Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-01-27

A Correspondents ON Phoebe Justice
and Pete Canavan's Raid.
TEN PAnurE, January is. 1880.

TEN PAHuTE, January IS, 1880.
The Record. Of Phoebe. has been saying
some naughty things about me. on account
Of reflections that / am supposed to have
cast on Phoebe justice" in your journal
a week or two since, and I appeal to you,
as a leading paper Of the State to see fair
play, and not allow an humble sagebrush
correspondent to be blotted from off the
earth without a chance to kick back. 1 can
forgive them for calling me a female abo-
rigine, though to the best OF my knowledge
and belief it is false. / can even overlook
| their base insinuation that ! live in Hike,
though / must deny the soft impeachment.
And / am inclined to look charitably on
their dark and mysterious hints of a wish
to shield McLane, and Of completely in for
mer Pahranagat murders. (And the ami
able gentleman who runs the Record need
not visit Pahranagat to find evidences Of
murder; let him take a quiet walk of half
a mile below Phoebe, and in that /" city Of
the dead" count the victims OF murder by
hundreds, and ask himself what percentage
Of the parties who sent those men over to
the silent majority" have ever been pun
ished for their crimes.) do not wish to
shield McLane from his just deserts, and
although l may have made some cowardly
flank movements on the Kings English)
have never bushwhacked any body amid
the sylvan retreats of Pahranagat Valley.
But that immodest paper calls me a pros
titute," and for this / cannot forgive them.
He that steals my purse" don't get away
| with much, and " he that robs me Of my
good name would hardly need a pack ami
NAL to remove his acquisition /; but virtue,
above suspicion, beyond reproach, immac-
nlate, is my boast. l did not intend to in
sinuate anything disparaging of our county
officers (%although they are Democrats. al
most to a mani. No county in the State
boasts of better. Dur District Court Judge,
Henry Rives, would be an ornament to the
judicial bench anywhere. Our Sheriff, Mr..
Mckee, is a man without fear and with
out reproach = and everybody knows our
Prosecuting Attorney, "Clint" Patchen,
or, if they don't, they are that much out
of luck. 1t is, no doubt, the climate, or
the formation tquartzite) that paralyzes
the arm Of the law.
Our camp has just been honored by a
visit from two of your distinguished citi-
zens, Major Mannheim and Colonel Cana
van. The former received a cordial well
come, and proposes to remain with us for
some weeks and Colonel Caravan, whose
cheerful, jovial ceuntenance was really a
welcome sight, and brought back many
pleasant memories of Austin and Hamilton
and Eureka, would have been no less well
come. but that dark hints had preceded
him to the effect that he was coming with
the deliberate intention Of removing one
of TEN Pahute's fair daughters to the
smothering precincts Of Charcoal Flat, and
in consequence, sinister glances were lev
eled at him from beneath slouched sombre-
ros. We are a quiet, law abiding, long
suffering community, and can stand a
great deal of punishment, but when Eure-
ka politicians come connubiating around
here after " our girls" they must take what
they get. And ii Colonel Canavan, on the
last evening Of his stay here, received a
brief epistle, with the cabalistic COL for a
signature, it was no less than he had reason
to expect. NAoUINTAH.