Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-11-04
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
San FBANoIsoo, Oct. 80.

We have had all sorts OF rumOrS
during the past week. The fire in
Virginia has, of course, given rise to
all kinds Of reports, and every oppor-
tunity to stock manipulators to bear
the stock has been offered. Nobody
knows to what extent the stock bust
ness is to be injured by the fire, and
of course the habit of lying, TO which
our community is greatly indebted
for its successful operation in making
aome poor and others rich, has been
facilitated. III fact nobody knows
what the real state is; everybody
distrusting everybody, and every
body feeling that if anybody could
be relied upon, it would be bless
ing; but as nobody can, we have to
wait for results. Dealers in stocks
are in extremity at most, and hardly
know what to do. Another run on
the Trust Company has caused some
CONSERVATION yet by some holders
of stocks that has been considered q
trick of the trade, inasmuch as
rumors were started on California
street as to its soundness, and kept
floating for several days before the
run commenced. The moral rot
tenness Of all things connected with
the stock business is becoming so
apparent, retribution evident, in
moral as well as physical laws, must
necessarily commence. 1t has made
some progress already. What will
be the endl
The appearance of the Palace
Hotel, already begins to be pitiable.
At night, when the gas is lighted,
q window here and there illumin-
ated, seems lost almost in the vast
ness of the building, which frowns
in the mass, upon the humble
pedestrian, who from the upper
stories of the building, seems only
a pigmy.
The libel suit Of the Bulletin"
against the Alta" causes much
comment. The counsel on one side
being determined to bring out all
the facts of the case in regard to the
true condition of the Bank of Cali
fornia, while they for the defense
seems determined to prevent it. AS
humbug is the order of the day,
and truth shuns the light in San
Francisco, there must undoubtedly
be q contest between the two. So
far as the matter has yet gone, strip
ping it of legal technicality, it rests
here. Has anybody any right to
tell the truth, when the whole bus
mess fraternity is going to be in
jured by it? If bank is going to
fail, and the Morning Sun" has
reason to believe that it is so, has
the "Sun" any right to express it!
II it does so. has any other paper
right to denounce that sheet as sour
rilous. lying, etc., trying to injure
the bank for its own purposes? and
then il the "Sun chooses to bring a
suit for libel against the offending
paper, has it any right to do SO by
trying to prove its truth in the
premises. that is. if there
is the least danger of making
the true condition of the
Bank known. That is where the
matter rests at present, and there the
legal fraternity are firing away at
each other, trying to hold back, to
bring out legal points of the impro-
priety Of uncovering anything, and
leaving the Bank crowd to cover up
and continue the best way they can.
Whether any judge can be found
who will be willing to help uncover
the truth remains to be proved; we
rather doubt it, and the fact that
many an american, likely to be
humbugged, has been so often made
apparent, that we have no doubt
that the majority would rather let
the truth alone, and live under the
flag of the goddess of humbug, SO
long as penny can be made from
1t, or so long as they are deluded by
by the song of the siren who deals
with money bags.
The death of Mayor otis is among
the events Of the week. 1t was quite
unexpected, and has made one less
OF the early pioneers who still re.
main with us.
There has been an unusual degree
of mortality among us the past few
weeks, the variable weather having
more to do with it than any thing
else. We have had two showers
already, with q prospect Of little
more wet. All Of which il hailed
with satisfaction. The winter will
probably be dull, as many of the
leading families are in mourning and
the business anything but cheering.
CYNTHIA ANN.