The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1884-01-20

Peno Colorado, Texas, Sunday 10y n
detachment ol soldiers. Alexander has
been sesrofizinS the neighborhood. and
Threatened 10 wipe out the military.
One soldier namei Ross Wis killed and
two others slightly wounded before Alex
andcr's Winchester Nas silenced.
The death Of Captain Richardson,
whe caiIe 10 san Francisco Ill 1919, III
command q: the ship brooklyn, with the
first colony for CaliioTnia, under Samuel
BraIman, Is announced.
Sermior Cox. OF Ncw York il about to
begin work on a political history Of IA
youLtr! from the time Of B~uchanIn's
naturalization, a. II stand-oi! for Mr..
Biaiu's forthcoming book which covers
the same period.
Payne was elected United States SEN
atDr from Ohio and Allison WAS rcnom-
mated by ;hc Republican Legislative
caucus III Iowa. No election yet by the
Kentucky Legislature.
Abbott, the Democratic Governor elect
oi New Jersey. Was innasurltcdat Trcn-
ton, ruesdty.
The Catholic Church at Bayou du
Larac. Louisiana, WIS burned on sun
day morning. The Rev. Father Cous-
taroui persisted IN TIE limcs.
\ storm at Compton. Quebec, We'd
nc5,l,y, wrecked 60 buildings.
A:a meeting of the Public Lands
Committee uf tie House, Tuesday, the
sub-CommittCe IN charge of the forfeit
ire OF unclrncd LAID grants to railroads,
was directed to report Il bill declaring
the Texas Pacific grant forfeited. The
report TO the full committee will bc
based on the ground that the Texas Pa
ciGc did not comply with any of the re-
Guircments of the Act granting the land.
aud that the Southern Pacific had de
ieatcl the building Of the Texas Pacific
for the purpose Of preventing the est.Ib-
lishment Of u competing line with the
Genital Pacific. The object Of Congress
in making the grant, the committee
says, WIS 10 secure IL rival line from
San Diego to the East.
Tie Bodic Free Press says: Messrs.
Gallagher and Christian report having
discovered u seam Of coal about twenty
five miles northeast from town, near the
Lyon county (Nevadal line. Samples
in town are pronounced good by ex-
perienccd coal miners who hay examined
and tested them.
There is consi derabie excitement in
Bodie over the recent strike in the Stan
dard and Bodie mines, and the change
Management in the latter. The Bodie of
strike is On the 800 level. which has
heretofore been barren. During the last
week n ledge of good milling ore eight
feet wide, was struck. Little or no ore
has ever been taken from below the 500
level, SO that the strike gives 200 feet Of
ground to work-enough to last probably
two years.
Senator Fair, OF Nevada, gave IN elegant
entertainment Mt Wormley's Tuesday
evening to thirty friends, including sew.
eral Senators and Representatives with
their wives, and n number Of citi-
liens prominent in society. The floral
display was beautiful and the whole at-
fair n of the most attractive of III.
season.
Great alarm was caused at Montevideo
by immense tidal waves, one of which
caused the death Of IA woman bathcr.
They are attributed to volcanic move
mems. Each wave WAS preceded by a
large dGik cloud.
While ten men and boys we're i'll q
cage at the Gamcnt colliery, Wales, the
rope broke. and all were hurled to tie
bottom and killed.
Tie result Of Payne's election ms Sen.
"tor from Ohio, which took place In the
Houses separately WIS declared in
joint convention amid cheers on the
Democratic side. Later n resolution
WA offered from the Republican side Of
the House to investigate charges Of cor
ruPtion in securing the nomination.
This was defeated, only half Tie RcpuI-
liyuns voting for IL.