The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1876-10-08

the command is still Mt this place.
The weather is very cold; hot days
aud severely cold nights. Pool water
has brought OH typhoid fever. Yes
terday there was ono fatal case; many
more are i'll the hospital; over Gftv
per cont. Of the Command arc sick
anu all are ragged and scarcely INV
blankets or Ovcrcoats in the Com
mGnd;. many men are without boots
CT shoes. The medical director made
his official report of their condition
which is certainly most horrible.
Many are suffering from ycrluin; tho
animals are without hay or grain.
nothing hut dry. frost bitten grass
without nonrishment. .....--.-
Smallpox is raging ut Dcadwood
AMI Crook City. Six fatal cases oro
reported to date.
y private telegram has Just boon
received by Adiutant- General Drum
from General Merritt ut Custer CITY
contradictinS II portion of this morn.
ing's dispatch, saying that the COM
mand WIS i'll good condition rs re-
CARDS health. News has also boon
received from Laramie that the worI,
OF fitting out commands nj that point
is progressing rapidly. General
Sheridan ordered n complete Winter
oatiit to be forwarded immediately.
NEW YouK, Oct. g.,
a Iie'mid special from London says
English representatives at CONSTANT
nople are instructed to notify The
Porte that il the latter does not ccccpt
tho conditions OF peace previously
made known, he canno. longer rely
on EnSland'6 friendship, except that
England will prevent Constantinople
from being occupied by Russia.
Charles O'Comnor las issued n
three column appeal to tic Hcpnbli-
can voters not to elect DanfortlI, the
Republican candidate for tie Court
OF Appeals, basing his objections on
| ms rulings and his connection with
the Tweed case.
There seems TO Ire q want of conf
dencc on tho part of Nuw Workers in
the New American Mining Board re-
gently established here. Its meet
in$s are very thinly attended,, and
very little energy is displayed by
those Of thc present Board, which
issues daily official report of tran-
sactions showing that the greater part
of tho business is done after tho close
Of the Regular call. At this morn
ing's session, 100 shares changed
hands ut the following figures:
l0j Cleveland, -.
2GO CrOwn Point, II, II.
| "uJ ENcllcIucr, II.
| LOO Grant, 3i,, ~.
| :sID McniiaaI, ~, iOH.
| lD0 DvrTmHu, 30.
100 sierra Nevada II.
VIRGINIA. CITY. New, Aug. 6.
Last nisht Fanny Kane, womln
Of the town, lighted cigarette ana
! dy"ppcl the match Oh her dress:
hcc clothes BECAME iShitel and sllu
'Yni hnri6iy burned. She fingered
in terrible agony until l. o'clock
last night, when she died.
hIaynr Kanern has begun to nm
| earth frauds in tho municipal de-
par:m"nta, AMI finds mon on tho
rolls WHO hare been drawing double
"Iiar!cs for the last year.
lH:To, Oct. 6.
4 fire occurred hero ah0ut three
o'clock this morning, in The rear OF
! Gratis bakery. The tira department
WAS promptly on !Iaud, and the en-
%imea did cool work. AZ one tiinn
the town was threatened, Int tho
flames were finally confined to linz
tied space. Tic fire destroyed CRAFTS
| building and the stocks and stores OG
| T.. Il. Marshall nlso the stocks Of y.
Prescott, ID. 4. ljontlnr Il Co.. Chcl-
witch IL Co.. ". Bcrgman's drug
store, G.. w. Cunningham. l.. NJ.
! Jamison, j. Prescott, Manning n
| DuuI;, aud J. J.. Cuokc.
The baker employed in CRAFTS
bakery WAS burned 10 death.
san FEAXCi"G0, Oct. q.
Gold. iOjj, and lO9It.
Currency, 9iiI and ~.
IT is reported by profcsscd insidrrR
that u joint stock company il being;
formed t" purchase tho daily H,miI,
the now Democratic paper here. nftcr
| tl:C Presidential election, and enlarge
il, with Muuton Marble Of tho New
York IEOrii, EH chief editor.
AupTH, NoY. Oct. 6.
The Manhattan Company shipped
| to-day, fourteen bars of huili0n, val
und at &lJ,16S; total for tho week,
$2i ,5GS.
YuEEN, Cal. Oct. &.
\ young man named John Jordan
was shot aud killed this morning in
his cabin nrnr Lafayette Mills, Scott
! Valley. Two young men who mro
ansprctcd, have left, crossing tho
! ridge towards Klamath river, evident
| Is intcnlimH 10 geo into Oregon The
cauec Of tho shooting il supposed 10
hc in revenge Of nn old grudGc.
FurL"wiHu IL II li,t 81 stocks called