The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-01-25

number of beer-jerkers and their
agents put up at N of our down
town hotels, and, after running up
bills in the aggregate amounting to
about $40, the jerkers sem their
agents, one evening, to steal their
trunks out of the house. so that the
party might escape payment of their
bills. The landlord caught them in
the act. There were four men en-
gagged in the transportation business,
and they peremptorily declined to
drop the trunks az the landlords
command. Mine host made a break
for n doublc-barrel shotgun. Dur
ing his brief absence the men got
two trunks out, and, going IN
couples, took opposite directions.
The man with the gun followed the
two who hea led up town by a back
street, and soon got ahead OF them.
As the men approached. he came 20
aim, and ordered them 70 carry the
trunk back. or he would blow more
stuflin' out'n EN- than II little The
men counseled together. concluded
discretion vas the better part Of
valor, and started back with the bag
gage, but soon got tired Of their
load and showed the trunk into a
dark alley and took to their heels.
An hour or two aftcrward Constable
Hodgkinson happened along that
way and saw the landlord sit
ting upon the trunk. shotgun in
hand, and half frozen. The officer
found assistance aud had the trunk
returned to the hotel. aud at last ac-
counts all was quiet in the lower end
of town.
How HE Cor Our OF 1.-THE
boys have a standing catch" for
strangers and the uninitiated. on the
drop curtain at the Carson Theater.
The painting represents a scene just
east Of Boca. on the Central Pacific
Railroad, a train OF cars crossing the
stream; a Washoc Indian buck. 4
squaw and two children one OF the
latter led 10y the squav and the
other, an infant, strapped upon her
back standing on a point of rock
ver the Truckee looking AZ the pas
sing train. and between this Croup
and the track i n marshv place
crossed by a large log. To the I'M
itiated there are but the four Indians
mentioned in sight. but 1.-THE boys
make believe there are six. They count
the engine rs one. in order to help a
stranger ont. thus showing five: but
NO further information is volunteer
ed until the greeney gives it up and
asks where the sixth ''iuinn" Is.
when he is Informed that tine other
one Is behind the log noticed across
the marsh. An eX-State official. the
other evening, without thinking.
sprung the Indian question upon two
ladies. OF course he dropped On
himself Immediately. but it was too
late: the curiosity Of the ladies was
excited, and they must know where
the other Indian was. The cX official
tried to get out of il by pointing t.
the locomotive rs one ''iniun,' bu;
the ladies were not TO be put of
with that-tbey must find out the
whereabouts of the sixth one. when
"A happy thought struck him and he
escaped by citing the engineer.
IMPoRTAST SEIzuRR.-A few dav.
since we gave the particulars OF tn,
the case of Glen. Berry vs.. VIM
jackson, in Justice Parkinson.
Court. Glenn. sued for -possersior
of counters, bottles, pictures. mir
rors. and miscellaneous bar fixture.
loaned 20 Jackson. All the parties
adverse claimants and witnesses ar,
of African descent. Under judg
ment rendered for plaintiff, Office.
Sam Hodgkinson yesterday seize,
the personal property in dispute
We saw it strung along the sidewall
back of Gibson's saloon, and in tn
Courtroom, yesterday afternoon
There were two old counters, tire
planks, q lamp chain, three candles
n looking glass, two pictures, /
bottles and several pieces of brokel
glass. The Court claims the candles
a colored woman claims the mirror
and other parties claim the picture
and the remainder is not of suff
cient value to pay the costs Hodl
kinson is in trouble, and will hay
lumber for sale in n few days.
A BEAUTIFUL PAISTISG.-There
on exhibition at the store of John G
Fox, and to be ratified for within
few days, n beautiiul oil paintin
from the brush of our gifted youn
townsman Thomas Davenport, reI
resenting, true to nature. a Sprin
scene at the old emigrant eros,
ing of Green river. with I'll
main summit Of the Rocky Mou.
tains in the back ground. The pain
ing is n of the truest. freshest an
most artistic pictures of Roc
Mountain scenery we have ever seer
and reflects great credit upon II
skill of Mr.. Davenport.
IT,. IN. ~l,x, G.