Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-12-04
Talk OF an Extra Session.


Talk Of an Extra Session.
INV Telegraph to the Sentinel.l
New YORK, December 3.-Judge Black,
in responding to the call of the Chamber
of Commerce here, for an opinion as to
the injury inflicted by %iuctuating and dis
eliminating rates Of railroad transporta-
ton charges, sends a two-column reply, in
which he makes the following points: The
railroad men believe, or pretend to believe,
that the railways are the property of the
companies authorized to run them, which
is a cardinal error and the parent of much
false judgment. A public highway can
not be private property, and a railroad laid
out, and BY authority of the State, for pur-
poses of commerce, is as much a public
highway as a turnpike road, canal or navi-
gable river. Tax, tolls or freight, in any
case, is not a subject of bargain between
shipper and corporation. but a thing to be
settled, fixed and prescribed by public au-
thority. The two companies between Oma-
ha and San Francisco raised in cash out of
Government bonds, lands and mortgages
of their franchises, four or five times as
much as they necessarily expended upon
= roads. The stockholders, without pay
fhg anything, put the enormous profits in
their pockets. These roads, thus built at
public expense, and in some cases paid for
by the public five times over, are claimed
now as the private property of the compan-
les, and the right of the public to use them
as highways is denied. l think the claim
of these companies to take reasonable
tolls, stands upon the same foundation as
that Of the companies whose roads were
built by the stockholders themselves at
their own proper expense. Your mention
OF only 81 from New York TO Salt
Lake and $3.50 to San Francisco is
perhaps not the most unrighteous, but it is
a gross violation of legal principle as can
be concerned. If the railways belong to
the people, then the rights of all citizens
are precisely equal, and all determinations
are unlawful. He thinks the laws neces-
sary to compel them to discharge the duties
they owe to the public faithfully are not
difficult to frame.
Exploits of Dashlns Second Wife.
CHICAGO. December 3.-The Inter
Oceans New York correspondent has a
story of Robert B. Bedell, the venerable
ex-President of the Erie Railroad, who
married a young, gay, dashing second wife
IN 1852. A conspiracy then seemed 10
have been formed against him by his init
mate friend, A. L. Murray, whose son was
his wife's too intimate friend, and its pur-
pose seemed to be to rob him Of his money.
Under its baneful workings his wife Sc
cured a divorce and alimony, and he (Be-
delD was one day in July, 1876, set upon
by A. l.. Murray, Jr.. Chauncey Bernard
and ]. III. Conner, at the railway station at
Goshen. He was held by two of them,
and beaten in the face with a rawhide by
the other, with the apparent intent of de-
stroying his eyesight. At that time he
only freed himself by getting his hand III
his revolver. His assailants then fed, but
one OF them attempted to shoot him as he
ran. He was too quick, however, and
brought him to the ground, for which he
was afterward honorably acquitted in
Court. His wife had at first left him sur
re%ptitiously, taking away valuables and Sc
curities from the safe worth 500 900. 1t
seems to be a case Of two many relatives in
the house, all of whom assisted in making
trouble. Bedell has been a very success
ful business man and is highly esteemed.
A Chicago Butter Conference.
OAASAocJ DSSCLuOcI - csttIudN dIlcT-
noon a number Of dealers in butter had a
conference, for the purpose of prote sting
the trade against adulterated butter and
cheese, which are at present flooding the
market. The recent exposures Of the vii
lalnousc character OF the compounds which
are manufactured and sold as butter have
greatly damaged the business, and rem
dered some action necessary. The only
feasible plan suggested was that a dealer
in theb bogus article be compelled to label
it under its appropriate name. The last
Legislature passed a law requiring this to
be done, but no steps have been taken to
enforce 1t, and it is practically a dead let
Ter. Resolutions were adopted requesting
the Produce Exchange to take action to-
ward enforcing obedience to the law, and
promising a hearty cooperation. Active
war will be made on this disgusting
traffic.
Increased value of Farm Lands.
NEW YORK, December "a Washington
special reports the new treaty ready.
The increased value of farm lands,
cleared and timbered, for 1880, is as fol-
lows: California 8 and 2-10 per cent, Ore
gon z and Clio per cent. The South At
80 90 " DCi I'LL u
States, 8 per cent; Southern inland States,
9 per cent, chiefly owing to the improved
condition of Arkansas. Lands north of
the Ohio, 0 per cent, on account of the
vast strikes in mineral and manufacturing
industries, while the Western or prairie
States show 10 per cent. The Pacific
States are supposed to be down to 8 per
cent. increase. on account of the Chinese
question, but the reports indicate that
signs of reaction are beginning to appear.
The only States showing as low a rate Of
increase are Oregon and Virginia, where
the per centage is l and 4-10.
valne of Panama Canal shares.
NFw YORK, December 3.-william Selig-
man, a member of the Panama Canal
syndicate informed the Herald Paris cor
respondent yesterday as follows We have
made. it q condition of our participation
in the affair, and obtained a million dollars
guarantee that an America Directorate and
President should be appointed. So far as
we can see, the people of the United States
will be found eventually to have the larg-
est amount of stock. I am confident the
goods and passage taffic through the PAN
anna Canal will be four or five times as
great as that Of the Suez, and that in ten
years Panama shares, issued at 500, will
be worth from 5000 to $500.
The Funding Bill.
WASHINGTON, December 3.-There is a
poor prospect of unanimous action on the
Funding Bill. Members who favor Kelly's
measure insist that the surplus revenues
will wipe out snch maturing Indebtedness
as the Treasury is actually forced to meet.
Others say that an extra session is neces-
sary if no funding bill be passed.