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12 JANUARY 19, 20, 22, 1866 NEVADA GAZETTE
NEWSPAPER INTEREST FOR SALE.—Sol. A. Shane offers for sale his interest in the Grass
Valley Union newspaper and job printing office. His reason for wishing to sell is on account of having
business at the East which demands his immediate attention.
RAINFALL.—The amount of rain which fell in this place—from the commencement of the storm,
about twelve o’clock Tuesday night, to eight o’clock yesterday morning—was 3.32 inches. This was quite
a heavy rainfall for that length of time.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1866
CHARGE OF GRAND LARCENY.—A mulatto named Charles Bell was examined yesterday
before Justice Kendall, on a charge of grand larceny and committed to jail to await his trial. He was
arrested in Sacramento and brought to Nevada day before yesterday. He is charged with having stolen a
watch and chain and eighty-five dollars in money from Mrs. Allen, a colored woman living at Rough &
Ready, in April, 1864. It appears that Bell had been working at a blacksmith shop in Nevada, but left for
below, land stopped a day or two with Mrs. Allen at Rough & Ready. The money, watch and chain was
missed at the time he left, and a number of corroborating circumstances seemed to fix the theft on him.
Nothing had been heard of him for nearly two years, until recently, when he was found in Sacramento
and arrested at the instigation of the friends of Mrs. Allen. In the course of the examination he about the
same as admitted that he committed the theft.
VANNESS.—The Grass Valley National reports that Vanness, who was supposed to have been
poisoned is recovering, that he has been so long coating his stomach with strychnine whisky that a full
dose of the genuine article had no other effect than to cause a slight commotion under his waist band. The
Union says it was not a case of poison, but that poor Van had been tackling tarantula juice too much to be
healthy, and was laboring under an attack of delirium tremens.
MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1886
[List of letters unclaimed at Nevada City Post Office as of January 22, 1866.]
Quartz Mining Laws.
The only question brought before the late Miners’ Convention on which there was any serious
difference of opinion, was as to the propriety of the Legislature passing laws regulating the method of
locating and holding quartz claims. Resolutions on the subject had been introduced on the first day of the
session, and referred to the Committee on Resolutions, and toward the close of the session a majority of
the Committee reported the following and recommended its adoption:
Resolved, That in the opinion of this Convention the Legislature should at the present session
enact a few plain, comprehensive and uniform laws in relation to the location, possession and
evidence of abandonment of quartz mines situated upon the public lands within this State.
A minority of the Committee recommended the adoption of the following as a substitute:
Resolved, As the sense of this Convention, that no legislation by the State Legislature upon
mining tenures is desirable.
The question being thus fairly before the Convention, an animated and lengthy discussion followed.
Watt, Foulke and Briggs advocated the adopted of the substitute, and opposed legislation; while Belden,
Hearst, Yule and Bodfish favored the resolution reported by the majority. The question on the adoption of