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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1895-02-15
NEVADA LEGISLATURE.
A Record Of the Proceedings OF
the Seventeenth Session.
TWENTY-THIRD DAY.

the Seventeenth session.
TWENTY-THIRD DAY.
Various reports of committees re-
ceived
MOTIONS RESOLUTIONS AND NOTICES.
On motion of Mante the resolution
re i've TO the services Of G. w. q.
Ferris was spread upon the minutes.
Temporary leave of absence granted
Summerfield.
Temporary leave of absence granted
,mmittee on State Prison.
Recess until O'Clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
A B 20. Relative to Washoe county
road fund bonds. Washoe delegation.
AB37. Relative to consolidating
Storey county officers. Storey delega-
ton.
ACR7. Relative to the interests
Of the Silver producing states. Federal
Relations.
Claim Committee recommended pas
sage Of B 81.
Also reported adversely on claims OF
Trenmor Coffin for $3.50
Mills out Of order introduced 8 B Is.
providing for the payment Of the
calm Of Trenmor Coffin. judiciary
Committee.
GENERAL FILE.
AB5l. Relief Of Dunn. Flannery
and Hardy. 1887 10. Considered in
Committee Of the Whole and favor
ably reported, Report adopted, Re
! turned to Assembly for engrossment
SB23. To fund the Court House
Bonds Of Nye county. Passed.
ASSEMBLY.
| Convened at IL A. II. Speaker Allen in the
chair
| Roll call, all present.
| Pra, er by the Chaplain.
| Journal read and approved.
| REPORTS OF COMMITTEES
| Engrossment by Human, report correct
engrossment of So.
|
substitutes for S B 5 and A B 2s, recon-
mendiDg they pass.
Election, by wieland. reported favorably
on 6. recommending passage.
BY Allen (ChurchilD that Senate sutsti-
tute for A As had received favorable re-
port.
From Governor transmitting reports of
State Board of Immigration. Also notifica-
ton that he had 81 sned p and 10
From Senate giving notice of passage OF
JCR Rand substitute for B 7 aud ID also S
B2l and Is. also A B 10.
&c r regarding Elections Committee.
Adopted Denton, Flanagan, Briggs, Wei
land and Hogan appointed
By Hogan-Thas hereafter Beck make his
spet ches by proxy.
INIT opucTIox AND FIRST READING.
| Ry Hinman-A B IA, an Act regarding
lauor licenses makes license $780, Re-
ferred to WAYS and Means Com.
BY Conboie-A IS. an Act relative to ap-
pointment and pay of stenographers II DIS
trict Court. Referred to Judiciary Com.
By Conbcie-A 76, ar Act 10 repeal an
Act rega, ding publishing of bills allowed by
County Commissioners. Referred to Judie-
ilrv Com
By Flannisan-A B II, an Act to provide
revenue for STATE Government.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
! Substitute for Assembly bill No Is
Adopted.
GENERAL FILE AND THIRD READING.
AB23 Denton Relative 10 the ludebt-
ness of Lincoln county Passed-Yeas, 70
noes, q, 2 not voting.
SBNo A Skags s)-Relating to uniform ex
animation for te ichers certificates. Passed :
% to /. Mcdonald voting i'll the negative.
SB14 tComin-)-An act rel tive to copy
ing journal of the Senste. Referred to Com
mittee of the whole.
No 81 tPitt)-Relative to public
hichwavs-Or engrossed.
ALB 80, by Communicative TO puoii'
schools Ordered en2rossed
RA4 nv Observation-Disclosures to the pre-
seryation of wild game. Order ed enRrossed
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when Baby was sick,
We gave her CastoriA
Mn she was . Child,
She cried for CastoFtA
Rhsu abe bocame Hias,
She chung to CastortA
Wheu she had Children,
GAs gave them OaseosiA
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1895-02-15

Editor Fairbanks was in the CITY
yests riav.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-06-12
New Series-VOl. XIV. No. 46.

saw the fury and the passion Of the
man. that it was no grcundless or IN
natural terror which had possessed
Maj. Sholto when he first learned that
the injured convict was upon his track.
You forget thatwe know nothing Of
all this" said Holmes. quietly. 1--WE
have not heard you- story. and we can
not tell how far justice may originally
have been on your side
"Well, Sir, you have been very fair
spoken to me, though I can see that
have you to thank that I have these
bracelets upon my wrists. Still. bear
no grndge for that. It is all fair anc
above-board. If you want to hear ny
story have no wish to hold j. back.
What I say to you is Gods truth. ever
word of it. Thank you; you CT. put
the glass beside me here, and III put
my lips to. it if am Dry.
TO BE CONTINUED.
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SUMTER. S. c., WEDNESDAY, JUNE IL, 1895.

