Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1884-12-20
CARSON LETTER.

CARSON. December 18th, 1884.

Legislature draws niSn our noating pop
ulation, of kind easily dispensed with,
is daily increasing. 1t is principally Of
the petty thief and check guerilla type,
here and there fecked with a hashily
attired and bejewelled spert OF higher
pretens,ons. The former are a hungry
looking shivering set, mostly votafies
of the opium joint, These creatures OF
whom there are more than hundred here
now, are young men, from eighteen to
twenty-five years Of age; but judging
from their stumbling walk, listless air,
one would think they had long since
| passed the allotted three score and ten.
These creatures are the scum of the va
rious towns along the railroad from
Sacramento to Eurekx, and / will just
guess that each Of their number has q
prison record to boast OF for minor Of.
lenses. 4 will not guarantee that they
would not take desperate chances on a
dark night when pickings are slim, hence
Pll suggest to the Carson press TO warn
residents here against this criminal in.
hux. Their abject and currish look is
not one altogether of meekness and
cowardice; they would as soon quiet the
earthly ambitions Of another on a dark
night, for small gain, as not. To be
brief respecting this subject, I must
confess that Carson is now infested by
the toughest crowd of half and full
fledged criminals I've ever seen here.
1t appears that the duller the times
grow the greater is the number OF as
pisants for Legislative positions. Among
the list this year is the begrizzled at
faeh< who drew his PER diem during the
first session Of Nevada STATE legisla
ture, as we'll as the bright young boy
clamoring for pages position, whose
parents, few years gone by would
have blushed to think the time might
come that their fair haired child would
be necessitated to supplicate for such a
pittance. Conditions and positions
have sadly changed here during the past
decade. Though that extreme poverty
marked by the black hand of misery
and starvation which characterizes
! Eastern cities and towns does not exist
here, yet | do not exaggerate when |
say that there are fifty families in Car
son, whose hearthstone would be warm
er and food more nourishing during the
Winter could their little sons be provid,
ed with some means OF employment.
Coming back to the old stsgers who
want Legislative clerkships, l suppose
there ore dozen applicants for each
position, and not one in dozen pos
sessed Of the ability 10 perform the re
| quired duties. These old barnacles on
the body polite just imagine that the
State owes them soft jobs whether they
are qualified or not TO fill them. Their
per diem is wasted at fare banks and in
| liquor and at rhe close of the session
they are necessitated to borrow enough
money to take them home providing
they can ind any fool to lend it to them,
and they generally do.
Carsonltes. like Parisans, want some.
thing to laugh about and it matters not
what SO their risibilities are moved.
An occurrence Of last Suneay night has
for the past day or Two fastened broad
grin on the face OF all who have been
let into the secret. Near midnight last
Sabbath the late Democratic candidate
for County Clerk, a clerk in a so-called
One Price Dry Goods store, was return
| ing from a late visit in the northern part
Of the town. When he had reached the
neiehborhood OF General Clarke's resi-.
I
denee he saw a man hurIiedly climbing
lamp.post and extinguish the light.
The bela,ed visitor supposinG that he
was about to be attacked by foot-pads,
made back tracks and began Justify to
call for help, which awakened almost
all the residents in that vicinity. The
following day the hero Of this paragraph
related how he had been roughly at.
tackled by two highwaymen. his coat
torn in shreds etc., but by main strength
escaped without the loss of property.
But now the story assumes an entirely
different phase which produces the guf'
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