Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1898-12-23
tFRoM u DAILY
SALMAGUSDI

Mrs. Carroll went to Battle Noun,
tain today cn II visit.
The mercury go. down tn fourteen
degrees below zcsJ /. at night.
hlondike makinaw Winter suit.
and Il magnificent line OF underwear
etc Mt AleNander's. =
The high school closed today for
the holidays. 1t will reppen on
Tuesday morning. January 3rd.
Mrs. Amaya, who has been visiting
Mrs. Major Miller and Mrs. Henley.
returned to her home at Santa Clara,
California. today.
Rubber footwear, felt boots and
shoes, German socks und macintosh.
Is Just received at Alexander's.
At tho Presbyterian & hurch next
Sabbath at IL \ NJ. tho ,ubject will
he Path Theme for ! i. NJ, "Sug-
Sestions for Christmas.
Secretary Alger has ordered the
Fourth Infantry Mt Fort Sheridan
n the Seventeenth Infantry at Co.
lumbus. Oiiu, to sail for the Philip
pines on or before january 10Th.
Exquisite holiday goDtIs OF the
latest designs, and at away down
prices, ut Aleyander's. =
Senator Stewart and Congressman
Newlund' are reported to be on their
way to Carson to personally look after
their interests ill tie Senatorial fight.
AS both are out for blood, there is
likely to he a hot time in the old town
until the Senator ship Is settled. The
hotter it gets the better il will suit the
people OF Carson.
In the Botkin case Yesterday DIR.
Tyrrcll, the first witness for the de-
Tense, created a sensation by absc-
lutely contradicting the testimony OF
Misses lIency and Dittmnn, who
sworc that On the afterno IN OF July
3lst ut 3 O'Clock they sold Mrs. Botkin
Il box OF chocolates. DR.. Tyrrell
swore that he WIS attending Mrs. Bot
kin professionally at that time and
date.
IN speech at Atlanta. Ga. Cover
nor Johnson said: Zone thing was a
thorn in the flesh of the State Govern
ments. and that was the physical ex-
animation to which the volunteers
were subjected. Nothing but perfcc.
ton was admissible, The only way
Shattcr and Wheeler could have got
ten into the ranks would have peen to
have had themselves mixed up and
made over into two respectable men.
Fitz Lee could not have become a
private, md Napoleon Bunupnrte
would have been Turned down."
the Reno Journal Tom Remnant is
cutting n pretty wi lie swath in the
western part Of the state: Thomas
Tenant, Junior, who has been a
composition IN the Elko INDEPENDENT
office for the past two years, arrived
i'll Reno yesterday and paid his
friends in the journal oil 10 a pleas.
ant call. Tommy looked so tony that
the Journal for CO AT first tool: him for
n book agent and prepared to give
him n very hot reception. but when
he was recognized he received n warm
greeting rendered in a friendly spirit.
He will go to Carson this morning to
spend the holidays with the ~old folks
at home
y San Francisco dispatch says it
Is reported on good authority that
several representatives Of Eastern
capital are in that city looking into
the ross. bIlities Of irri cation schemes
III Nevada. Part Of their plan. il is
said, liz to tap Donner lake, where u
dam is already constructed capable
II storing I2,O0J acre feet Of water.
The proposition is Ia divert the water
somewhere below Verdi, and carry it
ID bitches To Warm Springs Valley,
where the lands are said to be well
adapted for the raising OF grain and
alfalfa, and but II short distance from
Reno. which will be the distributing
point.