Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1899-12-22
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY
3ALAIAGUSDI.

York early yesterday morning.
Rev. NJ. S. Riddle came down frou
Wells today. We are indebted to hiu
for the particulars OF the accident n
Terrace.
y carload OF magnificent wether
we're sold yesterday from IL. Levy
band. The price was upwards OF s
apiece.--Reno journal.
The mercury crawled down to |,
below zero last night. If this wealth
er continues much longer, there viii
he splendid ice i'll the river.
II is rumored that the virgini;
Chronicle will shortly commenc,
proceedings for criminal libel against
w. Nice. Gotwaldt, a reporter on the
journal, for publishing that it was
gong to suspend.-Gazctte.
General Alger is ont in an inter.
view criticising the English officers in
the Transvaal. 1t wonld be decided
ly interesting to know what those
same English officers think Of AlGer's
canned beef.
The House currency bill with q
substitute was reported tu the Senate
yesterday by Senator Aldrich. The
gold standard scheme is very liable to
meet with hard shedding before il
gets through the Senate.
Owing to hot boxes. two freight
cars with a big l3.inch gun on board,
for the battleship Wisconsin, were
left in the yard last night. The gun
is consigned to the Uuion Iron
Works, San Francisco.
Senator Jones, chairman OF the
Democratic national committee, has
issued IL call for the committee TO
meet at Washington on the 22nu OF
February for the purpose of fixing
the time and place for holding the
national convention next year.
George Bruce, secretary OF the
Cattle Association, has received the
photographs Of Wilson and Brown,
the men asrcstcd i'll Oregon for high.
way robbery and horse stealing. They
arc not the men it was supposed they
we're.
The dozen is interested III the sue.
cess Of the trust; the million Is inter
cstcd III smashing it into atoms. Ii
has no place in the economy Of
either city or state; its existence is a
menace; its destruction would be n
Observation-Disclosures Constitution.
While in the Pincnut mountains
last week, Il. Cook and Mr.. Heitman
discovered an apple tree growing in
Il thicli5t OF pinenut timber. 1t ia at
an elevation Of over COCO feet above
sea level. There is not Il stream OF
water or a spring within Il mile. The
tree Is an inch in diameter and over
six feet high.-Gardncrvillc Record.
y dispatch from Manila says Gen.
cral Henry Lawton was shot and kill.
cd early yesterday morning while
standing in front of his troops Mt
San Maieo. He was shot IN the
breast and died Immediately. lie
won his commission in the army by
signal CALAMITY durm,; the Civil
War.
There is nothing definite MS to when
the present coal famine will end. Mr..
Mcbride has plenty of coal ut Ogden
which should have been here in time
to supply all demands. IL will doubt.
less arrive whenever the railroad com.
pany gets ready to bring it.
Licutcnant.C Colonel James NJ. Mar.
shal. Deputy Quartermastcr.Gcncra
has been ordered to proceed from
San Francisco to Amadec, Cal, Bat.
tic Mountain New. and rruckcc, Cal
for the purchase q. horses Of cavalry
use. This affords Il chance for
horsesmcn Of the Eastern part OF the
state 10 deal directly with the
government i'll the matter of selling
horses.
Indian Frank, the murdo rcr OF Mrs
Del Crosse in Lander county, still
maintains stoical Indifference rs Il
his fatc. lilo is 10 be hanged on the
10Th proximo, and doesn't appear tt
bc linlf as much worried about il N
tho officer who Ia TO conduct tho sus
pension ceremonies.