Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-21
HOME AND COAST.
Matters Of Lively Interest to the
General Reader.

va Va iduClSCOs
a gang of professional tramps are
working the town of Tuscarora.
The boy who has taken too much water.
melon should be treated gingerly.
The first bounty on wildcat scalps was
paid in Lincoln county last week.
Many of Carson's best people intend
spending the "hot" season in Reno.
The usual religious services will be held
tomorrow in the Episcopal Church.
Services at the Methodist Church, Eu.
reka, tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock.
Vigrinia is remarkably healthy at pres.
ent. 1t is entirely free from epidemic
diseases.
The Tuscarora Found Treasure Com.
pany has levied an assessment of six cents
per share.
Colds, sore throats and sick stomachs
have been very prevalent in Eureka dur.
ing the week.
A ring containing several keys were
found on the street and left at this office
for the owner.
The regular meeting of Upton Post No.
20, G. A. r., will meet Tomorrow evening
at 1880 o'clock.
w. D. Dimmick shipped 20 tons of ore
from the Dimmick mine at Typo to Salt
Lake last Monday.
Reveille: Two masked men robbed the
Fountain saloon barkeeper of $500 early
last Friday morning.
The boys of Nevada City, CAL, make
good wages in harvesting frogs. They sell
at rs cents a hundred.
Tax liquors of all sorts, and tobacco in
all its forms.-U. s. Grant, Annual Mes
sage, December 5. 1870.
Acknowledgement j. f. Alexander
gives it as his opinion that no County As
SCISSORS will be elected until 1890.
The railroad line connecting Butte, NJ.
T., with st. Paul, was completed July IL,
and the first train reached Butte.
There will be q total eclipse Of the moon
OF Sunday night, the 22d instant, visible in
this latitude from 9 to II o'clock.
One hundred voters have registered their
names on the official register of the Eureka
precincts up to the present time.
Dan Mahoney, who will be remembered
as @ resident of Eurekain early days, is talk
ing of opening a saloon in Hamilton.
The Postofices at Mineral Hill and Sher.
wood, Union District, have been discon-
tinued. The order went into effect yes
terday.
Johnny Lambert is in the market with
| the first grapes of the season. They are
sweet and luscious, and must be tried to be
appreciated.
| erected at Luning on the line of the Carson
& Colorado railroad for handling the cop
per ores of that district.
The furnace at Sprucemont is running
successfully and turning out bullion con-
sisting principally of lead, though there is
considerable silver in it.
Having in this section is pretty well adj
| vanced. The crop at Duckwater is said to
be very good, but reports from other quar-
tiers indicate a scarcity later on.
An earthquake shock last Friday night
was very severe in Alpine county. People
at Markleville ran out of their houses,
fearing the buildings would fall.
Several days ago John Clark, an en-
ploye in the concentrating works at Selig.
man, had his hand caught in the suction
fan, and his forefnger nearly severed from
it.
Joe Mattoz went out towards Taylor
last Monday to locate new watering sta
ions along the White Pine stage route.
The Mattoz Brothers are energetic young
men.
Thursday afternoon old Boreas struck
Eureka with unusual fury, and his tracks
were followed an hour later by o heavy
shower of rain, which lasted for a couple
of hours.
Dan H.. Mcdonald, driving A. Muir 4
Co.'s team, brought in % tons of con-
centrates from Seligman during the week,
consigned to the Selby Smelling Works,
San Francisco.
A stated c~onvocation of Eureka Lodge
nj 1n II O. NJ I'LL L. L,JJ 2L;a IC,&
| urday) evening at 1880 o'clock. All Mas
ter Masons in good standing are cordially
invited to attend.
Tomorrow Father Nattini will hold
| divine service at Ruby Hill at 8 o'clock A.
NJ. and in Eureka at II o'clock A. N. Sun
day school and evening service will be held
at the usual hour.
B. Berg has received a fine lot Of very
delicious Bartlett pears, and he has also a
general assortment of fresh fruit of excel.
lent quality. The watermelons and musk
melons are immense.
We learn that the Silver Lick mine on
| Adams Hill never looked so we'll as it does
| at present. The tributers have lots of ore,
| and from reliable sources we hear that a
great deal of it is very rich.
The termination of litigation and vex-
| atious suits against the present owners of
| the Manhattan property at Austin, has at
| last been successfully accomplished, and
| the deed has been given to John Bev-
| eridge, a representative of the Chicago
creditors.
The owners of the Silver Conner mine,
on Prospect Mountain, shipped to Salt
| Lake during the week trial samples of one
| ton of copper ore, and ten tons of iron
| gangue gold ore, the results from which we
| will f,,rnich RI o,1r raadars as som as thew
are received.
From $50 to 800 cars of material are
| handled during IL hours of the day at the
| Eureka Con. Stag dump by means of the
new hoist, and in order to push work with
| greater dispatch, hosting in the future
| will be continued during the night. A
| shed has been built over the engine.
The people of Hamilton, White Pine
| county, are living in hopes of much better
| times than at present, probably with good
reason. There are lots of good mines in
| that locality, but the necessity of reduc'
tion works and the need of capital is eX-
perienced, which will come by and bye.
j. P. Dunkle has been getting ore in the
| Prospect Mountain tunnel lately that Us.
| says way up in the thousands in gold.
| Free gold, discernible to the naked eye, is
| in fact no uncommon thing now in Pros
pect Mountain. It is often found in the
| Silver Conner and other mines.
Robinson District, White Pine county,
this State, promises to become one Of the
biggest mining, milling and smelling CEN
tiers on the Pacific slope. The mineral,
grazing and agricultural resources of that
section are of such magnitude and import.
ance that we wonder why they have been
so long overlooked.
Yesterday noon an italian woman with
a baby in her arms, followed by an excited
crowd of her country people, rushed up the
stairs of the SENTINEL building. 1t APP