The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1883-11-18
Prom Wednesday. Daily.I
BALMAoUND,.

eNothey vas iounQ on the 0kFee
this morning. which the owner ca,
find at the Depot Hotel.
The Grand Prize mill started nm 10
day, says Mondays Times Review, or
GRE from the upper levels Of that mine
Robert Stewart, . man sixty years O,
age, suieided in Virginia City with a
dose Of morphiae sulphAs on Monda,
morning.
Thirteen cars OF fat cattle for the San
Francisco market passed through las,
evening. They were shipped n, Hal.
leck by Horn & Chapman.
The Saints are doing a Wholesale
business in proselyting. rs another on.
signment Of 400 "corvicts." as the
Salt Lake Chronicle puts It, is en- route
to Zion.
Deputy Sheriff Polk returned from
Austin last evening with his prisoners,
William Hill and John Ferry. who
were consigned to quarters in the Hotel
de Taber.
Taxpayers should pay their taxes this
week and avoid the ru.h which Is La
ele to be made on Monday the ICih
instant. as that is tho last day for the
payment thereof, ard all taxes unpaid
at 9 O'Clock p. Il. on that day will be-
come delinquent and ten per cent will
be added thereto.
Moses, the husband Of Blanche Gray.
the 500 pound fat girl who died in Bal
timore recently, sold the remains of his
dsiunct spouse to a doctor for s25.
XIV" cents u pound may be q GOOD
price for girls in thu Monumental City
~Lefo everything is cheap, bat they are
worth more than that in Eiko.
The prisoners. William Hill aud
Johu Ferry had q preliminary e1amin-
alton before Judge Green this after
noon an! were held to appear before
ihc Grand Jury on a charge OF Grand
Larceny. The bail was fixed at So, 900
each. ID default o: which they were both
committed to the County Jail.
Atthe lat meeting Of tho Board of
Commissioners, Nov. 9Th. on order was
passed %lJrLiddlnS the obstruction OF the
E'ko ditch by dePositing waste or rub
bish therein, or in any other manner
hIndvr!mG the free ptsstge.of the water
in the channel thereof, and any one SO
offending will he prosecuted TO the full
eIton; o! the law.
VIII IL a man Of such wealth as Will
liam Sharon is Ordered from "a Court
room for contempt. We may begin to
think that the millennium has come,
aud that there are hopes that even hand
ed justice will be dealt TO rich and poor
alike. The spectacle is So unusual as
attract general attention.
In the Published allowances by the
County Commissioners, Nov. 6, 1898,
We iiud the following:
JGdson DIkin. General Fund,
building bridge in Lim pile. SI77 90
We were not aware that the bridge is
finished. Ii IS the bridge been COM
plrtcd aud received by the Commission
crs, or is it customary to pay in al.
vance for public works7
A we'll dressed. ministerial looking
stranger who looked as il he had lodged
nader tue broad canopy of heaven dur
I'M the past night. was seen ~"wauder-
ius about as il in search of some
thing he coal pot fni." Hs was taxi
Ell in and lodged in tho cooler whore lie
will have ample time TO sober of, and
mediate upon the exclamation Of the
wise III IN. Vanity Of vanit.rs, all is
vanity"
John Ferry, ono Of the prisoners
brouSh; up from Austin las. night by
D,puty Sheriff PolE. il probably like
poor Tray, for nccor ling to has own
statement he s only fouud in bad
compIny. From Mr. Taber We learn
that Ferry was not tho man who vas
with Hill when tho hor,es were stolen,
nj that HilI's companion ia tho crime
succeeded in making his escape. Ferry
says that his being in comp my with
Hill when the arrest was made was
purely accidental, tht Hill ms n
stranger to him and That he did not
know the horses wrTo stolen until the
arrest was male. II that be the case
ho was unfortunate in falling in with
such company.
The horses stolen from Mr.. Holley
were recovered. Oni arc in possession
Of Mr, lIolley's brother near Austin,