The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1876-07-16


hend any danger to tho expedition.
Crooks location is not over seventy
miles from the scene OF General Cns-
tar's massacre.
-. ClScISNATI, July IL.
Robt. W. Barnes has donated his
magnificent place, opposite the City
Park, TO the Childrcn's itonid. The
property is 125 by SO feet; in the hcnrt
OF the city, and is very valuable. The
conveyance is unconditional.
49,. New T6iss, July II.
Dispatches from Constantinople am-
nounce that the Turks havo captured
the town OF Stihler. General Tcher-
noff is reported surrounded by Turkish
forccs from Siepha and Middin, and his
defeat is considered certain.
A special from Fort Lincoln, Dakota.
dnted July 9th, says the bodies of Gus.
tar and his comrades arc buried OH the
field .Gt Little Big Horn, and it is i'm
possible to recover them at present.
There were fourteen officers, five citi-
zens, two doctors and two hundred and
sixty soldiers killed. Thirty of Reno's
wounded have arrived at Lincoln. 1t
!s stated that General Terry did not cy-
peet Custar to attack the Indinns until
he (Terry) should reach tho Little
Horn, nnd gain n position from which
he could support him. Custar attacked
forty-eight hours in advance of tho time
at which Terry was. to reach that point.
When Chstar came in 'sight OF the l 500
lodges-a village Of upwards of 5000
Ihdinus-ho swung lis hat and said
''hurrah! Custar has struck the big
gest Indinn village on tho American
continent" Hating only for coffee,
lie pushed forward at rapid gait; took
five companies for his personal com
lhand; gave Reno three, and left four
in reserve, under Colonel Benton, and
sailed in. The special expresses the
belief that tho result would have been
the same Ind Custnr charged with his
whole regiment; only the massacre
would have been more terrible.
Jatiies O'Conncr and Henry NTcCar-
thy, foremen on tile steamer Columbia.
engaged i'll drunken fight to-day, and
i'll the struggle both rolled Off tho vessel,
O'Conncr striking on the wharf and
fracturing his skull, while Mccarthy
went into The river and was drowned.
WSsnrSuroS, july Il.
Post Master General Jewell has ten-
dered his resignation to take effect im
modiatcly. The cause assigned is that
nc desires to give his attention to pri-
yate business. The Office will bo given
to some prominent western mnn.
General jewell states unreserveilIy
that ho paid MI official visit to the Pres
idGnt yesterday, mid during brief con-
versatlon the President intimated that
ho would like to have his [Jcwcll's]
resignation. Tie at once retired 10 the
Post-oiiice and placed his resignation
in the hands Of the President Into yes
tcrdny afternoon, and il was accented
nj once.
a special from Loudon says tho
American steamship Georgia, from New
York TO San Francisco, is ashore in the
Straits Of Magellan, n total wreck. Tho
cargo chn be saved.
CoLUMhUs, Ohio, July IL.
The Central Ohio Injunction suit
brought by the Western Union Tcle-
graph Company to deprive the Atlantic
and Pacific Telegraph Company OF the
right OF way between Bcllniro and Col.
umbns, was, this morning. decided III
favor OF the latter.
BELGRADE, July II.
Official dispatches received here to.
day state that n great battle has taken
place between DrigoTatz and wiltni, in
which tho Turkish forces were totally
defeated, with heavy loss.
NIESNA, July II,
II is reported hero that the Montcnc.
gran forces have attacked and takom the
town pf Go,schnkoH.
San FnASCIsco, July IT..
The old Grant 1nvincihlcs rc.orran.
lied last night ms the Hayes Invin-
ciblcs.
Charges have been mndo lately In the
papers that Scdgwick, Collector Of Ill
tcrnnl Reychuo, had wilfully Ont leaves
out OF tho books Ito iad seized from
firms engaged in tho crooked whisky
busincssi that wcro in his possession.
In nm interview Scdgwick dciics the
impeachment, md says lie lns not pos
session OF the books, nor docs lie klioN
whofc they nro.
Tho United States Grand Jury hns
been impanclcd, and Judge Sawyer In
his charge directed them 10 pay cspo-
ciNl attention 10 tho alleged crooked
whisky operations. ..
Inst night about 12 o'clock Thomas
Tafrc, John Donno and William Moore,
thrco members OF tho notofious Beer
Can Brigade got into nn alteration
With gang OF hoodlums OH Dupont
street, during which nll thrcO we're cut
with knives; neither will die, however,
/" II. Lnndins, n journcymnn jowclcr,
blow ont hia brains at . lodging house
on Minna street Inst night. lIo stood