Eureka Daily Sentinel

The present fine weather is a God-send to builders.
Mr. P. Steler arrived from San Francisco last night.
There are quite a number of Eurekans at Butte, Montana.
Mr. Frank Robbins returned last evening from the West.
Who was the best skater at the rink last evening? Answer.
A new wire cable for the Albion hoisting works has arrived.
Dr. F. J. Schneider has been quite unwell for the past two days.
The C. P. east-bound train was one hour late at Palisade last evening.
The Weekly Sentinel can be had at W. J. Penrose's newsstand, Ruby Hill.
The Homestake Mining Company is expected to pay the usual dividend on the 5th.
Mr. A. J. Land of Huntington Valley came in yesterday by private conveyance.
For your fine wines and cigars, for Thanksgiving dinners, go and see Bartlett.
The weather yesterday was perfectly lovely; just cool enough to make it pleasant.
Mrs. O. J. Salisbury leaves this morning for a visit of a few days to Secret Canyon.
Jesse Mendes is refitting the Postoffice Exchange, and it will be elegant when finished.
Our markets are crammed with fine poultry and game, and at very reasonable prices.
Skates are now the most saleable article in Eureka. The old and the young buy them.
The Weekly Sentinel is a good paper to send to your friends in the East and in Europe.
A branch of the Order of Chosen Friends will probably be organized on Ruby Hill.
The Sharon family have been nobilized (don't shoot the word) by Lady Hesketh's recent confinement.
Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, the lady lawyer of Washington, travels the streets of that city on a tricycle.
The proprietors of the new skating rink have received 75 pairs of skates, all of the latest improved patterns.
The "rash" that has been prevalent among the children of late has developed into measles in several cases.
The trial of Schander, who killed Capt. Adams last winter, is in progress in Judge Rix's court in San Francisco.
Noel Guillemette, a cracked Frenchman at Carson, has starved himself so long that the doctors despair of his life.
The foundation for the reduction works of the Geddes & Bertrand Company at Secret Canyon is nearing completion.
The sales in the San Francisco Stock Board were unusually heavy yesterday, but there was not much improvement in prices.
One can eat breakfast in New York one morning and in Chicago the next, since the New York Central has started its fast train.
Miss Jennie Lee, in the character of "Joe," dramatized from Dickens' "Bleak House," is reported to be coming west shortly.
Mr. Henry H. Webb, who has been the guest of Dr. T. W. Huntington for a few days, left Saturday morning for San Francisco.
The veteran James L. Ridgely, for half a century the leading spirit of American Odd Fellowship, died in Baltimore last Wednesday.
Dick Ryland has treated his tenants to a new porch on his brick building at the corner of Bateman and Buel streets, which was badly needed.
The hearing of the case of the Nevada Orphans' Home vs. Controller Hallock, has been postponed to December first, by the Supreme Court.
Fannie Louise Buckingham will not probably put in an appearance here after all. She is said to be a member of a stock company in Denver.
Whether the canvas comes or not there will be a grand opening and blow out at the skating rink Saturday evening, provided the weather will permit.
Dr. Schneider has the finest assortment of toilet articles ever brought to Eureka. You can select elegant presents there for your mothers, wives or sweethearts.
Last Saturday while Joseph Libby was working in a raise in the Richmond mine a large rock fell from the roof and struck him on the foot, causing a severe fracture.
The following persons have been appointed notaries public: Geo. F. Talbot, to reside at Elko; W. Warren, to reside at Palisade, and T. E. Hayden, to reside at Reno.
Report has it that some pretty hard words passed between the girls and a well-known citizen last night, resulting in a fisticuff, in which said "well-known" came out second best.
Public spirited citizens who have corner business places would become good Samaritans and save passers-by many an ache if they would sprinkle a little ashes on the crossings.
The friends of Mr. F. H. Allen, formerly of Ruby Hill, will be pleased to learn that Mrs. Allen was safely delivered of a 15-pound son at Central City, Dakota Territory, on Nov. 12.
Prof. William Eimbeck and Mr. R. A. Marr of the Geodetic Survey, now at Troy, some fifty miles south of Hamilton, will soon withdraw therefrom and take up winter quarters in Carson.
The Eureka & Colorado River Railroad Company yesterday commenced suit in the District Court against the Hamburg Mining Company for right of way, and ask the court to appoint three appraisers and condemn the property.
Eureka Tunnel stock yesterday tumbled to $1.75 per share. What's the matter now? Everything is working well at this end of the line, and the mine never looked better than at present. The stock ought to be selling for at least $5 per share.
