Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-05-18
LOCAL AND ONaER yOTs.
scraps from the Notebook Of o.
sensIners Reporter.

Only two prisoners In the county Jail.
Yesterdays quotation Of silver, so 97A.
The Eureka Star band is making excel
lent progress.
Mrs. VIM. Sampson left yesterday for
Butte, there to join her husband.
Hon. A. G.. Cleveland and W. N. McGill
left for their homes in White Pine county
Sunday morning.
Mrs. NJ. A. Douthett, teacher OF the
public school at Palisade, is making q
short visit in Eureka.
BBhop Whitaker preached in Belmont
day before yesterday, and is expected in
Austin next Sunday.
The recent cold weather did not injure
the blossoms Of fruit trees at Duckwater
as was believed it would.
The remains OF Eugene Shipley will be
buried this afternoon at l O'Clock from the
undertaking establishment OF P. HUI.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Freis returned yes
terday to San Francisco. Quite a party of
friends accompanied them TO the train.
Supt. Hank Donnelly, of the Eureka
Con-, left yesterday for a visit OF q couple
or three weeks with his family in Califor-
mia.
The residents OF Secret Canyon, claim.
ing the requisite number OF children Of
school age, want a school district estab-
lished there.
Times on Lower Main street late Satur-
day night, or rather early Sunday morn
ing, were quite lively. About q dozen
arrests were made.
Hon. Thomas Robinson, OF Newark, left
yesterday for the Paradise mine, Hum
boldt county, to examine the c~opcentrators
in successful use there.
At their meeting yesterday the Board of
County Commissioners agreed to pay ST a
day to Martin Marren for sprinkling the
principal streets OF the town.
Now is the time for a thorough cleaning
OF the town, preparatory for warm
weather. Let every citizen put his prem
ises in thorough sanitary condition.
Mr.. Edmund James, recently appointed
by the President and confirmed by the
Senate as Receiver OF the Land Office in
Carson, has filed his bond of $50, 900 at
Washington.
Miss Efie Phillips. teacher OF the public
school at Bailey Is ranch, after a visit of q
couple Of days with her parents and nu-
merous friends in Eureka, returned to her
post yesterday.
The next decision by the State Supreme
Court looked for with interest is that on
the law passed by the last Legislature regu-
lating jury fees. 1t embodies several
broad and important questions.
s. W. Stevens, q former resident OF Gar
son, committed suicide at Lewiston. Idaho.
last February. Deceased left q note stat.
ing that remorse for the killing OF Mason
Hendricks led him to take his own life.
County Treasurer Hoadley filed an adj
ditional pond yesterday in the amount OF
SIS, 900 to fill the vacancy caused by the
death OF Joseph W. Dean. The same was
by the Board OF County Commissioners
approved.
w. T. Hoskins, we'll known in Carson
and on the Comstock as q fine cornet
player, while going to work on the night
shift at the Mt. Diablo mine Sunday
night, was taken with q coughing fit, dur
ing which he ruptured q blood vessel, and
died almost instantly.
Carson Free Lance: Hon. Thomas p.
Mack, formerly q member of the Nevada
Assembly, has been mentioned In connec-
ton with the position OF Surveyor Gen
eral, as q possible successor to General
Preble, providing the latter declines TO be-
| come u candidate for reelection.
Austin Reveille: BY way OF Bernice we
learn that Barton and Dsbney have made
two good strikes in the nickel country and
are about to ship 8 carload or 30 of ore by
the Central. The little mill at Bernice is
pounding away for all it is worth and ii is
likely to be kept busy all Summer.
A band Of 10 wild horses, some Of them
blooded, we're captured in the mountains
north of Reno and brought TO the Truckee
Meadows. They are descendants OF fine
stock turned loose in that region several
years ago, owned by State Senator l.. I
Fox, formerly a resident OF Gold Hill.
Several days ago AT item was published
Ia the SENTINEL concerning the dividends
paid by the Richmond Company. The ag-
gregate amount mentioned, which was
taken from the New York Financial and
Mining Record, was incorrect. The cor
porstion has paid in dividends to date
$4,175, 900.
County Assessor Wallace has purchased
OF Frank Abadie the two lots on South
Main street, on which stood the Trainer
stables until they were burned down some
two years ago.; also, the corner lot adioin-
ing that belonged to ]. O. Powell. Mr..
Wallace will shortly place on the lots a
neat cottage and make Of 1t q home.