Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-05-21

road at Medicine Bow. The whole force {
Fort Fetterman Wednesday I
when Colonel Royal OF the
third cavalry will take command. under
Crook, of the entire force. At the FIRST
hating place last night five assertions
the men taking their horses
and equipments with hem. The latest
arrivals from the Black Hills to-day are
Nealon and ]. D. May OF this city. who
report meeting Raymond's outfit on In
dian Creek, and they were then engaged
in fight with the Indians. The In
dams succeeded in capturing thirty-f
head of stock when they were driven on.
They met about four hundred men with |
eighty wagons bound at Hot Creek,
wheIe Captain Eagan's company had
also halted. Leaving Hot Greek they
rode into Fort Laramie unmolested.
The gentlemen are reliable authority
and state that on White-wood and Dead
wood Creeks the claims are being sue
cessfully worked, yielding from ten to
twenty dollars to the man, but beyond
this district the hostile and oft repeated
attacks of the Indians on prospectors
have almost paraly zed the efforts of the
miners. Governor Thayer departed
eastward to-day to secure il possible ad-
ditional troops to protect this fmntier
during the absence of the garrison forces
in the Big Horn country, or failing in
this, at least to procure arms and am
munition for militia organization.
New York, May 20.-Rufus Hatch has
brought suit in the Supreme Court in
behalf of himself and other stockholders
Of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company
against the officers and directors OF said
company with view to having the
mortgage of 100000 on the steam
ships OF the company executed on the
18th of March last be declared void, and
that the defendants be enjoined from
issuing or negotiating any of the coupon
bonds which the mortgage authorized
together with the bill Of sale which was
given to Benjmin F. Horn and Stephen
White. In his complaint Mr.. Hatch
states that he protested as stakeholder
against the passage of the resolution
authorizing the issue Of the 81, ZOO, 00C
worth OF bonds and entering into the
mortgage on the steamers of the com
pany and giving bill of sale on then
to secure the mortgage; that Sidney
Dillon and Jay Gould, two of the de
PENDANTS, are heavily interested in th'
Union Pacific Railroad, and that th,
. action of the officers of the Pacific Mai
, Company in authorizing the issue o
: such 80, 900, 900 was in the interest o
the Union Pacific Railroad; that thes
! bonds were not intended to pay an.
q bona fide debts then due by the Pacifi
9 Mail Company, but to secure debts t
: be created after the issue and for fraudu
q lent purposes; that Jay Gould aud Sid
= ney Dillon have purposely kept ava
Q from the meetings of the company an
have prevented a quorum being preser
r to select inspectors OF election for off
ers of the company az required, sai
o election having to come off on the lai
J. Wednesday in May, and they do SO b.
}. cause they know that they would not |
ir reelected officers. He also states tn
d 1,311 of these bonds have been issue
:, and are in the hands Of Dillon ar
}. Gould and their friends. He prays tn
IS the mortgage and bill of sale to Ham an
IS White be declared void and cancelle
y and that holders of bonds be enjoine
h from negotiation. He further allegt
that the company had no power und'
J. its charter to issue such bonds. tt
II meeting of the Pacific Mail Directo
v was again adjourned this morning uni
~ Monday next for want of quorum
y This is the fourth postponement of Il
t. meeting.
:. WASHINGTON. May 20.-New.on Boot
d declines both the Presidential and vi
ID Presidential nominations.
IN The California delegation have o
rived and will combine with other r
I. representatives. opposed to the warrior
III navy yard amendments Of the pendii
a appropriation bill and confidently e
~ pect to defeat the naval committees pr
81 position for reducing Mare Island to
ny mere naval rendezvous and station I
e. temporary repairs. The appropriate
committee do not concur in this prop
TO- sition, but provide for continuing Ma
no Island on its present footing.
~. Orders have been issued from t
he Treasury. instructing the Assista
ct. Treasurers at New York and Boston,
ing disburss 100000 in silver each, in pr
ment of government checks in additi
the to the amount heretofore authorized.
cry CHICAGO, May 2O.--An engine VII
he. standing on the side track of the Lit
Ok Shore Railroad. near the depot t
les morning exploded her boiler, causin
nv terrible shock. Five workmen W
:. badly scalded. two Of whom, P. Coy {
90. j. Flynn. viii! probably die from ii
ono injuries.
inc. BOSTON, May 20.-The race betwt
een the Fauener Regain and City Pr
lner crews. took place to-day, distance (
mile and half and return, for a p,
gen, Of 81 900. 1t was won by the form
OF Time 20:18.
iila PHILADELPHIA, May 30.-The wea
! "a continues warm and pleasant.
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