Weekly Nevada State Journal (Newspaper) - April 7, 1883, Reno, Nevada WEEKLY NEVADA STATE JOURNAL Malice toward none Charity to all and with Firmness in the VOL 13 RENO WASHOE COUNTY NEVADA SATURDAY APRIL WEEKLY Published Every Morning C C PROPRIETOR OF One by SO Biz months 1 25 Delivered by in Keno 60 cente per month piper by mill ptld Sot a THE OF The Board of Commissioners for the care of the Insane have removed Dr Dawson ag Superintendent of the In- Asylum and hare selected Dr Bishop his successor This was made possible by Commissioner acting in with the three Com- missioners who Toted for the change at a previous meeting At that time it wab generally understood that Mr aker was in favor of bnt was willing to him an to resign and hence voted against ousting him Dr Dawson very ly refused to resign and hence his head baa been taken off without his consent The has ever been at a loss to understand the true reasons which have prompted the majority ol the Board in their coarse It imagines that the Com- missioners were governed by two tives the first being a desire to befriend friends and the other a belief that the management of the Asylum could really be improved upon The future will alone determine the correctness of their conclusions of this last and secondary governing motive The Commissioners must gee to it that everything is con- ducted in a proper manner hereafter They will be held to a stricter ability than ever If they can improve upon the good work that has been done they will be entitled to credit but we know of no reason why it could not have been done if it is possible just as with Dr Dawson as with any other Superintendent For Dr Bishop the new the JOURNAL entertains the most kindly feelings We have always i found him an honest and and as true as steel His career in this community where he has resided and practiced for nearly twenty years has been that which every unprejudiced person will endorse as one to be com- mended He has no bad habits has been a good citizen and has always been generous to a fault A poor patient has never needed to send for him a ond time In his new and responsible position we hope and believe he will prove equal to the occasion If takes are made they will certainly be of the head tnd not of the heart When the time comes that he will be called upon to step down and out we hope that he will not have any worse record than his predecessor has made NEVADA METHODS YORK IX NEW The killing of by ling has called forth from the New York Times frequent sneering allusions to Nevada methods in New York and the inference is given out that New York morals are disgustingly shocked by son of the death of one of Us citizens by means of a bullet shot from n pistol and that the Nevada method is sively a peculiarity of this section Law and order is as much respected and ob- served in Nevada as in any State of the Union Was not Fisk shot in New What about the killing of Was tha Dukes case in sylvania an outgrowth of the Nevada New York should be the last to find fault with others In that city there is more sin and more sinful ways of committing sin than in a sand communities like Nevada All the crimes known in the calender are most daily committed in that city and a stranger is hardly safe on Broadway or Fifth Avenue day or night and as p matter of justice to himself he is fiable in carrying a concealed weapon THE OF DUKES The acquittal of Dukes a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature for the murder of Capt A C at town Pa has filled the civilized world with horror The quarrel originated from a desire on the part of Dukes to break his marriage engagement with daughter He took a most ex- course to accomplish this object Instead of allowing the rations to proceed and then failing to put in an appearance at the supreme moment as many commonplace men have done with perfect success he must explain to the father his reason The one that he assigned was nothing less than that he had accomplished the daughter's ruin and to this he added that she had become the toy of the town Nutt did not take the usual and the only commendable course with such a beast Instead of walking up behind him and shooting him down like a wolf he wrote a letter in which he notified the scoundrel that ho deserved death and then permitted himself to be drawn into an interview with him The meeting between the two was vate but Nutt bad a friend within ing who when he heard a scuffle in progress entered He saw the two men standing on opposite aides of the room Nutt leaning against the mantel un- armed and showing signs of exhaustion while Dukes drew a pistol and ing You came here to whip me and I will kill fired and shot him dead For this crime he was put upon trial the indictment being for murder The facts were proved as we have stated them and the correspondence produced A thrill of horror and disgust ran through the court room as the hideous missive of the prisoner was read and fathers of daughters including the Judge turned their faces and wept for father who had died for the honor of his child The Judge charged the jury to convict the prisoner Bnt did not do it To the astonishment of every person in the ing the prisoner himself they returned n a few moments with a verdict of So