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NEVADA GAZETTE MAY 29 & 30, 1865 255
water. Another cave occurred, breaking this dam, and the water and dirt rushing down upon
Mr. Hiscox carried him into a shaft through the tunnel nine hundred feet, over the dump forty
feet high and into the river down which he had been carried one thousand feet when rescued.
He was terribly bruised, and survived but a few hours. He was buried on Saturday. The
deceased was a native of Woodstock, Connecticut, about forty-five years of age, and leaves a
widow and several children—all married but two—who reside in this state.
HORRIBLE TRAGEDY—MURDER AND SUICIDE.—Wm. Kimberly, a well-known and worthy
citizen of Alpha, in this county, is engaged in mining at that place, and last Fall hired a man
named Frank Strahley to work for him, to whom he had become indebted to the amount of
about $400. Lately the claims were cleaned up, yielding Kimberly about $300 wherewith to
pay a debt of $900. Strahley demanded his money; Kimberly could not pay. Strahley consulted
a Justice of the Peace at Washington, who recommended suit and attachment. The advice
was rejected on the ground that the proceedings were too expensive. On his way home for
Washington Strahley met Kimberly and inquired when he was going to pay him Kimberly
replied that he would do so as soon as he could get his money from St. Louis, where he had
funds. Strahley then told him he would kill him; and drawing a revolver commenced firing,
putting four shots successively into the knee, hip and body of his victim, who fell at the third
shot. Leaving Kimberly for dead, Strahley went to some of his friends in Alpha and gave them
his purse and a note, telling them he was going to kill himself, and went to his cabin. For
some reason he was not immediately followed; and when at length some parties opened his
door, after the second report of his pistol, they found him dead, the ball having passed through
the carotid artery and through the brain. The first shot had glanced from his cheek-bone,
having made but a slight wound. Kimberly was alive when discovered, and Dr. Hunt of this
city having been sent for dressed his wounds, but it is feared that he cannot survive. Strahley
was a desperate character, and was feared by most of his acquaintances. The coolness and
deliberation with which he perpetrated his double crime argue a terribly diseased condition of
his moral faculties.
TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1865
RECOVERING.—We are glad to learn that William Kimberly, who was shot by Frank Strahley at
Alpha on Friday last, was much better yesterday, and seems in a fair way to recover.
MINING ACCIDENT.—On Saturday last Mr. H. M. Neicewarner had his leg broken by a caving of
the earth, while he was at work in Starr’s [sic] claims at Red Dog. Dr. Hunt of this city dressed the limb,
and the sufferer is doing well.
THE FOURTH—PROPOSED UNION CELEBRATION .—It is now proposed that the people of
Grass Valley and this city unite, and get up a county celebration of the Fourth of July at the Glenbrook
race-course. The idea is a good one. ...
—Since the foregoing was written we learn that it is doubtful whether any steps will be taken either
to celebrate here or to unite with the citizens of Grass Valley. Most of our citizens object to paying out a
large sum of money for the purpose of getting a crowd here—they can’t see the object of it. One thousand
dollars might be raised for the purpose of the celebration; but it is assumed that it is not sufficient. In
Grass Valley they are to raise six thousand; and to propose to unite with them with a pitiful thousand
our people think preposterous. The truth is, we did not commence here early enough. Grass Valley got
the start, and the celebration will be there. If we were content here to get up a respectable celebration at