Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-05-29
FLUE DUST.

Sheriff Raum left for Hamilton yes.
terday morning.
The value of crude bullion shipped
yesterday was $50 600.
The regular weekly advertised letter
list Will be found in another column.
Fourteen car loads OF bullion were
shipped to Palisade yesterday morn
ing.
A message for NJ. C. Shear will be
found in the Western Union Tele.
graph office.
Trout from the Humboldt are plenty
in the markets, and are forwarded
from Palisade by every train.
Strawberries has "riz.n Three bits per
basket is the price asked by dealers al
present.
Mr.. J. G. Capron left this morning
for San Francisco, and will be- absent
until the 10th of June.
District Court was il session yester-
day, but no important business was
transacted.
The style of weather prevailing yes
terday was not enthusiastically well
coined by the proprietors of brick
yards.
Mrs. s. Wenban, Miss f. A. Wen
ban and Mrs. n. T. B~abineton, oi
Cortez District, are registered at the
Jackson House.
The Independent Champions of the
Red Cross will hold a meeting at their
hall this evening. A full attendance is
requested.
Judging from the number of ears of
coal daily arriving at the Consolidated,
the threatened scarcity of that article
does not seem to be imminent.
Masonic Hall was thronged with Wis
itors Monday and Yesterday, and they
were all we'll pleased with the attractive
exhibit.
The people of Palisade are hunger
ing for another picnic, but they want
to put in a r~royiso that the cars shall
come no further than Alpha.
Freight cars are scarce on the T.. x
p. II. X. since the shipment of hue
dust was commenced, aud the ca pacity
of the road is taxed to its full extent.
Young rabbits are the prevailing
delicscy in the wild game line at pres
ent. The Indians turn an honest pen
ny DthbiiiS thtih oACAAh W
The Albion engine and hosting ma
chinery will arrive the latter part of
the week, and Will be placed in posi-
ton at once.
The Justices Court shares in the
prevalent dullness, aud the constabu-
larry force enjoy a season of Ito them)
unwelcome idleness.
Suit was brought in the District
Court yesterday by Samuel J. Beebs
ct al. VS.. James Il. Duff ct AL, to quiet
title to certain mining ground in Eu-
reka District.
Superintendent Shoenbar telegraplls
that he will leave for Eureka abont the
1st Of June, having completed his bust
ness satisfactorily to himself and ON
pany.
There is no Disgusting the fact
that times are dull and money
scarce in Eureka at the present time.
Tho pay DAYS are near at hand, and
then we may expect a revival in trade.
The two tanks for baling out the
water from the lower levels of the X
X are bu-ily at work, and a young
flood courses down the gulch in con.
sequence.
The way in which money can be
recklessly expended, can be seen in the
ten feet Of new sidewalk added to the
Bateman street side Of the Courthouse.
1t must have cost all OF three dollars.
A water tank II by "a feet, con
structed of redwood timber, is being
built at the Albion mine. Counec
ton with Harrub's water works Will
be made this week.
Work in sinking the Albion shaft
has been suspended for the present,
as no further progress can be made
until the engine is in place. The shaft
is down l65 feet.
A number OF men were set to work
on the Kit Carson mine yesterday.
They will be employed in cleaning
out the drifts aud levels, and getting
the property into shape for putting up
the machinery.
Sheriff Raum informs us that Fin
negsn never Weakened up I'LL the time
he left him at The 5 ate Prison. A life
sentence to that institution is calculst.
ed to depress the most hardened, but
Tim was jolly to the last.