Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-04-23
IRRESPONSIBLE BROKERS.

The failure Of John Shawhan (Junior
and Senior) in Virginia City, serves to
show how lax the law is regarding the
business of buying and selling stocks.
Shawhan came to Virginia about two
years ago and with no capital at his
disposal that anybody knew of, opened
a brokers' Office and began business.
Stock buyers dealt with him without
having the slightest guarantee of his
financial stability. He practiced all the
little tricks known to brokers, and
everything was grist that went to his
mill. With his compound interest,
commissions, telegraphing, and all the
petty charges which eat into a Gus
TONER'S account, very few WAC ever
dealt with him realized returns. lie
even purchased notes against his Gus
toners and charging the notes to the
account sold them out. He claimed
never to speculate himself, but the man
ner of his failure shows that he was
caught short on the market. y few
months ago he left his business in the
hands of his boy, young lad just out
of school. Shawhan, jr., announced
himself as the successor of his father,
but now tries to claim that he was
"merely his agent" A broker who adj
vertises to do "a strictly commission bust
ness" and then risks his customers
money in speculations obtains, it under
false pretense, and such men should be
made to sweat for their work. This is
ShaWhan's second escapade in bank
ruptcy. Insurance companies and banks
are obliged at stated intervals to submit
to the inspection of a Commissioner au-
thoriZed by law. It is clear that brokers
should be placed under the same sur
veillance.
DUMAS AS A CONFEsSOR.-One who
has studied Dumas tells us that the
secret of Dumas knowledge of the hui
man heart is his habit of confessing
women. Ever since his boyhood he has
been practicing this. There is hardly
a grand dame, a little actress, or a fam
GUS cocotte in Paris whose secret Dumas
does not know. Wherever he meets a
woman he confesses her In the solonS
of society he insinuates himself into the
souls of duchesses and marquises; he
learns their secrets, their ideas, their
desires, their sufferings. You have on |
ly to talk with any woman who has
met Dumas, to compare the evidence
of several witnesses, and you will find |
that he has a regular system Of confess
ion projected by the experience OF a |
life time. He is not either always |
soft and gentle with woman; he is, on
the contrary, often bitter, sarcastic, |
coarse even, but you will not find a !
woman who dis!kes him.
The editor of the San Jose F5otight |
has received the following:
AS you make an eloquent appeal in
begging for the Brown family, please |
accept the present as my contribution. |
had the pleasure of helping to hang |
that notorious villain and negro thief,
and would like to have the pleasure of
helping to hang the balance Of the fam
lily, l also had the pleasure of helping to
kill about five hundred thousand other
negro thieves. and would like to have |
the pleasure of killing all the rest Of
them, including yonr own damnable
carcass. Put that in your pipe and
smoke it, you damn negro thief.
V. II. @. Smith.
We will wager tin whistle that the |
nearest this fellow ever came to ''help
ing to kiIl' anybody was after the bat
tie was over in crawling around among
the slain for the purpose of robbery.
San Jose Aercany.
It is seldom that Il given number can
be found to repeat itself in SO singular
and significant manner as in the fol-
lowing case, as is discovered by the San
Francisco Examiner: "On the 10Th Of
October George A. Wheeler strangied
his sister-in-law, Adella J. Tiison, under
unparalleled in the annals
of crime on this coast. On the 10Th day
of November he was indicted by the
Grand Jury. On the 10Th day of Deem
Der he was arraigned for his crime. On
the 18th day of January he was convic-
ted of murder in the first degree, and on
the 10Th of February he WAS sentenced
to be hanged on Tuesday, the 10Th day
Of April, by the neck until he was dead.