Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-01-23
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SenttneIs Reporter.

SeuttneEs Exporter.
Jobnnie Blair arrived from Phoebe last
night.
Mrs. May Miller came in from Palisade
last night.
Another drunken Shoshone was arrested
yesterday.
Assemblyman Smith wants the poll-tax
reduced from 81 to So.
Some OF the campaign jokes are soap poor
| that they won't wash.
onite a number Of miners are leaving
| the Comstock for Butte City.
Don't forget the masquerade balls that
are TO take place Tomorrow night.
A woman may be correct in her car
| rage, and yet she may at times be o little
sulky.
william Brown was slightly injured by
A cave in the Eureka Con. mine Wednes-
day night.
Frank Alexander, for a long time an en-
ploye at the Eureka Con. furnaces, left on
Wednesday for Montana.
A new mill Of Alton capacity is about to
be erected at Spring City. The mines in
that section look and promise we'll.
We recently spoke 10 these columns Of
the product Of the Silver Fleece mine be
ing 81, 500. The figures lied it was $45. 900.
A. Wilmarth, az old time White Piner,
came in from Hamilton last night, and
left this morning for a visit to Wisconsin.
The widow Of o. II. Smith yesterday re-
ceived from the Werkmen's Lodge, Of this
place, 81 900, the amount of insurance on
her husbands life.
Notice was given in the two Houses Of
the Legislature the other day Of a bill to
prevent the sale OF the Police Gazette apd
other trash papers.
The original bill presented in the Legis-
lsture recently providing for high liquor
licenses, was toned dow considerably in
the Assembly yesterday.
Mrs. Thomas Jacka, OF Ruby Hill, who
| IL in San Francisco for her health. is not
| improving. Her father, brother n sis
ter left for the Bay yesterday morning.
A correspondent to the Salt Lake Tri-
bune says that I" Fair will probably have
| entire control OF Nevads's patronage,
although hat does not amount TO much"
Oscar Lewis returned night before last
from q visit in several Of the Eastern
cities. He will leave for Salt Lake in q few
days. where he will engage in the whole
sale liquor business.
A Virginia City gentleman, who is some
what OF q skater, offers to compete with
any fancy or professional skater in Eureka,
il bis expenses TO and from the Base Range
will be guaranteed him.
The Carson Tribune says that the COM
mittee Of the Senators appointed to make
the necessary arrangements for holding 8
Silver Convention At Carson on Saturday.
Jan. 81, are engaged in the work OF send
ng out invitations.
A Cortez citizen on our streets yesterday
claimed that there Ia ore in his camp worth
a dollar a spoonful, and that oil is used
there in drilling holes to keep the wire
silver from wrapping around the drills.
Said citizen is still at large.
The Virginia Enterprise says that II will
be impossible for the water OF the north
end 70 reach the middle mines, un-
less-in defiance Of the laws Of nature-it
shall run up hill. There are no connect
ing drifts or tunnels through which 1t can
pass.
The ~eet,lers are dissatisfied with the In
dian landlords of the Humboldt Meadows.
The railroad gave Naichez one OF the finest
farms in the valley on condition that be
live on II and farm il, but he does neither.
IL is right 10 the road all the time and
keeps back other improvements.
Sarah winnemucca appears now as the
author OF a book entitled Life Among
the Piutes; Their Wrongs and Claims"
Aside from making q reputation for her
, self and some coin. the objects OF her boob
appear to demand fair treatment for her
tribe. and TO expose methods OF Indian
agents,