The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1885-02-01
Iron Wednesdays Daiiy.I
MALMAoUMDI.

Independence, Tuscarora. has just
levied a 10-cent assessment.
The Manhattan Company at Austin
shipped Monday, fifteen bars of bullion
weighing LOGS pounds valued at $l4.-
742.s2.
1t is discovered that gross fraud has
been praeticed in the New York Custom
House by the differentiation Of inn
ported silk.
FasSett's 5000 a year liquor license
bill has passed the Assembly. Strong
efforts are being made to prevent its
carrying in the Senate.
President Of the Mormon church,
John Taylor End nine other prominent
Mormons passed through here Monday
night Oh their return from Mexico aud
Arizona, to Salt Lake City.
The San Francisco Alta lampoons our
Legislature for offering suggestions to
the solons of the Golden State, respect
ing the particular kind of person they
should ele.% ~ the United States Senate.
, The following bills passed at this ses-
sion Of the Legislature, have received
the Governors approval: Assembly bill
number l, creating a fund of S55, 900
for the present session; Assembly bill,
to pay Sl65 mileage to j.. A. Palmer;
Senate bill, licensing s~tud-horse poker.
Five sharp shocks of earthquake oc-
CURED in San Francisco at / "a Monday
morning. The vibrations were lateral,
being north and south in direction, and
very violent, but of short duration. The
shocks were even more severe in Oak
land than in San Francisco. MANY Der
sons were greatly alarmed, but no acct
dents nor damage is reported.
". NJ. Havenor has written to Cover
nor Adams, asking fog &c appropriation
of $4,000 TO deirav tho .ypepse of n
night Waterman TO guard the State ex-
hibit at the New Orleans Exposition
Colonel Andrews, Commissioner for
California for the Worlds Fair at New
Orleans, has been officially noticed by
the Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany that they will sell, during the first
week in February, 90-day tickets to New
Orleans and back for 500.
Judge Orville c. Mcdonald, who died
IN Bodle last week, was admitted to
practice in the Supreme Court OF Nevada
some years since; was IA magistrate in
Phoebe, and practiced law i'll Eureka,
White PINE aud Virginia City.
The narrow gauge road now being built
from Reno TO Oregon, heretofore known
AS the Nevada y Oregon, will be here
after known as the Nevada ~ California
railroad.
The ice harvest is about over with,
between iour and five hundred tons hav-
Ing been stored for Summer use.
Ben Snipes, the Yakima Washington
Territory cattle king, offers COWBOYS
$40 per head for all the Stock they bring
through the Winter, he furnishing the
huy.
Adolph Sutro has offered to deed n
site to the city OF San Francisco for the
erection OF IL public museum. Charles
Crockcr, in an interview siguifed his
Willingness to aid the scheme and will
give the matter his attention on his re.
turn from New Orleans.
Fearing that 1t VIA impossible TO as
slit the whisky men to eyade the law by
means of an opinion furnished in their
interest by the chief law officer Of the
Government, the Internal Revenue Blu
reau Is actually asking Congress to
change the law! There was probably
never before in the history of the United
States Government a more extraordinary
reversal Of the machinery of an impor-
TINT Office. What potent spell is there
IN whisky to produce this unprecedented
state of affairs? Why is it necessary to
remind the Commissioner Of Internal
Revenue that his sole duty is to assess
aud collect the taxes imposed by Con-
gress, not to look after the interests OF
the Governments debtorsY
To Nevada ATTORNEYS.