Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-10-22
THE DAYTON TOLL.ROAD
TROUBLE.


He Denies Having Ill-Used Mrs.
Cummings or lnterfered With
any Property but His Own.
EDITOR EVENING CHRoNICLE-Sir:
In reading your paper Of Saturday
afternoon saw an article which APP
peared to be copied from the LYON
COUNTY TINES which article, or the
facts upon which the same was
founded, | take to have been fur
nished by the Cummings family, and
as l believe neither paper intended
perpetrating any injury to me take
it for granted you will give my side
public notice.
At one time was the owner of the
Walker river toll-road and gate, and
am now agent for the same. Some
time ago | leased the road to Alonzo
Cummings, on representation that he
was an honest man; as learned that
things were not going as they should,
and as he desired to leaye, l paid
him $75 for some little things he
claimed, and his brother. James Cum
mings, expressing a willingness to
assist us both, loaned me 500, with
which to pay Alonzo for the surren-
der Of the lease and for the first and
last sum l have the receipt of Alonzo
Cummings and his agreement to
quit the premises. Hearing that
Cummings was a sharper, and that |
would lose my interest if | allowed
him to have anything to do with it.
friend advanced me the money to
tender to him, which | did imme-
diately, and as / had right to do ac-
cording to our agreement. Mr..
Stearns, the real estate agent, also
rendered him the money, but he re-
fused. He then purchased an ir-
debtedness against me, and wished
me to pay that also before he would
surrender the road. | offered $225;
he refused to take it, and then in
formed him that I understood his
purpose-that he knew | could not
raise the amount he held against me,
and in that way, without any autho-
rity, he proposed to rob me of the
road. As Alonzo had the road, and
was without dollar, my attorneys
advised me that the expense of suit
in ejectment would be so great, aud
the time required to prosecute the
case through the courts SO long, that
| had better lose the road than at
tempt that course, but that | had
right, by virtue Of the papers from
Cummings surrendering the premi-
SEES, to take peaceable possession of
the property.
| went then. Mrs. Cummings was
out taking toll. | went into the
house; the little girl ran out.
then refused to let Mrs. Cummings
return. No one laid hand upon
her except to prevent her from injur-
ing any one present She threatened
to shoot my pauuch out. The gun
was discharged and water put in the
muzzle to prevent any injury being
done; the child was not touched by
soul present. NY property was re-
moved without Injury to any belong
ing to them. Not a word of insult
was spoken to Mrs. Cummings or
her children, but Mrs. Cummings
and the little girl used the fithiest
and most obscene language to us that
could be uttered by human beings.
The vocabulary of one of the Barbary
Coasters would be choice litera-
ture in comparison with the Language
we heard from those two.
This matter will he investigated
before the courts. Until then | trust
| shall not judge or be judged.
Will the LYON COUNTY TINES
please copys Respectfully.
J. j. HOLMES.
Virginia City, October 20, 1879.