Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-12-21

NED Remembers His Promise and
Sends US n Line.


DEAR SENTINEL: l have been at the
Pacific Coast hub nearly three months
without writing you the promised epistle.
In TACT the San Francisco papsrs have
taken the wind out OF me. Whenever I
thought l had something to communicate
That would be newsy, / have walked up to
find my items dished up under flaring
headlines in the Chronicle or Call.
four Tom Lawton business made quite
a stir here for two OF three days. l Am
sorry that Kyle did not get the right man.
IL would have been a fine feather in his
cap. 1t would have caused the death from
envy OF q score Of the smart Aleck" de-
tectives OF Sacramento and California.
Ihey don't think there is any police talent
IN the great basin between the Sierra and
the Rocky Mountains. II would do me
good to see the conceit taken out Of them.
You know what Q big cross fight there
was here to elect . set of uncollared city
ofhcers. The Democrats became unparti-
san, you remember, and threw off on their
own ticket because they hadn't confidence
IN their nominees, and by uniting with
their political enemies, elected almost an
entire Republican ticket. The new Board
have not shown up yet, but enough has
leaked out to make the San Franciscans
believe that they have been bilked again.
l dot his down out Of fellow feeling, you
know, for Nevada is not without reason
called the "~rotten borough" although il
the most OF California, and some portions
oil New York and Pennsylvania and every
other State in the Union, except Ohio,
were included in said district, there would
Dc less injustice in the expression. The
people OF the Bay City groan to find out
that the Spring Valley Water Company
own a majority OF the Board Of Supervi-
sors, and that the great water monopoly
holds the captured public with a. tight a
grip as formerly. What more will crop
out without regard to the character of the
Republican Reform Board time will reveal
fast enough, but the Spring Valley Water
business is a sharp pointer.
The Chosen Friends OF Eureka, no doubt,
stand in with their San Francisco brethren
in turning their backs on the Supreme
Council. The Order has Is, 900 members,
OF which California has 1920. You have
only a few hundred members in Nevada,
but FOUR interest in the cause is properly
as great as though it numbered thousands.
Believing that the management Of affairs
at headquarters in the East has become
selfish and corrupt, the C%alifornians have
had a rousing meeting here, seeded, and
established a new independent order under
fine auspices.
The Sunday law has made very bad blood
In this city. The r%eligionists have over
the thing by extreme partisanshir.
They have organized all sorts Of clubs to
carry the law into rigid enforcement, and
have embittered their opponents to the
last degree by parading their high
goodness and moral tone. The result has
been to start a still more liberal body than
the Home Protectives, " the name which
the anti-Sunday- Lawites have adopted. l
refer to the Liberal League To tell
what spirit animates them it is only neces-
sary to state the svowed purposes of their
organization. They will fight to repeal all
Sunday laws; all laws against blasphemy;
all laws requiring the administration OF
oaths; all laws providing for chsplains In
Legislatures, in the Army and Navy; to
prevent the Scriptures from being read in
the public schools; and generally to rid
the statute books OF everything that savors
OF Scripture. This looks a good deal like
war to the knife between orthodoxy and
personal liberty. Both sides are red hot,
and / don't think I can oreditably Join
either band. "NED."