Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1899-03-31
fFRoM SATURDAYS DAILY



Francisco last night.
NJ. p. arins Is down from Nntth
Fork. lie reports lots or snow up
that way.
At the beginning of the eighteenth
century people were hanged in Grent
Britain tr the illicit manufacture OF
sult.
The fight between Choynski and
Mccoy WIS decided in fIvor OF Nc.
Coy III the 10th round. IL is said to
have been u fake.
Tho people Of California prayed
for rain and t came. They are now
praying for it Ia stop. Verify, some
people are hard to please.
The White Pine News eays a letter
has been received from Manila stint .
ing that Win Bruce was taken pris.
oner by the insurgents and his body
cut all to pieces.
A Texas lawyer shot a Judge yes
ter'lay because he wOuldn'; approve a
bill OF exceptions in lawsuit.
In the State 81 Maiue there ure
seventeen spool factories, and the
white birch trees Of that con non
wealth annually supply the material
for 5000 5000 sp0uls. on which arc
subsequently wound about GO,OUO,.
100000. ards Of thread.
When n dog barks at night in
Japnr the ON ner is arrested and e II
fenced to work for "a year for the
NJ ighhors whose siumhors may iIuve
been dist uIb bed.
All. Charrz in the Genoa Courier
says: III" Nevada Legislature did
not pass any resolution favoring
home rule III Ireland. This il the
first time il has been emitted in the
history OF the State. | do not know
whether it was intentional or an over
sight.
The Remnant Company have Just
received n fashionable line OF ladies'
ncckwcar from the Easi. ms well us "A
second invoice OF handsome pattern
hats, which they were forced to order
by wire on account 81 the uncxpcct-
eddy rapid sale ~ their first consign-
ment. The public are invited to in
Spcct these new goods.
Tho Chinese Government does all
III it's power To check the opium
habit. the pnnishmcnts common in
the Chinese army Tor this habit being
extreme. For the first rircnse the
man may have hs upper lip cut. Tor
the second he may bc dccaI ittied.
For the last sixty years an average OF
hall a ton Of opium has been sen to
China from India every hour.
The bronze statue Of Lafayette to
to be erected i'll Philadelphia repre-.
sents HIM as Il slender young man Of
twenty. In the right hand is a drawn
sword and the left is placed over his
heart Tho right foot rests OH u
broken cannon, the other on the
ground. \ bronze medallion OF
Mime. de LAT cite will be placed in
the granite pedestal.
There were several changes unde in
the mining law at the last session OF
the lcgisln IRE, the most important
being intended to simplify the meth
cd Of making II lOra ion. Ihe forEi
Of the notice is made ines ,cntill pro-
vidcd rlc stakes ARE properly set; the
time Tor COusplctrug the location work
extended FROM 90 to TO days, and is
it IL no longer required that Gili-
dnvit he t..ndc TO tho perror name Of
assessment work.
Belmont Courier Nye county has
not onc mdigcnt, hns only one pris.
oncr, mn Indian, in the county jail;
has fewer poor people thnn my
county in the State; has more re.
sources than most counties; has n
public school wherever there are five
pupils OF 'chool age; has a very
small Notwithstanding debt. and
yet il hna II few dissatisfied citizens
who wonld gladly see it's organiza.
ton destroyed mud its territory iii
vided among less prosperous counties
thuu their own.
An exchange finds cause for rc-
joicing in Tor fact that no one has
yet been ublc in ]orgnnizc n hen trust.
lie Rnye: "Iou cannot know how much
saiisfac ion we get from tho fact TINT
the little old rel hen cacklcs merrily
along Ia the tune Of moro tlun az 10
ocO!CCO Of product annually; and the
good it docs our sOul Ia know ilnt shc
in 20 confonudcdly arbitrary TINT no
power no earth can cvcr bring her
into Il combine. AZ long M we have
the hen on our side the world will
continue TO wuk.'