been nv blood-relation. I welted the
little devil with the slack end OF the
rope for it, but twas done, and could
not undo it again
Have a cigar said Holmes; land
YOU had best take pull out Of my flask,
for you are very wet. How could you
expect SO small and weak man as this
black fellow to overpower Mr.. Sholto
and hold him while you were climbing
the rope? ;.
sYou seem to know as much about it
as if you were there. sir. The truth is
that l hoped to find the room clear.
I Iknew the habits Of the house pretty
we'll. and it was the time when Mr..
Sholto usually went down to his sup
per. 1 shall make no secret OF the
business. The best defense that l can
make is just the simple truth. Now, If
it had been the old major I would have
swung for him with light heart. l
would have thought no more of knit
ing him than of smoking this cigar.
But it's cursed hard that should be
Jagged over this young Sholto, with
whom had no quarrel whatever.
'You are under the charge OF Mr..
Athelney Jones, of Scotland Yard. He
is going to bring you up to my rooms.
and shall ask you for a true account
of the matter. You must make clean
breast of it, for if you do 1 hope that l
nav be of use to you. think / can
prove that the poison acts so quickly
that the man was dead before ever you
reached the room"
THAT he was, sir. never got such
a turn in my life as when saw him
grinning at me with his head on his
shoulder as climbed through the WIN
dow. 1t fairly shook ne, sir. I'd have
half killed Tonga for it If he had not
scrambled off. That was how he
came to leave his club, and some
of his darts, too. as he tells me,
which I dare say helped to put
you on our track; though how
you kept on it is more than can tell.
/ don't feel no malice against you for
it. But it does seem queer thing"
he added, with bitter smile, chat L,
who have fair claim to nigh upon
half a million Of money should spend
the first half of my life building a
breakwater in the Andamans, and am
like to spend the other half diggin'
drains at Dartmoor. 1t was an evil
day for me when first I clapped eyes
upon the merchant Achmet and had to
do with the Agra treasure, which never
brought anything but curse yet upon
the man who owned it. To him it
brought murder, to Maj. Sholto it
brought fear and guilt, to me it has
meant slavery for life"
At this moment Athelney Jones
thrust his broad face and heayy'shoul-
ders into the tiny cabin. Quite fam
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And Nothing for Respectable Colored
Gentleman to Worry About.
A serious blunder occurred in a West
Virginia county not long ago. A num-
Der of the farmers had sustained losses
of sheep from their respective fccks,
and. being skeptical as to the efficiency
of the law officers, one night took the
matter in their own hands. A dozen OF
more of them proceeded some miles
away, to the house of Rehoboth Jem-
son, and, Notwithstanding his protesta-
tions of innocence, gave him a severe
drubbing.
The affair created 10 little str, as
Rehoboth was very respectable col
ored man, who owned snug little farm
and was deacon in the Baptist church.
He had the confidence and esteem OF
his white neighbors, who were so
worked up over the matter that they
considered the expediency of an investi-
cation that should lead to the punish
ment of the raiding party.
Within a few days the farmers dlscov-
cred they had made an awkward MS
take, the guilty party having been
caught red-handed and had made I'll
confession; so, being in the main a right
good set of fellows they decided to offer
balm to RehoDoth for his many wounds.
Three of their number were designated
a committee with full power to act. and
they hastened to the discharge Of their
duty. Old Rehoboth was sitting in his
neat little cabin with bandaged head.
while his wife was applying cooling
wash to his lacerated back. The COM
mittee looked foolish and scarcely knew
how to begin; bst finally one of the
number stammered out an apology. and
added tha. they were willing to pay
reasonable amount as recompense for
his sufferings.
LA, child, how you does talk. sho'ly!
Ameclzin' sich furse dat Is ecshamed
on ye! You jcs git back ter yer homes
n stay dar. I ain akin muffin 4 don'
want muffin. w honey, et ! donc tuck
on erbout de r1istec,3s cr white fo!kses
I'd jes' be plum mis- able harf de time"
Chicago Tribune.
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QUITE A FAMILY PATTY HE REMARKED

