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Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-01-14
WHITE ! N ITEMS.

[From yesterdays White Pine "News."l
We hear much adverse criticism
among our people ola bill, said to have
been introduced in the Senate by Sem
ator Comins, to fund the county debt
of White Pine county. We have care
fully examined the legislative proceed.
ings aud are unable to find any men,
ton of such q bill. However. we shall
further investigate the subject, aud
next week propose to give u readers
such information as we may be able TO
obtain. Our people seem to be gen.
orally opposed to any such action as
funding the county debt.
We are indebted to Geo. p. McCon-
key, Wells, Fargo & Co.'S agent at this
place, for the following figures: The
Eberhardt and Aurora made SO ship
ments OF bullion during the past year.
aggregating $540,650 "a. In thi, con-
nec,ion it will be remembered that the
Eb rhardt mill did not start up till the
10th of May. The Stafford Company,
that commenced running the Smokey
mill in September and closed down the
latter part of October, made ten ship.
nients, a~ggregating SCOPES 6S. This
makes the total bullion product Of
Treasure Hill for the year 1876 $780,
DIG 80.
From Captain Drake we learn that
the Eberhardt & Auroa tunnel il in
800 feet. Rapid progress is being made,
the machinery and everything con
nected Herewith running like clock
work.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-01-14
n NEWS.

Senator Gordon, of Georgia, has in
troduced a bill requiring the Union
and Central Pacific Companies to es-
tablish and maintain a sinking fund,
Under the bill they will pay the Gov.
eminent In thirty-four years.
It is reported that the Senate COM
mittee on the electoral count has
agreed on a plan which is now being
considered by the House Committee.
Details in our Geographic columns.
The Republicans besieged in the Lou
isiana State House got into a melee
among themselves and q policeman
was killed.
The Packard Legislature (Republi-
cam is still balloting for the short
term Senatorship.
The Nichols (~Democratic) Legisla-
ture is trying TO elect a long-term
United Suites Senator.
Another Louisiana Republican has
deserted to the Democratic House.
Gen. Crook has an abiding faith in
his Sioux allies.
Gov. Leland Stanford has bought
the trotting stallion Benton, with a
record of 2:2O1a, for $4,000.
They say that Yarmouth, Pinch
back, Brother-in-law Casey and other
prominent Republicans support the
Louisiana Democratic State govern
ment.
The st. Petersburg semi-oficial or
gan talks s,raight-out war.
The Cuban p~rivateer Moctezuma has
been burned by the patriots to avoid
capture.
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WASHINGTON.
Pacific Railroad Sinking Fund
The Senate Proposition fOr Count
Ing the Vote.
WASHINGTON, Jan. II.

WASHINGTON, Jan. IL.
The bill. introduced by Senator Cor
don to-day to provide for the creation
ola sinking fund to liquidate the Union
Pacific and Central Pacific Pailroad
Cnmpanies' indebtedness to the Gov.
%ernnent requires each of these conf
panies to pay into the United States
Treasury S75O,0O0 FER annum for a pc
Rod OF 81 years. commencing immedi-
ately. Interest at six per cent. is to be
allowed and compounded at the end
of each year, by which means the
sinking fund ut the end of 81 years will,
1t is stated, be sufficient in mount 10
liquidate the outstanding Indebtedness
of the companies with SIMPLE interest
added. The subsidy bonds will be-
due II years previous to that time
New York, Jan. ID.
The Times Washington special says:
The electoral committees Of the Senate
and House had a long meeting this af-
ternoOn, being in session till $3.50. An
other meeting will be held Tomorrow.
The Senate proposition agreed on by
the Senate Committee was under con
sideration. The bill on a formal draft
of the proposition has been very care
fully kept secret, but the general and
most important outlines are known.
1t provides that the Senate and House
shall ,on The day of the counting OF the
vote, meet in the Hall of the latter
body. The Vice President shall open
all certificates and letters appointed for
the purpose; shall as usual read, re-
cord and sun up the votes; but there
are 10 be counted in the first place only
returns to which no objection is made.
Where there is n return only from a
State, aud that is objected to, the two
houses will determine whether it shall
be counted or not. The concurrence
of both houses will be required to re-,
ject any such vote. Where two returns
are made from one State, the dispute
is to be referred to a Commission OF
tribunal composed of nine member OF
the House and Senate and the ioui
Justices of the Supreme Court longest
i'm service. The nine members of the
House and Senate are to be selected by
the appointment of five Senators and
five Representative, and then dropping
one of the ten by the drawing of lots
There might thus he on the Commits.
sion five Senators and four members
of the House, or five members and
four Senators. The Justices who would
become members of the Commission
by the terms of the proposition, would
be Clifford, Swayne, Mills and Davis
This Commission is to be authorized
to determine all questions of dispute
| Their decision is to he final. The dis.
puied votes having been counted in
the presence Of the House and Senate
in accordance with the decision OF the
Commission, ard the whole number
of electoral votes having been summed
by the ~tellers, the President of the
Senate will announce the result in the
usual form, which will determine who
is 10 be President of the United States
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-01-14
SOUTH CAROLINA.

