The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1882-08-20
IFrom Thursdays Dsiiy.l
sRImAxandi.

nAit oozen DIG teams arc loauipe
lumber and timbers to-day for Tusca,
rora.
A special train OF twenty-one car,
loaded with tea pssssd eastward at IL
o'clock last night.
j.. l.. French. one Of the old time
Island Mouutaineers. is putting in q
lie" days time at the County scat.
The Sultan has ordered ArLbi to lay
down his arms. II lie refuses. the
Sultin Nvows that he shall be left to
British treatmspt.
Indian Agent Joba S. M-yhuGd ar.
rived here from the Duck Valley Res
er'ntiOn last evening. He returns
there in lhs course Of two or three
days.
During a fearful storm in Kausrs,
Tu' S lay, John Butter aud his two
daughters were killed by a strike OF
Lightning while standing in their own
doorway.
Senator Ben Hill. OF Georgia, whose
death has been expected to take place
soon. died at Atlanta yesterday. At 2
o'clock lie was found to be rapidly
sinking, and Our hours later Ills spiri;
passed away without = struggle.
Allen aud James Psnrod, their sister,
Mrs. Smith, Miss Ada Hunter aud o.
+. Powers and son arrived here from
Island Mountain by private cow y
auc- this evening. Allen will return in
\ day or two with u load OF camp sup
plies.
Freight arrivals to-day were three
carloads # lumber for Tuscurorn from
the West; a carload of coal oil from
Sacramento for A:nley. and a carload
# wood from Wells for Payne Il Fer
nald.
DR.. T. W. Huntington aad wife took
their departure for their new home in
Sacramento b. the train this morning.
The doctor goes 10 take a lucrative
position in the Central Pacific Compa.
ny's hospital in that city. A large
number Of their EIko friends took leave
Of Them at tho train, wishing them
c~"nteuimeut and prosperity through oil
the stages Of their future lives.
AL. CAGE, well known in this county,
is Prospecting in the Wood River couu-
try. He tells the Ketchum Re; stone
that be has been Singing the poll. pick
in the Warm Spring Creek county for
three weeks past. He says the ground
up there Is pretty we'll "siaked of"
"ua, no: caring to locate q lawsuit, be
Withdrew. although there are many
prospects lying idle and will remain 30
until the law allows Of their relocation.
Dick Little, OF tho famous james"
gang, was arrested at Kansas CITY
Tuesday, cEarged with completely in
rubbing the Uuitsd States PGymnster At
Mussel Shoals. Alabama, in March,
1881. Little asserIs his innocence, and
says he can prove that the arr, 81 is the
wo OF the surviving members OF the
jams gang, who have u grudge
against Lin for tho information he
gave the officers which led to the
breaking up of the grng.
Two Reno tTsmps, tho one male
md the other female. got their letters
Of Introduction changed, and rs neither
could read and both documents were
equally greasy, the masculine becgar
was importunins our people for mid for
three DAYS With a letter Which stated
that he VAS II perfect lady. slowly dying
o! consumption, before he found out
that he was ltboriug under a mistake,
while the cmacintcd female beat WIS
arourd town introducing herself ms n
bard working NAH. vhr was the father
Of niue smnH ch,idr IL, and that she
had been blown mp in a steam suw-nill
IN Truckee md al marched with Major
Dsnuis in the White Pine war.