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PUBLISHED EVERT SATUBDAT BT
CASSIDY & SKILLMAN.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 18,87.
TO TRK Film or TUB BE.
FIBLU.
The S»tt Lake Tribune asks the great
press of the country, North, South, Eaat
and West, to sound the alarm that in
the movement for Statehood for Utah
there lies a mighty menace to the future
peace of this Republic, and to note that
the Statehood conspiracy is much deeper
than is now suspected. It was prepared
in Washington, and will be urged by
many men that no one not in the secret
now suspects, unless the press and the
pulpits of the country stamp it out and
make it so unpopular that Congressmen
will not dare advocate it. Besides the
expected partisan gain, the movement
will be backed by an enormous fund.
To the Mormons, Statehood means the
full establishment—41 the rolling forth”
—of their kingdom; the thing their
priests have promised them for lo, these
many years, and the expenditure of
$500,000 to secure such a sovereign
triumph, would be nothing to them.
The assessment (or tbit amount for that
special purpose has already been levied
upon their people. The situation is
fairly stated by the San Francisco Chron
icle in the following:
Cardinal Gibbons has recently made a
statement in reference to the proselytiz
ing tendencies of the Mormons which is
decidedly at variance with the declara
tions put forth by the Mormons them
selves. He says that whereas a few
years ago the Mormons gathered most of
their converts to their peculiar doctrines
in Europe, now they are carrying on
their labors in several of the Southern
States, and that the apostles of polygamy
are bold and defiant.
iwoof the Utah Commissioners, Me
Clernand and Carlton, have submitted to
the Secretary of the Interior a minority
report which reads as if it were written
in the shadow of the Temple itself.
They dissent from the majority report,
on the ground that it introduces theo
logical discussion into a secular docu
ment. They further say that while the
great mass of the Mormon people are
making an effort for the abandonment of
the practice of polygamy, they are asked
to recommend further’ legislation of a
hostile character, which they decline to
do. They recommend the adoption of an
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States, prohibiting the practice
of polygamy in any form in any of the
States or Territories. The wonder is
they did not embrace murder, burglary,
arson, grand larceny and the whole list
of felonies in their proposed amendment.
In the discussion of the Mormon ques
tion, particularly with reference to the
admission of Utah as a State, the matter
of polygamy has so far overshadowed
everything else as to divert public atten
tion from another matter more dangerous
by far to the future of an American
State than the existence of polygamy,
and that is the indissoluble union of
church and State which would certainly
come about if Utah were to be admitted.
It must be borne in mind that the first
amendment to the Federal Constitution
only prohibits Congress from making
laws respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof; and that under the tenth amend
ment, the powers not delegated to the
United States by the Constitution, nor
prohibited by it to the States, are re
served to the States respectively, or to
the people. The obvious meaning of
these two amendments is that any State
may, if it chooses, establish a particular
religion, or prohibit the free exercise of
any other than the established religion;
and who could doubt that the Mormon
religion would be declared to be the
established religion of Utah ?
i nis once eriectea, me wnoie power oi
the United States could not destroy it.
Utah would be a sovereign State, pos
aesaing every attribute and incident of
self-government, and an established
religion would be as much beyond the
control of Congress as any other legal
measure not in conflict with the Consti
tution.
This is the real obstacle to the admis
sion of Utah. So long as she is a Terri
tory there can be no legal union of
church and State. Admit her and she
can do as she thinks best. Polygamy is
but one phase of Mormonism—a revolt
ing one, it is true, hut still only one, and
which the Federal Government can sup
press. The danger is in permitting a
union of church and State, which would
inevitably come about if Utah were ad
mitted to the Union while the Mormons
aro in the ascendent.
The above is every word true and the
press of the country will be untrue to
itself if it fails the people when such a
danger is threatened.
Governor Stevenson, of Idaho, has
submitted his annual report to the Sec
tary of the Interior. The population of
the Territory is 97,250; assessed valua
tion of taxable property, $20,441,192;
number of cattle, 442,805; sheep, 302,
241; hogs, 00,411; horses, 132,021. The
production of gold, silver and lead dur
ing the year ended September 30 is
estimated at: Gold, $2,417,420; silver,
$4,033,100; lead, $3,195,000. The Gov
ernor writes a strong protest against the
proposed division of the Territory and
annexing its parts to other States and
Territories, and says: “ All we desire is
to bo let alone, to preserve our identity
as Idaho undivided and entire, until in
our good time we come, in full conscious
ness of the justice and merit of our
claim, requesting admission into the I
sisterhood of States.
Side saddles are slowly going out of
fashion in England, and the man fashion
way of riding horses is being adopted by
maDy of the ladies. Side sad lies have
been in use since 1388.
numknci-atuhe or towns.
The nomenclature of towns aud citiei
in this country, writes a Washington
correspondent, is full of peculiarities,
not the least of which are those names
which lead one as to location by follow
ing the name of a State. During Presi
dent Arthur's administration there was
an incident which pointedly illustrated
this phase. The term of a Government
officer had expired at Michigan City,
He was under the Treasury Department,
one of the heads of which wrote to the
Senator from Michigan, 0. D. Conger,
asking whether the man should be reap
pointed or whether the Senator would
recommend another. Senator Conger
replied that he would like a few days in
which to ascertain the wishes of his con
stituents, when he wonld report to the
Department. In abont a week a letter
came from bim in which he stated that he
had discovered that Michigan City war
not in Michigan, but in Indiana, and
that he thought he would not invade
Senator Harrison's bailiwick with sug
gestions. Neither he nor the Treasury
official had at first been aware of this
fact, and the name had misled them both.
