The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1885-11-29


temporarily insane.
The fifteen Cinnamon Who we're re-
fused permission to land at San Fran
cisco. have concluded that resista ucs
would be useless and will return to
China by the next steamer. The advan-
tage Of AL occasional change of admin.
~istrntion is pretty thoroughly d"mon-
strated in the improved conditions VI
the San Francisco custom house. The
demand that the provinions Of the Re
Striction Act should be rigidly enforced
had been insnlently ignored for years
by n gang Of Federal officials. who feel
ing secure in their fat positions. deemed
their own nS2randizement paramount 10
the public good. The political reVolu-
ton Of last Fall dispelird those dreams
Of bright ASSURANCE. the official Chinese
benihciarieS Icing obliged to make room
for those who would cheeriully respect
and maintain the law.
z. &. Kirkland, cashier If the Mer-
chants aud Farmers Bank Of Oxford.
Kansas. Oh Monday night, took al the
funds he could fnd. turned the time-lUck
safe forty eight hours ahead aud nb-
seconded. He left the books in such
con usion that the O OF his specu-
lationS cannot be learned for several
days. 1t will probably not exceed II few
thousand dollars. however. Kirkland
was treasurer for several secret Boz
~cieties, and their money is gone with the
rest. The bank, which was n small one
seems to have been stranded. Kirk
hand leaves a family.
The story told by the blind man who
vas tried at Newbuig, n. Y, for the
murder Of his wife, cnforces anew the
old moral of the danger of deciding away
ones property during life. This man
transferred his estate to his wife. after
he was blinded by an accident, and III
court he told how she had made life q
burden to him for over thirty years,
Finally she was hoist with her Owl
petard, having brok, N her neck over a
pile of wood which she had arranged tc
worry her husbands. l.. Chronicle.
The President has appointed Vim. 5.
austin, Of Seattle. W. 4. Register of the
land Office at Vancouver. W. 7.
The Postmaster General appointed
the following fou:th-class postmaster
Montana Junction, Joseph Reed; Nor,
wood, j +. Street; Park City, Mrs. A
A. St. Johns; Sheridan, Il. Z. Kate,
man.
The Attorney General has given nj
opinion 10 the Secretary OF the Treas
ury to the effect that the Court Of Com,
nIissioners OF Alabama Claims is a legal
~ constituted body as at present organ
lied. The opinion applies only to tn,
Appointments Of the judges and do,'
not touch Oh the general question Of I'll,
appointments OF the other officers OF tn,
court.
Times-Rc view:-Max Schoen has pre-,
pared n most tasteful present for Iii.
brother ard Sis;er-in-lRw, whose silver
wedding will take place III San Jose
Cal, next week. 1t is u shallow bu,
about twelve inches square, lined with
dark velvet and hordcred with new sill
yer dollars. Inside of these il n colIec,
ton Of choice silver ore specimens O
different colOrs. and in the center is {
small compartment filled with silvel
and thanked tn zach side with n miuin
ture silver brick. 1t is n most tasteful
md a%ppropria e present from n ~relniiv,
resilient Of our silver producing State.
Ad,ices FROM the scat of war Of tn,
18th are as follows: An account from
the Servihn headquarters, Of the battl'
yesterday before Suvitznn, states TIM
the Seryians were unable to bring theil
full strength into notion, aud were thus
defeated and compelled 20 withdraw e
tho Dragoman Pass.
A dispatch from Tsaribrod says tim
two Bulgarian battalions were defeated
to-day in nn engagement with the Ser
Visns on the road between Brt sink AN,
Pernik. The BulgnTinns lost $50 mel
killed and wounded. The Scrvians cap
iured sixty prisoners and n quantity o
ammunition and provisions.
Reliable reports received state thu
the SrryiNn loss Mt Silviiznn ycsierdn,
was three times greater than given il
tho official accounts aud actually CT
ceCded the previous total loss since tn,
outbreak Of hostilities. Prince AlcIau
der WIS in the thick Of the battle from
the beginning to the end. The Servi
~ noticed he first rode q white hOTsr
and afterwards a brown horse. II is be
lieyed the white horse was shot fIOn
under him.
The Independence Beige to-day pub
fishes n dispatch from its correspondent
mt Sofia, stating that the Servians ut
tackled the third Bulgarian regiment
escorting the ambulance train. and bay
onetted the wounded soldiers in the I'm
bulnnce. The correspondent also state,
that Prince Alexander Subr its To til,
terms Of the Sultan. embodied in I'll,