Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1898-04-01
WEEKLY
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II remains OF MIS-. u. w. Otle
were brought from L/inoille this
morning. The fuuccal will take
place from tho Episcopal chErch to-
morrow afternoon ut 3 o'clock.
Pat McDermott, Thos. McDermott,
f. G. Murphy, james Murphy and
Lee Scranton returned from Carson
this morning. Pat and Tom McDer
mott remained in town and the others
left for their homes by team.
Appenl:-The row in militia cir
cles over the recent court martials
and disbanding Of Battery A still
goes on und threatens to he carried
by the partisans Of each side into the
next State campaign.
For some three years past G.. c.
Wallace has been running u tunnel
into u mine on Sweetwater creek in
.Mariposa county, California, ind has
'at last reached the ledge. 1t Ii two
snnd n half feet thick and the free
gold assays $50 a ton. while the gold
sulphrets go $500. lie owns n third
ipteres: in the mih3.l
Robert f. Hopkins recovered judy
ment yesterday against the Gold
Creek TOWNSHIP Company for s22,-
93s.0J. Also against the Gold Creek
Mining Company for s22,577
and another against ;he Gold
Creek Consolidated L.des Company
for ~s25,I23.30. All the judgments
carry interest and costs. The judg-
ments aggregate s7l,03s.4i.
Eighty-seven old and faithful
Union Pacific employees were dis.
charged a few days ago simply be-
cause they were more than GO years
old. The Chicago Chronicle notes
that there is little encouragement for
man whose hair has grown white
during his service in a corporation.
He may be experienced and have
been eve 30 faithful, but his uge is
against him and like m old shoe he is
thrown out the back door.
Silver State:-It looks now rs il we
would have eight cent beef in ten
days or less time. About all the
good cattle which San Francisco can
draw from for the next sixty days
are situated between Reno and Bat
tie Mountain and do not consist Of
over COCO head, hence it does not
take much Of II prophet to size up the
situation. 1t Ii either high priced
beef or eat something else, aud II
great many will have beef 1t any
cost and the butchers must furnish
IT.
foaovillc Mercury: - An Orovillc
man who is up in the Klundike conn
try, writes home that they have
preachers up there, but none OF them
prcacl. about Il warm hell. The hell
they depicI il hung with icicles forty
feet long, the winter il always frozen
over. the north wind always blows
and fire ia unknown there. They
SAY il is no use to preach Of IL warm
hell to q man in Kl1ndikc, for he
would pack hns blankets and start
within t~wenty-four hours.
Col lngcrsoll wants n war. lilo de.
rclarcs that Spain is virtually dead
and gone, wiped out from the mp OF
the nations by her superstitions anu
bloody tyrrnnics'" lie thinks the
avcnging OF the murder OF the brave
sailorp Of the Maine Inns been post
poned too long; that il should have
before this resulted in the capturing
OF Havana and reducing its defcnses
to the dust; and thinks that would
have promptly followed lad the
Maine been IL British ship.
W. II. Cotant came up from Carson
last night md left for his ranch to.
d.. dny. lie brought II message from
Mr.. ID. II. Fall. Receiver OF the u. S.
Land Office, to the editor OF the lSDE.
to DO delivered to the cx.
principal uf The high school. Az the
message would not look well in any
paper, except the n run by tho OK
principal, and would not make tit
reading for the family circle. VIC must
JcfrRin from publishing it. However
il the cx.principal wantr to know
what il is, no can learn 10y drop ing