Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1899-02-10
WEDNESDAYS ALLY
sALMAGUNDI

Charley Keith will leave for Col
conda this evening.
George Russell OF the Argonaut
went down to Golconda today.
rhe proceeding OF the county com.
mis>ioncrs take up u good deal Of our
space today.
A passenger train from the East
will arrive about 7:30 or 8 o'clock
this evening.
Considerable snow fell yesterday
afternoon and last night, but it went
of rapidly today.
Joe Harris will 20 to Carlin on No.
= tonight to accept Il position with
the railroad company.
Comfy Clerk Dawley has some
important notices in this issue.
They should be read ami needed hy
all.
The joint report OF the auditor and
treasurer for the quarter ending De.
cember 81, 1898, will be found ON the
4ih page.
Pitts bill preventing tile shipment
OF Wild game out o. the State has
passed the Senate and now awaits
the governors signature.
Tain No. . due here last night at
i0:3S did not arrive until nearll 10 o.
clock this forenoon. On account OF
the delay No. 4 was Withdrawn.
The Carson News says that Mrs.
L. \. Stone is quite i'll with the
grippe, and Miss Ethel is suffering
with Il severe cold.
y Carson attorney has a deed in
his possession which bears on il
So,9OO in war revenue stamps. The
consideration expressed in the bill is
something like threc-quar ters of a
million doll Irs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jos. Taber will 90 up
to Deeth tonight to visit Nh. aud Mrs.
W. X. Mayer. They will visit there Il
lew days when Joe will go on to
Butte City and Mrs. Taber will re-
turn To Elko.
lobe Stinson saw the tracks Of the
mountain lion near the l6 mile sta.
q yesterday. II drove his dogs
into the house aud a colt into the
corral. Some Of Elko's nimrods
should 20 ont and kill the lion.
President Mckinley has commutcd
Egnn's sentence from dismissal from
the army to Fix years suspension
from duty, which covers the remain
der NJ the time prior to Egan's retire
ment III January, 1903,
1t was III a Pike county, Missouri,
mn editor who wrote n long obituary
OF II mar who uicd owing seven years,
back subscription. The closing
sentence read like this: ~ very
large procession followed the remains
to their last roasting place. and he
didn't take the trouble to explain
the next week that it WAS a typo. /
graphical error, either.
y Western editor was running the
motto we tel! the truth" at the head
OF his paper. The other day, however,
he was compelled to encounter several
gentlemen who objected to the trutli
told, and rs a consequence the
motto disappeared and the following
was printed: until we re.
cover from the injuries recently re. |
ccived. this paper will lie just like the
rest Of them"
General OTIS telegraphed the War
Department on the 9Th that the in
surgcnt army concentrated around
from LuZon Provinces,
numbered over 10000 and had several
quick firing and Krupp field pieces.
y good portion OF them were armed
with Mauser rifles OF the latest
pattern. Two Krupp guns and a
great many riiles we're captured.
Our casualties probably aggregate
2ol. The casualties Of the insur-
gents very heavy. Have buried 500
their dend aud hold five hundred
prisoners. Their losses III killed,
wounded and prisoners are probably
i.e00. Tho troops are in excellent
spirits and quiet prevails.