Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1899-08-25
SATURDAYS DAILY.l
SALNIAGUSDI.

NJ. lStIios ~ tOWu from north
Fork.
Samuel McMullen, the Starr valley
rancher, is in town.
w. T. Smith went down to Love.
lock on No. 4 today.
There is something somewhere in
this issue that will interest You. Look
it up.
Pierce Wore is unloading another
chr OF lumber for the Hot Springs
hotel.
Principal Start Of the high school
and his mother arrived from Austin
last night.
Charles ScnghGs, Il pioneer OF Hum
bo!dt county, died in Paradise valley
Thursday afternoon.
BY September LIST Salt Lake City
will be connected with Pacific Coast
cities bp telephone.
l.. p. Drexler, ut one time promi-
nent in business circles on the Com.
stock, died in San Francisco Thurs.
day night.
Tho Utah battery passed through
last night about IL o'clock. As the
train did not stop, no opportunity
WIS given our citizens To- greet the
boys.
ID. Baird has accepted the posi-
tion OF bookkceper at Mr.. Chase's.
Jack" il rs steady as Il clock and will
doubtless give satisfaction to his cm-
ployer.
Tho latest government census in
India showed G,0lG.T59 girls between
9 and 9 years Of age who were already
married. Of whom 10000 hal become
widows.
Tho Reno journal gays that five
couples from California were in tho
county clerks Office at one time
A'hAnNahs az tNutAlIS NhtlI ANIH lD
take ont a marriage ~license.
Syndicates are said to be buying
up the silver bullion in America.
They propose to combine with Eng
fish silver buyers and put the price
MP to 30 cents an ounce.
During the past eight years the
mines owned by Captain DeLamur
at DcLamnr, New, have Produced
s~G.323,OOO out Of which dividends to
the amount OF ~s2,350,OOO have been
paid.
The Finance committee engaged in
collecting funds for the reception Of
the California volunteers returned
the check for $3.50 Of the Market
Street Railway Co. because they
thought it too small.
Socrates Brewer and Miss Lucy d..
Yates Of Elko were married nt the
Lafayette hotel in Winnemucca on
tho 18th. The young people have II
host OF friends here who wish them
happiness and prosperity.
In Germany when a vote OF IA jury
stands six against six n prisoner is
acquitted. a vote OF eeven To five
leaves the decision To the court, and
on a vote OF eight to four the prison.
er III convicted.
II il terribly hard for II boy to be.
licve in the ~veracity o. his father
when lie hears him declare that no
II in truly happy and contcnied I'M
less he has work 10 do.--!Atchins ON
Globe.
Tho Government agents, who pur-
chased horses ut Battle Mountain
last week. secured u CarloH,l. and at
ter putting Uncle Sans brand on
them, shipped them to the Prcsidio.
The agents are still mt Battle Noun
tain waiting To purchare moro.
a Now York bank where most Of
tho fashionable ladies keep tlicir ac-
counts issues most gorgeous check
books To it's depositors. Ga the GOV.
or IL the owners monogram, while
tho checks are printed in gold from
cxquisitly engraved plates.
Oficinl figures show that during
last years Col fires were caused by the
careless dropping OF lighted matches.
and 233 by lighted cignrs and cigar
'ottes rarelcSsly thrown into coInbust-
ible material. There IL a Lesson for
smokers in these figures. a little
care IN their part would have saved
Tho losses caused by more than 500
fires.
Charley May came down from Tus.
carora last night. Ilc thinks somo OF
entering the race Tor CougreGs next
year. As an inducemcnt for tho pcD-
ple to give him their suNrHgcR, no
says he will not buy n mansion ut
Chevy Chase, play golf nor wear
knee brooches while IN Congress, but
will devote all Of his timo 10 tho
duties Of his office. Az further
induccmcnt no will put ST5.OW into
tho fight, providing he can rot his
hands on that much.
BORS.