The Weekly Elko Independent

The Indian War Averted.

J. S. Mayhugh, who at the instance of Acting Indian Agent Smith, went up to Tuscarora on Wednesday, returned here by stage last evening. Mr. Mayhugh does not enter upon the duties of the position to which he has been appointed until the first of next month, but in the interest of peace, humanity and the territory over which he will soon preside, he, in a grand pow wow with the discontented and emaciated reservation refugees, poured oil upon the turbulent aboriginal waters, so to speak, by pledging his prospective authority in favor of organized, systematic government; the foundation of which grand superstructure is simply— more grub. With this soothing, but post-prandial assurance, the belligerent braves were much mollified, and the voices, so late supposed for war, roared gently as the sucking dove. Frontier diplomacy is an art in which Acting Agent Smith is evidently not versed; hence his error in mistaking the hollow rumblings of aboriginal empty bellies, for the deep mutterings of approaching war.