Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1873-05-14
State News.

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ACowARDLY ASSAULT.--Night
,.fore q last about half past ten
orlock an old gentleman named
TJedman, residing Oh North b
.,,ost near Sutton avenue, was
ssnocked down and terribly beaten
Sr come unknown man who laid
!. wait for him and attacked him
st his own door. The old man had
na,sed down the steps leading to
ihe entrance of his room, which
lin little alley, and was just in
the act of turning the key in the
ioek of the door when he was
feiled by heavy blow dealt him
upon the head by some unseen
narson, His head is terribly cut
and he lost much blood, as his
wounds bled profusely. A lady,
who lives in a house adjoining the
one occupied by Friedman, and
who was seated near window
which is opposite his door, heard
the man who struck him eXclaim
aYou son of a b-h, I'll kill you,
now." She gave the alarm, when
the man broke and ran out from
between the houses and down
Sutton avenue. The old man was
taken to the house of his son-in-
law, Mr.. Davis, who lives at the
corner of Carson and ID streets,
where he now lies, suffering great
paiu from his wounds. One ugly
cut in his head is thought to have
been caused by his head striking
upon a water pipe when be was
first knocked down. The officers
are engaged in working up the
affair.
HEARD FROM.-HOn. Sam. Ow-
ems has received a letter from eX-
County Treasurer Mcdonald, of
Storey county, dated in his native
State of Kentu ky. Mac will be
back in Virginia by the lst Of
June. He feels very homesick.
His old stamping ground d mt
bOk as he expected to see it. The
forests, whert he used to hunt the
coon and 'possum when a boy,
have fallen before the AK of the
vOOdman. His rivers have dwin-
died to creeks and his creeks to
nlls-all is changed. The old
house in which he was born he
found torn down and gone, and he
didn't recognize the old ranch
when it Was pointed out to him.
Nhen " his foot was on his native
hearth his name was not Mae
Gregor, but Mcdonald, and he
wanted to 90 home to Washoe. In
snort, he finds his native land no
Dnger the land of cane and tur.
Key he knew in his childhood
eays, ard he is coming back to the
and of sage and silver.
ARM BROKEN. Yesterday fore
noon Samuel J.Wheeler, a work
man employed at Webb & Null
afds planning mill, corner of Sut-
on avenue and ID street, had both
sones OF his left arm broken about
wuf inches above the wrist. The
aeldent occurred while he was
ensased sn In trying to put band
vTa Wt pulley. 1t appears that Mr..
W. Mueeier was hauling on the band
'me' S;ne MS foot slipped from under
~ tl'li N and he fell in such a way as
%.hrust his left arm through be,
e" @eeh the arms of the pulley and
b'ef p'e upon the edge of the steam
Isalef. Isatf. The speed of the engine
osi asa oeen good deal slackened in
,ta %uer 10 give him Il chance to put
v"n, ~e 9ahd in place, or the arm
"I"u "Uulu nave been broken in more
sa1Iss s,IIes than one. DR.. White was
.s. ,s,leu IN and rendered the neces-
'A'! surgical assistance.
nlELD OF THE Crown POINT
in9aLL nn.!L FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL.
nunins ihs the month of April the
hiunloer i,0nl OF tons of ore extracted
lVi,i lid,a The Crown Point mine was
o jns producing $1,lS5,92O 81, be-
TS;s al average of $S2 IL per ton.
hr h. ~ immense yield speaks we'll
m.nn ane lower levels and the per-
sS. sSaence of our mines. 1t is a
on, n' iron from which a long sermon on
~ 1ilhes might be preached.
bear Ar tnLooM.-All the apple and
boon.lr trees about town are in full
fpitu fHui H. The crop of both kinds of
WITH viii, ~ =. This city, if all goes we'll
Cos n aa IT, ana each blossom prOdu-
70 Saanaap al apple or pear. will amount
Tho a'Jut ,t three bushels and a half.
snd thu p,um trees are also dong well,
b 50 .ie ne crop of this fruit will not
erOn ~ h,. large as the pear and apple
rpoy iouf or five bushels.
Who IL ;aihAlNING.-Patsey Hogan,
Nth is 81 70 have prize fight on the
lrpv;I,i; NJ June next, with James
un ,iian, y and Mitchell, who is to
Ne hatto !" taoot-race on the 18th inst,
ar iotn in !, undergoing severe train
lom !" Hls snls city under the eyes of
ha;. Mean, an old hand et tho