Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-08-02
LOCAL JOrS.
scraps from the Notebook Of n
SeutImcI's Reporter.

OllNGTg Pl w 1850 W
Mrs. William Stinson returned home on
yesterdays train.
Work has been resumed in the Navajo
mine at Tuscsrora.
Bishop Whitaker is to deliver the Grant
~oration at Virginia City.
Hon. Gabriel Cohn arrived here yester.
day from San francisco.
!: Mrs. Macksy sent Mrs. Grant a letter of
coincidence from london.
Lake Bigler is attracting quite a number
of tourists this hot weather,
The Reveille says: Many more are leav.
ing Austin than are coming.
The Board Of County Commissioners
meet tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock.
The mail service between Eureka and
Duckwater has been ourtailed TO once o
week.
District Attorney Cheney leaves to-mor-
row for California, for the benefit of his
health.
E.. e. Phillips, Superintendent of the
Enterprise Mining Company, returned yes
terday from California.
Belvs Lockwood is not afraid Of Sharon.
She is stopping at the Palace Hotel. A
brave old dame IL Belva.
Rsnchers in Paradise and other agricul-
tural valleys in Eastern Nevada have COM
menced harvesting grain.
p. N. Hansen returned by yesterdays
train from San Francisco, much improved
by his trip to tide water.
The Italo-Swiss Society will hold a meet
ing this evening at 8 O'Clock. A full at
tendance of members is requested.
After accepting q reduction Of wages,
some 40 miners went to work in the
Holmes mine at Candelaria last Sunday.
The receipts OF the Postoffice Depart
ment this year are estimated to fall off
$500. 900, chiefly OF account OF the hard
times.
Times in Lewis District are reported very
good. The Pittsburg Consolidated il u
good gold mine, and is paying hand
somely.
Miss Maggie Wethered and Miss Maggie
Olsen, who have been visiting at Pages
ranch on Fish Greek, returned home on
Friday.
At q meeting OF the Ruby Hill Tunnel
Company held night before last q contract
was let to John Heubner to advance the
header OF their enterprise another % feet.
The Index says that orders were received
at the Carson Mint last Wednesday restor-
ing the wages of all employees to the same
standard as prior to the recent reduction.
Beatifc Lodge No. z, X. Of P, will
hold q meeting next Friday evening. at
which all members are requested TO attend,
as business OF importance will be trans
acted.
The remains Of L. P. Anderson were
Yesterday inferred, under the auspices OF
the Ancient Order Of United Workmen, in
Hjul's cemetery. The funeral was largely
attended.
The Ruby and Dunderberg Company's
payday will be on the 10th instant as
usual. The company have in their employ
some 40 men, quite a number OF whom are
~tributers.
Jacob White, an old resident OF the Com
t stock, and formerly proprietor OF the om-
nibus line between Virginia and Gold Hill,
I died At the Storey County Hospital yester-
day morning.
The residents of Phoebe and the lower
. part Of Lincoln county want q railroad.
They say that therein lies their principal
q hope for salvation. That section certainly
abounds in resources sufficient TO justify q
railroad.
n lOECt VI ID mcu hIo INV OLbRAOJoN ~
. the water company in grading for the new
!, fume, TO be built TO Virginia City from
= Marlette Lake. This force is now operst-
= ing at some point west OF tho reservoir on
= the 0phir grade.
Considerable sport at the baseball
r grounds ia on the programme for this
! afternoon. A match game will be played
/ between the Richmond and Clipper mines.
o after which there will be pigeon shooting
and other amusements.
At 8 O'Clock yesterday afternoon the Their
mometer scored 80 degrees in the shade.
Ninety-eight in the shade has been the
warmest experienced in these parts this
Summer. The cool nights that invariably
Q follow these warm days are appreciated.
= Virginia Chronicles: When the mills on
9 the Carson river wer running at full head,
before the decrease In tho volume OF water,
$50 tons Of ore were daily shipped in 100
cars over the V. Il T. railroad. The daily
shipments at present do not exceed 30 cars
or 400 tons.
a Lucien Hermann. who resided on the
Comstock in early days, and at one time
' CLERK Of Storey county. died in San Fran
+: cisco Tuesday OF heart disease. he was ex-
: tensively engaged In mining operations,
!, and owned the greater part OF the mount
. Rose mine at Spring City, in Humooids
county.
r There has lately been q remarkable econ
omy in the use Of postage stamps, attribu
table by the General Postofice Depart,
ment, not TO the last change In the postal
rates, but TO " economy and hard lines"
The shrinkage in the revenue OF the De.
partment for the quarter ending March III
amounted to $500. 900.
Butte Town Talk: As an example OF
how hot 1t Is in and around Salt Lake a.
present, the fact ia related that two lizards
were recently seen on the desert in the act
OF standing on their hind legs making Q
shade for the other to cool off under. First
one would stand up and then the other
spelling each other. Next!
The roller skating rink In town Is now a
resort OF the past. Whether this is owing
to q lack of interest In the pleasure ON the
part Of our people or the warm weather we
know not, but certainly Its closing Is not