The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1885-03-01
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sALMA0UMDI.

roiey Oh Eureka, was 70 take charge
OF the White Pine County Bank at that
place yesterday.
1t is reported that fine ore, and what
is supposed to be an immense body of il,
has just been struck on the 290O-level
Of the Eorcross.
An aged squaw was run over by the
cars at Gold Hill, Friday. SO mangling
her legs and right hand that amputation
became necessary. The poor creature
lived only q short time after the opera
ton, however.
A Chinese leper has been discovered
IN Dayton. His feet are badly swollen,
and the toes nearly rotted of. The peo-
pie Of Lyon are anxious to get rid of
him, and propose that his countrymen
be compelled to ship him out of the
country.
In Candelaria, the hotels. lodging
houses and every available place for
sleeping are full. All the empty chairs
III the saloons are occupied every day
and evening, and still the idle people go.
Not one in ten of the men can possibly
get work.
In Chnppaqua, New York, Saturday,
the Mountain Institute was burned. The
scholars were all safely removed. Many
were carried insensible through smoke
and flames upon frozen snow in their
night clothes.
The PIute Princess. Sarah w, who is
now inhaling the salty breezes at the
Bay, denies the charge made by Agent
Gibson, that she, with five other Piutes,
gambled with u Bannock and then bea,
and robbed him. This charge, she says,
was made by the Agent, whom she has
frequently charged with robbing her peo.
pie. She attributes this attempt to
crush and disgrace her, to her crusade
against the injustice of the Agent TO the
Indians. Meantime, Piute Jim and
other Indians from Wadsworth say the
Bannock was beaten aud then robbed o!
SIS by Sarah and four Piute men.
The Pail Mall Gazette, lately Glad.
stones warmest organ, says: painful
to the last degree was the humiliatina
and d~iscrcditable performance to which
the Prime Minister treated the House o,
Commons. 1t was sad TO witness thi4
dismal and even tragicul ending to Sc
great n career. His once glorious SUI
is now setting fast behind black ant
lurid clouds-a gloomy and awful con
trast to the splentors Of the new day,
the dawn of which was 50 fondly hailed
in 1850"
Next Saturday will witness the grant
wind-up Of the Chinese New Year, wheI
they will distribute the customary prize
among themselves The mole of dis
%tTibutiOn is both novel and exciting, tn,
prize being done up in 4 bomb which i
then Ignited and thrown in the air. Whrl
the bomb cxplodes the prize falls to til,
ground, and amid the scramble is born,
OF b. some lucky Que OF the nmrc.ou
competitors.
A terrific natural gas explosion oc,
CURED ut Wellsburg, W. Va, Saturday
by gas leaking in the cellar Of II two
story brick occupied by Il. Kelsey 4
Bro. The family of Mr.. Kelsey, consist
ing of himself, wife, mother and tw,
children, was instantly killed. Sevcra
others are reported fatally injured. Tn,
shock OF the explosion was so terribl,
That the glass was shattered and III,
plaster shaken from the ceiling of nearl,
every residence in the town. The in
habitamts ran i'll all directions, terrol
stricken. A great many buildings wer,
found badly damaged quite u distauc,
from the explosion. As far as Learned
four are killed and two injured. Loss
100000. by II great The fire was
confined to the building blown up ant
to frame dwelling houses adjoining.