Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1873-10-02
An Open Letter to the Operators
ct Che Western Union Telegram.

Cotdemn the dead Cbiname, +,
what care we whether thew were
shot. stabbed, drawn and chartered
or Jerked in mince!meat, or whether
their names wcrc Nh Moon, All Hung
or Sam Lee. : 'ong as they are of
no Use to any oily any more? And
the man who e, drowned in tho b,v
name unknova-we have heard of
nun 50 often that our pity for his sur.
viving relatives is exhausted. The
Cinnamon here don't read English,
and don't take tho paper-so no more
on that subject, if YOU please. The
drowned man with no name has been
uead so long that by this ,ime-fauvh ,
As To- the arrival of The shin FLYING
Dntchman. loaded with Chinawomen
1t IS a sickeninS subject; and II
ulchne are too much absorbed i'm
the business of brewing to take mich
LIT rest in the shipping interest. And
tnen Your spsculatiOns AS 10 what il
thought of the financial panic are So
profonnd@too 6eep for ordinary read.
ers. Don please don't! Your gram
mar and rhetoric are exhaustive Of
the American language indeed. ex.
hauStinT to the comprehension of
youf readers. Examples: The man
is thought to have been wounded ly
3 Knife" 1T is Thought to u the
OPINION of many" "All hands are
said to have perished." No room for
more i'll This letter, else they would
De gwen; You say that Mr.. John
SneFh. who was murdered on Satur.
day last, was the son of widow Smith
of your city. Why, this is the first
l~ntitnation YOU have given us that
NTH is killed. WHY didn't YOU
sand the particulars of the murder on
the aav it occurred? And now YOU
E"Gf rs on the tenter-hooks of suS.
nat till we know who is widow
an " who is Smiths murderer.
,et the fact that the man who was
a.a'.ted IN recovering, before we learn
tnat such An individual exists. Such
diSjoiited and bewildering informa.
ton befogs us completely. And then
the plthv Speec eS of Chamber-Of-
Commerce Presidents in New York
on the operations of the Stock Ex-
change! They Amos: took our breath
away. Such wisdom in few words
could come to us only over the lines
of the Western Union Telegraph.
And all before VIC are made acGuaint-
ed with the preceding action of the
comnlercltl maSnateS on the subject.
What a convenience the telegraph is,
to he sure; especially to readers of
interior papers! How Interesting the
shipping and commercial news from
he Bay of San Francisco to readers
ut the inland harbor of Eureka, Briggs
and schoonrrs. SloopS and hermaphrO-
diteS. come sailing into Eureka I'VE
the Western Union lines, loadei with
onions as'a potatoes, sheep and hogs.
lumber and latfS, consigned to meI-
chants in San FIR nciSco. No marks
OF punctuation are used in the dis
patches. and their omission causes
many mistakes to be made by the
bothered editors and printers, and
emphatic but not polite eXclamatinnS
on the part of eXaSperated readers.
Capitals and periods are obsolete with
ol'eratorS-so we eve know where
one sentence ends and another begins.
That is, we itOuld " know, il it
were not for the laborS of those pa
tent men. the editors and G. mpoSjtorS
OF daily NEWSPAPERS. And that their
patience IS no i~npXhauStible, this
epiStle is at nncC Il warning and an
evidence, which You, MeSSrS. Opef-
atorS, should heed. and act according
lV. A SUFFERING VICTIM.