The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1886-03-07
tF,on Thursday. D.ily.t
BALMAGUNDL

This evenings train il reported On
time with 81 drst-class and les emf
grant passengers.
Although Senator Sharon was sup
posed to be worth about SIS. 00C. oG0.
his estate proves to be only So. 500. UC0.
The roundhouse ind a locomotive Mt
the Mound House. GU tie Virginia j.
Truckee railroad. were destroys BY
Dire Last Friday.
J. F. Triplett. Cattle inspector for the
Nevada Live Stock Association, came
up from the West on a visit to his am
lily Last evening.
Michael McCabe, Patrick Condor
aud au unknown man were found fro
Zen to death in the streets Of New York
Tuesday morning.
Abe Thompson. the neg Who out
ragged Mrs. Lancaster near Glenn
Springs. South Carolina, on Friday last,
was lynched at Sp~artansUurg Tuesday.
He confessed his crime.
The county aud State tax. levied by
the Commissioners OF washoe comfy.
is 81 So on each 500, with 40 cents
additional on property in Reno.
II is said that Governor Jewett w.
Adams will start up the Reveille mill in
Nye county this Summer on ore from
the ella mine. He will also work Gus.
tom ores.
Democratic Senators wanted the Pres
ident to withdraw Dement'S nomination.
Cleveland said: Let the young man
lie in the bed he has made" The
DEMOCRATS ia the Senate will not defend
him. LJsan also goes back on the rec
olnmeudauJn.
Sam Ennis, anti-ProhiGitionist, and a
brother Of the SuerItf, shot and hilled
Deputy Marshal Z. y. Haygood, q pro-
hibitIon:st. ut Atlanta, Georgia. The
difficulty grew out OF HIygood's criti
cisiug an anti Prohibition speech made
by a brother of Eunis. Fears are en-
tertained that Ennis will be rescued by
his friends.
The Typical Mexican orchestra, con-
sisting of some twenty natives of that
sunny cline passed through here going
eastward last evening. One OF the
musicians, about thirty inches high and
about an equal number OF years, aud u
sIeeple-ero "med hat upon his head was
a conical little fellow, attracting very
general attention.
An attempt was made Monday night
to assisNiuate DR.. BlOwiiz. the Paris
correspondent OF the London Times.
As the Doctor was ascending the stairs
OF his home a shot was fired at him by
some L.Arown person. The bullet
missed him and fell fattened at his
feet. There is no clue to the would.be
assassin yet discovered.
\ dispatch fsun EI!n5urg. Texas,
says that ut u f~audangO near there Sat
urday night, n desperate named Dough-
erty. shot and killed Francis C. Garcia.
The cOld-bloaded murderer was imme-
diately arrested by q Constable, who
WAS present, and started for Edinburgh
with his prisoner. Garc.a's friends
followed the officer. and II desperate
Scr.mmAge took place. in which Dough-
eriy was stabbed. The desperate was
brought here in n dying condition.
News from Marrowbonc Creek,
W. Va, Of q tragedy at the schOolhousc
last Saturday night. A slightof-hand
performer named Bennett WAS giving an
entertainment in the schoOl-housc,
when j. n. Pickeiheimer rode up
drunk. with II shotgun in his hands. and
demanded admission. Being refused.
he fred throus Ii the door, killing Ben
nett ins NEtIy. Robert Hamilton, agci
7 years, died III n few honrs from n
wound, md four other persons were
wounded. The murderer escaped.
VIM. Van Acistyn. son Of C. Il. Van
Aclsiyn, formerly proprietor OF the Hot
Springs Uclow town, nHived here from
Bnttc City yesterday. He left here q
boy, but 'rurns n man grown, md
about n six-:Ooter nj that. From him
We learn that his faith. is sti | merchan.
dising in Washington Territory, and do.
ing "a very good business. lie also in.
forms Us tn, It Eddie Fuller il now a
big Swapping fellow, and supports him.
self aud his mother Of Spokane Falls by
playing an instrument in n cornct band
Mt ths skating rink ut that place. Hank
Vaughn, hc says, married mp in that
section, and 10y his wit" came into pos.
session OF Il large tract Of valuable land,
and has for years been one Of the most
extensive and successful wheat growers
in that section. lie sars that q radical
reformation took place in Hunk. he
having settled ioTn to business several
years ago and became n man OF means
and character. Billy talks little Of his
own affairs, but lie hns evidently SUI.
fercd no losses since branching ont on
his own hook ms n hoy some hvc or sill
years ngo. II" proposes 10 remain IN
this vicinity some weeks ut least.