Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1898-12-30
tFRoM FRIDAYS DAILY
sALNAsUND1.
Another cold, raw day.

Ilie railroad from Golconda to the
copper mines will be completed abou,
the 18Th u next month.
Ii the Carson Appeal is still alive,
the INDEPENDENT would be pleased q
receive II copy occasionally.
The arguments in the Botkin muir.
der case Q conclu Jed yesterday
and it won't to tho jury today.
Harry C. Howell, the husband OF
eight wives in as many states, has
been orde red out Of Kan-as City.
Wells-Fargo's agent mt San Anto.
Tia, Texas. skipped out yesterday
Wit $500 OF the company's money.
After asevereapell Of sickness Jesse
snider is again holding down hs seat
on the boot 81 the Tuscarora stage.
Johnny Vargas and Albert Butler
left by private conveyance this morn.
ing for Phoebe IN u prospecting tri %.
~Fitty-fve warships for the United
states government are under con
tract, anc twenty are nearing com-
pleiion.
l.. Peckhart and bride passed
through on No. . Ia t night on their
way to OaBl rud, where they will make
their future home.
Dave Cmsper Ina Just received \
lew lot OF sarnp es OF Fall and
Winter Clothing which will be made
70 orier from 1880 up.
j. +. Tiplett is confined to his bod
with a severe attack OF erysipelas.
During his confinement Howard Rid
die is acting as night watchman.
Mrs. Reboule. me NJ the old resi-.
dents OF Llmoille Valley, died ut
6;3O last evening. The deceased was
well known aud highly respected.
There is a moveme mt in England to
erect a monument to Washington in
Westminster abbey, where 30 many OF
the British notable deLd are inferred.
Stuckmen from the east and west
are in Elko looking after beef cutie
and calves. Cattle Of all glasses are
pretty well cleaned up in this county.
The ice crops at Boca and Prosser
creek this season will aggregate about
$4,000 tons. The work OF cutting and
storing gives employment to 200 men.
A Southern California paper de.
clares that between u. S. Grant and
Dan Burns there is 4 choice bet
the son OF his father and q son Of a gun.
The Atchison Globe believes that
times are changing to such an extent
that it will be only a few years until
parents are sent to bed for talking
ba:k.
Tho INDEPENDENT received TN
anonymous communication from
Alexander to-day giving nm account
OF q big blow IL up there. 1t found
rest in the waste basket.
A noted palmist declares that a
Young woman with u long thumb will
nave her own way. He is right. So
will n ehort.thumbed woman. 70.
marks the Indianapolis Journal.
The Supreme Court OF Michigan
Inns decided that reading solicitors
from the Bible in the public schools
ia constitutional, but that the pupils
are not obliged to listen.
The largest treo in the e~nsterp
hemisphere, il moi in the world, is a
monster chestnut standing at the foot
OF Mt. B'na, The circumference Of
the main trunk at 60 feet from the
ground is 2i2 feet.
Arthur g. Meyers, ~: Carson. n
Of Torrey's .Rongh Ri.!ers- who was
very Rick with typhoid fever when the
regiment was mustered out at lack.
snnviile. passed through last night en-
route to his home in Carson.
Tho Philadelphia Times obse rye,
that TINT Congressman with his three
better halves continues to DO a live
topic ~ general discussion. Still this
is not surprising. Sometimes one
wife originates n great deal Of talk.
The cattlemsn are wearing broad
siniles these days. Tho winter has
been Rne this inr ind tho fall Of fnow
in the maintains il above the averago
Mt this season Of the year. These
combine to mako the cattleman aud
rancher smile.
Lieutenant Henderson received a
Telegram from Jacksonville, Florida,
this morning stating that Corporal
Hurry War; ~ Genoa, this State. a
member Of the late Second u. g. Vol.
unteer Cavalry, has been very III Of
typhoid foyer, but il now on tho road
to recovery.
+. T.. Ellsworth. formerly editor NJ
the Siskiyon. Cal, News, shot mud
fatally wounded T.. r. Dixon, a con.
stable at Mantague, a few days since.
Ellsworth WAS in tho employ Of the
INDEPENDENT for several years in the
eighties and was familiarly known
hero ne "Ed.'
Tho nnR on Morrill, Hall al lhn