Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1900-01-19
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Office last week wore s96l ~.
UEcle Dick Dorsey had the prison
ers in the county Jail working OH the
streets today.
Mr.. Joseph Lindsay came III from
Mound valley yesterday. lie reports
everything lovely ont mat way.
Allen Mcbride returned this MORN
ing from an extended visit with rela-
tives in California aud Oregon.
1t was reported III town yesterday
that there WIS u case OF small pox in
Tuscnrora. We are glLd to announce
that the report is not true.
A citizen asked US the other day il
that--pointing to the water flowing
through the strcet-was theHumboldt
river. We told him we thought it WIS
Beam PiIley, a former resident OF
Elko, has leased the Colonial hotel in
San Francisco on Powell street be-
tween Post and Suffer.
\ long-headcd boy remarked the
other day: "Say, papa, you can't tell
whose grandpa you're goln' to be
when you get to be an old man can
YOU"
Treasurer Dawley sold TO the coun-
ty the property assessed to Thomas
j. Earles and Mrs. Samuel Jones for
delinquent taxes at noon today. The
taxes Of the other dclinqucntE were
paid.
Que OF tn. first results OF Governor
Woods administration in Cuba is an
invitation to bid IN the supply OF
S1OO,OOn worth OF school furniture.
Education is all that il needed to
swing Cuba INTO its proper sphere.
Sam Rogers and \. +. Sharp left
for San Francisco today. 1t lis their
intention to remain III the city Il few
days and then go to Honolulu il the
plague ii not too bad. II they learn
that 1t Ii not safe to 90 la Honolulu,
they will go To Cape Nome.
y st. Louis newspaper announced
that ~the prettiest girl" in that cit
would be chosen to ~Oiliciate at the
launching OF the cruiser to be named
inter it. 1t is said that 39.G23 girls
believe that a direct reference WIS
made to them.
Sunday evening Schuyler Lee
struck Charley Burchart over the
head with II meat saw, inflicting a
scalp wound about two inches in
length. II VIII the outcome Of try
ing to settle the century question:
Wadsworth Dispatch.
The journal insists that tho Young
man, who WIS taken to task III Reno
the other night by un angry father for
talking about his daughter, is Il stu.
dent mt the University. The Journal
calls the editor Of the Gazette Il "con-
tumacioua liar" for stating othew wise.
y nun i'll New York. the other day,
found Il two dollar bill, and being
awful hungry, went into the nearest
restaurant and began to cat. He ate
so fast that he choked to death, and
now lies in the morgue awaiting
identification. 4 hungry man should
Ip ynFV purnfn1 h,u. lao E,.l, o. ...
dollar BILL Fix.
There seems Ia he some trouble ut
the State University over the rcsig-
nation OF Prof. jackson. Tho Journ.
al gives Jackson's side Of the con.
trovcrsy while the Gazette gives both
sides. Our Gazette failed to arrive
yesterday md wc have not seer what
1t says. We will look il up md en-
dcgyor to give II readers the facts
tomorrow.
Last Wednesday tho third payment
was made on tie hundred thousand
dollar bonus guaranteed to tho
Truckcc River General Electric COM
pany toward tho construction OF tile
plnnt ntFloriston for furnishing pow
or to tho COmstockMining companies
This mnkcs n total 30 fur paid OF over
$4,000. ....i..
Tliore will no thrco oclipses in tho
year l900-two OF the sun aud ono OF
the moon. a total eclipse OF tho sun
Mny 18th. n partial eclipse OF the
moon June 18th, and nm annual
eclipse Of Tho sun on November I'D,
Cho first two arc visible In North
America, but tho last n is not.
Tho United States will have n moro
extensive exhibit ut tho Paris Expo.
eition than amy otlIor country except
France, which will utilize half Of the
entire space. Tho American exhibit
will bc several timcs larger thnn thot
Of Great Britain, and ~ large as TINT
Of Germany aud Russia combined.
There are some funny people in
the world. Some got mad and stop
their papcrs because they are not
mentioned when they come To town
aud others get mad il their namcs
appear IN cold type. Tho other day a
man stopped the INDEPENDENT DO.
cause wo did not cay that he was in
town when wo did not know that lm.