The new daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1872-1873, 1873-01-31
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soMErHINa ABOUT THE TITLE
TO THE STATE PRISON.

S0METHING ABOUT THE TITLE
TO THE STATE PRISON.
Everybody knows that there is a
flaw in the States title to the ground
upon which the Penitentiary stands.
The story, in brief, is thuswise: A
certain preemptor located the ground
upon which. the Prison stands.
Eventually his title came to be sold
under execution; and instead of the
States agents buying mp the same
and clearing the cloud from its title.
they were Indifferent. ignorant or
neglectful regarding the matter; # n
the notice of sale was stuck mp under
their noses on the County Building.
where the State offices then were)
and the property was bid'len in by a
man who sold it to Treadway. This
il, in substance, the history OF Tread
ways claim upon it. He bought it
on a speculation, knowing that the
State, so far Us q State may be re
garded as having any mind in such
matters, supposed itself the undis-
puted owner of the said grounds
Therefore he was not what the law
calls an innocent purchaser. But
the stubborn fact is that he has been
duly adiudged the owner of the said
property; and, equities and senti
ments aside, he could. we suppose.
if he chose to, Dust the State from
tho occupancy of til ose premises. It
is not impossible that it was a men
tai reservation of the author of the
bill for the removal of the Prison,
that by making feint in the direc
ton indicated he could induce the
citizens of Carson to take steps to
make the States title good. We do
not mean in this to convey a suspic-
ion of an unworthy motive-for, in
deed, such a movement would be
legitimate;G and. under different cir
cumstanccs ought to be acceded to.
But there is wheel within wheel
about this bushes; and besides that.
a certain culpability to be charged to
the State itself. may he. Let us see:
The aforesaid negligent agents of the
State, that is to say. the Governor.
the Secretary of State and the Attor
ney General who constituted that
awful aggregation of magnates. the
Board of State Examiners, were the
same who failed to stop Eben Rhoade>
from Incorporating something
more than a hundred thousand dol
lars from the State Treasury. The
very same. They were painfully
puttering and severely oyer-nict-
about all their lit e rrerogatives and
were dreadfully alarmed lest the
Legislature should get its pay in adj
vance of other appropriations. and
needlessly suspicious of Sergeants
alarms; but while they were notori
ously given to this straining at the
gnat of small attractions of the con
stitutional importance of themselves
as the Board of Examiners. they
were compiacently permitting Far
mer Treadway to possess himself of
Sheriff. deed to the Prison; and.
while racking back on their awful
dignity. allowed Rhoades to empty
the vaults of the State into the loose
keeping of the San Francisco stock
sharps and women of the town. So.
indeed, there are two sides to this
matter. If, as is doubtless true,
Treadway was guilty of a sharper's
dodge in getting possession of his
deed to the Prison grounds. the
States law advisers and guardians
were cnlpably neglectful of their
duties in not knowing what was go
ing on and not attempting toprevent
it. As between that old Board of
Examiners aud this DER shrewd hus
bandman it is six of one and hall
o dozen of the other; aud if eQui-
ties could lie made an er post
facto affair the said exploded Board
should he made to cure that |
deed. But here is
yet another phase of the matter:
ffaadwa,s If he were the sole person
in The SAID deed might be
by pony purse made up
our citizens, and Carson
could thus do what (perhaps( this bill
is intended to induce its citizens
10 do, namely, present the State with
, clear title to the said grounds; bnt,