Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-05-09
THE PACIFIC COAST.
officials Annoyed by BOndsmen.
INDIAN FIGHTING IN ARIZONA.
The Walking Match Score.
By Telegraph to the SENTINEL


SAN Francisco, May Son account of
several Withdrawals of the bondsmen OF
Treasurer Shaber and Sheriff Desmond,
these officers were cited to appear before
the Commissioner having power to pass
upon bonds, consisting of the Mayor,
Auditor and Judge Holsey, of the Superior
Court, and show cause why their bonds
should not be declared insufficient. The
Commissioners heard the cases to-day and
dismissed both. They also passed resolu-
tons to the effect that the Withdrawals
from the bonds of these officials were
prompted by malice and a desire to annoy
them and force them out Of their positions,
and that under the circumstances the
Board wonld extend to them every protec-
ton to which they are entitled by the laws
and equity.
A Tucson dispatch says: Victoria, in
yesterdays fight. killed George H. Stevens
and about twenty families of Indians who
were living on his ranch. Victoria is try
ing to reach the San Carlos reservation tc
get the wives of his warriors and, if pos
| sible reinforcements.
Crown Point levies an assessment OF 50
cents.
At noon the score of the walking match
stood: Howard, 1876; Tobias, 1872; Young,
IT'S; Donley, ia; Tourtillot, 164; La Cha
pelle, 1862.
Edward Augustus Leonard, a native OF
Massachusetts,, and a carpenter by trade,
committed suicide this morning at 5
O'Clock near the dummy car track, in
Berkeley, by shooting himself in the mouth.
The Election Commissioners and new
City Hall Commissioners to-day adopted
resolutions authorizing the employment of
counsel to test the legality of the Mcclure
| charter.
The q~uarrels of the Bird brothers, rela-
tive to the titles to certain lots Of land
near the Oakland and Alameda township
line, eliminated yesterday in the probable
fatal shooting of Wiban Bird. Mrs.
Schaartburg, sister of the Bird brothers,
yesterday afternoon quarreled with one Of
the men on George Birds side of the prem
ises in Alameda. WibaD Bird and a woman
went to the rear end OF the lot and assaulted
and drove off the man who was there. She
then attacked Harry Bird, who was sitting
in the middle of his lot. She struck him
and applied op~probrious epithets, when he
went off and procured a shotgun, she in
the meantime having got a pistol. A gen.
eral skirmish then took place, when Geo.
Wilkinson came up, took the gun from
Harry Bird and fred at Wiban, the charge
striking him in the head and infiicting in
juries that may prove fatal. Wilkinson
was put in Jail. George Bird and party
barricaded themselves in a barn and pre-
pared to stand a seige.
A Tucson dispatch says Captain Kramer,
with % men Of the Sixth Cavalry, attacked
Victoria's band, 80 strong, near Rock
Greek canyon, yesterday. Blackman's
command Of 16 cayalrymen and 2S Indian
scouts are momentarily expected to rein
force Kramer. When the courier left Kra-
mer had several men wounded. Reinforce
ments are on the way from Camp Thomas
and Camp Grant. A decisive engagement
is expected tomorrow.
Suicide at San Jose.
SAN JOSE, May 8. Yesterday afternoon
Andy M. Ogier, formerly residing about
two miles and q half north OF the city,
killed himself in his barn by shooting him
self through the head. 1t is supposed to
be the result Of financial trouble. He went
into the barn and sat down, putting the
muzzle of the gun into his mouth, reached
to the trigger and touched it of. Half Of
his head was torn of, and blood and brains
were scattered all around him.