Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-08-30
WESTERN DISPATCHES.
MIscallaneous.


San Francisco. August 28.-Squire
p. Dewey has fled voluminous COM
plant in the Superior Court against
John W. Macksy. James G. Fair. James
G. Flood and James W. Coleman, exec
utors Of the estate Of William s. O'Bri-
en- /; the Pacific Lumber and Flume
Company, Nevada Bank, Pacific Re-
fnery aud Bullion Exchange. and Cali.
fornia Mining Company and its stock
holders for alleged wrongs. frauds and
breaches OF trust. and on such account
ing to repay to said company. for the
use OF its stockholders, all the profits
and property belonging to the company
obtained by defendants by means Of
transactions set forth in the complaint,
which contains similar allegations a.
are made in the notorious Burke suits
against the BONANZA firm. The sum In.
volv.d IL represented to be abous ten
million dollars.
The end Of the track Of the Southern
Pacific Railroad is now within 1876 miles
Of FL Psso, and 1t is the intention to
reach that point on or before January
90, 1881. On the Esd instant the party
at the front had surmountsd all the OBJ
stacles encountered in the Dragon
Mountains, the boundary line between
New Mexico and Arizona, which will be
reached in twelve days.
SANTA CRUZ. CAL. August 28.-Ths
Wheeler libel suit has occupied the
court since Monday last and went to
the jury at 8:l5 today. At 7:30 the jury
returned q verdict OF not guilty. The
libel was alleged 10 be the publication
Of an article 10 the Jacksonville Trans.
eript, charging James A. Hall with hav-
ing s.duced one Of bis pupils while he
was q teacher In IN adjoining school
district.
Solomon Jacobs left his home, 1450
Michigan street, yesterday, and today
his body was found at tho corner Of
Clay street and Central avenue with o
bullet wound in his mouth. A slip OF
paper on q twig near the body gave his
name and residence. Cause-stocks.
SAN BuEskvrSTuRA. Cal, August %.
Most Of the time yesterday was occu.
pied by the condemned criminal
Spragus. in explaining to visitors the
peculiar features Of q hay press invented
by him since his arrest aud incarcera-
ton for the murder OF Moro. There
are no indications that the threats Of
Spraguc's friends to interfere with the
Sheriff in his obedience to the mandate
Of the Governor will be attempted. II
Is now conceded by S~prague's friends
and those friendly to the prosecution
that the decision OF Governor Perkins
was wise and just.
PORTLAND, Oregon, August T.-Fred
]. Bills, assistant bookkeeper for Du-
bois & King, committed suicide last
night in the cellar Of the firms ware
house. He lay down IN Q bale Of sacks,
put a pistol to his ear and fred. De-
ceased was a stepson OF Alexander
Mclean, Of Oakland. CAL, was twenty.
three years old. aud bore q good reputa-
ton. His accounts are square. he
had been acting strangely for the past
few weeks. staring vacantly at objects
about him. and his fellow-workers
remarked that he had the appearance Of
being slightly demented. It Is sup.
posed that In q ct OF mental alteration
he committed the deed.
PoRr TOWNSEND. W. T., August a.
| The bark Martha Rideout. 26 days from
| Honolulu, arrived last night and reports
that on Saturday. the 2lst, while in
latitude 46 degrees north, longitude $50
| degrees 90 minutes west. Andrew Neil
son, O seaman. fell over the vessels
bow and was drowned. Every effort was
made to recover his body. but without
avail, as he disappeared almost Instant
~. Deceased was a native OF Denmark,
aged thirty.fvs years.
Victoria. B. c.. August 28.-ludlans
who arrived at Nanaimo yesterday an.
nouuced the wreck OF tho Hudson Bay
Company's steamer Otter. near Bella
Bella, about COO miles north Of this
port, on Saturday last. Tho steamer
was filed with the seasons catch Of the
fisheries on Skeena river, which was
very heavy. according to tho Indians
report. which may be exaggerated. The
vessel lies in q very precarious situation.
Assistance will be sent.
A steam ferryboat has been established
by the government across the cable
break. and communication will nov be
more frequent. The new cable. SO miles
in length. Is expected from England 10
December. and will be laid as o a.
received.
1t is authoritatively reported that the
financial scheme for the construction Of
the Canadian Pacific Railroad has been
foated in England.
An attempt Is being made to run q
steamboat through the Frazer river a q
yons to the smooth water above. The
enterprise is deemed exceedingly hazard.
Gus by steamboat men.
Sub-contracts have been given out for
the Esquimault dry dock. and the work
will begin in March.
Yale has been rebuilt since the Are.
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