Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-04-21


Overman levies a 20-cent assessment.
Yesterday was a cold, disagreeable day.
Union Con. wants another assessment of
25 cents per share.
Several Of our attorneys have gone to
Hamilton to attend court.
A couple of Mormon teams we're in town
yesterday, loaded with hen fruit, etc.
Aside from the twelve miners, there are
only four prisoners in the County Jail.
A Sunday evening concert is talked Of
among some of the young folks in town.
Work will be resumed shortly on the
Silver State Con. mine on Coy Hill by
o Cincinnati company.
Barrett and Robinson's circus, from the
East, will, it is said, hold forth in Eureka
about the middle Of June.
The walking and weather being rather
bad yesterday, Main street wore a de-
cidedly deserted appearance.
A letter TO q gentleman in Eureka saws
the business of placing mines in New York
is at a very low ebb just now.
As high as $50 q head is offered to officers
of Victoria and Puget Sound steamers to
smuggie Chinese across the line.
The Clipper baseball club will meet this
evening in the Opera House immediately
after the Centennial Guard drill.
The Board of County Commissioners
met yesterday, but transacted little bust
ness other than to pass on q few bills.
Hon. Thomas Wren will pass Palisade
this morning for San Francisco. He will
probably be in Eureka on Saturday next.
Attorney General Davenport's decision
on the constitutionality Of the amended
School law is being looked for with anxiety.
Carson is trying to solve the problem
OF building q $10,0 600 State Armory and
Printing Office with a S., 900 appropriation.
Active mining operations are being car
ried on at the Dunderberg and Lord Byron
mines. Both the properties are looking
we'll.
From the organization OF Eureka county
in 1878 up to yesterday, exactly 1000
cases we're commenced in our District
Court.
s. s. Sears, OF the Elko Independent, ia
booked for the position Of Indian Agent
at the Western Shoshone Reserve, says the
Reno Journal.
Owing to the storms OF Sunday after
oon only a few Of the innings in the game
OF baseball between the Esthetics and
Clippers were played.
s. d. Baker. at one time q resident of
Unionville, New. and who for twenty
years has been living in Virginia City, had
a stroke OF paralysis last Wednesday.
A Cinnamon bear. weighing 700 pounds,
was recently killed near Island Mountain,
in Elko county, by a party Of vaqueros.
This is said to be the fourth bear killed in
that locality since last Fall.
On Sunday afternoon last the weather
became cold and clustering, and during
| that night snow fell hereabouts TO q depth
of four inches. In many places 1t was re-
duced to slush yesterday.
A new form Of blanks conformsble to
the amended School law for the report OF
| School Census Marshals, 10 being printed
and will be distributed among the County
| Superintendent of Schools some time this
month.
Senator James G.. Fair has resigned his
position as q member Of the Board OF Di-
rectors Of the Nevada Bank, and Il. ii.
Follis has been elected TO fill the vacancy.
This looks as though the Senator had dis
posed of his stock in that institution.
The stock dabblers about town are try
ing hard to solve what appears to be a
riddle of the Sphynx. In other words,
they want to know what is causing the
rather violent gyrations OF the market
which have been witnessed the past few
| daya.