contrary was this to the aw and the evidence that the Judge them so and then reluctantly dis- charged the In looking after a motive for this ex- action we ascertain that the jury was packed with political friends of the prisoner Every one of them was a member of the parly that elected aim to office while Nutt was as politician on the other side It seems incredible that fathers of ters could allow their political feelings to carry them to such lengths in a case like this but it should be remembered that Fayette county where the murder and the trial took place is on the ders of another civilization touching upon the State of Virginia where der was for years recognized as a fiable means of political warfare And yet the form and the expression that popular indignation has taken makes it clear that there are not twelve other men in the county who would have rendered a similar verdict Dukes has become a refugee the jurors fear to walk the streets and one of them who carelessly exposed himself was so bly beaten that for a time his life was in danger We have never before read of a case in which lynch law had even the appearance of justification bnt it is evident from the tone of the press throughout the country that there has been some expectation of a short shrift and a long rope for Dukes and some misgiving lest there would not be In a great many States boasting as high a civilization as Pennsylvania the mob would have taken up and performed the duty that the court failed to do because of a faithless and perjured jury The Internal Revenue receipts from all up to March 21 1883 were in excess of the ing period last year Owing to the in revenue laws the receipts for the fiscal year ending June 30 1883 estimated at against for the last fiscal year That General Porter is not ungrateful to the people of Nevada for the recent act of their Legislature in his behalf U shown by the following extract from a letter written by him to ernor Adams acknowledging in graceful terms the passage of the For ter joint resolution Says he To me this act is the more welcome as it was totally unexpected and adds one more to the unselfish Legislatures which have aided in freeing my case of the political and geographical coloring been made to round Tke members of tha local Grand Army injuring Immigration Scheme The Grass Valley Union says the C E B Co are sending out a number of agents to procure immigration These agents will work in a systematic ner and will in most cases forward no settlers until places have been them Governor Stanford's own ranch will take a large number of vine dressers from the conn tries and the olive lands of Italy wil also be called on to supply men to Tate the olive here In place of the aimless work that has been done in this direction heretofore this scheme will hi intelligently conducted The company have also vast quantities o land they desire to dispose of to a pro population Messrs Bennett Reddy have employed by residents of Aurora an citizens of Esmeralda county to test th legality of the county seat removal ac of the last Legislature and the firm assures the Aurora Herald that Earner alda's capital will remain where it it The tallest man in America is Henry Clay of White Oak county Texas He is now about filt years of age a respectable farmer with an interesting family and measure aeven seven and half in THE of the Begin at Once The New Commercial Bulletin's Washington spesial Information here stows that the Nicaragua Janal tired of waiting for on by Congress and alarmed by the manifested by the Panama any is taking active steps for ing work on the proposed canal The managers have been working in New York and other money enters and made such favorable re es that they will be able to begin in Nicaragua as soon as the eason is over G le engineer who surveyed the routes or both canals aud represented the merican Government at the Canal Con- at Paris is now at the navy yard His views on the have not changed aud he is favoring the Nicaragua route o much so that he is an active member f the company which is preparing to the work and is to take onal supervision of operations there hen they begin He confirms the re- ort that the managers of the Company re determined to go on He said Forty-five millions is my estimate of le cost As to the raising of this sum iat is the task upon which our al managers are now engaged and hile I am not at liberty to enter into I may with propriety I think ay that reports from those who have is work in hand give assurance that e shall have no occasion for delay on iat account I think this work will be within the next thirty days nd we shall be able to begin active op- rations very soon Our relations with are good We have the ght of way and valuable land grants all complete and in order They ave been so for some time and our elay has heretofore been in waiting e action of Congress The canal can e completed and in operation in five ears We have only about eight miles iore of the canal to cut than De ips and while his cuts must in many laces be over 300 feet deep our cuts are ever of that I feel d v e shall have ours in operation rst Admiral Ammen of the United tales Navy and other Washington of the Nicaragua Canal say that they have all the money they need and that