Among the souvenirs of the St.
Joseph, Mo., visit which Mrs. Cleveland
brought away, was one found in her car
after the train had left. It was an
elegant memorial satchel, on which was
painted: "To Mrs. Frances Folsom
Cleveland—St. Elizabeth Society greets
you with a salutation of benediction on
this October 12, 18S7.” Following this
was a legend stating that the donors
deemed it not inappropriate on this occa
sion to point to the parallelism of cir
cumstances of Mr9. Cleveland’s present
state with that of their society’s patron,
Elizabeth, Queen of Hungary, which
made that Queen a prototype of the so
ciety. Called in the first flower of her
youth and beauty to preside over a na
tion, she was distinguished even beyond
her queenliness for her simplicity, benig
nity and charity. It closed with an ex
pression of the hope that Mrs. Cleve
land’s life, like that of Queen Elizabeth,
"might be a halo of virtue and holiness,
and that her bright example might live
forever.” '_
Chattanooga is greatly excited over a
faith cure, which, it is said, took place
Saturday night. For a year and a half
Mrs. \Y. S. Jordan has been utterly help
less, and during all of that time has been
confined to her bed. An emissary to the
Christian Science, of Boston, arrived in
the city Saturday, and a prayer service
lasting two hours was held in the room
of the sick woman. She joined heartily
in the service, aud all at once arose from
her bed, put on her clothes, and left the
house. She walked a distance of ten
squares unaided. Sunday morning she
attended church for the first time in two
years. When 9he entered church a de
cided sensation was created, her most in
timate friends refusing to believe their
own eyes. Mrs. Jordan is a firm believer
in the faith cure. She has been unable
to leave her bed for over eighteen months.
The affair has caused a genuine sensation.
Warden McCullough brought in from
the State Prison the frontal part of a
rhinoceros skull, found on the grounds
yesterday, and iie proposes to go after
the whole remains. The chances are
that instead of Mount Ararat being the
rock on which old Noah's craft struck,
the Nevada State Prison rocks will he
proved the wrecking spot, and that the
skeleton found some weeks since will
turn out to be that of Shem, Ham or
Japhet.—Carson Tribune.
There is an Anarchist in London who
hails from Chicago, and has been telling
the people of the metropolis that his
condemned brethren are treated with the
utmost cruelty. They are clubbed,
deluged with electricity, kept awake o’
nights with glaring lamps and otherwise
maltreated. This Anarchist is a liar, of
course, but he is as truthful as most of
his fellows and quite as trustworthy
authority on American prisons as Henry
George is on the American land system.
Silver State: Alex. Wise has orders
to bed sixty-eight cars right away for
cattle shippers and he wants a hundred
more iu the near future. The orders
cannot be filled, however, as Traffic Man
ager Stubbs thinks the State has no fu
ture east of Reno, and takes no pains to
accommodate the people. James Ritchie,
of Paradise, has seven carloads and N.
H. A. Mason has ten carloads of cattle
here awaiting shipment, but there are no
cars to be had.
The Presidential party arrived home
on the 22d instant. The President was
heartily glad to got home, though as
heartily glad that he went away. Dur
ing the three weeks of his journeying
he traveled 4,500 miles, passed through
seventeen States, crossed three of them
twice, and had seen and been seen by
several millions of American citizens.
It was the Marquis of Aylesbury’s
brutality as much as anything else that
caused him to be ruled out of English
society. The fellow was carousing with
a party of drunken women when he
heard of his grandfather’s death. Turn
ing to his companions, he exclaimed:
“Hurrah! Do you hear that, girls ? I’m
a bloody Marquis ! ”
Senator Voorheea of Iudiana avers that
Cleveland can carry Indiana by 15,000.
Biislnens fur (he Buy.
Fond Mother—Pa, what business do you
think we ought to start Willard in? He’s
getting to be eighteen years old and ought
to get into something.
Fond Father—It’s hard telling whut he’s
fitted for.
Fond Mother—Yes; he’s as proud as
Lucifer, but he’s neat as wax.
Fond Father—Well, then, let’s start him
in the match business.
Two Pitiful C anes.
Two bruised and battered patients lay
side by side in a hospital ward.
“I’m a baseball umpire,”said cne, “who
are you?
“I was one of the judges at a baby
show, said the other; and then the orderly
came and gave each of them a hypoder
mic injection of morphine.—New York
Sun.
THIS SILVER LICK.
A Salt for Share* In tlie Company
—Hlooilshetl Occasion r«l by a
Former Dlipnte— Adolph Rchan
«ler Nnea the Execniora of Che
Km tale of Alexander Forhra.
The S. F. Post has the following: “The
case of Adolph Schander against Mary A.
Forbes et al., executors ot the estate of
Alexander Forbes, is on trial before Judge
Wilson in Department 1. Schander, who
is post trader at Angel Island, charges
that some time in the Fall of 1882 he was
the owner of three certificates of stock in the
Silver Lick Mining Company, of Nevada,
representing 12,640$ shar s, and that
while out of the State one George L. Jor
dan wrongfully ar.d fraudulently deposi
ted the certificates with Alexander Forbes
as security for the payment of a promissory
note for $2,500. 1 ne plaintiff c aims that
Forbes gave Jordan no consideration for
the note, but that his stock was pledged as
security for its payment. He claims,
however, that there was an understand
ing between Jordan and Forbes, whereby
the latter was to give the former up on the
delivery of the stock as security for the
note for $2,500, but that as a matter of fact
Jordan received but $1,250. Schander
asks for a return of the stock and $35,500
damages. The defence is a general and
specific denial, with the additional one
that the stock had no value,
i The case possesses passing interest, aris
ing from the fact that out of the troubles
over tfce Silver Lick there was blood shed.
