Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-06-03
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We have learned some interesting
particulars of the killing of a cattle
thief near the Egan road, ten miles
east of this city, some two weeks
since, which circumstance was noticed
in these columns. The men from whom
the cattle were stolen, and who killed
one of the thieves, were Mormons:
The Saints have adopted q new and
rather sharp dodge to avoid paying
license for selling produce here. They
encamp beyond the mountain with
their chattels, come into town and sell
out, the parties purchasing bringing
the produce In under their own licenses.
1t was while thus encamped that the
cattle were stolen. The Mormons
mounted their horses and tracked the
thieves until they were o%vertaken,
when the shooting commemorative
Saints using rifles and the thieves Six
shooters. One Of the robbers was
killed outright but, fearing they would
be detained by the officers of the law,
the Mormons reported that they
"thought" they had killed II Ia
It seems they did kill him, and found
upon the body q pocket book contain
ing a note and q number of other pa
pers, with well known names. We
did not learn whether any money was
found or not. The thieves are believed
to have been from Snake Valley, north
east of the lake of the same name, not
far from Lexington District, and were
over here on a foraging expedition.
The mere mention Of this name-
Shetwell-will call up a thousand REM
iniscences In the minds of the forger's
victims hereabouts. Shotwell Is at Ce-
dar Creek. Montana, specializing. He
specialized some i'll Utah; bought u
number Of horses, for which he gave n
mortgage on somebody else's property,
sold the animals for $1,100 in green
backs and left. Mrs. Shotwell, alias
Bunker, Is also in Montana, but at last
accounts had not reached Cedar Creek.
A man from this city, who knew Shot
we'll intimately here, met the distill-
guished forger at Cedar Creek. and,
calling him by name, asked when he
left Hamilton. Shotwell told him he
was mistaken, that his name was not
Shotwell, and that he had never been
in any town called Hamilton, and them
coolly asked what State or Territory 1t
was In! The man knew nothing Of
Shotwell's transactions, arrest and cs-
cape here, but was certain as to his
Identity, and asked who he was and
where he was from. Old smoothly re-
piled: "My name, sir, is ]. Il. Sander
son; I am from New Jersey have re-
Gently been specializing In grain In
Iowa, and was never further West than
| am at present."
Several heavy mining sales are In
course of contamination, with a fair
prospect Of success. The Trench mine,
western slope of White Pine noun
tain, perhaps the richest base metal
mine in the State, Is "high up" In
London. and will probably be sold
there the Borealis, just north Of the
Earl, was sold yesterday to local capt.
talists for $40 per foot n large portion
of the Hemlock and Wabash CONSOLE
dalton has been engaged at heavy fig
ures by telegraph In Philadelphia the
Pogonip and Othello has been sold to
NUlClkO pdIIlCS, hilN thO hAOtASJ phau ,
the Tom Payne has been consolidated
with the Chicago Mill Company ; and
the Elko will probably be sold within
the next two or three days. Several
important consultations are also about
being made. The Hemlock and Wa
bash Consolidation is about taking In
more ground on Chloride Flat, and
there is ta1k of uniting all the comma
MES claiming ground on the fiat west
Of the Original Hidden Treasure-the
Hidden Treasure South, Montauk, Sill
yer Wedge and Silver Wave.
The offices of City Attorney and
City Surveyor were abolished by the
Board of Trustees at Treasure City at
its last meeting, after the resignation
of the City Attorney had been &C
cepted, and the call for election of city
officers so changed as not to require
the election of q City Attorney Mt the
next election for city officers.