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NEVADA DEMOCRAT MARCH 4, 1857 51
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1857.
FIRES IN 1856.—To the 227 considerable fires in the United States during the last year, where the
amount of property destroyed has been estimated to be equal to and upwards of $20,000 at each, the
number has been added, wherein the amount destroyed has been less than that sum, and the aggregate
amount of property destroyed by fires is estimated at twenty-seven millions of dollars. The loss of life by
fires during the past year has numbered 183 persons.
INDICTMENT AND ARREST OF THE STATE TREASURER.—Dr. Henry Bates, late State
Treasurer, has been indicted by the grand jury of Sacramento, for felony, in using, or permitting to be
used, the State funds. He was arrested on Saturday on two bench warrants, and his bail fixed at $40,000.
His counsel made application to Judge Terry for a writ of habeas corpus, on the ground that the bail was
excessive, and on Sunday he was released from the prison brig where he had been confined, on giving
bail in the sum of $10,000.
TO HOTEL KEEPERS.—We call attention to the notice of Mr. Turney in another column, who
offers his hotel, situated at the thriving town of Patterson, for sale or lease. An excellent opportunity is
offered to any person desirous of engaging in the hotel business.
SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—A young man by the name of Jacobs, while walking along the level
side-walk, at Rough & Ready, on Wednesday last, his foot slipped and he fell, breaking one of his legs
below the knee.
CONDITION OF MOORE.—We have heard various and conflicting reports in regard to the
condition of Frank Moore, who was stabbed at the time he shot McClanahan in Grass Valley. He is now
lying at Dr. Tompkins’ office, and it seems to be the general belief in Grass Valley that he cannot live.
Although a report was started soon after the affray that Moore had received only a slight scratch, it
appears that he received a fearful stab, the knife passing into the cavity of the chest, and coming very near
the lungs.
[DIED.] On Thursday last, a man named Wm. Thompson (a Scotchman by birth) was killed while
working in the claims of the Union Tunnel Co., on Manzanita Hill [at North San Juan] by the
fall of a bank of earth , which, forcing before it a large mass of mud and water, covered the
unfortunate man, and carried him through the tunnel, some four or five hundred feet to the
ravine below. Some time elapsed before he was extricated, as the entire mass had to be
searched to find him—of course, life was extinct. He was a man of family, and his wife is now
on her way to this country to meet him. We are informed that he has a sister residing in Grass
Valley.
FOUR MEN KILLED.—A dreadful accident occurred at Frenchman’s Bar on Thursday afternoon.
Four men, William Davis, Thomas Bridwell, Henry Bates, and Mr. White, while at work in
diggings at that place, were killed by being buried to a depth of about twenty feet by a slide of
earth from some adjoining claims. As soon as the accident occurred, a large quantity of water
was turned on the earth, and the bodies were washed out during the night. They were buried on
the Bar on Saturday. The snow was so deep on the side hill as to render it impossible to take
the bodies out of the canon, otherwise they would have been brought to Nevada for interment.