The plaintiff in the present suit and one
Captain James Adams were the principal
owners of the mine, which at one time had
a promising outlook, and about seven
years ago they had trouble over it, which
culminated in a saloon at Montgomery and
Merchant in Adams assaulting Schander.
The latter promptly killed his assailant,
and was acquitted on the ground of self
defense.”
| The Silver Lick is a valuable mining
property situated on Adams Hill in this
district. It has been profitably worked
ever since its discovery in 1871. Capt.
Adams was superintendent of the Silver
Lick Company until 1881, when he waR
elected to the Nevada Legislature, upon
the adjournment of which he went to San
Francisco, and March 14, 1881 received a
bullet wound from a pistol fired by Schan
der, fromw’hieh he died a few days after.
Schander was indicted for manslaughter
ar.d admitted to bail in the sum of $10,000.
He then came to Eureka, and was in
charge of the Silver Lick mine during 1881
and 1882. He went from here to San
Francisco to stand his trial, when his
bondsmen, giving him up, he was sent to
prison, and during the time of his incarcera
tion was superceded by J. C. Powell, w’ho
held the position of superintendent until
A. 13. Davis, who is now in charge, suc
ceeded to the management. After Schander
was tried and acquitted he returned to
Eureka, where he devoted a great deal of
time and labor to the Herculean mine,
which adjoins the Silver T.ick, and while so
employed, often spoke of his troubles to the
writer hereof. Among other things he said
he had entrusted his stock in the Silver Lick
Con. Company to Jordan to raise the
money on it for his defense on his trial for
.shooting Adams, but Jordan had con
verted the money he had raised to
his own use. He talked incessantly about
the efforts to defrau 1 him of his stock.
Schander is a very positive man, and will
undoubtedly carry this suit against the
Forbes estate to the bitter end.—Ed. Sen
tinel.
lie Saw the Mine.
Five years ago a man named Hobson,
living in a small Ohio town, invested heav
ily in Bluck Hills mining stock. He paid
the monthly assessments regularly for three
years. When the thirty-seventh notice
came it was too much for him, and he took
the money that should have liquidated it
and came out to Deadwood. He soon dis
covered that the mine was nearly or
wholly on paper. He called at the office
of the President, and after abusing him
some time said:
“I have found out that you and your
company are frauds. You haven’t any
mining machinery, and no mine that is
worth anything at least. I’d like to ask if
your company owns as much as a hole ?”
“Oh, yes,” replied the President, “we
do.”
“ I’d just like to know where it is.”
The President arose, shoved his hand
part way into one of his pantaloons pock
ets, and said:
“This is it, right here, Colonel; the
breeches pocket of the President! There’s
where we put all your money, and you'll
think it is the deepest hole in the world if
you ever try to get any of it out! Good
morning, sir! I have letters here from
more Ohio men who want to buy stock,and
I must attend to them before the mail
closes!”—From the Dakota Bell.
Priucess Snrnli WluuemnccA.
The history of the renowned Princess,
Sa-ah Winnemucca is an eventful and
pathetic one. Born at a time when the
tide of white immigration was pressing her
brave father, Prince Winnemucca, to the
wall, she has grown up and partaken of the
ways and principles of both the red and
white races. There is a nobility in Sarah’s
character that lias marked her out among
her people. Alone and unaided, she has
managed, nevertheless, to enlist Eastern
sympathy in her people’s behalf, and her
name is as well known in Puritan Boston
as that of King Philip. Sarah is now a
widow, her husband, L. W. Hopkins, hav
ing died a few days ago in Winnemucca.—
Virginia Report.
Grief Too Great for Utterance.
The Wardner, Idaho, News says: Pro
fessor Clayton tells a thrilling experience.
At Ruby City, while looking over a claim
to determine the most favorable place to
prospect for a blind ledge, an extension of
a valuable mine, he accidentally, in mark
ing thegrouud, dug up some good ore and
exposed the ledge. The locators, who had
recently sold it for an inconsiderable sum,
were with him. One of them indulged in
a great deal of profanity, cursing his luck
for having trifled away a fortune. Turn
ing to his partner, who was less demonstra
tive, he inouired, “Why don’t you kick?”
“ Don't talk to me I am hurt so bad I can’t
kick. I’m bleeding inside.”
The IlAtcaaiaia Fatale.
John Garber, ex-Justice of the Supreme
Court of Nevada, has filed in San Fran
cisco his annual inventory as guardian of
the estate of Frank L. Bateman, a minor.
The document shows that there ia out at
interest $36,139 in money belonging to the
minor, and that his other property consists
of stock of the Austin City (Nev.) Water
Works, valued at $5,000; stock of the In
ternational Hotel Company at Virginia
City, valued at $30,718; stock in the
Mount Diablo Mining Company, worth
$850, and a reversionary interest in land in
Alameda worth $1,000.
A Nlnfnl City.
