The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1907-03-16


W. Rutlege c. II. German
T. r. JewM j. II. Fine
Dan Downing w. j. Harris
Robert ID. Bailey Dennis Keefe
John McNaughton b. Merialdo
Robert Northey V. LAM
Nj. g. Foster Maurice Hartnett
J. S. Bagg David Morris
A. F. Stinson
After appointing John McNaughton
foreman, Judge Breen charged the
Grand Jury as follows:
Charge to the Grand Jury
Gentlemen of the Grand Jury, you
are charged by the Court that it is your
duty under the law to inquire into all
public offenses committed or triable
within the jurisdiction Of this Court,
and to present them to the Court either
by presentment n indictment.
You must inquire into the case of
every person imprisoned in jail, If any
there be, on a criminal charge and not
indicted into the condition and man.
agement Of the public prisons within
the county, and into the wilfnl and cor.
rupt misconduct in office of public
officers of every description within the
county.
You are entitled to free access at all
reasonable times to the public prisons,
and to an examination into all public
records within the county.
The condition Of public roads and
highways, as well as of all public build
ings should also receive attention from
you, and your report to the Court should
embody the result of your examinations,
with suggestions, when practicable, for
the remedy of existing evils, if any
there be.
Gentlemen. l call your attention to
Sections 440, AL aud 442 Of the CON-
piled laws, in regard to the necessity Of
placing and maintaining guide boards
at the intersection of the county roads,
and also to Sections $3.50 to 5O63, in.
elusive, which is an Act making it COM
pulsory to record the births of children
born within the county.
Gentlemen. within the past few years
il has become common talk in our coun-
ty that in the prosecution of persons
charged with the commission Of public
offenses a marked difference exists in
the interest taken by those whose duty
it is to bring to justice offenders against
the law, and at whose doors the COM
mission Of crime is laid.
IL is common talk that o~ffenses
against property and property rights
are pursued and prosecuted with far
more energy and diligence than are
crimes against the persons Of indi-
viduals.
It is said that for the theft or destruc.
ton Of certain kinds of property the
perpetrator will be pursued with sleuth-
hound pertinacity and brought to
justice. as of right he ought to be. but
hat for an offense against the life or
limb of a citizen there is no such risk of
energetic prosecution. and still less of
il brought to trial.
If such reports and statements be
true, there exists in our county a state
of things highly di~screditable to u
local government, and which should at
once be remedied. That property and
property rights should be carefully
guarded and ~offenses against such
swiftly punished as the law directs,
and that the energy of our officers in
bringing to justice all offenders against
those rights is deserving OF the highest
commentator, goes without saying.
But surely. that crimes against the life
or limb Of citizens should be considered
of equal, nay Of greater moment, should
also go without the saying. Gentlemen.
you will please make inquiry into the
reports and statements / have referred
to, and make report to this Court of the
result of your inquiries.
State and County Licenses
AS our comfy grows in population