lily party" he remarked 81 think
shall have pull at that flask, Holmes.
Well, I think we may all congratulate
each other Pity we didn't take the
other alive; but there was no choice.
say, Holmes, you must confess that you
cut it rather fine. It was all that we
could do to overhaul her.
"All is we'll that ends we'll, said
Holmes ssBut I certainly did not
know that the Aurora was such a
clipper"
Smith says that she is one Of the
fastest launches on the river, and that
if he had had another man to help him
with the engines we should never have
caught her. lie swcars he knows moth
ing of this Norwood business.
Neither he did," cried our prisoner
mot word. I chose his launch be-
cause heard that she was flyer. We
told him nothing, but we paid him
well, and he was to get something
handsome if we reached our vessel, the
Esmeralda, at Grayesend, outward
bound for the Braziis.'
''Well, if he has done no wrong we
shall see that no wrong comes to him.
i we are pretty quick in catching our
men, we are not so quick in condemn1
ing them" It was amusing to notice
how the consequential Jones was al
ready beginning 30 give himself airs on
the strength of the capture. From the
slight smile which played over Sher-
lock Holmes face, 1 could see that the
speech had not been lost upon him.
1--WE will be at Vauxhall bridge
presently" said Jones, "and shall land
YOU, DIR. Watson, with the treasure
box. need hardly tell you that l am
taking very grave responsibility upon
myself in doing this. 1t is most irreg-
ular; s;,it Of course an agreement is an
agreement must. however, as mat
ter Of duty. send an inspector with
you, since you have so valuable
charge You will drive, 10 doubt:
Yes shall drive"
1T is pity there is no key. that we
may make an inventory first You Will
have to break it open. Where is the
key. my m;;n?"
M the bottom of the river" said
small shortly
i;un. There was no use you Civ
ing tlli> unncces>ars. trouble. We have
h@e. wor. cnouoh already through yoa.
However. doctor need not VAIN you
to be careful Bring the box back
with you to the Baker street ROOMS
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CHAPTER XI.
rHE GREAr Agra rREAstRE.

THE GREAT AGRA TREASURE.
Our captive sat in the cabin opposite
to the iron box which he had done so
much and waited so long to gain. He
was sunburned, reckless-eyed fellow,
with network Of lines and wrinkles
all over his mahogany features, which
told of hard, open-air life. There
was a singular prominence about his
bearded chin which marked a man
who was not to oe easily turned from
his purpose. His age may have been
fifty OF thereabouts, for his black.
curly hair was thickly shot with gray.
His face In repose was not an un-
pleasing one, though his heavy brows
and aggressive chin gave him. as had
lately seen, terrible expression when
moved to anger. he sat now with his
handcuffed hands upon his lap ard his
head sunk upon his breast, while he
looked with his keen. twinlling eyes
at the box which had been the cause
of his ill-doings. 1t seemed 70 me that
there was more sorrow than anger in
his rigid and contained eruntenance.
Once he looked up ut me with CLEAN
Of something like humor in his eyes.
Well, Jonathan Small" said Holmes.
lighting cigar, II an sorry that it
has come to this"
And so am l" he answered. frankly.
81 don't believe that can swing over
the job l give you my word on the
book that never raised rny hand
acains. Mr.. Sholto. 1t was that little
hell-hound Tonga who shot one Of his
cursed darts into him. had no part
in it, sir. ] was as grievcd as if it had
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ONLY A MISTAKE, AFTER ALL.

