The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1871-06-17
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minister Of the Methodist persuasion. wish
ing. IS he expressed himself in his oral invita-
| tons to numerous friends and acquaintances,
to set a good example 10 the younger men in
| the community" sought the hand of q maiden
none too yonng 10 leave her mother" and at
| last gained her consent to a union Of hearts
and hands, the latter &c be ratified at the
Methodist Church. The minister extended
special and general invitation to the whole
neighborAocd, and even invited the children
attending the pablo school, to witness the
contamination Of the rites. Everybody was
| on hand promptly at the church, and waited,
and waited-but, 10! the bride came not
The lady's courage had failed her at the last
moment, and che 0bstinately refused to wed.
The sndseroe dispersed. and the disappointed
gospel trumpete- returned home hummiug
mat sood old Methodist hymn, Il am waiting,
my darling, Tor thee"
FROM the Eureka Sentinel We learn that
some ten months ago there were half dozen
shanties on the Mccoy survey. and now
! there Is on the ground a hotel, two saloons.
two lodging houses, four furnaces one store,
one lumber yard, an immense freight ware
house and the stables of the Palssade fast
| freight line. two BLACKSMITH shops, one Law Of
nee, one church in progress one doctors Of
| ice, one bath house, two surveyors offices,
| two assayer's Offices, one BARRIERS shop and
above forty residences. This makes a Village
OF itself. and still buildings Ase going up. II
| COuF1 De OBTAINED the ruTnccC CS
| buildings would be doubled within sixty days.
The Sentinel says this is one Of the additions
| TO the original town site, and while daily in
| provements are going on they are not sll con-
] fined TO the original plat; the necessity Of more
| room Is becoming every day more apparent.
We need more hotels and residences, and no
investment would pay Isore certainly Than ihe
building OF residences 20 rent on the Mccoy
| survey.
DESTRUCTIVE FIxE.-A destructive FIRE oc-
| CURED il Virginia city. on the 9th instant, as
We learn from the Enterprise, destroying some
| twelve or fourteen buildings, causing a loss of
| property to The amount Of S30,0O The fire
broke out IN Jacob Steffans meat market,
North G street. The burnt district extends
from John Gandich's brick. at the corner of c
and Mill streets, northwsrd to frame build
| ing near Carson street, owned By Mr.. Perkins,
and occopied by Col. K. II. Taylor, a clean
sweep q all buildings-l2 20 II in number
between B and streets, being made to that
distance. The FIRE was oecasioned by the
bursting Of coal oil lamp.
NEW DIscoTERI.-E. D. Kelley and Frank
Cole haze discovered a fine silver lode near
knoxville, south Of the Arizona hill. The
Silver State says it Is probably a continuation
OF the famous Arizona vein in that direction,
as the oSe IS very similar. The ledge is quite
small at the outcrop where discovered bnt IN
sinking down upon il to depth Of eight feet
n
ers are quite elated with their discovery and
are confident that they have good thing.
IN THE ORPHANS HoME.-Srnee the Nevada
Orphans Home. ut Carson, was opened SAYS
the Gold Hill News, ,hirty-one orphans have
been admitted of whom twenty-five were bows
and nine were girls, Four boys and two girls
have since left the misunderstanding TWEEN
ty-tivs in the Home at present, Of whom
eighteen arr boys and seven are girls.
Michael ~,
wounded i'll shooting scrape IN Phoebe. !
says the Fly Record, died from the effects OF
his injuries on Tuesday morning last, at A. !
II. Deceased was twenty eight years Of age, |
and leaves mother and sister, who reside i'll
Rochester, New York, IN which place Casey
Vas born,
The soa ot Col. Shsmp, Of wnshoe Valley.
bias successfully passed his examination at
West Point, says the Virginia Enterprise, and
has been admitted as a cadet at that military
institution. Nevada is at last represented nj !
West Point. The appointment wac procured |
through Hon. Thomas Fitch.
SECOND DosE.-Thomas Flynn and Thomas |
Ryan, the two State Prison convicts who |
made their escape recently. and committed
burglary at Washoe City, were yesterday, says
the Carson Register of the 18th inst, taken |
to WaShoe county to appear before the Grand
jury.
WEDNESDAY last, says the Reno Crescent of |
June 10, Mr.. Watson, n citizen of Long Val. |
ley, while hauling load Of posts, lost control |
OF bis team; the load was upset. and Mr. |
Watson crushed to death, tho entire upper |
portion OF his head being cut off.
NINETEEN ToSs.-For "a hours, MP 70 Sat- |
urday noon, says the Eureka Sentinel Of the |
llth inst. there were smelted in two large and
two small furnaces Of the Eureka Consolida- |
ted, 10 tons of bullion of the value of $3.50 |
per ton.
BULLIoS.-The Ely Record says TIM. on the
9th and llth instants bullion was shipped |
from Pioche via Salt Lake, 70 the amount of |
$50, 80. Since June 9Th 10 the 18th, Phoebe |
shipped S7S,984.
BULLIoY.-There were shipped during the
month Of May last. through Wells, Fnrge & |
Co.. from Austin, says the Revelle 81 bars |
Of silver bullion, weighing 7,437 pounds, of
the value Of S99,75l IS.
BULLION SBTPMEST.--Tho amount of bul. |
lion shipped from the Arizona mine, through |
Wells, Fargo 4 Co., since our last issue, saws |
the Unionville Silver State Of the 10th, was
S6.232.
new steamer, called tho Bessie, 80 feet
long, has been shipped from Sacramento 10
Lake Bigler 10 be used al pleasure boat on
that lake.
NUMEROUS cars loaded with cattle from CAL |
nornia, are being shipped to the pastures Of
Nevada.
TEX Sutro Tunnel 10 now In a distance of |
2,0S5 feet.
FIRE IN GoLp fulton Wednesday last n !
fro broke out in God ITilf, on the west side