Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1899-10-13
IRON SATURDAYS DAILY
SALsIAGUNDI.

&C. Truett is down FROM Deeth.
The new money orders are now on
sale at the postoilice.
There il nothing new in the situa-
ton in South Africa. John Bull aud
Dom Paul seem to be sparring for
wind,
Nearly all OF our space is taken up
today by n letter from Congressman
Newlands IN "rrusts." II will repay
a careful perusHl.
The Reinhart Company have Just
received their invoice OF ladies'
trimmed and pattern hate. winch will
be opened next Monday.
Mr.. Herbert Badt, correspondent
and bookkeeper for NJ. Badt & Co. OF
Wells Tor the lust six years, has been
admitted rs a member OF the firm.
The New York World flies this leg
end on it's editorial page: For Presi.
dent in l9oO-George Dewey. For
President in l90I-Wm. j. Bryan.
Mrs. }. ii. Macmillan Cf Ogden has
been paid the sum OF $1,000, the
amount Of the policy carried by her
late husband i'll the a.. .. U. w. Mr..
MACMILLAN belonged to the Winne-
mucca lodge.
Coyotes are more umerOu and
destructive than ever IN Mason Val.
ley this year. They are kill g calves
sheep and poultry, aud 50 bold that
women can hardly drive them from a
flock Of chickens with II broomstick.
The EiiTcl tower las received it's
first coat OF paint with n view Of
Identifying it for the Pnris exposition
i'll 1850. This preliminary a]dornmcnt
has taken no less than fifty tons Of
paint and two whole months OF labor
OF sixty workmen.
Before the breaking out OF the war
with Spain, the expenses OF the army
and navy for pensions in the United
States amounted to S37l per capita,
counting the population at 10000 900.
Now it is about 80 for each iudi sid.
ual.
To-day the store in which Stewart,
the advertiser, made the millions,
which Hilton, t..e non advertiser, lost,
John Nannamakcr, another big nd.
vcrtiser, has revived into the busy
arena Of trade where millions may be
made again. There IL Il moral in this
Constitution.
Rev. DR.: Hicks, the great weather
prophet Of st. Louis, gives IL word OF
warning to farmers who have wheat
and corn to sell. Ills advice is not to
sell this year ut n sacrifice. lie pre-
diets a shortage OF these crops next
ycar and Il still greater one in 1901
and for that reason advises farmers to
hold their graIn rather than let it go
ut Il low figure.
The original capitol building in
Washington, for which George Wash
ington laid the cornerstone in 1893,
was completed in 1927. Its cost, in
Guiding grading OF the ground, altera.
tons and epnirs, up to 1927 was a.
433,Slj33. The cost to date with the
magnificent north and south wings OF
OF white marble il not given in the
Congressional directoy from which
the above figures are taxcn.
Tho transport Siam with upward 0f
$50 mules ON board for service in the
Philippines was caught in two ty
phoons and all but nineteen OF the
mules we're so horribly mangled that
they were killed aud thrown overheard
The mules we're hurled from eide To
side by the pitching Of tho vessel
md were trightfully manglcd md
disembowcled. When tho Siam arrived
ut Manila. her propeller was high out
OF water and the wrecks Of her boats
were hanging from hor davits.
Tho Courier says that some OF Tho
alfalfa fields in Douglas county arc
assessed Mt s30 per acre. The same
character ~ lnnd in Elko county il
assessed ut g. per acre. In Douglao
county stock cattle, which includes
calves and adimals Of all descriptions,
except beef cattle aud COVE, aro M
ecEscd ut sl2 per hcad. In EIko
county stock cattle, Including beet
cattle md calvos,urc assessed ntsli per
head. Tho railroad is assc@cd mt sl2-
GOO per mile in Elko county, 10000
in Humboldt and Churchill and 3d.
600 in WaslIoc. a little cqualizing
all along the line would benefit tho
State.