Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1899-03-31
FROM THURSDAYS DAILY.
s~ALMAGUNDI.

Governor Sadler has issued n proc.
lnmation lie signaling Friday, April
2lst, as Arbor day.
Nevada potatoes are retailing at
three cents a pound in Nevada City,
Cal. THIS is donble the usual price.
The trial Of II. P Reed for lie muir
der OF Geo. w. Avery at Olinghouse
canyon begins III Reno Lext Monday.
John Sherman reached Washington
early yesterday mornng and was
taken to his home. He is very feeble
Two prominent citizens OF Texas
were shot and killed Tuesday night for
shooting ont lights in the town OF
Brandon. They we're drunk and re-
sisted arrest.
Frank Robinson left this morning
for Il visit To his old home in SontlI
Hero, Vermont. lie intends to be
away about a month.
ooC iiaiiiS VIII lcdNO III Il le" uHNB
tn take II position Ms guard Mt the
p~eTiteDtiary. joe is a steady, re-
liable Young man and will uudoubt-
edly fill the position.
George Lunt, a former Comstock
hoy, who is with the Nevada Cavalry
company Mt Manila, is very low with
typhoid fever. Lunt enlisted from
Wadsworth.
Attorney Murphy has moved into
his new office back Of the telegraph
office and opposite the Commercial
hotel. He is rs snug rs Il bug i'll a
rug in his new quarters.
Notice II the annual meeting OF the
Elko County cattle Association will
he found in another column. All IN
terested should govern the N selves
accordingly.
The dispatches say that the work
OF civilization and christianity is still
going on with relentless fury in the
Philippines. The boys in blue are
sweeping -esis,lessly IN to Aguin-
aldo's capital. Their triumphant
march is marked by burning cities
and unburi,d dead.
Governor POINTER Of Nebraska has
appointed ex Senator Allen to a va.
cant District ~Judgeship. lie was elect
eel +" that po. itiop for four years in
1891 but resigned in 1897 when elected
5 nator, "ud now resumes the pla CO
he give up six years ago.
A movement is on loot to annex
Nicaragua to the United States. As
the people Of that country are III the
ha5i u kicking up trouble and over
tuning the Government two Of three
times n year, Uncle Sam lad better
finish up his j ID in Cuba. Porto Rico
and the Philippines before he takes
n more people to pacify.
Lovelock shipped s73 carloads Of
farm products for the year ending
February 2Sth, and yet agriculture
has scarcely made a beginning in
Humboldt county. This will be news
10 those who have been led to believe
that Nevada is no hing more than a
desert. During the same period
Lovelork shipped 5Gl carloads Of
livestOck.-Silver State.
Tho circular Of the Governor, At.
torncy-G General and State Controller
in regard to the Assessment nf prop.
eTty is a % in the right direction.
The INDEPENDENT hopes that these
officers will see that all tax dodg ers
are brought to time. Tho legislature
appropriated s2,On for enforcing col
lection OF aud prosecuting
delinauents.
observation-disclosures Is threat
eucd with n coal oil famine. II the
roads continue III their present shape
much longer We will lie out OF every
thing except whisky, the supply of
which seems iueXhaustible, nOtwith-
standing the endeavora of some OF
our residents to solve the liquor qucs.
ton by drinking it all.
National Watchman:-It will cost
sixty million dollars per ycnr to
maintain m army OF forty thousand
men in the Philippines. The annual
death rate among our soldiers will
approximate four thousand and Mt
least five thousand moro will be
yearly added To the pension roll. The
prospect for relief from the oncrons
war tax is not promising.
District Attorney Wilson came rp
from Carlin Inst night. He informs
TINT Justice Rutledge held Pawson
to appear before the grand Jury OH a
chnrgc OF burIla-iz ng Mr.. Puctt's
burn Sun lay night. Ha.nes. II boy
OF seventeen. turned states evidence
mud told how the work was done
Pawson and Haines are lately from
Wyoming. Pawson is sui to 10 n
n genuine tough who travels on his
sizr.
Uncle Sam ia having lots NJ trouble
those days. From distant Sninoa
comes tho news ilni wnr has broken
out between the natives and ,I,
United States md Great Britain.
This 0nt''rcas is doubtless caused H.,