Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-05-09
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SentfneIs Reporter.
Election of School Trustees to-day.
New tomatoes retail 10 town at so cents a
pound.
Thirty mon are employed in the Rich.
mond mine.
There is considerable sickness among
children around town just now.
Few men can be won by truth when
falsehood brings them q revenue.
More heavy showers of rain accompanied
by thunder and lightning yesterday.
The flow Of water through the Sutro tun.
mel amounts to $4,000 gallons per day.
Plenty Of fresh vegetables, Strawberries
and cherries are to be seen at the fruit and
vegetable stores.
@. d. Littler will leave ON Monday for
| Bristol, where he will act as agent for the
White Pine Stage Company.
Several hundred shares of Albion stock
we're sold in the Board yesterday at prices
ranging from 81 rs to 81 40.
Jack Mangen has made a discovery on
Steptoe Greek, near the Guilford sawmill.
The rock assays $50 to the ton.
F. A. McDermid and wife came in from
Cherry Greek yesterday by private con.
veyance, and are stopping at the Jackson
House.
A considerable body Of good milling ore
is now being developed in the Monitor
mine on the north side Of the ravine. So
says the Taylor Reflex.
The pay rolls Of the Comstock mines and
the mile in the immediate vicinity for the
month of April, aggregate $110, 000-$10,-
600 more than for March.
Col. Jack Perry was on the streets yes
terday. He and rheumatism have had a
lively tussle of it the past three months,
but the latter gets the best Of the contest
generally.
The last restaurant has been closed in
Ward. Those who go that way will now
have to take their rations with them or else
take chances on getting q meal at the lodg-
ing-house.
From a source that can be relied on, says
the Taylor Reflex Of last Wednesday, we
learn that it would not be o difficult matter
to develop a large body Of ore in the Martin
White mine.
Mining assessments falling delinquent in
May aggregate S79. 700, OF which the Ne
q mines call for SIS, 900, California
$4,000, Arizona 5000, Mexico $4,000 and
Alaska $500.
The Base Rangers who have recently re-
turned from California say that the eli
mate here is preferable to any they found
during their travels. Such weather as we
are having can't be beat.
There is quite a steady stream Of emil
grants going west over the Central Pacific.
1t is seldom that there are less than thirty
persons on the emigrant train, and the
number is sometimes as high as 100.
The funeral OF John Horn will take place
this afternoon at 2 O'Clock from the Pres
byterian Church. Rev. A. Dutton will
| conduct the services. A cordial invitation
is extended to all the many friends Of the
deceased.
DIR. II. s. Herrick, o. 81. Converse, Doc.
Ellison, John Mollitor and George d. Free
land, came in from Hamilton yesterday
afternoon by private conveyance. They
are all interested in the McConkey bond
case, that ia to be tried here.
1t ia said that there will be three tickets
in the contest to-day for School Trustees.
All good citizens should not fail to cast a
ballot, and in doing so exercise care and
select only good men. With good men at
the helm, we will have good schools.
The Virginia City papers publish the
following marriage notice, which is OF in
terest to our people, inasmuch as the lady
mentioned taught in our public schools two
or three months of the past Winter: Mar
ried-In Reno, Aug. 81, 1884, Henry Elan
merry to Miss j. f.. Msddigan.
A new theory is advanced as follows: 1t
is the arsenic in the Stag from the smelters
that has been destroying the horses at
Leadville. 1t poisons their feet, and then
in a few days they die. The fact that
there is little or no arsenic in the Lead
vile Stag is rather damaging to the theory.
Belmont Courier: From Charles Harri-
son we learn that work in the Harrison
mine is progressing finely, and that good
ore is extracted daily; also, that the little
mill is running day and night, producing
fine bullion. M. Harrison feels conndent
that this mine is one Of the best properties
in Jefferson Canyon.