Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1899-11-03
IRON SATURDAYS DAILY.l
SALSIAG


Robert Tucker circulated around
town today.
Seymour jacobs will soon have ono
OF the neatest stores in town,
Eureka contributed cal for tho re.
ception Of the Nevada Cavalry.
Keep your eyes on the space set
apart for Seymour Jacobs new ad.
White Pine county has raised
ESQ 80 for the soldier reception fund.
Rev. G.. +. Morrison vas hanged at
Vernon, Texas yesterday for poison.
ing his wife.
Tho State Board of Health will
meet Mt Carson on the first Monday
in November.
The assessed valuation OF White
Pine county foo,s up s52l, 800, a gain
OF GIL $50 over 1888.
Ed Odell, Tom Brcnnun,J ID. Con.
rad and Bill Dakin. Lamoille ranch.
ers, were in town this afternoon.
Gus SielafT, II student OF the Uni
versity, had his nose broken yester.
day while playing u practice game OF
football.
Brigadier-Gencral Guy V. Henry
recently appointed to command the
the department of the Missouri, died
in New York Thursday night.
jim Gutridgc receive n one hun.
dred and sixty pound cheese from
Salt Lake this morning. He will
feed it to the patrons Of the Club Sn.
loon.
John Sparks cattle brought the
highest prices at the big sale i'll Kan.
sns City the other day. Nevada il a
world beatcr on fine I've stock and
agricultural products.
Tho mines of Trout Creek d~istrict
Ill narney county. Or, are coming Ia
the front. Bcidcs soIne good quartz |
prospects there is very rich placer
''""' 'H' mn tihlIlR OuL Cl.O Ill |
20 feet across the pay streak.
/. n, Bakless is the proud posecssur
OF IA tuber weighing four pounds, two
ounces and III SCUM! us Il dollar. IL |
belongs to the Burbank tribe and
reared by Andrcw Pctcrsnn.-.Journ.
al.
Winning race horses are generally
bays, chestnuts or browns,and for ey-
cry 100 bays among them there are so
chcstnuts and 30 browns. There ia
no record OF M important race being
won by n piebald.
Within the past so years there has
beer II gain OF SO per cent in the en-.
roliment OF the secondary schools OF
the United States, "A rate Of increase
said to be five times that OF the in
crease OF population.
Tho richest private soldier in the
service Of the United States is said
to be Roscoe W. Davis OF the Thirty.
third United States Volunteers, who
owns n cattle ranch, with hundreds
OF thousands OF cattle near Martha,
Tex.
a head OF cabbage weighing thirty
pounds, the product OF the Noce and
LagomarslDo ranch near the Chalk
Hills, in the northwestern part OF
Storey county, il on exhibition ut
DellcpaInc's, md il an object lesson
OF the fertility OF Nevada sOil-Vir.
ginia Chronicle.
Senator Ernst was Governor OF the
State last Thursday by reason OF his
being President pro TEN Of the Sen.
Rtc and the Governor and Lieutenant
Governor being absent from the
state. Tho Senator wears the honor
mcckly, but hereafter it should be
Governor, IL you plodHc.
Miss Daisy Ernst entertained
about twenty invited guests last
evening ut the nome OF her parents.
Progressive whist contributed largely
to the evenings pleasure, after which
delicious refreshments wore served.
Tho guests departed for their homes
ut a late hour, II and NIL voting the
hostess mn excellent entertainer.
During the battle Mt Elands Laagtc
when the fire OF tho British guns 10.
camo too hot. eight Doors ran forth
ont Of cover, and standing together,
cOolly opened fro nj tho Imperial
Light Horse, with tho evident purpose
OF drawing tho lattcr's fire, whilo
thoir comrades retired. Seven out or
the eight were killed.
Tho Times Review says tho little
aOn OF O. ID. Roberts died from the
i~Djurics il received by tho collapse Of
tho cabin ut Bull Run last Monday.
Mrs. Roberts waa stycrly injured aud
is now in n critical condition, but will
recover unlcss internally injured.
Tho remains Of the little boy were
buried IN Tuscarora
AWyominR ]prospcctor has brought
into Cheyenne pnrts Of n iossillizcd
snake. lilo says there are 1875 foo. Of
tho fossil on top OF the ground aud
that il measures from twelve To cigh.