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The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-01-12
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la&Yeaitnf:-The Organization Of tAs
Hon. senate and Asssnbly Of Nevada.
IL we'll nigh completed. Lieutenant
Governor Adams. called the Senate TO
order At IL n. According to the decis-
ion VI the majority caucus yesterday. IA
full list Of attaches Was elected. They
are as follows: W. r.: King. Of Lyon.
President pro tem.; Geo. j.. Lainmon.
Secretary; L. S. Davenport. Assistant
Secretary; G. G. Wallace. (Charley Wal.
lace of Eurekal Sergeant at Arms;
James Morris, Assistant S~argeant-at-
Arms; Z. II. Reese. Minute Clerk; n.
w. Rolf, Journal Clerk; Z. Ii. PiIley,
(''Beam'' formerly OF Elko) Enrolling
Clerk; A. L. Arnold, E~ngrossing Clerk.
etc.
In the Assembly. called to order by
the Secretary of STATE. AS previously de-
termined in patty caucus. H. A. CASTOR
Of Storey, was chosen Speaker by &C
clamntion. and U. Z. Allen Speaker pro
tenn, in the same Joe. Wood
worth had no opponent for Chief Clerk
Tom. Tennant was elected Engrossing
Clerk. and Geo. n. Rogers, Minute
Clerk.
The Republican Senate having a
Democrat, Jewett Adams. presiding.
have changed the old standing rule aud
will appoint their committees by vote in
open Senate. The plan is this: the
Republicans meet tonight IN caucus
and appoint n sub committee to report
to them the names of MI committee men;
the caucus decide upon their report and
their choice is confirmed by n majority
vote Of the Senate. As to who will be
Chairman or members Of the important
committees l can get no intimatioh. 1
believe the whole matter is undetermin-
ed. After the caucus tonight, too late
for the mail, everything will DO known.
The Speaker of the Assembly had not
his list prepared in anticipation of his
election. lie viii nnvun the CON-
mittees of the House to morrow.
Storey County insisted on their man
for Speaker aud having fourteen solid
votes, they carried their point.
Iregret to have TO chronicle the. seri-
u illness Of our esteemed friend Gov.
Bradley. He was in remarkable health
yesterday, and went to bed after eating
a hearty supper. This morning he is
i'll Of pneumonia. His physician thinks
that he will recovor and be all right in
a few days. The universal wish of the
good people Of Nevada is that it may
DO 30. Yours,
CRUMD PICKER,
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-01-12
LIS.

BY Stone-To build . railroad from
Elko to Tuscarora.
Cassdy-Authorizing District Judges
TO appoint Court Commissioners. lte-
ferred TO the Judiciary Committee.
PowninS-Auihorizing Reno Board
Of School Trustees to issue bonds for
certain school purposes. Referred to
wAshoe delegation.
BoGfdmGn-An Act to amend an Act
". secure leins to mechanics. Referred
70 the Judiciary Committee.
sEcOSD READING.
Senate Bill No. 2-To reduce the
aud referred to Committee Oh Ways and
Means
At Il N. Senate adjourned.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-01-12
Tho sta,e,s Money vauIt.

A correspondent Of tho Eureka S'nii-
mel writing from Carson thus alludcs to
tho money in the State Treasury: Jerry
Schooling Is counting the money in the
Treasury, aud getting rendy to turn over
his Office to his successor, AFR. Crockett.
II will take two men four days to
to count the silver. The gold, princi.
pAlly twenty.dollnr pieces, in the vault.
stands In stacks Of $1,000 each. The
counting of this will be an easier job.
Tho whole mass of gold measures about
two foetin width, two feet in hight aud
sixteen inches in depth-a healthy dab
for the incoming State government.
Tho silver is stored in bottom Of the
vault, in 100 sacks Of $1,000 each.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-01-12

Judge James b. Mexican formerly OF
The United States Court Of Salt Lake
City, died at that place on Jan. 9th,
after a brief illness OF typhoid fever.
He was n native OF Now York State.
aud was q member Of Congress from
therc during the war. and also served
In tho army for q time after his term in
Congress. He was Chief Justice OF the
Territory of Utah from 1870 TO 1876,
and was noted for the firm stand he
took against the Mormcns.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-01-12

We wish 10 urge upon tho Nevada
Fish Commissioners the propricty of
placing a portion Of that 20C, 900 Young
salmon wLich no has in his possession,
in the Humboldt. The presumption is
that it is his intention tn 10 so. but as
several papers have stated that is was
the intention to put them in tho True.
kec and Walker rivers, We would like
TO have the commissioner inform the
public authoiitatiVely what no does in.
tend TO do with the fsh.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-01-12
Ercight- md rnrcs I'LL.

