The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1871-03-11

outs. snow sheds, ETC.. together with the
lands upon which the read Is bu;it in Nevada
county.
THERE is at present in Montreal widow Of
~ who IL the mother Of nine children. She
was married at sixteen, and before her SEVEN
teenth birthday presented her lord with twins;
the following year she produced at one birth
three boys; the next year she had twins, and
repeated the performance the following year
making nine children, the Oldest being barely
four. The children are all living and doing
well.
negro who sned Chicago saloon.keeper
Tor S2,oO0 damages, for putting him out of his
saloon, after his refusal to comply with a re-
quest to leave, has been awarded one cent.
The Court instructed the jury that the propri-
from his restaurant by force, without giving
any reason therefor, if the plaintiff refused or
neglected to go when requested
FEARS are entertained in Kansas of general
outbreak OF hostilities on the part Of the Chey-
ennes and Arrapahoes early in the Spring
and that the objective points Of attack will be
the frontier settlements of that State. Gen.
Pope expresses the hope that the Interior De-
partment will at once take measures to satisfy
or pacify these Indians, who, he says, have
Just ground for complaint.
We have it from pretty good authority that
it cost Mr.. Mccormick 4 Co $4,000 10 carry
Tucson, at the recent election, and believing
this to be the case, $4,000 would scarcely
cover the sum spent by the little schemer and
his coinpddreS, IN the entire Territory. Steal
lngs that will repay this sum, and also enrich
the plunderers, must be enormous. Yet, we
know they are NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Miner.
CoUBT MARTIAL.-A dispatch from Portland.
oregon, February 9th, says a soldier named
Bird, convicted by Court Martial at Vancouver
for killing Lieut.. Cowan, in Alaska, a year
ago, was sentenced to Is years imprisonment
at Fort Alcatraz. He was taken to the steam
or Saturday in irons en- route for his destina-
ton.
Savannah paper reports that a man who
was eating oysters at a saloon in that city con-
temptousiy threw large pearl, worth 800
aside, remarking that the Savannah people
didn't know how TO open oysters, for they left
large pieces of shell.
Z. L.. DIXON, Of Nevada county, Cal, has
planted 10000 mulberry trees Of the morus
alba variety on his ranch near Grass Valley.
de was quite successful last year in raising
SIX worms, and intends to expand his bust
ness. lie calls his ranch 'Silken Grove"
Peoria, Illinois. has 272 manufacturing es-
adjustments, with a capital of 1000, 900
giving employment to 2,577 hands, and pro-
Ntif'oarNOO VI pEtuuCtS- many OF
these are distilleries.
The Japanese fishermen rescued from the
wreck at sea by the ship Annie NJ Small,
were sent back to Japan by the Great Repub-
lie, on the LIST of March The steamer had
but eleven white passengers.
The new school law adopted by the Louisi-
ana Legislature has resulted in filling the pub
lie schools Of New Orleans with negroes. In
many cases the white children have left the
schools altogether to Africans
SIXTEEN teams arrived from Cerro Gordo at
Los Angeles, Cal, on the oath Of February,
with eighty tons of base bullion.
The United States Government will DUR
chase two millions of bonds each Wednesday
during March.
WooDwARD's Gardens in San Francisco, are
again the birthplace of a camel The impor-
Snt event took place March lst
THERE are about Is, 600 French Inhabitants
in New York.
THERE are S5i prisoners at San Quentin, in
California