1t is now nearly two week stree
the telegraph has conveyed to us any
information concerning the condition
of affairs in South Carolina. We are
every day, and many times every day,
Intercepted concerning the news from
that State, and the following corre-
spondenco of tho New York Herald
will undoubtedly prove Of interest to
many:
COLUMBIA, Jan. 5.
The dullness resulting from the un.
usually severe state OF the weather has
seemingly affected political circles, and
the two governments run side by side
| withoutaudible clash. Gen. Hampton
has, however, begun the work of or
ganizing his administration, and this
work progresses steadily. Numbers
| of prominent citizens call upon him
daily from all portions of the State,
and, upon thor recommendations, the
various county officers are appointed
and commissioned.
The most important item OF the
week, perhaps, is the fact that the tax
payers of the State are giving substan-
/ tIdI DTOVI VI tbtbA 0liCS idtIC6 III LIE
Hampton government by responding
promptly to the demand made upon
them for support in the shape of vol
untary contributions, or advance tax,
as it is called. Not quite a week BIAS
elapsed since the address of General
Hampton was published, and several
thousand dollars have been already re-
ceived.
His first official disbursement was in
the cause Of humanity, as he at once
notified the Superintendents OF the
State Lunatic Asylum and State Psni-
Tertiary respectively that he was now
prepared to relieve the necessities OF
the inmates of these two institutions,
both of which, it must be stated. were
on the point of closing for want OF
funds to keep them supplied with the
p~lainest foOdand the baresl necessaries
for even a few days longer.
The moral effect Of this acknowledp.
ment on the part of the i~axpaying ele-
ment, together with the subsequent ac-
ton Of Hampton, cannot but be great
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-01-14

The Silver State says: The biz
chief of all the Piutes, old Winnemuc.
ca, from whom this town derives its
name, arrived yesterday from the
North. The old scalp. liter, who sew.
enteen years ago commanded the In
dams at Pyramid Lake, and fought
the volunteers and regulars man for
man, though probable 80 years OF ago,
is :" straight as an Indian" and only q
few gray hairs appear among his raven
locks. He came from the Malheur
Reservation, in Southern Oregon,
where he has spent the greater part Of
his time tor several years.
The Enterprise gives the following
account ola bonanza boys playhouse
The little quartz mill, which was senl
by Prescott, Scott Il Co. to Colonel
Fairs sons, is being set up north Of and
adjoining the Consolidated Virginia
pan-mill. 1t will be tnrned over Sat.
urday. 1t has, In addition to its five
stamps, two pans, one settler, etc., and
is complete even to the o~re-crusher.
An infant Tulloch feeder is TO be at.
tached. The pans are calculated to
take about twenty pounds ofpulp each.
1t will be one of the incest prospecting
mills in the world.
Says the Carson Appeal: 1t Is said
in legislative circles that a certain leg.
islator from the eastern part of the
State will introduce a bill entitled
+" An Act to compel the clouds to pro-
duce rain within The next two weeks
This bill will probably be read a sec.
ond time by title. and referred to the
Judiciary Cuminitte. Then the mem.
bers of that committee will probably
take a trip up above, and after inter
viewing the clouds themselves i'm the
matter, will report f~avorably to the
House.
Talking about pigeon shooting, says
the Gold Hill NeWs, DR.. Schnable, OF
Gold Hill, makes a very fair PROPOSE
ton. He offers to put mp coin that he
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-01-14
PACIFIC COAST DISPATCHES.
FROM CALIFORNIA.
IA RAIN STORM AT LAST.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT SAN PABLO.
SIGNAL SERVICE OBSERvA-
TONS.
RUN ASHORE AND WRECKED
STABBED BY HIS MISTRESS.
Fire In a Lumber Yard.
ASHORE AND WRECKED.
STABBED BY HIS MISTRESS.
Fire In a Lumber Yard.

