Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-03-30
sTEALINGs.

The Humboldt Register OF the 18th
says: Some diabolical fiend made an
unsuccessful attempt to set fire TO the
Register office at a late hour last night.
just before going to press one of the
compositors observed a light in the
rear Of the Office, which being out Of
the usual course of things excited his
suspicious, and he went out to seer
tain the cause. About six feet from
the building, in the midst of a pile of
cedar bark and other rubbish u fire
vas just getting nicely under way. but
was extinguished without imuch diff
Guilty. We shall keep our gun in po-
sitiou hereafter, ready to furnish ma
teriai for a funeral, In case another at
tempt of the kind Is made. We will
pay 500 for any information that will
lead to the detectiO,i of the cowardiy
rniscreants who perpetrated this DAM
nable deed.
Ajury having been secured, the trial
Of Peter Larkin for the murder Of
Daniel Corcoran on the 4th of August
last, began i'm the District Court, at
Virginia city, on Monday. Susie Ham
nell, alias Brown, who lived at the
house of Nellie Savers, on South c
street, at the time of the shooting. tes-
titled to having seen Larking jump
through the hallway window, and she
Immediately afterwards saw the flash
of a pistol from that direction. Corco
rau was running after him in his un-
dershirt and drawers. Corcoran was
standing in a door opposite the win
dow when he was shot. He had been
in bed with Nellie Sayers.
Tom Mcguire, of San Francisco, is
negotiating for the purchase of the
Wasboe Clubs building site on b
street in Virginia City. There is some
little difference at present as to price,
but the difference is very small, and is
sure to be compromised in some man
ner within a few days. AS soon as
Mcguire shall have purchased the lot
he will commence the erection of a the.
ater, and have it finished within two
months after the commencement OF the
work. 1t will be first-class in every
respect, and will eat about 1900 peo-
pie.
Those who buck at the tiger may be
interested in the following statistics:
There are fourt en- faro tables running
in Virginia city, each of which pays q
license fee of S475 per quarter to the
State, county and city. Each table has
three dealers and three case keepers,
who work 8 hour shifts, the former re-
ceiving 81 so per day for eight hours,
and the latter 3 each. Each game is
estimated to Pay to the bar the amount
of SIS every eight hours. This is moi
counting the percentage on the game
in favor of the proprietor, to say moth.
ing of the " chances either way.
Jere job, at Winnemucca, County
Clerk. employed a Chinaman last
week to dig up the sagebrush and
weeds in his yard. After the Celestial
had been at work q few hours Jere
went out to see how the work was pro.
crossing, and to his establishment
found all his fruit trees, rose bushes
currants and other shrubbery nicely
piled up in one corner of the yard. Jere
says that from this time forward he
will oppose Chinese cheap labor.
Electioneering for the office OF City
Marshall in Austin is getting lively
There are a large number of candi
dates. each and every one of whom is
puttiuS MS uuZZinS where IL Will ~
the most good. AS the Office is an ap.
pointive one, the candidates are bend.
ing their energies to getting up tickets
for Aldermen.
The East California Mining Com,
pany filed lis articles of incorporation
in San Francisco on Thursday last
Object: To mine in Storey county, Ne.
vada. Capital, $4,000, 900, in shares oi
500. Directors-Thos. II. Fox, j. p,
Gawey, ID. G. Ferris, j. F. Greenmar
and p. f. w. Black.
Mark Mitchell, a Sclavonian, was
run owe by a train of cars in Virgins
City last Saturday, badly MASKING his
left ankle joint, splitting open his left
hand, besides badly bruising him IN
other portions of the body.