The Carson Appeal says: “ A local
physician informed the writer that he be
lieved there are over 50 children in this
3*ty under 13 years of age whose persons
have been violated by men. The Appeal
las no desire to prejudice the case of
Campbell, who is in the hands of the law,
out nothing less than a lynching will keep
rascals from ruining children of ten
years.”
Would not Carson be a good field for
Rev. Mr. Chubbuck, who has been wag
ing a relentless war in Reno the past week
against vices generally, and this sin partic
ularly ?
Host Have Cooke.
A chronic dyspeptic sends the Reno
Gazette the following:
We may live without poetry, music and
art.
We may live without conscience, and
live without heart.
We may live without friends, we may
live without books.
But civilized man cannot live without
cooks.
ACARLET FEVER.
Ho Reason Why It Afc#al«l Prevail
at This Time.
The Salt Lake Tribune says: There U
a good ileal of scarlet fever and diphtheria
in tbii city, and though no reasons are ap
parent why it should particularly prevail
at this time, it is not decreasing. We be
lieve tLat the blame for this lies in the
carelessness of the men who act as the
Board of Health and the criminal careless
ness of many people in whose families one
or both of these diseases prevail or have
prevailed reeently. We know of one fam
ily where a child was taken ill and the
physician p:onounced the disease scarlet
lever. The “ quarantine doctor ” was at
once notified. He came and put up a
yellow flag in the front yard. The child
died a few days later, and then he came
and took away the flag. He did not ask
a question as to whether the house had
been disinfected; paid no attention what
ever to the going and earning of the fam
ily—in short, took not the slightest precau
tion to guard against the spread of the dis
ease except to put up the flag. The fam
ily took every possible precaution, but if
they had not it would have been all the
same to this “quarantine doctor.” Now
there are plenty of families here who
would, should one child in the family be
ill, send another child right out of the at
mosphere of the sick room into the crowd
ed streets and stores down town. The
heads of the families, after handling the
sick children, will, in some cases, go out
upon the .streets in the same clothes Dogs
are permitted to go in and rub against and
lick the faces of sick children and then go
out and play with the children in tne
neighborhood, Many of these people do
not know that such work is wrong, others
do not care. Then the matter that is car
ried from the sick room, and the cast-off
clothing of the sick is not looked after
carefully, and so when the contagion fast
ens itself upon a neighborhood it seems
only to stop like a fire that is left to itself,
when there is nothing more to consume.
Surely our city authorities should appoint
a competent Board of Health and give it
authority to act. For the failure to do
this the families of the city pay annually
by giving up what is dearer to them than
their own lives, and the city pays in the
distrust which comes to the minds of neo
pie when they see so many children
dying in a place which, according to all
outward signs, ought to be as healthy as
any spot on earth.
The Way to Atop It.
A communication appears in the Carson
Appeal signed “A Father,” relative to in.
dividuals tampering with female children.
If the writer i9 cognizant of the fact that
such things are perpetrated he is sadly
derelict in his duty as a parent if he fails
to expose the perpetrators and assist in
bringing them to justice, in fact he or any
other person knowing such brutes, is crimi
nal, if he fails to make the facts public.
That is one method of stopping such acts
if they exist in a community, and another
is for parents to keep daughters of tender
age from walking the streets at right, and
attending every dance gotten up in com
pany with disreputable persons. It is an
old and well-excepted saying that virtuous
mothers, as a rule, raise virtuous daugh
ter and vice versa. There is a great deal
in this, in fact almost all a girl's future life
depends thereon.
It has been remarked by some that such
acts as have been referred to in the local
papers, tend to the injury of the town, but
surely those who so express themselve*
must realize that it is the duty of a news
paper to publish such doings, and further,
that when the names of perpetrators of
such crimes are ascertained, to give them
such publicity that the town may be rid of
them. There is another way to stop the
evil doings; purify the raorls of the com
munity and save girls from future con
tamination.
The Gambling; Caues.
Judge Rising has rendered his decision
in the famous one-story gambling cases.
He decided that the floors hitherto laid, on
which the games were carried on, were not
stories in the eye of the law. Neverthe
less only a technical offense had been com
mitted, since the parties had been licensed
by the county, and there was an absence
of intention to violate the law. More
over, the statute, while forbidding the
maintenance of gambling games unless on
first stories, is silent as to the penalty,
none whatever being stated.
This sustains fully Justice Kehoe’s de
cision on the ca-es when first brought be
fore him for trial.—Virginia City Report.
Indian Trailers After Robbers.
The plan of using Yuma Indian trailers
to catch the robbers who stopped the train
at Papago is a very sensible one. Of all
the Arizona Indians the Yum as are pre
eminent for their ability to follow a trail.
Give them the starting point, and they
will run down a fugitive with the certainty
and almost with the speed of a blood
hound, So well is this known throughout
Arizona that it forms one of the chief
checks to escapes from the territorial prison
at Yuma. There has rarely been an es
cape known of a prisoner who was fol
lowed by these tireless sleuth-hounds.—
San Francisco Chronicle.
Death of a Comanche Chief.
Otter Belt, one of the greatest of
Comanche chiefs, died in Indian Terri
tory a few days ago. Five minutes before
his death they held him erect and
rigged him out in his best war costume.
They painted him red, set his war bonnet
on his head, tied up his hair in beaver
Rkins and laid him down just as he died.
Then his five wives took sharp butcher
knives, slashed their faces with long, deep
cuts, cut tnemselves in other places and
beat their bleeding bodies and pulled their
hair. They also burned everything they
had, tepees, furniture, and even most of
the clothing they had on. A big crowd
of bucks lookad on and killed ten horsee.