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s'Fre if he raises his hand,' said
Holmes, quietly. We were within a
boats length by this time, and almost
within touch of our quarry. I can see
the two of them now as they stood, the
white man with his legs far apart,
shrieking out curses, and the unhai-
lowed dwarf, with his hideous face, and
his strong yellow teeth gnashing at US
in the light of our lantern.
It was well that we had so clear a
view of him. Even as we looked he
plucked out from under his covering a
short, round piece Of wood, like a
school ruler, and clapped it to his
lips Our pistols rang out together.
He whirled round, threw up his
arms, and with kind Of chok-
ing cough fell sideways into the
stream. caught one glimpse of his
venomous, menacing eyes amid the
white swirl of the waters. at the
same moment the wooden-legged man
threw himself upon the rudder and put
it hard down, so that his boat made
straight in for the southern bank,
while we shot past her stern, only
clearing herby few feet. We were
round after her in an instant, but she
was already nearly at the bank. It
was a wild and desolate place, where
the moon glimmered upon wide ex-
panse Of marsh land, with pools Of
stagnant water and beds Of decaying
vegetation. The launch, with dull
thud, ran up on the mud bank, with
her bow in the air and her stern flush
with the water. The fugitive sprang
out, but his stump instantly sank its
whole length into the sodden soil. In
vain he struggled and writhed. Not
one step could he possibly take
either forwards or backwards. He
yelled in impotent rage, and kicked
frantically into the mud with his other
foot, but his struggles only bored his
wooden pin tie deeper into the sticky
bank. When we brought our launch
alongside he was so firmly anchored
that it was only by throwing the end
of rope over his shoulders that we
were able to haul him out, and to drag
him, like some evil fish, over our side.
The two Smiths, father and son, sat
sullenly in their launch. bct came
aboard meekly enough when COM
manded. The Aurora herself we
hauled off and made fast to our stern.
A solid iron chest Of Indian workman
ship stood upon the deck. This. there
could be no question, was the same
that had contained the ill-omened
treasure of the Sholtos- There was no
key, but it was of considerable weight,
80 we transferred it carefully to our
own little cabin. As we steamed
slowly upstream again, we flashed our
search-light in every direction, but
there was no sign Of the islander.
Somewhere in the dark ooze atthe
bottom of the Thames lie the bones Of
that strange visitor to our shores
''See here" said Holmes, pointing to
the wooden hatchway. 1--WE were
hardly quick enough with our pistols"
There, sure enough, just behind
where we had been standing, stuck
one of those murderous darts which we
knew so well. It must have whizzed
between US at the instant that we
fred. Holmes smiled at it, and
shrugged his shoulders in his easv
fashion, but I confess that it turned
me sick to think Of the horrible death
which had passed so close to US that
night.
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REVERSED BY a COLLISION.
An Ola Brakeman Tells Of a Queer Rail-
road Accident Ia the West.

An OId Brakeman Tells of Queer Rail-
road Accident Ia the West.
"The most remarkab BILE wreck was
ever in" said an old brakeman to a
Louisville Corrier-Journal man, hap
pened on the Short line between Pewee
snd Boards some years a:co. II was a
freight wreck. / had charge Of the La
Grange accommodation and was bound
in to Louisville. We were following
hard upon the trail Of train No. 80,
also bound for Louisville. Train No.
il was coming in our direction 1t had
been delayed some minutes at Pewee,
but expected to make up the time and
sidetrack between ?ewee and Boards
on schedule time, 50 that train No. 30
would have the right Of way.
1.-The delay was what caused the
trouble. The sidetrack l am telling
you about was just behind and under
hill Train No. "A had just backed on
to the sidetrack. and before the switch
man could shift the switch train No.
SO came dashing around the hill. The
engineer saw the danger. He turned
down the throttle with har6 shove
and whistled down brakes His ef-
forts were of no use. however. Train
No. 50 turned in on the sidetrack and
went crashing into No. ii. All the
cars of the train. fourteen, were
stripped off the track as clean as If
they haf: been peas in a pod. The
shock of the two trains meeting was,
of course, terrific The whole of train
No. 80. including the locomotive, top
pied off the track. Remarkable as it
may seem. only the cars of No. II were
thrown off the track.
when the two trains struck the en-
gineer Of No IA had his hand on the
throttle, about to stop his train. The
shock threw him out of the ca and the
wrench threw open the throttle again
and reversed the engine. When the
cars had been stripped off the track the
locomotive went wild down the track
toward La Grange We Of the La
Grange accommodation had by this
time neared the curve. I was at the
head of the train as lookout. heard
the sound of locomotive approaching
and signaled the engineer of our train
to reverse his engine. He had hardly
time to jump to the throttle when the
wild locomotive crashed into us. was
thrown, l reckon, Gfty feet. and came
out of it with two broken legs. No one
else was hurt. but the La Grange ac-
commodation vas day late. No. I
don't railroad any more
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dred yards. She was still, however,
well in view, and the mrrky uncertain
twilight was settling into clear star
Lit night. Our boilers were strained
to their utmost, and the frail shell vi-
brated and creaked with the fierce en-
ergy which was driving Us along. We
had shot through the pool past the
West India docks, down. the long Dept
ford Reach, and up again after round
ing the Isle of Dogs. The dull blur in
front Of us resolved itself now clearly
enough into the dainty Aurora. Jones
turned our searchiight upon her, so
that we could plainly see tie figures
upon her deck. One man sat by the
stern, with something black between
his knees over which he stopped. Beside
him lay dark mass which looked like
a Newfoundland dog. The boy held the
tiller, while against the red glare Of
the furnace I could see old Smith.
stripped to the waist, and shoveling
Goals for dear life They may have had
some doubt at first as to whether we
were really pursuing them, but now as
we followed every winding and turn
ing which they took there could no
longer be any question about It. At
Greenwich we were about three hundred
PAGES behind them. At Blackwell we
could not have been more than two
hundred and fifty. have coursed
many creatures in many countries dur
ing my checkered career, but never did
sport give me such wild thrill as this
mad, flying man hunt down the
Thames. Steadily we drew in upon
them, yard by yard. In the silence
of the night we could hear the
painting and clanking of their ma
chinery. The man in the stern still
crouched upon the deck, and his arms
were moving as though he were busy,
while every now and then he would
look up and measure with glance the
distance which still separated as.
Nearer we came and nearer Jones
yelled to them to stop. We were not
more than four boats lengths behind
them, both boats flying at tremen-
dous pace. It was a clear reach OF
the river, with Barking level upon
one side and the melancholy Plum
stead marshes upon the other. At
our hail the man in the stern sprang
up from the deck and shook his two
clinched fists at US, cursing the while
in high, cracked voice. he
was a good-sized, powerful man,
and as he stood posing himself
with legs astride could see that from
the thigh downwards there was but a
wooden stump upon the right side. At
the sound of his strident, angry cries
there was movement in the huddled
bundle upon the deck. 1t Itstraightened
itself into q little black man-the
smallest I have ever seen-witha a great,
misshapen head and shock Of tangled.
disheveled hair. Holmes had already
drawn his revolver, and / whipped out
mine at the sight Of this savage, dis
torted creature. He was wrapped IN
some sort Of dark ulster or blanket,
which left only his face exposed; but
that face was enough to give a man
sleepless night. Never have l seen
features so deeply marked with all bes-
tally and cruelty. His small eyes
oloved and burned with somber light,
and his thick lips were writhed back
from his teeth, which grinned and chat
+ereo at us with half animal fury.
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At that moment, however, as our
evil fate would have it, a tug with
three barges in tow blundered in
between Us. It was only by putting
our helm hard down that we avoid
ed a collision, and before we could
round them and recover our way the
Aurora had gained a good two hun
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''THE TREASURE rs LOST SAID snss
MORSTAN.
Then I say Thank God, too,,~ she
whispered, as drew her to my side.
Whoever had lost a treasure, knew
that night that I had gained one.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-10
a vILLAIaous AssArr.,ss


