The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-09-13
SEPULCHRAL.-Among the stlrewd-

sEi
est men of our times are those IN
fined in State Prisons. They adopt
every conceivable device that promises
escape, Not long since we recorded
the fact that two of the conVlcts at the
Warm Springs coIiceaied thenl>eiVes
III the vault of Il not over clean irIry,
where they we're discovered by Lieu
tenant Governor Denver and his
guard. \ dav ortwO since there was
missing 1T evening roll call Oue Pat
Hurley, Il quick wIJted 1ri>hlnaIt, sent
up from this county for five years
from October IL, 1870, for robbery.
Pat is b Wears OF age. "A shoemaker by
trade, and. Wishing 10 esunI his out
door exercises. failed To appear at roll
call. During the day a blast had been
put in the eastern face of the natural
stone wall which encIo-es the prison
grounds, the explosion of which
opened NJ IA small cavern in the quar-
~. In this Pal had concealed him
self, and some of the prisoners had
piled Fragments of the StOu upon him
until no pan OF him WAS left exposed
except the nose. Search WAS lu>tl-
tuted, and one al the guard fired a
shot at tho pile OF stones IN which Pat
was concealed, but he moved not. At
length a guard climbed up among the
loose rocks above Pat, when Il stone
rolled duNu aud struck the sepuitured
Milcsiau ulnun the prnt'o~cIs. \ pro
fame expression at once revealed the
whereabouts of the missing prisoner.
STATE CABINET.-We would suggest
that, ooner or later. our State he pro-
vided With a cabinet. Some II has
written that '.every state should have
sufficient individual pride to place
samples of her productions where
strangers, AS Well As her own citizens,
could stuiv tlIein.' At a trifling
cost NeNada could soon possess her
self OF one of The finest, most valuable
and interesting cablGet> in the world.
No State in the Union is SO rich in
fossils, and perhaps no similar area OF
territory in the world contains as
great a variety OF minerals and metals,
10 say nothing Of her ora aud fauna,
which, though limited, are rich in
rare specimens. State M~ineralogGst
WhitehiiI is collecting \ great variety
of specimens, but these, we believe,
have heretofore been considered in
dividuai property. If the State
would provide a suitable receptacle,
and for classifying and labelling >peci-
mems, we believe that voluntary con
tributions (the State paying for trans
portatiop) would give us a cabinet
within five years that would be worth
twenty five or thirty thousand dollars.
MILITARY.-The following appoint
ments have been made for the staff OF
I;rigadier General c. c. BatterInaa,
Second Brigade, Nevada Militia, and
commissions were Yesterday issued to
each ofthe following named gentlemen
each of whom BEARS the rauk Of
Major: COmmIs>ary, Jewett w.
Adams; Payma>ter, d. h. Avery;
Surgeon, X. Weber; Inspector, J. r.
Smith; Quarterina>ter, A. NJ. Edging-
ton; Ordnance Officer, L. NJ. Hart;
Engineer, w. Ii. Smith.
NEVADA CoRN.-P. II. Clayton has
this season raised 100 bushels OF corn
upon one acre of sagebrush land, on
his ranch in Carson Valley, nine miles
from this city. We have seen a speci-
men ear of the corn. 1t is of the red
flint variety. The ear we examined
was 1872 inches in length, contained
II rows of grain, with 30 grains to the
row., or GOO grains to the ear. Two
years ago the sagebrlsh was pulled
from the land on which the cor la
raised.
BRIDGE BURNED.-The long bridge
across the northern end of Washoe
Lake, was destroyed by fire on Mon
day evening last. The bridge was
about 1000 feet in length, and origin
ally cost $4,000. The fire originated
in the tules of the marshy land ada
cent to the bridge, and ragged until
several hundred acres of vegetation
was destroyed, but other than the de-
structiOn of the bridge, we believe no
damage was done.
DEAD.-William D. Turner, the col
ored man who kept the Capitol Res
tauraRt, mex door to this office, last
Spring. died in Virginia day before
yesterday. Deceased was a native of
Buffalo, n. Y, aged g years, and was
much respected both by his own race
and the whites for his many virtues
and quiet and ~geutlemauly bearing.
He had long been sorely afflicted with
rheumatism, and doubtless welcomed
death as a surcease to his sufferings.
STATE LANDs.-Jas. Anderson yes
terday deposited with the State Treas-
urer $50 in currency, one-fifth pay
mont for 200 acres of land in Humboldt
county. Alex. Wise, Of the same
county, deposited 500 for $40 acres Of
doable minimum land belonging TO
thilHtate.