The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-06-22
ELASlIEh.
Indians play baseball in Belmont.
Alta has levied an assessment of 81.
Carson has Chinese lottery swindle.


Alta has levied an assessment Of 81.
Carson has Chinese lottery swindle.
Judge Leonard will deliver the oration
ut winnemucca on the Fourth.
Transaction, in mining stocks in New
York are largely on the increase.
Parties are being made mp in Virginia
to visit Yosemite and othor places Of
resort.
Cinnamon in Virginia are adding their
mite to defray tho expenses of a grand
Fourth.
To Edwin Booth-Accept my con-
gratulRtions. know how it is myself.
The Gear.
The spinners at Fall River gave ten
days notice yesterday Of their intention
to quit work.
The Jennettc. Bennctt's yacht, will
be ready to sail on its Arctic expe Jition
in q few days.
Senator Thurman is pronounced tho
most accomplished scholar in the Unit
ed States Senate.
The wrestling match at Utica, New
York, between Miller aud Mclaughlin
for s. 200. was won by Miller.
The Illinois Legislature has nppro-
printed $4,000 to erect a monument to
Stephen A. Douglas, of Chicago.
A. l.. Bancroft & Co.. of San Fran
cisco, have secured the choicest por-
tion Of the bankrupt stock OF A. Roman
& Co.
A homestead application for land sit
uated in Elko county was filed in Land
Office ut Eureka Saturday by Benjamin
Armstrong.
No person can work in the Sutro Tun-
mel unless he be n member in good
standing of either the Mechanics or
Miners Unions.
The injunction to restrain the publ
cation of the " History of the Donner
Party :" was not granted by Judge Dem
son, of Sacramento.
Advices from Vermont and New
Hampshire show heavy frost on the
night of the 7th instant, with much
damage to the crops.
The will OF William Lloyd Garrison
gives $500 to each OF his grandchildren,
and bequeaths the remainder of his
property to his five children, to be
equally divided.
We should like to kiss the sweet little
creature who said that fire-fiies were
made to ''yite 70 title froggies to bed"
If she is seventeen years old bring her
along all the same.
A jury in Chicago on Friday found
William Carey guilty of the murder Of
Max. Hegwein, his brother.in.law, and
fixed the punishment ut fourteen years
in the penetentiary.
Policeman Nangent Of Now York, IT,
officer arrested on n charge of compli-
city in the Manhattan Savings Bank,
has been committed to the TOomJs in
default of $50, 900 bail.
Mrs. Matthew g. Perry, widow OF
Commodore Perry, Of tho Japan treaty
fame, and mother of Mrs. August Bel.
mont, died Saturday afternoon at her
daughters rosidence,in Newport, Rhode
Island.
Nellie Cummings, who was with Por.
ter, nni whose defense cost him his lite,
is seriously i'll from the nervous shock
caused 10y the nfTrny. She is also in
destitute circumstances at hotel in
Philadelphia.
a Mr.. Kipp left bundle in Ling's
Chinese laundry at New York Saturday
to be washed. Tho bundle contained
dead rats. Justice Walsh fined Kipp
Sl5,saying that Chinamau is not 10 be
made the butt for every fool to Oim his
wit mt.
A fire in the stables at Pittsburg oc.
cupied by the flyers, Saturday. started
so quickly and spread SO generally that
ii was with difficulty that tho strings Of
Mace and others were removed. Davio.
with record Of 1888, was burned TO
death.
TnE Secretary Of the DcFrqes Min.
ing Company, Of Tuscarora, is just now
under II moral cloud. A San francisco
dispatch Of the 1i;h. says:
Thos. +. Atkinson was arrested this
7. NJ, on the charges Of cmbczzloment.
Atkinson is Secretary Of the DoFrces
Mining Company. and Is charged with
having otnbozzlcd Si,229 80, OF the
funds Of said Company. Another com.
plant charges him with having cmoez.
zlcd SI02 rs, aud third with having
embczzlcd 81. 900. Atkinson gave bail
in tho sum OF $4,000 OH each charge.
with j. Morgan and L. W. Chrisuansen
as sureties.