Senator Cassidy has introduced a
concurrent resolution demanding that
Senators Jones and Sharon DO instruct.
ed to vote for the bill pending in tho
United States Senate TO prevent dis.
elimination in froights aud fares, which
was adopted unanimously, and there is
no doubt but that II will DO adopted
in a similar manner in the Assembly.
Thus instructed our Senators will Of
course vote in favor Of the passage Of
tho bill, aud as the eastern merchants
are also petitioning for the success OF
tho measure, IL seems that there Is a
good prospect Of it's becoming q law.
But IL Is best not TO DO too confident
about IL because there Is no telling
what the power Of the railroad influence
in Washington may accomplish.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-01-12

The Western Electric Light Com.
pnny has been incorporated ia San
Francisco with n capital Of $4,000, 900,
with Mr. s. Latham, J. ". Coleman
and six others as directors. Tho price
Of gas stock has been falling for several
months in anticipation Of this Electric
Light business.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-01-12

Ir is snid that Jnstico Hunt Of the
Supreme Court who was stricken with
paralysis n fow days ago, will never DO
able to resume his seat on tho bench
oven II the present attack should not
prove fatal, and that either Attorney
General Devcns or Stanley Matthews
will be appointed IN his place.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-01-12

Tng Legislature Of Arizona mot last
Monday. The Council stands five Re.
publicans md four Democrats; the
House ten Democrats and eight Re-.
publicaDs, giving the Democrats a ina.
jority Of one on joint ballot.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-01-12

MARTIg TBFFASY and j. J. Walsh
wero ~iDolantly killed 10y an explosion OF
giant powder In the Do Frees mino at
Tuscarora on January 9Th.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-01-12

TINS Salt Lake TrDuns talks OF pub.
fishing tho names Of every polygamist
in Utah. It ough. to give tho number
OF wives zach one has also.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-01-12

IT is said that u thought which has
been p%ormoating the common mind Of
England for years, aud which IL cI-
pressed more plainly in times Of dis.
iress. Is that the revenue Of tho estab.
lished church might DO better employ
cd in relieving want. The d~isestablish-
mcnt Of the Irish church set the poo
pie n thinking, aud Englnnd's states.
men may ind themselves confronted
with n problem which like charity be.
Gins ut home.-SaH Lake TtiJuat.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-01-12

Tax Carson correspondent Of the
Eureka Sentinel says there are many
members Of the Legislature who are in
favor Of obtaining n pledge from sena.
tor Jones in favor OF the frcights and
fares bill now before the United States
Senate before voting for his reelection.
II Is to DO hoped Tint no will be reqnir.
ed to pledge himself OH that question,
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-01-12

TnE counsel OF Troy Dye tho sacra.
monto Public Administrator indicted
for tho murder Of a. W. Tullis, admit
his guilt but plead that ho Is Of wcak
mind aud VIA Influenced by Lawton
the man who escaped.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-01-12

Tx consequence OF q snit for libOl
brought by one baking powder com.
pNny against another in New York, it
has been discovered that burn. alum is
largely used Ia that article instead OF
bicarbonatc Of soda and cream OF tartar,
which nro more expensive than tho
burnt alum. Now physicians say that
burnt alum taken continuously even In
small quantities is very poisonous.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-01-12

SuDsonrpiioi $ to the four per cent.lcau
on January ahh amounted to sIi,O93..
$50.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-01-12

TnEEn is skating in Atlanta, Georgia,
for tho fret time iu twenty years.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-01-12
HOLIDAY GOODS

IAMES BRAIN & CO.,
Have ius, r c.iv'd E nc~ nnd complete stock o:
goods. uhicE they viii s,l St
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-01-12

by Powning-To incorporate Reno.
To create the Office OF State Printer; TO
amend Section llS Of tho Practice Act
(Relating TO tho law Of libclj.
C~assidy-To regulate the business OF
stock brokers in this State.
Stewnrl-To establish n R%eformatory
School.
Cfoswell-Rclaiing to elections. State
Board Of Equalization.
Blhr-ro prevent live stock from
tre.passing upon meadow lands.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-08-08
A Lager Beer Decision.

