Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-11-12
A CLsaSE RACE.
Davenport and Merrill Mech and
Neck to the Quarter-POIe.

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Neck to h Quarter-POIe.
The SENTINEL yesterday calculated that
Merrill would beat Davenport for Attorney
General by $50 votes in the State. This
calculation was based on a dispatch from
the Comstock the previous night, saying
that Storey County had gone only 40 for
Davenport. Yesterday morning an official
dispatch was received which gave Daven-
ports majority at $50. In the count this,
of course, made a difference of $40, leaving
Merrill, according to our count, but 10
majority to go on.
The most Of the counties had not been
heard from yesterday morning, officially.
Scraps of information by telegraph and
otherwise were picked up during the day,
and one while Merrill was a few votes
ahead and then Davenport would be in the
lead by a dozen or so votes. At one time
in the afternoon, by the closest figuring
possible under the circumstances, the two
candidates were a dead tie.
Judge Davenport received the following
dispatches, which were very encouraging to
himself and friends:
LARSON, NOV. IL.
w. Fl. DAVENPORT: Your majorities in
Storey, Washoe, Lyon, Esmeralda and
Ormsby will reach 700.
e. ]. PARKINSON.
VIRGINIA CITY, Nov. II.
w. Fl. DAVENPORT: Late information
indicates your election. We are unable as
yet to obtain full reports from several
county committees. f. G. LORD
In the SENTINEL Office, which was
crowded all day with the interested
friends of the competitors, to say nothing
Of those who had their money pooled on
the issues, Judge Dayenport's majority in
the counties named in the dispatch had
been figured at 693, a difference Of only
seven votes. From the counties in which
the Judge got his majorities the full count
was in except from Esmeralda-hence the
difference. Davenport's majorities were
definite, while Merrill's were, in many
counties, undetermined and purely spec
ulative.
Up to 4 O'Clock in the afternoon, how
ever, it was impossible for the closest
figurer to make such a difference in the
count as to furnish any margins for bets.
ut was too close to be safe"
The SENTINEL, determined to get at the
solution of the problem if dispatches
would solve it, teIegraphed to reliable
persons at Hamilton, Elko, Phoebe and
Winnemucca to get the votes in White
Pine, Humboldt, Elko and Lincoln Coun-
ties, which, it was thought, would unite
the knot.
At 5 O'Clock tho following dispatch was
received from Hamilton:
SENTINEL: Merrili's majority 81, with
Cold Greek and Newark to hear from.
GEO. ?. MCCoNKEY.
In the calculation Merrill had depended
upon only so majority, which, with these
precincts added, will make it certainly 70,
and maybe Is.
The next dispatch pulled him down 60
votes. He had figured upon 131 majority
in Eiko. His calculation was blasted by
the following dispatch, which, upon relia-
BILE figuring, shows for him not more than
II majority in Elko:
SENTINEL: Merrill's majority in this
county CT, with Jack Greek, Columbia and
Mountain City to near from.
j. OEsTREIcHER.
Lincoln and Humboldt counties re-
manned in the dark up to 7 o'clock. Moth
ing could be got from hen over the wires.
While waiting for this early desired news,
a dispatch came from Matt. Caravan,
Chairman of the Democratic State Central
Committee, saying that Davenport was
ahead 232 votes, with Nye and Esmeralda
yet to hear from.
This kicked all of our figures into the
fire, and Merrill seemed swamped until
the general dispatch, of which that quoted
is a part, was examined and found to be
'off" in several particulars, necessarily SO,
as on the Comstock they had not got the
close figures on Merrill's fight that we in
Eureka were digging for all day.
At s O'Clock the following message came
from Phoebe:
SENTINEL: Merrill's majority IS far as
heard from. Bunkerville, st. Thomas and
Eldorado Canyon to hear from.
W. E. GRIFFIN.
This settles it. With 100 majority in
Lincoln, Merrill would have been beaten
60 votes. This majority he can hardly get
from the three little precincts named. He
has to make up liz votes in these precincts
and C. few others in some Of the counties
OF Eastern Nevada, which are about as
likely to go Republican az Democratic 1t
seems like an impossibility for him sver
to catch up, although dead things do
sometimes crawl.
George W. Merrill and W. II. Davenport
are both highly esteemed citizens of Eure-
ka. They have in many instances the
same friends who would have voted and
worked for either had the other not been
opposed to him. Either, if not opposed
by the other, would have gone out Of this
county with a rousing majority. While
everybody in the county sympathi2es with
the vanquished candidate, everybody con-
graduates the victor,
LATER,
Mr.. Merrill does not give up the fight.
"He gives up nothing until he knows he
is beaten" He calculates his majority at
10 in White Pine. He gets the following
dispatch from Clint. Patchen at Phoebe:
''Your majority is 65. One hundred
votes to hear from. Estimated majority
35 more"
This will make ito In Lincoln. From
Elko he gets a dispatch from j. B. Gala
CHER as follows:
your majority 49, with three precincts
to hear from"
Nye County yet to hear from. This
brings the figures as follows: Davenport's
majority Officially countedl, 600. Mer-
ribs (semi-oficially counted and others
estimated), 500. This leaves the small
margin Of 0 in Merrill's favor. At the
last moment before going to presenter
laboring with the pencil and all sorts of
probabilities and im~probabilities and i'm
possibilities, and so on, we meekly. now,
give it up and will be resigned to await
the official count,
COurtship Frauds.