Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1899-02-24
IRON DAILY
LMAGUND

Mr.. Smith went down TO LnvelOck
on the late train Yesterday afternoon.
Tomorrow being Washiugton'a
birsl day. no paper will be issued
from this Office.
Fred Bryant. the principal witness
a "inst the Humboldt train robbers,
died Mt Rye Patch last Wednesday.
Miss Carrie Keith has been engaged
to teach the Islnud Mountain school.
Tie trustees have chosen wisely.
On the ballot for United States
Senator today in the California legis.
ln'ure Assemhlyman Brown changed
from FELTON, to Barnes.
JUICE T.lbot is tryinC the nenpy
divorce case in Cursor. Heuey is
now IN the ~pentientiar. for robbinr
the Carson Mint and his wife is suing
tnr II divorce.
\ letter received here yesterday
from George Pcltier stnies that he
and Mrs. =. liter ARE in Paris and will
remaihthere 1--WE weeks longer. Both
are well.
The bill to pay Spain s2O.OOO o 0
unter the terms Of the treaty uf
peace was called up in the House
yesterday under suspension III the
rules und passed by II vote Of 2l9 to
"a.
Some soil around Havana produces
five crops Of vegetables IA year. IL
the same ratio ~ productiveu,ss Oh
tains us TO publi,: offices the out
g"ing steamers from Kew West cannot
begin tn accommodate the Ohio pnssen-
gers, declares the st Louis Globe
Democrat.
Atlanta Jonrnal:-To hear some Of
the expansinnis lists talk and rave ono
wonld SUPPOSE that the safety and
glory OF II country depends upon
our suhjugatiom Of a scmiSavage peo-
pie 10000 miles from the ct o. our
government; that the pillars OF onr
constitution had been removed from
their original setting and stuck in the
mud OF the Philippine islands.
An cntcrprisng editor nt nm ex-
change says he has been interviewing
the habits II hIS town aud finds that
nearly all the successful business
men were freely .lra>h he'd while
yonng hy their parents, while OF the
thirty II 81 lOafrrs that we q "A dis.
grace I o the own. twenty seven had
been mamana's Earnings and the other
three had beJn ra,s.d by their gr .nd.
mothers.
The News says two members Of the
Nevada Battalion bunrora one of
Carson's citizens out Of $4,000 shortly
after they were mustered out " ser.
vice The -'ory goes thnt he adj
vnnced $500 to them to buy the stock
while h" ma le preparations Mt this
end. They wen tai San Francisco To
buy the stock and have not been
heard from since. AS that wis
several months = il is safe io Fay |
tina, the money is lost. So far rs the
real owner uf IT is concerned.
Ono "f the little hoy rupils Of n
country school WIS required to write !
an essay the Other lay. ~ihe News
paper wis the subject, and here is
the result: al don't knox how news
I ~ crs came Ia he III liz. world. and
don'i think God does, for for hasn't
got nothing to say about them, and
editor Is not III the Bible. think
the editor is one Of the missing links
!ou hear uhont. and stayed in the
hiu h till after the food, then came
ont and wrote the whole thing IN,
md hns been here ever since.
don't think he cvcr dies; I never saw ,
II dead un. and never heard Of one
gCitiu' licked. Our paper IL Il u.igrty
poor un; thu editor goes 'thout under
cl"tlms all winter, don't wear no
s"rks. aud paw hnsn't paid his sub
scril tiol in live ytnrs."