Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-06-20
LOCAL AND OTHER JOTs.
Scraps from she Notebook of che
sentinePs Reporter.

Sentfmeps Reporter.
Yesterdays quotation Of silver, so SO.
Divine services at the Presbyterian
Church to-day.
Miss Alice ODER will begin her private
school on Monday, June 81.
Good reports continue to come Of the
mining situation at Ophir Canyon, Nyt
county.
Mrs. M. A. Douthett, for several weeks
past teacher OF the public school at Pail.
SADIE, returned home yesterday for the
vacation.
Large numbers Of defunot j~aokrabbits
are found in the sagebrush in the vicinity
| of Carson. An epidemic seems to have
| struck them.
District Judge D. @. MoKenney, OF
Austin. is on the Base Range greeting bis
numerous friends.
Diphtheria has nearly disappeared from
Virginia City, there being but q few cases
left of the dreaded disease.
A. l.. Fitzgerald, Esq, and John e.
Jones are expected to arrive from the
west by private conveyance to-day.
Savage has levied q 50.cent assessment,
Probably that was what caused the liyeli-
ness displayed by the stock yesterday.
Mrs. Cottle, mother OF Mrs. Rousseau,
the Mob Hill music teacher, arrived ON the
Base Range yesterday from San Francisco.
1t 10 reported that the grain and hay
Crops on Duckwater and White River are
looking we'll, and the ranchers of that Sec
ton are consequently happy.
Mrs. j. Dean and her two little girls,
who have been visiting Col. W. o. Mills
and wife for the past month, expect to re-
turn to their home at Cortez tomorrow.
Father Kiley left yesterday for Hamilton,
and expects to be absent from town for
several days. Consequently there will be
no services at the Catholic Church to-day.
The address of ex-senator Stewart be-
fore the Reno Republican Club last Satur-
day evening will be published In pamphlet
form and circulated a. q campaign docu.
ment.
The proprietors OF newspapers published
in Carson have subscribed $25 each to the
fund for the celebration In that city on
July 8. Now let the committee collect the
money.
Judge Rives and wife, Mr.. and Mrs. j.
L. Wines, Mr.. and Mrs. George W. Baker
and Mr.. and Mrs. r. Sadler arrived home
on yesterdays train from the western part
OF the State.
Captain Page. formerly of Virginia City.
was arrested in Butte City, Montana, last
week on a charge of disposing OF q bogus
gold brick. which he is alleged to have
represented as the pure yellow metal.
Hon. O. s. Young, of Carson. has been
awarded the contract for furnishing -four
- ~. H. A. T-I.-- anaaaoa-
ton at Pyramid Lake, The contract calls
for 80. 600 pounds TO be delivered at Wads-
worth.
Elko Independent: Fears were enter
tanned that there would not be candidates
enough in this county to NIL the Offices
this year, but the political hatchery is be-
ing placed in shape and evidences are IA
yorable for an ample crop.
BY private advices from the Reno gath
ering OF the Democratic State Central
Committee ii appears that A. L. Fitzgerald,
Esq, is q very strong candidate for a Dis
trict Judgeship this Fall. 1t seems to be
conceded that should he receive q nomina-
ton his election is assured.
Peter Breen, who attended the meeting
of the Democratic State Central Commit
tee at Reno on Wednesday last with q
couple Of proxies, returned TO the Base
Range yesterday. He says the meeting
was the largest OF the kind held in the
State since 1864, and the best OF feeling
prevailed among the delegates.
Battle Mountain Central Nevadan: T.
A. Hanson, who came In from the Pitts
burgh coal mines last Monday, says that
the prospects for a valuable coal property
are very lattering. That there is coal
there is an assured fact, but whether in
paying quantities or not is something to
be proven by future developments.
It was reported on Main street yesterday
that a very rich strike had just been made
in the Stafford mine at Hamilton. We
trust that the report is correct. The
labors OF energetic men Of means like Eu-
gene N. Robinson, who persevere in their
search for the white metal despite the war
waged on it by Wall street goldbugs, are
worthy Of the best results.