The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1881-09-18

A1sS eNoninB.
County Surveyor J.. G. Singles camo
down from Halleck yesterday.
Warner & Co. shipped 25, 900 pounds
Of slow freight to Tuscarora to-day.
Albert Lissak of Carlin. aud Henry
A. Young are registered at tho Depot
q Hotel.
There Is a rumor afloat involving q
very important transaction in real estate
in this city.
r. Il. Bigelow. attorney. at-law.
reached home last evening after a ten
days visit to California.
Ranchmen say that if the fine weather
continues for n week longer the grain
crop for this season will be secure.
Judge Mayhugh returned from mp the
river yesterday, where he has been en-.
gagged for several days in the land bust
ness.
The gentleman who gave US the item
yesterday in relation TO z. II. Eder WAS
a little of. Mr.. Elder is on bis way
+ ,st. Instead of West.
A rapcher in town this morning e1-
pressed his wants thusly: Tell all who
are out of n job to come to my ranch
and | will give them work"
The usuel services will DO held at the
Presbyternian Church to. morrow at IL
O'Clock A. NJ. and GH p. NJ. The Rev.
MIR. Beard is IA very earnest and elo-
quent divine. Go and hear him.
Nine carloads Of beef cattle passed
West by the ernigrant train last even.
ing. Barley Harold. of this county,
was the shipper. and experts say il was
the finest lot ever shipped from Nevada.
4 private dispatch from Long Branch
his morning heralds the pleasing in
teliig"nce that an important change for
the better had taken place in the Presi-
dent" condition. Hoop lah! We may
be happy yet.
Following is the financial condition
OF onr mines as reported by tho Sccre-
:nries SEPT. LIST: North Belle Isle, cash
on hand, $G,5I7 GO. The following
companies ""r" ia debt: Arsenta. 81.
9is so; Belle Isle. S2,5ii 90; Grand
PFiz', $685. %; IudrpoLIcmc,, -
3ji %.
We icarn that parties from Sacrn-
mcnto have recently surveyed aud made
application for twenty = five hundred
acres Of land near Hnllcck Station.
That X quite n large tract for outsiders
10 gobb!c up in this county, but as they
contemplate going into the null RAISING
business nobody has Il right to kick.
Through the courtcsy Of J.. u. Gal.
lrgher, Wells. Fargo Il Co.'s agent at
this place, we learn that the Southern
incihc EXPRESS train. bound T. .st, was
d'lchcu and robbed night before last.
MIR. G.. could not ascertain unriicnIar-
further than the loss Of $50. O0D and tho
b"rlHrOns treatment Of the MESSENGER
by the ID, ~. On til. other hand our
eastern dispatches this morning an.
n'une" the complete pilIngs Of u train
In Missouri. This method Of raising a
stake for tho Winter j. evidently brcom.
ing quite popular with road-ageuts. and
the most energetic ,nJrts will be 70.
qnired to suppress it.
Mr.. 'hldcn, while repairing the water
pipes yesterday. made discovery which
shows that dangerous characters live
and move in our midst. Having occ,.
Fi"n to use II can or cup for the purpose
al dipping water. he proceeded in search
OF one, md o o picked up an old coffee
can On removing the top, tic interior
presented n rather suspicious nppcar.
Huce. and investigation ut once showed
that 1t had been recently filed with
candle'wicEing, thoroughly saturated
with coal oil. In fact, IL was n = erf,c,
internal machine, such az the iuc.n.
diary hcnd uscs when he desires IN
start n conflagration. Our citiz.,s
should tnko warning, watch and pruv,
and hang tho first individual TO n ,oI,.
graph pole who Is found with sucb q
machine in his possession.