A Mystery at lone.
The Belmont Courier learns from Frank
Bradley that while men were employed in
breaking ground for a foundation in lone,
a box was found containing the remains of
a white person with the head sawed in two.
The place where the box and remains were
found is near the ground where the fire oc
curred recently The citizens of lone sus
pect the remains to be those of a man who
was reported many years ago as having
mysteriously disappeared from that section
of Nye county.
Morrow’* Case.
The trial of Robert F. Morrow, the
prominent San Francisco capitalist, on the
charge of attempting to bribe a jury, was
concluded on the 22d instant. The jury
retired late in the afternoon.
The jury returned at 11:30 reported that
they stood eleven for conviction and one
for acquittal, with no possibility of agree
ing. Judge Sullivan ordered them dis
charged and released Morrow on $25,000
bail.
GAuibler*’ Escape.
In the District Court at Virginia Satur
day, Judge Rising dismissed the indict
ments against the gamblers for alleged
violation of the clause in the act restrict
ing them from dealing games of chance on
the floors of premises. The cases were dis
missed on the ground that the defendants
had paid a licence to deal on the floors
where they were located at the time they
were arrested.
Tbe Condemned Anarchist*.
A Chicago dispatch of October 26 says
that preparations are being silently mado
for the anti-Anarchiat drama of November
^ Jprder> have keen given to members of
the Second Regiment of the Illinois Na
tional tiuard. They will be required to be
on duty for a full week prior to Novem
ber 11.
Encourage home industry and buy your
goods of Berg. f
BOARD OF FARDOW*.
Jack lutla' Last Attempt to Get
at Wells. rar*o’» Bo*—Union of
Robert Homlltoii—Brare Hessen
Kern.
The Board of Pardons met at 10 A. M.
Wednesday, all but the Attorney General
present. Applic ition of Robert Sincla r
denied. Robert Hamilton was pardoned.
Adjourned to call of Governor. — Tribune.
Hamilton was convicted in 1878 of rob
bing the stage between Eureka and Tybo.
Jack Davis, the notorious Verdi car-rob
ber of 1868, Bob Hamilton, and another
whose name has never Ken revealed went to
a station on the stage road, quietly gagged
and brand everybody at the station and
waited for the stage. Tom Lawrie, an
accomplice, lit two fires on Pinto mount
ain, where they could be seen from the
station denoting that there were two shot
gun messengers on board, and also plenty
of money. The messengers were Eugene
Blair and Jim Brown-two of the best
men Wells, Fargo had in the service.
When the stage arrived at the station Jack
Davis called upon the messengers to throw
up their hands. It was very dark. The
messengers thought it was a josh and
started to get down from the stage when
bang! went a double-barreled shotgun.
Blair immediately grabbed a man he saw
near the horses and brought him to his
knees. Brown leaned over from the stage
placed his gun over Blair's shoulder and
shot the robber, tearing frightful wounds
in his back, fiom the shoulders down. As
Brown was getting down from the stage he
received a pistol ball in the leg from one of
the robbers, who had come to the rear of
the stage. When Davis was shot the
other two robbers fled.
The stage returned to Eureka. Davis
lived about two hours, and the messengers
say he would not tell who wore his accom
plices, but only said if the others had been
as good as himself the messengers would
have been in his place.
Lawrie returned to Eureka before the
stage did and Hamilton made his way to
California and returned about a week
later. They were then arrested, receiving
14 years each.
Lawrie had a brother, a minister of the
Gospel, in Pennsylvania, who was a close
friend of Governor Curtin, and he got suf
ficient influence that by coming out here
he got his brother out about six years
ago, though he had served a previous sen
tence.
Jack Davis was convicted in 1869 of
complicity in the Verdi car robbery and
was sent for a term of years to the State
Prison. The robbers got on that occasion
about $150,000, nearly all of which was re
covered. Davis was pardoned for reveal
ing the whereabouts of some of it. In
orison he was not considered a man of
“sand,’’but rather had the reputation
of “squealing ” or “peaching.” Hamil
ton is a very qriet man, and is not be
lieved that slight offers would ever induce
him to say a word that would implicate
anyone when trusted upon hi* honor in
“social” affairs. He is a good worker
and will doubtless make a better citizen
by having been pardoned than lie would
if he had served his term out.—Enter
prise.
SHOT II F. St FATHER-IN-LAW.
Startling Sequel to me McDonald
Marital Trouble*.
A special dispatch from San Francisco
to the Chronicle contains the following
sensational sequel to the marital troub
les of Mrs. Clara Bell McDonald, daugh
ter of Major Gardner, a resident of Car
son.
Mrs. Clara Bell McDonald, wife of
McDonald, Jr., Vice President of the
Pacific Bank, attempted to shoot McDon
ald’s father, R. H. McDonald, in the Bald
win Hotel parlor last evening.
Mrs. McDonald had held a lengthy
consultation with her father-in-law at the
latter’s room. They afterward repaired
to the parlor of the hotel, where the con
versation was continued.
The conversation had been amicable un
til they were about to separate, when Mrs.
McDonald proposed to McDonald, Sr.,
that if he could settle $50,000 on her and
the same amount on her child she would
compromis out of court pending the di
vorce suit between herself and husband.
If not she threatened to kill h'm, her child
and her husband.
McDonald positively declined to accede
to her request, saying that her huband, his
son, had already given her more than $50,
000.