The assault OF JOAN M. zane UPON
eor1n1issfoner Thatcher was, if possible e.
more atfccious than that upon Clerk
Blair There is not in all the evidences.
taisc or true, proper or Improper.
strained or traightforward, which has
been given in this case that REJECTS in
the slightest manner upon the conduct
Of Commissioner George w. Thatcher.
What has been introduced il pure
m alice, unclarifled vindictiveness ana
unauthorized impotence.
The only shadow of an excuse for It
all was the fact. that mr.. Thatcher tst-
Jected to some copying of figures BY
Commissioners Sherman, to which he
mad the right to object by rule
adopted bythe board. He was a,so
justified IN 5eeting to sacf copying
when he hid aoed reason to believe If
was to be- ssas to the Salt lake Tri-
bune.
SUI "a isil1s thai objection in any light
that it can be fairly viewed, what lugtt-
fcatien does that afford for the vile
insinuations and direct charges made
by John M. Zane. In his exraya CANT
speech in court on Wednesday morning q
None whatever. No man with the IN
stincts of a gentleman. no man pos
sessed OF common fairness, no man who.
mas an appreciation Of the honorable
position of a member of the bar would
condescend to such arts or use such
language in reference to one against
whom not the first syiiable of evidence.
mad been presented. There was nothing
on which TO ground the vile remarks
made by the man Zane against Mr..
Thatcher, but the pretended suspicion
OF the speaker, advanced simply for
public effect.
We view such tactics as those in
dulged in by John NJ Zane as a prosti-
tuition of the privileges of an attorney
before a court. We know Mr.. Thatcher
to be high-minded and honorable
gentleman and we do not believe for
moment that any Republican or Demo-
crat who knows him, has the slightest
suspicion that he has been implicated
in the unlawful work alleged to have
been done on the returns from Sanpata.
The words uttered by Zane in court,
which he would not dare to speak In
Mr.. Thatcher's presence out OF court
simply proclaim the character of Che
and place him beneath con-
tempt.