Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-02-03

railroad depot, attached ana Sid6-tracked
number of cars, iuciuding three sIeepers, an
put a pacard on each, announcing that the
were III the hands OF The authorities. Stey
Gage was Immediately telegraphed to call
mass meeting and make speech on the on.
rage.
THE calamity which overlook FranktowI
yesterday afternoon will probably result il
the final demise of he town. To outsiders tn
loss of little cluster Of houses does not seen
much, but those who suffered from the over
whelming flood feel the loss as keenly as
their homes were mansions and their city a,
incorporated municipality.
SECRETARY SHERMAN, in his financial re
port, incidentally mentions the fact that h
has paid higher than the market rates for sill
yer, in order to keep the New Orleans Min
on its feet. Whenever he has closed dow,
the Carson Mint, he has assigned as a reason
that it was impossible for the Government /,
purchase silver above the market rates.
"
JAY GoULD'S politics remind one of tht
sliding scale Of freights in vogue on the c. p
r. Il. When before the Committee be testi
fled: 81 was Republican in Republican
neutral when it was in doubt, md an Erie
man all the WHILE" This is what might fair
~ be called railroad politics.
}. L. JONES, eI- Sheriff of Wash0e County
and once the Democratic nominee for State
Treasurer, is in town, and is spoken of as .
probable successor to General Batterman. If :
Democrat must have it, Jones is as good a
man for so responsible position as any SC
far named.
The Third House held a session last night.
If this State continues to so along the down
grade for another two years, the Third House
will be the only branch of the Legislature
that it will ever be necessary to call together.
Mr.. STEVE GAGE cannot be convinced that
there is anything wrong i'll the discriminating
and extortienate tariff Of the Central Pacific
Railroad, Why? The instant he is con-
WINGED his occupation is gone
SINCE the vote III the Assembly on the
States Prison Bill, Powning is no longer
looked upon as a horrible monster from Reno
a mlder.nannered man never pocketed q
public building.
THE Reno people who fired thirty guns for
Senator Powning when the States Prison
Bill passed the Senate, are now wraueling
over who shall pay for the powder
--uHE
MIR. POwNISG thinks that the C. S. Mint
might be taken up and moved to- Reno for
100000. Washoe County will donate five
acres of land for the location.
The report of III. NJ. Yerrington, Superin-
tendent of the V. & T. r. r, to the Secretary
OF State, places the net earnings of the road
for the past year at S446,744
STOCKS continue to so on the down grade |
and 1t is believed by many that the boom
will not begin until the Miners Union is dis
banded at Virginia City.
1T is said that Bret Harte while travelling
abroad never forgets California He is also
held like vice in the memories of his taiIors.
IHE New York Graphic says: "Fair of
Nevada, is worth only So, 6OO, 900, and yet he
feels as happy at times as Vanderbilt
The Reno Journal accuses the Enterprise
with having fallen down before Langdon &
Clarks money sack.
1T is now proposed to abolish the Electoral
ColieSe' and elect U. S. Senators by popular
vote of the people.
"A TYPO on the Eureka Leader has fallen
her to 1000, and no longer alludes to Ho- '
bart as "tha boss"
HEr ' AN WICK, the new U S. States Sem I
tor from Nebraska, is an anti-monopoly man
lear through.
MR.. SoTHERN, the actor, leaves three child
en-, two sons and daughter, all in the nro-
ession. q
GENERAL GARFIELD is an active knight
emplar.