Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-03-12
LOCAL AND OTHER JOTs.
Scraps from b Notebooks Of the
Septtuei's Reporter.

Yesterdays quotation OF SILVER 81 Wa
Miss Maggie Olsen returned yesterday
from q visit to Palisade.
/. There will probably be skating at th,
: rink tomorrow evening.
Deputy County Clerk vanderlieth is il
and confined to his room.
Helena, the capital of Montana, is talk.
ing about a stTeet-car system.
Travel East is said to be on the increase.
The number going west is not so great.
Capt. Frank Drake, Superintendent OF
the Observation-Disclosures Company, left yes.
terday for White Pine.
The San Francisco Call and Bulletin
newspapers have been boycotted by the
California Knights Of Labor.
Good sleighing continues, but il the
rays of the sun to-day prove as warm as
yesterday the sport will room cease.
The cool climate of the East should have
a strong attraction for the Chinese, who
are finding California very warm at pres
ent.
During the week ending March 6 appli-
cations for State lands a~ggregating 5000
acres al 81 25 were filed in the office at Car
son.
bOfCLiIO hdhth &c tnJibS u VIEW W LIS
mine in Reyeille District, Nye county.
He expects to be in Carson by the goth in
slant.
Enterprise: Ex-senator William NJ.
Stewart and family expect to be in Carson
during the present week, to reside perma-
nently.
Carson Appeal: There was another Ne
yada conference at the Palace Hotel last
Thursday evening. Only u select few were
invited.
Billy Mayors new saloon adjacent the
Courthouse, with its card parlor in the
rear, is one Of the cosiest resorts of the
kind in town.
Nothing has yet been done in regard TO
erecting an industrial school with the
s., 900 left to the State Orphans Home by
the late VIM. Sharon.
Reno Journal: Jack Wyatt has returned
from Candelaria. He says times there are
not like what they we're when the men got
81 a day for their work.
VIM. Sampson, who left some two weeks
ago for Butte City, Montana, writes home
that the number of idle men in that sec
ton is something almost appalling.
In San Francisco yesterday the Andes
Mining Company elected the following Di-
rectors for the ensuing year: W. E. Smell,
james Marks, j. T.. Bridge, A. K. p. Har-
mon and A. W. Rose.
Weatherwise Comstockers predict that the
weather will be squally up to March 81. the
date when the sun crosses the equator in its
journey northwsrd and heralds the begin
ming Of the vernal equinox.
Assessments falling delinquent on min
ing stock during the present month
amount to 1921, TAT. Of which the Nevada
mines call for 500, 240, California mines
$50, 500 and Alaska mines $4,000.
superintendent Bishop reports that gen.
eral improvements upon the Asylum farm
are going steadily on all the time. A
larger area of garden land than ever before
attempted will be put under cultivation
this year.
The Carson Free Lance is guilty of the
following: Senator Fair gave the ship
builders Of Wilmington a fill Of taffy the
other day, by telling them he was going to
have a yacht built. They yacht to know
he was only joking.
The Carson Appeal says: The ladies Of
Reno, a town in this State, Situated NJ
where in Washoe county,, have presented
a petition to Congress, asking the right to
suffrage. This is supposed TO be a move to
elect Powning to the United States Sen.
ate.
Thomas Trainer. who was out looking
after his bands Of horses in Nye and Lin
coin counties, returned home Wednesday
night. He reports the snow in Quinn Can
Won two feet deep, at Duckwater 10 inches
and at White River from six inches to a
foot.
DAYTON Times: Thirteen mining claims
have been located in the bed of the Carson
river, this county. Each claim IL AGO
feet in length along the river, and each
claim contains 90 acres. The claims reach
from Rock Point mill to a point just above
Riley Houghham's ranch.
The Star is the name of a weekly news
paper just established at Aurora, Esmer-
aida county, by Orlando e. Jones. The
first issue looks healthy. and, il its antici'
pations of Esmeralda's future are realized,
it will, no doubt. be in a few months a ro-
bust member of Nevada journalism.
A number of niue owners in this and adj
joining districts talk of taking out patents
on their claims during the coming year. 30
as to make them non-jumpable. mas
much as it requires from four to six
months TO get such claims surveyed, adj
vertised, etc., it would be wise for said
owners to take initial steps in the matter
at an early day.
The partnership for some time existing
between W. j. Smith and N. Moser, of the
Postofice bookstore, was yesterday dis
solved by mutual consent, the former coa-
tinuing the business. Mr.. Moser leaves
this morning for Chicago. where he will
visit his mother for a brief season, after
which he will probably return to Nevada
and again engage in business.