Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-11-06
PACIFIC COAST ADvICES.
Court Martial at Fort Grant-The
Veterans Home Fund-SpOrts for
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Suffrage
fn Washington TerritOry-Fast
Time by Young TrOtters-Card
from A. A. COhn.
Especial TO THE SENTINEL


SAN Francisco, Nov. ga Tucson dis.
patch says a general court martial has been
ordered to convene at Fort Grant on the
10th inst. to try the captured Indian scouts
The road is now clear and freighters are
in no danger.
The officers Of the Veterans Home AS
ISOLATION express the opinion that 500, 900
will be raised for the project, basing their
belief on assurances they are receiving
from the city and interior.
A number OF prominent gentlemen OF
sporting proclivities. met at the Palace
Hotel this evening, when q dispatch from
Governor Stanford was read, Offering
them the use of the Bay District Park
on Thanksgiving day for the benefit of the
Garfield Fund. Committees were appoint
ed to got up a programme OF rolls, athletic
games, equestrianism, etc.
Tit races which. were advertised at Oak
land Park for tomorrow have been post
poned owing to the great attraction offered
at the Bay District grounds.
A Portland dispatch says: In the Lower
House Of the Washington Territory Legis-
lature, a bill. giving the right Of suffrage
to women, passed Is to IL. A similar bill
was defeated in the Upper House on the
26th by o vote Of 7 to s, but it will come
up in another shape, and II Is believed will
pass.
There was a large attendance OF the Bay
District Park to-day, and great interest
was manifested. The track was In the best
possible condition and the weather all that
could be desired. The first event was an
attempt to beat the yearling trotting record
of the Kentucky horse Memento-2: 56A.
DR.. Wicks of Oakland entered the colt
Pride, and Governor Stanford's Palo Alto
Stock Farm entered the brown flly Hindoo
Roso. This race was for q medal Of the
Association and o set Of harness. The
horses trotted separately, each having q
running mate, and both beat the best
record, Pride trotting the mile in 2:44k
and Hindoo Roso in 2:43, and on second
trial in BASH. The performance created
the greatest enthusiasm. McKey's three
year-old. Sweetheart, next made three at
tempts to wipe out the Kentucky horse
Phil Thompson's three-year-old time OF
2:20, but failed, returning without finish
ing the first, and making the second heat
in 2:22, beating her own record half a
second, and making the third heat
in 2:24k. ]. l.. Roses three-year-
old FLY Eva tried to beat her own
record Of 2:26, but failed in 2:26k. The
two-year-old Ally, Wild Flower, with q
record Of 2:21, next trotted a quarter mile
In 1872. Thenext event was mile heats, three
in five. for q purse and stake OF $500, be-
tween Clay, Starr King, Hancock and
Susie. Clay won in three straight heats;
time. 2:27, 2:2sk, 2:25k. Hancock took
the second place, with Starr King third
Susie distanced. The first heat, quarter
mile trots, by Palo Alto two-year-olds, de-
veloped remarkable speed in the Bonita.
q brown ally, by Electioneer. out Of May.
fly. She made her quarter in 1924, only
three-quarters behind Wild Flowers time.
The Palo Alto yearling. Arol, trotted o
quarter in Al, and Fay made two quarters
in :36 each. Owing to the length Of the
q portion is necessarily
dropped.
Alfred A. Cohen, attorney for the At
lantic & Pacific Railroad Company, pub
fishes a card in the Evening Bulletin. in
which he says regarding recent rumors
Of the connection OF his road with the
Ocean Shore line from Santa Cruz: "I
have to say that the Atlantic q Pacific
Railroad Company has not made applica-
ton to the Board Of Supervisors for the
right Of way through this city and county,
1t proposes doing so at an early day. |
Is no one authorized in this State to
for this company but myself"