Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1895-05-11

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is still In good health. Her exact sge ID
not known, but ~ is supposed 10 be be-
tween IFS aud 40 years.
The Belmont Courier says the Mont
gomery gold mines In southern Nye are
looking well and another Huntington mill
IL TO be erected. Thirty new tents have
been pitched 10 the district in the last
month BY prospecsors and miners.
II q tablespoonful Of kerosene 10 put
into four quarts Of tepid water, and this
Ia used In washing windows and mirrows,
instead Of pure water. there will
remain upon the elesnsed surface g polish
no amount OF mere friction can give.
A tramp was arrested 81 Winnemucca
with q half dozen AZ blades in bis posses.
sion. He claimed that he worked for .
wood contractor up the Truckee. who paid
hin In axes. which. 10 seems, are 9 legal
tender In the forests Of the Sierra Nevada.
Scientists say newspapers should stop
saying cyclone when they mean tornado.
ss the latter 10 the correct name for the
| destructive twister. A cyclone is any
large storm such as . rain or snow storm
| whose low barometer has Q moderate right
| 10 left circular motion.
About May 18th all the eight planets
will be above the horizon at sunset and
will remain so during the last half OF the
month. without the aid Of the telescope,
Mercury. Venus, Mars. Jupiter and Saturn
will DO visible. All except Saturn and
Uranus are north Of the earsh's equator.
Theodore Dursnt will spend seven quiet
weeks 10 the County Jail before he is
placed on trial for the murder OF Blanche
Lamont and Minnie Williams. The police
will not hurry him TO trial, desiring TO
give him abundant time TO prepare for his
defense. The case, therefore. will not be
called until July.
Mr.. Treror informed the Elko ~Independ.
eni tina. considerable prospecting was be-
ing done at Bald Mountain and that two
big loads Of ore would arrive from there
this week. 1t lie also reported that several
carloads Of machinery for Bald Mountain
are on the way from the East aud that .
good deal OF work will be done there this
Summer.
AL. Smith, the photographer, left yester-
day by private conveyance for White Pine
county. He will tarry there q while, II the
business outlook is favorable; thence he
will go to Ferguson District. Mr.. Smith
is q genial gentleman and turns Out sx-
celIent work. We hope he will have .
pleasant trip and be amply ~remunersied
financially ere his return 10 Eureka.
A. J. Warner, President Of the Bime-
tallic League at Washington. d. O., and
J. @. sibley Of Pennsylvania. candidate
for President OF the United States on the
silver issue, are visiting this Coast. They
opened the campaign for silver In San
Francisco Tuesday night before an en-
mense audience. They are announced TO
speak 81 Los Angeles and Sacramento.
Last Saturday evening . concert was
given OF the Ruby Hill NJ. E. Church. BY
the Temperance League, for the purpose OF
raising funds for expenses. The church
was crowded; the young folks deported
themselves with great credit, and the sing
ing and recitations were remarkably we'll
rendered. A collection was taken up, the
amount OF which, Notwithstanding the
hard times, shows thai the Ruby Hill
folks take . lively interest in the spiritual
welfare Of their community.
A party Was ont Monday night In the
n~elghboring hills west OF town initiating .
new arrival In Eureka into the mysteries
OF snIpe hunting. He proved en- apt
scholar and possessed one OF the most
necessary neutrality-suspicious. was
demonstrated by the length OF time be
held the sack. But II was . bad night for
snipe. as none were bsgged. After the re-
turn Of the party TO town, the d. p. /.
hald especial meeting. admitting Gil i'm
plicated In the hunt to membership, ex-
cepting the new arrival. who was barred
on accoun. OF being . natural" The
initiators we're admitted without . descent
ing vote on the ground that they INDUCED
10 the invigoratipg sport on . warm,
bright moonlight night.