Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-09-08

ESPECIAL TO THE sENrISEL.1
San Francisco Imtellbgeuce

fortunate man who yesterday shot Muller
while both were on q spree. expressed to 1
reporter great remorse at the deed com
mitted. my God, SIR" be exclaimed
you don't think l would have hurt pool
Tom intentionally? Why he was my besi
friend and 1 would rather be in his place
this minute than in mine. You see We
were both full, and didn't know what VIC
were about. He said, Now pull the trig.
ger and you will shoot me in the mouth.
l did pull, and that's ALL" A fit. of cry.
ing interrupted the prisoner and he could
speak no more.
In the ease Of Jeffcott, who shot Davis
last evening, both were employed at
Woodward's Gardens, the latter as en-
gineer. The former claims he did it in
self-defense; that he upbraided Davis for
having called him an abortion, and that
Davis sprang at him with q hammer.
Jeffcott drew his revolver and fred. The
first shot staggered Davis. but Jeffcott
fired three times. The act lis considered
an unwarranted one, Jeffcott knew Davis
did not carry q pistol and Jeffcott's first
shot SO disabled Davis as to prevent him
from doing any injury to the other man.
Davis was an Englishman, and is spoken
OF by his associates in the Gardens as q
quiet and i~noffensive man. Jeffcott 10 an
lrishman, and was looked Upon as a sort
OF crank. Four years ago he was shot in
the leg by Major jack Stratman in a fight
on Merchant street, and since then has
twice had revolvers drawn on him.
1t is stated that DR.. Chalfant, the dem
fist. who was r~ecaptured q few days after
escaping from San Quentin, is becoming
insane. There is some talk of removing
him to Stockton.
The steamer New York from Australia,
two days behind time, arrived this morn
ing. The vessel broke q c~rank-pin, which
was the cause of delay.
The Corean Embassy left this morning
for the East.
A dispatch from Ross Fork says the bark
Windernore from New Castle, N. 8. W.,
with coal for San Francisco, is ashore two
miles below town. All hands saved. Ves-
sci a total loss.
Wheat charters have dropped five shil-
lings in three days owing to the large
amount OF u%nengaged tonnage in port. To-
day wooden charters for Liverpool were
taken for As shillings, iron charters for
Cork 81 shillings and six pence.
Very Unjust Determination.
SAN Francisco, Sept. TAT q meeting
of the Railroad Commissioners YESTERDAY
afternoon Foote read a letter from Fresno,
asking the Board of Trade to take some
action upon the rate now charged for
canned goods from Fresno to Stockton,
and from Fresno to Los Angeles. The
charge between the two first named places
is $54 a car and between the two latter
places $50. The Fresno Fruit Packing
Company was compelled to pay $54 a car
more If shipping east from Los Angeles
than from Stockton, although the former
was 800 miles nearer to the point Of des-
tination. The company had refused TO
make any change in the rate. On motion
OF Carpenter the letter was referred to the
railroad company with a request for an
immediate reply.
Regarding the statement that the orig
inal copy of the schedule of passenger rates
was partly in the handwriting of an en-
ploye of the Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany, Secretary Andrds replied that he
had himself prepared all the schedules,
and that there were nom in existence in
a~nybody's handwriting except his own and
his clerks. Hereafter the Board will
meet on the first and third Friday of each
month.
The Court Trifed with.
SAN Francesca, Sept. 7.-To-day's pro-
ceedings in the Hongkong Chinaman ha-
beas corpus case before Justice Field and
Sawyer proved to be a greater absurdity
than those yesterday. 1t turned ont that
M sunh Chipamop q q {ba " uoact;oon5
in the first petition was on board the
steamer Arabic, and All Kram, mentioned
in the petition, stated when brought be-
fore the Court he had not made any ap-
plieation to be discharged from the yes
sci Judge Field said the Court had been
trifed with, and ordered the petition
dismissed. The statement last night that
the case was a manufactured one is con-
firmed by the proceedings to-day, the OBJ
ject being to test the Restriction Act in re-
spect to Hongkong Cinnamon. 1t was be-
lieved Judges Field and Sawyer, sitting in
banc, would disagree. In this way the
case would be got before the Supreme
Court Of the United States.
Reported Death of n Vocalist.
GUAyMAs, Sept. 6.-Prima Donna Pc.
rslta, the nightingale of Mexico, is re-
ported to have died on the Goth of last
month at Mazatlan of Tonic fever. Three
Others of her operate troupe are said to
have died Of the same disease.
Arrested for killing Breen.
STOCKTON, Sept. George @. Hurl-
bert and Chris. Held have been arrested.
charged with being connected with the
killing Of Patrick Breen last Monday on
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