Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1873-07-20
Sa Sagebrush News.

,vcrxpIARY CAUGHT.-A Mexi-
'med Frank Rier set fire to a
hnilding between Il and g
few doors south of City Hall,
CLOCK last night. by saturating
oal oil the boards of the house
Ome @ kindlings which he had
red' .' and then applying a light
tch No block in the city per-
ro,ld burn more readily than
~ in the center of which the fire
;ndled, and but for the provi-
1 nroximity Of officers Simpson
Iavton to the spot, and their
n,re,s and daring. a disastrous
rration would have enSued. Re
seems to have been the incent-
I. Frank" had been working for
me Torres, who owns two or
buildings in the block (the two
len which the fire was started),
ad recently been discharged by
hereupon, it is said, he threat
70 burn her houses. However
nav be. certain it is he made the
mt and was found concealed un-
Stairway only a few feet from
70 from which place he was
ed by the above named officers
" them taken to prison. He ev-
iy intended to burn up a portion
of the Torres family, including
kme Torres, her brother and
HER as he kindled the fire
st the room in which the brother
leeping, and tied the door on the
dr so that it could not be opened
within. 1t is also reported that
IS desperately smitten with Miss
&. a handsome girl of 16, and it
ieyed by some that because OF
Indifference and aversion he in
n to destroy the whole family
hen take his own life, as he had
Linn a small bottle of nitric acid.
bade Miss Torres good bye last
ng, telling her that she would
see him nor her mother nor her
again. Rier will have an eX-
alton before Justice Marble this
hoOD.
IS. M1IToN MYGATT. Principal of
irst Ward Public School, was the
lent of a pleasing surprise last
ing, at her residence on Stewart
Some thirty of her pupils,
\ of them accompanied by their
bts, called upon Mrs. Mygatt,
X her completely by surprise.
latter cordial Misunderstanding all
ID, little Jennie Levison stepped
ard and presented her with a
tiful, solid silver, gold-lined fruit
kar spoon, in the following neat
speech Mrs. Mygatt: On be-
bfsome ofyour scholars, I present
with a small gift as a token of
steem," \ bOunteOus collation.,
BRED and taken with them by the
ren, was then spread, and the
" reunion lasted for some hours.
DEAD INDIAN Was found on the
DE, south of the settlements, yes
ly afternoon. The body was that
buck, and it was lying in the
brush covered with a few old
Several members of his tribe,
lmped close by, were informed Of
act, and were asked what they in
led to do with the body. One of
number replied: He all right;
m' by he heap live all same as be-
yoRCED.-Among the legal items
Hooked in the midst of the excite
| incident to the great explosion
the granting, by the First Dis
Court, of decree of divorce to
Mary Z. Emerson from her
Pand Mark Emerson, on the
Pnd of desertion.
rom the Carson Appeal Of July III
(lss SARAH WINNEMUCCA passed
way On her way to Virginia City,
{erday. She told us that she was
Pgto visit Mrs. Dittenrider there.
\ person is commonly reputed to
(ne daughter of the old war chief
me Flutes; but this statement is
Eed' and it is set up, on the other
as true, that she was born of
Eer parents somewhere in the foot
Z OF The Sacramento Valley, and
educated by 1.-The Sisters" at
tatholic academy in Marysville.
the fact remains that she is
rSh versed in the Piute tongue to
|so!e to talk fluently with that
ior whom she has frequently
Fu as an interpreter. She is popu-
\ d pfiegarded as the virgin Queen of
,ri9leS; Is a plain little woman,
tsy Ozark; dresses like an American
. .aie OF rustic habits and modest
feusions; and talks English with
any perceptible accent. She is
Il capable person, and reads our
Eaase and expresses herself in
EEus H-writes, in fact, quite cor
~ ',o. ana with considerable force of
We have also heard of
bo" omll'lng poetry. AS a reputed
p'sss Is OF the Piute blood royal, she
!, 'ahlhous character and one who
s,, 81 oe interviewed by every we'll
uc.ed newspaper reporter.
IN 'hsA MONK, whose veracity is one
N ne proverbs Of his day and gener-
II Tns stopped us yesterday to say
I,aIe Ieseay p; was "a very dusty day
Iske ~ Bigler." "You mean to say
mere was strong wind on the
ina Se suppose"-said our reporter.
nH. .u amt no name for it," said
S, .hfn,, adding, in that charming
aa r.n manner Of his, "the white
faSs ash away up to Spooner's." We
uyS, mat we shouldn't have
uSnt Si they would have struck up
n ISn, S,a pat we suppose they did, or
- wouldn't have said so.
on q, MINT.-The total amount of
r. r. soid and silver, received at
b larson arson Mint yesterday, was
er hUd,iiiices, 2,2S0 of which was
,ia 'eiiion y. sent from Benton, Cali
Inca W o, .he Mint for coinage; the
q o 10. came from the Crown Point
tram Melting and assay. BY the
Of fat,l aha last night. the Superintend-
sne Mint shipped Id Unmarried