McDonald spoke about retiring, and was
about to leave the room when Mrs. Me- I
Donald drew a pistol and tired at him.
McDonald seized her and attempted to
take the pistol away, when the desp rate
woman fired again. By this time she had
fallen to the floor in the scuffle that ensued
and McDonald, still attempting to grasp
the pistol, was on top.
Mrs. McDonald then fired a third shot,
this one taking slight effect in his fore
head.
The puests of the hotel then rushed in
and stopped further action. Mrs. McDon
ald was then taken to the City Jail. She
appeared cool and collective. On her per
son was also found a dagger.
Tli© Con u try "a Finance*.
Philadelphia, Oct. 24.—A Washington
special to the Press reports Secretary Fair
child as saying that be has figures to show
that during the past fifteen months the
amount of money in the hands of the peo
ple has increased over §103,000,000. The
Government holds that much less money
than it did fifteeu months ago. The sur
plus in the hands of the Government is
less than $2;>,000,000. Of his forthcoming
report Mr. Fairchild says that it will be
short, its recoinmsndatons having more
relation to the policy of the Administra
tion than simply to the workings of the
Department.
NnrcftNti©.
Summarizing the news of the day, the
San Francisco Post of October 25 says:
The only good feature of the situation on
the street this morning is the absence of
news from Virginia City. Pointers from
that quarter are generally good to copper,
for nine times out of ten the market here
acts directly the opposite way. It Is safe
to say that more money has been lost on
this dead-sure business from the front than
on local tips.
A Broker'* Broken Nose.
Seth Cook, notorious some years ago as
the manipulator of the rotten Alta-lieuton
stock deal, and John T. If ill, a capitalist,
also noted for ways dark and tricim vain,
while discussing a lemimscenceof a some
what unsavory order, in San Francisco
yesterday, engaged in a fistic debate, dur
which Hill struck Cook a terrific blow on
the nose, breaking that organ. The Call
says Cook will not appear on street parade
for some days.
A Fine Team.
Tbe Chicago News suggests for Presi
dent and Vice President on the Republi
can ticket in 1888 the names of Rutherford
B. Hayes and John A. Roach, and adds:
• Haye,“‘a at„ 1>re,9ent raising poultry
in Ohio, and Mr. Roach is at present rais
*n8 ~~ ■“ Chicago. Hens and brimstone
—what a combination !”
“Hurrah for Hayes and Roach!”
Never Clive F|>.
If you suffer with asthma, bronchitis, cr
any other disease of the throat or lungs,
nothing can surprise you more than the
rapid improvement that will follow the
use of Santa Abie, ff you are troubled
with catarrh and have tried other medi
ernes, you will bo unable to express your
amazement at the marvelous ana instanta
neous curative powers of California Cat-r
Cure. These remedies are not secret com
cs -a t5 ££
Big money made by patronising Berg. +
A QUIET TOWN.
The linen Show Much Leniency —
Lleni Filed.
Austin Reville: Since the negotiations
between the creditors of Chicago ami the
two representatives, Jas. A. Parnilee and
George L. Shorey, have home no fruits or
resulted in the creditors sending the nec
essary money to pay off the men's wages
or other indebtedness to date, and since the
day of limitation, that is, the end of the
thirty days given to the miner to file his
lien, comes on the 27th of this month,
he should see that it is filed before that
date, and thereby make sure of his wages,
which he has so justly earned. And right
here in this connection theie is not a set of
men in the State of Nevada, who would
conduct themselves so peaceably, and with
the same judgment that the miners of
Austin have done in this late and trying
ordeal. They have given their time and
help, to assist the company in tiding over
the difficulty, and if men should be re
warded for loyal support, it is certainly
due to our miners and citizens. All have
been working for the good of Austin. But
there is reason in all things, and since the
company has not been able to make a set
tlement up to the present time, notwith
standing that the committee and the Presi
dent have done all within their power, the
miners cannot afford to let the 27th
day of October go by, and not file their
liens. The law provides for safety and the
miners should avail by it. The day of at
tachment was on the 27th of September,
and with the exception of a few employes,
who have been working under a specified
agreement, the majority have thirty daye
after that date. This is about to expire,
and the men who have granted the favor
should take advantages of the statutes
and await development. The men have
acted honorably from the begining and they
have no cause to regret their course or re
tract their action. We hone that the board
of directors of the Manhattan Company
can raise the money and immediately send
orders to resume operations.
MRS. PARKER'S SCHEME.
Under Certain Conditions it Would
be a Success.
The scheme of Mrs. Parker, to send
needy English gentlewomen to California,
under certain conditions would be a suc
cess. If she will say to those “needy
gentlewomen,” “You are living here a
shabby-genteel life. Your incomes are
pitiful. If you will perfect yourselves as
cooks and house-keepers, perfect your
selves in a way that we can send endorse
ments with you, and will go with a deter
mination to do house work for honest
money, you can count on receiving £50 per
annum each and board; you can lay up in
four years £1G0 each wdth which you can
huy for yourselves homes through which
you can make independent livings for your
selves. But if you, on arrival there, make
up your minds to bo shocked at every
thing; to tell in what state you were ac
customed to live in England; if on trial it
shall be established that you do not know
enough to boil potatoes or make a bed, you
will have to get out and make room for
the inevitable Chinamen. If you can walk
off ten miles for exercise, and it breaks
your l acks to sweep a 12x14 room, you
are liable to have trouble.” We are afraid
the gentlewomen will hardly succeed. The
wages of servants in England are much
lower than in America and their work is
less laborious. These women would not
be used to such conditions. There is a
way, though, that the scheme might be
made a success. If the promoters of the
scheme would establish a cooking and
housekeeping school and semi for American
woman for teachers in that school; then
take poor girls of say 14 years of age, give
them two years of special training and
send them to California, they would find
places the moment they set foot on the soil
of the Golden State; they would obtain
situations and good homes, and their
chances for honorable marriage would be a
thousand per cent better than at present.
