The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1882-02-19
From Monday 8 Daily.l
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There are q few colorcd men in Utah.
Cbiuese New Year commences on
Thursday. Hi vi! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Smallpox is still alnrmingly preva-
lent in the Eastern States.
Travel on the c. p. Is rather light
nowadays.
Elko was treated to q little hail storm
on Saturday evening.
General jackson has made its appear.
ance on the Stock Board again.
Disheartened pilgrims aro leaving
Cherry Creek every day.
General z. Z. Conner is mentioned
as a candidate Tor Governor of Utah.
Mrs. Governor Kinkead Of Carson, is
at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco.
To secur good luck the Elko Chinese
take their roast chickens and fumigate
them with the smoke OF f~irecrackers.
Jake Steiber. n well.known resident
Of Cherry Creek and Reno is down with
smallpox ut Tucson. Arizona.
G. G. Powniug, editor OF tho Reno
Journal, returned from Washington by
way OF the Southern Pacific last week.
The latest claim is that it will require
ut least 5000 600 to make the Denver
National Mining Exposition n success.
Tho Eureka Con. has Sll9. 100 IL
cash on hand. with liabilities amount
ing to SIG, O3S 90.
The Carson Appeal says that only 80
of the 60 insurance companies that
transacted business in this State in 1881
have applied for licenses at tho State
Controllers Office this year.
Snow fell last night to the depth Of
Il half inch, and tho sleighing is, as
We heard n young lady remark yester-
day, perfectly elegant"
Eeckhart 4 Froelich are having q
l.rge quantity Of stone hauled and
stacked MP in the rear Of their buiIdiug.
They intend building n wood-shed.
T. Dcmasy Of the 7uses R,ri,p Office.
who arrived here with his wife and
child, from T~uscIrora. Saturday aver
iug. departed with his family by the
train last evening for Ogden.
KENTUCKY WnIsKIEs-If you want
straight, good 5 ur Mosh kentucky
WhiskieS, call only for O. Conrad &
Co.'S Moss Rose" or "Goyernor's
Choice Rye" Ask your grocer for it
\ Chinaman told our reporter this
morning that C.nius New Years com
meuers on Thursday. H. snrs, Ne
10 like" Chiuamnn alec sameo
Mclean man, hemp gctteo ~druukcc,
drink to mUcEce E!ock.tail"c."
W. IL. Sleeves Of Bn;tlo Mountain,
who wac accidentally sho' by his part,
mor, "Frcnchy, at palisndo several
weeks ago. has been sent to Salt Lake
City. His mother lives in hat city and
he wanted TO got under her care, besides
I bNA''An a. - u hlAilfhA NAiAlANtt
ns he Is still in a very feeble state.
Two car loads Of emigrants passed
west last evening. Quo Of the passeu-
gers asked a party who was standing
at tho depot II no could inform him
where ho cOuid buy u loaf of bread tor
n " nicklc." Mr. Smartalcok told him
back in Missouri. Tho cmigrapt made
a break for tho car, mu,iering to him.
solf that people thought they were
id smart out IN this country.
Saturday evening an individual got
off tho eastern bound express train
with a load of baggage big enough for
n mule to pack. lie could neither talk
English, Dutch, IrisbEor S~hoshons al
he could d. was to swing his big club.
which he used for n cane, around his
head and point. After %jabberiug &c
several ~bystandors, who could not I'M
stand him, he became disgus;cd
shoulderCd his baggage and started NJ
the street. We took him for the editor
OF the DnnbUry Nows in Disguise.
Last Saturday afternoon, n few min
utes after the western bound cmigran.
train had arrived. two young men rush
od into our Office and made some in
quiries about several tramp priutors, n,
TO whether they had passed through Of
not. They stated that they wor.
typos" aud on their way to SaI
Francisco. Our devil, being Of rather
mn inquisitiye mind, asked them il
they woro boating thoir way (whici
is something unusual. MS long "a walk
ing Ia good. They became worry inlig
nnnt, and Informed him tina; thoy hat
through tickets and woro no " box.car
tourists" What n curiosity.