Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-06-30
HOME AND COAST.
Matters of Lively Interest to the
General Reader.
The Iatest mutation of .ilrer Is o2l.

There was no Western mail receives
here yesterday.
Tuscarora has raised 81 900 with whicl
to celebrate the Fourth.
Watermelons have made their appear
ance in the Virginia markets.
A spendid coal mine has been discovered
near Cottonwood, Shasta county.
A strike Of 20 feet Of 100 ounce ore ha
been made 10 the Yuba mine, Phoebe.
The rush for Nevada State land con.
tinues.
Battle Mountain will get up on her eal
on the Fourth.
Services at the Methodist Church, Eu.
reka, tomorrow evening at 1880 o'clock.
The leading Republicans of this place
seem satisfied with the Chicago nominees.
The town Of Serrayille, north Of Truckee,
was almost totally destroyed by fire last
Friday.
During the pas. week we have been hav-
ing Summertime weather, the first Of the
season.
The Virginia Enterprise appears in a
new dress, which has much improved its
former appearance.
The early bird catches the worm, but the
man who stays up all night is generally the
one to see snakes"
A regular convocation of st. Johns
Chapter No. ), X. A. NJ, will be held this
evening at 1880 o'clock.
The Richmond Company shipped 165
tons and the Eureka Con. Company 52t
tons of lead during the week.
The value OF the mineral production Of
Canada during 1897 was S32, 429,7l2 more
than that Of the previous year.
A temporary draft was made at the
North Belle Isle last Sunday by which
quite a number Of men were laid off.
A settlement is springing up at Resting
Springs, Lincoln county. in view Of the
present raiload prospects Of that section.
Last Tuesday the first shipment of con-
centrates (eight tonsl from Seligman
passed through town In transit TO San
Francisco.
w. Il. Kellogg, having satisfactorily
tested the new gold dry washing machine
at Bald Mountain, left for Los Angeles
yesterday.
All the gambling places in Tacoma, w.
T., were raided last Thursday night. The
gamblers had become so bold as to play
with open doors.
The Republicans on Ruby Hill, on the
reception Of the news from Chicago last
Monday evening. fired a salute in honor of
the nominations.
A festival viii be given at Miners
Union Hall, Ruby HILL on the Fourth Of
July. for the benefit Of the church and
Sunday school.
The Enterprise says the Californians
send their best fruit East; the second best
they keep at home, and the refuse stuff
they ship over here.
No preparations have yet been made
here for celebrating the Fourth Of July.
Every patriotic citizen will have TO oele-
brate as he pleases.
The artesian well recently bored at
Rattle Mountain for the Central Pacific
railroad has proved a success, and fur
nishes 60 gallons Of water per minute.
The average mortality at New York for |
several days has been l25 day, fully |
lne-sixth being from heat. A much |
yreAter proportion is reported in the last |
.wo days.
We are under obligations TO the Rescue |
Hose Company for tickets to the grand |
,al TO be given under their auspices at |
he Opera House next Wednesday evening. |
lie Fourth Of July.
Willie Olsen. the young clerk at the |
Postolfiee book store, came near spelling |
lis beauty last Wednesday morning by
umbling headlong over his bicycle while
'iding down Main street.
There will be no evening service at the |
Episcopal Church during the Summer ex-
.ept on Sunday July %, when Bishop |
leonard, Bishop Of Nevada and Utah, is
expected 10 visit Eureka.
Lightning killed squaw and wounded
another ca the Warm Springs Indian
II Oregon, last Saturday. |
This 5 the only instance known OF any |
lns being killed By lightning in Oregon.
The incipient Gre a. the rear Of J.
straus jewelry store last Thursday after
noon was supposed TO have caught from
some hot ashes placed against the frame
building in the rear of Morris 4 Levy's
dry goods store.
A California rancher has rugged pump
on the banks Of the Sacramento river,
driven by the current, that carries an
eight-inch stream upon his fields, The
Truckee river has sufficient fall to run
many such wheels.
There is a rumpus in Vallejo. Some OF
the girl graduates Of the school. the other
day, read essays on political subjects. The
girls leaned to Republicanism, and the
Democrats are indignant and demand the
dismissal of the Principal.
Carson Appeal: Judge Leonard last
Tuesday decided the habeas corpus case OF
Miles Finlan and admitted the defendant
10 bail in the sum Of $4,000. Judges
Hawley and Belknap dissented, and took
no part in the proceedings
The installation of the officers of Deatife
Lodge No. z, X. of p, will take place at
their Castle Hall next Friday evening. at
7:30 o'clock. An invitation is cordially ex.
tended to all the members, as also TO all
sojourning Knights to attend.
DR.. j. j. Leei, our dentist, is expected
home on this evenings train from his visit
to the western part of the State. lie Will
will visit Hamilton, Ely, Taylor, Cherry
Creek, Sprucemount and Wells.
A gray horse branded A on the left
shoulder and bay horse branded AR on
the left hip, strayed awav from the Dun
derbere mine on the 10th Instant. They
belong to Josh and Howe Tingley, who
have been hunting them during the week.
The stock. from 35 to 40 head, and
coaches for the Eureka and Taylor daily
stage line, arrived here last Tuesday, and
everything will be ready to run at the ap.
pointed time. The first regular trip will
commence tomorrow morning at o'clock.
The party who sent postal note for FIVE
dollars to Messrs. Eldridge & Langridge,
Virginia City, June Z, 1883, or about that
time, forgot to sign his name to the letter
Ia which he incloscd it. He is therefore re-
questel to leave his name at the Eureka
Pcstofiice.
A farmer near Sulphur Springs, Texas,
who was passing along the road, chanced to
examine an old pot washed up by the rain,
and was amazed to find It filed with gold