Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-10-26
Virginia, Nov, Oct 81, 1870.

The CANYON BATrI.C.-Our Item or
yesterday relative to the battle In
Seven-mlle Canyon, between the fight
era employed rs armies Of occupation
by the parties ~contending for the wa
ter right, was very correct as far as It
went. The Enterprise says: ain the
melee X. II. Lindsay, the actor, was
shot In the right leg about four inches
above the knee. The ball passed be-
hind the bone and almost grazed the
femoral artery, inflicting a painful
flesh wound. Dick Paddock had his
left shoulder broken close to the socket
Of the joint-the part broken being
what the doctors call the surgical neck
Of the humerus. His injury Is a very
bad one. and he will not be likely to
recover from It for some months. Les
lie +. Blackburn was shot through the
coat In front about the waistband Of his
pantaloons. These men were all on
the side Of the sluicing company. On
the other side there were but two. men
engaged, 4 Mr.. Prentice and William
ShieE. Prentice "a badly beaten
about the head and face with a rock BY
Blackburn. He has several cuts upon
tho head, n bad one between the eyes,
and another on the upper lip. He was
able to walk up from the canyon after
the fray. when his wounds were sewed
up and dressed by DIR. Heath. He was
not so badly hurt as WAS at first re-
ported, and will not be permanently
distigured. Drs. Hopkins and White
attended to Lindsay and Paddock.
The ball was extracted from LindSay's
leg BY DIR. Hopkins, and the two ply
sicians set Paddock's broken shoulder"
As to who started the fight, the stories
OF each party conflict. Blackburn
says he did not start it. and the other
party says he did. Anyhow, It Is evil
dent that the fight was n pretty gen.
eral one, and some Of the combatants
are badly damaged. This Is the first
real fighting collision between the
contestants Of the water right, and use
less rs far as settling the point at Issue.
Both parties still keep men In occupa-
ton, and sent fresh recruits to the can
yon last evening.
FEARFUL. TEAMISG AccDESr.--We
clip from the Enterprise the following
dispatch received from Dayton, last
evening, relative to the shocking acct
dent which occurred some ten miles
from that town : This evening as q
wood team was coming down Illinois
Canyon, ten miles distant, on its way
TO Dayton, the driver, Frank Rank,
being under the influence Of liquor,
fell or slipped from his saddle-hor>e
and the wagon, loaded with four cords
Of wood. passed ove the unfortunate
mans back, nearly ~severing him In
two. In this state he was found soon
after by q fellow-teamster. with his
eyes protuding from their sockets and
hist enough life In him to tell him to
hurry for a doctor. This Is the state
nent Of the man who found him. His
BODY will be In town at IL o'clock to-
night. Frank Rank Is the same man
who was tried last year at Genoa for
the murder Of Roach"
CKEprrABLE.-At the regular meet
ing Of the Virginia Board Of Aldermen
held last evening, the following reso-
luton was unanimously adopted
.That a vote Of thanks Is hereby ten
dared TO the Cole Silver Mining and
Water Company for the supply OF
water they so promptly turned OIL to
ff!l up the cisterns and aid the flremen
In extinguishing tho fire OIL c street on
Sunday morning last"
WooD.-Ths Railroad Company Is
rushing a large amount Of wood
through from Carson to Virginia and
Gold Hill at the present time. There
Is little danger OF any scarcity Of that
desirable article during the coming
winter. so the Chinese wood packers
need not set their Ideas too high.
John has already put on three or four
bits extra per donkey load, and has a
firm eye for = still further advance.