Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1881-10-01
AN UNFORTUNATE AFFAIR.
THE FREE USE OF THE PISTOL
BY MEN WHO OUGHT TO
KNOW BETTER.
Probable Death Of Maj. s. G. ScO-
vile and ID. w. Balch.

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Mr. Scovile is well known to many
of our people, having been for long
time connected with Parker & Tobey
in Carson, in the lumber business.
The following account of The affair
is from the Reno Journal of the
28th:
The bitterness which for a long
time has existed between the two
factions of the N. &. o. railroad
managers, resulted yesterday 10 a
shooting scrape between the parties,
in Which Major S. C. Scoville, Of Re
no, and D. w Balch, of San Fran
cisco, both fine gentleme6, receiving
wounds almost certain to cause their
death. There is mystery surround
ing the affair which will not be clear
ed away until after the preliminary
examination before Justice Young
to morrow at 10 o'clock. The off
GERS have as yet been unable to de
termine, either who fred the first
shot, or in fact, who fred the mnjhr
ity of the shots. They have four
pistols in their possession, three of
which are loaded, aud the other
showing only three chambers dis
charged, and yet eight bullets can be
accounted for--two in Balch, one in
! ScovilIe, one picked up 10y Sunder-
land, one picked up by Lawyer Allen,
one through windI.naand two i'm
bedded in the partitions of the rail
road office. The pistol in which the
three chambers are empty belongs to
Mr.. McMechan, and yet stranger still,
Balch AYERS that Judge Wheeler shot
him while Scoville thinks that Coffin
shot him. The statements are very
conflicting, and the Journal is unable
at this time to place the blame where
it. justly belongs.
4 stockholders meeting of the
railroad company was called for l
O'Clock yesterday by the Moore fac
ton, fer the avowed purpose Of re-
moving the present Directors, more
particularly Wheeler, McMechan,
Sunderland and Coffin, the four com
posing the majority cf the Baard.
| These four. in order to control the
organization OF the Co., lately sub
scribed for $4,000 of the 10000
shares OF the capital stock, so as to
be able to control the election called
for yesterday. The Moore crowd
claimed this subscription an illegal
proceeding, and procured an iujunc-
ton from Judge Rising, Of the First
District Court, prohibiting the four
from voting the stock, and at the
same time taking the preliminary
steps 10 remove the case 10 the L. S.
Court. Wheeler aud Coffin took the
bull by the hornes, and took the mat
tel before Judge Hillyer, and from
him procured modification of Ris
iug's order, which order permitted
them to vote the $4,000 shares against
the removal of any of the Directors,
thus leaving them in control until
the Court could pass upon the ques
tiona at issue. This Hillyer order
was unknown to the other side, who
supposed they had things all their
own way. At the appointed time
The Wheeler crowd was in the rail-
road office waiting for the Moore fac
ton to show their hand, and then
euchre them. Judge Wheeler, as
President of the n. & O., sat at the
desk prepared t0'rqreside over The
meeting. The other side presented
themselves, and Mr. Fowler, of New
York, who is the largest stakeholder
IN the Co., requested all persons not
stockholders to retire from the room.
lie looked at the Wheeler crowd but
none of them moved. He repeated
his request. Judge Wheeler raped
on the table. aud said: "The meet
ing will come to ORDER
Just about this time a man named
Cogan, Moore's Supt. Of Construction
aud some eight or ten other men,
filed into the room from the outer
office, and somebody grabbed Nc
Mechan. In second pistol was
fired, and shooting commenced. The
Directors who hadn't expected this
fed from the room as quickly as
possible, aud there was a general
hurrying to and fro. Balch and SEQ