1t is seldom that the legal opinions OF
the justices of the peace are considered
worth quoting, but circumstances alter
cases, and especially liquor cases, and
particularly when the justice takes ad-
vice. Brattleboro has such a case and
Justice Newton, after consulting able
legal authority, has given his decision
in the liquor suits against Webber and
Hasson for selling lager beer to Michael
Kelly in June last. Kelly, at his trial
for assault upon George Colt, testified
that he bought lager beer at the two
shops above mentioned. Weber and
Hasson swore the liquor sold was tonic
beer. 1t appears that it makes no dit
ference what the liquor is called if only
the fact of intoxication is proved, and
the testimony of the man who purchased
the liquor will hold, even though con-
tradicted by the testimony of the seller.
Weber was fined $50 and costs, and
Hasson $40. Both parties have appeal
ed to county court.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-08-08
Yellow Fever.

The yellow fever at the south has
thus far been almost entirely confined
to the city of Memphis, with an isolated
case here and there through the large
cities. Up to Sunday night there had
been ia deaths, all but a dozen or so
being at Memphis. That city's popula-
ton has been reduced more than three
fourths, by emigration and removal to
camps few miles out. The colored
population occasioned considerable
trouble by its refusal to remove to a
camp provided for it, insisting on re-
naming in the city and receiving the
free rations supplied at the expense of
the United States Government. The
refrigerator ship which was to disinfect
all ships from fever ports, and on which
many thousands of dollars were ex-
pended, has been given up as failure,
because it cannot cover the field. The
common sense theory of this years orr
gin of the fever at Memphis, the theory
which is generally accepted at Mem
phis, is the unwillingness of people to
destroy the bedding on which last
years victims lay or died. Wooden
blankets, it is said, will retain the fever
germs despite the most careful disin-
lection, and they should be burned.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-08-08
How Sherman Didn't Gain in New
England.
rFrom Templeton's Boston letter.

have for several years looked upon
Secretary Sherman as, all things con-
sidered. the ablest practical statesman
in America. His success as secretary
of the treasury has, therefore, been no
surprise to me. l have confidence that
he would make a very able president as
we'll, and perhaps would bring that
office back to the statesmanlike position
that the fathers meant it should occupy.
But, with all his talent, Secretary Sher-
man has not made the impression upon
the people produced by other men who
are his interiors, and, though he has
naturally been much talked about on
his New England journey, l see no
proof that he has added essentially to
his list of personal adherents. AS a
politician his tactics have been faulty.
He is avowedly a candidate for the
presidency. If he puts his claims for
support upon his career in connection
with finances they would rest upon i'm
pregnable ground. But, after he has
fully calculated and elaborated what
he has done in this direction, he tells
his audiences that, important as this
may be, it is transcribed in moment by
the needs of fighting again the sectional
question. Of course all this is to get
capital away from Grant and from Con-
king and Blaine. The sagacious ad-
vice of one who deems himself prac-
teal politician, to a public man the
other day was "Don't let the stall
warts get ahead of you'll" Mr.. Sherman
has acted upon this, but he has over
reached the mark. When he has
proved that the sectional issue is the
one of overshadowing Importance, he
has to contend with the logical out
come in the minds of his hearers, that
if this be the fact, Mr.. Sherman is not
the best man to deal with it. Either
Grant or Blaine has better hold on
them, if this is the work to be done. So,
politically speaking, Secretary Sher-
man has given his case away. do not
think he has more strength as a candi-
date for the presidency than he had
when he came here--perhaps not SO
much. The conservative republicans
are all inclined to favor Mr.. Hayes
again, and there is nothing in Mr.. Sher-
mans speeches to. draw a man away
from the president. They hope that
Mr.. Sherman does not mean all that he
says-and this is probably the fact; but
Mr.. Hayes, being not in the business of
electiOneering for the presidency, has
the manifest advantage of not making
this kind of mistakes. He is gaining
here every day. The article on his ad-
ministration in the Atlantic by Walter
Allen of the Advertiser, is an admira-
BILE vindication of it, and except one or
two points is a conclusive one.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-08-08
Soldiers Reunion.

