The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1885-11-01
From Wednesday. D.ily.I
sALnAoUNDI.

Wells to-day.
j. w. Black and John Crosson are in
town from Deeth to-day.
Mrs. Hoag came down from Wells.
where she has been stopping with her
sister, Mrs. Meigs, by this mornings
train.
Horn X Chapman shipped West from
Deeth last evening. ten carloads Of fine
beef cattle which they bought from
Thomas Kane at Deeth.
Arrived by stage from Tuscarora last
evening: Vim. Pierce, Mrs. Burns,
Mrs Fry. VIM. Morrisons. Arrived this
evening: W. c. Price, Chas. Holland,
II. Kuhn.
The New York Sun says: Let not
voters forget that civil service is not the
only question at issue between the par
ties. Honesty and economical govern
ment come first.
While twenty trackmen on a Massa-
chusetts railroad were being conveyed
to their work OH u FIAT car, ten OF the
men who were sitting on one side of the
car were swept of by some fixed, pro-
lection beside the track, nine of whom
were either killed or injured.
Virginia Chrouicle:-Whil the train
with Hnyerly's Minstrels OH board was
lying Mt Steamboat yesterday morning,
the Cragg family astouished and
amused the passengers by performing
some wonderful ncrobatic feats. The
five young athletes mounted a box car
standing Oh tue side track and turned
double someTsaults backward and for
wards in ~springing from the top of the
car to the ground, without in the least
disturbing the set of their stovepipe
hats. They also made II pyramid on
the top of the car. the five brothers
climbing on each others shoulders.
All at once to the horror Of the passen-
gers, they tum5led over, read foremost,
but every man Of them ulighted grace
fully on his feet by turning a somer
sAult jus: when the lookers-on expected
to see them break their IL, cks by stTik-
ing head-irst on the ground.
The trial of O. X. Jenkins. charged
with tie murder Of Joseph Dean. be-
gau IL the District Court at Eureka
Monday morning. A jury comprising
the following named persons was Sc
cured: l.. LuZinger, John McAuluy,
Thomas Leonard, f. Mccormick. o. II.
Farlinger, L. $. Wilcox, A. G. Snetsin,
ger, ). =. SloSs, Z. ii. Clark, w. L
Wright, =. Ii. Cronant and Mat Schatz.
lrIn. The testimony of Otto kalten,
horn, who WAS i'll the employ Of Dean
and who came upon the scene soon AT
ter tn shooting, vas taken; also that d
). G.. BrJy.es a herdcr in the employ
l OF jenkins, but neither Of the witnessed
were present at the time OF the shooting
and nothing definite in the case wa
elected up TO 3 O'Clock r. H., wheI
= Court took q recess until 10 o'clock tn,
next morning
Times-iieyirw:-A fellow who CAV,
his name as GLEASON came into towi
last SatuIday and represented himsel
rs purchasing agent Tor Lux X Mill T
the California cattirmcn. lie succeed
- il %swiud'ims IA humber Of citizen,
, out vi small su;nS. lie came here nc
c~"npaai.d Oy II man who pIo'cssrd L
know no.n;ug about tnc game his com
pn!i"n was playing. 4 dispatch wa.
received here from P..i!sad Il sciiJiu;
II couple oil hursc.lhieves, aul it i, no
at all improbable tlmt these we're Tia,
men. The fellow who played the com
u tidence game is about Is years OF age
. feet i inches in height, aud Wit,
dressed in u dark suit with a wide. stiff
/, bIimIucd white hat. His companion il
"a tail, slim Iuun. They we're III town
last night. but have not been seen t.
- day. 1t would bc we'll FOR owners o
stock 70 be on the lockout .or this cou
pie.
Lts! week there died at the village O
San Mu:eo, Sonora Garcia d. Chaves n
, the age Of 100 years. Al the time %
her death she had & children, 80 grand
children, ll2 great gramd children and
, gIeat-grent-great-grnndchi,d. Her iesl
was shIivcllcd and dried up to that ex
: tent that the old woman looked like I
. mummy. The deceased fully retained
her mental faculties until about foul
years ago.
' Warner Il CO., received last nigh
two more carloads OF coke for the fur,
mace Mt Bullion, which according to q
letter they received to-day, is running
, splendidly, turning u the shining bars
i'll the most satisfactory manner.
Commodore J. +. Walker has been
: re-commissioned as Chief Of the Bureau
Of Navigation, and Commodore Mont.
goinery Picard ns Chief Of the Bureau
of Ordinance Of the Navy Department.
The New Live Stock Association.