Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1899-07-28
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY
5ALMAGUNDI.

General Wheeler sailed for the
Philippines yesterday.
Mr.. Puett is improving and there il
now some hope OF his recovery.
Secretary Alger bid the Presiden,
and Cabinet good bye yesterday.
Lloyd revis, the well known capt.
alist, died in San Francisco Monday
night.
Miss Hattie Rosenstock paid the
INDEPENDENT Office a pleasant cal
this forenoon.
The sun OF $50, 900. 900 was expend.
ed in the United States in outdoor
advertising i'll 1898, OF which Chicago
spent half u million.
The mail due here last night did
not arrive until about noon today. The
delay was caused by the wreck OF No.
3 yesterday forenoon.
1t is rcproted around town that a
rallroad man made the prediction
last night that there would be forty
more wrecks on the q. p. within the
next thirty days.
Charles Davis, superintendent OF
the Nevada Indian school, has been
transferred to the Western Shoshone
Agency. lie takes the place Of Miss
Egan. who has been such a thorn in
the side of Agent Mayhugh.
The Virginia Enterprise publishes
Il long letter from Indian Agent May.
hugh, i'll which he justiiics his course
Mt the reservation by abusing DR.
M~crriwether and Miss Egan. His
hatred for them seems to be at the
boiling point.
Within eight more centuries leap
year will have become "A relic OF the
present time. BY that time the extra
eleven days to make up the ch apges
from the old Julian calendar to that
OF the present day will all have been
duly accounted for and the world will
run around in just $50 days, and no
more. 1t will make very little differ
ence to the present generation what
happens eight centuries hence.
Tho arguments in the Governorship
contest we're concluded yesterday and
the case submitted. Sadler claims
t~hirty-twO NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
original majority and ten gained dur
ing the recount. 4 decision ia not
expected before the first OF Septem-
Der. In the meantime the people are
nj liberty to speculate on the out
come of the contest.
Tho frequency OF wrecks on the
Central Pacific is attracting the at
tention OF the public to the condition
OF the road. That it is not in perfect
condition is apparent to anyone who
examines the track. This is IN out.
rage on the travelling public that
should not pass unnotIced. The
owners OF the road should expend
ON of its earnings in putting tho
road in better condition instead OF
sinking it all in their private pockets.
ElscV here will be found the letter
OF MIR. Mayhugh, mentioned in yes.
terdny's issue. 1t is publirhed in :!
spirit OF fair play only and not b..
cause VIC endorse il. IL there is vir-
tue in abuse, Mr.. Mayhugh's defense
Is nm excellent ono. While DR.. Mer.
riwothcr and Miss Egan may be
travelling hobos' and and all thnt
Nayhugh paints them 10 be, il ia
is well to remember that they stand
well with the authorities at Washing.
ton. Political hobos are sometimes
worse than their brethren who travel
around.
y Chinese cook employed Mt Fred
Wilson's ranch near Tuscarora got
into a row Monday with one OF the
hay shoyclcrs and made for him Will,
ii knife. The hay shoyelcr got out O,
tho way aud uppcrcut the Monaghan
under tho chin, knocking him down.
II" then took him by tho nape OF the
neck AID the slack OF the trousers
md dumped him into nm old well
The Chiraman soon cooled Oft and
crawloa ont a wetter and II wiser
man.
While Oh the way from their ranch
to Evauston, Wyo., Inst week, Mrs.
Byron Sessions and her son passed
through u living bed OF bullirogs for
a quarter Of n mile. Thoy seemed to
cover about Il quarter OF q mile
square. Being on tho prairie, far
from water, and the region having
been recently visited by n heavy rain.
fall, 1t Is concluded that they were
literally sucked up by u cyclone from
ono OF tho many lakes In tho Bear
river section Of Utah and western
Wyoming, and deposited on the
prairie from a cloudburst.
Alger is telling many state secrets
all Of which place PRESIDENT No,
Kinloy in rather II peculiar light. II
now develops that with Alecr and
not with Mckinley originated The
plan by which the Spanish prisoners
takcn at Santiago wore returned L