Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-06-01
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Jordan Valley. on the Idaho road, is
infested with crickets. The cricket Is
not AS lively an insect as his cousin the
e~rasshopper, but he does his work
fully as We'll. Being several times
larger he requires considerable more
''garden sass" to keep him up to his
fighting weight than a ~arasshopper.
He likes green stuff generally, but pre-
fers anything eatahle to an empty
stomach. He is an industrious eater;
in fact, eating seems to be the only
purpose for which he lives, we and
has his being, and rather than waste a
precious moment at anything else he
will altack and devour a feeble or
wounded companion when grass is
short. We have not heard what dam
AGE he has done or is doing in Jordan
Valley, bat the road over which he has
Travelled is generally as bare as an al
kali desert.
The Gold Hill Nelgs of last Friday
SAYS a large rock, weighing about II
hundred pounds, was discovered by
George Rogers and Phil. Smith on the
railroad track I'M the Gold Hill tunnel,
last evening about5 o'clock. Whether
the rock was placed there for the pur-
pose al ditrNiug train or not is impos-
sible 10 tell. Ii such WAS thciutention.
the object must have been TO throw of
a certain train for the purpose of injur-
ing the men running il. Had robbery
been the Object, a more fitting place
and time for the purpose wonld surely
have been selected. II is more thar
probable that some one who was put
off Il train took this method OF getting
even. The rock was too heavy to have
got on the track by accident, orto have
been placed there by children playing
in the tunnel.
Work upon the various mines in
Cornucopia District GENERALLY il pro-
crossing as rapidly ms circumstances
will admit, and considerable quantities
of ore upon the various dumps, but,
owing to the inability to get ores
worael !, and the want ofmoney, opera
tons are restricted in some instances.
The principal want in the district is q
custom mil, which would enable out
side mines to realize from their ores.
II is reported that a mill of that char
acter will lie erected within the next
few months.
Lew. Faurot was ridingth running
horse Greyhound, Friday afternoon, a.
Battle Mountain. when a rein of his
bride broke and faurot was thrown &c
the ground. 1t is thought by some
whoexamincd itthat oneankles Is brok =
en-; others think it is only bruised.
ANYHOW, it is "A serious hurt, and he j.
badly hurt in the chest and shoulder.
lie is having the best non-professional
attendance possible.
A shooting alray occurred at Nir-
ginia City near the old Ophir dump,
last Thursday evening, between Capt.
John J.. Moore and Mr.. Mcnamara, in
which the former was shot in the arm.
Mcnamara says that Moore bad in
suited a female member of his house,
hold, hence the affray.
DIR. Bruck, a medical practitioner,
who has recently resided in Virginia
City, was recently arrested in Sacra-
mento for swindling. in selling one G..
l.. Jackson, of virginia, II galvanized
silver watch for a gold one. lie dis
gorged the money and was permitted
TO depart in peace.
William Harris and William Lynn,
representatives, respectively, of the
contentious parts c" the United King
dom, have agreed to fight it out on the
line drawn through the center of a
twenty-iour-foot ring. near Virginia
City. The tune for the contention is
not yet fixed.
). Wenban is putting mp smelling
works at the Garrison mine, in Gortez
District. lie is shipping about $4,000
in base bullion weekly, and his mines
are constantly improving.