Los ANGELES. Jan. Is.
1t commenced raining about mid
night and continued without Interrupt
ton until nearly daylight this MORN
ing and at intervals from that time UNI
til noon. Now 1t is comparatively
clear overhead but the oastarn and
southern horizon is banked up with
threatening clouds and probably
We will have moro rain this evening.
The fall has been about one inch, per-
haps more in this city. Reports from
all portions OF the southern country
indicate that the rain was general. A
strong southeast wind accompanied
the storm.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. -.
During the gale yesterday afternoon
the little of village San Pablo, twelve
miles north 0fOskland, was about me.
half consumed by fire. Loss, $1,000.
SAN Francisco, Jan. l3.
The weather has been clear Mt this
point all day With wind from the north
but blowing only at the rate Of about
SIX miles per hour. The humidity of
the atmosphere is very slight, meas
uring only 10 on "A scale of 100. Their
mometer at 80. Although dispatches
stale that 1t is raining at Los Angeles
with a southeast wind, the Signal
Service observer at this point does
not note any signs OF rainfall here.
A telegram has been received ut the
Merchants Exchange to-day announc.
ing the ship Com modore, belonging to
Samuel Blair Il Co., Of this city.
which sailed about the 10th ultimo for
Seattle, had gone ashore on Cape Flat
terry.
Luigi Lucchesi, the Italian book
Keeper tor the firm OF Nardini IL Co.,
OF Sansome street, was stabbed to-day
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LOUISIANA.
A Melee in the State House Among
the Republican Police.
M a KILL ED .
THE RIVAL LEGISLATURES.
A n q T II + IL - 8 4 Il r z Il .
LOUISIANA.
THE RIVAL LEGISLATURES.
A NOTnER EsERrE II

NEW YoRK. Jan. IL.
A Herald New Orleans special says:
This morning a dead negro was car
ried out of the Slate House and re-
ported to have died of heart disease.
It has transpired, however, that
ing a debauch last night, about ]
o'clock, a melee occurred i'm which two
Metropolitan pOlicement were shot,
and one named Ancoin died. 1t WAS
with great difficulty that a stampede
was prevented. The wounded man is
still in the State House. Another fight
in which pistols were drawn occurred
to-day.
The Republican Legislature had an
other ballot for United States Senator,
short term, to day, resulting in Pinch.
back, %; Antoine, 22; Beattie. II;
Lewis, l6, and the remainder scatter.
ing.
In the House Dolevy, Of Rapides,
stated in a speech that he had been OF.
fered $4,000 to 60 with the Demo.
Gratis.
A resolution was introduced and
read declaring vacant the seats OF Bias.
sett and Kennedy, who have gone Owe
to the Democrats.
AttOttiCt VII hO tCRuOitC0i
House has just been sworn in az a
member of the Democratic House.
The Democratic Legislature had an.
other ballot to-day for United States
Senator without a choice.
New ORLEANS, Jan. Is.
The Republican Senate Is still with
out a quorum.
Senator Breaux, who left the Repub'
lican Senate yesterday, was sworn into
the Democratic Senate to-day.
Representative Brown also left the
Republican House and wrote q letter tc
the Democratic House saying that, al.
though he was returned elected by the
Returning Board, he did not believe
he was elected and would not ask fol
q seat.
The Democratic Legislature had an
other ballot for United States Senator,
No choice.
New YORK, Jan Is.
The Worlds New Orleans special
names Yarmouth, Pinchbeck, Casey,
Judge Wiley and other Hayes men, as
among those who declare that Nichols
Is elected and recognize the Nichols
government. ,
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Miscellaneous Eastern News.
CROOKS INDIAN POLICY.
CRAZY HORSE NAY SURRENDER

