Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-04-05
DAY OF EXCITEMENT.
THE BASE RANGE PROFOUNDLY
STIRRED.
The Antf-Chinese Bill vetOed-BuI-
let's In the Air-DOgs Get Mad and
Fight with MuzzIes On.

The Anti-Chinese Bill vetOed-BuI-
let's in the Air-DOgs Get Mad and
Fight with Muzzles ON.
The anxiety Of the people Of Eureka to
know what the President would do with
the anti Chinese bill was increased by the
failure to get any news from Washington
Monday. the wires being out Of order just
when everybody was most eager to hear
from the National Capital. Speculation as
to whether President Arthur would veto
or approve the bill was about the only topic
Of conversation on the streets, in saloons,
offices, and in all other places where men
met socially or OF business. Many bets
were offered and readily accepted, the Re-
publicans generally taking the chances
that the bill would not be vetoed, and the
Democrats covering all the bets that they
could get in that it would be vetoed. The
news was circulated about early in the
afternoon that the President had sent in
his veto to Congress. After that nothing
else was talked Of. The Democrats were
not disposed to crow over what is plainly
an advantage to them in a partisan
sense, because the Chinese question
among us all is one about which
there is no difference Of sentiment.
Still, as the death of the Anti Chinese bill
was an accomplished fact, they were glad
that their party had taken no part in the
killing. They were satisfied, neverthe-
less, to feel that the Republicans have SO
clearly shown their hands; that the Re-
publicans have declared in this matter
openly enough that for the consideration
Of some little commercial interests and
for the sake OF international etiquette
with heathens, they prefer to regard the
immediate actual welfare OF the white
laborers OF the country as secondary and
Insignificant; that they have 80 placed
themselves before the people that their
pretended fondness for the toiling masses
OF u own countrymen is but a hollow
sham; that, having made a cold ~calcula-
ton OF political chances, they have bid
good-by to the votes Of the Pacific Coast,
regardless of the first interests of the peo-
pie in the Far Vest" that they have
placed themselves solidly on the side Of
the soulless ~monopolies Of the country
which require cheap coolie labor to still
further enrich themselves. at the expense
of the already suffering and pinched labor
ers Of Caucasian blood; that they have
put themselves squarely in the attitude Of
those who have forgotten the early princi-
Piles of our republican society, willingly
bending the knee in homage to
a moneyed aristocracy-a purse-proud
coterie Of ~manipulators, whose swelling ar
rogance feeds upon their contempt of the
poor that they are satisfied TO grow fat on
the price by which their masters buy from
them their honor and the duty they owe to
the Commonwealth. Satisfied, therefore,
that the gods had, at last, made their po-
enemies mad because they were
ready to destroy them, the Democrats were
philosophic in the matter, and congratula-
ted their Republican friends in doing them
selves what they had been trying diligently
to do for them for many years.
The Republicans were intensely disgust
ed over the veto. They all admit that they
have lost their political vitality on the Pa
cifc Coast. Not one of the party was suf-
f~iciently radical in his views to try and say
anything in favor OF Mr.. Arthur's act.
They used ''terms Of endearment" upon
their great Executive without stint :, though
did not spare the Republican members
of the Senate who placed him in such a po-
that il he had approved the bill he
would have seemed to be acting contrary
to the declared policy of his party. A
number Of Republicans avowed that they
had voted their party ticket for the last
time in their lives !; that heneeforth they
will act with the Democrats.
BANJO BANG sANat
While the streets were dotted here and
there, all over town, with little crowds OF
people discussing the question OF
and the Chinese. pistol shots were
in the neighborhood Of the Jail.
rushed In that direction,
man had taken the law in his own hands
and vas slaughtering u few Cinnamon. II
was only Officer Long praoticing on R.
Johnson, who had been sentenced to 80
days for petty larceny, and who, while on
the way to Jail, tried to throw dirt
in the officers face. 1t was about 2 O'Clock
In the afternoon, and everybody was run
ming in every direction, and the widest
questions were asked, with nobody to
answer them. Conspicuous in the crowd
was our handsome man Of the villa"
Mr.. Oscar Lewis. He was uncovered,
md his sconce shone as a mold OF
ranch butter. Long says he
at the clouds. II so he is a bad
for one of his three shots
struck a porch just about three feet from
the ground. and another stopped in the
side Of a house a little higher than a mans
The other shot probably went
where he aimed it. The fugitive, Johson,
got among some Stag and was confronted
by Tom Dickson, who was hauling it
away from the Hoosac dump to the Rich
He told Johnson to halt, which
johnson did when he suddenly beheld a
gun under his nose. He would have
stopped anyway q half minute later, for
Pat. McElroy had rushed up and COM
pleted the barrier with a sledge hammer.
Said McElroy and Dickson in duet, "Stop,
you s. Of q b-t" And he stopped. After
all, this poor devil johnson has had a
hard time OF 1t. He stole what he wanted
TO eat and nothing more. There are men
in this camp who beg for work and cannot
get it. He may be one OF them.
FISALE.
In front OF the SENTINEL Office, towards
twilight, two big mastiffs got into an alter
cation, and they had it right lively for a
few minutes-long enough to attract half
the town about them. Our reporter was
some distance off, in a crowd who were
enjoying the fight from the distance. 1t
seemed nip and tuck, when somebody hall
loed out " One OF the dogs Is muzzled. "
Sure enough. George Young's splendid
dog "Tiger" was punching somebody
else's brute with his muzzle and dying for
asquare m%outhful. They were pulled apart,
and neither were hurt. So ended a stir
ring day. The night brought further i'm
portant and exciting news from the East
ern States, but OF that elsewhere.
ResOhtar nufl00G.