Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1899-09-29
FROM THURSDAYS DAILY,
SALNIAGUNDI.

ohlIrAfho ONDls
j. ii. Peek is down from Mountain
City.
Attorney Harrington returned last
evening.
Lew Henry, the tailor, left for Reno
last night.
John McFarlane has sold the Var
gus property tc Mrs. Henderson
Green.
The yellow fever situation at jack
son, Mississippi, was less encourag-
ing yesterday.
Tho Reno @iair- has closed, but tho
burgluries continue. II the thieves
had stolen the fair management last
week it would have been but little
loss to the State.
st Helena is one of the places
where the weather fails as a topic Of
conversation. For 332 days Inst year
the southeast trade wind blew stead
lily and there we're only nine days Of
calm.
An exchange thinks the scarcity Of
meat and the advance in price will
eventually cause the raising Of rabbits
and turtles to become nearly us COM
mon rs the CHI zen and turkey in
dustry.
Attorney Cutting has completed
the compiling Of the State laws and
will take them to Carson tomorrow to
have the Supreme court puss upon
them. AS soon rs this is done they
will be placed in the hand OF the
printer.-Gazctte.
The dispatches from Manila say
that a native officer has offered Major
General Otis l,00U Maccabbee tribes
men to fight Tagals of the Laguna
de Bay district. 1t might be n good
idea for the administration to swap
Otis for Il few native chiefs.
The journal Gays that the father OF
Lieutenant Wright OF the Nevada
Cavalry received n cablegram from
MANILA Tuesday night stating that
the Nevada boys would sail for home
on the Ohio. The Ohio was booked
to sail on the Oath, but has been de-
layed.
The residence OF T.. NJ. Toler, about
nine miles from Pine Grove, Esmer.
aida county, was entirely destroyed
by fire last Thursday evening. Not
n single article OF furniture or wear.
ing apparel, not W. n quilt to sleep
in was saved. Mrs. Tolcr was burned
abont the hands and arms.
Joe Pete, the Washoe Indian who
nssassinated Will Dangbcrg, near
Gar6nerville, Douglas county, Sop
TENDER Sth, is said TO have been To-
Gated in Calaveras county, Cal, re.
Gently by a woman who recognized
him. lie IL in hiding in the brush
and his capture is said to be only a
question Of time.
According to u statement recently
made in print, it costs in the neigh
borhood OF $4,000 to erect Il derrick
and purchase the necessary tools and
casing for boring an oil well. The
drilling in turn will cost from 81 so
at the beginning to 81 or IS per foot
ms a lower depth ia attained, allowing
mn approximate depth Of 1900 feet.
a well-prescrved Roman camp has
been discovered on the right bank OF
the Narcnta. in Herzegovina. A Sec
ton 800 feet long by 270 feet wide
has been traced. Part OF the walls,
gates and towers are still atandink,
and many utensils and weapons have
been dug up. 1t is believed that the
camp WIS erected in tho time OF
Nero.
The decision OF the Supreme Court
in the ~Govcrnorship contest appears
in the Carson Appeal OF day.
Tho decision is worry lengthy and
takes up nearly all Of the Appeals
space. IL is too long Tor the INDIE.
PENDENT man to wade through in
ono day. Tho decision will doubtless
please Sadler's friends and be gall
and NORWOOD to the friends OF Nc.
MILAN. Tho INDEPENDENT may have
something to say about il hereafter.
a number of years ago. it used to
be necessary for Il Young man to 90
through ma much formnlity IN nskiug
a girl to go to n party as it il now 10
get money coming to you from tho
government, but everything is chang.
cd. IL n man telephones q neighbor
to snnd their boy @ to tell Susan.
nah, next door, that no will call for
her that evening to tako her to a
party, he finds when no calls that Su.
eannab is ready md ticklod to death
Men arc Rcarcc, and Susannah feels
proud II she gets n man without do.
ing any chasing for him.-Atchison
Globe.
Presbyterian Church.
Subject for II n. IN. October 1st-,