Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1899-09-08
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY
SALNIAG USDI.

W.T.. Smith and daughter, Miss
Ethel. departed for San Francisco
last night.
The people OF Carson are making
grent preparations for the reception
OF MIR. Bryan Friday afternoon. Do
the people OF Elko want to hear him?
The cheapest postal service in the
world is that Of japan, where for two
sen-about sever -tenths Of n penny
letters are conveyed all oye the En-
pire.
The Journal says that the entire
group Of mines i'll OliGghouse Cau-
yoD, near W~udsworth, has been sold
to Thomas G. Parrish OF Colorado
Springs, Colorado.
While trying To board a moving
train Mt Stone House Friday night
Brakeman Paul Rutherford was
thrown against the iron guard OF the
car and had his leg broken.
MIR. Garcia is the proudest man in
Elko today. The cause OF his pride
is the arrival OF young lady mt his
house last night. Mrs. Garcia is do
ing nicely and tho head of the house
will he all right in a few days.
There was another wreck in the
Osino canyon yesterday afternoon.
\ broken journal caused an empty
Pullman car to jump the track. The
wrecking train went up from Carlin
and cleared the track.
Although the law does not distinct
ly state that annual labor to tho
amount Of 800 must be expended
upon placer claims, the Land Depart
mcnt and the Courts have held that
the law OF the lode claim applies also
to placcrs, and that annual assess-
mcnt work must be performed.
+. +. Turner, Compton, Mo, was
cured of piles by DcWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve after suffering seventeen
years and trying over twenty remed-
les. Physicians and surgeons endorse
II. Beware of dangerous counterfcits.
Elko Drug Co.
Governor Sndler has made the fol-
lowing appointments as NOtaries
Public: Hayden Henderson, Elko; w.
/. Robinson, Carlin; John S. Cook,
Austin; Danl Skully. Austin; S. S.
Sears, Nevada Agency; Frank y.
Murphy. Winnemucca.
Governor Sadler has entered suit
to recover certain mining grounnd
claimed to belong to the Morning
and Lone Pine mines, situated on
Adams Hill in which he is an owner.
lie also claims $4,000 damages,
caused by the extraction OF ore-Eu-
reka Sentinel.
According to the report of Pension
Commissioner Evans for the fiscal
year ending June 30th last there were
1876 pensioners in Utah on that date,
1880 in Idaho, 2G6 in Nevada and 90
III Wyoming. The payments during
the year to pensioners in Utah aggre-
gated SlSS. rs, III Idaho slS1,T75, in
Nevada S3i,523 and in Wyoming S39,-
95S.
Mr.. Newlands has been invited by
the executive committee of the ANTI
Trust Convention to address that
body, and may comply with the re-
quest. Tho convention, which is to
he held under the auspices OF the
Civic Federation Of Chicago, will
meet III TINT CITY September l3. II
MIR. Newlnnds attends he will return
to the State before Congress con
venes. Reno journal.
The insurance companies doing Il
life business i'll Canada have agreed
hereafter not To accept risks ON the
lives Of married women unless they
happen to bo the bread winners of
tho family, or, in other words, indie
pen lent OF their husbands. Tho de-
cision lias been arrived Mt with n view
la iesScning the crime OF murder for
the insurance, several cases OF winch
have been reported within the last
two years.
a prospective subscriber wants tc
know il We will take chickens on
subscription. Yes; and wood and
corr meal aud meat and coons and
'possums and fish mud tomatoes and
penchcs and billy goats and sheen
md pigs and hay and horses md lard
hbd butter and corn and mules and
calves md hogs aud rabbits and
wheat and iurnips and county script
and just amy old thing you've got
We have, OH rare occasions, taken
money on Observation-Disclosures Eye
An itinerant preacher III Appa,
moose county, Iowa, stopped at n farm
house 10 get his dinner. IA no wa,
onting the lady OF the house inquired
his business and he replied: al an
hunting the lost sheep ~ Israeli She
left the room and IN n fcw minutes
returned with her husband when she
said: "fhis man il hunting some
lost sheep and I'll bet TINT old long
wool ram That's been around here i,
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