Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-01-19
CAPITAL JOTS.

The NArdensnip - Keller bills
Orphans Home-Society Notes.
CARSON, Jan. 16, 1888.
DEAR SENTINEL: I see by reading your
paper that you have a good deal reported
one way and another from Carson and that
you have in your service now q regular
semi-weekly correspondent. But thought
you might find room for an item or two
from your purely accidental" man, such
as you have had the grace to dub ME.
THE wARDENsHIP.
The question of the Wardenship, the
election to take place next Tuesday, is the
all absorbing topic Of discussion every
where in Carson. The people Of this town
are all interested in it. We have no
mines to depend upon for business or e1'
element, you know, and we have grown
into the habit of leaning upon our bsnsf-
cent mother, the State. We are very
sensitive about losing any Ut the patronage
that we started out with, and we dream
heavily of Reno, especially nightmsred by
that hungry town, during the session OF
the Legislature. We have nearly recOv-
cred from the loss Of the Insane Asylum,
because it was not taken from us, though
it was ours by all right. We are entitled
to everything of the kind, because we re-
quire the ''nutriment" that is in such in
situations. We feel almost a family inter
est in the persons who are to manage our
pap machines. Now there is c.. E. Laugh
ton Jour Charley. There is a bill intro
duced to make him ex-officio Warden. He
is a good man for any town; he gives his
money a chance, and if he was elected he
would leave all his earnings with us. l
am glad to say he seems to have the inside
track, that is, if he will push his advan-
tages and insist upon the obligations that
his party are under to him. 1t is rough
for him to get only q temporary 'sit" Of 60
days, no mileage, and a per diem Of only
$40, after making a hot campaign OF it for
himself and the whole Republican ticket.
NOSE LYONS.
I don't know which is the stronger,
whether Nose Lyons Of yours or W. D. O.
Gibson Of Storey. Your man ia q fine
There is no resisting his hearty address
and his genial manners. And 1 notice o
strong disposition among some OF the old
time friends of Moses in Eastern Nevada
to make the fight a sectional one. I think
myself that Storey County is likely to be a
little swinish if not checked. This failing
of hers was exhibited in the organization
Of the Assembly, which she would have
got away with at one big gulp i she had not
encountered great indignation and q par
tial sitting down on.
W. D. G. Gibson, Bill Gibson for short,
is an old pioneer. Everybody says he is a
mighty good man, and he pulls strong.
Those old timers do stick together wonder
fully. Bill is old now, and broke, and his
age is telling upon q once powerful and
still gigantic frame. He has become al
most deaf, or, if you please, very hard of
hearing. The sympathy for him is some
thing tremendous, and his friends of
former days, when he had piles of money
and was free with it, stick to him tooth
and nail. We folks here in Carson wish
could have all the candidates succeed
and have a prison provided for each-to
take charge of. They are all daisies, and
how we would smile if pap should be
turned loose on us in a triple dose.
ASYLUM RELIEF BILL.
The Senate Committee on Claims has
favorably on the bill to pay some
$4,000 or more to the "citizen" contractors
at Reno for extra money expended in
building and furnishing the Insane Asy-
lum. l have never visited the Asylum, but
am told that considering the "extras" it
is still an exceedingly cheap and thor
built and equipped institution, and
I am satisfied Of this fact. Blu there is
something unfair and irregular in this
petition of the contractors for relief. They
agreed to build and equip the Asylum for
so much, and they have the cheek of 1,001
mules to ask for more. They got the con-
by reason of the bid they made, the
q ooartonoa ~ uhioh 4hrnu, o&b,r, ,-A IS
the competition. And besides, as if rec
ognizing the unbusiness-like and improper
look of the thing, it has been asserted time
and again by the Reno papers and by the
''citizen" contractors themselves that, if
they lost, they would mark an exception
to the rule of the "reliefs" and spurn to
degrade Reno by appealing to the Legisla-
to make up q loss which was alto.
gether an affair Of their own. But your
accidental man" will not dwell on this
theme, for no great harm will be LONE if
the recalcitrant Renoites do get the dab
they are squealing for. The State
has the worth of her money, and nobody +
it. I
THE ORPHANS HOME. l
This is the institution out Of which the
Carson gossips extract more toothsome
conversation than out Of all the rest to-
including the State House and
even the Mint. 1t is the point of departure
for more pulling and hauling than you, at |
distance from the scene, might think !
in case of a purely charitable
Every old and old I
man in town wants to run it, and nobody
be Superintendent or Matrop for
a week without mourning the envy and {
dislike of one-third of the population t
kept constantly stirred up by a host of {
who want to get these places
themselves or secure them for right-hand
But 7 believe Mr.. snd Mrs. I
Mills have come &C near depriving the d,
gossips Of any foundation for their per-
nicious lies as any two human beings
could. They have done well. and the
Home under their self-sacridcing manage
ment has been made a real home, COM
Portable and CHEEKY, and ar economically
managed as is consistent with the ends of
q generous and wholesome charity. The
Board of Directors had a meeting to-day
and reelected them. Their action meets
with almost universal approval.
SOCIETY.
There are other matters I might men
tion, but / will give you in conclusion a
little item on society doings. A good
many ladies are here for the session, men,
bers' wives and others, visiting residents
of the Capital. There is a good deal of
private entertaining going on, but not much
in the way of the old-time ''swell' club
parties. Expectation has been on the tip
toe here for a week or so in regard 10 d
young lady visitor looked fer from your
section OF the country. Miss Flora Wenban
of Cortez, who, report says, ia very lovely,
and has a plethorio bondholdsr FOX her
father. The Washers, however, have just
had a terrible DOWNFALL, 1t is being found
out by them that Mrs. Geo. w. Merrill.
whose guest Miss Wenban was expected to
be, has received a letter from the young
lady, saying that her i'll health will hinder
her from having the Capital a Wait this