Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-08-03
PACIFIC A ST.
CALEFOREIA.
STANFORD OBJECTS To AN INCREASE IN
FREIGHT RATES.
A SHARP TRICK ON A FRENCH
MAN.
THE SAND MINE ON THE OCEAN
BEACH.
Death OF Colonel w. III. Bell.

SAN Francisco, August 2.
The following dispatch was forwarded
East by the President of the Central Pa
elf Railroad Company this morning:
SIDNEY DILLON, President of the Union
Pacific Railroad Company, New York =
The proposed advance in rates from July
29th, as per circular issued by your freight
agent, Mr.. Vining, w consider unwise.
We recognize in you the same right to con-
troll rates on freights from that side COM
ing west that you concede to us on freight
from here going east; but our idea Ii hat
instead of an ADVANCE in rates upon the
classes of goods mentioned, a reduction
would be better, and we earnestly recon-
mend that you direct the withdrawal OF
the circular. We think that some other
plan may be devised to protect ourselves
against the impositions practised by ship
pers. (Signed) LELAND AMOR
The project recently entertained to close
the Cosmopolitan Hotel has been recon-
sidered. The house will hereafter be con-
Quoted on the European plan.
Several sharpers perp trated a sharp
trick q week ago last Wednesday on a
Frenchman whose name is withheld. He
was persuaded to draw Sc, 1000 from one OF
the savings banks and place it i'll q bag.
He was then induced to accompany them
to their rendezvous, and persuaded to
leave his bag in their custody for safe keep
ing, while he conveyed same bag belong
ing to them, containing what lie was de-
luded into believing a money belt, with a
much larger sum of money in 1T. The
pretext invented for this arrangement was,
that it would be announcement for him to
carry home both bags at once. The ar
rangement was made that he should call
there the following morning and take his
own bag home. When he went there at
the given time the thieves had flown with
the plumber.
The expert who has been examining the
sand mine on the ocean beach, by the Com
bination Mining Company, says nothing
can be made out OF the diggings by present
processes, but by the use of sluice boxes,
rifles, blankets, etc., each man working
can average $40 per day, providing the
sand averages as rich as that sampled yes
terday. On the strength Of this report the
company will procure the necessary appa-
ratus and work.
Mr.. Pinney publishes o card this morning
containing the affidavit OF o. IL. Bogart
and Thomas b. Selby, that while sitting
in P~inney's Office in April, 1875, Pinney
gave e. W.. Burr, President of the Clay
street Savings Bank, $500, which he ex-
planned to be on account OF commission
due Burr from Pinney. for getting him
money ON Higgins navy pay certificates.
Colonel William II. Bell, a well known
local politician, formerly Sergeant-at-
Arms Of the State Senate, and a veteran of
the Mexican war, died to-day. He was a
native Of Alabama, and aged So years.
SAN Francisco, Aug. 2.
About a quarter to 3 O'Clock. yesterday
afternoon, Henry Drage, q German gro
ceryman. shot and killed his wife and i'm
mediately blew his own brains out. Drage,
who was in business at the corner OF Front
and Pacific streets, has of late been drink
ing to excess. His intemperance and
abuse finally caused his wife to leave him
and take rp her residence with Drage's
sister. Mrs. Bruins. whose husband keeps
Bruins Hotel, ON Market street, near Ninth.
Last Saturday Drage was arrested on a
charge Of battery, on complaint Of his
wife. The case has been continued from
day to day, and in the meanwhile he fire.
quently went to Bruins residence and
sought to induce Mrs. Drage to return to
him, without success. This afternoon he