ex-
animation Mt eLamRr last week and
vns turned loose the evide nee show.
ing that the killing WIS accidental.
II all signs do not fail there will I've
"umemus political meeiinRa held in
ElSo during the next co days. We
suggest q the members of the local
hmd that IL they wnul'l reap a har-
vest hat they get in shape for the
rcaping.
Thomas Brennan OF Pleasant Val
Icy II, : just finished harvesting what,
is probably the hammer crop Of wheat
III his locality. From tifty-nine acres
h" has sd, Il 6l2i tons OF we'll nialur
al grain. He rrpor 8 all he crops in
the valley tn be fully up to tie aver
age i'll quantity and quality.
Seventeen thonsand seven hundred
dollars worth of U. S. bonds were
taken by Elk ) people i'll response to
the cen call. Tie sub criptions
were in amounts ranging from 500
To- $500.
The navy department is shifting
some nf the officers On tn %battl-ships
Oregon and Iowa preparatory TO their
departure from New York on their
long cruises to San Francisco, by
way "f tn" srrniIs OF Mug. Inn. they
wilt DO sent to reinforce Dewcy's
feet.
Sparks from II passing locomotive
SCI fir" la the hay fields a short dist
HuCt above Derth Yesterday, and "A
Obstructive conti"gration ensued. Re-
fore the tire was gotten under control
"a large Hmount III hay was consumed.
Ed GO0lalr lost three starks, j. Kelly
three stGcks and Eert Lewis one.
Frank Rnbinson. who for several
years rnst has held the post Of night
clerk AT the Depot hotel, has rented
lh" saloon owned 10y the late John
Hibbeis and will open il ont in a few
days N II first class resort. Franz il
known FAR and wid- and is decidedly
poi uiar with all classes and will
doubtless make Il success in his new
venture.
DR. NJ Gillycuhdy, Of San Fran
c ." II medical in pector for u life
insurance company was in Town this
mur ing. lie was fnr "a number of
NraT@ connected with the regular
nrmry and states tlInt one of the worst
Troubles will which army doctors
hay" =" contend. especially among
volunteers and raw recruits. is home.
si"kmss The patient becomes
cmIciLtcd, low 81 irit.rl aud a prey to
any contiguous or infrrtinus desease
p'cv Ilrnt. Tho treatme I ia to re.
tnrn them to their friends "A short
fur!"n@h often being sufficient to re-
store the worst cnscs.
Oh "rv mt 81 or'smen st tate that nj.
ready the signs Of coming hard
Winter RAJ he seen. Among other
things they men'inu that Wild ducks
III their ilighr snnth are not stop.
pug at heir usual haunts. but c.n.
hu'r on. They also report that
beaver taken curing the past three
weeks III tins vicinity have rs fine
coats nf fur rs those captured in
nj '-wintcr in ordinary years-a
never failing Sign. they cluim, OF n
hard Winter to follow.
J. w. Williams u member Of Tro D
NJ. Tor "y's Il nigh Riders emil tied
from Virginia City passed. through
last NIGHT on his way home. He WAS
iii 'hIrgci "n account ri sickness and
LET the camp Mt Jacksonville IN the
9th inst. TO Mr.. j. T.. Tripleit he
stuffed TINT only 4NO ont Of the lCOU
mel in the regiment answered 10 roll
call the day before he LETT the balan -
being III sick call. the majority being
III III" hospital. lie gives IL very dis
r"uriging account of tho condition
gc ,cTally II the me and tia,
'lf'Tis bc made by the friends NJ the
men to have them moved north Mt
once.