Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1900-05-25

Cape Nome this afternoon.
Aguinaldo has issued a proclania.
ton urging the Filipin0s to keep up
the fight for liberty and indepen.
dence.
The woman's Guild will have a
sale and festival Oh the evening OF
the Sth Of June. Further particulars
later.
DIR. j. ID. Campbell, Grand Muster
OF the |. o. U. +. OF Nevada, will visit
Elko Lodge officially next Monday
evening. Members OF the Order
should bear this in mind.
The Argus says that Bert S,oker
the night Waterman at Lovelock,
found Il purse Sunday evening con
tanning so in coin. Bert rustled up
the owner and made him happy.
Rev. George II. Greenfield writes
the Genoa Courier that nearly 400
people listened TO Evangelist Oliver
the first night that he spoke in VIM
nemucca. The Silver State said
the audience WAS fair. We publish
this merely To show that men some.
times differ in opinion.
Vic BOuton has been delivered to
Warden Henderson. Benton says he
did not steal the McKissick cattle,
but admits that he has been in very
bad company for the last two yours.
lie says he il gong TO reform II he
does the people Of Humboldt county
wild oubtless appreciate it.
People from cOast points who wish
to attend the Republican National
convention at Philadelphia will have
To pungle $500 for Il round trim
ticket. For the Democratic National
convention at Kansas City $50 will
pay the fare. All tickets will he
limited 10 sixty days.
Robert Henderson, wanted at Bat.
tie Mountain on the charge Of may
hem, has forfeited his bail in San
Francisco and skipped the country.
EI-ShcriiT EHstun, who vent after
him. was unable Ia find him. Hen
derson probably thinks more Of his
liberty than he does of a $1,000.
M Ilt,p.sH ., " ~
noble. lie reports that the Good
Templars had a big time there this
week. The District Lodge held u
two days session, winding up with Il
ball last night, Quite IA number
from Elko went out to the ball. One
OF tho crowd drove his horse into Il
wire fence and injured him quite
badly.
In St Louis, where the Rcpubb-
can national policy WIS formulated
just four years ago, several thousand
workingmcn are ont on u strike for
decent wages. Ia Philadelphia, where
the Republican national policy will
he endorsed next month; Dver 10000
wOrkIngmcn are out on u strike for
living wages.-Omahn World Her
aid.
We arc becoming Il nation Of beer
drinkers. Forty years ago the Amer.
lean people consumed an average OF
one barrel OF beer to every sixteen
inhabitants. Tho i%nrreasr since that
timo has been go grcat. that, during
lSo0 the consumption Amounted To
36,5Sl,lli barrels, or more thnn ono
barrel to every two OF our cnti:d pop.
alation. Tho manufacture OF whisky
Inns not been 30 rapid. In fact more
whisky was produced in 1861 than in
1899.
A wild.eycd Polnndcr giving the
name Of Iron Won Molowsky madc
things interesting ON MainStrcet yes.
tcrday md frightened several ladica.
He wns taken in 10y Constable Gold.
ing and eaid that he was the last
rightful King OF Poland and expected
Il remittance through Washington OF
sevcnty.cight thousand million dol.
lars and told DR.. Kistlcr in language
more tOrciblc than polite that hc WINS
sure that the doctor wHntcd To get
tho remittance. Won Mol0wsky will
do time at tho hospital for mental
discusses Wadsworth Dispatch.
Oregon will hold II State Election
on June 18th, and il may be termed
tho first skirmish in the political bat.
tic OF 1900 Tho Democrats and Pop.
ulists have fused on Il State ticket
md have I'M excellent chance Of win.
my. Other Statca which will hold
Statc elections before November are:
North Carolina, August ID; Ala.
bamn, August It'll; Arkansas Sep.
tcmbcr 81; Vermont, September 9Th;
Maine, September l0ib. and Georgia
October 81. In mono oi these States
exccp, Oregon il there any doubt as
To the result, no TINT State must be
looked To IN givinra possible indicn.
ton Of the direction in winch tho
wind IL setting.