The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-18
OUR OVERLAND LETTER.
How One Story Grew-A Famine Threatened
Too Much Land -Grabbing-An American
A%dventurer.

VIRGINIA, NEVADA, Jan. II.
Editor Rutland GloJe -" One goes
away from home to lelrn the news" In
TIE CLONE of December 10, under the
head Of IA practical joke is an altogether
incorrect account of an affair which was
not in any sense a Ike. The story was
started by one of those ubiquitous report
ers" whom the New Yark San employs,
AMI was to the effect that Arthur A. De-
we're, whose real rane was Ernest Gerard,
had been arrested in New York for murder
log Jennie Bennett at San Miguel, Cal.
installing her for q man and SEEING her re-
with his afliauctd, Miss Blanche
Buneau, Jennie having donned male attire
as a practical joke. Now these Inaccurate
stories get into eastern papers every day,
md l am not referring to this one as an ex-
cPptional case but just to show how stories
grow as they travel. There is neither a
TACT nor a name correct in the whole story.
Jennie Borett lived in San Francisco.
She was a French gill, caught frogs for q
living, and wore male attire for convent
ence in that occupation. Blanche Buenon
mi Arthur Deneve came from France TO-
gether and lived a long time together as
nan and wife, but finally separated, De
eve lay ing the arrangement to Jennie,
With whom Blanche associated a good deal
Both girls had bad characters. An attempt
ad been made previously to kill Jennie,
supposed to be by some lover with whom
she had quarrelcd. The two girls went 10
san Miegel one day ard as they were retlr-
lag SOMEBODY fired a charge from a shotgun
lnto Jennie, killing her almost instantly
Dsneye and a friend Prosper Robert were
1t the time on board the overland train,
well on their way east. The San Francis.
CO police telegraphsd to New York to have
them detained because they might know
enough of the q%uarrels and enemies of Jen-
ME to give q clue to her murderer. Frank
GiraId, the only man of Il az name who has
cen men Toned in conn, ction with the
c Use, was in San Francisco when Deneve
vas arrested. The latter, after an cxami-
nation was released The frog ca,cher's
murder remains one of the unsolved mys-
teries.
STARING STARVATION IN TIE FACE.
That il irst what the HooLs and herds of
California are doing, and the prospect for
numan beings is not very promising. Those
farmers who are prepared to irrigate their
and can laugh at famine, but the great
,ulk OF the tillage land of California Will
C worthless unless rain, of which there
IRE 20 signs, comes soon. Atthis time last
y ar z! inches of iain had fallen in that
tate. Tnis year there has been but %
inches al d grain fields are drying up and
he pastures, which ought to be rich and
green at this season of the year, are brown
md bare. Beef and mutton are cheap and
plenty in the markets, and 1t is probit l.
hat thousands will die, in all Iarts Of the
'ta'e, from starvation. In 1861 one-ha f
he stock in the state starved to death and
II the fall not over oue-half a crop of grain
VAS harvested. This year preparations had
)een made for putting in the largest crop
ever sown in the state, but farmers are los
ng heart and unlt ss rain comes soon there
Will be almost unprecedented sufI ring
Copious rains, If they come soon, will yel
give US a bOunteOus harvest, but the anXi-
ETY. and uncertainty caused by the want of
ram and the fear of a fannie extends to
very branch of business and all evince a
feeling OF apprehension and unessincss.
A SUSPICIOUS LOOKING BILL.
Mr., Piper, the gentleman who says he is
''richer than old Christ" but who wasn't
rich enough TO buy a reelection to congress
from San Francisco this year after he had
bought a nomination, has introduced a bill
n congress to allow the Alaska ship build
ng and lumber company to buy a certain
sland and ''such other timber land in Alas
"a rs may be desirable, in such parcels as
may be selected" at S1.25 per acre. bro.
vided they uil1 orr ship Of 1900 tons bur
den That tn s is a villainous Job there is
10 chance for a doubt good timber land
here Is worth 50 per acre to day. The
market for timber on this coast Is good
md the cost Of bringing it here by water
very small. What benefit the government
ls to derive from the building of that ship
q as difficult to see as Is any streak of hon
'sty or honor in Twenty. dollar Piper's
character. Of all the jobbery done under
this glorious government of ours, moi ex-
ceptlng the Indian business, that of
STEALING PUBLIC lands,
and especially On the Pacific coast, has
been the worst, the most injurious to the
poor aud the worst in Ietardlng civilization
and the opening up and development of the
inexhaustlble resources of the country.
There are millions OF acres Of the most
splendid soil in California undevelor Cd, but
not an acre of really good land that Is not
in the hands ot ONE rich man or company.
There is land which the poor man NAV
TAX under the government, but it i, high
Up on some mountain side or in some greaI
leseIt. There is good land which may be
ought at prices which will leave q man a
aha ice to live, but even then those prices
are many times the government plice, anu
men who do not toll tor their bread pocket
he difference and laugh at the ploddiog la
borer as he struggles agaips! draught,
teavy taxes, oppressive freights and the
thousand burdens imposed by jmperious
capital.
II MEXICAN TROUBLES
continue about as they were. Lerdo In
captivity, Dlaz in power in one portion Of
the republic, and Iglesiis in another, and
quite a lumber of states ready 10 jump
whichever way victory may turn. Cover
nor Nilllgrana, the Ledro governor of
Lower c .iiornil, who was captured by
the Daz party and escaped, has been in
San Francisco, where he raised an ample
supply OF lucre among Lerdo's friends and
s now on his way back u resume opera
ions against Don jose Moreno, who at
present claims to hold the state ia the in-
crest of Diaz. Moreno ia n citizen of the
United States, born in California, and 1t Is
hought he cares little whether Ditz, Ler-
do or lglesias comes out upperm0st, but
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