Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-05-31
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relating to soldiers bounties under the
act of the 2sth of July, 1866. Some Of
these complain of the long delay, and
some of them suggest that there is favor
itism to the extent Of taking up recent
cases in advance Of others that have
been filed a long time. Some Others
complain of the failure TO acknowledge
the receipt Of the papers sent to the ray
DEPARTMENT {; and all Of them ask ques-
tons on the subject that we have been
anxious to give satisfactory and reliable
answers 70. In order to make certain
tina, the information given upon the sub
icct in our columns shall be authentic,
we have caused inquiries to be madea at
the Paw Department in Washington, and
have learned what is hereafter stated.
The Department has received about 40O,-
900 claims. These are uniformly &C
kuowledged and recorded in the order
in which they are received, but the euor-
NOUS number Of applications that have
been filed has thrown such a mass OF
correspondence upon the Department
that it is impossible to keep up with it.
On Wednesday, April 10th, which is the
date Of our information, the paymasters
and clerks engaged in the work had only
reached the cases filed in December last,
so rs to send the first acknowledgment
that the papers had been received.
Claimants for bounty will perceive from
this that the failure to acknowledge the
of any papers filed since last
need not make them uneasy.
are paid by companies, and for
the most part upon copies Of muster rolls
furnished from the Second Auditors Of
fee. There is unavoidably great delay
owing to the receipt Of 40O,-
900 claims within q few months, but nc
preference whatever is given to one
claimant or any agent over others. 1t
will be seen from this that letters of iu-
quiry as TO the progress Of any case can
not be answered, and that the only thing
for claimants to do is to exercise as
much patience as they possibly car after
they get their papers filed. There are
ten paymasters and about one hundred
clerks constantly engaged in the Depart
ment, and yet with all this force it may
be a year and q halfbefore all the claims
that are in and still to come in can be
finally settled. Claims that have been
reached for examination, and that have
been finally passed upon, are now being
paid NJ the rate Of five hundred q day
but these, Of course, were among the
earliest cases forwarded 10 the Depart
ment.
4 wAsHoE ANACONDA. A son Of
Mr.. Harris, the asssyer Of Gold Hill,
had quite II snake adventure yesterday,
on the stage road from Dayton to Hot
Springs on Walker River, which is worth
relating in the papers. Driving along
leisurely, in q two-horse express wagon,
near e. Dorado Canon, he observed near
the road quite a contest between a hare
and a huge rattlesnake, the snake hav-
ing got the better advantage of the hare,
having wound itself round the hare and
held fast-like a~nacondas and beacon
strictor, are said to do when they cap
ture elk, and other game, crushing their
victim to death, and then making q
meal Of the carcass by swallowing the
body whole. In this instance the snake
had succeeded in crushing the life out
of the hare, and had already swallowed
the head, ears, and neck of the animal,
clear up to the shoulders. and was evil
IDENTIFY determined to swallow the whole
body, il left alone. Young Harri, de-
scribes the sight rs the most wonderful
he had seen in many adventures be has
had in hunting eIpeditions-and he has
had s good many among these noun
tains. On approaching, Harris says the
snake held her grip on the hare, but
whether from necessity or not he could
tell, but he thinks the bare was so
firmly stuck in the snakes throat that it
could moi have eItricsted itself if it had
tried. On sight Of Harris, the huge
snake sprung eight r~attles, the warning
sign of q rsttlesnake to "hands off,
staring at the intruder with large bulg-
ing eyes, distended head and throat,
aud ,~quirming and twisting and shaking
it's tail worse by many odds than Il GER
tain United States Senator once did
when he chawed and swallowed his 1
in Congress. After witnessing
this strange sight for some time, and
that one Of the contestants was
dead, and the other being likely
TO perish in the attempt to swallow bodi-
" its enemy, Harris thought it best to
settle this "Jonah swallowing the
experiment by dispatching this
Wsshoe snaconda, thereby ending what
he considered q useless confict-as, for
a mouse trying to swallow a
After the snake had been
killed, he caught hold Of its tail, and
actually raised up the hare without
touching it, so tight had it become in
the throat Of the snake.
HIS ASrEcEDESrs.-We had a brief
conversation, this morning, with a
young man in Gold Hill, who has been
on intimate talking terms with John
Millen, the Frenchman TO- in the
" Jail on the charge Of numbering Julia
Bulette, in Virginia, about the Goth Of
last January. Millen admitted to this
Young man, before his arrest, that he
was a transported and condemned felon
in France, convicted Of the crime Of
burglary; and that when the Crimean
war broke out, he, among a lot Of other
convicts in Algeria were offered their
pardon if they fought in the batteries,
breastworks and entertainments. He
accepted the offer; lived through the
war, and ultimately found his way
to the Pacific coast, and across
the Sierras to Virginia city. 1t
is a mistake, so we are informed, that
he has admitted having perpetrated the
horrible crime Of numbering the uufor-
tuuate julie Bulette but he has admit
ted and confessed to having been in the
bed-chsmber a. her house when it was
done ; and be has implicated Chris.
Billie, elias Blair, as the real murderer.
(Of course, as nearly all the property
was found in charge of Millen, his at
tempt to shove off the diabolical deed
upon some one else, by his turning
States evidence and swearing away the
life of somebody else, in order to save
his Internal neck from the gallows,
will of course be received With many
grains of allowance by the proper Off
cers.) But here is what the San Fran
cisco Time, says, speaking of the arrest