without longer for Congress or anybody 38 they will go right on and build the anal They say their advices from anama are to the effect that very little as yet been doae on the Panama Canal work 583 THE PANAMA CAKAL has by the United According to of the Panama anal Company the canal is oing on satisfactorily There are now bout six thousand men at work More lan half the line is under contract nd the canal company js also at work n the other parts One of the con- embraces seven miles on it Atlantic aide the one on the Pacific bath with American A number of miles of aide rack have been built connecting with le Panama railroad leading out to the laces selected for the deposit of ated rock earth etc others are ng the new harbor about three miles ram Aspinwall and it is nearly com- The dense undergrowth has een removed from sea to sea as a ssary preliminary to the borings aud of the line Houses have been all along the line for employes A arge quantity of materials and ry including locomotives cars frame houses etc have been sen rom the United States Something is ent by every steamer from New York 0 Aspinwall The health of the men is better than one year ago The in the interior away from the oast has been found to be vely healthy The waters from the river will be kept from flooding he canal by a dam in the neighborhood f Gamber This dam will be in one of the gorges of the Such American machinery 1 has been sent to the Isthmus has iven great satisfaction Besides binery many supplies have been and arill be sent from this country or are eady in purchase Of the Panama stock and for other purposes lere have been nearly in old paid by the company to the of the United States Charles o Lesseps will be in New York next week Engineers have estimated that le whole forty-six miles of the canal ill be finished in about seven years something now unforeseen urs IJI POST OFFICE OF THE D C March 26 No 525 It is my painful duty to announce to le officers and employes of this ment the death of Hon Timothy 0 Postmaster General which at Kenosha Wis on the nst about 3 o'clock p M By his death the Department loses a hief oi eminent ability whose superior for the important position was by every subordinate with whom he came in contact Timothy 0 lows was a man with whom and under horn it was a pleasure as well as an lonor to serve By his death the ry loses an able and honest statesmen whose private life was spotless and hole public career was marked by cool faithful service justice to all nd an ability that commanded the ad- miration of his The loss of such a man is tha coon ry's loss In obedience to an executive order he flag of this Department will be at half-mast for thirty days and he Department will be closed on the inst the day appointed for the Asa farther mark of t is hereby ordered that the Department draped in mourning for a period ol thirty days It is further ordered that on the insl the throughout the country be closed between the hours ol 2 o'clock A M and 6 o'clock p M EBANK HATTON Acting Postmaster General The Whole Fad Elected The town of Macon in Oxford Co Maine has elected the following officers Moderator J A Bean Clerk J C Selectmen J H Bean and F I Bean Treasurer F I Bean sor of schools J H Bean and Agent J C Bean Sydney Smith being ill his physician advised him to take a walk upon an empty stomach Upon asked Sydney Still better steps to tuke would be the purchase of Dr B V Pierce's Golden Medical ery and Pleasant Purgative which are especially valuable to those who are obliged to lead sedentary lives or are afflicted with any chronic or bewail A Railroad Docs a Popular Thing It is not often that a railroad company n California does anything which adds o its popularity bat the of the ower portion of the State are much leased with the Southern Pacific any for the facilities it has given them 0 open markets for their products By recent schedule made green fruit is ow taken from Los Angeles to on and Kansas City for 80 per 100 y freight train to St Louis and New 92 to Chicago to New ork Philadelphia aud Baltimore 2 27 Vegetables are taken at 40 42 and 50 to the same places re- Oranges and lemons 50 1 and 75 to the same places n the above order This give the Los Herald the occasion to The Southern Pacific with 1 liberality which does it honor has a schedule of freights on reen fruits and vegetables from Los ingeles to the east which offers unusual to our people They can hip their early specialties to the east at prices which simply guarantees them a monopoly of the eastern markets not inly in the early Spring but all through he Winter For three years past the Southern Pacific has responded o every demand of the people of Los county In the present in- they have simply anticipated and exceeded our demands and have offered to the truck garden interest o Loa Angeles county by a special rate figures which will put cB n a condition to distance both the the West Indies and Norfolk and other early maturing points of the Southern States Timber Laud The Susanville last week contained the Bond Government timber agent has been in town this week ing after parties who have been cutting wood on government land This will be stopped by him and all those en- gaged in the wood and lumber business will be compelled