Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1899-03-24
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY
SALMAGUNDI
rain and snow today.

Moro raln ana snow to-day.
a train lond OF soldiers passed west
this forconon.
p. &. Lyman came IN from til.
west last night.
AT Johnson. Vermont. the pecpl,
of III" town are supplied with incon-
descent electric lights at 81 Il year.
The cost Of the plant WIS 5000.
The largest gold coin i'll existence
is worth s3l5. II is the ingot or sloof-
Of AMMAN, aud it, value is written on
the coin in India ink.
The Reno Gazette intimates pretty
strongly that DIR. Patterson who
wnnis to he Superintendent Of the
Asylum is not agraduatc OF medicine.
Nearly fifty miles Of the Utah Pa
ci'ic Railroad. to pass through New
nda' have been completed since the
first Of january.
j. L. Potter, the merchant prince Of
Deeth, came down last night and
spent today in town. He says there
il nothing exciting up that way.
Inyo Register The Nevada leisla-
ture removed about all bars to in
competent persons practicing med.
icine. No diploma. no certificate, no
school or professional training is ra-
quired. Any old thing will pas Tor a
doctor, and be permitted to operate on
persons land purses) without inter
ference.
Carson Appcal:-Yesterday while
fishing near Empire George Dixon Of
Brunswick lost m eye. He was fish.
ing nelr Il companion when the lad
cast his line the hook striking the
Dixon boy in the eye. The boy was
Immediately taken Ia his home end
DIR. Guinan summoned. IL ia under
stood that the eye is so badly injured
that the lad will lose the sight OF
it.
Joe Capuro, a member OF Captain
Linscott's Troop, writes from Manila.
To Robert Grimmnn IF Carson, that
but 50 Of the LOG men and officers
composing the lro1p are left and but
% rrivatcs are tit for duty. Three OF
lIn man lao eapL ,I,s,.,.l IL --..
GU accnun Of disability, three de-
serted. n is i'll a military prison at
San Francisco, il his time has not
expired, and three were left in the
hospital at Honolulu.
John Sherman. cN-Secretary ~
State, died on board Of thu CITY Of
Paris mt C~diInanera, Cuba yesterday.
When he ceased to breathe, n Of
Americas greatest statesman passed
away. He was probably the best
hated man III American politics on
account Of his financial views, but
with all his faults he held a high
position as IA statesman. HIS name
is insfTcrably connected with the
history of his country.
The Enter prise says that the Su.
prcmc Court will declare the law I'm.
constitutional 10y which the rep.esen
taiion Of Story county in the Legis-
laturc was reduced the re can be no
doubt. The schemcrs who had the
law asset overlooked a point in
their haste to rush the bill through.
The law provides that when an in
crcase in tho membership in the Leg
islaturc is 10 he ma le n bill to that
effect must first he pas sed, and MS this
was not done, and the number OF
members increased. the renpportion
ment rs il stands il unconstit utionnl.
What nm average boy is worth has
been definitely determined in a suit
brought against the city OF EIwood,
Ind. by Il father, whose eight. year.
old boy was drowned there in Il ditch.
The jury has to figure ont the finnn-
cial value Of a boy from 8 years to 81.
They placed his earnings between 8
and 10 years Mt a. cents n week, and
the cost Of keeping him at 50 cente;
from 10 to ~ earnings 10 cents. keep
ing sl20; from II TO 10 earning 6 81,
keeping 81; from Is to lS earnings 81,
kceping s2.25; from 1s to 81 earnings
sc. Keeping sI-making in all $500
net.