Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-05-10
EASTERN NEWS.
NIGHT DISPATCHES.
TO THE DAILY sENrISEL.l
WASHINGTON.
Timber Lands Not Open to Rail-
road Corporations.
THE FLORIDA AND LOUISIANA
FRAUDS.
Nav 9.

WASHINGTON. May 9.
In the House, to-day, the Senate bill
authorizing the citizens OF Colorado,
Nevada, and the Territories, to fell aud
remove timber on the public lands, for
mining and domestic purposes. was
passed with an amendment offered by
Mr.. Foot, that such lands shall not be
open to railroad corporations for the
cutting Of timber.
A Democratic member of the House,
prominent in the alleged Florida and
Louisiana presidential frauds. SAYS
that those who have the subject in
hand could not report a resolution for
an investigation, because they have
not yet agreed upon its form and de
tails, but such a resolution will be in
PRODUCED some day this week. The
Committee on Judiciary will be en-
trusted with the investigation. He
e Expresses confidence that the resolu-
ton will pass, and says that every
Democrat and a number of Repnb-
! licans will vote for II in order that the
country shall be satisfied of the char
acter of the votes awarded to Hayes
and Wheeler in Florida and Louisiana.
The committee will not inquire into
the question of the eligibility of the
DItStuL IDCul1lDCoks, Out Wii iOaNC II
facts elected by ths investigation to
speak for themselves.
New YORK, May 9.
A Washington correspondent says:
When the resolutions looking into the
so called Louisiana frauds is intro
duced in the House, Mr.. Hale will
offer an amendment including those OF
Oregon and two other States.
Terrible Outra.es and Murders
Some % Men anu Boys Killed.
CHICAGO, May g..
An Inter- Ocean Washington special
saws: A letter has just been received
by Representative Schlieehen, from a
prominent citizen of Corpus Christi,
Texas, which contains the following
reliable statement regarding the recent
terrible and outrageous murders com
mitted in Webb, Duvall, and the sur
rounding counties, by Mexicans in the
garb OF Indians. The writer |
have lived in the counties of st. Patri-
clio, Live Oak and Muces for 30 years,
and have been through all the troubles
of the frontier, and / have never seen
| such wholesale slaughter before. They
| took little boys, from seven to twelve
| years old, aud two men on horseback
would hold them up by their hands,
while the third would tax out their
entrails. The men, they would shoot
or take out their entrails. This was
seen by women and men who were
| hidden in the brush, and we found the
bodies Just in the stated. b
number of Killed amounted to about
twenty five men and children, from
seven to fourteen years old. This raid
was made to get horses for the Next
can army, and | am told by good
| authority, that all the raiders receive Is
the money they can get, with other
| valuables, and one dollar a head for all
| the horses they bring safely over the
| Rio Grande. l think they must have
| crossed over with about five or six
| hundred head of saddle horses. There
were about 45 raiders altogether; about
26 in the party that did the killing:
| about ten IN the one that was below
| San Diego, and eight or ter in the one
| that crossed above Eagle Pass. When
| say five or six hundred head of
| horses, / mean the number that was
taken by the party that did the killing
| The party thai crossed the Rio Grande
| below Rio Grande City had about one
hundred and fifty head of horses. i
| do not know how many horses they
crossed with above Eagle Pass.
The .Tribune" on Communistic
OutcrOppings.
New YORK, May 9.
The Tribune has an editorial on the
| recent communistic outcroppings,
| closing thus: ave do not believe it
can ever he a ruling power in the
| United States, but IL can easily become
| the tyrant in certain localities, as in
the mining districts of PennsvlvaDia
| and the turbulent city of San Francis
| co, and in some other regions, and
wherever the fame Of insurrection
| breaks out, we, in New York, can
hardly escape the attack. 1t is we'll to
look at the situation carefully, n
consider how we shall meet it; above
all, how we shall awake in our children
the conservative religious sentiment
which animated our fathers.
The National Labor Convention.
PHILADELPHIA, May 8.
The National Convention continued
its session until 2:30 this morning, ow-
ing to a bitter discussion of the plat
| form, and renewed the session and the
| discussion at 10 O'Clock to day, with but
| little more than half the delegates pres
ent. f. w. Hughes made a long
| speech, largely upon the labor question,
favoring eight hours for work n de-
precating the working of children in
| factories. Other speeches followed. but
| the speakers were interrupted frequent
ly, and unpleasant expressions were
interchanged.
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