Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1894-03-17
oRREsPoNDENCE.

wish 10 deny the lies in the correspond
encs from Palisade published In your pa
per OF the 10Th inst.
foul correspondents say that ''ihe party
arrested offered to pay the full mount Of
the debt" when, in fact, he denied hat be
owed any money in Eureka. II was only
after / had ~telegraphed this to Eureks,
and was awaiting an snsver, that he adj
mitted thai be bad borrowed $50. But he
refused TO pay It, saying that i. was q
gambling debt and not legal. I and 9TH
ers told him that it was illegal debt, and
that, as be would have to pay 1t, he would
be saved time aud trouble By doing il al
once. / received several kilograms from
the Constable in Eureka, in one Of which
I was informed that on account OF tele-
graphing the warrant, and other expenses,
the prisoner had to pay no less than s17O,
and l was instructed TO accept nothing
less. The prisoner offered to pay q por-
ton OF this amount, and l refused 10 ac-
cept il. You will see that I was follow
ing my instructions. and that your corre-
~spondents' statement that I refused to
accept the full amount Is q lie.
Your correspondents further say: 1.-THE
! Constable, however, enticed his prisoner
into a poker game and played cards with
him till morning." Not Wishing to be
unduly severe on the prisoner, ! did not
Immediately lock him In Jail. as ii was in
my power to do. bus let him stay In the
saloon. Once, q returning to the saloon,
after having been called on. a few minutes.
I found him playing cards with a friend OF
his, an italian, who had come down IN the
same train from Eureks. Not expecting
anything wrong from that, | did not in
they began playing when l joined the
game. / did not play "till morning." as
your correspondents say. and on the con-
trary, when / came into the saloon early in
the morning and found them still playing,
l compelled the prisoner TO stop.
Your correspondents go on to say that
1 "then locked him up in jail, made him
strip and 90 to bed so l could search
him" and that l seven refused to build a
fire, although the weather was very cold"
/ did not make him stiip and go to bed,
and l searched him only for weapons. The
weather did not interfere with any one
who had work out doors. II the weather
was as cold as your correspondents
say, an ordinary fire could not have been
built and have warmed the Jail to 9 COM
Portable degree in the time the prisoner was
confined there, and IS it was not very cold.
the prisoner did not suffer at all.
1 sent the prisoner to Eureka in charge
Of the conductor. The next day l received
g telegram from the Constable to the effect
that the prisoner had intrusted 500 with
a friend of his here, and I was instructed
to get it. | saw the person, and he told
me that the prisoner had hidden the
money behind o picture frame in one OF
my outhouses. I hunted there and found
a small roll wrapped with paper. I opened
II in the presence OF several persons and
found 1t to contain 500 in g~reenbscks. l
took the money to Eureka next day.
1t would be better II your correspond
ents had written 30 a person could under
stand what they are complaining Of. They
blame me for not looking the prisoner up
as soon as l could get him, and in the
next sentence censure me for having looked
him up.
1 have been deputy Sheriff under swee-
ney and under Dunkle. and also Consta.
BILE for q good many years. I have done
considerable official business, and have
never been complained OF before. Though
I may have made mistakes, I have always
tried to do my duty we'll.
There are several citizens here who OBJ.
ject to the signature OF the article, as they
do not agree with the authors Of the piece.
and object to being included in so general
a term as "Citizens OF the North End Of
the County" Many would consider II
more definite and less cowsrdly for them
to have signed their names.
There is a fellow here who has always
a great deal Of interest in everybody's
business and who has tried on different
occasions to injure me. He was highly
pleased at the predicament he thought !
was in on this occasion. He makes IL bis
business to mind other peoples business
as much as he can. I have never seen the
man who has heard him say a good thing
OF any one-if the person was absent.
More men nave quit work here on his &C.
count than for any other reason, and
"Citizeps Of the North End of the
County" can recall a time, 9 year or 80
ago, when he vent at night to some ranch
in Pine Valley and boarded the next train
for Eureka. He was gone several days
and returned in company with an official
OF the road. A friend Of his would be a
curiosity. He has never tried to resent,
in a manly way, any insult that has been
offered to him, though he has bean called
all The names that men could think Of.
He has been trying to run Palisade, and,
not satisfied with his failure, has begun on
Eureka. He is too well known here.
Those in Eureka who have not heard OF
him, and are interested in the matter, are
invited to inquire into his ways. They
will see that I have not exaggerated.
AS II is possible that there may be two
or three who signed the correspondence.
l will say that l think the old proverb
holds true in this case, that birds of q
feather flock together" Respectfully,
E. NJ. BAUM,
Constable OF Palisade Township.
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