Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-05-30
PACIFIC COAST.
sam FRANCISCO.
Pinney Languisheth in a
BaStile
THE TOLLS ARE TIGHTENING
ABOUT HIM!
Death Of a Broker--Assessments
ETC., Etc.
The Lost Steamer San Francisco
The Lost Steamer San Francisco !!
SAN Francisco, May 90

SAN FRANCISCO, May 20.
Last night Pinney reposed in the
City Prison, having been unsuccessful
in obtaining bail to the amount of
$50 900 on the charge of embezzlement.
He now says he will not try to procure
more bail, as he would be required
continually to obtain additional bonds
OH further charges to be brought
against him from day to day.
A dispatch from New York by the
Gold and Stock Telegraph Co.; also
private dispatches to Williams, Blan-
chard & Co., Agents of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Co.; PARROT " Co.,
and others, report that the steamer
City of San Francisco, from Panama tt
this port, struck a sunken rock on the
coast of Mexico, a short distance SOUTH
east of Acapulco, at 9:1S o'clock on the
morning of May 10Th, and sunk
within an hour. No lives were
lost. The passengers and crew
arrived at Acapulco on the 18th inst.
on board 4 Mexican gunboat and left
on the 10th for San Francisco on the
company's steamer Costa RIGA, which
is trading along the coast and hap
pened to be in port at the time. No
further particulars have yet been re-
ceived. The Costa Rica is reported to
arrive here to morrow or Thursday.
The City of San Francisco was one of
the finest ships of the ~company-a
fleet iron screw steamer of about $500
tons, built by John Roache and in
tended for service on the Australian
line, but for a few trips has recently
been running to Panama.
The first assessment of 81 per share
on the stock of the Martin White Min
ing Company has just been levied, de-
linquent in the office, July 9. The
mine has recently passed n new
hands.
An assessment of fifty cents per
share is levied by the Succor Mill and
Mining Company, delinquent July
End.
At the close of the regular session Of
the San Francisco Board this morn
ing, an adjournment for the day was
made in respect to the memory OF A.
+. Everett, an old and prominent
member, whose death was an.
nounced.
Pinney's preliminary examination
on the charge of forgery preferred by
Dennis Jordan, was concluded to-day,
and the Court held him to answer in
tI6 suul vi gO,OOOs IL 10 CO1siuClCo
probable that Pinney will waive an eX-
animation OH the other charges of
forgery.
In connection with the charge pre-
ferred against Pinuey of the enbeZzle-
ment of S5s 600 from the Ida Fillmore
Mining Company, while he was Treas
urer of the Company, it is reputed
that the facts are that Pinney and
some other insiders owed the COmpa-
ny a large amount for assessments,
and that Pinney entered up the assess
ments on the books rs paid without
depositing the cash to balance the &C.
count.
Sentence Of the Chico Murderers.
ORovILLE, CAL, May %.
The District Court met to-day for
the purpose of passing sentence upon
the Chico murderers. A number OF
witnesses were examined to show that
+. T.. Conway was a weak minded
man, easily influenced and liable to
get into difficulty. 1t was shown that
his mother died in an insane asylum,
having been insane at times for a Pc
Rod dating prior to his birth. One
witness testified that a man living in
Chico and holding a high official po-
sition wanted witness to go into the
meetings held in the woods, join the
movement and then propose his name
for membership. The District Attor-
ney endeavored to find out
the name Of the person, but
the Court refused to compel the wit
ness TO disclose it, remarking that
any nan proposing to join such an
order was unfit to hold a high official
position. Evidence vas also intro
duced showing that public opinion in
Chico ran very high against Cinnamon
and those employing them, aud that
the most prominent men in Chico ad-
dressed large public meetings in h
town hall using violent and incendiary
language; that the Laborer's Union
grew out of these meetings and fire
and murder followed. One witness
testified that he attended one and went
home with the firm expectation that
both Chinatowns would be burned
that night. At the conclusion of the
evidence the Court said that 1t had not
heard anything that seemed to go in
the way of the mitigation of Conway's
sentence that did not apply equally
we'll to all the rest. They were all
young men, and no doubt easily led
astray. Charles and John Slaughter,
Il. Il. Roberts and T.. Conway were
sentenced to % years imprisonment,
and Il. w. Stainbrook, who stood trial,
got 27% years. The other indictments
against them were dismissed. The
prisoners will be taken below imme-
diately.