Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-12-30
THE REPORTERS PARADISE.
A Cheerful Section of Country.
fnyo's Record OF Violence ror n
Week.

Along down about Inyo county and
the Owens river country is a section OF
this great and glorious Union where
people mean business. We have often
noticed that there is but little foolish
ness tolerated in that highly favored
locality. 1t is a place to which the
heart of every properly constructed
reporter must ever turn longingly.
The Inyo Independent of the oct is ath
hand. Following is its cheerful record
of the week previous:
Yesterday morning, at the Taboose
Station, some fourteen miles north of
Independence, Frank Frazer shot and
killed James Fallon, under circum-
stances which, rs heal as we can learn,
are as follows: The men were
lively in the employ of the Stage Com
psny any II. G. Wright, proprietor of
the house. They had quarreled the
night before TO such an extent that
Wright had stepped in aud stopped
the trouble. On the next morning,
while Frazer was behind the bar, and
Fallon IN the Dom, the former picked
up a worthless old six shooter and
dashed IL to the floor. The weapon
flew to pieces; all the parts save the
handle were picked up, and a dispute
arose as to whether 1t flew out doors or
had gone into the fire place. Fallon
exclaimed: e. you, I'll cut your
skin anyhow" at the same time strik-
ing Frazer with his left hand and
drawing a butcher knife With his right.
With the weapon he began striking and
stabbing Fallon, who resisted as much
a. possible with his hands, and In re
treating managed to get hold of a
loaded shotgun, the muzzel of which
be placed at the breast of his assailant,
and laid him out.
On Monday last the remainsof James
Wright were found lying in a spot of
sand rear Owens river, a few miles to
the southwark of Bishop Creek. A
day or so previous his saddle, bride
and blanket were found partially con-
cealed in a spot at a considerable dis
lance from where the body was dis
covered. The deceased had been miss
ing from Bishop for threeor four days,
and it was ascertained that his horse
had retured to Volkeft's ranch. The
matter was taken in hand by the prop
err authorities, and a Coroner's jury
has been for several days engaged
upon a searching investigation of the
facts and circumstances, but without
reaching a conclusion up to the time OF
u latest information to day. 1t is
stated that the mans neck was broken
AMI marked as il it had been done by
a rope.
Robert White and Charley Rice, a
couple of sports, formerly of Cerro
Gordo and Darwin, in this county,
met with a brutal lynching at the
hands of a mob at the blackberry
mine, in Arizona Territory. While
Rice was standing by, White was en-
gagged in playing poker, and got into a
row with a man on the opposite side of
the table. The man was about to
shoot, when Rice fired from behind
and killed him, thus saving, for that
instant at least, the life of his partner,
White. Being closely set upon, both
took to the hills. where their pursuers
shot and killed White. and wounded
Rice three times and then hung him J..
such is civilization in Arizona, as re-
ported by a letter from there.
Thursday last, a miner named -
Johnson, fell down the new shaft of
the Union Con-, and was killed in
stantly. He was at work on the 900
fool level; the bell rope broke, aud he
started to go up the ladder, with one
end of the rope tied around his waist.
When about 500 feet from the bottom,
the cage came down and catching in
the rope, pulled the poor fellow from
the ladder, and sent him { the bottom,
where he was found a shapeless mass.
In his fearful descent he crushed
through a platform in the shaft com
posed of two inch plank. and support.
ed by two-by-four scantling.
On the night OF the 17ih inst, at the
old Densmore Hotel, Darwin, there
occurred a s)ciable little shooting
game" between James Martin and
Thos Reynolds, in which Martin got
n through the left arm. and Rey-
nolds took his in the right hand
neither wound likely to be very seri.
Gus.