Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-11-24
yu. ENTERPRISES LAsoRs.

'Uu LABOR Has HdO III
result. The ~law.abiding citizens OF
Eureka have solicited Judge Hives TO
summon a Grand Jury Immediately Tor
the purpose of investigating INTO the
circumstances of the tragedy. thus we
have proof that the people of that locality
are not all of one mind, and that an ln-
Husntial portion agree with us that there
are circumstances requiring eNpianatioh
before Reek can stand acquitted. Judge
Rives answered them that the regular
Grand Jury will be IN jan
nary. when he will instruct them to IN
vestipate the case for the sake OF greater
caution, and in order that there may be
no chance for the %imputation OF foul
play '"-Territorial Enterprise.
"The law-abiding citizens OF Eureka
have solicited Judge Rives to summon a
Grand jury" etc. The Enterprise gets
this bit Of information from the SENTI-
MEL OF the 18th, which said: "JHdge
Rives was solicited yesterday to call out
a Grand Jury Immediately. but he de-
clined to do so, on the ground OF extra
ordinary expense, and because the reg
Mar Grand Jury will be summoned IN
January, when he will instruct them to
investigate the case for the sake OF
greater caution, and in order that there
NAV be no chance for the imputatlon OF
foul play"
1t will be seen by a comparison OF the
two statements how ingenious the Enter
prise is to comfort facts to make a good
showing for itself and to acquire a claim
to the accomplishment of its purposes.
The Enterprise may now be told that it
has not accomplished such wonders as 1t
laws claim to. In all that has been said
about the Reek-A Anderson affair, we have
heard no one object to a denomination
into the affair by a Grand Jury, which,
everybody knows, is legally empowered
to take up the case at any time. Such a
denomination would IN all probability
have occurred had the Enterprise taken
NO action in the premises, But since
that paper has branded Reek as a red
handed murderer a "schOol teacher
whose hands are yet dripping with the
gore of his uuburicd victim, etc, ETC.,
and possibly raised doubts as to the inno-
ceoce Of Reek in the minds Of some per-
sons who are not familiar with the cir
cumstanoes of the shooting, the proprlety
OF Reek's still further vindication has
simply been rendered more obligatory.
The Enterprise is certainly entitled to all
credit that is due to successful malice.
No one would interfere with it in the
possession Of an additional soiled plume
for it's scandal-monger's cap. 1t may in
tensify the gloriied strut of our contem'
porary if we give it a bit more OF In
formation than it has yet come III
possession Of. The editor of the SENTI'
MEL, whom the Enterprise has charged
all the way through the present contro'
veTsy WITH trying 70 sh761d TFEK aTTH- II
stave off revelations that might be made
in a denomination, went himself ano
made a personal appeal to His Honor
Judge Rives, to summon a special Crane
Jury to reinvestigate Reek's case i'm
mediately. The Enterprise may not be
willing to class the gentleman referred
to among the '~law-abiding' citizens o
Eureka, and it would only be con
sistent with the previous policy of thai
paper to discredit the statement thai
the editor of the SENTINEL made sucf
al appeal to the Judge Of the Distric
Court. We have never heard that Judg'
Rives was appealed to in this matte.
by anybody else.
The Enterprise says it has now givel
up the controversy, since Judge Rives
declaration, and will await the resul
of the Grand Jury's investigation. J
good idea. 1t has gained a good dea
Of cheap advertisement by its unjour
n~alistic efforts to break the force OF on
judicial decision, and lost something o
its quantum non s%uficit OF respectable
thereby. It has been unfair Throughout
to this paper, the object Of espeoia
spite, to the officers of the law in Eu
reka and to the public at large. 1
will be with a sigh of relief that We
dismiss the Reek-Anderson tragedy an(
the Territorial Enterprise from the col
umns of the SENTINEL; but having beer
dragged into the controversy, we pro
pose to see it kept properly before th'
public until it ends as it should.