CHEYENNE, Jan. IL.
General Crook, accompanied by
Lieutenant Schuyler, leaves here to-
morrow for the Red Cloud agency,
where he will remain some time. He
has unbounded faith in the successful
working of the plan of the enlistment
of friendly Sioux as scouts. An in
stance of their value Is found in the
fact that in the last campaign against
the Cheyennes when the Snakes II
Pawnees had followed their circular
trails Tor several days the Sioux darted
out in a direct line and struck the vii
lage at once the surprise proving so
complete that many of the Chsyennes
fled without even moccasius on their
feet with the Thermometer several de-
grees below zero, and many must have
persisted.
Major Mason, ~Commandant at Camp
Robinson, accom- panied by q number
of Spotted Tails scouts, has started
out with sufficient information to war
ANT the hope that Crazy Horse will
come in.
WASHINGTON, Jan. Is.
The case Of Heydenfeldt against tho
Dewey Silver Mining COMPANY, error
to the Circuit Court of Nevada, was
yesterday submitted TO the Supreme
Court without argument. The action
was brought to recover a quantity of
land in Lyon county, Nevada. pur.
chased by the plaintiff in error, no
claimed that the act enabling the peO.
pie OF Nevada to organize Il State gov
ernment made a grant to the Satte
of certain lands, and that the State
was its owner by virtue of such grant
when it issued a patent to plaintiffs
granter. The Court below, however.
ruled that the lands in question, being
mineral lands, were controlled by the
ACT of 1865, concerning mines and min
ing lands, before the grant to the State
took effect, and gave judgement for
the o npany. The case comes here for
review.
New York, Jan. Is.
Governor Stanford, of California,
has purchased the young stallion Ben.
ton. 1t is said he paid $4,000. Ben
has a record OF 2:2OM.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-01-14

LONDON, Jan II.
The Pail Mall Gazette, in an article
on the conference question, expresses
the belief that Germany's action Is an
indication OF Bismxrck's desire to see
Russia at wal and the Russian En-
pire shaken or destroyed.
HAVANA, Jan. IL.
The Spanish merchant steamer Moe.
tezuma. captured by the Cuban insur-
gents, WAS burned on the approach OF
the Spanish war steamer Jorje Juan,
and her captors fed to the Venezuelan
coast. The Jorje Juan picked up "a
of the former crew of the Moctezum ma.
kept OIL board as prisoners of the Gu
bans.
ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. IL.
The Gotos says: II is believed that
the Porte is simply playing with the
conference. Further concessions by
the Powers will only increase Turk
ish arrogance. Rnssia's self-respect
demands that negotiations be pro.
longcd no further, hut energetic meas
ures. such as General IgnaiitTs recall,
he adopted.
LONDON, Jan. II.
Silver, SIS. pence.
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CONSOLIDATED VIRGINIA.

The San Francisco Stock Report of
Wednesday last contains the reports OF
the President and Superintendent of
the Virginia Consolidated for the year
ending Dec. 3oth, 1876. The show
ing for the past year. indeed, for the
past three years, vi believe to be I'm
precedented in the history of mining,
and Mr.. Fair, in concluding. congratu-
lates the company upon the prospect
Of the incoming year being one of
''great prosperity" From May, 1874,
TO and including December, 1875,
the company paid out in dividends the
enormous sum of s27, O00, 900.
One item of interest, in view of the
present unsettled value Of silver, is the
relative production of gold and silver.
The scare that the ~"bonanzas'' were
producing unlimited silver was one of
the efficient causes of the ruinous de-
cline in the market price during the
year of 1876. Now, the Consolidated
Virginia may be taken as a fair sample
Of all the Comstock, as far as the ratio
of the precious metals is concerned.
1t produced for ~lS73-4E-6, $780, 900 900.
or this amount s22, 0 200 was silver,
and $l6,sOO, 900 was gold. The silver
was 562s per cent. of the gross product,
the gold being 43A per cent.
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at his desk. by an Italian girl named
Cora Biapchi, with whom he had been
living but had lately left. The result
Of the wound Is doubtful.
About 8 o'clock p. M. q fire broke out
in the lumber yard of B. Il J. Doe,
near the corner of King and Fifth
streets, and is still burning, though
under control. About $4,000 worth of
property was destroyed.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-01-14

WE are in receipt of a bill introduced
by Senator Chubbuck, OF Storey, pro.
posing to amend that portion Of the
revenue act which exempts certain
property from taxation. The only
changes Mr.. Chubbuck proposes are:
frat. to class the property of the
Knights Of Pythias with that Of the
Masons and Odd Fellows; and sec
ond, to exempt mortgages. This last
is a legislative remedy for a much
yexed legal evil.
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Especial. TO II DAILY SENTINEL
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WHO KILLED DICK PADDOCK p
There is a mystery surrounding poor
Paddock's death. The Coronor's jury
reported last Wednesday that :" in the
opinion of the jury it was an accidental
shot from the pistol Of Thomas
Hughes" that caused his death. On
the other hand, DIR. Harris staies that
the bullet weighed only 90 grains,
while the bullet of Hughes pistol
weighs 1870 and that of McDonald's
2l0 grains. Moreover, there was a
terrible scalp wound, of itself sufficient
to cause death, which the shot could
not possibly have produced and
which must have been inflicted by a
savage blow with a heavy instrument.
One. ofthe witnesses testified that there
was another party to the affray, but
he feared for his life should he give
his name. The Coroner did not press
the question: Queer!
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DISPATC HE'S.

