Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-14
NEWS TAILINGS.
From News Mines of the Pacific slo,

From News Mines of the Pacific Slope.
Leadville has only twenty policemen.
Dillon, the Bodie man shot by Travis, is
still alive.
Much sickness among the little people at
Tuscarora.
Mammoth City has library in the Tenn
pie of Folly.
Coal oil has been found at Pueblo also,
artesian water.
Nevada has now l39 insane patients I'M
der the care of Langdon & Clark, at Stock
ton. Their bill for December amounted to
over 81, 200. For the first eleven months
of 1879 the insane cost the State within a
few dollars of $1,000 If there is added
last months bill, we find the total expense
for 1879 to be about $50, 900.
P. S. Traver, one of the Commissioners
of Esmeralda county, New, was shot dead
at Candelara, Tuesday, January 9Th, by a
prospector named Mike Owens. Owens
bought goods at Traver's store and was
rendered check as change which Owens
refused, and thus brought on quarrel in
which Owens challenged Traver to fight,
and Immediately after pulled his six shooter
and fired at Traver, who was standing near
the end of the counter not more than a
dozen feet away. The ball took effect over
Traver's right eye, passing into the brain.
He fell forward near the stove, and when
picked up few minutes afterward by his
friends, was dead. Owens fed.
The Nevada City Transcript of the 10th
says: A strip of country nearly half a
mile wide, lying between l.. Dulac's ranch
and this city, was visited by peculiar
storm yesterday morning at about
o'clock. Mingled with the snow and rain
that fell were myriads of strange looking
worms. They came down by the millions,
covering the snow so completely that one
could not walk within the infested district
and avoid treadingOn them. Mr.. Dulac
captured a large number of the visitors.
and brought several of them to the Tran
script office in a bottle. The specimens on
our table vary in length from one to two
inches, and about sixteenth of an inch
in diameter. They are in color nearly
white, and their bodies are Transparent
Several worm sharps have been consulted,
but none of them were able to recognize
any familiar feature in these Shiny, inoifeu-
sive-looking immigrants.
The Free Press yesterday morning had
an account of woman known as Mrs.
Martin being struck on the head with a
stick of wood, opposite the EsmeraIda
Brewery, about midnight. Her skull was
fractured, and it was stated that she could
not live. The identity of the criminal was
shrouded In mystery. Officer Maestretti
undertook to ferret the matter out, and Iiis
efforts proved successful. Certain cireum.
stances led him To suspect man named
Juan Bruseli, whom he arrested at the Is
Jneralda Brewery. This man confessed to
having paid Nick Meadows, Swede, IS to
give the woman beating. Maestretti then
went after the Swede, and this evening sue
ceeded in arresting him at his cabin on the
street in the rear of tie Comstock saloon.
The officer, with some outside assistance,
woke open the cabin door, and while gaz-
no into the muzzle of q revolver,
Meadows also made confession, which
Uttered IRON, that of Brusell, in this re-
pect: Th.,t he had been paid S. by the
after to kill Mrs. Martin. Both men are
ow in the calab'oose. Mrs Martin died
ron the effects of her wounds at about 10 |
clock last night.--fBodis Free Press,
anuary 10th.