The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-12-31
News summary.

The Rocky Mountain Herald publishes 4
long account Of the ruins of ancient city
just discovered i'll the mountains by an cX-
ploring party, and believes that the relics
date back many thousand years. 1t says that
the ruins arc almost impossible 10 get ut,
which probably accounts for the fuct that
none Of the ambitious Indian agents have
heretofore stolen all that were worth anything
curIOsties.
Wedding presents are coming TO be counted
as capital upon which the business OF married
life is to bts carried on. Not long since at the
wedding Of u daughter of cX-COllcctor Smythc
III New York city, the presents were Cstimttcd
10 represent $4,000. More recently another
wedding among the couponcd fortunates took
place. at which the presents were valued ut
5000, 600.
The French settlement at Adclescat, Dakota
Territory, has Il curious origin. party of
French Cmgrants were jOurncying up the
Missouri river, when a pet cat escaped from
its mistress Adele. 4 stop was made to catch
the runaway, when the Cmigrants struck by
the advantages Of the location, halted and
formed tho new settlement.
4 Western correspondent OF the Boston
Journal declares tho statement that builalocs
are descrting the plains is n fiction. They
cover the plains for miles and miles. The
railroad track bothcrs them. They consider
II n snare, and will not cross IL. They run
| along by the side Of ;ho train for miles, and
when they come TO n CulvcTt dive under.
TmE Mission Wooden Mills in Snn Francis.
co have been working night and day TO fill an
order of 4. T. Stewart Il Co., of New York,
! for 1892 900 worth of blankets, nannols, buggy
robes, etc, since last July. Tho mills arc
| shipping cast about forty cases of goods
weekly.
Otto Goldschmid, jenny Lind's husband,
| having squnndcred his wifc's fortune, the
Dt.F l., la
| pclod to teach music for living. The ill.
matched pair have separated by mutual con.
sent, and the spcndthrift must now shift for
| himself.
| Campbell & IufIum, of Prescott, have re-
Gently shipped to California over 5000 pounds
Of nice clean wool, which they recently clipped
| from their fine drove of sheep in China valley
| We believe this il tho GIst shipment of WOO
over made from Arizona.
CrGAH MAKING MAcmSE.-A man named
| Pearl, i'll San Francisco, has invented n cignl
making machine, which Is in successful opcr
alton at Emery Il Co establishment at tho
present time. II is believed il will under
work tho Chinese cigar makers.
Tho Nrtosian salt we'll Mt Lincoln (Neb.
throws n stream of brine six inches in Diane
ter, TO hight of fifty fcot This stream ha
sufficient volume and velocity to turn mil
wheel. Its waste channel is like rapid
roaring mountain stream.
W. B. Chandler married n 81, 900 widow q
Salon, Oregon, took bridal trip 10 Sal
Francisco, induced her TO return home, lcav
ing the 5000 with him; and now ho has dis
appeared.
Moro than ono thousand Of tho fnmOu
French mittraillouso hnvo bccn madc in th
United Stntos sincd tito inauguration Of tn
ranco-Gcrman war.
All nowsdCnlcrs in Momphis, who expos
for salo flash newspapers, are to bO indicted
, good example for other cities.
FIAx SEED-- California and Oregon wi
y each produce about 900 tons of lax SOC
! this year
- Horace Greeley. IN recent temperance lC,
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