Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-04-14
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Scraps from the Notebook Of che
SentfneT's Reporter.

S~enttnePs Reporter.
District COURT at 10 O'Clock this morn
ing.
With the advent Of warm weather comes
the thirst for beer.
District Attorney Cheney is expected
home from the East to-day.
John sheplar, an old resident Of Vir-
ginia City, died there last Saturday very
suddenly.
Hon. Dav. E. Baily left yesterday for
Carson, where he will make his residence
for several months.
Messrs. Laird Brothers will shortly ship
q lot of tribute ore from the Alexandria
mine to the furnaces.
Frequent and heavy showers Of rain con-
tinue, and as a consequence the rancher
and cattleman smileth.
The probabilities are that the District
Court will be in continuous session, with
the exception of the White Pine sitting,
until August /.
Boutwell, d Morgan shipped last week
one bar of gold bullion valued at 81, 900,
the proceeds Of one weeks run on ore from
the Pittsburg Con.
Loads Of custom ore are being hauled to
the furnaces from mines near by that we're
never known to produce anything before
but country limerick.
Miners out of employment can now find
plenty OF good mines to lease, from which
they would probably make as much as by
working for days pay.
Central Pacific railroad men say bust
ness is getting to be quite lively on the
road again. All the regular trains and
many specials are running.
No one has thus far been appointed
Private Secretary to Governor Adams in
place of Major Gsrrard. Judge T. W.
Healy is Acting Secretary.
The cabin and blacksmith shop, fur
niture, tools, etc., at the Silver Peak Tun-
mel were recently sold to j. j.. Kermeen
for $45, and have been removed.
William Hayes, Sam Paul and John
Mollitor, OF Hamilton, have been visiting
here for two or three days. They return
home this morning by private conveyance.
The Goodwin Canyon road ia now in
good condition for heavy teams, being
clear Of snow and quite solid of bottom
District Court again convenes in Hamil-
ton on Monday next, and will probably
continue for several days, forty trial and
twenty grand jurors being returnable on
that day.
Charley Ferraris has just received q
large and elegant assortment Of gentlemen's
walking shoes, and if they will only wear
them they will never be troubled with
corns or bunions.
Mrs. p. f. Davidson, her daughter Miss
Gertie and son Joe, left early this morn
ing for Butte, Montana, where they will
take up a residence. By their departure
Eureka will lose three Of her best people.
Anumber Of former Eurekans, who are
scattered over the Coast, are writing to
friends here and anxiously inauiring about
the probable future of the camp. They
are all anxious to return to the Base
Range.
In the Rolls Of Honor Of the pupils in
the public schools, as published in the
SENTINEL last Saturday. Miss Martha Hicks
in the Second Grammar Department Mrs.
Atwood. teacherl should have been credited
with 100 instead of 80.
No legal light in Nevada would be more
acceptable to the people OF the eastern
part Of the State than Judge Sewell as one
VI WIG utAt DiHNitSt vuu6tos Liz u
ter is above reproach, and his decisions
have always been able and just.
The shipments of wool from Dayton this
season will aggregate $4,000 pounds. The
shipment from Mason Valley will amount
to 3 1000 pounds, and from Smith Valley
1000 pounds, making the total product
OF Lyon county for the season 1877 900
pounds.
A decidedly practical interest is being
manifested nowadays by many Of our bus
mess men In the Development Of the
numerous idle mining properties in the
district. II capitalists looking for good
and legitimate investments only knew OF
the opportunities presented here Eureka
would 1901 assume a different appearance.
Owing to the numerous rains of the past
month. and inasmuch as the indications
are that we will have as many If not more
showers this coming Summer than last,
quite a number OF Eurekans are thinking
seriously of pre.empting and homestead
ing some Of the rich lands in the surround
ing valleys, which have always remained
idle and unnoticed owing to there being
no water convenient for irrigsting pur-
poses.