Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-08-20
LOCAL AND OTHER JOTs.
scraps from she Notebook Of en-.
Sensineps Reporter.

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Stocks can't boom while silver is dc
pressed.
The courthouse is to have a new flag
staff shortly.
Pat Finnegsn returned yesterday from
a months visit to Lockport N. Y.
Mr.. 8. Wenban. Of Cortez, came in o,
last evenings train.
Times-Review: There Is no truth in th,
rumor whatever that the Navajo will clos,
down.
Work is to be commenced at once OF
the two smelling furnaces to be erected
at Reno.
Frank Bosko, one Of the "two Nevad,
cherubs," Is again on the Base Range
shaking hands with friends.
The Salt Lake City Grand Jury, which
was discharged OF the 18th, found As In
dictments for polygamy and unlawfu.
cohabitation.
Austin Reveille: A whole carload o.
people went away ON the train this morn
ing. 1t looks now as If many more viii
follow them shortly.
Pres. G. Hatcher. formerly Of Paradise
Valley, Humboldt county, was killed by
band of Apaches on Carols grant, In
Sonora, Mexico, or the 10th instant.
Josephus Jones was examined yester-
day afternoon as to his alleged insanity,
and will be taken either to-day or Mon.
day to the Insane Asylum at Reno
The great Treadwell mine, on Douglas
Island, Alaska, has been hut down,
owing to the expulsion Of the Chinese
miners, numbering 81. by the whites.
W. Fl. M. Cobb, Grand Chancellor oil
the order Of knights of Pythias, arrived
on the Base Range last evening to pay q
fraternai visit to Beatifc Lodge No. 7.
The Reno Journal says that :" the new
paper for Winnemucca was born dead
The printers have all scattered, and John
Church, the manager, has returned to San
Francisco"
Coal has been discovered 40 miles north
cifc railroad east OF Wells. The coal is
said TO bear all the characteristics of tina.
from the Rocky Mountains.
Journal: Postmaster Evans has just
been informed that the salary Of the Reno
Postmaster has been cut to 81 900 per an
mum. He expects to soo have to work
for nothing and board himself.
The aggregate amount of taxable prop
erty in Elko county this year will exceed
last years assessment by some 5000, 900.
The rate OF taxation is 81 80 on 500, q re.
duction Of as cents from last year.
At the Meadow Lake mines II men are
engaged in erecting the mill. and four or
FIVE men are employed in the woods.
There are about Is, 900 tons OF rock on
the dump, which, it is claimed, will net
SIG to the ton.
"Lucky" Baldwin was on the east
bound train passing Reno Tuesday morn
ing en- route to Saratoga. He told q
Journal reporter that he was willing TO
match Volante against Ben Ali for $780,
900. and would give Haggin $4,000 to
make the match.
There are said to be a thousand men
in the Yellow Pine Basin country, and
the surface is staked off in all directions
for 20 miles. Three miners have re.
turned thence to Ketchum, and pro-
nounce the country q fraud so far as
plscers are concerned.
The Carson Tribune says: "The fight
in the Republican Convention for the
nomination Of Secretary of State prom
Uses to be lively. The present incumbent,
Dormer, Billy Rogers. Of Elko, Dick
Thomas, of Washoe, and a dark horse
from Eureka will be the contestants"
A recent order OF the Postofice Depart
ment at Washington reduced the annual
appropriation for the Virginia City Post
Office from 81. 500 to 81 900, the order te
take effect at once. This leaves the Post
master there q salary Of only $500 a veal
to live upon, or a compensation OF a little
over $40 a month for at least IA hours
labor out OF "a, besides the responsibility
attached TO the position.