Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-12-21
COAST INrELLuGENCE.

The Salt Lake Tribune reports that il
the Eleventh ward of that city Their,
are twenty-six polyaamists with sixty
four wives. Counting out the lega
wives. there Is one and twelve twenty
siztbs concubines to the lecher. We
will venture the assertion that out O
this number there are not Eve Ameri
can citizens. They are nearly all for
eirn born animals (t would be a libeI
to call them human) who have LEFT
their W country, for their country's
good, to come to America to openly
defy its laws.
The Elko Independent says: Ed,
Phillips, who has just returned from q
flying trip to Rock Creek District. says
that the evidences of permanent pros
Perity In that section is patent on every
hand. The stage plies regularly be
tween the town and Tuscarora, and
' travel must be brisk. Buildings are
heing erected as rapidly as lumber can
be procured, and all preparations to
pass the winter comfortably and profit
ably are being made.
The Salt Lake Tribune says: There
Is q great deal Of discomfort among the
last lot Of Saints who came to Zion
about two weeks since. Those who
have money are returning home, and
those who have not are compelled to
remain till they can get r%emittances
from home. The Latter-day fraud Is
too transparent to deceive people pos.
sessed Of the brain Of an oyster.
Two hundred claims in Nevada pro-
duced $42, 46O, 900 during the year end
ing June 30, 1877, about $50, O0O, 900 of
the amount was produced by IL mines,
of which 8 are in Eureka county, l in
Esmeralds, 2 in Eiko, l in Humboldt,
l in Lander, 3 in Lincoln, 2 in Nye, 2
in Storey and 2 in White Pine county.
The Navajo Company, at Tuscarora,
has discharged q large number of en-
ployes. The ReUie,c says that the ore
taken from the mine contains a large
amount of sulphurets, and as the com
paDy have no furnace, it cannot be
worked. Prospecting will be carried
on as usual.
The SiIUer State reports that the Re-
publicans of Humboldt county are
unanimously Of the opinion that r.
NJ. Daggett should be the candidate of
that party for the United States Sena-
torship.
A man by the name of Emmett was
stabbed by a Chinaman, a few days
ago. Both parties reside at Lovelock's
Station, on the Central Pacific Rail-
road. The wounded man died last
Monday.
District Attorney Harding, of Hum
boldt county rises to explain his recent
declaration that the Supreme Court
would affirm the decision in the Rover
case, and explains that his prediction
was only a shrewd guess.
The Salt Lake Tribune Las the fol-
lowing: Good reports are now reach
ing us from all the mining camps in
the Territory. Utah still maintains its
position as third in the precious metal
producing sections of the Union.
The Postmaster General positively
refuses to increase the number of mail
routes in Nevada during the present
fiscal year, for the reason that appro-
priations are inadequate.
Miss Emma Wixon, Of Austin, who
Is pursuing her studies at Vienna, is,
according to the ReUeiIe, making the
o gratifying progress.
Blue ribbons are worn in Reno to
show that the wearer has taken the
pledge. Better than an attack of the
blue devils.
The ReUeiue says that the through
mail service between Austin and Eu-
reka will be discontinued after the LIST
day of July next.
A baby show, to last one week, is
announced to be opened at Pacific Hall,
in San Francisco, on Monday, Janu-
airy l4th.
For the week ending on the 18th. the
Manhattan mine yielded l55 tons OF ore,
the assay value of which was S38, 254.
The citizens of Bodie are moving for
the incorporation of that flourishing
burg.
The appeal says that it is currently
reported that James G. Fair is a candi.
date for the United States Senatorship.
In Osceola District quite a number OF
nuggets have been found rece ntly
worth from $40 to 500.