Such a scheme ought to be self-supporting,
too, after three years. Girls so trained
and then transported to where employ
ment would bo instantly and permanently
secured to them ought to b * willing to pay
back the expenditure. It would work
with perfect success.—S. L. Tribune.
The Boomer's Kouy.
Grass Valley Union: While in Nevada
City a day or two since we met a gentle,
man who came into the city, and he
talked straightway in such words as
follows:
Tell me not in mournful numbers that the
town is full of gloom, for the man’s a crank
who slumbers in these bustling days of
boom.. Life is real, earnest, and the grave
is not its goal. Every dollar that thou
turnest helps to make the old town roll.
But enjoyment and not sorrow is our des
tined end or way; if you have no money,
borrow—buy a corner lot each day! Lives
of great men all remind us, we can win
immortal fame; let us leave the chumps be
hind us and we’ll get there just the same.
In the world’s broad field of battle, in the
bivouac of life, let us make the dry bones
rattle—buy a corner for your wife! Let
us, then be up and doing with a heart for
any fate, still achieving, still pursuing,
booming early, booming late.
Ore Shipments.
Luring the past week ore shipments
were made from the mines of the district
to the Richmond works—Lunderberg mine,
13 tons; Silver Connor, 33 tons; Eureka
Tunnel, 12 tons; Members, 20 tons; Pa
cific, 2 tons; Marysville, 2 tons; White
Pine, 11 tons. Eureka Con.—California
niine, 4 tons; Lake Shore, 9 tons; Macon
City, 5 tons; Lunderberg, 17 tons; Bun
ker Hill, 3 tons; W. S. Limmick, 21
tons, Geddes & Bertrand, 17 tons; Pha
nix, 25 tons; Albion, 128 tons; Star, 6
tons; Eugene N. Robinson, 9 tons.
Another Man Crasy.
William Ey packed his clothes down to
the railroad depot last Wednesday morn
ing and requested the driver of the ’hue
to collect charges for carrying himself
and baggage to Charley Lautenschlager.
iue .Sheriff took him in custody on a
charge of insanity, “Billy” is in jail,
and imagines that he had snakes in his
boots when he was arrested. He is per
fectly ^ docile, and will probably be all
nght m a few days.
Departure of Old Timers.
«E B. V. Perry and wife, for several
jears residents of Eureka,'left here last
Monday for Santa Monica, where they
have gone to ieside permanently. We
join with a host of friends in the wish that
the change of climate will he beneficial to
•Jacx « health; that his old enemy, rheu
matisrn, will shake his acquaintance, and
that he will find for himself and his good
wife a Comfortable home for their declin
ing years.
Making Him n Doctor.
How is my boy getting on?” in
quired an anxious father of one of our city
school teachers lately. “Wonderful well,”
replied the teacher, “he is making rapid
progress in everything but penmanship,
lm sorry to say he’s the worst writer in
the school. * “ Pshaw!” returned the
father; “don’t trouble yourself on that
account. I intend to make a doctor of
him.”
The Hoiimfiftry Un*.
Belmont Courier: Hon. George Ernst,
who recently survejed the boundary line
between Nye and Eureka counties, testi
fied in the Di trict Court this week that J.
C. Butler’s ranch is situated in Nye
county. Accoiding to Mr. Ernst this
ranch is all of three miles from the boun
dary line.
Cheap and good groceries there, for no
one can afford to stay away from Berg’s. +
Tnr 1
Conrtderert «„ Hurt,,., p,
%,'r <*>*«.«. Nowii * *f<
The Denver Field and Farm ,.
the question of the longevity of^T
tnd cites several instances t. i “f*
remarkable length of time f,„ wMJ^ *•
of that grass will cnt nne to yield i
crops. Practically, it is said ,v\ He
thing as the plant dying ont ‘ .'“ch »
motion is unknown. It is said A . „ n
of^falfa are still flourish
oient city ol Pueblo which wese n,
in the days of Cortez, the invader t'*1
however, seems open to question n 1
not possible that any accurate teowli"
can be had that these fields have J “
in the same condition for so mo
Doubtless they have been r? ? /•»*.
ami time again since they we tim*
planted. lhey we» first
But to come down to later times ti
are an abundance of facts th"e
that alfalfa is by all odds the mwt1?''
lived forage pant known a ' “n|'
Chihuahua in 1844 found alfalfo ltor 1,1
in a field near that city „jfa„ «■!
some of the hay for his 'mules P T?.""*
ing just forty yoars later he f„„iCt1","'
same field and the same grow th an"*! the
positively assured that it had not W ",1s
seeded or fertilized for the entire . ?'
