Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-10-02
Failure.

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NEW YORK, Oct. l.
Fritz and Hinchman, dealers in
building materials, failed yesterday;
liabilities, S7S,9OO; assets, $4,000.
An Attem pied swindIe.
NEW YORK. Oct. l.
A man named ChaS. Adams, OF Buff
falo, yesterday bought a cargo OF grain
from Beecher & Sprague for 1925.
He paid for it by 4 certified check on
the Bank of New York for $4,000 aud
received a check for the difference,
when Beecher and Sprague bethought
themselves to inquire as TO the genu-
ineness of the certiication, which was
found to be a skillful fraud. Adams
escaped without securing the amount
of his change.
Curious Libel Suit.
CINCINNATI, o., Oct. l.
In the Common Please Court yester-
day the Americas Racing Association
and International Hippodrome com.
menced suit against p. Il. Barnum for
$4,000 damage for libel against plain
tiffs in that defendant since the 10th of
May, 1875, had endeavored to injure,
break down and ruin plaintiffs in their
business and had labored and spent
large sums of money in the efforts.
Washington Decentralization Of
Geo.. M. Pinney.
CHICAGO, Oct. l.
A Washington special says: A
clause in the Indian Appropriation bill
OF last session authorized the Secretary
of the Interior to remove all bands of
Indians located on the Alsea and Siletz
reservations, i'm Oregon, and locate them
on a defined part Of the public lands
bounded on the north by Solomon
river and on the west by the Pacific
ocean, and these lands were madea per-
manent reservation for them; while,
by the same act, the rest of the Alsea
and SiletZ reservations was opened to
settlers. There was, however, a pro-
| viso, hat the Indians should not be
removed without their consent. Benz.
Simpson, Special Indian Agent, was
detailed to endeavor to effect their re-
moval, and yesterday he t~elegraphed
the Commissioner Of Indian Affairs
from Portland, Oregon, that he had
made satisfactory arrangements with
all the Indians, and that they we're
now moving to their new reservation.
Columbus Delano, in his letter to
tiAO l. 800 vs. w. 20 Ae
his resignation the exhausting labor
which fidelity to his duties has de-
manded. An examination of the Off
cial career of Delano shows he has fur
nished one of the most conspicuous il
Illustrations of absenteeism I'VE known
in the Government service. A careful
scrutiny of the record of time devoted
by Secretary DelanO to the Govern
ment business in Washington, during
the four years he was Secretary, proves
that the time he was i'm Washington
was exactly two years, n month and
seventeen days. The compensation
paid 10 Mr.. Delano during the time be
was absent from his duties aggregated
Sl6,933.
The Secretary OF the Treasury, while
in New York, has been inspecting the
operations of the new regulations for
the examination of passengers bag.
gage. He has determined upon some
minor changes, which will doubtless
be- introduced at all points. The delay
incident to this waiting Is often a great
hardship, particularly TO ladies'. Bris-
tow directs a waiting house to be erect
ed for this purpose, at which he will
compel steamers to land.
There Is a good deal Of apprehension
in the Navy and Treasury Depart
ments on account OF the news from
California as to the condition of affairs
in the Navy Paymaster's office at Sar
Francisco. For several years, in con
sequence Of political influence reach
ing into the Senate OF the United
States, an adventurer named Geo. NJ
Pinney has been retained in Office as
purchasing clerk OF the navy in Cali.
%fornia, and his bold WAS so firm thai
the pay corps of the navy knew none
of their number could accept a detail
to San Francisco without accepting
Pinney as an Office fixture. About the
LIST of September he abscOnded, in his
own steamer, with a female, leaving
his family and . host of creditors be.
hind. It Is understood that certificates
Of indebtedness to the amount ol
&SGO, 900 have been discovered to have
been hypothecated In San Francisco.
Big Race at Boston.
BosroN, Sept. 80.
A large crowd attended the great stall
lion race, at Beacon Park to-day, be-
tween Smuggler and Thomas Jeffer'
son, for a purse of Y 900 and the cham
pionship. The race was won in thrst
straight heats by Smuggler. Time
2:25H, 2:2S, 2:40.
Suicide.
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 80.
Mr.. 8. Wood, a prominent business
man at Greenfield, Indiana, and Presi
dent of the Greenfield Manufacturing
Company. committed suicide at the
Union Depot Hotel this morning
Financial troubles is the alleged cause
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