Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-03-07
UNPLEAsANTNEss.
The Clerk and the Commissioner
Disagree.

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Disagree.
A very disagreeable Spring opening on
the Base Range this year. No enterprise
iourishing except the Skating Rink. In
place of blossoms and smiles we have but
icicles and frowns. The times all out
of joint and nobody to set them right.
Downright war has not come upon us with
its actual horrid Accomplishments, but the
air has been thick with sounds of strife.
Rumors Of hostility have 30 stirred the at
mosphere that the imagination has made
it easy for Tom, Dick or Harry, or Susan,
Jane or Maria to believe himself or herself
already hit and seriously hurt most any
where by most anything. A general thaw
is u only hope. The Courthouse has
been a bad place. The echoes Of last
weeks clamor had barely died away in its
corridors and corners, when, yesterday,
they were taken up again by the spirits
until then in a latent state off spirits ever
Sleep in the County Clerks office and
went reverberating thence as far as our
fumes take in the country round. The
outset in their business career for the
County Commissioner yesterday threat
ened chills instead Of fever. The fire had
almost quit going in the stove,
and Commissioner Smith thought it
had gone out. The stove, be it I'M
derstood, was in the Clerks Office,
in which the Commissioners are won't to
meet and nave been wont to meet, every
where in Nevada, since time immemorial.
Commissions Smith spoke to the Deputy
Clerk in his well known fatherly way about
the condition Of the fire, and extracted
from him information that there was still
some wood in the county's pile. Whether
it was taken thence and put where it would
do the most good our reporter left without
finding out. This may be set down as the
gust which betokened the storm.
After the Commissioners had assembled
about the official table, they did not get a
good start. Mr.. Pete Hansen happened
in and engaged the Clerk, Mr.. Buttlar, in
q conversation about business; possibly it
was an exciting topic he suggested, though
it was hardly coal oil, for all this article
that Mr.. Hansen sells is high proof and
warranted not to burst. At any rate, our
amiable County Clerk lost ordinary COM
p~lacency for a minute, and talked in such
a way that the Commissioners imagined
themselves disturbed. The Chairman of
the Board raped on the table and called
for order. The Clerk, without reference
to the Honorable Board, was as uncon-
cerned and as little disturbed by the Chair
mans raps as though he were in another
room of theC Courthouse, and went on dis
cussing the affairs Of the outside world
with Mr.. Peter Hansen. Mr.. Chairman,
meanwhile, was getting hot, despite the
chilliness Of the atmosphere, and called
upon Mr.. Officer Fitzmorris to arrest the
disturbing element. This brought Mr..
Buttlar to recognize their presence, and he
remarked
"This is my Office, and if you don't like
the way | do business here, you go and
find another place"
After this very brief but comprehen-
sive remark, he stepped into the vault
not to bury himself-but on official bust
ness. Thither M. ~FitzInoTTis, the repre-
sentative present OF the County's Execu-
tive, also repaired. They had an inter-
view. The meeting Of the Board vent on.
Not another stir of any kind for about a
minute; but there was deep-seated wrath
in several bosoms which could hardly
wait for occasion to well up. Az luck
would have it, the first bill read to the
Board after the little spat happened to be
one OF s45 in favor OF Mr.. G. F. Horn, for
services as Deputy Clerk during Mr.. Butt
lars recent absence in San Francisco.
Said Mr.. Campbell: At move to reject
that BILL"
81 second the notion" said Mr.. Smith.
Then said they both "If Mr.. Buttlar
needs an extra deputy when he goes below,
he wifi have to pay him out Of his own
pocket. There is no law authorizing us to
pay such expenses"
"All right" quoth the Clerk, "~reject-
1t II you want to. I'll sue you for the
money"
When about to adjourn for the after
noon the Board expressed a desire to meet
again in evening session. and Mr.. Camp
bell so said to Mr.. Buttlar, the County
Clerk.
"well," he answered, IF you want to
meet here tonight, you've got to hire an
extra deputy. mot very bad in the way
Of ar effort to get even. I shall not be
here again to-day, nor shall my deputy"
The Clerks Office was locked last night
and there was no meeting. What next?