The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1875-10-30
WEEKLY ElKu INDEPENDENT.
saturday, OCTOBER 80. 1875.
Sam Smith, tho driver Of the Sonora

the following eloquent address on that
OCCASION:
Gentlemen, I have been n driver,
boy and man, tgoing on twenty years..
I mover ditched a stage or growlcd at n
passenger, and, gentlemen, l assure
you, have had somo Of the toughest
outsiders that ever left Boston for q
weeks chessez in Yosemite. I have
met gentlemen Of your kind before, and
/ defy any Of them to coHe forward and
say TINT ! ever treated them with con-
tempt; on tho other hand, it has been
my aim to net towards highway, excuse
me, gentlemen, l.mean road agents,
with the distinguished consideration
due their standing i'll society. Hence,
you will believe mo when I say that l
have nothing for you this morning.
Sorry, gentlemen, but the truth of the
matter is, Wells, Fargo & Co.'S boxes
are young poor houses III. this road Just
now and you couldn't squeeze n picay-
n put Of one OF them to save your
sweet necks from the gallows.
The following from q calculating ex-
change isR Very forcible way Of putting
the PROBABILITIES and iinprobabilt;esi of
life: Lay your fingers on your pulse and
know TINT every stroke, some, immortal
passes to his Mnker-somc fellow-be
ing crosses the River OF Death, and, il
we think Of it, wo mny well wonder that
1t should be 30 long before out tarn CO.
mes. Halt Of NIL who live, die before II.
Only n person in 10, 900 lives to be 100
years old, and but one in n hundred rea-
ches go. The married live longer. than
the single. There is ono soldier 10 IL
ght persons, and out Of every thousand
born only ninety five weddings take
place, II you tnke q thousand persons
who have reached 10 years there nre OF
clergymen, orators and public speakers,
AZ; farmers, 10; workmen, 80; soldiers,
". lawyers, 20: professors, 81; doctors,
a.
, BY the provisions OF the will Of tho
late LIN Edgington, he gives 10 his wife
the'sum Of S75, 600; to his sister, Mrs.
Martha Huseroff, OF Jefferson county,
Ohio, he dequeaths 5000; to Frank Nc
Cuilouth, Of Ormsby county, Nevada,
$1,000: to Mrs. Eliza Jnnc Hamilton, Of
Ormsby county, 5000: he leaves to his
executors for the payment OF thoss lc-
gacies oil his estate, real and personal,
provided, that il the Yalne thereof boes
not exceed S75, 900, then no disposition
need BIO made Of the same; but his wife
shall have-the WHOLE should anything
remain after. the payment Of his dcpts
n tho aftersnid legRcies, it is to 60 to
his wife. H.'-
II. p. BATES, who was summoned to
Baker City rs o witness in the case OF
Bob Douglns, who killed II. Walker,
at RattlesnRke station OH the Winnie
mucca rond c q year ago, got bark
here last evening, and informs us that
Douglas pleaded guilty Of murder. in
the second degree, and wonld be sem
tenced today. It seems to be the gencr-
oil opinion among the our officers that
tho murderer would be sentenced TO
imprisonment for life.-idaho .ira-
ianehe Oct. 10.
We are informed by 3Ir \ j. Holmes
that tho Northern Belle Company are
preparing for the immediate consiruc-
ton Of q new 20-stamp mill near their
present mill site. l. G. Batemnn GndA.
j.! Holmes have. i'll. contemplation the
construction OF O new mill near Rock
Springs, for the purpose of working tho
ore from the Mt. Potosi mine. The lat
ter mill.is to be supplied with water from
Soda Springs.-Bordr Miner, IG.
1t is with regret, says tho Inyo (CrLi-
fornia) Independent, We hayo 10 an
nounce tho elopement OF Miss Arminda
McSiurry, n daughter Of j. W. AIcMur-
ry, OF Big Pine, with one Harry Burt.
AT last accounts they wcrc on their way
to Carson, having, 1t is reported, stopped
at some point on tho roRd long enough
to get married. The elopement took
place last Saturday evening.
Tho following are tho statistics OF tho
assessment roll Of Lincoln county for
tho year 1875: The assessnblo propcrty
OF Phoebe amounts to $3.50, 092; the MS
sessable property OF tho balance OF the
county is $5i0,4l4, making Il total Of
the taxable property Of 81, 81, l0G. The
total amount Of the Tux on The above il
S53, 941 70.
81. V. Stimson, formerly publisher of
anewspapor in Portland, Miane, Is under
arreSt for fraudulently inducing fifty
personsto invest some S2G, 900 for allie
god colonization purposes ut Mnrshlicld,
Vt. They were ready 10 start when the
Bwindlor was exposed.
The Carson appeal mentions the .nct
that Messrs. Eldridgc md Hanford, tho
prison experts, nre busily engaged in
performing tho work assigned them,
and will not DO able to report for two
or threo weeks.
Tho Manhattan Silver Mining Com
pnny shipped from Austin, through
Wells Fargo & Co., last Monday,
thirty-flyo bars Of bullion, valued nj
$780, 66 92-the production Of ono weeks
run. .
There ia n that Laura Dc
Force Gordon's printing establishment
(of tho Stockton Ltddcr) Is 10 DO ro-
moved to Sacramento for the purpose of
publishing n morning Democratic paper.
On Friday night, at New Haven
Conn.,, Mr.. and Mira. Murrcy, who have
boon married only u fow weeks, were
burned to.denth during tho fro in the
house Of Susan Bradley, at Cheshire.
Tho wife Of Judge senwcll, Of tho
Third judicial District Court, Nevada is
reported seriously I'll with tho prevailing
cpidemic-typhOid fcycr--at Stockton,
California Times.
a farmer IN wnlla Walln vnlloy, in
Territory, raised this year
thousand three bundled bushols of