Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1900-05-11
RON THURSDAYS DAILY.
SALNIAGUNDl.

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Attorney Brown will go to Battle
Mountain tonight ON legal business.
There are quite a number OF people
from the surrounding country in
town today to see Gentry's show.
w. +. Johnson OF North Fork and
n. j. Jessen OF Mardis are in town.
They report everything quiet in their
sections.
Nearly ICO delegates are attending
the middle-of.the-roa Populist Ma
tional convention at Cincinnati. AL
the States are represented except
five.
Once i'll awhile when a girl declares
that che doesn't know how to sing,
people keep on urging her until she
tries and then they wish they had be-
lieved her.-Somerville journal.
Miss Ethel Price, the Austin school
ma'am. has begun u $4,000 damage
suit in the U. S. Circuit Court against
Trustee Pohl. This is an outcome OF
the Austin school scandal.
Ms. Kruger Is, to the daughters OF
her countrywomen, the ideal Boer
woman aud there is scarcely d young
girls ROOM in the T~ransvnal but has
a picture OF the presidents wife by
way of II continually present example.
Mr.. S. o!.wells, u prominent citi-
Zen Of Keno. died at 400 this morn
ing. Mr.. Wells WIGS the father Of
Mrs. Sam Wheeler Of Elko. Mr.. and
Mrs. Wheeler departed for Reno last
night. hut would not get there until
several hours after Mr.. Wells died.
Attention is called to tbs new al OF
the w. Smith Company. This en-
terprising house offers the Deering
Ideal and Giant mower and Thomas
rakes fer sale at prices that cannot
be duplicated. See the new al and
be convinced.
MIR. Clay the press agent OF Cen
try's show called at this Jiice this
morning aud fixed out the force with
tickets for the show. He is a very
pleasant gentleman aud knows how
to please the printer.
The INDEPENDENT force quit work
today and took in the show, Tom
ana Charley were ont bright and
early and improved every moment.
There's nothing so demoralizlng to a
printing Office rs a circus. 1t affects
all from the devil up.
The latest scheme Of the Armonr
Packing company is canning eggs.
They separate the yolks and whites,
can them. freeze them, and then put
them on the market. They put up
thirty dozen i'll Il two.gallon can.
They are used largely 10y bakers.
Merchants are justified in EickinC
hard when people send ont OF town
for any article that they can obtain
here, but the merchants must not for.
get that it is IN Internal poor rule
shht doe not work both ways when
they want billheads, letterheads, cards,
otc.
Tho Carson News publishes the re-
ply Of Rev. Oliver, with this COM
ment: Whatever other opinion the
News may entertain regarding Evan
geiIst Oliver aud his methods, il free.
ly admits that he is not without wit
as evidenced by the following reply
to the News rs published in the Elko
INDEPENDENT"
This is II horrible windy day.
Clouds OF dust chased each other
through the streets, making 1t very
disagncablc to be out. 1t has given
our people a foretaste Of what is in
store for them il gravel is not put on
the fresh dirt IN the street. II not
covered soon the wind will take il
over the State liue.
y London. KY, dispatch OF The 9th
says: Jim Howard. the man accused
OF Hiring the shot that killed Vim.
Gocbcl, came in froI bis home in
Clay county and took n train for
Frankfort. whittier he goes to sur.
render himself to the authorities.
Howard says I'M will liave no trouble
in proving his innocence.
Seymour j. Bryant has been ap.
pointed census officer for taking sta.
tistics pertaining TO livestock in Ne.
vada. lie is paid ss per day and his
duties nccessitatc his visiting every
county III the State. Cattle and sheep.
men should take interest enough in
the matter to give Mr.. Bryant rrli.
able information that hc may be able
to report the number OF cattle. sheep
and horses correctly Gazette.
Tho rainfall at this place during
tho past two week has been about Q
inchcs, making Il total for tho month
OF D l.3 inches. which il far in excess
OF tho rainfall hero in u ono month
for many years. Tho ground IL thor
ouglhy soaked mud there Ia no longer
any danger OF q scarcity Of water for
irrigatins purposes. The storms have
been worth thousands Of dollars to
the farmers Of this scction.-Whitc
| Pine Nova.