Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-24
SEEALYEssS

One would suppose, says the Gold
Hill NeUs, that q man convicted OF
murder in the first degree, refused a
new trial, refused commutation of sem
tence and condemned TO tie hanged on
a certain day and hour, would give up
all hope and bend his mind to meet
| the inevitable. Not so with Peter Lar
kin. 1t is as certain rs anything else
in human affairs that he will be hanged
on the 10Th of January next, yet he
deludes himself with the most foolish
hope That something will turn up to
save his neck from the halter. Not
w~ithstanding he has been in Jail seven
teen months for the killing of Cor
corau, and has been in constant COM
munication with lawyers during that
time, he appears to be singulariy igno-
rant of the law bearing on such cases
as his. He constantly aud ENORMOUSLY
demands OF his jailers why the Board
of Pardons have not 'shown cause
why they shouldn't commute his sen-
tence?" and they cannot make him un.
derstand that anything the Board
might have done for him would have
been in the nature Of a favor and not a
right. He has quite a lively hope, too,
that the Governor will yet step 10 and
save him, not knowing that in this
State the pardoning power does not
rest with the Governor. but with the
Board OF Pardons. II is simply cruel
to allow the man to hartor these delu
sive hopes, and he should he given to
realize his true situation. While he is
thus distracted with false hope aud his
few days of life are ~galloping into the
past. he cannot prepare properly for
death. The priest calls upon him &C.
c~asionally now, but Larkin is wholly
filled with a feverish thirst for life, aud
that absorbs all his faculties.
See 10 it, says the Gold Hill News.
that your pistol is in order, that your
bowie knife has a good point, and that
your club is properly sand-papered.
Mike McGown, ''the man eater" has
returned to the Comstock. This can
nibali-tic person, whose ~favorite diver.
sion when drunk is to bite people, Was
allowed to leave Virginia a few months
ago instead of serving a term III the
county Jail. He has just got put Of
prison at Reno, and has now brought
himself back to his old stamping
ground. He should at once be ar
rested, as the old sentence is still hang
ing over him. and by returning he has
violated the contract by which he es-
capped punishment for his misdeeds.
Michael is a hopeless case, and not de
serving of clernencv. He'll be in
trouble again within three days, If no:
taken in charge by the police.
NJ. Rogers, former Sheriff of Pinal
county. Arizona, has ~absconded, TAX
ing with him 81. 200 Of the county
funds. Eight hundred dollars is the
reward offered for his arrest.
1t is supposed by the authorities,
says the Enterprise, that Graham, who
shot Elholm, is still in the county,
secreted by his friends somewhere
down the canyon, where he is await
ipg the death or recovery of the
wounded man.
Tho first term of Bishop Whitaker's
Seminary at Reno closed last Wednes
day with thirty-seven boarders and
eighteen day scholars Tho next term
begins January 4.
Bill Davis is dissatisfied with his
glove match with Mace, and will prob
ably challenge him to another, to be
fought until one man fails to respond
to the call of time.