The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1881-11-05
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.


murder, on complaint of Martin J.
Fenton, an Alavaso farmer. He alleges
that, on Tuesday afternoon, while pass
ing Gardier's residence, he was accosted
by Mrs. Gardier, who asked if it was
true that he had been making remarks
calling her reputation in question. Re-
ceiving an affirmative answer, she fired
TIVE shots from shotgun, but without
effect. Gardier, her husband, is under
arrest for battery on Fenten, growing
out of the same affair.
A "crank" called at the Capitol the
other day, claiming to have been elect
ed ice-President, and that David
Davis was an usurper. He was sur
prised to learn that the Senate had ad.
journed, but said he would wait until
December before pressing his claim
further, when he would assume the
chair and expose Davis pretensions.
The visitor said his name was Thomas
Jefferson.
General Hazen, Chief Signal Officer,
has transmitted his report for 1881. He
calls attention to the fact that the pres
ent weather service for the Pacific coast
is unsatisfactory, and recommends that
specially instructed officer of the Sig
nal Corps be stationed at San Fran.
cisco, to make particular study of
Pacific meteorology and send out from
that city indications of the weather and
wind for the entire coast.
Mac Veagh states that he hong ago
declared that he would prepare the
Star Route cases for court and then
drop them; that he never had any in
tention of going beyond the Grand Jury
with them, and in pursuance of this
plan he employed eminent counsel for
the prosecution; therefore he maintains
that he cannot justly be charged with
abandoning the cases.
The Conservative gain in the recent
English municipal elections amounts to
eighty-six, the Liberal gain forty FIVE.
The most important change was at
Stanley Bridge, where the Conserva.
tives gained six seats. They gained
four in Oldham. three in Cardiff, and
three in Liverpool. The foregoing re-
suits are probably attributable to the
Irish vote.
At an interview between the Prince
of Wales, Sir Charles Dixie and Gam.
BETA, the Prince of Wales asked Gam
BETA whether he had seen Bismarck.
Gambetta affirmed not only that he had
not seen MIN, but his recent visit to
Germany was his third visit there in.
cognito.
An Appeal was filed in the Supreme
Court of California yesterday, in the
case of Clarence Gray, convicted of
murder in the second degree for killing
Theo. Clancy, editor of the Santa Bar
bara Press. Gray was sentenced to 20
years in San Quentin.
In the Criminal Court at Washing
ton, Scoville made motion for delivery
to the property clerk of the court of
papers belonging to the prisoner. He
also asked for further postponement
of the case. The court reserved its de-
cision.
The Commissioners appointed to ex-
anime two hundred miles of the North
ern Pacific Railroad in Washington
Territory, have been directed to exam
inc an additional section of two hun
dred miles, extending eastward into
Idaho.
Paymaster- General Brown, in his an
nual report, gives the receipts at sl5.-
$50, 967, all accounted for. Received
during the fiscal year for the soldiers
deposits, 1924, III, being an increase of
S469 3S over the previous year.
Five employees at the Cars Palace of
CATCHING have been arrested, and re.
vealed the plot to repeat at Gatchina
the Winter Palace explosion, when the
attempt was made to kill the late Gar.
Hanlan goes to California to play an