Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1900-08-31
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Two rel wood tanks for Andy
Smiths cyanide plant at Bull Run
were unloadcd today.
Lieutenant Jack Neall has return.
eel to San Francisco from New Mexico
where he has been operating mines.
Mrs. Joe Miller has sold her resi-.
dence and furniture To Pierce Wore.
She will leave for Salt Lake tomorrow
evening.
There are even prisoners in the
county Jail. Five Of them are held to
appear before the grand jury and two
are dong time.
MIR. and Mn. harrington left for
Reno last evening. Mrs. Harrington
will probably visit friends i'll Cali
fornia before she returns.
\ building next to Governor Sad
ler's Eureka residence burned to the
ground Saturday evening. Heroic
efforts were made to save the cover.
nor's residence and with success.
T.. l.. Bingham, II. II. Cooke. j. l..
Winter, +. ii. Winter and T.. l.. Me-
Mahon were elected delegates 10 the
Democratic State Convention from
the Tuscarora district. Tuscarora
pOllcd loo votes.
The census of San Francisco us nm.
nOunced in a bulletin OF the Census
Bureau is 3i2, 1862, against 29s .997 in
1880. This is an increase of 1875 or
II 81 per cent. The population Of
1880 vas 233,959 an increase Of 81, G3S
or 21.S per cen from 1850 to 1890,
So far as returns OF Saturday. pri.
mnrics have been made, the delega-
ton from this county to the Demo.
cratic State Convention stands rs FOL.
lows: George Russell, George S.
Brown, Thomas Hunter, NJ. II. Mil
Ter, X. Farrell, w. S. Clayton. f. l..
Bingham, II. r. Cooke. J. L. Winter,
+. II. Winter. T.. l.. Mcmahon.
bulgaria is going to take effective
means to increase it's population. For
every son born beyond a minimum
number 20 francs will be paid to the
father and 20 francs to the mother. 4
soldier showing a dozen SONS will re
ceive Il pension large enough to sup
port him, and, besides, will be given
a decoration. The same will go to
his wife.
Sheriff Scott Of White Pine county
has hired out the services Of two Of
the prisoners IN the county Jail to }.
G.. and August Marx who have put
them TO work IN their placer claims
near Lime City SINKING discovery
shafts. This is the first instance we
know Of convict labor in Nevada be
ing made Il commodity.
The Carson News says Reno wants
the State library and will SO %conspirc
when the legislature IN acts next win
ter. The Reno Gazette, i'll reply, says
the News liz talking through its SON.
brerO, AS there mas been no talk of
the kind in Reno. The INDEPENDENT
would advise the people OF Carson to
keep a watchful eye OH the library, or
Reno will steal u march on them and
lug it OF. Reno has a wonderful
stomach fer State institutions.
Chas. Ferrill has made a couple Of
compressed paper horse shoes that
weigh two and Unc.half ounces each.
Shoes Of Il stellar character, but made
Of steel, would weigh at the least cal
culation, fourteen ounces Mr. Fer
roll will make two sets Of paper shoes
and they will be used OH some racers
at the fair, and racctrack followers
say TINT they will certainly he cxclu.
eiyely used in the future owing to
their durability and Manifestations
Gazrttc.
Teddy is beginning to explain his
st. Paul speech. in which ne mr.
raigned the Democracy in his usual
vitupcrativc style. Lots of things he
could explain. but will not. lie Inns
not yet explained why he swore in
Washington TINT he was not a citizen
Of New York to escape the payment
OF taxes, and yet shortly after turned
M in New York as II candidate for
Govcrnor..-St. Paul Globe.
There are no political assessments
any more. Tho lnw on that subject
is scrupulously lived up to-. There ia
no need for notices To be displayed.
No federal or stntc cmployc Is asscss-
ed nowadays. lie merely gets nm in
vitniiOn to make u voluntary cOntri.
button to tho Hanna, Platt & Co.
slush fund as he feels able To give
and II he knows what's good for his
health he responds by return maiI.-
Albany Argus.
a London dispatch Of the 9th
snys: There is absolutely no truth
in the dispatch from ChcfOo ~ Aug.
81, saying it was rumorcd son good
authority thnt Russia, Germany and
japan had declared war against Chi.
M, and had invited Great Britinn and
the United Stntcs to retire from That
country. Inquiries made at 81. Pc.
tcrsburg, Berlin and Toxic show the
report WIS rejected at those capitals
W. IN" Orthy Uf notice.