Letter from Cornucopia. (September 20, 1875)
Letter 10
LETTER FROM CORNUCOPIA.
A Deliberate Suicide—Verdict of the Jury—Mining—The New Mills.
Cornucopia, Sept 16.
Editor Silver State: — There is not much to chronicle this week. Our new magistrate, Davis Bassett, has qualified and is grinding out justice and law to all who call upon him.
We had yesterday quite a sensation in the suicide line. A person by the name of W. [Wesley] Parish, who was working at Deep Creek, down at the Leopard mill vicinity, concluded that be did not want to live any longer, so he went and cut his throat. Judge Bassett called a jury to investigate the cause of the death of said Parish, and the jury rendered the following verdict: We, the jury, find that deceased was named W. Parish, about forty-five years of age, born in the State of Kentucky, and that he came to his death by killing himself with a case knife, by cutting his throat on the 11th day of September, 1875. A. B. Waller, acting coroner, took charge of deceased and had the body decently interred in the public cemetery at this place. It was shown by the evidence to be one of the most deliberate cases of suicide you ever heard of.
R. R. Biglow Esq., of Elko, is here spending a few days.
Pay day has not come yet and money is getting scarce.
The Leopard is turning out good ore and so is the Hussey. I think the mill will be running by the first day of October.
Justice Court is quite busy and disposes of one or more cases a day.
Excuse a short letter this week, for there is a terrible dearth of news.—S. M. H.
Originally published in the Silver State on September 20, 1875. (link)