Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-06-23
FLUE DUST.
scraps from h Notebook Of the
SentfneIs Reporter.

The weather CONTINUES very pleasant.
District Court again at Q O'Clock p. M
to-day.
The hay crop of Eastern Nevada is re-
ported as very large.
The Eureka doctors complain that the
town is ~fearfully healthy.
The Silver Lick Company are shipping
some high grade ore daily to the furnaces.
Hon. George M. Sabin, United States
District Judge Of Nevada, ia at Yosemite.
There is less gambling going on in Eu-
reka at present than for q number Of years
past.
Several private picnic parties were out
on the n~eighboring ranches on Sunday
last.
A special meeting Of the Hooks and
Knicks will be held this evening. See
notice.
Fees collected In the county Offices will
make a very poor showing for the month
of June.
The small mining properties OF Eureka
District never looked more prosperous
than at present.
The Eureka fly boom has not yet com.
menced. II is only occasionally that one
is eaten In a blackberry pie.
VIM. Wheatley, OF Taylor, died last
Thursday OF pneumonia, after two days
sickness. Deceased was st one time
a citizen Of Eureka.
Times In Hamilton are very quiet, but
many Of the people there are hopeful.
For a combination Of reasons they are
justified in feeling 30.
The demurrer in the case of M. Purcell
vs.. the Eureka and Palissde Railroad
Company will be heard to-day in the Dis
trict Court at 2 o'clock.
According to the report OF Mr.. Nimmo,
the Chief of the Bureau OF Statistics, just
issued. there were in Nevada in 1884
2S3, 725 cattle, valued at S., 444, 100.
Peter Moen, one OF the fixtures OF the
Jackson House for the past seven years,
left yesterday for New York City. The
best wishes OF q host of friends in Eureka
go with him.
II. r. Slocumb, Charles Appleburg,
Will Adams, George Wheeler and George
Balford, OF the assay department of the
Mint. all Republicans, were given their
walking papers last Friday.
The Chinese lsundrymen about town
complain bitterly of dull times. The
business is being m~onopolized by whites.
who do better work than the heather, and
they do 1t for the same money.
We regret to say that Mr.. A. Skillman is
and has been for several days confined to
his room by an attack Of pneumonia. II
is believed and hoped that hs will in Q few
days be able to go about again.
Mrs. w. j. Townshend. who has suf-
fered considerably OF late months from
poor health, left on yesterday mornings
train for California, where she expects to
remain for six weeks or two months.
A telegram from London yesterday says
that 81 Mormons sailed on the steamer
Wisconsin on Saturday under Jargen Han
sen. en- route TO Utah. They are princi-
pally from Scandinavia and Great Britain.
In the Ease OF ]. Comaita vs.. Mat Kyle,
the jury returned q verdict yesterday
morning in favor OF J. Comiata for 81 800
and legal interest from November, 1885,.
The case will probably be appealed TO the
State Supreme Court.
E. H. Briggs, 9 former citizen Of Elko,
who has been In Arizona for the past year,
returned to that town last week. He ex-
presses himself as being disguised with
the Arizona country. and says Nevada is
good enough for him, even If 1t is dull at
present.
Butte Town Talk Of last Tuesday: Al
Farley and father and mother arrived to-
day from Eureka, Nevada, having been
twenty-nine days on the road. They came
overland by the Goose Greek and Eagle
Rock route, and altogether experienced q
hard trip.
Joe Grandlemeyer, who left for Cslifor.
mia during the first part Of March, arrived
in town yesterday en- route for home. Joe
says everywhere he has been the past three
months the general complaint is OF dull
times. Gold mining In California Ia re.
ceiving such an impetus as is liable to re-
suit In q boom.
Fred Barnes. one OF Eureka's old-timers,
after a visit East, has returned and re-
opened the City Meat Market, formerly
conducted by Joseph Boos. 1t is Mr..
Barnes intention to keep on hand the
finest qualities OF beef, mutton, pork,
sausage, and other meats, all OF which he
will sell at the lowest cash prices. See his
advertisement under the head OF NEW
To-day"