Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-02-21
lair Inyo Items,

from the Inyo Independent, Feb. ISL
Aweek or go since four men, bearing
respectively tho names of Walker,
Clark, McCarty and Johnny Stewart,
arrived In the lower end Of this coun-
ty, the two former from Columbus, we
believe. In Cerro Gordo they Joined
In on nm extended and rampageous
drunk. During the whole time their
especial dislike and animoslty was
manifested toward the Msxicans, rs a
class, upon whom they heaped the
worst insults and v%ituperative abuse.
On the evening mentioned the ball
opened by o rumpus In Hughes sa-
loon. but serious consequences were
prevented by AL. Briggs, the barkeep-
or, hustling out the crowd and closing
up the house. About ~ o'clock the
four, with flourlshing six-shooters,
started down the hill to a dead-fall
dance house known as Madam Moore's
or e Waterfalls" McCarty and Stew
art, the latter having q few months
ago had occasion to shoot q Mexican
In Lone Pine, probably %scentlng trou-
BILE In the air, concluded that dis
erection was," ETC., and continued
their walk so far past the water
fall" place that they finally reach
ed Lone Pine. Walker and Clark,
however, entered the establishment,
and announced that they proposed to
run tho machine for q while. The
Mexlcans, having been informed by
the "landlady that their assistance
was not desirable, concluded, after the
jeers and threats they had withstood
for some days, not to heed the intlma-
ton, but to settle the matter In their
own way. At this point Americans
other than Walker and Clark have oc-
casion to remember being assisted out.
This move effected, a Mexican stepped
up and placed a pistol almost In con-
tact with Walkers head aud fired,
while the latter was brandishing his
own weapon-a six-shooter. But the
ball only coursed around the skull and
did not kill him. The firing became
general. In due course Of which Clark
got u dose Of lead that knocked him
hors de combat, receiving a bullet In
the groin. Clark has been brought to
the hospital at Camp Independence;
Walker remains In Cerro Gordo. The
Mexicans. armed with pistols, knives
aud rocks, are represented rs having
went In for blood. but the public sym.
pathy seems to be very generally with
them, nevertheless. During tho same
night, at another dance-house, that Of
Lola Trevis, two young Mexicans got
into a quarrel concerning one Of the
women. The father Of one Of them In
terfered and received a shot through
the abdomen, which Is likely to prove
fatal. I ~
At Ida, OH the night Of the 9Th In
slant, an ARRAY occurred between two
Mexlcans, which resulted In the stab
bling of Abram Altamarino. he receiy-
ing a severe wound In the left breast,
and a slight one where the breast bone
arrested the course Of the knife. Had
the blade struck but an inch lower the
wound would have proved fatal !; as 1t
ID, however, the man will doubtless
recover. The camp abounds In 6unged
eyes, big cheeks, peeled noses and
noses set to one side. A man can
always get ''mansarded ~ In fact, they
can have q free fight at any time to
suit the convenience Of parties con
cerned. Nor do they confine them
selves to any particular mode or code.
but kick, strike, chaw, scratch and
swear.
On Wednesday evening last, David
Naylor, the w%ell.known storekeeper
Of Big Pine, while carslessly manipu-
lating q pistol, accidentally discharged
1t, the ball landing In his foot. making
a painful but probably not a dangerous
wound.