Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-03-07
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SPECIAL TO THE EUREKA DAILY SENTINEL.
CALIFORNIA.
Silver Sold and Offered for Sale.
ANOTHER FAILURE OF A DRY GOODS HOUSE.
Strange Case of Identification.
ANOTHER FAILURE OF A DRY GOODS HOUSE
Strange Case of identification.

Ban FRANCISCO, March d.
Government has bought 10000 ounces
of silver at 1885,. Five hundred thousand
ounces were offered.
The Standard Theater has gone into the
hands of a receiver.
H. V. Yune, Loshe & Co. have been at
tached for $12, 900, as an adjunct to the
Godchaux failure.
The Republican State Central Commit
tee yesterday called a Convention to NOM
mate a State ticket, at Sacramento, June
18th.
Fannie McConologue, whose remains,
it was supposed. were fonnd in a trunk at
Lynn, Massachusetts,, is in this city with
her parents, residing at the corner of Har-
rison and Twenty-third streets. They ar
rived a few weeks ago from Boston, Mass.
Miss Mozambique says that the error as to
her whereabouts, and the supposed identi-
tication of her remains, arose from the
fact that shortly before starting for Cali
fornia, she told her friends that she did
not intend to make a through trip, but
would return in a few days. Chief Of Po-
lice kirkpatrick has ~telegraphed to Super
intendent Adams, Of Boston, in accord
ance with the above facts.
Bond Filed-Appeal In the TulIis
Casc-The President Censured.
SACRAMENTO, March 6.
Frank McCoppen, Harbor Commissioner
ut San Francisco, to-day filed his official
bond, of $50, 900, with the Governor.
An appeal is being taken in the case of
the Tullis murderers, Dye and Anderson,
and they will not be hanged on the 18th
instant. The appeal insures the cases be-
ing put off, so the executions, if the judg-
ment is affirmed, cannot take place before
late in July or early in August.
The Republican City Central Committee
has passed a resolution as follows: That
the veto by President Hayes, of the bill TO
restrict Chinese immigration. vas a wicked
exercise of arbitrary power, unwarranted
by the law or Constitution, and in plain
violation Of the proper demands Of the
people.
A Fearful StOrm--The Yuba and
Feather Rivers distinguishing
Goods Out or Danger.
EVANSVILLE, CAL, March 6.
The storm Of wind and rain ragged fear
fully nearly all night. The Yuba river
stands Is feet 3 inches above low water
mark, lacking only about Is inches of the
Hood mark of 1875. The Feather river is
also rising nearly up to tie high water
mark. Our levee is still intact, and is
carefully guarded at every supposable
weak point. Considerable apprehension
exists among our people, and merchants
and families are placing goods in the second
stories OF buildings, and otherwise raising
Them out Of reach of the flood.
Further Particulars Of the High
Water in California.
EVANSVILLE, March 6.
A careful survey of the full extent Of the
levee, by the Levee Commissioners, at 10
o'clock, reports it safe and capable of with
standing a further rise of at least eighteen
inches. A portion of the Hedges grade,
south of the city, is reported weak, and the
water is running over it. Twenty-Five
men are at work, with the means to stop
the overflow.
Bragg's levee, in Suffer county, in Dis
trict No. l, is reported gone also a por-
ton of the private levee of Chris. Schmidt,
at Hook Farm.
To the north of the city, outside of the
city levee, there is u perfect sea Of water as
far as the eye can reach, flooding many
valuable ranches lying along Feather river.
The County Hospital and the City and
Catholic Cemeteries, all being outside the
northern levee, arc inundated by a break
in the Browns Valley levee, letting the
water from the Yuba across INTO the Feath-
er. The California Northern Railroad
track, between the city and the Old Park,
is washed away. Several washouts are re-
ported on the California and Oregon Rail
road. below Wheatiand. This morning,
the express train, going south, was still at
Wheatland, unable to proceed. The Yuba
river is still rising slowly. Reports from
Smartsville say the river is falling at that
point.
A Reservoir Gives Way.
Los ANGELES, March 6.
This morning the wooden mill reservoir.
containing one hundred millien gallons,
burst its dam and flooded the lower por-
tions of the city. Fortunately, the reser-
voirs are at such distance in the hills,
back Of the city, that it was unsccom-
panied by disaster. The principal damage
is the loss of water for irrigation the com
ing summer. On some Of the streets the
water was two feet deep, and cellars are
flooded, and some hay and barley ruined.