The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1876-07-02
ments.. 1t is further said there will bo
no minority report


ments.. It is further said there will be
no minority report
SAN FRAScIsco, Juno 90.
Preparations for a twu days colebra.
tioi, irc being carried oil enthusiast
icnlly. and the festivities will be mucl,
better than anything heretofore seen
on the const. Every local organization
will be represented In the procession
on the Fourth. Among tho many fca-
lures, Father Nerri. OF st, Iguatius
College, on Market Street, who will
give one SO unique In its details, az 70
be specially noticeable How'll erect
a platform on 4she> night OF tho SRI,
In ftets SoE sthd flSeh, and exhibit
several illuminations by electricity, Of
emblems appropriate to the occasion,
nud will mike IL hundred electrical dis.
charges, equnlling the reports Of the
heaviest artillery. Electricity will DO
developed by two largc Bunsen batter
les, Of sixty jnrs Gnch, worked by
four horse power engine: This will
be the heaviest electric forco ever de-.
veloped on the c"nst, mud probably in
the United States. 'y9&
Tho Republican County Committee
met last night TO tnke steps to organize
Ward Clubs, but beyond recommending
Republicans to form clubs In the sever
al Districts, there was nothing done.
The Baptist Church, presided over
hy Rev. j. S. Knllock, is huilding a
church on Fifth near Market street
which will cost 100000. 50" ~
ID. ". c. Thompson, lato Chashicr
of the Trust Company, has been sued
by tho Trustees Of the bank, for $50, 600
which, il is alleged, he appropriated
from funds Of tho bank for his own
use. His bondsmen, twenty in number,
are nlso sued, mud asked to pay q
thousand each, because of damages
sustained by the company from the nj
legged shortcomings Of Thompson.
The new branch post-offices will DO
established Immediately, and will bo
designated rs Polk, Mission, md
Market street stations, md will be To-
Gated, one at Sixth md Market streets,
another at the corner Of Polk and Pine,
and tho third Mt the junction Of Mission
and Twentieth streets. t.t.
Chas. II. Barth, clerk in The Quar-
ter.mnster's Dept, who dcfnulted some
months ago, for nearly 500, 900, was
arrested, md Il few hours after. escnp-
ed, He was clerk for Captain Martin,
Chief of the Transportation Depart
lnent. and that gentleman, with Col
onel Eddy, then in charge of the Quar-
ter-master Dept, asked General Scho-
field for o court OF inquiry, in order to
show their innocence Of any completely
in tho frauds. This court, which con.
sisted Of three officers of high rnnk,
have been in session SO days and con
ciuded its labors on Monday, having
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| their counsel. md adjourned for fow
DAYS. whom IL viii nToLably render its
decision, witt, closed SIt,orS, ,,-,,tt4, li;5.
George T.. Mcguire, Of The firm OF
Child & Mcguire, stock brokers, was
| arrested Yesterday, on n chnrpe OF ON.
bozzlement preferred by Thomas Dcx-
ter. The latter asserts that on March
goth he leposited $4,000 in currency
with Mcguire, for safe-keepinp, and In
3 days afterwards, he drew $500, but
Notwithstanding that he has made 70.
pented demands for tho remaining
g., 900, he has been unable to get Il.
Angelo Boytann, mn italian delivered
himself mp at tho police Office, yester-
day, M the slayer Of John Baptist
Larorne, on Sunday last, in vegetable
garden. Ho is charged with mnn.
| olhuRuicIs
Ono Of the most ntrocions attempts
to commit murder, known in tho police
annals Of this city, was made yesterday
morning, on the person Of Mrs.. Maggie
McQuillian, who keeps q lodging house
ut 228 Post street. Mrs. McQuillinn
hired chrisiinized ChinamRn to do
housework, and soon niter, began to
miss articles Of more or less vnluo from
the house. She did not suspect tho
Christian Mongolinn Notwithstanding