Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1900-11-23
r THURSDAYS DALI.
sALMAGUNDl.

Miss Frona Drown is improving
nicely.
Battle Mountain is having "a build
ing boon.
The snow WINS seven feet deep at
Summit yesterday and more was
coming down.
Nyo county gave Bryan lGS ma.
iority, Newlands 1l3. Fitzgerald 50,
Evans III. Booher l39.
Churchill county gave the follow
ing maiorities: Bryan. 40; Newlands.
81; Fitzgerald 40; Evane. Al; Booher.
q.
A destructive storm swept over
Tennessee Tuesday evening. Con-
siderable property was destroyed and
several people were killed.
The date Of the dance to be given
at A. o. u. w. Hall on Thanksgiving
night has been changed to the night
before Thanksgiving. Those inter-
ested should note the change.
The county Jail is a noisy place
the 8 Q days. Hesson & Go are putting
in the iron plates and grating. When
this work is completed. the Jail ought
to hold the most desperate criminals.
Hunter & Wallace are having the
interior OF their store papered and
painted. Ben Craighead Is doing the
work, and wher completed it will be
n OF the most attractive business
houses in town.
Lincoln county enjoys the distiuc-
ton OF being the only county in the
State to elect a lady to office at the
last election, Annie Is. Clinton having
defeated her opponent for Superin-
tendent OF public schools by IL big
majority.
Tho Reyeille says there has been
more gambling done in Austin the
past two months than in any other
on the coast for it's population.
Where the money comes from
Is n mystery, but there is plenty Of it
nevertheless.
The most remarkable knife in the
world is that in the curiosity room OF
a firm OK cutters in Sheffield. It has
1880 blades, and ton blades are added
every ten years. Another curiosity is
three pairs Of scissors, all OF which
can be covered with a thimble.
a floating paragraph says the con-
OF Senator Clark's new rail.
road between Los Angeles and Salt
Lake City Is tc be commenced Mt
once. An order has been placed for
5000 tons Of rPils to be shipped to
California within thirty
4 disastrous wind storm swept
Colorado Springs Wednesday
The wind blew at the rate OF
30 miles an hour. Many Of the prin-
cipal buildings were unroofed and
badly damaged. One hundred resi-
dences were crushed or wrecked by
the gale. No loss OF life is reported.
Train robberies have become so fire.
quent in the West that one railroad,
the Oregon Railroad j. Navigation
regards I'm investment in
bloodlIounds nd visable. A litter Of
puppies has been distributed among
the agents along the line, with in
to rear them for the sole
purpose OF man catching.
1t is a fact that many certificates OF
marriage, birth aud death have not
been filed for record as provided by
the statutes. There is quite a penalty
attached for neglect to comply with
provision and it would be inter-
to those concerned. to read the
complied statutes, to.wit: Sections
5059 ETC., also section 1873 and follow
The fret issue OF the Times. Review
under the management OF II. G..
and w. D. Plunkett has
made it's appearance. In their sulu.
tntory the new l~essees say that the
politics OF the paper will be in
line with that party most favorable to
the best interests OF the mining
States. The INDEPENDENT wishes
the new management success.
There will be moro coal consumed
this Winter in Tuscarora than during
any year III the camps history. 1t
has been but a few years 1iDce this
fuel was used at all, but the gradual
OF our fields OF sagebrush
md forests OF Pine and cottonwood,
and the resultant advance IN the
price Of these has naturally caused u
greater consumption and demand for
the anthracite articlo.--Times.Re.
view.