Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-10-06
Notes From the "Senti-
nel's" Special Core.
spOndent.
Incidents or his Trip and How
Things Looked After He Got
There.
"A SOLDIER OF MARATHON"
Courtesy Of officer BiIes, and Hum
boidt's Pretty women.

on MONDAY tram, IL hours
from h Base Range, via. McGeary,
Palisade, Beowawe and intermediate
seaports on the narrow gauge and
trans-continental railways. My jour
ney hitherward was unsignalized by
any thrilling event or remarkable ad-
venture until l arrived at Palisade,
where ! was met on the platform by
Captain Rabbits, Chief Of the Consta-
bulary force of that fiourishing burg,
who, after subjecting my beaming
countenance and manly form to a
close official scrutiny. politely inform.
ed me that my 0 u ensemble (the
Captain Is a native of Paris, Nilsson ri,)
answered the description OF a some
what noted horse thief whom he had
been instructed to arrest. Fortunately
| had in my pocket a letter of intro
duction from Judge Harmon to the
assistant chambermaid of the Palace
Hotel at Tuscarora. This, / handed
to the Captain, who, after reading it,
declared my credentials "satisfactory',
and, after going through my valise,
and finding nothing therein of a con-
iaOobd VI cusplCtOdS dCltT. CA
cept a photograph OF Pete Caravan,
permitted me to board the western
bound train and peacefully depart for
the metropolis of the Humboldt.
About hall a mile from Palisade the
conductor stopped the train for the
purpose of putting off four or five
Juvenile tramps, among whom | no.
ticed the little colored bootblack,
whose singing and dancing attracted
considerable attention in the saloons
in Eureka during the last week. The
McGeary Consolidated (Limited) not
having declared a dividend last month,
the depleted condition OF nv ex-
chequer would not permit Inc to follow
the benevolent impulse OF my nature
10y putting up for the little moke's
fare; and as | was depending upon my
clerical appearance. and slight acqain
lance With q porter of a sleeping car
for my own passage, | could hardly
afford to crowd matters by interceding
for him with the conductor, so L was
obliged to leave the little chap TO take
his chances on the next train, con.
hdent, however, that young Africa's
shrewdness and wit would enable
him either to evads the vigilance or
capture the sympathies of the railway
officials in such a manner as to bring
him safely through. rhi~,she evident
ly accomplished. for | saw him the
next evening executing a plantation
breakdown to a delighted audience in
one OF the principal saloons in this
town.
The only notables except myself
aboard the tram were the members of
the California Rifle Team, who were
returning to San Francisco from Creed.
moor, where they successfully com
peted for the prize awarded by the Ma
tional Rifle Association in the Inter
State match. There were sixteen of
them and they occupied a sleeper, the
outside OF whIch was embellished with
a long strip of canvas containing a
printed record of their achievements
on the other side of the big waters.
notwithstanding this pardonable bit of
ostentatious parade. they appeared To
be "A very modest lot Of gentlemen, and
rather reticent Than otherwise in regard
TO their victory, of which they certainly
had reason to feel proud. for it was
strongly contested by some of the hest
rifle teams in the world. They had
with them in The car The trophy of
their skill-a br. nze figure of a semi
recumbeut individual which at first
sight 1 su pposed was intended to rep
resent a drunken Plute, but which an
attached placsrd indicated was designed
to portray 9" A Soldier of Marathon
although anything more remote from
the modern idea of a soldier il would
be impossible to imagine, and it was
no more like Captain Hubbard than |
To Hercules. Its arms consisted of a
steaf of wheat and its uniform was a
fac smile of the Conventional Georgia
Majors, minus the collar and spurs.
1t was designed to represent, / pre-
sumo, the HndreSS uniform of the Mar
athon Militia. However. the boys
appeared perfectly satisfied with il
whether appropriate or not, and as il
suits them it perhaps ill becomes an
outsider from the sagebrush to scour
about it.
Winnemncca is divided into two di-
visions-Upper and Lower Town. The
former is situated on the bluff near the
railroad track, and the latter is built on
the flat below, which forms the left
bank of the Humboldt river. The two
towns are connected by a belt of sand,
which, on the afternoon Of my arrival,
was considerably agitated by a hugh
wind, and a large portion of it resolved
itself into a kind of gritty fog, which !
understand is designated here as
Humboldt mist" 1t is good. clean
sand, however, and, l am informed by
several old Winneinuccans, Is regarded
as exceedingly wholesome for breath
ing purposes. 1t is certainly free from
the unsavory odor and sticky qualities
which characterize the atmospheric Pc
culiarities of the Base Range. Barring
the high winds and sand fogs, Winpe-
mucca is a pleasant town and q desira-
BILE dwelling place. II contains a large
number of good and substantial build
ings, and has the best COURTHOUSE in
the State. There are a great many
families here, and more handsome la
dies, in proportion to its female popu-
lation, than any town. except Eureka,
on the coast. Business is rather dull at
present, but everybody appears to
have confidence in the permanence OF
the town and predict better times in
the early future.
The lair has not proven as great a
success as in some former years. al
though 1t can by no means be desig.
mated a failure. The cause of the fall
ing of is attributable entirely to the
stringency Of the times. and by nc
means to any lack of effort or non