Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-05-01

| Yesterday afternoon the young man LIE drand
who has been about town for several days past
getting up mammoth advertising card, was
tried before Justice Cary yesterday on the
charge of obtaining money under false pre-
lenses. George c. Thaxter was the complain
lug witness. He testified that few days age
I.e Grand came to his store and asked him to
give him an advertisement for railroad time
table he was getting up. Il represented that
the leading business houses of the city had
given him their cards, and named number
of them. He also stated that he had con-
tracted with Mr. Hunt for the frames. The
prosecuting witness listened to the enhancing
music of the travelling advertising medium s
voice, and his hand ins.inc,ively went down
into his pocket and he drew forth s. piece,
paying the Inan in advance and giving him a
two-inch advertisement. The man took the
money and vanished, after which MIR. Thaxter
discovered that while he had taken the coin
he had left the copy for the advertisement
lying on the show case. This reused his sus
picons and he sailed after LIE Grand. He
Grand had collected money, and all were get
ting anxieusabout their coin Several parties
of whom LIE Grand claimed to have received
advertisements went on the stand and swore
that they had made no contracts with him.
The clerk at Hunts lum Der yard testified that
he had never ordered any frames. Mr. Sharp
Of the Ormsby House testified that the de.
PENDANT told him that he had paid $50 in ad-
also claimed that most of the advertisements
were in type at the APPEAL office, and the
reporter of the APPEAL testified that no such
advertisements were ill type at that place, but
that the man had ordered some contracts
printed for which he had paid in full An
attempt was made to introduce a warning to
the public from the Sacramento Democrat,
publishing the defendant as fraud. The
evidence was not admitted, and the court dis
missed the case the grounds that the de-
PENDANT obtained the money by agreeing to do
a certain amount Of printing. There was
nothing as yet to chow that he did not con-
template keeping his agreement. A number
of parties who had paid him money in advance
were at the trial taking lively interest in the
proceedings. They are now more than anxious
regarding the time when the mammoth time
table and advertising card is to be printed
aud framed.
OPIUM SMoKERs.-The practice of smoking
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extent, notwithstanding the police have made
every effort to stop it, The officers of late
have been rather lax in attempting to enforce
the law from the fact that no matter how
the jury are bound to acquit. If man is
found with a pipe in his hand and the room
filled with smoke he has but to swear that the
smoke was some left over from the night be.
fore and came from ''another crowd" and
the Jury will believe every word of it. Young
men pass the APPEAL Office daily who have
come from the opium dens of Chinatown. |
Their listless gait and blood shot eyes are
plain indicators of opium indulgence. There is
onegsod however, which grows out Of the opium
habit. 1t takes disturbing elements out OF
man. 1t may make young man more of a
aoodlum than ever, but he is harmless one.
There was a time when there was a class of
young scalawags in Carson who were always
iicking up a rumpus They We're ready to
light at the ''drop Of the hat" We hear
ess of them now. The opium habit makes
hem listless, lazy and cowardiy. They pre-
er to lounge in Chinese den and breathe
he feted atmosphere of Mongoliam sub
ellar to going about the streets meddling
With other peoples business and Gaping up
ows. Opium may therefore be regarded in
he light of a blessing than otherwise, as it
eeps bad class of boys where they will do
he least harm. There are some of these
mokers who are well worth reforming, and
very effort should be made to save them.
he majority, however, would do we'll to ]
anoke themselves out of existence as soon as ,
ossible
Docs. We have an iaexpressible contempt
'r dogs, not any particular dog but dogs as
mass. Where one dog is we'll bred, faithful
nd respectable, one finds two dozen that
ught to be dead. Carson has more dogs to Z
lie square mile than any place in tho world. a
t night they congregate in packs all over the h
ty ard howl and yelp frem o'clock in the t
7ening until in the morning. They sleep a