Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-05-19
LOCAL AND OTHER yOTs.
scraps from tte Notebook Of the
S~entIueI's Reporter.
Yesterdays quotation Of silver, so 97A

Yesterdays quotation Of silver, so 97A
Father Kiley leaves to-day for Austin
He expects to be absent about q week.
B. Berg, the grocerymau, has decided t.
add TO bis stock q full line OF miners wear
Governor Adams has appointed Thomas
E. Haley, of Eureks, to be Brigadier Gen
eral, vice II. H. Conkling.
Hogs and burros are allowed TO run a
large within the town limits at night. The
nuisance should be stopped.
The Reno Guard have a parade drill
every evening, preparatory to their visit tc
Carson on Independence Day.
Sheriff Fellows sold some rs, 900 pounds
of barley in Paradise last Wednesday, at
the rate OF 81 10 per 100 pounds.
Mike Walsh left yesterday for the l X L
District in Churchill county, where he has
some promising mining properties.
The foot.bridge over the Spring.street
ditch in front Of the Episcopal Church re-
ceived some needed repairs yesterday.
The work of prospecting with a diamond
| drill will be resumed on the fourth level
Of the Eureka Con. mine in a day or two.
Passenger travel over the Central Pacific
| railroad continues heavy, from $50 to 200
| persons going in each direction over the
road daily.
Charley Provost rthanks the public for
their donations in behalf of the expenses
for burying Eugene Chaplsis, who was
buried yesterday.
Miss Belle Ennor came in yesterday
from her very pleasant ranch home on
the E. & P. railroad, and Is q guest Of
Mrs. M. D. Foley.
A business man on Lower Main street
has a game rooster which he will pit
against any fowl Of the kind in Eureka
county for any sum from 500 to $500.
There are two comets visible to the
naked eye in the northern sky. These
visitors. which are known to astronomers
az the Fsbry and Bernard comets, will re-
main only a few evenings.
For the week ending May IA applications
for 1,156.51 acres were filed at the State
Land Office al Carson; IS new contracts,
covering 1850 acres, completed, and eight
patents issued, embracing 1,826.35 acres.
Two aquer named CARING and Rich
got into a difficulty at Humboldt Wells
one evening last week over a game OF pool,
in which CARING was stabbed twice with a
dirk knife. Rich was acquitted, the evil
dence having shown that be acted in self
defense.
The trouble over some ore that was
taken the other day from the dump OF the
Onondaigua mine, Stafford District, this
county. was compromised yesterday. The
property was some time ago placed in
custody OF Sheriff Stinson until a judg-
ment against it was satisfied.
There was trouble OF some character at
Beowawe yesterday. A telegram was re-
ceived by Sheriff Stinson, requesting that
q Justice of the Peace aud a Constable be
sent there at once. District Attorney
Cheney, who was in Palisade at the time,
being notified Of the request, at once went
to the front.
Austin Reveille: From 80 TO 40 China
men are employed at Ophir in various
capacities, some under and some above
ground. Their wages amount to about
81. 500 monthly, Of which 5000 is paid in
checks which are cashed here, the balance
being drawn from their employers at Ophir
in articles Of trade, etc.
The funeral yesterday afternoon of
| Eugene Chaplais. who died early Monday
morning from the injuries he received the
day previous near Pine Station by being
| run over by two wagons loaded with wood,
was largely attended by his numerous
friends, who saw to IL that the remains
were inferred with all due respect.
The foreman Of the Hooks and Knicks,
in company with several members OF the
organization, was engaged yesterday in in
specting the fire plugs of the town. Two
Of the plugs were found to be in a faulty
condition. The proper authorities were no
tilted OF the same, and the necessary re-
pairs will probably be made to-day.
Dayton Times: Ex-senator Stewart and
wife and Col. @. @. Stevenson and wife
we're in town this week Wednesday. The
Senator says the political pot is beginning
to bubble q little. He had SHE'D his castor
for the Senatorial ring and means to make
a fight to the finish. II Is also intimsted
that Mr.. Stevenson will not refuse the
nomination for Governor if ii is rendered
him.
The following concerning former resi-
dents OF Eureka is clipped from a Port
land (Oregon) paper Of a recent date
Judge Stesrns yesterday granted .
divorce in the case OF Mary E. Haskell
against William p. Haskell. Plaintiff wal
awarded she custody Of her two children
Blsnch and Alice, aged z and 8 years re
spectively. and allowed to resume hel
maiden name OF Mary Elizabeth Dilley.'
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