Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1873-10-03
Telegraph;c DELINQUENCY.

~ tuc eauSE VI tle SENlINEL. are
well aware, we have growled al
most necessarily for the last year at
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany for the very shabby name in
which we have been treated with
reference to news dispatches. We
felt that we were alone in the matter.
but fortunately the Phoebe Record
comes to the rescue. The annexed
article in that journal of rcce IT date
is timely and to the point:
The remissneSs of the " stern
Union Company in furnishing dis.
pitches to this 1eper is simply
abominable. Tie act that it CON
tinues to demail a;3 receive pay for
the bungling u;ar,iar in which it fur
nishes Dispatch - me Record affords
another evidence t.-t corporations
have no souls. y have very fire.
Quentlv of late tipped from San
Francisco papers Interesting Eastern
and Pacific Coast TENS which ought
to have ON 10y telegraph, but coll
cluded in each case that The omission
was the result of oversight, and there
fore said nothing about il. But since
the 10th Of September SO many i'm
portant events. in which all classes
felt an interest, have been neglected,
that we cannot. ia Justice to- our read
ers, refrain from eX losing the shame
full negligence OF tn, Western Union
Telegraph COmnanS. On the 10th of
September the Republican State Con-
ventiOn of California met at Sacrament
to; but not a line in regard to its pro-
ceedings was afforded us by the Tele-
graph Company. Next in order was
q Democratic State Convention in
California but we had no report of
its proceedings bv telegraph. On
Thursday last the independent Sta y
Convention me- at Sacramento, and,
as we had made a special request for
i~eIegraphic Information of its pro-
ceedings. we were RECALLED with a
large amount of speculation in regard
to who would be the nominee for
Justice of the Supreme Court but
next dav, when a nomination WAS
actually made. we could obtain Moth
ing about it, and had to await the
arrival of the California papers lefore
learning who had been nOtninated.
Last week the Republican SAFE Con-
vention of New York met aHd made
nominations, but We only a>rartained
the fact through a San Francisco
paper. On Friday last. the 26th. the
appointment of a Chief Justice of the
Cnlted states was made. but Our sub.
lime Telegraph Company either could
not or would not lit certainty did not
ave us anv information of the impOr-
tant event. We obtained the infnrma-
ton from a Salt Lake paper OF Sa'ur-
dav last, which waS received vester-
day morning. BY every rule of right.
by the terms Of the contract between
the %prOprietOrS Of the Record and the
Western Union telegraph Company.
this piece of intelligence should have
been given to u readers on Saturday
last.
The SENTINEL and Record receive
word for word IL, same report. The
price exacted is onerous and must be
promptly met at the expiration of
each month. Our part of the contract
has always been fulfilled to the let.
ter. How we'll the telegraph COM
pany have discharged the obliga-
tons, is succinctly set forth in the
above article from the Record; the re-
ports being identical, the SENTINEL.
of course, has the very same grounds
OF complaint. We have tried hard to
have these things corrected have
written letter after letter, but to no
purpose. We sometimes succeed in
getting fair promises for amends, bet
oftener we are falsely told by the
managers that they are transmitting
to US regularly each day all of the
most important occurrences hat come
into their possession.
The Postal Telegraph is the only
hope of the interior press. TIE Union,
Bulletin and Cal, composing the AS
ISOLATED Press on this coast, have a
monopoly of the news dispatches,
and their contemporaries must either
be content with such garbled trash as
the telegraph company sees proper
to dole out to them, or do without
telegraphie reports altogether. The
consistency of the journals mentioned
is hardly apparent. They claim to be
the staunchest opponents Of monopo-
ly, vet do not hesitate TO maintain a
corner" on the news of the country.
Such ~effrontery, we undertake TO say,
is without a parallel in he whole
history of journalism. II /, nothing
more nor less than downing. disEon-
esty.
Through the efforts of tn writer
hereof, the Le-isEatTre of Nevada at
its last session tdopted a resolution,
memorabilia -.ugress TO pass the
Postal TeleP-auA Iaw. If the newly
elected Legislature of California is
honestly oppose to monopoly, AS is
claimed, 1t Will pursue a similar
course. The Western Union Tele.
graph Company is as much a monopo-
", and as unreasonable in its de-
mands, as the Central Pacific Rail-
road Company.