The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1885-01-25
From wednesday. D.ily.I
sALAAaUNDI.


lure is set down As 5000.
F. S. Harrison. late a postal clerk on
abe Virginia and Truckee. skipped out
from Reno last week, leaving several
creditors to mourn his departure.
Senator Jones will try to get $1,000
for a government building in Reno to ac-
commodate the Postonice and Surveyor
Generals Office.
The recent cut by the Pennsylvania
railroad has had the effect of reducing
emigrant fare from New York to Chica-
go, FROM Sl3 to 81.
The Legislative Assembly of Arizona
is dead-locked over the election of Speak
er as well as some Of the higher toned
State bodies.
The United States Supreme Court has
just rendered n decision affirming that
of the Supreme court Of Utah in the
polygamy case Of Roger Clawson, who
was found guilty by n jury and sentenced
to a fine of $500 and q term OF four years
imprisonment.
Three young ladies of st. Adams, w.
v, were poisoned last Sunday by using
wnter from a barrel which was after
wards found to contain arsenic. The
victims are reported in n critical condo
ton. How the water became poisoned
is a mystery.
The cashier and assistgnt Of the Nor
wich, Conn, bank were arrested Mon
day for appropriating bank funds to their
own use.
They have fine sleighing at Salt Lake
now, and at HALEY, Idaho, they have
just been donated six feet Of the ''beau-
tiful."
b. Z. Wheeler and Mrs. J. F. Edwards
were united in marriage by Justice Wal
Ter at Tuscarora last Sunday. The parties
are both well-known residents of that
place.
Colonel John l.. Snyder was found
deadin his bed at Austin, ON the 18th
instant. Deceased was n years old and
Il native of New York.
Particulars of the disaster TO the pack
ct steamer Admiral Moorsom, sunk of
Holyhead Thursday night by the Ameri
can ship Santa Clara, are coming in slow
ly. The total number of dead and miss
ing, including the captain Of the Inflated
steamer is sixteen. The Santa Clara has
sailed from Holyhead for Liverpool.
Her captain is reticent regarding the cir
cumstances Of the collision, but states
tina; the Admiral Moorsom was in the
fault.
The eleven persons who we're in the
missing boat of the ill-tatod packet, have
been rescued in an exhausted condition.
They had been in the boat since Thurs
day night.
Some Of the members of Congress
have been looking through the old Con-
grcSsiOnal Globe to find the names of
the two members referred to by Mr.. Vest
i'll his speech recently, ~ having printed
exactly the same speech in the records
Of the House. The two men were WILL
lam Allcn-better known as ''Foghorn"
Allen-and II. II. Nugen, both of Ohio.
On the 18th Of April, '62, Allen made "a
speech on the "Confiscation of rebel
property" and a few days later, May G,
Nugen, under a leave to print, published
the same speech in the Globe rs
his own.
ID. VI. Ferry Co, Secdsmen, Detroit,
Michigan, have sent us n copy Of their
Seed Annual for 1885. 1t il more beau
utul and valuable han ever. The hints
oil the formation and management Of
gardens, rs well as the cultural directions
it contains have evidently been prepared
by careful hands, and cannot fail to he
of great service to all who garden,
whether for profit or pleasure.
G.. T.. Abbc, postmaster and U. S..
Land Commissioner at Sarasota Bay,
Florida, vas murdered md his body
thrown into the sea n few days ago, by,
it is alleged, a secret band organized to
kill those who incur their cnmity.
In Virginia City last Friday, Ben
Smith, WHO had been with the Bonanza
firm about twenty years, died of pneu-
monia. lie came out of the Consoli-
dated mine sick the Saturday night pre-
viOus.
In Choteau, Montana, the other day,
the thermometer sunk TO sixty degrees
below zero. And Choteau is supposed
to be in the midst Of the cattle belt of
Montana.