Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-05-29
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WASHINGTON.
Government Timber to be
Protected.
C0ALBURNERS, LOOK TO YOUR
RANCHES.
AN ITEM ABOUT CURRENCY.
AN ITEM ABOUT CURRENCY.
WASHINGTON, May %.

Depredators upon Government tim
her are to be detected and punished.
The old system of timber agents evil
IDENTIFY only facilitates robberies. Sec
rotary Schurz, acting upon sugges-
tions of Commissioner Williamson,
recently abolished the old system and
appointed special agents instead, who
bear appointments as department
clerks detained for special duty under
instructions Of the Commissioner who
reports to the Secretary when the evil
dence furnished by these agents justi-
fies legal proceedings against the dep
redators. Agents are forbidden to
make any compromise with offenders.
Underthis arrangement, notwithstand-
ing, but very limited means were at
the disposal OF the Department for the
purpose, seizures of timber have been
made in Minnesota and Louisiana
within two months, the value of which
aggregates more than the full amount
recovered by the Cove. nment during
the preceding 20 years. The Commits
sioner believes that with a proper ap-
preparation the wholesale plundering
can he stopped and many millions of
dollars saved to the Government. The
Commissioned includes the Pacific
coast among the districts where he
says the cutting and removing of Gov
eminent timber has been very great.
He says in the mining districts vast
quantities nave been used in propping
up the mines and burned into char
coal for smelling ore and in other 10
c~alities il has gone into the usual chan
mel of the timber trade to a very large
extent.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
directed that at the close of the pres
ent month an amount of greenbacks be
added to a special fund under the joint
resolution for the issue of silver coin,
which, with the six million already
set apart, will bring tho fund up 10 the
amount called for at this time, about
81 1900, COG. that being the amount Of
legal tenders received in exchange for
silver held for the rede mption of frac-
tional currency.
Fire In Chicago; Also, an Arrest.
CHICAGO, May %.
A fire this morning injured the
buildings OF No. 1lS aud l20, Franklin
street, to the amount of SIG, 900; in
sured. The National Printing Com
pany occupying three upper floors
lost $4,000 on stock; insurance $780,
600.
1t has t~ranspired hat late Saturday
afternoon, F.. z. Hinckley, Presi-
dent OF the Chicago and Psducah, the
Chicago and Iowa and other railroads
was arrested upon charge Of conspirs-
cy to defraud, and put under fifty
thousand dollars bonds. The COM
plant is made by a Mr.. Fisher Of Lon
don, a wealthy Englishman and a
heavy bondholder in Chicago and Pa
ducah, who represents about 81 900 900
of the bonds of the road. He al
leges that Hinckley went TO England
in 1873, and by means of false repre-
sensations concerning the amount al
ready invested in the road, the aid it
would receive from counties, and the
returns it brought in, secured ESQ, 900
in return for bonds. Hiuckley states
that the whole railroad transaction has
been honorable throughout, and that
this arrest is merely a black mailing
scheme which will not work,
Loss OF SteRmer-ChRnge OF Eds.
tOrial ManRSeInent-Death Of an
Actress.
New York. May 27.
The Graphic says the steamship San
Francisco ran upon All unknown rock
on The southern coast Of the Gulf of
Mexico, and was a total loss. The pas
sengers have been taken 10 Acapulco
and will be forwarded to San Francisco
by the next steamer.
Erastus Brooks will retire from the
editorship of the Evening Express on
the first of June. The paper will here
after be conducted by a stock company
in the interest OF the Democratic party.
Minetta Montague, the actress, died
10 Brooklyn yesterday.
South Carolina News.
COLUMBIA, May %.
Ex-Governor Chamberlain has sold
his residence in this city to a brother
OF Wade Hampton.
The defense set up in behalf of the
Ellenton rioters at Charleston Is that a
general uprising of the blacks was
planned. and that they were instructed
by the Republican leaders so TO act as
to compel the members OF the Demo-
cratic rifle clubs TO fire the first short,
and thus gosd tla whites to the very
acts perpetrated.
Life c.s the Ocean Wave.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass, May %.
Ths schooner New Bsoford, twenty
feet long, With Cert. Thomas Grape