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150 AUGUST 3, 1859 NEVADA DEMOCRAT
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1859]
RESIGNED.—Mr. E. C. Hartman, late a Justice of the Peace for Eureka township, has resigned his
office. As the election is close at hand the County Supervisors have determined not to appoint a
successor.
NEVADA JOURNAL.—It is reported on the street that this paper has been sold by the present
proprietors, and that the Administration ticket will be supported in its next issue. It is altogether probable,
however, that we shall be “sold” in publishing this paragraph.
DISTRICT COURT.—The trial of Wm. B. Oague, indicted for the murder of Gus. Moore, will
commence in the District Court to-day. We understand it is the intention of the District Judge, at the
conclusion of the trial, to adjourn the Court until after the election.
NEW DRUG STORE.—Mr. John Weller and Dr. McKay, have taken the stand recently occupied by
Mr. Peyser as a notion shop, above the Post Office, with the intention of opening a drug store. Mr. Weller
has left for the Bay to purchase an assortment of drugs.
ANOTHER FATAL ACCIDENT AT SAN JUAN.—On Tuesday afternoon of last week, as we learn
from the Hydraulic Press, Christian Marthine was instantly killed by the falling of a bank in
the claims of the Eureka Company on San Juan Hill. The earth that fell was mostly from the
surface, and being quite dry sent up such clouds of dust that the place of his burial could not be
seen by those who witnessed the accident. A considerable time elapsed before the body of the
unfortunate man was exhumed. It was found face down, not more than two or three feet deep,
and without a preceptible [sic] bruise or mark of outward injury. It is probable that he was
stunned, and died of suffocation. Mr. Marthine was a native of Norway, about thirty-two years
of age, and has been mining in the vicinity of San Juan since 1851. His death makes the third
one occasioned by mining casualty at San Juan in the short period of eighteen days, and the
second which has occurred in the Eureka claims within about four months. The miner’s
occupation is truly a fearful one, and it is impossible now to look into the deep chasms where
they work without a shudder, and a dread.
SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—Mr. [Jeremiah] Franklin, a workman on the Magenta
Aqueduct, was fatally injured last Saturday. Mr. Franklin was working on the ground, and 126 feet above
him on the aqueduct, a German was a work with a carpenter’s chisel. The chisel slipped out of the handle,
and in falling struck a brace which threw it off at an angle and gave it a rotary motion, and as it came
down the shank struck Mr. Franklin just back of the left shoulder and came out near the left nipple. The
chisel lodged in the wound and was pulled out by the men present. Dr. R. M. Hunt, who happened to be in
the vicinity at the time, was immediately sent for, and arrived soon after the accident. The man was
bleeding profusely, and there was no possibility of taking up the blood vessels. He was alive when Dr.
Hunt left, but no hopes were entertained that he could recover.
CABIN BURNED.—The cabin of Messrs. Rogers, Rule, and Williams, on Christmas Hill, about
half a mile from Little York, caught fire on Tuesday night of last week, and was entirely consumed with
its contents. The owners, who were sleeping in the cabin, were aroused about twelve o’clock, finding the