to buy the timber in the future It is eminently right that the law relating to timber cutting on government land should be enforced for if the destruction of timber con- at such a rate as it has in the past it will be bnt a few years until our large forests are entirely devastated Many trees are felted simply for the limbs and the body allowed to decay If parties engaged in the lumbering ant wood business buy their timber they will be very careful that tke entire tree is utilized and that none o the young trees are destroyed Wa would recommend to those in the busi ness referred to at once proceed to buy the land and thus secure themselves and comply with the law Wm BEAD EITHER lol lowing sentences wiil read word by wore either way so as to make good Solomon had vast and precious Happy ant rich and wise was he Faithfully he God She lamenting sadly often toe Mania loble and generous often sometimes vain and cowardly Carefully boiled are good an THE C P SEDUCTION of gone of the Slate BATES We are authorized to announce that with the present week the entral Pacific Railroad Company will round trip tickets at all points be- ween Ogden and Truckee at a greatly educed rate The reduction amounts o a fraction more than cents a mile hese round trip tickets will be limited n time to thirty days though not erable poems in all other re- sects the of a first-class oket Tuo rate as it now stands is bout 7 cents a mile The new rate will be about cents This is a very reduction and as it will be to all actual residents of evada the action of the Central management will be appreciated by ur people When in Carson last ir Mr Gage representing the company that he expected some 011 in passenger rates would be made his year When he thus expressed his the enemies of railroad nothing would come of and that such statements had only een made to defeat legislation hostile the railroad corporations The indulged in the same cynical last Fall at the time that the entral Pacific Railroad Company an- material reductions in rates of from all points in the East It was then predicted that the reductions ad been made to influence the ons in some way and that as soon as he Legislature had adjourned there be a return to the former le rates In each case the pessimists ave been disappointed It turns out iat Mr Gage was not romancing when c expressed his belief that a reduction n passenger rates was contemplated nd we now know chut the reduction in reight rates last October was not ered to serve a temporary and sinister And while it is desirable to et transportation rates down to as low figure as it is possible to get them let s bear in mind that reductions in aud fares will not in themselves lone revive our drooping industries we are able to produce ting to exchange for the products of ther we can raise on or some other marketable com- will be no business in either for the railroads or for The leal explanation of the depression un- in its history not that we re being comminuted by the railroad but that the mines are not as abundantly as of old Show p a bonanza anywhere in the State and len see how quickly will cease the clamor REDUCTION ON TICKETS M NEVADA Silver The Central Pacific Railroad Company as reduced the rates of fare on rip tickets in Nevada and Utah The ew schedule takes effect to-morrow pril 1st and the tickets are good for lirty days from date of issue The allowing rates from to le principal points along the railroad nd return have been furnished us by J McBride Station Agent East to present rate 50 reduced o 80 to Battle Mountain present ate 00 reduced to 00 to do present rate 50 reduced to 12 20 to Elko present rate 50 educed to 75 to Wells present ate 50 reduced to 00 to present rate 50 reduced to 15 Sunday excursion tickets to aud return good for one day re sold as heretofore for one dollar West to Bye Patch present 00 educed to 65 to Lovelock present ate 00 reduced to 05 present rate 50 reduced to 14 90 Reno present rate 50 re- to Truckee present rale 31 00 reduced to 50 A proper lonate reduction is made to intermediate joints east and west REDUCTION The Central Pacific Railroad Com- reduced the rates of fare on tickets in Nevada and Utah he new schedule takes effect to-day pril 1 and the tickets are good for 30 lays from the date of issue The owing rates from Winnemucca to the points along the railroad and have been furnished to the Silver East to Golconda present rate 2 50 reduced to 80 to Battle fountain present rate reduced to 6 60 to Palisade present rate 50 educed to 20 to Elko present rate 50 reduced to 75 to Wells rate SO reduced to to present rate 50 reduced to B IS West to Bye Patch present rate reduced to 65 to Lovelock rate reduced to 05 Wadsworth rate 50 reduced to 90 ieno present rate 50 reduced to 65 present rate re- to 50 A proportionate re is made to intermediate points east and west SEDUCTION IN FABIS ON THE 0 P On the Central Pacific at al joints between Ogden and Truckee on ind after Sunday April 1st round trip tickets will be sold at the rate of cents per mile way Single o one way tickets remain as now told The present rate is something over cents per These round trip tickets will be limited in time to 30 day in their use They are not transferable bnt in other respects all the ad