Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-08-07
LOCAL JOrs.
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SentineI's Reporter.
Hay is selling for SIG and SIS a ton.
The Richmond lead pile is said to con.
tain 10. 500 tons.
Hon. Thomas Wren came in from Mt.
Hope yesterday.
The Silver Wave mill at Willow Greek is
running on Wild Deer ore.
The fruit now arriving from Californis
is elegant In size and flavor.
Have you added your name TO the Grant
monument subscription listp
The people are beginning to. talk of
c~loudbursts. This is the season.
]. d. Abel, of Fort Halleck. says he has
lost 100 acres Of grain this year by rabbits.
George Terry came in from Bristol yes
terday and is stopping at tie Jackson
House.
Negotiations are being made toward
milling the wheat OF Owens River Valley
at Reno.
The new Governor OF Alaska left Mar
~ouette, Mich, on the I'd instant for his
post of duty.
Report has il that Senator Fair has
about concluded the purchase of a street
car line in Oaklanu.
Flood & Macksy's mill at Quijotoa is
nearly completed and will be in running
order by September !.
The pay-rolls OF the several Comstock
| mining companies for the month OF July
will aggregate $4,000.
But little Is being done nowadays in the
San francisco stock boards, as 10 evident
from the report sent us.
Captain j. NJ. Foley came up yesterday
from McGarry District. looking and feel
ing az well as he did a dozen years ago.
A girl at Winnemuccs named Annie
Jones. aged Is years, committed suicide
Sunday night last by taking s~trychnine.
Sheriff Randall. Of Lyon county, arrived
in Dayton last Friday with an alleged
horse-thief, whom he captured In Lander
county.
The thermometer scored 100 degrees in
the shade at Reno on Sunday afternoon,
ninety-eight at Steamboat and ninety-tive
in Virginia.
Sunday was the hottest OF the season at
Winnemuccs. The Silver State says the
thermometer went above 100 in the shade
at several places in town.
There is no limit to Reno's cheek. The
Journal says: Reno has no ambition for
the National Capital. In about six years
IL will be the State Capital.
Counselor Breen is bach from Elko. All
legal steps have been perfected for the
discharge Of the Ruby Hill miners on the
18th. And thus the matter ends.
OF the $1,000 appropriated by the last
Legislature for the erection Of the State
Printing Office and Armory there have been
expended up 20 the present time $3.50.
The Humboldt Is getting down TO the
low water mark. There are plenty Of
clubs and catfish in the river and some
trout. and fishing parties are numerous.
The State Supreme Court has decided
that Dennis Nevins' bondsmen must stand
the loss suffered by the alleged robbery OF
the latter's safe while he was Treasurer OF
Storey county.
Up to the present time the total amount
OF the assessments levied by the Eureka
Con. Company is $3.50, 000. The total
amount disbursed in dividends aggregate
nearly IS 900 900.
VIM. Sampson, who left q couple OF
/ weeks ago TO accept q position as guard in
the Prison a. Carson, returned yesterday.
: He found the position taxed his crippled
condition too severely.
: The fall OF rain on the summit between
Eureka and Pinto last Wednesday after
noon was much greater than announced
yesterday. The four feet OF water which
J rushed through the Spring-street ditch
= was considerably less than the food which
, rushed down the other side Of the mount
: ain, carrying with IL great bolders.