The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1878-09-15

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JANIS PAIKs. a clerk in a Virginia
City drug store. suiciiei by taking
prnssic acid. on Sunday.
VrHorSIA CRY has just raised and
forwarded to the suffering South. the
mupihcien, sun of $1,000.
MALIH, the nbsconding book.keeper
OF DreIi.r i Co., has bs-n L,oash,
back from Philadelphia { Virginia
City.
AT Madison. Connecticut. Rev. d. IL
Hayden was arrested upon the charge
of numbering Mary L. S;annard ot
Rockland.
MARE W. NUsGaovE, the champion
newspaper proprietor Of the United
States, has arrived ia Eureka direct
FROM Bodie.
VIZ are pleased to learn through the
TINe'-Rerier hat cur old acquaintance
Sam Heintzelman. has made u profitable
sale of ON mining property III Para
disc Valley.
RoBEEr MESoMs, was killed in Vir-
ginia City, Monday, by falling Al
hundred feet down the C. & G.. shaft.
The body was tearfully mausled; one
foot being completely torn oil.
THERE are EaDy never failing signs
OF a cold Winter. bat the surest a;su is
a Mormon Bishop. who always lays in
a barrel of whiskey ard Il new concu-
hine. Look cut for a terrible cold
Winter. Drethreu.-TriJUae.
Now is the time for the girls to pick
out .heir husbands. Invite all the
beaux in to put up the stoves. and the
one who can put all the pipe joints to-
gether without Swearing in sixteen
tongues, is the fellow to tie to for life.
A SALT LAKE dispatch Of the Sth says:
The Salmon River aud Idaho stage
was captured by Indians yesterday eve
ming, near Birch Creek station. The
mail and everything else were burned.
Tho driver made his escape and reached
Sanihole station, near Snake river, this
morning.
j. I. ENgIoHT was killed by James
Harrington, at Bodic. u few days ago,
and now comes an accoun. Of the stab.
bling 20 death Of John Lewis by one
Con Casey, at the same place. The
men clinche3, directly after which Lewis
fell. with eleven ghastly wounds ia his
side, breast aul abdomen, AMI imme.
diately expired.
The new steamship State OF Califorr.
in, the sister ship Of the vessel sold to
the Russians a few months since, will
be launched at Philadelphia the 10Th
OF October, and will be in her berth
ready for freight about November 10th
and will probably sail in about thirty
days thereafter. She will sail for Port,
iand, Oregon, stopping at Rio JsueirO
and Valparaiso.
A. w. SHAW, late telegraph operator
at Tuscarora, appears to have been
afflicted with that breadth! mulBdy so
prevalent among the operating fratern
ity. After adroitly deSiliug the wires,
the sorely afflicted young man pleasantly
skipped out on Il hired horse. having
failed to leave his future address with
those who hold him in deur remem.
branco.
The Waid Refer Of the seventh says:
"B. G.. Bell, better known as Doc.
Bell, was taken sick Thursday morning
at 10 o'clock and died Mt 0 o'clock the
following morning. Mr.. Bell was en-
gagged in the bushes OF delivering wa.
ter To the people Of Ward aud went to
work as usual Thursday morning, feel,
ing II little unwell, but was forced to 90
bed hy ~ o'clock, from that time he
gradually grew worse. Doc. Bell was
u native OF Arkansas. and came TO the
Pacific Coast at the age Of fifteen"
AK Infatuated COW created considera.
Die CONSERVATION in the Delta Saloon,
Virginia City, Sunday evening, 10y rush.
ing in and believing over the bar.
With the exception OF the m~ixologisi
who was barricaded behind his bottles,
those in the bar.room rushed OH,
through the back windows. md seeing
no one TO ISLAND feminist" her. the cx.
cited bovine rushed u i'll pursuit OF
the dogs that had been worrying her
aud vanished up the street. The only
damage reported Is to II pair Of over
strained pants upon the personnel au
anxious fleer.
The Steer STATE is Informed by Thos.
Nnyta that two men wboDe NAME lie
soaid not learn. had n dispute about a
horse in PARADISE Valley last Saturday.
From words they got to blows. and one
Of them, au oldish man, bad II Of his
eyes torn from its socket in the nffrny.
Some doubts were entertained Of The
old mans recovery when SIC. Wayte
left the valley yesterday.
Newton Evans. OF EvSns Brother
large cattle Il in Clover Valley.
informs US that tile firm intends to drive
5000 head Of beef cattle 10 CaliforDiA
this Fall, IL they cannot dispose Of
them at tho ranch.
A PsDDteR accustomed TO making
periodical rounds through Clarion