Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-08-18
HOME AND COAST.
Matters Of Lively Interest to the
General Reader.
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The number Of votes registered in Eureks
up TO date, is 224.
Work on the foundation Of the public
building has begun at last.
The delinquent tax list Of San Diego re.
quirs II columns Of the Sun.
The entire city tax Of Red Bluff has
been collected except 81 80.
Bar silver il quoted at % cents per ounce
an lead at 81 30 per hundred pounds.
There were over 500 arrivals at Lake
Tahoe between the lst and 9Th instant.
A Chinaman took S4s. 900 in gold dust
to the Boise City assay Office last week.
A pitcher Of water saved the town Of
T%uscarora from a coRfagration last Satur.
day.
A writer in the New York Sun figures
that a national campaign costs about S20,.
600, 900.
Tribune; 1t Is said that 80 men will be
put to work on the Government building
this week.
Pluvial showers fell during the week,
just enought 10 moisten and cool the at.
mosphere.
The close season for sagehen and sew.
eral other species Of wild game expires
September 10.
The Star Band Social on Thursday even.
ing was well attended and greatly enjoyed
by all present.
The Fall fights commenced here last
Thursday night.
Thus far there are no candidates for Of
fee in this county.
The White Cross mine, 40 miles east Of
Fresno, Cal, Is turning out free milling ore
which assays 81 900 a ton.
Sam Paul Of White Pine Is shipping ten
tons Of furnace aceretions to the Selby
smelling works, San Francisco.
The saloon keepers Of San Jose are or
ganizing to resist the payment Of city Ii
eenses on billiard and pool tables.
The Chinese on Stanford's ranch at
VIVA, Cal, object to paying poll tax, and
" stood off F" the collector the other day.
Messrs. Brown Brothers teams was in on
Thursday from Joe Smiths Ruby Valley
ranch with a load ofgrain for this market.
The Republicans Of White Pine will
hold their County Convention at Ely,
Sept. Is. The Democrats follow two days
later.
Hank knight eontemplates removing
his saloon and liquor business into the
Foley Richard building on the first of the
A gold nugget worth $500 was taken
the Confederate claim, Mont, on
June %. 1t Is the largest found in the
Territory.
A watermelon social was held at Cal
istoga last week aud a drug store social
was held next morning by the parties who
participated.
Peter Breen, ESQ, has removed his law
TO Il. Ryland's brick building on
street in the room formerly &C
by Henry Riyes, ESQ
A session of the Board Of Examiners
will be hell in Elko on Tuesday, August
%. 20 and 80, for the examination Of APP
for teachers certificates.
The shipment Of iron ore 10 the Eureka
Con. furnaces commenced Yesterday from
the Silver Connor mine and will be con-
.inued at the rate Of ten tons a day.
Dick Perry, who is in jail at Los An.
yeles ON the charge Of attempt to murder,
boasts Of killing nine p~ersons-eight men
md one woman. He is 70 years old.
A stated communication Of Eureka
Lodge No. 1G, +. & A. M, will be con-
fened az is hall this, Saturday evening, at
80 o'clock. All Master Masons in good
standing are cordially invited to attend.
Last Tuesday evening the ladies Of the
Catholic Church held a meeting, at which IL
resolved to hold a ladies fair for the
Of the church at the end Of next
October.
Last Monday the Messrs. Mathewson
Brothers of Hamilton, White Pine county,
shipped by the T.. 4 Z. railroad ~ tons of
lead ore to the Selby Smelling works at
San Francisco.
Two hard cases visited the Salvation
Army barracks at Marysville. Cal, and
were presented with a bible, which they
ttied to exchange for drinks, but not sue
they threw it away.
An Australian family Of freaks has just
been brought to England, consisting OF
four children, the youngest OF whom is
eight years old, five feet eleven iinches in
height and weighs $50 pounds.
A literary aud dramatic entertainment
will be given by our neighbors OF Ruby
Hill on September 4 to celebrate the 37th
year of Father Mathis missionary life. 1t
promises to be a very enjoyable affair.
Last Monday a tremendous forest fire
burning alongside Of the Q. +. rail-
road track from the foothills near Auburn,
Cal, to the summit Of the Sierras, taking
everything in its wake $50 yards in width.
The Silver State says the weather in
that section continues dry and hot. The
sports round the one hundred
notch in the day time and the nights are
among the hottest ever experienced in that
part of Nevada.
To morrow the usual services at the
Catholic Church will be held at IL o'clock
A.. NJ, and 7.30 P. M. The following Sun
day, August %, Father Nattini will at
tend Ruby Hill at 9 o'clock A. NJ, and Eu-
reka at the customary hours.
The concentrating works at Seligrnan
have been closed down and q number OF
men discharged. We learn that from 20
TO 80 picked miners will be kept at work
on the Pursell mines and that the Bur
leigh drills will be kept running.
An amusing entertainment will be given
by the Western Fun and Frolic Club at
the Miners Union Hall, Ruby Hill, ON
Tuesday evening, September 4, as a bene.
ft for Father Nattini. We recommend
everybody TO attend who wants a good
laugh.
After the meeting at the Opera House
adjourned last Saturday, several of our
citizens assembled at Charley Lauten.
schlager's saloon, where conviviality reigned
for several hours. Scraps of history, and
| ~recitals Of war adventures were litter
| mingled with patriotic songs and toasts
| commemorative of the deceased patriot,
General Sheridan.