Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-04-13
PACIFIC COAST DISPATCHES.
FROM CALIFORNIA.
TrRde DOiiars Looking Up-shil.
wrecks


SAN FRANCISCO. April IL.
The silver question here seems to be
i'm a fair way to take care of itself. Half
dollars to-day are quoted at only four
per cent. discount. consequent upon
the virtual exclusion from circulation
of trade dollars. The latter are being
purchased by the Nevada Bank at 97}a
per cent, payable in halves. 1t is DIFF
ficrlt to get hold of any amount of
them, they being held by the brokers
ON speculation.
VICTORIA, b. c., April III.
The steamer Otter sailed Sunday to
search tor the Government steamer
Sir James Douglass. with the railway
survey party on board, which Is now
some weeks over due from GARDENERS
Inlet. A part of the upper works of
the steamer Pacific has come ashore ut
Barclay Sound.
A Brutal Attenpt-Mirinx Affairs
The Chinese Question.
SAN FRANCISCO. April IL.
Shortly before noon to-day an Ital-
ian named Mariinello Eugenio was de-
tected attempting to outrage a little
girl about three years old, the daugh-
ter of "A German oma living on VAL
lejo street, near Montgomery. The
basement of the house in which the
fellow concealed himself was at once
besieged 10y a crowd. An officer de
scendrd and arrested the Italian amid
cries of kill him. - "nang him." from
the excited throng, who were with
some difficulty prevented from carry
ing their threats into execution.
Articles of incorporation of the I'm
perial Consolidated Mining Company
were filed To day; capital. $50, 0U0 600;
shares. halt a million. The disirihu-
ton of shares is as follows: lmperia!
267. 735. Empire ye,017, Con. Gold Hill
Quar.Z &2,GU9. Eclipse. Winters & Plato
1882, French Gold Hill 1880. Bacon
fl 1867, Bowers 1880. Tie Directors
are A. X. p. Harmon, j. ID. Fry, G. l..
Weller. j. IL. Dnbin>on, Alpheus Bull,
VIM. Morris and Joseph Sharon.
Seq. Belcher has levied an assess
ment of IS per share, delinquent May
10th.
SAN FRANCISCO, March II.
Rev. Otis Gibson, the well-known
Chinese Missionary, appeared before
the Chinese Commission to day, and
SAID tia. the six Chinese eomp anies
bear the relation to tue people OF arb :
TRAITORS. They do not import laborors,
but every Ciinamau coming here joins
one oi them. Gibson corruborated
Governor Louis statement that The
companies hid an arrangement With
the Pacific Mail Company by which
Cinnamon could not return on the
steamers without certificates from the
companies. He believed that n por-
ton OF the profits of Chinese gambling
liens and bagnios Went to other than
Chinese, to wit: special policemen. He
recounted the system of woman slav-
cry. as is exists here. rs the most bru
tai seryitude ever imposed upon hu-
mar beings. They are bought, sold
and traded and abused by their maS
iers. A committee was appointed To
visit the Chinese houses OF gambling
and prostitution, and collect FROM the
kee pers all Information bearing upon
the report h a money was paid to spe
cial policemen and The City Hal, Com
pany. Gibson agreed to meet the com
mittee at 2 O'Clock. and IA excused To
consult the leaders of the six coInpa-
MES and assure them protection in all
efforts to reach guilty persons. Chas.
Waicott Brooks also appeared and OK
planned the diplomatic vi9w Of the
Reed and Burlinganie treaties. and H.
Illustrated the protection they gave 5000
resident Americans in that peculiar
country,