The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1871-04-15
NIiseellaneou. New.

GEOLOGY In OREGON. A correspondent
from Oregon gives the, following interesting
account Of geological discoveries in tkat State:
I'VE have in our State, in the person of
Rev. Thomas Condor. Congregational cler-
gyman at the Dalles, an enthusiastic lover of
science and an accomplished adept in the
particular science of geology He possesses a
CABINET OF specimens acquired during various
Summer excursions, which is one of the scien.
tihc wonders He recently iectured at Port
land, his text being Three Stone Heads
which three were veritable specimens he had
aug from the sandstone chronicles, and present
ed TO his audience as representing three different
periods. shall not attempt to follow the
lecture or borrow the technical learning Of the
lecturer. Enough that these were skulls OF a
tauily anterior TO the mammoth and the ell
ephant. and Of a race as huge as they, dug
from the strata, disclosed by ravine, on John
Day river. where a wall |, 500 feet deep. Whose
lace was cut by the waters of many centuries,
reveals 20 the philosopher the secrets of an
era before man existed, and even before the
cascade mountains had risen to form a bar
rer TO the ocean. These heads lived and had
their being before Mount Hood arose; lust
think OF It! And the lecturer drew picture
oil the tropical scenery where the monsters
disported themselves among groves of waving
palms. After them came great commissions of
nature which created the mountains, and
gorgeous helds where these monsters made
sheir home became covered up deeply with
volcanic eruptons and changed to almost a
desert. The philosopher has read the LAYERS
laid bare by the chasm of the river, and re-
yeals the fact that before the creation of man
all the region known as the Grea, American
Desert was rich and festile and populous with
living monsters" ....... -. -
TIE OLS1SDER.-We clip from the Cincin-
natti Gazette an item which calls for investi-
CATION: II may surprise some Of our readers
10 know that the oleander. so popular as
house and yard plant, is extremely poisonous.
DR.. L. L. Wright in communication to the
Bellefontaine (O.) Republican, says that he
was called to attend n child few days ago
who had eaten some small fragments of an
eleander bush that had been clipped off, The
symptoms were sudden and violent and the
result nearly fatal. Deathly prostration.
sunken eyes, great pallor, incessant vomiting
extreme thirst and purging were the predom-
mating symptoms. An old medical work.
quoted by the doctor, after describing the
poisonous qualities of the plant, adds: when
handled In a close room, when the stomach is
empty, it causes a numbness, coming by de-
grees, which shows that something poisonous
belongs even to the smell. The limited
States Dispensatory" mentions the fact that
1t is used by the French rpeasantry, as. rat
poison, aud that while the deadly principle
exists both in the leaves and bark, it is more
Gee
EAST CANON, UrAH.-A correspondent of
the Corinne Reporter, writing March 10Th,
says.
An English company, fromsL London. with a
capital Of $3.50, 200, has located here, with
VIM. Doolittle, lately master of carpenter
work for the Union Pacific Railroad, as their
manager. They also send out from London a
secretary, treasurer and master of miners. and
VIII go to work with nerve, backbone, bottom
and capital, prepared to work mines on a sys-
tematic plan, and build smelling works with
machinery from Swansea, Wales, erected by
masters of the art who can work ore that only
yields $50 per ton silver. They have located
here, having bought a mill site and town
property to go with it. ...At-tA ~.
A CORRESPONDENT of the San Francisco Alta
at Magdalena Bay, Lower California, sends to
that office the branch of a tree thickly covered
with oysters clinging closely to the bark. This
novel fruit il found in great abundance in
the locality from which our correspondent
writes, and the trees, which grow at the wa
tez's edge, partially submerged most of the
tine, are encrusted with a heavy growth of
the biyalVes. The specimen received at that
Office is about two inches in diameter, the
rough bark Of which is well covered with oys-
tiers Of fair size, though somewhat ancient by
this time.
"HEArHEH CHNEE. "A dispatch from
Dutch Flat, Cal, April 9Th, says: Rice King
a Waterman in the claim of s. Kidder, discoy.
cred Chinaman crevicing in the sluice-boxes
about 3 O'Clock this morning He emptied
one barrel of his shotgun loaded with buck
shot at him without effect, other than causing
him TO run. He then discharged the Other
barrel, 'wounding him, but without stopping
his speed. race then ensued when KING
overlook him and broke the gun-barrel over
his head, killing the Chinaman.
TIE odious income tax still diseraces tho
national statute books, although il ia safe To
say ninety.nine out of every hundred intelli.
gent citizens Of the country urgently demand
cd Its adjustment. II is, If anything, an
expense rather than n source of revenue 70 the
treasury. But then it supports an army of
radical othce.holders, whose fat salaries swal.
low up all taxes collected, and that's what is the
matter with the Radical ring at Washington,
which successfully opposed its repeal.
IMMENSE HERDS OF BUFFALO IN MONTANA
Late dates from Fort Shaw, NJ. T. say: There
Is great excitement at this point. Buffaloes are
crossing Sun river, just above the fort. in i'm
mense numbers. The garrison have turned
out and are slaughtoring them by hundreds.
IL Is supposed that they are driven across by
bands OF Sioux Indians. who arc said to be
moving in this direction. The bufIaloes rub
the telegraph poles down fastor than men can
reset them. r. ~. - :
TAxATroN.-Ho David A. Wells, late Com
missioner OF Internal Revenue has been EN-.
pioyed to look into tho general matter Of taxa
tion In the State OF New York. In his report. |
no inoidenty says: THE aggregate taxation |
OF the whole country for the year 1870 assum.
ing tho population to be 80, 600 0OO would in. |
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