vantages of a first-class ticket as to ate over etc This is a very redaction and we that wil be appreciated by our people generally It accommodates all actual residents o this State in their travel and meets thei wants Dave of the Northwest April lei We have had quite a prolonged with our fellow townsman Baily since his a few days ago from Oregon and the Puget Sound He is enthusiastic in his as to the coming prosperity of tie great Northwest and more arly of Washington territory and the immediately along the Sound le represents the lumber trade an im- mense the coal trade of littlo ess magnitude the fishing interest as great importance and a rapidly ng industry and beside all this as he sheet anchor of all prosperity the resources alone are capable f making a big country The climate on the coast is almost as mild as that of San Francisco owing to 30 Japanese Ocean currents The soil generally well adapted for ruits and the hop growers as though to the soil The past on the men engaged in the hop culture made small fortunes off of a Tew acres f ground owing to the price of hops up to one dollar and over per ound caused by a failure of Eastern nd English crops An exceptional ear it is true but even in ordinary ears the culture of hops is a large aud business The Sound he ays is one of the most beautiful sheets f water he ever saw extending as it oes from Olyuipia the Capital of the The New York San As soon a Conkling is cleared if he is cleared h will take his sister to And Beno will rejoice thereat Is there anything that wouldn't be at acquisition to Sentinel Nothing unless possibly the editor a NO 17 Tin A Beautiful Lake In the Summit ol the Sierras A writer ont he BoJie Free Press has been visiting this beautiful spot which he describes as Lundy now only town in Homer District is beautifully one of the wildest canyons of the sierra Nevada and at present it has perhaps 200 inhabitants which number the Summer wil be trebled The town lies at an of feet and upon three aides walls of tower massive hills fretted with ing cliffs and gloomy gorges nursing upon their breasts pines and cedars that successfully defied tbe wrath of storms and time and stand yet de- faced and disfigured looking down tbo mountain sides like grim sentries upon quiet little hamlet diminished to a pigmy village in the distance scenery in this as in fact in thu surrounding country is the mit of picturesque magnificence where the eye is met with boulders on a ers aud cliffs standing upon cliffs until lost iu their aerial flight and where vegetation to soften the presence of their awful At the eastern end of the flat upon which Lundy is located lies Lake a beautiful sheet of water a mile long by half a mile wide This little gem luring tbe summer mouths and u ug pond during the winter and an of delicious trout the year Above the lake Mill Canyon extends two miles and ates against an utmost perpendicular wall of cliffs down which ndes leap and at whose base a little creek springs up lows through a beautiful grove of willows and endless verdure where down the steep mountain streams rush and everywhere springs abound It is an in- joy to lie upon the bank oi of these wandering rills and drink a draught fresh from the breast of mountain For added to the ness of its drink il bears music oil its and the aroma from the groen hat decks its banks is soothing to the trauger and must be n source of 2nd- ess pleasure to the native to the Straits of Fuca a furnishes the a boating park nearly one hundred miles Its bores aro covered with the finest growth f timber in the world while in depth f water il is capable of accommodating ie largest ships that float and its waters abound with fish ol the finest From thd yast forests ug along ou both its east and west bores lumber ship timber spars etc re being cut and to all parts of le world Our friend Baily is decidedly of the pinion that through and by way of the ound a large proportion of the Oriental rade of China and Japan must come as soon as the Northern Pacific s completed and by that route New York and tbe Atlantic Coast are miles nearer those countries than by way of San Francisco and that indeed must be ia a very short time one of ae great highways for the world's trade he Northern Pacific Railroad will be some time this Summer and lere will begin an exodus to that ry which will nearly rival that of in tbe palmy days of 49 and 50 Seattle is now the principal town and point of the Sound aud ave says is the prettiest town he ever aw with the most beautiful site for a arge and growing city Improvements being made ou every hand and und that shows tbe utmost confidence n the part of the inhabitants as to the prosperity of the place bile real estate is held at high figures hat in many instances to our friend extravagant A number of are settled there already mong whom are Forrest Hugh Stowell Wm Shipley Wro Burns and aud from what Ben of he Seattle Daily Chronicle says we opine they are at least friendly with one another Ben Hawley iu noticing the arrival of our friend Baily says in the Judge Baily a prominent citizen of Eureka is visiting some n this city There are a number of in Seattle and they all stand in with other They are not particularly clannish bnt each one has a helping band for