Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-08-26
TELEGRAPHIC.
Mackay and the Postal
Telegraph Company.
THE BONANZA KING SECURES
ENTIRE CONTROL:
Work on the Line to be Pushed
With the Utmost Energy.
THE PRESIDENTIAL PARTY TO
BE KIDNAPPED.
A Company Of Rustlers Swear They
Will Take Them In.
the coHsrlTurIoMAlIrY OF the CHINESE
RESTRICTION ACT.
a Test Case Before the New
York Courts.
A Test Case Before the New
york Courts.
ESPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL


says: II had a talk with Bonanza Mackay
about the new concern q day or two ago.
The company has transferred IL millions
of the stock to the mining king, which
gives him q million over the controlling
interest in the COMPANY. Macksy tells me
it will be run on the principles adopted by
the English Government telegraph system.
Uniform charges are to be made whether
messages are SEN only across the street or
from New York to San Francisco. These
charges will be Is cents for 20 words and
one cent for every additional word. The
good feature of the scheme is the issuing
Of stamps for various sums with which to
prepay messages. MAckay says Fair, his
former partner, may go into the affair. and
he believes it will prove an immensely big
money-making scheme, because the public
have confidence in its permanency by the
reason Of the clause in the charter forbid
ding the company from consolidating with
any other for the period Of at least 20
years. Connection is to be established
with the new cable company fostered by
Alderman Headly of London, who was
over 06I6 u llttlt Wuit6 akOs no WOth VI
pushing this company forward will go
ahead very rapidly now. Branches are
being established from New York to the
oil region. A large force is also at work
Joining Chicago and St. Louis. Almost
Immediately steps are to be taken towards
San Francisco, and inside Of eight months
The Postal Telegraph will be in complete
working order"
The President TO be Kidnapped.
HALEY, Idaho, Aug. 25.-Considerable
excitement exists in this city over the
| report which appeared in last evenings
Wood River Times that a party of cow
boys had started for the Yellowstone
Park to kidnap President Arthur. and
Sheriff Furry has detailed two trust
worthy deputies TO look the matter up.
| with instructions to ummon q strong
posse and arrest the kidnsppers If facts
are as stated. The Times says during
the past two weeks q number of strsngers,
all well provided with good riding animals
and firearms, and resembling = party of
regulators or Texas cowboys. have been
cnmped on Willow Greek, and considera-
BILE curiosity has been expressed as to the
intentions Of the party, some accounting
for their outfit as q party organized to go
up into the Indian country on q pros
pecting trip. while others believed them
10 be = band Of Arizona rustlers. Dur
ing several days past some Of the party
have ridden through the town in q def
ant name and mysteriously disap-
peared. From Q man who came in to-
day il 10 learned that the party, who in
duced him TO join them aud make him
take certain pledges of secrecy, were or
ganized 10 proceed to Yellowstone Park.
They left last night, going the same road
and he escaped during the night. The
object OF the expedition is to corral and
capture President Arthur and party, and
to spirit them away into mountain fast
nesses aud to caves, where they will be
fed but kept prisoners, while some mem
bers of the party act a. pickets to pre-
vent them from being surprised and cap
tured, and others will proceed to negoti-
ate for ransom. The captain or leader
Of the party has IN idea that . heavy
rsnsom will be offered by the United States
and personal friends OF the President.
After Q search the Presidents party shall
be given up. and that . half million
dollars or more can thus be extorted
from the secret service fund and divided
among the party on the principal adopted
by the Italian banditti. The escaped
member Of the party says there are 65
men in the outfit, and some Of them
l~sere guerrillas during the late war, and
five wild Shoshone and Bannock Indians
20 along ~ guides and scouts, who are
armed with repeating rifles and scaiping
knives. The leader is a Texas desperate.
ON whose head Q price has been set. and
with the exception Of two Italians, who
left the railroad grade, the others of the
party are cowboys. A grand council was
held night before last on the prairie,
where every man swore by his dagger in
the freight to do his duty.
The htnese Restriction Act.
New YoRK. Aug. 25.--Judge Porter in
the Supreme Court chambers has now
before him for consideration and decision
the question whether the Act Of Congress.
passed May 6, 1882. forbidding the immi-
grafton Of Chinese laborers into the United
States and placing certain restrictions on
the entrance within our borders Of Chinese
Of higher classes, il not in violation Of our
treaty obligations. and therefore invalid.
The question was raised to-day in the
habsas corpus proceedings Of the release
of ]. Fook, . Chinese seaman or coal
passer on board the British ship Penn
br~okeshire. The writ Of habeas corpus
was obtained on the petition Of Ching
Ping. an attachee at the Office Of the
Chinese Consul in this city. Ching Ping
asserted that Fook had been cruelty treated
| on board the vessel, and that he was i'm
| prisoned on her by Capt. Richard to pre-
vent him from beginning . suit here for
damages. Rickard did not produce Fook
in court. aad made . return writ declaring
he had not imprisoned him and had not
treated him with cruelty. but that be was
compelled by the Act Of Congress of May !
s. 1882, to detAin him on board the ship.
be being . Chinese laborer, or else submit |
to . Ans and imprisonment for allowing
him 70 land here. To show that Fook was
. Chinese laborer, Rickard referred to
ships articles on which Fook was in
scribed a. Hongkong. where be shipped -
. seaman, and . native Of Canton. John
D. Townsend, counsel for Fook. NOM
inalIy. but really representing All Yang
Ming, Chinese Consul, said be would
not raise any issue ~ to mat
tiers Of fact, but would merely demur