The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1886-04-18
Irrom Thursdays D4ily.t
ISALMAGuNDL.


Regular meeting o. the knights of
rythias at their ball tonight.
Just notice the lad" of the "Gem"
house-varmins ball in another column.
Mrs. George Mcintosh returned to
her home at Carlin this morning, &C.
eompanied by her invalid mother.
F. wiIbert, If Tuscaro'a, is about TO
open a shoemakrr's snop IN the old
Bank building, one doyr cas-, Of this Of
flee. e
Mr.. John Il. Bradley and MIR. Ii. l..
Byne, who have been attending the
siockmeh's meeting at Cheyenne, re-
turned home this morning.
The testimony in the Bowers murder
trial, which has consumed six weeks in
tue taking, is now all in, and argum lit
Of the case begins to-day.
Ex Chief OF Police o. c. jackson,
committed suicide in Sacramento on
Sunday last. He had been connected
with the force in that city for eighteen
years; WAS the Republican nominee Tor
Chief at the last election, and was de-
feated, which vas What caused him To
take his own life. Deceased leaves IA
wife aud child.
Mr.. John II. Suggstt, who has been
seriously out OF health for II long time
past. Will stnlt for the Arkansas Hot
Springs this evening, and his many
friends iii this ylcIuity entertain the
hope that the trratIIc!t lao will receive
at that famous saHItarIum will have the
effect OF curing him OF the malldy from
which hc 80 long has patiently sun Ecd.
We learn from parties down from
Ogden that three q. the llJ tin. horses
Slapped from Senator StIniord's Poia
Alto ranch. died ut Ogden. THIS is
quite Il neivy loss, rs ali the animal,
were valuable. 1t is reported that they
were run throISh in clo,c cars ut the
rate Of 81 miles an hour, AMI we're only
tnnen from the cars once between Sau
Fr'acIsco aud OSd,n.
Scntinel:-G. W. Gnyson, of Beowa-
We. has cOsumrnord action IN the Dis
trict Court here against Joseph McCOn-
nell, John lioEenurn u4d Charles Rob
lnson, of the anne settlement, to recov-
er Si,UUO damages, and to restrain
them from allowing water that hJws
from the liumOUldt river through Itch.
e. owned by them from overiio wing on
To his lands, mourning serious damage.
he plain iii IN, also cntered action in
the same court against tie drir:.ian:s
TO determine If they have II right to any
OF said water f"r purpOs, 5 OF irrigation.
he claiming the same 10y virtue ot PRIOR
appropriation, upc and all gyd owner
ship.
\ IT. Louis dispat'h Of the 18th says:
Shortly before midnight last night.
LGss Jones, the mau who was shot
through tao lip last Friday, died from
the effects Of his wounds, Jon was n
middlc-agc, unmarried man, and was
shot while ST .nding uenr the Grecntree
Hotel, just across from the place where
the Louisville n Nashville d putty sher-
Ills directed thciT fusilLde. This makes
nine deaths, with another :ictim not cx-
pec;cd to live.
OF the l2G votes cast in the House Of
Representatives a few days ago on the
question Of the free coinage OF silver,
IOl were cast in the affirmative by Dem
"cr";s, only 20 Republicans voting for
the mc'tsute. Even the two Republican
members from California cast their
vote, III tie negative. Ii " ore conyiuc-
iNg evidence as to which OF the two
great parties in America Is friendly to
the silver interest Is required, we don't
know where 1t could bc found. Aud
yet. the Republican journals of this
state huvc tine gall to attempt to muiu-
tain that silver has quite ms many
friends in their ranks us in the Demo.
cratic party.
Rev. IIeher Newton. q New York
Episcopal preach r, is also editor OF the
Weekday Star, and in a late issue Of
that paper thus exhibits his coutom I
for orthodoxy: "ChrIstiuuity is but n
flower u. Pugtnism. Scmtch "A liussIau
and yUu vii! find II tarIur: scmtch Il
Christian aud you will fluid II Pagan.
Much of our business is conducted on
Pagan principles. Stutcc,at OF even
the most Christian kinds is uublu,h.ug-
ly Pagan. The rrig Oh of the educated
masses Is thr superstition OF our hraDh.
en- ancestors rcbaptizod with Christian
names. Ii our own Church is prepared
10 justify its ecclesiastical Pngtnism
by confessing that it ministers to the
Pagan classes. let it stand REUSED be-
fore their civilization. but ii its >:,unt is
that it ministers to the cultivated clnss.
| e.. let its shame bc that it ministers TO
them still ns though they had not been
led up out Of superstition"
Congressional Democratic Committee.