Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-05-14
LOCAL AND OTHER JOTs.
Scraps from d Notebook 81 the
S~ensfnel's Reporter.

!. Sentfnefs Reporter.
Burglars are operating on the Comstock.
Yesterdays quotation Of silver. so 994 .
Hale and Norcross levies a 50-cent as.
sessment.
Sheriff Stinson will sell the Albion min
ing property to-day.
Hon. Thomas Wren came in from bis
mines at Mt. Hope last evening.
Manager Probert, of the Richmond Com
pany, arrived yesterday from San Fran.
cisco.
Tramps along the Central Pacific are re-
ported TO be Of the toughest character yet
encountered.
D. o. Mills will leave New York for San
Francisco early next month with the i nten-
ton of summering on .his Coast.
John Forbes has been appointed County
| Treasurer Of Esmeralda, to fill the va
The monthly shipments Of salt and borax
from Rhodes, a station on the @. & g. rail-
| road, average 400 tons Of the former and so
of the latter.
Several ranchers in town yesterday got
from Sl8 to $40 q ton for hay, "a cents for
oats, 2 cents for barley and "a cents for
ground barley.
Sproule, the man who came SO near be-
ing hanged in Victoria, B. c., on convic-
ton for murder by false testimony, halls
from Reno. this State.
Instead OF the weather getting warmer IL
was colder yesterday than for several days
previously. Those suffering from colds
are by no means in the best Of spirits.
Nearly all the new machinery for the Eu-
reka Con. hosting works has arrived. II
will probably be 60 days before it is placed
in position and gotten ready for opera.
TONS.
Mrs. John Ragsdale, of Robinson, White
Pine county, died suddenly on Tuesday,
the 18th instant. Deceased WAS the mother
Of A. d. Campton, Recorder OF White Pine
county.
The Richmond Mining Company paid q
dividend OF 81 Is per share at their Lon
don office on the Sd OF May. ~aggregating
SGT 800. Total amount of dividends to in
clude that date. S3,l77, $3.50.
Twelve hundred men are now employed
at the Central Pacific railroad shops in Sac
ramento. This Is double the force EN-
ployed there a year ago. The rolling mill
is running under full Roadway.
The weather yesterday was cloudy and
disagreeable, a cold wind blowing from the
north. Cattle and sheep men say that un-
less there is rain-and plenty OF it
shortly, feed on the ranges will be scarce
this season.
DIR. G. G. Tyrrell, Secretary Of the Cali
fornia State Board OF Health, who recently
visited Truckee, says the sickness among
the children there is virulent scarlet fever.
produced by the uuGanitary conditions OF
that town.
There are ITO men on the payroll OF the
Paradise Valley Mining Compsny-87 at
the mine, and the rest at the mill and out
side work. The disbursements for wages
and supplies amount 20 about Sl5. 900 per
month.
The Carson Appeal says srtesian water
was struck on s.. P. Davis Holstein ranch,
near Carson. last Friday. at a depth Of 70
feet. The flow is about three gallons per
minute. The we'll was sunk and piped in
about 20 hours.
The Indian reservation at Pyramid Lake
has a full school OF 10 pupils. all doing
we'll. There will be considerable more
grain grown there this year than ever be-
fore. 1t Is reported that the Indians are
getting along finely.
Phoebe Record: The Bullionville Smelt-
ing Company's Stedefeldt furnace. under
| the management of A. M. Grant. of Park
| City, wss started to chloridizing the tail
ings on Thursday, and teaching COM
menced on Saturday, Will Experts Van
Dusen and Taylor at the helm.
George Writ Hopkins, one of the earliest
settlers OF Nevada, died in Oakland on
Sunday morning. Deceased served two
terms as Mayor of Virginia City, and at
that time was Grand Master of the Masonic
Order 10 this State. Deceased was about 50
years Of age. He leaves a wife and four
| children.
A transcript of the cases of George W.
Grayson va. Joseph Mcconnell ct al, that
were ordered recently by the District Court
here to be certified to the Circuit Court
at Carson, is being prepared by the County
Clerk. These are the cases instituted re-
Gently concerning the use and possession
Of the Humboldt waters near Beowawe.
On Saturday Lieutenant Governor
L~aughton began q mandamus proceeding
In the Supreme Court at Carson to compel
State Controller Hallock to draw warrants
on the Treasury for his salary, as provided
by the ACT of 1888. The amount in arrears
is, up to May 1. ST. 1900. Messrs. A. G.
Ellis and W. M. Stewart appear for the
Lieutenant Governor.
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