Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-05-27

officer Downey for stealing and selling horse
probably nothing more than a breach Of
trust-will have hearing this evening. W.
V. Churchill, arrested by Bulger, for assault,
case was set for 3 o'clock this afternoon,
Simon Goslin, for violation of city ordinance,
in peddling without license, was discharged.
c. Redmond, arrested by Downey, for firing
a pistol in the streets; set for II o'clock on
18th inst. Ben. Blue, arrested by Lynch for
fighting, pleaded guilty; fined $l5; paid. Sam
Harrison, arrested BY Clancy, for sleeping on
sidewalk; sent up for six days. Sam Slick,
for fighting, arrested BY Clancy; fined $40;
paid. Sam Gardner, arrested by Clancy, for
fighting, fined $40; paid. Civil: Mcfarland
VS.. W. Mccoy, suit for $50 on book account
set for next Monday at u o'clock.
La PLATO ORo.-This Company is now
working in both its shaft and tunnel. The
former has been sunk down so that it is about
100 feet below the level of the tunnel. This
latter work is being cleared out, repaired, re-
timbered, and will in short time be run
further ahead. Since it has been connected
with the shaft, the air up to that point has
become perfectly pure, and beyond that
place, away up in the end of the tunnel, the
air is also very much improved. The Com
pany intends to put in pipes to conduct fresh
air to the back end of the tunnel, so that
work can be carried on there without delay
from closeness and foulness of air.
New OREGON CoNPANY.-The New Ore
gon Company keeps work going ahead in its
shaft which is now lis feet deep, and is
about sixty-four feet from the tunnel which
runs under it. The company is having
very fine shaft sunk, and are timbering it,
and finishing it up in a workmanlike man
ner. The mechanics who have been at work
framing the building, which is to be erected
over the shaft, have got that nearly ready to
be raised and soon the machinery will be on
the ground, ready to be put up. The New
Oregon company seems to be taking the lead
of its neighbors in making improvements.
DEAD.-M. S. Carnahan, who was so ter
ribly injured yesterday by falling distance
OF eighty feet in the Jewett Co.'S shaft, is
dead. His injuries are described by DR..
Hall as follows: Fracture of the stcrnum, at
the union of the superior with the middle piece,
and the thoracic organs sustaining great IN
Jury; also, compound fracture of the tibia
and fibula of the left leg, at the middle Of the
shaft of the bones; fracture Of the external
malicious of the tibula Of the right leg, with
confusion of the right shoulder, and hume
the face and head. He survived only about
three hours after the accident.
FALSE ALARM OF FIRE.-About 2 o'clock
this morning, there was false alarm Of fire
in Virginia. The various fire companies
turned out, and for a time all the northern
portion of the city was in a perfect uproar.
1t proved that the alarm was not only false
but given in pure wantonneSs BY some poor
fool who thought it very fine joke to alarm
the city, and who ran down B street, between
Union and Sutton Avenue, yelling FIRE at the
top Of his voice. Had the FIRE ladies"
caught him, he would have had something to
yell about.
DREADFUL AccIDENT.-This morning, at
about o'clock, a most sickening accident
occurred at the Union Mill, at Silver City
One of the workmen, named Watson, was
engaged somewhere about the machinery,
and by accident had one Of his arms COM
pletely crushed to jelly, from the wrist to
the elbow. Drs. Steele, of Silver, and Gas
ton, of Gold Hill, were sent for, and found
the unfortunate man in bad state. At ten
tween the elbow and the shoulder.
OvERMAN Co. - This Company keeps
large number of men constantly employed.
Some are finishing off the building; others
erecting the hoisting works, and the ma
chinists are setting the engines. There are
two engines which are being set parallel to
each other, a little way apart. All the work
being done here is the best, and it seems as
If the aim Of the Company is the praise
worthy one Of making its works excel all
others in the district, in order, strength and
beauty.
A New SHAFT.-A new shaft is being sunk
a short distance south from the South Over
mans upper works. 1t is being sunk, we
were informed by workman, by the Central
American Company. 1t has just been COM
menced, and is now down only twelve or
fourteen feet. This shaft is as much as five
or six hundred feet north of the company's
main shaft, and must be near the north end
of its claim. The shaft is being commenced
as if designed to be substantial mining
work.
INGESIors.-We noticed an ingenious lit
tie machine at the North American claim
yesterday-the handiwork of the engineer.
1t is a simple concern which records the
number of revolutions which the engine
makes. 1t has the capacity of counting up
to one million 1t has been attached to the
engine less than two weeks, but up to the
time we were there yesterday it had recorded
303, lis revolutions, which the engine had
made during that period.
KNIcKERBocKERS HAFT.-This company's
upper shaft is now something over 270 feet
deep, and is all the time being carried down
deeper. This is now the deepest shaft sunk
on any of the claims down that way. A great
deal Of the way it has been sunk in hard
rock, and has been slew working, but for
some time past the rock has been getting
softer, and the work can now be CARED on
more rapidly.
DEAD.-John Clark, the man who was
shot yesterday forenoon, in Virginia, in a
quarrel about a piece OF ground, died this
morning about three o'clock. Thomas Viii
kinson, the man who shot him, had no hear
ing this morning, his case being postponed
until after the inquest on the body Of Clark
Wilkinson is still in confinement at the city
Jail.
THERE were very good indications of
fight this among some Of the sports of B
street, Virginia. Pistols were drawn, and
things looked warlike for time, but finally
quiet was restored. Gold stills remains un-
changed-except what little is being changed
at the bars for cocktails.
CONSIDERABLE quantities Of square timber
are now coming in from Washoe Valley.
Judging from the dimensions Of most Of it,
we should say it is for the frames Of mills,
hosting works, and the interior Of mines.
A FELLOW, in giving his opinion Of the
keepers of the ten-dice games of Virginia,
remarked that they ought to have great sue
cess among the fair se8-they had "such
id winning ways"
BULLION. - Wells, Fargo & Co. this
morning shipped 81 bars and sacks Of bull
lion, weighing in all l, 1872 pounds, and valued
at S46,777 SO.
MosT of our brokers are at present en-