The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-12-15
RENO CORRESPONDENCE.
The Murder-The Supreme Court on the
Truckee -Washos County and the Pa
cifc Railroad, etc., etc.
RENO, Dee. Ii, 1S7

has been a period of unusual dull
ness at the Reno end of the I. Il L.
L. r., and the town of Reno Is hay
ing an experience OF the difference
between being the p oint for forward
ing all the freight and passengers
for Virginia, Carson. and other
points south by teams and stages.
and becoming aswitch station on the
railroad for transferring the same
freight and passengers by rail.
The present weekopened with one
of those
DEEDS o BLOOD
Too common in our State. but which
Washoe county has not been cursed
with since the double tragedy of
April. 1869. The woman Forshey
was examined before Justice Kelly
yesterday and held to answer to the
charge of murder. Her companions,
Harris and Edwards, were discharg-
ed, nothing appearing to implicate
them, except the fact of having been
in her company just before the blow
was struck, They made no state
ment on the examination. The knife
with which Kelly was stabbed has
not been found, but it is said that
Forshey purchased asmall dagger of
one of our jewellers a short time ago.
THE JUDICIAL EARTHQUAKE
Which destroyed an old w~ater-right
in Carson valley, and disturbed the
equilibrium of all the water in the
State, excited some attention among
those who have occasion to watch
proceedings in the courts, but some
of the residents of Washoe county
had felt premonitory shocks that pre-
pared them for the Overturning of
the old order ofthings. Curses both
loud and deep have been heardas the
decisions of the Supreme Court were
read and commented on during the
last few weeks, and the Crescent in
its editorial of last Saturday echoes
the sentiments of others besides lis
proprietor. Whether the decision
of the Supreme Court in the water
case which has been discussed in the
Register is right OF wrong, there is
no Disgusting the fact that an over
hauling of the action of the court in
that case is approved of very gener-
ally here, and that the august tri-
bunal named has not the confidence
ofthis community. This community
cannot help itself, an the decisions
of the court are "Thus saith the
Lord" for the present at least, and
the talk of revolution must be under
stood in its Pickwickian sense.
On Monday this county and the
Central Pacific Railroad Company
BURIED THE RATCHET,
The county surrendering to the cor
poration upon terms offered by the
latter. The company pay twenty
thousand dollars for the three years
taxes due, and the county dismisses
the two suits for delinquent taxes of
1869 and 1870, and gives a receipt in
full for the taxes of 1870. This is
settling at about thirty cents on the
dollar, but it is argued that the
twenty thousand dollars in hand now
is better than seven thousand seven
years hence, with a prospect of the
whole being lost at the end of that
time. The mills OF our judicial gods
grind SO slowly that more than ten
years was likely to elapse before a
decision would be reached by which
the Il. 4. company could be forced
to pay. In the meantime one-half
the property of the county would
pay no taxes, SO it Will be seen that
our County Fathers did not act I'M
wisely when they decided to bury
the aforesaid hatchet and smoke the
calumet with Governor Stanford's
henchman, who rendered conditions
of peace and. twenty thousand. dol