Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1899-11-17
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY
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Mrs. ]. Is. Sheldon left FOR Reno
this afternoon to SEQ her sister, Mrs.
Hit, who is quite sick.
Some one attempted to fire IA block
in Reno Sunday night. The ire got
a good start and then for some reason
went out.
An SO-acre ranch near Lovelock
has been sold for $3.50 AN acre. II
would be interesting to know how
much per acre that ranch WAS assess
ed.
y little Sunday school pupil asked
her mother last Sunday TO tell her the
name OF that disciple who put up Il
job on Jusus.-Santa Monica Out
look.
III the Reno Gazette has not sus.
pended since the elections. lie INDIE
PENDENT would like to receive it reg.
ularly. Please investigate the mat.
ter, Bro. Bragg.
In the District Court at Carson on
Saturday judgement was ordered to
be entered III favor OF the defendant
for its costs in the case Of Washoc
county VS.. Eureka county,
Three trains on time, one after the
other, has been too much for the
rnilrnn1 .,u,n,py ,,,,...
the wcstbound mail did not arrive
until the middle OF the afternoon.
j. \. McIntosh came up from
Lovelock last night. Tho passing
years are leaving .heir marks ON li II.
still he is the somc genial man as
when he made Elko his home. He
put III the day shaking hands with
his tCtmer friends.
The Indian WHO was run over by
the cars yesterday forenoon WIS so
badly injured that DIR. Gardner am-
putntcd his right log below the knee
yesterday afternoon. He is about
sixty years old and there is some
doubt Of his recovery.
II you hear u rap on the door OF
y"nr domiciIc tonight, get mp and see
the meteoric shower. Constable
Triplctt will keep his weather eye
out for the show and will wake as
many rs possible. Remember this
show only appears once III thirty
three years.
Two young men who style them
selves members OF the "cilded youth"
club, rnided the apartments of "A a
ried couple at m early hour Sunday
morning. m~istaking them for one OF
their club and amused themselves by
overturnmg the furniture. They
now stand to answer TO Il charge OF
burglary. Chronicle.
Tie mail service on the Central
Pacific is simply Accountable these
days. From the irrcgularity with
which tins Office receives its mail 1t
would seem that Uncle Coils IL run.
ming the postal ears OH freight trpins
entirely. Any kind OF mail service
il evidently considered good enough
for the people of Ncyada.-Silver
State.
The Silver State says that the set
OF train dispatchcrs has been moved
from Carlin to Wadsworlh and the
dispatchcrs at Terrace will be chang.
cd to Ogden, making three sets AT
Ogden and two at Wadsworth. Here.
after there are to be no dispatchers
on the line between Ogden and
Wadsworth.
Those who attend the banquet
given Ncvada's returned soldiers at
Reno will have to pungle one dollar
II plate. \ tine program Of toasts has
been arranged with DR.. Stubbs as
toastmuster. Tho soldiers will prob.
ably wish they were chasing Fill.
pinos in LuHon before the speech.
making is over Extensive arrange
mcnts are being made md the ban
quot promises TO bc a big success.
Whenever the South Americans
desire Il change OF administration
they hoist n flag or II pole and march
into the main street OF the city. II
the crowd becomes too formidable 10
DO overcome by u military demon
e trRtioD, the administration capitu.
latcs, and the outs take tho place OF
tho ins. 1t is often the only way of
changing the administration, because
the ins have the military and can
carry elections Ia suit thcmRclvea.-
Baltimore American.
Tom Tenant and Charley Keith
tho INDEPENDENTS astronomers, were
so taken up with the pretty girls nj
the social last night that they failed
to devote any limo Ia the mcteoriC
shower. advertised in these columns
to take place. The editor remained
up until after the time the metcors
wore to show up and wa up again al
two. but saw no mctcOrs. II the,
did not appear according Ia schcdul,
our astronomers are moi nj fault foi
not giving the readers OF the ISDE
PENDENT u full account Of them il
this issue. But il the motoora wor,
on time and they observed only In,