The next reunion of the veteran SOL
diers of Vermont will be held on the
Prospect Park Grounds, at Montpelier,
on the Goth, 2lst and 22d days of Au-
gust, 1879, and the camp will be desig-
mated as Camp Redfield Proctor. The
officers, as chosen in Bennington in 1877,
are as follows: Gen. William Wells,
commander; Col. P. P. Pitkin, vice
commander; Col. Roswell Farnham,
vice commander. Executive committee
Col. P. P. Pitkin, Montpelier Capt.
John w. Clark, Montpelier; Adj. j.
Monroe Poland, Montpelier.
Gen. W. w. Grout of Barton, is dis
trict commander for Orleans county,
Adjutant A. L. Belknap of st. Johns
bury, for Caledonia county, and Capt.
q. M. Mansur of Island Pond, for Essex
county, and they are expected to APP
point recruiting officers in the several
towns of their district. 1t is requested
that all veterans having badges to dis
tinguish their war organizations should
wear them. On arriving at Montpelier
the veterans will be assigned to their
respective original regiments in the
field, and in this way every veteran
win meet all Of his old comrades who
are present. The Passumpsic and
Wells River roads carry for fare one
waV.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-08-08
Bold Burglary in Rutland.

Between the hours of IL and l o'clock
Thursday morning, a thief entered the
sleeping apartment of Mr.. Gideon
Fem, in Rutland, and robbed him of
5000 in money. The old gentleman
was sleeping in rear apartment, in
which was window opening toward
the north. When the robbery was dis
covered, this window was up and the
empty pocket-book lay on the sill,
while three silver dollars were on the
floor of the room. The servant girl,
who gave the alarm, says that she was
aroused by some one coming into her
room and passing his hand over her
face. She could not distinguish who
this person was. She says further that
the window, which was open at the
time of the discovery of the burglary,
had been closed in the evening, and it
was at once suspected that the robber
had entered through this window by
means of ladder, the distance to the
ground being about ten feet. The of
ticers, however, in their investigations.
found no evidences of such being the
fact, and the matter is yelled in mvs-
tery.-Herdld.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-08-08
Failure of Rev. Mr.. Murray.

NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-The Sun says
that the Rev. w. ii. FL. Murray is f.
nancially embarrassed, and most of his
stock at Guilford, Conn.,, has been at
tached. The first suit was brought by
L. III. Emerson on a note of $1,000. d.
E. Chittenden & Co., feedmen of New
Haven, also brought suit for feed
bill of several hundred dollars. The
Rev. Mr.. Murray's financial troubles
are probably due to his venture in
making blackboard wagons. Early in
the spring he went to New Haven and
organized a company for making buck
board wagons. He was its heaviest
stakeholder, being down for 100000
of stock, but he paid into the treasury
only an iOta of that sum. At length,
finding himself pressed for money, he
began to sell the pets of the stock farm
that he tried to make famous, but his
finances were not materially bettered.
Among the horses the sheriff attached
were five handsome high-bred stations
He found he could not touch the farm,
owing to the heavy mortgages which
MIR. Murray had recently placed upon
1T. Returning to New Haven, the sher-
Tiff attached about $4,000 worth of
stock, which he learned that Mr.. Muir
ray, as vice president, owned in the
Boston Blackboard Co. 1t was after
ward learned that this stock had been
deposited as security for a loan in
Boston some time previously, and had
been attached by creditors in that city.
Mr.. Murray spent large sums on horses,
and though at one time his farm was
magnificently stocked, there is at
present not a horse on it he can call his
own. He went away about three weeks
ago, and it was supposed he had gone
on his annual summer hunting and fish
ing excursion to the Adirondacks. His
wife says she does not know where he
is, and his friends profess equal igno-
rance, though all maintain that he will
return when his vacation is ended. Mrs.
Murray is lady of many accomplish
ments, and has recently completed a
course of medical study. She is highly
esteemed by her Guilford neighbors.
A despatch from California this week
says Murray is in San Francisco
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-08-08
Arrest for Embezzlement.

