Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-02-03
THE NEWSPAPER ROW.
The San Francisco Chronicle and Sun
Representatlycs-The Charge OF the
Forces-Fllsht Of tho Besleued-Ty.
O In llmbo-Eclipse of the Sun.

Forces-Fiisht Of tho Besleged-Ty-
pos In Limbo -Eclipse Of the Sun.
from the San Francisco Call OF yesterday.l
The unpleasantness between the Sun
and Chronicle still rages with undated
fury. the latter seeming determined to
carry the skirmislies Ia the Interior OF
the solar strongholds. Ne vas displayed
In the actions Of the De Youngs yester.
day. Ever siice the alleged llbellOus
article appeared Ia tn. San Of Satur-
day afternoon, the excitement In the
city has been Intense. II was under
stool OH saturday night that certain
parties having no love TOR the Chroni-
Gle, are prepared to assist Is. +. Nap
ITALY aud X. p. Fitzgerald. the austen
.ible heads Of the Sun. In any manner
that may prove beneficial to them, aud
ss these two individuals might have
taken advantage Of tho propositions,
the proprletors OF the Chronicle turned
out to search for them, seeking Nap
thaly especially "a he Is supposed to
have been the writer Of the obnoxious
article. IL appears that neither Nap
thaly nor Fitzgerald had any desire to
evade the due process oflaw. Although
aware that n warrant for their arrest,
upon q charge Of libel was In tho Ian IS
Of the officers, they made no attempt
to escape, but they did not deliver
themselves up. Yesterday morning,
about Is minutes 10 10 o'clock. Mc.srs.
Napthaly aud Fitzgerald were walk
Ing down kearney street, glsncing
from right to left, as if expecting TO
meet somebody, when they were nc
costsd by All officer who produced q
warrant aud arrested Napthaly. nj.
lowing Fitzgerald to 20 unmolcsted.
Napthaly %sojourned behind piisoi-
walls during tho afternoon and evcii-
Ing. ,,
Yesterday afternoon about . o'clock
the report was brulted about that the
printers employed OIL the Sun Intended
10 issue n paper ; ut which lnforma-
ton tis Do Youngs evidently became
~lncensed, for they procured the scrvlecs
OF Captain Lees, aud IN company with
Sergeant Ward and Oalcers Burns aud
I.erman. proceeded Ia. n hack To the
oillco OF the SUI, on Washington
street. near Battery. There certainly
were compositors In the office, and
those gentlemen state that the INST In
limation which they had OF the arrival
OF this formidable posse was n series III
kicks aud heavy blows upon the door,
under which IL gave away. allowing
two Of the de Young. aud posse free
entcrance. Fearing violence the typos
scattered In every direction, climbing
through the windows upon the roofs of
adjoining houses aud otherwise max
ing themselves scarce. Those who
were unable to escape from the roofs
or the Office, were promptly captured,
aud if the testimony Ut the print.
ers mi DO relied upon they
were kept In tho Office several hours
waiting Tor a general warrant"
This document arriving. they were vs.
corted to the City Prison, aud after be.
ing held for q considerable length OF
time. charges OF mlsdemeansr were
registered against ). l.. Robins
Waters, A. Ba.hncll. j. +. Thrnni,
Charles McCiintock, Joseph Howe aud
William Axtell-tlie arrests belng ao.
credited to Captain Lee, and posse,
AMI the complaining witness being
Charles DE Young. 1t Is said. that
upou breaking open tho door, Michael
n. de Young drew a large revolver
aud, although there was no warrant to
arrest. threatened to blow tho head oil
any man who attempted 10 escape.
The printers who escaped over the
roofs aud succeeded Ia evnding the
..rcneral warrant" returned to the Of
dee shortly after, and eiiecting an ell
trance after some difficulty, found the
doors nailed. the type piled" In .
most effective manner, aud the paper
head broken into three pieces, the
word ..Sun" bclng missing and the
word ''rhe" aud ''l)aily" remaining.
but ir 4 feariully mutilatcd state, as IL
the ''head" had been broken with some
sharp-cornered metallic substance.
Three Of the printers claim that they
have nothing to do with the Sun eillcc,
aud are extremely anxious to know
where the ''mlsdemeanor" comes In.
The bail OF the arrested typos Was
fixed at the maximum OF I 1000 each,
aud that OF Nsphtaly At $1,000. In the
manner above described, an effort Ia
being made to suppress publication OF
the Sun. but 1t Il nevertheless stated
that tonight Ii will make Its appear
ancc as usual.