The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1885-05-17
Iron Thupsday'a Daily.l
nALAA0uNDl.

BOOK BEER on DRAUGHT AT
THE GEN.
Strawberries & Fresh Vegetables re-
eeived daily at the GkN.
If you want a nice room and clean bed
register your name at the Gem.
Departed by stage this morning for
T~uscarorA: r. Dinsengren aud Miss
hosa Anderson.
Warner X Co., to-day, forwarded
to rusearora, by fuckers teams $500
pounds of merchandise.
1t is reported that the Presid, mt has
offered the Office Of LEICESTER o.: the
Treasury to W $. RoSeesans. of Cali
fornin.
Louis Golistein md ID. II. Miller ar.
rived here with "a heavy team from
Mountain City, yesterday. They will
load here with supplies for that camp.
Kentucky has just effected in New
York IA hall million loan at u iavora6l,
rate Of Interest. This is practically the
only debt Of The State aud places her
financially far in advance of any other
of the Western States.
Since the homeopathisis OF New York
have proclaimed canphor To be "a chol-
era cure, people are wearing it in little
sacks upon their persons, aud there's a
regular boom in the aromatic gum.
. The daily showers that have prevailed
here for more than n week past has
helped the grass wonderfully, but have
finally reduced the tmpernture to u
point bordering on the tail end of Aut-
umn, and last night thn ice formed on
standing water.
A suction pump capable Of drawing
up the pegs from the soles of stogic
boots has just been procured from the
East by Messn. Clark & Green of the
Depot Hotel. The instrument is spec
tally designed for extracting both liquids
anu solids from the cominissary depart
ment Of impecunious trdInpS who Iuil TO
put up in advance
Mrs. Hiram Pfoutz, residing near
Birkiey's sill, near Lititz. took her Ave
children to the mill-ponI and threw
them into the stream aud then jumped
in herself and was drowned, togcth.r
with two Of her youngest children. The
others uer. rrur,.J H.
The case Of Commissioner Sparks for
the alleged thu,npinS Of Col. Deahaua,
brought inthe Washington Police Court,
was dismissed; there being no evidence
of violence being used. and the Court
holding that visitors to public offices
must he governed by the rules estab.
iished.
Robt. II. Logan, indicted by the Grand
Jury OF Churchill county for grand lar.
ceny, has been removed by order OF the
Governor, upon application OF the Sher-
iii, TO washoc county for safe keeping.
4 Springfield dispatch of the 18th
says: The Democrats will all b. here
tomorrow, and one last effort is going
to be made 10 elect VIM. Il. Morrison e.
the United States Senate. II il is not
accomplished tomorrow, then his nsme
will be dropped, and some person else
will be substituted III his stead, with
what success is to be seen. The Re
Publicans do not appear Mt all disturbed
over coming events. and feel apparently
perfectly satisfied with the aspect Of al
fairs.
Professor c. V. Riley, Entomologist
of the Agricultural Department, says
the country will soon be visited by two
great Groods Of iocusts OF the seventeen
and thirteen year varieties, and that this
viii be the inst time il 2.l years that
they have appeared in conjunction.
They will not prove greatly destructive.
and the injury they will inH.ct will prob.
ably be confined to fruit trees. The
visitation will be prolonged until late in
July.
Capt. G. Q. Warner, who has Just re-
turned from II trip to Railroad district,
informs W. that the shipment Of ore
from the mines there, to Utah for rcduc-
ton, will commruc- about tie 10Th Of
this month. The intention is To ship
eight carloads every thirty days.
General Sheridan aud vile are visit.
ing LOS Angeles. While out riding la
the city, Monday, their horses took
fright, ran uway and smashed the car
ringe. Tie General aud wife were both
thrown 10 thu ground but escaped with
slight injuries.
Counsellor j. l.. Wines and vile, nc.
%comPanicd by their daughtr +, Mrs. Gal.
laghcr, arrived hctc rom Eureka 10y
train last evening. Mrs Wines ~.
manned here while Mr.. Wines accom-.
pnnics MTs. Gallagher uni her children
OH tho way to Montana. where She ,,uc.
TO join her buslaud who Is nov ia bust.
ness Mt Butte City.
Hon. George W. Merrill continued hi,
route West this morning. He sails Tor
the Sandwich Islands on the goth in.
slant to succeed Mr.. DaggetL MS Minis.
ter plcniPoteniinry at the Court OF King
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