Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-05-15

Scraps from b Notebook Of she
SemtfneI's Reporter.


SemtfneI's Reporter.
Eight miles square is the school district
limit in Nevada.
Farmers In Mason Valley are finishing
up sowing their grain.
Work in the Grand Prize mine, Tusca.
rora, was resumed last Monday.
Mrs. Hathaway returned yesterday from
an extended visit in California.
Elko is already making preparations for
Q ~rousing celebration on the Fourth of
July.
A. L. Fitzgerald arrived home on yes.
terday's train from the western part Of the
State.
Isn't IL about time to be making some
movement towards celebrating the Fourth
Of July?
It is possible that the Nevada exhibit at
| New Orleans will be . feature of the State
| Fair at Reno this Fall.
Quite q dissension has arisen in Carson
| among interested ones over the location
| recently decided on for the 500, 900 public
building.
Major Garrard has received orders from
the Director of the Mint to stop purcbas.
ing silver for the coinage OF silver dollars
until further notice.
During the week ending last Saturday
there were filed In the State Land Office by
Surveyor General Preble applications for
lands aggregating 14,472 acres.
Last Saturday evening the dwelling
house OF she Beard Bros, at their ranch In
Independence Valley. caught fire and was
entirely consumed. together with most Of
it's contents.
Silver coins have been employed as q
circulating medium. by the merchants Of
all nations, for many thousands OF years,
long before gold was thought of in .
monetary sense.
The Sherifs sale Of the property Of
Ben W. Goodhue and Joseph Schroeder at
Pslisade takes place to-day at IL O'Clock M.
See their Advertisement.
There Is less snow upon the Sierras than
has been known OF this date Of the season
in many years. Because Of this IL is prog
nosticated in the Western part Of the State
that the Summer will be hot.
A game Of football was inaugursted on
Main street yesterday evening, and before
1t ended nearly half the male population Of
the town took an active part in It. Arnica
and liniment were In demand afterwards
oy several partlclpantss
Elko Independents: It Ia now strongly
limited that the White Pine Courthouse was
burned so that the books could be bal.
anced." Those who pretend to know think
no ordinary arithmetic would have bal
anced them. Hence the incendisry fire.
Levi Dague, late Coiner Of the Mint, left
| Carson on Saturday night for Temecula.
San Diego Co., Cal. where he lately pur-
| chased 40 acres OF land. He goes to erect q
dwelling on the land, and as soon as the
same is finished he will move his family
thereto.
Colonel G. G. Thomas. Superintendent
OF the Sutro Tunnel, and United States
Commissioner to the Exposition at New
Orleans for Nevada, has been invited by
the Executive Council OF the American
Exhibition Association to be . Commits
sioner of Nevada TO the American Exhibit
ton, TO be held In London in 1896. Quite
. compliment.
Lead is selling at about So. 10 for com
mon in small lots. Large lots sell some
thing less than this. The market Ia no
very active at present. As the production
, 10 on the decrease, q change must be fol
the better in due time, provided the con
sumption 10 not decreased also, whiol
under existing circumstance is not prob
I able.
The editor OF the Hawthorne Bulletin
being in q semi-religious mood last week
evolved some good ideas anent the custom
I of passing the plate" Whereupon he OF
3 the Carson Appeal maliciously suggests
that an article upon passing the buck ;
r would be more in the line OF his esteemed
/ brother at Hawthorne. The editor OF the
/ Virginia Chronicle thinks that the Haw'
thorne editor would be fully justified by
. public sentiment should he get full and
draw Q poker on his slanderer.