Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-02-12

States, which are founded on Spanish
grants made prior to the treaty OF Quad
alupe Hidalgo, shall be presented to the
limited States Courts in the manner pre-
soribed by the bill within three years, or
thew are hereafter forever barred.
MorrisOn's Bill VIII Not Pass.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.-Morrison's new
Tariff Reform bill, introduced in the
House, has now been thoroughly dis
cussed and found to lack what everybody
hoped it would possess. Some of the
older members say that it is q schoolboy's
bill. and clears up the intricacies OF the
tariff problem as much as q schoolboy
would clear them up. Instead of disarm-
ing the opposition of the alleged tariff
reformers b carefully pruning where GER
tain powerful interests demand it, Morri-
SON has by q uniform cut antagonized
eyery interest and rendered the passage Of
his bill impossible.
Congressional Proceedings.
WASHINGTON, Feb. lin the Senate,
Miller Of Colorado, on the Committee of
Naval affairs, reported favorably the bill
for the relief of the survivors of the jean
nette Expedition.
Senator Farley of California, who has
been ill for some months, was in his seat
to-day. He is still weak but steadily i'm
proving.
House-Townsend introduced o resolu-
ton proposing constitutional amendments
providing for the election Of President
and vice-President by a majority Of the
votes of the people. and for the
abolition Of the electoral college,
and regulating the method of counting the
votes by the two houses of Congress.
shortening Railroad Travel.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 11.-Commencing to-
day, the Missouri Pacific shortened its
through sleeper service between here and
San Francisco over six hours, and will
hereafter make q run in less than five
DAYS. These sleepers go via Iron Mount
ain. The Texas Pacific & Southern Pacific
route is run daily, leaving here at 9:20 A.
M, and is attracting so much attention
that the company is frequently obliged to
attach an extra car to accommodate the
travel.
Opposed to u Bureau OF Animal
Industry.
CHICAGO, Feb. 11.-About so dealers at
the Chicago s~tockyards, who last year
handled $500, 600, 900 worth of cattle, have
forwarded to Washington q protest against
the bill before Congress establishing a
Bureau of Animal Industry. They deny
the existence of pleuro-pneumonia west OF
the Allegheny mountains, and express the
belief that the passage of the measure
would have only the effect to make places
for an army of ofice-holders.
I'm Love with a Pastry Cook.
Norwich, Conn.,, Feb. 11.-Jerry st.
Arnold, as years old to-day, a telegraph
operator of the Northwestern Railway
Company at the depot, shot Bridget Egan,
q pastry cook in the depot restaurant, in
the face, and then fired into his own brain.
When found by the police both were in
the throes Of death. They had been inti-
mate about a year. 1t is said that st.
Arnold was desperately in love and wanted
her to marry him.
Relief for the Flood Sufferers.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.--At a meeting of
congressman from Ohio, Kentucky and
West Virginia, to take steps to secure the
immediate appropriation for the relief Of
the sufferers by the food in the Ohio Val
ley, Senator Sherman presided. 1t was de.
cided to ask Congress to strike out the
words one hundred thousand in the resolu-
ton passed in the House on Friday, and
insert $3.50, 900 for the purpose of securing
i'm mediate aid.
Want Protection Against Arrest
LoREDo, Tex, Feb. 1.-THE locomotive
engineers of the Mexican National Rail.
road, between Loredo and Saltillo, Mexico,
have organized as a body, and will this
week present to the company their resigna'
tions en- masse unless some protection is
guaranteed to them against arrest.
Police Boats Captured.
BALTIMORE. Feb. 1.-Two oyster police
boats were captured by two piratical yes
sells in Fishing Bay, and their crews made
prisoners. The gunboats are o block
aiding the 200 thieving crafts in Eastern
Bay.
Row in q Sunday school.
ADA, o., Feb. ia row, which com
menced in a Sunday School, was revived
in the evening meeting, when the police
were compelled to enter the sacred edifice
and stop the shouting OF men and TN
screaming of women.
A Destructive Collision.
NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-THE agents Of the
steamer N~ottinghill, lost at sea by q col
lision with an iceberg, state that thu
steamer contained merchandise valued a
$3.50, 600. The steamer was valued a.
$500, 900. Both insured.