The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1872-11-14
LETTER FROM SAN FRANCISCO.
SAN FRANcrsco, Nov. 10, 1872.
THE TEN MILLION SUBSIDY.

IHE oubolDls
There seems to have been deep-laid
conspiracy to smuggle through the ten
million dollar subsidy for the Colorado
Railroad; but the people would not be
gulled. and voted it down, in spite of pre-
tended Withdrawals or proclamations
from the State Central Committee. So
earnest were the advocates of the subsidy.
and so treacherously did they work, that
they in the loudest terms proclaimed
that all votes mentioningitwo thereby
be vitiated and thrown out. The Re
publican Central Committee, which had
received its principal funds from the Cen
tral Pacific Railroad Company, would
not insert Against, etc. on the ticket,
until they found theywere likely to lose
the city by it, and then most ungrace-
fully submitted to destiny. We were
told that the Directors had withdrawn
their application, and pledged themselves
not to accept it even if voted The fact,
too, was parade1, that the Directors were
men of wealth and high standing, and had
their honor to protect | fancy that
when one trusts to the honor of one
who has made fortune in San Fran
cifco speculation and scheming opera
tions, he trusts to the frailest thing that
ever hope hung shadow upon.
ESCAPE OF THE GREAT FoRGERs.
The remarkable escape from Jail of the
two Brothertons is the sensation OF the
hour. On Saturday they were convicted
of forgeey, aud sentenced to fill out the
term of a former sentence in the State
Prison. A eonsiderate Sheriff did not
wish TO interfere with their Sunday de-
votions, SO postponed taking them to
San Quentin until some day best suited
to the boys The jailor, too, appre-
ciatiye soul, thought that such honorable
gentlemen could be trusted with their
own commitment and sent to prison with
ont escort. They were real good fellows,
with money and friends, and it was a
cruel law that shut them ont from the
world for long II years. The Sheriff
was warned by the District Attorney that
an attempt ut escape or violent rescue
would be made; but he only laughed at
it. He now says he gave orders for extra
care, but certainly no such order was
obeyed. Kelley, the principal jailor, APP
pears to have been the confdante and
friend Of the forgers, and permitted the
game to be made. One of the jailors on
watch, yelling, was called away by the
thinnest ruse ever played ON a webfoot--
that was to visit "a sick woman in the
southern part OF the city. He obcyed the
summons, and in few minutes after he
left the Jail the Brothertons, aided by
trusty, walked into the jailor's office
hand-euffed and gagged the only man on
watch, and walked OFF. As they had not
been furnished with their commitments
to the State Prison, it is not supposed
that they have reported ut that eleemosy-
nary institution. In this affair, which is
fitting sequel to the recent noted trials
in the courts, there appears not only great
laxity of discipline, but actual bribery of
prominent officials, otherwise the escape
can not be accounted for The Board of
Supervisors has ordered an investigation,
which is now in progress; but there
seems to be so much corruption that lit
tie dependence can be placed on the re-
suit.
After the many frivolous and senseless
decisions by the Supreme Court, and the