Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-06-15
PACIFIC COAST ADvICES.
Investigation of Alleged Frauds in
the Construction of the Sec wall
Sailing of the Arctic Keller
steamer Rogers Killed by a
Train-CrOps.

SAN FRANcIsco, June al. E. Crane,
an expert appointed by the Governor to
investigate the alleged frauds in the con-
struction Of the sea wall, has filed his re-
port. He finds that the Harbor Commits
sioners are guiltless of any fraud or collu-
sion, but that in the delivery of the mate
rial for the embankment, there is reason
to believe that the excess, amounting in
value to about $40, 900, has been charged
for by and paid to the contractor, and in
Inmates that the job might have been ef-
fected by a collision Of the Supervisors OF
Construction and tally clerks, several of
whom were discharged last March for dis
crepancies in their accounts. p
The sailing Of the Arctic relief steamer
Rogers is delayed until tomorrow.
The crop reports show that the late rains
and cool weather rave benefited cereals.
In the northern counties the yield will be
nearly average. In the lower portion Of
the Sacramento Valley and central part Of
the State the crops will not exceed two
thirds that of last year, and the same ia
the tone of the coast counties, except
those of the south, where the crops are
full. In the San Joaquin Valley, any loss
in the yield per acre is made up by in
creased acreage. Santa Clara Valley has
light crops. All sections report grain d
unusually fine quality.
TRUcKEE, June IA. - This afternoon,
Robert Boyd, q brakeman on the construs-
ton train on this section, was run over by
the engine of his train and instantly
killed. He was riding on the pilot and
lost his footing.
BOISE CRY. Idaho, June 13.-The case
of Henry Mcdonald, for the murder Of
George Myers, has been on trial at Silver
City the past week, and was given to the
jury this afternoon, and the jury were ont
fifty five minutes, when they returned into
court with a verdict of murder in the first
degree. 1t was one of if not the coolest
and most heartless murder ever committed
on this coast. Myers was a freighter on
the overland road for many years, ownsd a
team OF ten mules and two horses and
three freight wagons, and had 500 in
money on his person when Mcdonald muir
dered him on the 28th of last September be-
tween Pilgrim Springs and Salmon Falls,
and packed the body about half a mic and
buried it, and took the team and went
freighting with it, claiming he had bought
the team. He told that Myers he'd gone
to Oregon, but before the trial came off he
learned that Myers body had been found,
and then on the trial offered his own evil
dence, and stated that Myers was killed by
one of the mules in trying TO get into the
front wagon, and the wagon ran over him
and killed him, and that two men came up
just at that time and made him leave the
body with them, and that he should not
say anything about Myers death, or they
would charge him with the murder. This
was the reason he kept Myers death secret.
GRASS VALLEY, June 13.-Two men were
arrested near Camptonville yesterday and
lodged In Jail here to-day. Their appear
ance accords with the description of the
men who robbed Sylvester Of $40, 900 on
Saturday on the trail between here and the
New York Hill mine. They gave CONTRA
dictory accounts of themselves.