Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-12-02
LOCAL JOTS.
scrnps from the Notebook OF the
SentfnePs Reporter.

HOKHEB
sentfnePs Reporter.
No quotation of silver was received yes
terday.
The Eureka Con. g new furnace is about
completed.
]. G. Powell and wife returned yesterday
from California.
d. Mcbride returned yesterday from
quite q visit East.
Prof. Thomas Price, Of San Francisco, is
registered at the Jackson House.
Sheriff Stinson returned home yester-
day from the western part OF the State.
Emma Nevada will sing at Austin. her
old home, on Saturday evening. Decem-
Der S.
Snow four feet deep is reported to have
fallen at Bodie and more at surrounding
towns.
Col. W. o. Mills, accompanied by his
wife, returned yesterday from a visit to
| Cortez.
The Carson Appeal gives John Dennis,
OF the Tuscarora Times.Review, q lengthy
obituary notice.
Don't forget to do the assessment work
on your mining claims. This is the last
| month In which IL can be done.
The State census returns of Oregon for
1885 show q total population Of 204 ,051-
an increase from 176, TIA since 1880.
During the week ending last Saturday
applications ~aegregating 1,040 acres at
50 so and $50 at 81 % were filed by State
Land Register Preble.
The average monthly wages paid male
| teachers in Humboldt county is 500 1.6,
| and the average monthly wages paid female
teachers is sec 80 per month.
The portico of the Carson Mint build
| ing is drsped in mourning for the late Vice
| President, and flags are at half-msst on
| the Capitol aud United States Court rooms.
O. J. Salisbury, of the old stage line
firm Of Gilmer & Salisbury, and one of the
owners of the Geddes & Bertrand mine at
Secret Canyon, arrived here yesterday from
Salt Lake City.
There is no use In one going to San
Francisco these days for climate. During
the morning and evening yesterday the fog
was dense. while in the meantime the sun
shone as bright as it ever did in the Golden
State.
The Candelsria True Fissure gives the
SENTINEL credit for an extract which ia
published from the thirteenth annual re-
pOEb tue OitoCtOT VI buc mlub. 1uc ObN-
TINEL's publication of the extract was
properly credited.
W. A. Earles and II. K. Mitchell insti-
tuted proceedings in the District Court
yesterday against Thomas H. Gillian to
quiet title to o certain portion Of the Mid
night mining claim situate on Bullion
Hill, Cortez District, Eureka county.
A note from Captain Gordon Winslow.
commander at Fort McDermit, TO the Sill
yer State says Joe Winnemucca commit
ted suicide last Friday afternoon by shoot
ing himself in the head. Joe was a Piute
OF some note, and a relative Of the big
chief Winnemucca.
Persons having anything to be done in
the line OF engraving can have it executed
In the best style Of the art by Mr..
Lorenzop, who is now in the employ OF P.
Steler the ~jeweler, on Main street. We
have examined some OF Mr.. LorenZon's
work, and pronounce it very good.
The case of the State of Nevada vs. W.
Haskins In Justice Harmon's court yester-
day was decided by a jury in favor of the
defendant. The youths under 81 years Of
age who figured in the case might profit
by the knowledge that there is a decided
sentiment growing against their loafing so
much In saloons.
The "OIdest InhabItRnt' Outwitted
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