Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1900-05-04
FROM THURSDAYS DAILY.
SALMAGUNDI.

for fees and licenses last month.
The Belmont Courier say more
snow fell in that section OH the DIST
OF April than fell at any time during
the winter.
The city election in st. Paul Tues
day resulted in a sweeping Demo-
cratic victory. Two years ago the
Republicans carried everything.
Tho ~Nicaraguan canal bill pass
ed the House yesterday by a vote OF
DID, to 30. We will now see what the
trust-bound, monopoly-ridden Senate
will do with it.
Judge Thomas p. Hawley OF the u.
S. District Court at Carson has been
selected as ~: OF tho judges of the
Stanford Berkeley debate next Sat-
urday evening.
Ticaboo Tribe No. Q, Improved Or.
der Of Red Men, was organized at
Tuscarora Saturday night. Bro.
Bingham OF the Times-Revicw is one
OF the big 4lnjuns."
y public meeting is to be held at
Reno next Saturday to take some
action toward preventing Lake Tahoe
from being tapped and the water be-
ing conveyed to San Francisco.
DR.. w. f. Milihone, physician and
%occulist, who has been in Clover val
ley is now in Ruby valley. The doc
tor grinds glasses to order to SUIT any
case. =
Charles Cobb has been appointed
n guard ut the prison III place OF j..
ID. Roberts, who resigned. Mr.. Rob-
erts has been connected with the
prison service on and of for twenty
years.
An article from the Chicago Post
suggesting a reform in dancing was
handed to us this morning. 1t will
appear in due time. The suggestion
is partly on the lines OF Monday
nights sermon.
Eddie Carey, L II ycar-old boy Of
Virginia City, is supposed to be lost
i'll the mountains back OF that place.
lie went hunting for strayed sheep
several days ago and has not been
heard Of since.
Now that Mark Hanna has got
Clark and Quay out of the Senate he
wants the windows OF the chamber
fixed up with cathedral stained glass
so that a dim religious Fight will fall
in soft etrulgcnce over his particular
seat.-Appeal.
Wells Lodge, No. 90, X. OF p. will
be instituted at Wells by Grand
Chancellor Zeigler on Tuesday, May
Sth. 4 large delegation OF Elko
knights will assist the Grand Chan
cellor in the institut OF the Lodge.
Our little squib the other day made
the editor OF the Report froth at the
mouth. The poor fellow seems to be
in II bad condition and we'll have
mercy on him. 4Rev. Col. William
Bill Roohcr- ID the latest title he has
given us. It's u daisy, johnny.
Peter Hanson recently plead guilty
ut Belmont, Nye county. to obtaining
go under false ~pretenses. The jus,
ticc fined him S39 80 and sent him 10
jai! for n day. Hanson served u
hours and was discharged. Such
sentences bring the administration
OF the Law into disrepute.
The Commercial college closed a
very satisfactory term last Friday,
Three OF the students, Harry Bruce,
Arthur Drown and Leon Il. Wright,
passed the examinations and received
diplomas. The INDEPENDENT hopes
that next term Prof. Nesse and his
assistant will be able to graduate a
larger class,
Tho OLD llumbold. house, built
about thirty years ago, is now a thing
OF the past. On the site where il
Stood so long will be built a two story
brick hotel. heated throughout with
hot air md fitted up in modern style
II will bo Il big improvement to Elkc
ana n great convenience 10 the travel,
ing public.
The Indian Appropriation bill pro.
vidcs for tho support OF 200 pupils nj
tho Carson Indian School next year
This increases the school suppor,
more than 5000 above that OF any
preceding year.. In addition To Thu
the school receives $4,000 for a eho,
building and $4,000 for general re
pairs and improvements.
a New York Dispatch Of the 2nL
says: "Lazurd Frercs will ship a.,
100000 in gold, IIcidelbarh, Ickle,
hcimcr & Co. s500,OOO to Europe to.
morrow" Is this another evidence
OF tho prosperity this country is eli
joying under McKinloy's udmiDistrn.
ton?
Tboro was II terrible explosion OF
giant powder in the Winter Quarters
coal mine at Scoficld, Utah, Tuesday
forenoon. At 1890 "wednesday morn.
ing 2Ol bodies had been taken irom
tho mine. Between 800 aud 400 men
cntcrcd the mino TncahnY morning