The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-08-07
PLAYING AN EMreRANr.-on Thurs


Greeley, by going west, remarked on
the street in the hearing of a young
hoodlum who had just arrived from
some point up the road, that he would
give ten dollars for an emigrant ticket,
but that he didn't think that he could
buy one at that price. The hoodlum
who was stranger to the person who
wanted a ticket, volunteered to get him
one in five minutes for that money, and
his proposition was accepted. The
hoodlum instantly disappeared in
o crowd of emigrants, and with the i'm
portance of a man who had corn to sell
and owned as many acres as honest
John Biiwell, asked if any of them
wanted work at $50 month and board.
An honest young German said he
wanted work, and agreed to accept the
wages offered. AS the hoodlum antic-
ipated, the emigrant wanted to sell his
ticket, and he told him he would find
him purchaser for it at five dollars.
and by adroit management pocketed
five dollars on the transaction without
arousing the suspicion of the unso-
phisticated pilgrim, after which he
disappeared and was seen no more. The
emigrant was around yesterday looking
for the person who had hired him, but,
of course, he was not to be found, and
it is strongly suspected that the hood
lum is youth who had escaped from
the officers at Elko last week, where he
had been arrested for petit larceny.
STEALING A RIDE.-Two young men
attempted to dead head it on the
western bound passenger train yester-
day without the sign manual of Stan
ford, Towne. or any of the railroad
magnates, whose autograph to piece
of paste board passes current with con-
ductors. The would-be free riders were
not at all aristocratic or particular as to
seats or other convenlences, aud did
not attempt to stow themselves away in
a palace sleeper or sit in an ordinary
coach. They ignored comforts and
seemed to care for nothing but q ride,
and to secure it undisturbed they crept
under coach and took q position on
the brake-bar just as the conductor
rang the bell and cried "all aboard"
AS the train got under way, w. ii.
WEIGH, the Station Agent, observed two
pairs of legs swinging between the
trucks, and jumping aboard brought
the train to a stand still few hundred
yards from the depot. Two or three
men jumped off and looked under the
cars, and in few moments the dead
heads emerged from their perch COW
cred with dust. and with dropped heads
skulked off in the sagebrush as the train
started. Railroad men say that riding
under the cars is far more dangerous
than being shot at at short range with
a revolver, and at this season of the
year the dust is binding and suffoca-
ting, vet there are able bodied young
men who risk their lives there for the
sake of stealing ride.
SUPPOSED TO BE INsANE.-Deputy
Sheriff Hayes brought down from
Greggsville last evening man named
Pat Mahoney, who is supposed to be
insane. He was examined last night by
Drs. Bogman and Hutchins, who are
going to extend their inquiry over
period of several days, as the supposed
lunatic appears to be rational at times.
Mahoney was sent to the Woodbridge
Asylum from this county about fifteen
months ago, and was discharged from
that institution five or six weeks since.
He has lived at Greggsville since his
return, and attributed bis incarcera-
ton at Woodbridge to Nv. G. Gregg,
whom he has threatened to get even
with several times since his return.
EAGLE PLACER MINEs.-The placer
mines near the Eagle mine, in Spring
Valley. continue to pay wages to those
engaged in working them, notwithstand-