the other when needed We hope our old may never become clannish bnt we do lope they may agree well together and lelp one another Space forbids our saying more at this time of what Dave says of this upper country but at some uture time we may give our readers a further installment of bis observations and conclusions THE SCIENCE OF MYSTERIES How tbe Spiritual Manl are Explained In the light of tbe present stic craze which is now prevailing in mauy Nevada towns the following from the Boston Transcript may tend to solve some of those mysterious It When w see chairs skip hear play without contact ness the writing of untouched slate cils and see phosphorized float aud clash in the air above the heads of an audience we may and even must admit the operation of some unclassified agency but if we have been trained to the study of causes and effects and in the conscientious weighing of evidence we shall at once jump to tbe conclusion that our departed have taken to these modes of entertainment down most generalized form al these furniture and tests have one basis a temporary interruption of the action of gravitation Now hu man muscle has always possessed thi power of balancing and overcoming gravitation These new seem to say that nerve power or will power which is bnt a concentrated action can do some of the things hitherto accomplished by muscle As science has ceased to believe tbat tation rides unhorsed through space so we must infer tbat this psychological or brain movement which opposed trial gravitation has its medium wise This medium may be the other of physical science At any rate it seems likely that tae metallic magnet which also overcomes gravitation com- its power through space the same way We know by the experiment that common air is not the vehicle of heat electricity or magnetism all three travel just as easily in a vacuum Bat and vacuum appear to be identical tbat is what scientists have called a vacuum has the power of transferring vibrations and so must contain thing Hence we are not left stranded by onr spiritualistic phenomena bnt we may cling to the ether as a means of conveying brain vibrations This at least is the scientific way of looking at these mystifying facti The cheap and easy way it to agt them down to spirit A USELESS Bulletin under the heading editorially says The Walker Lake Indian Reservation should be It covers a arge section valuable for mineral and agriculture and is in reality of no benefit to the few hundreds who ou or near it The Pyramid ion is amply large enough for all the iu Nevada aud tbe abandonment of this one at Walker Lake would no only open a large field to the prospector and rancher but would also permit the whites to make use of the fish of which here is such an abundant supply Tbe fisheries and other industries which would result from the lake being thrown open to tbe use of tbe white people would add large amounts to the nues of the State aud county and remunerative employment to many ple As at present this reservation is u fact only a supplement to the one at Pyramid and without being of any real use to the Indians is a source of extra expense to the Government it would be setter for all that it should be and that the State should be mitted to derive some benefit from tbe sources of wealth and industry within its boundaries Postponed The Eureka Leader of last Friday publishes the The stockholders of the Eureka Colorado River Company an I of the Nevada Midland Com- pany are in receipt ol letters from Goss and Cashier stating that owing to the press of ness consequent upon the opening of tha road from Denver to Salt Lake City by April 1 the Eastern stockholders and managers will not be able to attend the annual meeting here on next Monday as heretofore advertised Owing to this fact the annual meeting will bo postponed as business of an important character is expected to come up and the Eastern gentlemen desire and are entitled to be represented Tho time of the deferred meeting will be duly and the stockholders can govern accordingly Great interest is felt iu tha construction of these and everything concerning their is anxiously watched by mauy mine owners in Nevada and Western Utah who aro storing up tbe upon their properties awaiting the com- ing of the deliverers THE RAJAH'S BEDSTEAD is on view in Paris at the present time a bed of rare and singular construction which has been made to the order of an Indian prince and is about to be sent out to nim The bedstead which is of wood with large plates of silver re- pousse work is very beautifully carved and has cost upward of Tha most original part of this bed is tbo mattress which has been fitted up as a musical box so that directly any one lies down it plays selected from Gounod's operas At tbe four corners of the bed are four statutes representing young girls of Greek Spanish Italian and French nationality their only ornament being snake bracelet round tbe wrist which holds tbe waving over the sleeper fan they are 67 an contrivance of the artist employed to cant statutes tho eyes have been made to move and the realistic appearance ci these young ladies is heightened by the addition of four wigs in four shades of color supposed to bo typical of each Gazette Little Bhody has an to-day The will
