Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1898-12-16
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SAI.NIAGUSnI.

y CiIinnInan Wis burned To dealt
in n fire at Carson the other eight.
Senator Stewart has appealed th.
Carson bInd case to the DistricI
Court OF Ormsby county.
Carl Becker, the Nevada Bank for
ger. has been sentenced to seven years
imprisonment i'll San Quentin.
Mr.. McAfee got in from the Nortl
Fork yesterday afternoon. lie 70
ports everything lovely up that way
Company b, Emmett Guard, las re,
organized in Virginia City. The com
pany starts with II membership OF
sixty.
LosT:-A gold mounted Elk's tooth
Gull button. \ reward OF g. will be
paid for its return to the IHDEpEy.
DENT Office.
DR.. Meigs arrived from California
this morning. lie will put in the time
until Monday swapping yarns with his
old time friends. The DR.. seems to
get younger rs his years increase.
In the estimates Of appropriations
for the Pacific Coast by the Secretary
OF the Treasury the allowances OF the
Carson mint are rs follows: Salaries
S1,OOO workman wages, $500. contin-
gent expenses $4,000.
George Humphreys. late Demo-
cratic candidate for Controller, ar
rived from Reno last night and spcut
the day i'll town. lie has recovered
from his trip up Salt river and II
ready for the next round with the
Silver party.
The Board 81 Directors OF the Chi
cago Board OF Trade have aGoptcd
resolutions urging President McKin-
Icy to call Il special session Of Congress
for the enactment of legislation for
tho permanent adoption Of the gold
standard.
Tho treasurer of TIM United States
says III his report that the increase III
the circulation OF the subsidiary silver
coins has drawn down the treasury
holding from 800, 100000 To- sa.OOO.OC0.
and that it will be necessary soon To
provide II further supply of this elias,
OF CURRENCY,
Adam Lcichtcr, II former resident
Of Elko. died i'll Salt Lake, Oh the md
OF this month Of pGraI! -is. lie WAS
well known here aud in T~uscarora
where he owned considerable mining
property. Mr.. Lcichter left a large
family to mourn his loss. one son. Ed
il now in Manila with Captain Lin.
SCOTS company.
4 Savannah. Georgia. dispatch of
he 9Th says: In tho City Court to-
dry Judge Norwood fined Private j.
r.. Moore, OF Battery 4, Firs, Maine
Artillery, $500 or fix months on the
chain gang for embracing the wife 81
a prominent official on the ut rec while
the soldier WA intoxicated. Judge
Norwood administered a severe lee
turc and said the conduct WINS that OF
heather.
The grave OF James q. Blaine at
Oak Hill IL Visited by about thirty
persons a day, and is unmarked save
by Il small stone bearing the initials
y. G.. h." IT il understood among
tho friends OF the Blaine family That
tho burial ut Oak Hill il only tempo.
rary md TINT Mrs. Blaine Intends tn
remove the bodies OF her husband and
children To Augusta, Me as soon as
she can make satisfactory arrange
ments for their burial there.
Sacramento Bco:-Tho death Of cS.
Congressman Vim. ii. Robertson in
Now York recalls an episode Of the ad
minisiration Of the lamented Garfield.
Soon after his inauguration as Prcsi-
dent, Garfield appointed Robertson
Collector OF the Port Of New York.
Roscoe Conkling nnd Il. e.. Plat were
Senators from that State, and because
they had not been consulted both re.
signed. Conkling has been dead
many years, but PlRtt is still manipu.
lating political jobs Mt tho sumo old
stand.
An exchange says that a man with
nothing much to do has figured out
this. u two ardent lovers spend four
hours daily in each others company
and indulge during that time in 2OC
kissos ian exceedingly moderate csti'
uato) and occupy ten seconds over
each kiss, they will during y i've
year c0urtship. have exchanged &c.,
900 kisses and hayo their lips glued
together for foriy-two days and ri,
hours.
Tho most eminent American ship
builders mud s%hipowncrs declare tha
foreign ships annually receive abou
three hundred millions Of dollars 10
carrying the imports and exports o
the United States. This enormous
annual drain oi mouoy or cOmmodi
tios to balance our foreign trade ac
count IL seldom considered by ccoDo
mists. And got II If II Of the thing
that has kept the United Statca 81
long n debtor nation.