Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-04-15
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
SUFFERERS BY THE GREAT
FLOOD.
AN 4 PPEAL FOR
AID
STATUS OF THE RAILROAD
LITIGATION.
THE sLosSoN-sHAEFFER BILLIARD
MATCH.
MORE ABOUT THE STUDENT
ROBBERS.
CHARLIE ROSS AGAIN HEARD
FROM.
Another Railroad Heading for
Nevada.
miscellaneous Items of Eastern
News.
miscellaneous Items of Eastern
News.
Especial to the SENTINEL

Especial to the SENTINEL
YANKToN, April 14.-The citizens to-day
appointed q committee which makes q
statement to the public showing that from
5000 to Z, 900 people are homeless from
the foods on the Missouri River, and many
are entirely helpless and will need aid for
three months to come to clothe and feed
themselves and get grain to plant. Gov.
George 81. Hand and other citizens will
receive contributions. A gorge extends
from Yankton to Yermillion filling the
river channel for over 80 miles with solid
ice, sometimes 80 feet high. One hun,
dred and thirty people were rescued from
Marysville last night, where they had been
surrounded by ice and water for two
weeks. There are 20 families in q river
bend, Is miles below here, who cannot be
reached ON account of the heavy ice which
surrounds them, and they have not been
heard from since the flood covered the
bottom. Great anxiety is felt for them,
and heroic efforts are being made to reach
them. Fifty persons are also imprisoned
at Meckling.
status of Railroad Litigation.
WASHINGTON, April 14.-Mr. French,
Commissioner Of Railroads, referring to
the published statement that the Govern
ment is about to institute proceedings
against the Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany, says that no such suit as is described
has been ordered to be commenced at San
Francisco against the Central Pacific Com
pany, and preparations are not being made
at the Departments of Interior and Justice
to institute in the courts of San Francisco
against said company suits for the purpose
stated. The branch of the Central Pacific
from San Francisco to Goshen was not
subsidized with lands and bonds by the
Government. On one route into San
Francisco, but IL miles were subsidized
put Of 241, and on another route into San
Francisco but SO miles Of the 241 were
subsidized with lands and bonds. Hunt
ington has not since the decision of the
Supreme Court resisted the payment Of 90
per cent of the net earnings of the Central
Pacific road into the United States Treas
ury, for q Sinking Fund established by
law. 1t is not known what, if any, pro-
ceedings will be taken further than those
already going on in the Circuit Court for
the Southern District of New York, until
matters are examined into in San Fran
cisco. French leaves Washington in a few
days to investigate railroad affairs at the
San Francisco end of the line.
Another Tilt between Hill and
Malone.
WASHINGTON, April 13.-The current of
l~eisurely debate in the Senate, which for
several days recently has been running so
low in point Of interest as to indicate a near
approach to stagnation, took a sudden turn
this afternoon in a veritsble Whirlpool of
heated discussion, with the effect of stirring
up party feeling and rsviving personal ami
mostly to an extent which once more makes
it impossible to forecast the duration of the
present contest, but which will tend only to
increase its stubborness. The charges and
counter charges freely made by both sides
eliminated, as might have been expected,
in another exciting outbreak of personal
denunciation between Malone and Hill, Of
Georgia. The prevalent opinion is that in
this encounter the little Virginian gained
decidedly the advantage, but it is also re-
marked on every hand that scenes Of this
character are becoming altogether too COM
mon in the United States Senate, and that
it strongly behooves both parties to put an
end to them by some emphatic assertion of
that body's traditional dignity and sense of
dscorum.
New York, April 13.-The Commercial
Bulletin Washington special says: 1t is
now apparent that the Treasury policy in
regard to the six per cent. bonds will be an
entire success, aud it is probable that the
6ves will be disposed of in some way. This
policy. if successfully CARED out, will
make it unnecessary for Congress to pass a
funding bill next winter, and its success
is hourly assured by bankers who wish
to escape the troubles of the passage Of the
Funding bill like that Of last session which
Hayes vetoed.
The World attacks the Treasury policy,
summing up as follows: Mr.. WINDOWS is
a brilliant financial scheme by which the
holders of Government securities to the
amount of S195, 000, 900 bearing interest at
six per cent. are invited to exchange them
for the personal obligations of VIM. Win
dom to the same amount bearing interest at
the rate of three and a half per cent, pay
able out Of the assets, whatever they may
be, of Mr.. Window.
The Herald wholly approves the plan.
1t says: 1t opens a way to that rapid ex-
tinguishment OF the debt on which a good
many men of both parties insist and does
it without the necessity for a special re-
funding bill. There is therefore every rea-
son to wish the Secretary the fullest success
with his plan, because it in every detail
promotes the public interest and guards the
Treasury. :.
Pious Robbers.
LAWRENCE (Mass.), April 14.-Further
investigation shows that Arthur Foster,
the student who was shot and killed by
Wilson while endeavoring to burglarize
the latter's house in company with his
brother, was a theological student study
ing for the ministry, and that on COM
plotting his studies at Phillips Academy
he intended to enter Andover Theological
Seminary. The surviving brother says
that the pair robbed Wilson's house six
months ago of 81 900 in money and . gold
watch. Wilson had in his room some
81, 500 in stocks, bonds and other securi-
ties, the property being under no other
protection than the owners risk. The
object OF the men was to secure all this
booty, intending TO use violence II neces-
sary. Both had previously been in Will
sons employ and had no difficulty in pass
ing the dog. Foster is only 20 years old.
1t is thought they committed other rob-
berries which have been perpetrated here.
The slosson.shaeffer Billiard Match
New York, April 14.-The slosson-
shaeffer billiard match last night devel-
oped some wonderful shots and scores.
Each player surpassed his previous record
-Slosson by one shot and Shaeffer by 80.
Slosson played a very careful game, and
carried of the honors Of the evening.