Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-21
PACIFIC COAST DISPATCHES.
Arrested for Attempted Murder.
SAN Francisco, March 20.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 20.
John w. Johnston. of the firm Of
Crane & Johnston, attorneys, vas ar
rested about two o'clock this morning
on a charge of assault 10 murder, COM
mitted upon his wife. The parties live
at No. % Russ street, aud about two
o'clock yesterday morning Johnston
beat his wife terribly, aud went back
to his house three or four times after
wards and tried tn shoot her, but did
not succeed. At last accounts the wo-
nan was alive, though it was not ex-
pected she could survive. No motive
for committing the deed has as yet
transpired.
Money Contributed for the Arrest
Of the Chico Murderers "A
threatening Letter.
SAN Francisco, March 20.
Business men Of this city yesterday
contributed $1,000 to aid in the arrest
and punishment of the Chico murder
ers, and, if necessary to accomplish
that end, they offer to double or quad
ripple that sum-. Money has been SEM
to Chico by Frederick A. Bee, who
represented the Chinese merchants in
the Investigations held by the Congress
sional Committee on Chinese iTnmi-
grafton in this city last fall. 1t has
come TO light that Bee received postal
card on the 18th instant, of which the
following il a copy:
.Colonel +. A. Bee, City-Dear Sir:
The eleven OF 70S have you marked.
You had better not have sent your
$500 to Chico. The Cinnamon have
got to leave this country and that little
affair in Blu to county is only a prelim-
mary. Take my advice and leave this
State in thirty days or you will be-
killed. All of you who are in for
coolies and against the whites here are
marked. (Sigued) 70S."
The above WAS mailed at station B,
March l7th, II NJ, in this city. 1t was
written in a disguised hand.
Sam. r. Curtis Visits the C0mstoek
and Gives his opinion The Kid
Convicted NJ Msnslnughtcr.
VIRGINIA CITY, March 20.
Sam. T. Curtis visited the CONSOLE
dated Virginia and California mines
Yesterday. He expresses his opinion
that some undiscovered ore bodies OK
ist in the proximity of the east wall OF
the Comstock, and that although there
may be some porphyry found between
them and the main vein, they would
be- found to he an intregal part of the
Comstock. This has been his opinion
all along, but it Is o confirmed by
what he saw in the west drift from the
l,650-foot level OF the G. and g. shat.
In the drift a horse Of pOrphyry has
been met with between W. ore bodies,
the first % and the second 45 feel wide.
lie had no doubt but about 40 feet
south the drift of porphyry would cut
out and the ore body widen more than
100 feet. This was at q point cores
pon1ing to that where the ore was the
narrowest on the level above, conse.
quently the main body would be wider
than on the l,550-fOOt level. He
thought m Of the best evidences OF
the pernanency Of the Consolidated
Virginia WAS to be found in the dip oil
the east clay of the main ore body on
the l.500-foot level. This clay had a
slight dip west. On the l $50. foot lev.
ell it IL nearly vertical, and on the H.
650-foot level 1t dips east at an angle
between AZ and so degrees.
James Rice, alias the Kid, who shot
Rata on the llth of Deem Der, was
last night convicted Of manslaughter.
John d. Lees Condition.
BEAVER, UTAH, March 20.
John d. Lee is Kept in very close
confinement and is guarded by troops,
He is evidently relying upon q rescue
before the day Of execution. This Is U
hot-bed of Mormondom, and Lee has
thirty seven sons and sons-in.law who
are brave and determined mon, and
who will let no opportunity to rescue
the patriarch go by unimproved. lee
Is very sullen and morose, and is ev-