Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-09-01
PACIFIC COAST ADVICES.
More About the killing Of DAILY
Stage Robbery A Big Placer
Ciean.up-Suicides, Deaths-Etc.

.lSpecial TO the SENTINEL
SAY Francisco, Aug. 31.-An unknown
man committed suicide by jumping from
the $40 Oakland ferrys boat, while oppo-
site Goat Island.
A Deming (Arizona) dispatch says there
is reason to believe that there we're a num-
Der of white men in the band of savages
who made the recent raid in which George
DAILY was killed. This is inferred by the
language used by some of them also, by
the appreciation shown by them for specie
and ban notes.
YREKA (Cal.l, Aug. 31.-The stage from
Oregon was robbed this morning at 2
O'Clock about 10 miles north of here. No
passengers were on board. The robbers
took nine mail sacks also, the express
box. The latter contained only a small
amount, but the mail probably contained
considerable. Officers are now in pursuit.
VIM. Kelley was killed at Crystal Greek
by being run over by a load of hay, as he
was trying to get down to stop the rum
away team.
The Kanaka Company, working in Kla-
math river, with % hands, took out 2S0
ounces of gold dust in six days, and ex-
pect to do better this week.
PORTLAND, Aug. 31.-A letter has lust
been received from Weiser City. 1t says :
This community has of late been infested
with q gang of horse thieves. The citi-
zens have just made up a purse of 81, 900
for their arrest and conviction. They got
away with over 100 head of horses. A
party out now is supposed to be or their
trail.
EMPIRE OIry (Oregon), Aug. 3f.-Wm.
Walker, assistant lighthouse keeper at Cape
Arago, and Alfred Sprague of Empire City
were lost OF the bar from a small boat on
Monday evening.
STOCKTON, Aug. 31.-The Glasgow Cali
fornia Land Reclamation Company nave
one dredger, 200 men and 100 horses with
scrapers engaged in rebuilding the levee.
Roberts Island will have 16, 900 acres I'M
der levee, with 60-foot face and three feet
above the flood Of last Winter.
A photographer was at Wakefield, San
Joaquin County, last week to obtain pho
tographs Of the dredger belonging to Gen.
eral Williams. This was lone at the re-
quest Of DeLesseps, who desires drawings
and photographs Of the machine to enable
him to determine whether it will be likely
to work well in excavating the canal on the
Isthmus.
TOMBSTONE, A. t., August 30.-There is
no confirmation of the reported massacre.
The Benson people have organized to stop
the bnnko business. Justice Mundel ap.
pointed twenty special policemen, who are
backed by all the citizens. All the bunko
men are now at Tucson attending the feast
of st. Augustine. The people Of Benson
say they shall not come back to curse the
place again. The people of Contention are
also organizing for protection against COW
boys. The country will soon be too hot to
hold them.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 3O.-Among the
passengers by the steamer Granada, which
arrived last Saturday, was Hon. L. Mon
tufar, special envoy Of President Barrios
and the Republic Of Guatemala, to convey
to Washington a message of sympathy and
coincidence for President Garfield,
A FRANCISCO, August 30.-A Mrs.
Black shot herself in a vacant lot in the
rear of the City Hall at Oakland last night, |
infiicting a dangerous wound. The act is |
attributed to disappointment in love-.
LIvERMoRE (Cal.l August 29.-Louis |
Dieckmann, a German sa~loonkeeper, com.
mitted suicide here last evening by shoot.
ing himself through the head. He was q
single man, 80 years of age, subject to fits |
Of melancholy, and the act was caused by
disappointment in love.
SANTA BARBARA, August 30.-Two slight
Of earthquake from north to south
were felt this evening at 7 o'clock. No
SAN BuENAvENTURA, August 30.-Two
slight but distinct earthquake shocks were
here at Gas this evening.
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