The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1886-04-04

nenlben oil the DobFlous kIccSoral
commiSion OF 1876. has At at b&en
pareha~rd By the Government a. a SAt-
ldcal addition 20 the pictorial history
of the Cuit-d SGatea. The question: OF
THAT shAIl b dona with the picture is
h ,PPily solved BY the Ssu York star.
which sugSrsts that it be sent 70 Ruth
lord D.. and il his modest Fremont
home Is not bag enough TO hold il, let
him do With 1t a. the Vicar Of Wakefield
did uith his 81, at family group-make
= uAll for his hennery OF il. and where
the peaceful eoehin-ehinas roost AID the
prolific branIhas lay thsir eggs. there
let the Aps9 ehiarvUseuso Of the past
fade into the soft nivnJioa1 OF D+mo-
cratic supremacy.
4 New York correspondent Of The
Philadelphia Press says that John
Mackay has taken nearly all the Mack
ay-Benuett cable bonds, thus securing
himself against less. they have
proved thsnrseiI-. thoroughly we'll CON-
structed. aud appear tn be doing .
steadily Increasing Lu>in,ss. NAek-y
takes an active interest In the company
and its men Al Christmas he gavr all
the employees = fortnight extra salary.
Last week he posted . not &C that ell
the employees Of a years standing
could nov have q vacation 81 a month
or = months - AIRY. At their option.
A SelidA, Colorado. special asys: 4
Gre broke out at the Windsor Hot.l at
noon to-day. and the building waS con-
pleteiy destroyed in twenty minutes,
the guests having only time 10 escape
alive and leaving all their effects in the
burning building. A string wnd vas
blowing at the time, which SPIRAL the
IRE to the adjoining building. and as
the entire block vas composed OF frame
houses. in spite Of the heroic efforts of
the IRE department, tEenty-ser,n Of the
principal bu-iness houses and over half
their contents were destroyed. The
loss is $4,000.
A rosebud was taken home by VII
liam Bowling. young man employed
in Jersey City. n. j., planning mill,
when he went to supper Monday. March
LIST. and seeing his mother sitting in a
chair by the table, her head resting IN
her hand, he stepped lightly up to her,
and placed the flower IN her hair. Not
observing any movement on her part,
he thought she vas asleep. but soon
found that he had used the rosebud 10
deck his mothers eoapse. Il was
found that she had died Of heart dis
ease.
Five refrigerator cars have been char
tered at Chicago and will be run be-
tween San Francisco and Fresno for the
transportation OF dressed beef. EI-Su-
perViSor James, who controls about l5,-
600 head OF cattle near Fresno. has
erected a refrigerator at that place.
where the beef will be prepared for
shipment. A distributing refrigerator
" II be built in San Francisco.
In Lincoln county, or the Rio Virgin,
is one Of the most remarkable deposits
Of rock salt on the continent. 1t is
found in hills 500 feet above the level
Of the valley. aud chemically pure.
Blocks OF it over a foot square are SO
transparent that one may read q paper
through them. So solid is this salt that
1t must be blasted out the same As il il
were rock.
The proprietor Of the Aurora Star
makes the following announcement:
Plrdging myself To give the people OF
Esmeraida county n reliable ana attract
i've newspaper, all l ask is a fair share
OF patronage and personal and political
abuse, which ! hope to III rit.
The minority report Of Represents.
tive Clements OF Georgia upon Mr..
Seney'S bill to repeal the Civil Service
Law, takes the ground that the grave
abuses that grew up under Republican
rule do not demand or ju ,tify u new
aud radical departure in the principl.
embodied in the Civil S rvice law, and
.'nJ attempt to limit the Presidents
power OF appointment or removal, is not
q valid Inv. and can only operate
through executive acquieseuc..
The Telephone Oommitte resumed
the examination OF Casey Young today.
He said alphabetically that the Attorney
General never told him or anyone else
that he would bring suit against the Bell
Company. Until lie had seen it in the
papers he had never heard that the At
torney General was to leave town in or.
der that Goode might bring suit.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Garland has made
an application to Representative Boyle,
the Chairman Of the Pan.Elcctric Tele-
phone 1--we, tigRtion Committee, TO ap-
pear before that Committee aud make
n statement Of his connection with the
Pan-Electric Company. II is expected
that Senator Harrison and Ibrilrond
Commissioner Johnston. will be the
next two gentlemen who will ask TO be
heard by the Committee. Mr.. Garland
will be given an opportunity to make an
explanation, and ~ DO has thus far re-
fused TO say anything OF the subject, II
IL expected. he will mako a full srd