By Overland Telegraph.
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MARRIED.

Eureka, Ian. - by Justice Cromer, Ferdi.
Dando Rodoni to Miss Marianne Maggini.
East Belmont, jan. l-kobert Mckca to Mrs.
Mary Dcbbins.
Goshoot Ranch, White Pine County-Char' e.
Cir en-, Of Cherry Crock, to Miss bridget
Conoghan, OF Philadelphia.
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can kill one out of five birds with a
common Colts revolver an . distance
of fifteen feet, the usual rules with re-
gard to trapping TO prevail.
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OBsTRuCrING RAILROADS.

Mr.. Westerfield, of Lyon, has intro
duced in the Senate a bill to provide
for the adequate punishment of rail-
road wreckers, which should become
q law. In the first place, the statute,
as now eAisling, provides no sufficient
penalty for the offense. In the next
place, it is, tor several reasons, so de-
fective that it is at least doubtful
whether the Supreme Court would
hold it operative as . criminal statute.
In the ~ Of the two boys, Dean
and Kaltwasser, tried at the Eureka
November term, Judge Cole. in over
ruling the demurrer based upon the
technical deficiencies and Irregular
tiles Of the law expressed doubts as to
whether a conviction could be sus
tanned. The defendants were con.
vicied of a misdemeanor. Had they
Abeen found guilty of felony it is posi-
BILE, If not probable, that they would
on appeal have escaped punishment.
In tho above case the youth of the
offenders, and the fact that they were
evidently moved by a spirit of boyish,
though malicious mischief, was taken
into consideration by the jury in re-
turning their verdict, and the punish
ment they are now undergoing is prob
ably adequate to thu offense they com.
mitted. But that any man who should
deliberately in any way obstruct the
line OF travel Of a railway train, with
its freight of hundreds of lives, travel
ing ct the rate Of thirty or forty miles
an hour, couli only be convicted of a
.misdemeanor and escape with six
months in the County Jail, is repug-
snant to our sense of justice and is pro-
-vocative OF mob violence.
Mr.. Westerfield's bill makes it a fell
ony, punishable by imprisonment OF
moi less than five nor more than ten
years to v 9 attempt the wrecking OF
. train. Should an accident occur and
injuries be sustained by any person,
the offender is to be held guilty of "as.
sault with intent to commit murder
Should death ensue, he is deemed
guilty Of, murder, OF what degree the
bill does not state. Let the bill be
amended SO as to make 1t murder in
the first degree, and then let 1t pass.
JUDICIAL DIsrRIcTs.-We have re
ceived Senator ('omins' bill to redis.
trict the State. 1t provides for only
six districta instead OF nine, AZ at pres
ent. The 9th District includes the coun.
ties of Eureka, White Pine and Lincoln.
The salary Of the District Judge is
fixed at $4,000, of which Eureka is to
pay $4,000, and White Pine and Lin
coin $500 each. The terms Of court
are to commence in Eureka on the
first Monday in January, May and
September; in White Pine on the first
Monday in March, July and Novem-
Der; in Lincoln on the first Monday
in April, August and December.
WE are in receipt of a bill introduced
by Senator Chubbuck, OF Storey, pro.
posing to amend that portion of the
g act which exempts certain
property from taxation. The only
changes Mr.. Chubbuck proposes are:
a .-k 49, Al
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-09-04

TALK IT OUT-For nearly a month
the people have been waiting the re-
suit OF the deliberations of the Uniyer-
s'ty Regents. who find tina, n large
amount Of money is due them from
ooiro"efs- The statement appeared in
the Ir'5une several weeks ago and If
was hoped that paper would publish
,.e names OF parties delinquent to tie
University. None of these are Door
men that we eau hear of We think
.ha' our co'emporary,if it has access 10
the list Of delinq dents referred to
sh"a!d publish their names, the
amounts borrowed by them. the tine
at which the money was loaned and the
amount Of interest due upon tie loans
IL - shameful that head. Of families
should have been compelled. during the
past year, to send their children to
oregon Summaries and California COL
ieges, Just because few rich men bor-
row the funds of the University and
then plead the statute OF limitations
when called on for payment. Those
laws were never made for gentlemen
Let the Tribune publish the list and let
the people see who these men are who
use public educational funds for their
own be:.etit and refuse TO refund either
interest or principal.