Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-06-02
EASTERN intelligence.
SENATE AND ASSEMBLY IN
JOINT CONVENTION.
MONSTER PETITION IN FAVOR OF THE RE-
ELECTION OF THE LATE SENATORS.
The World and Sun Come to
ConkIing's Rescue.
A Bill Taxing Passengers r
Foreign Countries.
MURDER OF a MAIL CARRIER
BY Low DOG.
THE PETITION FOR ADDITIONAL C0MPENSA.
TInn nvEppUI I'm
The World and Sun Come to
ConkIing's Rescue.
A Bill Taxing Passengers From
Foreign Countries.
MURDER OF a MAIL CARRIER
BY Low DOG.
the PETITION FOR ADDITIONAL CoMPENsA.
TI0N 0VERRULED.
Especial to the SENTINEL

Wheeler, ~; Rogers 10; fenton, 8; rom
eroy, 2; Edick, !; Woodwork, 1; Jacobs,
81; Cornell, IL; Crowley, 8; White, 2;
Bradley Folgers, 2; balance scattering.
A monster petition in favor of the re-
election of the late Senators arrived from
Auburn, Woodin's District, to-day. 1t is
so feet long, and contains over 20, 900 sig |
natures. The World and Sun came to the
rescue Of Conkling this morning, against
what they term the efforts of the Admins
tration organs to make him a scapegoat
for the sins of the Republican party.
Two Important Indians.
CHICAGO, June lit appears from re-
cent correspondence at the Department Of
the Interior that last Summer Low Dog,
a Sioux Indian, meeting a mail carrier
near Tongue River, murdered him and
robbed his person of the mail. Low Dog
was subsequently found in possession of a
package of letters of the property of the
mail carrier, and confessed the crime, but
eluded arrest and Joined Sitting Bull
across the line. Last month he came with
a small party of Sioux and surrendered to
the military at Fort Buford. The civil au-
III tiitltlpIt nuullColCu u RuT pO5c W
bring him to trial for the murder, but the
officer commanding at Fort Buford pro-
tested, saying that such a proceeding
would prevent the surrender OF Sitting
Bull, which was certain otherwise to take
place in a few days. The Departments of
War, Interior and Justice accordingly
united in ordering the Marshal not to
make the arrest. The Postofice Depart
ment, whose employe was murdered, did
not seem to have been invited to partici-
pate. At all events, Low Dog is comforta-
bly, consuming Government ~rations, and
Sitting Bull is still at large in Canada.
AtrOciOus.
DENVER, May 31.-At $50 o'clock this
evening e. L. Stickney, a mining man, en-
tered a boarding house at the corner of
Seventeenth and Stout streets, while the
boarders were seated at the table, pulled a
revolver and opened FIRE on M. T. Campan,
causing instant death, and another pierced
Mrs. Deveraux through the heart. It is
said that Campan has for some time had
improper relations with Mrs. Stickney, but
was drawn on for Matchmaking purposes,
and that two months ago he was compelled
at the point of a dagger by Stickney to
sign notes amounting to $4,000; that he
paid several and then refused, and could
not be compelled to pay the remainder be-
cause no consideration was stated In the
notes. Since then Stickney has several
times threatened Campan's life. The shoot
ing of Mrs. Devereux was accidental. The
murderer is in Jail.
A Tax on Steerage Passengers.
NEW YORK, June 1. The Commissioners
of immigration are informed that a bill
providing for q tax Of 81 for each steerage
passenger landed m this port by steam
ships from foreign countries, had passed
the Legislature and is before the Governor
for his signature. which he has promised
to give promptly. The tax is to be paid
by the steamship companies, and in cases
OF default vessels may be libelled. The
purpose Of the tax il to provide for in
spection and other expenses attendant
upon immigration. 1t does not affect pas
sengers now on their way to the United
States, and will obviate the necessity OF
asking the State for IN annual %appropria-
ton to support the immigration Bureau.
A Lot OF General Grants JeweIry
Recovered from Robbers.
ST. LOUIS, June John Fitzpatrick,
formerly a messenger for the Southern
Express Company, was arrested in Kansas
City yesterday, charged with robbing the
baggage of General Grant while on his
way to Galveston last Spring. On his
person was found a large medallion of a
Russian bear, set with diamonds, pre-
sented to General Grant by the Emperor
OF Russia, and a Maltese cross set in dia-
monds, is of which had been removed.
II. King, formerly a baggageman on the
Iron Mountain Railroad, supposed to be
connected with the robbery, has been
traced to Sedista, Missouri. The men
were seen together at various points, with
q quantity of jewelry belonging to Grant.
A telegram has been sent to Grant, in
forming him Of the arrest Of one Of the
probable robbers.
A Deliberate Murder.
LOUISVILLE, June 1.-Halney Hull was
shot and instantly killed yesterday at Gym
thiana, KY, by his brother-in-law, Alexan-
der Odor. Hull married Odor's sister.
She died 10 years 60. The two men have
had i'll feeling toward each other all that
time, growing out of quarrel. Tit muir
der has the appearance of deliberation.
door came to town armed with a double
barreled shotgun, loaded with buckshot.
Finding Hull, he called out, care you
ready 2" and fred. The first shot brought
Hull to the ground. Odor then deliber-
ately fred another barrel into his head,
tearing it into q frightful mass.
Double Murder. >
CHATTANOOGA, May 31.-A special to the
Times gives an account Of a double murder
at Bridgeport. Alabama, yesterday. twenty
miles from Chattanooga. A tramp named
Mehan, while bathing Sunday morning
with some young men, became angered be-
cause they spattered him with mud. He
rushed for his knife and cut VIM. Copeland
in the neck, causing instant death. The
tramp was seized and bound. While in
prison Samuel Reese, cousin of Copeland,
slipped up inc shot Mehan dead. The
cousins are connected with the most sub
stantial families in the neighborhood.
Playing Big Checks.
BosroN, June IA check dated May
81, for $26. 400, on the Merchants National
Bank of this city. given by FrankIyn K.
Phillips, and intended to be deposited In
the bank, was discovered last night In the
hands OF professional faro players, and the
officers have informed the proper owner Of |
the check that the parties wrongfully hold
ing it left for New York last night with the |
intention Of negotiating it.
Claim for Additional Compensation
Overruled.
WASHINGTON, June 1.-The Court of
Claims yesterday overruled the petition Of
the Union Pacific Railroad Company, for
additional compensation for carrying the
mails in postal cars in excess OF the rates
now and heretofore paid by the Govern
ment for postal car service ON this and
other roads generally. The decision leaves
n past n present rates Of compensation