The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1875-10-02
ElKO INDEPENDENT.
sATURnAT, OCTOBER =. 1873.


organized by the election Of William
Sharon as President; Bank Of CnlifOrn.
In, Treasurer; Ruben II, Lloyd, Sec.
Rotary; Executive Committee-James II.
hecne, Charles Msyne. Il. F. Marrow,
ID. 0. Mills and Il. Il. Lloyd.
Alr. Sharon made q speech, stating
that the affairs Of the bank were in u
very favorable condition. and that
everything would come out all right, to
which end he reiterated his pledge OF
using his private fortune il needed.
An assessment Of twenty per cent,
was levied ON the subscription to the
guarantee fund. amounting in round
numbers to 81 500, 900. This, with the
coin now on hnnd, will give between
S2,OOo.0U and 5000. wv to open with,
TIE Bank will reopen either Satur-
day. October 2, or early the following
week.
A meeting Of the Board Of Directors
will be held next Monday or Tuesday,
when the date Of resumption will prob
nbly be fixed.
Entire harmony prevailed ut the
meeting. md q determination was
evinced TO push matters to u successful
termination.
In the Municipal Court this morning
John Miller, alias Woodruff, was ar
rnigned on four different indictments
for embezzlement. The first indict-
Inept charges him with the embezzle-
Inent Ut $4,000. the property of the
Southern Pacific Railroad, i'll July last.
The second, with having embezzled
$1,000, in February last, the money Of
the Western Development Company.
The third with the further emLezzie-
lnent Of 5000, the following month,
the property OF the same Company.
The fourth indictment charges him with
~defrnuding the Contract and Finance
Company Of SIC, 1000. On motion Of
his counsel. y. Greene Curtis, who
stated that he required q few days to
look over papers, the prisoner was
granted until the 25th instant to plead
to the four indictments, AMI was re-
ulanded to the City Prison.
Rhe action OF the Bank Syndicate
has caused the utmost good feeling i'll
the city this afternoon, and among
brokers was the prevailing topic OF
conversation. II is probable that n
meeting Of the San Francisco Stock
Exchange will be called emily next
week, and n ~rsolution udoptcd to re-
7eAhS q IA III h1Hl slbIllllN IOl-
lowing the opening of the bunk.
LAST Thursday an Indian, known us
"Indian Dick" got into a quarrel with
IN Indian boy out in Pine Nut Valley,
and from worils they came TO blows,
whom Dick pulled ont his pistol and
shot the boy; after which he he'd. The
10y WIS taken 10 Carson Immediately
and subjected to medical treatment,
hut died Thursday evening. The faith
rr Of the boy wns much affected ut the
death Of the lad, and swore Sengence
upon the slayer. lie Immediately
jumped aboard the train for Steamboat,
whittier the slayer hud gone. He found
him Friday morning. AS soon as Dick
to run away, but the old man was moi
going to lose his revenge. and, aiming
ut the retrenting man with IL Spring,
field rife, shot him through the heart,
he ball entering on onc side under the
arm md passing clear through, coming
out ut the other. Dick fell over aud
died without Is groan. The old mnn
then jumped aboard the train for Reno,
Where he was arrested and lodged in
jnil.-AFpedi.
MONSTER SrEER.-We learn that @
gentleman named George Miller has JUS
arrived at Ashland, Oregon, from Los
River, Klamath Lake SECTION, with the
lnrgest steer ever exhibited, which ns
tOnishes the people of Ashland, as il
viii NIL others who zee the animal. Ht
calls him tho "Lost River Ranger" II
nineteen hands high, twenty feet from
tin In NtN mil IL "a 1.,1nEn1 A. ::
when fut. 5000 pounds. Mr.. Miller II
tn his way to the State Fair Mt Salem,
Oregon, md will stop 1T Ashland n few
days to give the animal rest, as his fee
nre quite sore in making the trip from
Lost River. He is certainly the lnrges
animal ever witnessed next TO the Gle
plant. Mr.. Miller also intends takin.
him to California this winter, where h,
will fattcn him and take him to the Cen
tenninl.- fe-kd Sentinel, !S1i, 10.
MISS CATHERINE PErrIs filed n com
plnint in the Fifteenth District Court
in Sun Francisco, OH Wednesday, ngains
Andrew McHenry for $40, 600 for q lcga
brGIch Of promise. She ayers that sh,
arrived in this Stute u short time ngt
from Missouri, mud is ~ yenrs old. SI,,
became engaged to McIIcnry, who keep,
o saloon o. Mission street, near Eighth
and under the PROMISE Of marriage, no
il iS claimed, BCduced her. IL. now dc.
rlines to fulfill his contract, and sh,
therefore asks judgment for $iO, 900.
<TuE bakersfield, Cul., Courier sny,
that q fatal disease has broken ~,
iLIOng the lnrc in that part of the val
Icy, and Thousands Of them are lyint
dead all over the country. Farmers IN
these parts would be pleased to have /
brenk out with like ~fntality in this coun
ty.~s'Thc Hnine journal says that nnte.
l0po nro still plentiful anil ensy TO get a
when you hive no gun along.
IT is reported that tho citizens O.
Chico and vicinity having failed in 70
lIcited efforts to remove the county sen
Of Butte from OroYillo to Chico, vii
mako an effort In tho next Lcgislalur,
TO. haro q new county formed out Of tn,
,itorthorn portion Of Butte, to DO called
Chico county, to comprise nll tho terri
tory north Of Dry Creek.
L. p. WINrERMUrE, who killed Gen.
erll Il. s. McCuok, md who was nc.
quilted by n jury Mt Ycrmilion, DnkoIu
Territory, on his return to YanktUn.
Dakota Territory. nftcr his release, was
threatened with lynching by u noisy
crowd, md was forced TO tnke refuge In
tho laundry Of his hotel, where he was
guarded oil night by policemen.
COLONEL Won ScHMtDr has been nj
Vallejo, Cnl., for %scvcrni days past on.
gagged In rigging the schooner W. T..
Marcy, which ho recently purchased nj
auction for $7,OUO. The Colonel avs