Friday evening Edward T. Page, for
merly manager of the Central VermOnt's
freight Office in Burlington, was arrest
ed and put in Jail, OH charge of embez-
cling $I7 900 from the company from
time to time prior to his suspension
from Office about eight months ago.
The officers of the company are reticent
in regard to the proof they have against
him, but the states attorney for Chit
tenden county, Mr.. H. S. Peck, will
produce all that he deems essential to
holding the respondent for trial, at his
hearing before the city court. At a
preliminary hearing Saturday Hon.
Henry Ballard, counsel for the respond
ent, said that his client was shattered
in mind and that no one could converse
with him ten minutes without becOm-
ing aware of the fact. He asked for a
reduction of bail but decision was de-
ferred.
The respondent began as telegraph
bsy many years ago and rose by sue
cessive promotions to the responsible
trust which he is accused of abusing.
He was for a long time leader of the
Queen city Band and was popular in
Burlington. Guilty or not, he has been
unfortunate, for not many months after
his suspension, his father committed
suicide and his wife died of a lingering
disease, leaving little girl. Page
says, however, that his courage is good,
and he has many sympathizers.-St.
Adams Messenger.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-08-08
Raids on Liquor Dealers

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VT, Aug. a.
On Friday last, on complaint made nv
several citizens of White River Village
20 states Attorney Davis, II. E. Harris,
proprietor of the White River Village
Hotel, was arrested for violating the
liquor law and his stock of liquor seized
Upon hearing of this case before Justice
Dutten, conducted by the States At
torney, Harris was fined $50 and costs,
ana ano MS liquors, amounting to about
dOO gallons of various kinds, were con-
nscated. On the same day, on COM
plant of several citizens of this place,
col. A. j. Grover, hotel keeper, Geo.
SScannell, bar keeper for Grover, H. C..
stevens and Elisha S. Stevens, saloon
ksepers, were arrested for violating the
liquor law, and all liquors in their pos
session seized. Upon hearing before
justice Dutton, Col. Grover and H. C.
stevens were each fined $40 and costs,
Geo. Scannell was fined 800 and costs
and Elisha Stevens fined 800 and costs.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-08-08
Vermont News.

Hon. George F. Edmunds has been
chosen orator for the next anniversary
of the Associate Alumni of Barre Acad-
envy.
Gen. N. P. Banks will deliver the adj
dress at the Barton fair, Wednesday,
October LIST.
One Thomas H. White, hailing from
Amesbury, Mass, has been Jailed al
montpelier for stealing team of D. W.
Dudley.
AT Stowe, the other evening, Miss
Brown was reading in bed, holding the
hight IN her hand, when she fell asleep
and dropped the lamp on the bed, set
ting the clothes on fire. She screamed
Tor help, which arrived in time to save
her life, but she was badly burned, her
back being badly blistered nearly the
entire length.
The Boston Traveller says that Lar
kin G. Mead, our Vermont sculptor,
has made happy hit in his bas-relief
of the surrender of CORVALLIS for the
Washington monument. Plaster casts
have been ordered for the art schools
of Cincinnati and San Francisco, and the
work has received the very highest
commendation Of Florentine critics of
the fine arts.
S. M. Stowe and wife of Middlebury
were thrown from their carriage by the
breaking OF wheel Thursday evening,
and Mrs. Stowe was dangerously hurt
about the spine.
1t is said in northern Vermont that
the recent advance in the Canadian
tariff has resulted in a great deal of
smuggling into Canada, cotton goods,
crockery, hardware, and nearly every
KIND of manufactured goods being car
RED across the line in wagons by the
Vermont and New York farmers.
A. M. Burnham, an architect and
builder of Montpelier, who has been
the building of a new
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-08-08
Rev. Murray.

The saddest things in Mr.. Murray's
trouble are the hints about his immOr-
al conduct, his "'lady amanuensis," etc.
These hints are not of late origin, but
have been more or less current for
years. Added to these, his engaging in
the raising of fast horses, the manu-
facture of blackboard wagons, and a
sort of unministerial looseness general
ly, gives occasion now that he has failed
financially to many thrusts and inuen-
does. Whether there is any ground for
scandal or not, all good people must
regret that a man of such brilliant
mind and many good qualities should
come to such an untimely end; and
his life is lesson which brilliant young
men as well as Others can reflect upon
with profit to themselves, if they avoid
his errors