The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1885-03-01
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meeting at their hall tonight
Frank Leeds. tax collector of Stamford
Conn. has absconded with 5000.
The steamer Allegheny. froa Cardia
for Gale, is lost and the crew q thissS$,
pensong drowned.
Mr., George Russell's family lesv e Tor /
San Francisco, Saturday, on a yisi, OF a
few weeks to that city.
Pennsylvania sends 500 National
Guards to Cleveland's Inauguration
from all parts Of the State.
The Agent now taking orders for
Mark Twain's 'Huckleberry Finn" re-
ports great success in this place.
A house has been engaged ut AK lie
Baines, France, for occupation by Queen
Victoria, the latter part of April.
II. Jones, n commercial traveller, for
merly with Chesley & Co., Sacramento,
dropped dead at Lovelock last Friday
evening.
Sam Howry, formerly driver between
Tuscarora and Elko handles the ribbons
Of six spirited horses between Boise City
and Kuna.
O'Donovan Rosa will delivear q lee
ture before the Robert Emmett Society Of
Fall River, Mass, March Ith, the l07th
anniversary of Emmet's birth.
Emma Nevada, With her troupe, is ex-
pected to pass through for San Francis
CO where she is TO appear in la Som
nabula" on Wednesday next, by the train
day after tomorrow morning.
F. l.. Banner of Butte City, Montana,
says the New Orleans Expositioni is worth
a visit for the Mexican and Territorial
exhibits alone. The Eastern States do
not seem to have taken much interest in
the display of products, either in ma
chinery or manufactures; but the West
ern States, and above all, the Territories
have made n grand showing.
John T. May, who left here for Utah
some time ago writes from Park City I'M
der date OF the 2lst instant, that times
are rather quiet there rs well as else
where, but that he had secured employ
ment soon after his arrival. He reports
the snow from five to eight feet in depth
with u favorable prospect for q further
fall.
The Sentinel says: The banking
house known as Paxton & Co.'S Bank
will on Monday next pass into new
hands and will hereafter be known as the
Eureka County Bank, it having been
purchased from Messrs. Paxton, Curtis,
Muller and Platter by NIessrs. Daniel
Meyer, NJ. ID. Foley, i. Gilman, II. X.
Morrison and W. /. Griffin. At a meet
ing OF the last named gentlemen Sunday
night, III. d.. Foley was elected President
OF the institution; Il. X. Morrison, Vice
President; u. II. Hoadly, Secretary and
Cashier; w. L. Griffin, Assistant CASH
Ter, and a. Z. Cheney, Attorney. The
Board of Directors will consist OF Messrs
Foley, Meyer, Gilman, Morrison and w.
Z. Griffin. The new institution will
have a Paid-up capital Of 500, 600.
Last Spring an Indiana man started
n bank in n town in Dakota, and about
the LIST of October, having secured de-
posts to the extent of $4,000, a notice
was posted on the doors of the bank
reading:
Temporarily closed, hope to pay de-
positors in full"
The banker wanted to test the temper
OF the public, previous to a big scoop.
In In course of half an hour the doors
were kicked in, the Office Quilted, the
banker stepped on until he was seven
teen feetlong and only two inches thick,
and the chap who held a revolver to his
ear j~ovially remarked:
Now then, We give You Just five
mute to unlock that safe and count
out the slugs to depositors in full"
Depositors were paid in full, and the
banker has gone East in search of more
civil people.
Silver State-Chas. johnson narrow
ly escaped being crushed by the cars at
this place Tuesday. He was on the train
taking leave of his wife, who was going
west, and remained on board until after
the train started. In attempting to get
oil he slipped and hung on to one of the
steps until he was dragged several yards
on his side along the track, the wheels
missing his legs by only an inch or two.
At a Western funeral all the pail bear
ers got into a fight, but the corpse re-
manned perfectly neutral. The latter's
conduct was highly commended by the
local press.
A test case of importance, involving
the legality Of the Iowa liquor law, was
begun in the United States Court by n
firm OF brewers at Marshaltown, Iowa,
against the Northwestern Railroad Com
Pany. The claim Is made that the clause
in the Iowa law, which prohibits rail-
roads from transporting liquor, except to
certain persons holding permits, IL in
violation Of the Federal Constitution,
which rests in Congress the power to
regulate in the several States.