Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1898-02-11
IRON FRIDAYS DAILY


u lew lays IN town.
Dancing punps and light weirbt
boots and shoes at Alexnnder's. =
Four thousand men will soon be at
work on the railway up the Stickeen
river in Alaska.
OF Trib liniment cures, only truth
ID told. Therefore many trust Trib.
There will be services in st Puul's
church Sunday at IL n. III. and ut Z
p. m. Sunday school at 10 n. IN.
Mrs. Fernald is very low today.
Her many friends sincerely hope that
she may speedily recover.
Tho elect OF n spram may be a
chronic weakness. The good liniment
Iub Used in time prevents thus.
Worden's confession leaves Harry
Knox and other A. r. U. strikers in
n very bad boat. Tho whole gang
ought to have been hung long ago.
NJ. Badt, the popular Wells mer.
chant, Ii in town. He reports Stan
ton Wiseman OF Clover Valley very
low with but slight chances of CO.
very.
Dave C'sper has Just receive ! a
new lot OF samples OF Fall md
Winter Clothing which will be made
to order from 1880 uD.
\ pair Of eye glasses, picked up at
Harris Hall Wednesday night and
left at this office, can be had by the
owner ON proving property and pay
ing for this notice. \
Mr.. Clark and George Bruce notify
the people OF Elko in this issue that
they will hereafter close their stores
at , o'clock Sunday morning. Read
the notice elsewhere and govern
yourselves accordingly.
Votes in the beauty contest are
coming III very slow. Miss Edith
Hunter leads with 133, closely follow
ed by Miss Alice Lowe with l23 and
Miss Carrie Keith with 10. The
polls will close tomorrow afternoon
ut 4 o'clock. Get i'll your votes be-
fore that time.
Sprius HumOrs, boils, pimples
sores and all eruptions are promptly
cured by ilood's Snrsapariila, winch
thoroughly purities the blood, cradi
eating every trace Of scrofula.
HOODS PILLS cure nausea, sick
headache, indigestion, bi~liousuess.
All druggists. 25c.
BY Il recent decision OF the Cali
fornia Supreme Court the business
OF the ticket ~scalper has been upheld,
the court holding that it is not for
gerry to sign some one else's name TO a
ticket bought OF n scalper, lib the
original owner Of the ticket disposed
of the right to sign his name to il
when he sold it.
st. Louis Republic:-Major Nc
Kinley abused Mr.. Cleveland roundly
in II speech delivered in 1891 for dis
%honorlng one OF our precious metals
and for trying to contract the
circulating medium and de-
monctize one OF the coins OF COM
merce.' But that was when Mai. Nc
kInlcy had his ear to the ground and
before Hanna put Il ring through his
nose.
The report that Mrs. G. IL. Sproulc
has been appointed postmistress OF
Elko and that Mr.. Sproulc has with
drawn from the fight for superinten-
dent of the Carson mint has no foun-
dation i'll fact. Both Mr.. and Mrs.
Sproulc pronounced the report with
ont foundation when inter vie wed by
an INDEPENDENT reporter this after
noon. Mrs. Sproule Is not eYen IN
applicant for the position and Mr..
Sproule Is i'll tho mint fight to stay.
1t has been said by some one that
az thing Of beauty is u joy forever
and the writer has no doubt they
thought so and il may be SO Of good
many things, but it does not apply to
that nice lot Of Duckwater apples
which the Il. Il. NJ. 60. have to sell at
3 cents per pound. They are "thIngs
OF beauty" but not "ioys for ever be.
cause who ever buys them wants to
eat them Immediately they are so do
licious.
Here Ii n bit OF practical temper.
ance work that is probably moro ef-
fcctivc than any %prohibitory law over
enacted and could DO adopted in my
locality with profit: Oregon's expe-
dent to keep her citizens sober ia 10
require every man who drinks 20 take
out n license costing g. n year. Uu.
less armed with this document n citi.
zen cannot get a drink at any saloon
or hotel, for ii is n penal ononse to
sell to a person without a license.
Every six months Il list OF tho names
OF persons taking out license 10 pub
lishod in the local paper, go the pub
lie may know who gro authorized TO