The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1884-01-27
Condensed TeIe6ran,s

Pollock and Daley said that Mutt was q
victim Of uncomfortable impulse. which
might exist in any person, without being
manifested before or after the act which
led to its positive discovery was commit
ted. This evidence was received with
every evidence offavoe by the spectators.
A Portland dispatch Of the 18th says
The several rsiroad companies centerd
here will serve notices on the Chinese
labor contractors that after February lst
the wages of all Chinese E,borers will be
eighty cents per day. An agent of Sis
son, Wallace L. Co., California contract.
ors. is in the city, and is understood to be
offering $50 per month for IGborers.
DR.. Royal. AN East Portland physician,
was charged by Mrs. Overhalz with hay
ing drugged and outraged hel. when she
visited his Office. He waived an exam
ination, and was held uner 500 bonds.
A meeting of the Executive Commit
tee Of the proposed Worlds Fair was
held Thursday evening at the Palace
Hotel, for the purpose of fdevis ng means
to raise among the residents o! the city
OF San Francisco, Il sum necessary. on
which Ia base request for aid from the
State Legislature and Congress, did not
result i'll any defnate action. Several
| suggestions were made, but none acted
| upon, and further consideration Of the
matter postponed until fhe next meet.
| lug.
The President has approved the Act
making an appropriation OF ohe million
dollars for continuing the Improvements
in the Mississippi river.
The Vignaux-Schaeffe billiard contest
at Paris ended in victory for the for
mer. Score Vinaux, 5000; Schaeffer,
2,sGS. Yignaux's best run was 32S;
Schaeffer's, lS9.
George c. Johnson, from Virginia,
Nevada, created considerable excite.
ment on the streets In Petaluma Satur-
day night by firing two pistol shots in
rapid succession at young man named
Robinson, and his sister, whe were max
ing their way homeward, at the upper
end of Main street. johnson was i'm
mediately placed under arrest, and ex-
planned that he had shot at the wrong
person that he supposed the young
man to be another. who of late had been
paying undue attention to his wife.
A fatal accident occurred Saturday on
the Central Pacific Railroad, about one
mile east Of Truckec. William Ford,
while walking on the track in an intoxi-
Gated condition, was struck, it is sup
posed by freight train No. 6, and 80
severely injured that he died in one hour
after.
The House Committee on Pacific Rail
roads will soon report n hill compelling
all land grant roads to pay the cost of sIr-
veying and selecting the lands given in
aid OF construction.
Three masked men entered the Coun.
ty Trcasurer's office at Springfield.
Mass, Friday evening, bound and gagged
the Treasurer, and robbed the safe OF
$500 i'll cash md indOrscd checks to the
amount of $4,000.
4 special Treasury officer at New
York, Saturday, seized mail package
from Amsterdam which contained dia-
monds valued at $4,000
c. l.. Brown, n Mexican veteran, was
killed Mt Suisun. Cal, Saturday, by n
freight train, while walking OH the track
in an intoxicated condition.
News comes via London that several
Chinese bankers have committed suicide
owing to the bad condition Of the money
market and the unsettled political sit.
uatiOn.
Eight Egyptian officers. including the
Governor Of the town, have been hanged
at FL Obcid. The heads were fixed
upon poles in front of III Mnhdi'g resi-.
dcucc.
The estate Of Il. i. Rcdding, deceased,
is shown TO be worth SlGl ,G30.35.
The prosecution in the Mutt case con.
cludcd the rcbuttal testimony Saturday
morning, and the defence not caring tc
offer any rc-rebuttal evidence, the case
closed.
The Reno Journal says: Gen. Kiiircl
leaves this morning for Modesto. hui
will return in about ten days, SO ms tc
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