Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-12-31

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ESPECIAL 70 n EUREKA DAILY SENTINEL. ]
CALIFORNIA.
Bodie Land Matters.
TROUBLE ABOUT PATENTS.
MINER ACCIDENTALLY KILLED.
The Bedie Mining claim.
EXTENSIVE STEALING IN OREGON.
The Election Frauds In Sam Fran
cisco.
PACIFIC COAST T.
TROUBLE ABOUT PATENTS.
MINER ACCIDENTALLY KILLED,
EXTENSIVE STEALING IN OREdol
The Election Frauds In ssn Fran
cisco.

The Election Frauds In San Fran.
SACRAMENTO, December 80.
The Surveyor General OF Mines has nc
knowledge Of any difficulty in regard 10
the Bodie land matters. Some six months
ago parties filed on the sixteenth section
under the State law, and have received cor
| tiicates of purchase, but no patents have
as yet been issued thereon. These being
mineral lands, they are sold by the State
at 50 per acre. He has been informed that
parties desire to acquire possession under
Government title, and thinks perhaps some
| issue has been begun on this point. II so,
| and O protest should be fled in his Office
| against the issuance of a patent, under the
| State law, it would be respected by him,
and the courts would in the meantime
| settle the disputed question. Persons in
| possession of mineral lands are preferred
| purchasers for six months after the survey
is fled in the Land Office, and he thinks,
possibly, parties may have neglected to
take the proper steps to hold their lands,
and that their right to hold may be in dis
pute. He has no definite knowledge, how
ever, OF any contests.
SAN Francisco, December 80.
III uulottOu VI tlb'O ~ bAC 4SO0iC AAAA
| ing claim, ventilated by an article in the
Cali this morning, has created o sensa-
ton among Bodieites in this city, and to-
day they have been holding o meeting to
consider what il best to be done in the
premises. A gentleman prominently con-
nected with Bodie properties, informs your
correspondent that holders under a United
States title are disposed to consider the
case serious. Legal advice has been
sought, which is to the effect that the
question, wherever mineral lands on the
sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections go to
the State under the general law Of 1858,
has never been decided by the highest le-
gal tribunal, and that the question is at
least an open one, with the chances in favor
Of the claimants under State titles. VIM.
M. Lent, one Of the largest holders in the
Bodie mines. is disposed to fall back on
his United States title but others, includ-
ing some of the heaviest holders, admit
that the best thing to do is to compromise
with the holders Of State titles on the best
obtainable terms. 1t is stated that hold
ers of State certificates have shown q dis
position, as far as approached, to dispose
OF their titles to the actual occupants and
claimants under a United States title on
reasonable terms, and the general impress
lon seems to be that this course of settle
mcnt will be adopted.
GEORGETOWN, December 80.
A miner named Alden G.. Graves, well
known in this county, was accidentally
killed by a fall from a trestle at the Vol
cano mine, near Y~olcanoville, ON Saturday.
The deceased was . native of Massachu-
sets, and 80 years Of age.
REDWOOD, December 80.
The American House, the largest hotel
in this county, was burned this morning
at 2 O'Clock. The FIRE lie supposed to have
caught from q defective chimney, as, when
first discovered, the entire attic was on
fire. A portion of the contents Of the no.
tel was saved. Loss about $22. 900 in
sured for $l2, 900 on the house, and $4,000
ON the furniture.
San FRANcIsco, December so.
A Portland dispatch says For about
two months o Commission, appointed by
the Legislature of Oregon, has been inves-
tigating the books aud papers connected
with the State Department. Their report,
now submitted, shows that funds to the
amount Of about S97. 900 have been either
unaccounted for or paid out without au-
thority Of law. Among the amounts are
the following items /: Swamp land fund,
unaccounted for, ST. 1915 F.; illegal fees,
O8Iu " 1nb Oh W ah4 ~
persons to places Of confinement. S37 ,3S2 ;
Quartermasters' stores in the Modoc war,
unaccounted for, S13, 200 overpaid to Sec
rotary OF State Chadwick, $500, and to
his assistant, T. w. Cam, 81, 800 school
and school land funds, about $1,000. I.
W.. Cam, Clerk of the Board, has paid to
the Treasurer S., 200 belonging to various
| State funds. aud declares his ability aud
| Willingness to pay all that is due the State
| from his official transactions with the
| Board, that came within his supervision.
| The report is very severe in it's condemns
| ton Of Governor Grover. 1t lays on him
q large part Of the blame for the loose, ex'
| travagant and corrupt administration. The
| report il particularly severe in relation
| 10 the conduct Of the Board Of School
Land and School Fund Commissioners
| Of which Governor Grover was the head
II charges that tho States educational
fund has been sq~uandered. until It 10 not
worth fifty cents on the dollar, n 1t II
shown by the committee mat governor
| Grover himself took large sums from thu
| fund on very trifiing and inadequate Sc
| curity. and used the money for his OWE
purposes. Also, that he loaned large sum
| out OF the fund to others in such ways tina
| the money came back to his own pocket
| taking for money, in the name Of thu
State, almost worthless security. in ccnse
quence OF which there is great loss to thu
fund. Governor Grover, by virtue OF hi
Office as Governor, had the loaning and
management OF the municipal funds. Thu
committee say that the sin OF obtain
ing money dishonesty is added TO that o.
the violation Of his oath-bound trust--tha
Of guarding the fund sacrediy. The com
mittee add that many Of the transactioni
of the Board were concealed from the pub
lie by failing to report the same to thu
Legislature, and that even such statements
as were made were false. Many OF tn
losses are Of q character which cannot b
we'll estimated, and probably will never b
asccrtained.
The Indian excitement, TO all appear
Ances, il subsiding. The Yakima yoiun
teers have returned from Priests Rapids
Four OF the Perkins murderers are in Jail
Chief Moses- H. still 10 Jail, and II is hintes
that he will neveS be allowed to leave Va
kima. Some Of the Indians say that all 0
Noses and Sinoballa's Indians are comini
to the reservation to live. Sinoballa him
self cannot DO found.
San BUENAvESTURA, December ~.
In the District Court this afternoon, Hi
Honor, after hearing the evidence Q
physicians, decided that 1t was impossibi
to try Churchill at present, and put tn
case over until the first Tuesday in March
All the other murder cases also stand post
pcned to the March torn.
SAN AxDREAs, December 80.
In q shooting scrape here this afternoon
between John Blackburn and . Frenchman
Frank Descloux, with Colts revolvers, tn
latter was killed. Blackburn was slight
wounded in the shoulder. The disput
grew out Of . disturbance concernin
some frogs.
~SAcRAMENTo, December 50.
The Bodie claimants are James Lawlel
Robert Perrier, Thomas Brown, w. y
Brown, @. w. Arnold, s. P. Fuggle, 9. {
Clay, b, s. Daggett, Jos. r. Fuggle. Il. {
Miller, J, T. Cochran. John B. Levi,
Charles Jqerrop, Eugene E. Jones, 4. 1