Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-07-23
PACIFIC A ST.
CALIFORNIA.
THE TREASURER or SEVEN MINING COM
PANlsS ARRESTED.
ANOTHER SUIT AGAINST THE SAFE
DEPOSIT COMPANY.
The Shock OF n Heavy Earthquake.

SAN FnAScIsco, July %.
j. w. Trip, President and Treasurer OF
seven mining companies, was to-day ar
rested on charges of felony in connection
with five of them. As President OF the 10
Scates Consolidated, he is charged with
fraud in connection with the sale OF delin-
quent stock. The complaint alleges that
there was no bid for stock, but that he
nevertheless caused a bid of $500, the
amount delinquent, for 30, 900 shares, and
issued a certificate for that amount to b.
f.. Hecox, trustee, which he pocketed. In
the Sabine Company, he is charged with
| entering q bid for 34,037 shares, of So ,103,
| when there was no bid, and again pocketing
the certificate. In the George Douglas Corr.
pauy he is charged with entering a bid Of
1875 for 80, 943 shares, and appropriating
the stock. In the De Haro the amount Of
stock delinquent is 90, 404 shares, and q
bid entered 81, $50. In the Polo Company
the amount OF stock SO, $40 shares and the
bid SIS. OBJ. Complaints are sworn out by
j. D. Fields, Secretary of the companies.
j. b. Armstrong has brought suit in the
Twelfth District Court against the Safe
Deposit Company, of San Francisco, to re-
cover 5000, 900. 1t is alleged in the COM
plant that in May, 1877, the plaintiff was
the owner of 600 shares of the capital stock
of the company, which he held as security
for an advance of $40, 900, made to J. G.
Duncan, he giving his promissory
note in acknowledgment therefor. The
certificate for the stock was not
genuine, having been raised from six
shares. The plaintiff also advanced $40, 000
to Duncan, and again received o %certifi-
cate Of 600 shares OF the capital stock of
the company. This was dated November
9, 1877, and like the other was raised from
six. There was, alsot it is alleged, a third
like transaction, and plaintiff, holding the
defendant responsible for Duncan's dis
honesty, brings the presen. suit to recover
damages.
The bark Enoch Talbot, which arrived
to-day from Seattle, w. T., reports that on
the 10Th inst, at 9:15 p. NJ, when about
thirty miles northwest OF Cape Mendocino,
a heavy earthquake was experienced. Tho
shock is reported to have lasted about ten
seconds, causing the vessel to tremblc yio-
lently.
SAN BUENAvENTUBA, July %.
Long before the hour set for beginning
business this morning, the courtroom was
packed, a large portion Of the audience
consisting of ladies. Counsel for defense
made a motion for a continuance of the
trial Of defendant Churchill, next on the
list after S~prasue. In support of his mo
ton he offered the affidavit Of DR.. Del
mont, County Physician, that when ar
rested Churchill was seriously i'll, and that
his subsequent confinement had seriously
aggravated the disease. He stated that his
trial just now would ~endanger his life,
Decision was reserved. HARDWOOD opened
for the prosecution; he spoke two hours,
Fay followed for the defense. Raymond
and Ganahl will speak this afternoon,
when the case will so to the jury.
SAN JOSE, July %.
Yesterday afternoon Willie A. Kinds, son
of Rev. Joseph W. Kinds, was accidentally
killed at the University Of the Pacific.
The lad had attended Sunday school on
the third floor Of the building, and when
the class was dismissed he and others were
crowding down stairs, when he fell to the
lower floor, about forty feet, striking IN
his head, and was instantly killed. He
was 9 years Of age.