Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-07-25
LOCAL JOTS.
Scraps from the Notebook OF sbe
S~entineI's Reporter.

SeIIetmeEH keDOrtef.
TAYLOR needs water works.
Bishop Whitaker left yesterday for the
West.
The State Fair commences at Reno Octo'
Der IL.
Sam Woodin is getting along all right.
He is out of danger.
Mrs, J. L. Wines left yesterday for O
short visit to Elko.
Neck-tie party at the Roller Skating
Rink this evening.
Mercer is expected from his Phoebe
crest" on Tuesday.
Valley for a few days.
District Court will be held in Phoebe on
| the first Monday in August.
Mr.. ), L. Fast and family returned yes
| terday to their home at Palisade.
Mr., Duffy, OF Lander county, was in
town yesterday. He is here on legal BUSH
ness.
+. Fl. Gillian, a prominent mining man
| of Cortez, has been in town for several
days.
The bank and the jackson House each
make a good display to the memory of
General Grant.
Our old friend Baum, of Palisade, will
accept our thanks for those delicious trout.
They were elegant.
W. o. Mills, Jr., wears a smile that is
childlike and bland. We shall hear some
thing In about five days.
Mrs. ]. b. Craighead, of Elko, who has
been the guest Of Mrs. J. L. Wines for
several weeks, left for homo yesterday.
Hereafter the Truckee Concert Hall
Company will give q matinee on Sunday
afternoons, commencing on Sunday,
July 26.
The telegraph states that George W.
Childs, Of the Philadelphia Ledger, is to
have the principal direction of the Grant
funeral.
Yesterday was the 18th anniversary Of
the disastrous ~cloudburst and flood in Gu
reka by which Is persons were swept into
eternity.
The contractors in the Banner tunnel
have completed 40 feet Of their 10 feet. II
will require about 80 days TO finish the
contract.
The local committee to arrange for the
funeral OF General Grant will be out to-day
to collect necessary funds. All should con-
tribute generously.
The funeral drapery OF the Courthouse
is the most elaborate in town. Recorder
Beard and Mr.. Green we're both active in
arraying the emblems.
General Sheridan has requested to be
named as one OF the pall-bearers at the
funeral OF General Grant. The General is
still in the Indian country.
There was no disturbance in Utah yes
terday, we take it, or else the telegraph
| would have informed US. The military
orders OF the President were timely.
At a meeting OF the Ruby Hill Tunnel
and Mining Company. held yesterday, an
Assessment Of one cent per share WAS
levied on the capital stock of the company.
John Nelson and Peter Anderson, who
have been working the Geddes and Ber-
trand mine under lease, shipped about
eight tons Of ore to the Eureka Con. fur
mace yesterday. The ore assays about
$3.50 per ton.
There is at present but one prisoner in
the Lincoln County Jail-Gus De Kay,
who in all probability will be indicted by
the Grand Jury to be impaneled next
month for the murder of Gus Albright in
Pahranagst Valley, some so miles south OF
Phoebe, in November last.
The largest base ore proposition in the
State OF Nevada ia said to be at Groom
District. about 100 miles west of Phoebe.
The property is owned by q Philadelphia
company, but 10 now idle. There are
thousands of tons OF ore in sight, which
will go from so to GO per cent in lead.