years that bad elapeed. Further..6 °lty
the owner of the held aaid that toT.^*
of his belief it had been oricinallv i H
over 100 years prior to 1844 “Y pla“W
In the valley of Taos, in Mexico n,
is a field of alfalfa that is reliably ^ediS
with having producod three crops „ “ “
for more than 100 consecutive yews n“
presant owner claims to have cut tte Jz
from the held for sixty years, r.nd hob*
lieves the present crop was the largest A
had ever seen. * oe
While California cannot, of course fnr
msh any Buch instances as these' o
mioted still enough has been done here A
show that beyond question au alfalfa field
will yield larger crops and grow longer and
more luxuriantly without being resown
or manured than any other grass. It !
be suggested that the plant will reseed it.
self, and doubtless this might be tire case
But under ordinary circumstances it ii
never allowed Is. go to seed,being cutalwsv,
while in the bloom and before even th'e
seed pods have been formed. In not ons
case in ten in this State is alfalfa allowed
to mature seed, so that the assumption that
it perpetuates itself is not tenable. When
the plant for any reason shows a disposition
to die out (and this it does not form »n?
cause inherent in itBelf, but from the iav!
ages of animals or insects), it may be
remedied by scattering seed on the surface
and running a harrow over the ground
Ordinarily,however.when properly irrigated
there is no trouble to be apprehended on
this score.
Ae to fertilization not being necessary
it seems probable that it is the constant
practice of irrigation which obviates this
necessity, or rather supplies the plantfood
which would otherwise undoubtedly he!
come exhausted in time. It is a well,
known fact in those sections where irriga.
tion is practiced that fertilization is seldom
required so long as there is an abundant
supply of water, and this is doubtless the
secret of the long iife of the alfalfa plant.
There are an abundance of instances in
California, where alfalfa has been growing
for twenty to twenty-five years, and even
more, in the same field, and still without
any apparent diminution in yield or thrift.
Car<lln»l Vlbbona llmleircd by Ns.
five AnierlfniiN,
A day or two since a band of 30 Nevada
Piute9 besieged the rc-sideuceof Archbishop
Riordan in San Francisco—all headed by
the redoubtable Comstock Captain Sam
and John Sides. As the San Francisco
Examiner feliciously puts it, two of the
“lady Piuies ” had pappooses strapped to
their backs. When the porter at the Arch
bishop’s residence opened the door to an
swer to the ringing of the electric hell his
eyes opened wide with astonishment as he
buheld the strange visitors. Captain Sat
acted as the spokesman and said:
“ Whay vou Kunnel ?”
“ Colonel!” ejaculated the astonished
Sorter; “ why, there are no Colonels here.
'his is a religious establishment of the
Church Militant.”
“Yash! Yash! All same, we like see
your Kunnel of Chu’ch Miiicent.”
“Oh! You mean the Cardinal?”
“ Yash, the Kunnel. Heap big Father.
We like see him.”
Being conducted to the Cardinal, the In
dians all reverently fell on their knees, and
the head of the American Catholic Church
proved his sincere delight by welcoming
each of his aboriginal visitors from Nevada
in turn. A lengthy conversation ensued
between the two chiefs and his Eminence,
who with much interest asked many ques
tions concerning them and their people.
Before bidding adieu, the Cardinal distrib
uted numerous presents, including boxes of
candy among the children, and gave the
entire audience his benediction.
Clothing, furnishing goods, blankets,
quilts, hat«, gloves, boots and shoes only
ohcap at Berg’s. t
Pickpockets In French Clmrehe*.
1 The operation of “ church thieves ” are
becoming so annoying in Paris that the
proper authorities are called upon urgently
to make a clean sweep of these sacriligious
rogues. It seems strange that the author
ities have not tried to do this before, as
pocket-picking and other varieties of lar
cency were always freely and impudently
carried out during divine service cr on oc
casions when the churches were crowded tor
some fete or solemnity. The boldest ex
ploits of the thieves are performing during
the fashionable marriages which take place
in tho Madeleine or in St. Augustin’s. 1J®
lighthngered folk manage to follow tM
bridal procession to the aitnr and to 8-a
t on themselves behind the bride and bride
gioo.nand their friends. When the ny*
meneal party proceed to the vestry for tne
purpose of signing the register the tmeyei
make a descent on the vacated chairs,
and quickly seize pocket-handkercnie s»
purses, umbrellas, prayer-books, smelling
bottles, fans, or other articles which may
have been left behind. The pompcii
beadles, who stalk about the church wne
they are not wanted, 4»re as a rule engag
in too busily watching their chances •»
obtaining fees during the sign* a
of the register to keep a
after thieves, but it is to be hoped that i
ecclesiastics who have been appealed to
the matter will adopt the necessary we*
ures for the prevention of such tneits
future occasions.—Exchange.
Everybody should know it, Berg
cheaper than any one.
Millinery anal Fancy Work
Mrs. P. Hanheim has opened a ne
atore in the Whillon briok building
North Main atreet. two doors from the°l
Postoffioe building, where she has » "
assortment of millinery and “ , .
goods; also, everything belonging
work. She will also give leaaon #
kinds of faney work.
Prices to suit the times, the battle cry
Berg. _
Notice. .
Dr. J. J. Leek will take •B°*heL
about October 31. He will 8" ° jj^errl
C?erek.H H^will bSXTent about six weeks.
He will visit Cherry Creek hrat.
Fresh Eastern and Western oysters only
at Berg’s - '
County Scrip.
Highest price paid for Eureka county
scrip by W. H. Stowell. ^ *
Ladies’ and childrens’ gloves, yon must
Bee, to bo astonisl ed as to quality and price,
at Berg’s. +
All kinds of tinware and crockory you
find at Berg’s. '