The Indian question in Arizona is likely to be complicated by the discovery of extensive coal deposits in the White Mountain reservation. The Indian Commissioner says the coal is of superior quality, and likely to prove quite valuable in the near future.
Dr. G. H. Thomas, who has been ill for several days, was not quite so well yesterday. Dr. Huntington is attending him, and he requests us to state that fewer visitors will be beneficial to the Doctor's condition, and that he will recuperate faster by their absence.
About a week ago Superintendent Butler, of the Eureka Tunnel Company, sent a piece of ore from their mine, weighing 136 pounds, to General Connor at Salt Lake. Yesterday he received returns of assays made from the rock, which average $482.15 per ton, and 35 per cent in lead.
Mrs. Kavanaugh, who was burned out on Ruby Hill a short time since, is erecting a boarding-house, 16x60, near George Tassell's shoe shop on Ruby Hill. Mike Purcell is also erecting a large building at the railroad crossing, New Town. Both structures will be completed by the first of December.
The Banner Mining Company yesterday filed their articles of incorporation. The time is not far distant when this will be one of the most substantial companies in the district. The Directors of the company are very clear-headed business men, and there is no doubt about their having a splendid mining property.
Passing Bullion.
The following bullion was shipped by Wells, Fargo & Co., this morning: 1 bar valued at $1,695.85
Hereafter Bristol will toot her own horn.
The material of the old Tybo Sun has arrived in that town, and a paper will soon be issued there.
Supt. Garrison of the Pay-Day mine reports the bottom of the shaft in exceedingly interesting ground, encountering bunches of ore every few inches, and the mine is liable to give birth to a good deposit of ore any day.
There are 25 men at the Mayflower mine in Bristol District. Add to this some ten or fifteen men prospecting and doing assessment work, you will have the full number of men working in the mines of this district.
The Day Company has placed a few men prospecting in the Hillside mine. The old miners, who worked in the mine when it was yielding large quantities of very good ore, say that the formation of the ground denotes a large body of ore somewhere in the immediate vicinity.
There is no telling when the bonanza in the Mayflower will cease growing. The reports from the mine are as flattering as ever. We are led to believe by those who have traveled and are experienced in mining that it has developed into one of the most valuable properties of the State.
John McNally, who came here for the purpose of examining the Day Company's mines, informed us that that they were valuable property. He spoke highly of the Day mine, and said it had an excellent showing, just what experts who have been here for the purpose of examining the mine have pronounced, and was highly pleased with what he saw at the Menhada. While here he went through the upper levels of the Raymond & Ely.
HAMILTON NOTES.
A correspondent at Hamilton writes the following items to the White Pine News:
Col. Joe Grandelmyer is at the Fay, pushing work on that promising mine.
It is generally conceded that this will be among the busiest of our Court terms for some time past.
Superintendent Kendall is busy developing his Treasure Hill and White Pine Mountain properties.
The Court was obliged to draw the same Grand Jurymen, and an additional one, J. R. Townsend, who filled the panel.
The restaurants and saloons are doing a rushing business, and several of the sporting fraternity are here, armed to clip the shorn lamb.
It is understood, but not made public, that the Grand Jury have found several indictments against parties charged with various offenses.
We hope to show to the county before long that this old district is not to be ignored among the paying districts of White Pine County.
Gen. Geo. M. Sabin is here in the interest of his client, J. R. Middleton. So is Attorney W. C. Love, in the interest of various clients in and around Cherry Creek.
The Sheriff has succeeded in summoning most of the trial jurors, which was not a very easy job, as they were drawn from Snake, Spring and Steptoe Valleys, Cold Creek, White River, Ward, Newark and all intermediate points.
We get encouraging reports regarding mining prospects at Ward and Taylor Districts from the jurymen in from these sections, which lead us to believe that those sections are sure to make their mark soon.
Osceola people, too, tell of great improvement in their section.
BELMONT BITS.
Culled from the Courier of Last Saturday.
The Gold Park mines, this county, are reported as looking tiptop.
Rich ore is still being extracted from the Forlorn mine in Ophir Canyon.
The Harrison Brothers are still encountering rich ore in their mines, Jefferson Canyon.
The Tybo Con. Mining Company expect to resume operations in their mines in the Spring.
Lively times in Morey, this county. The ore extracted from the mines is of good quality, and the mill of the company is running nicely and doing good work.
An assessment of 15c per share has been levied upon the capital stock of the Belmont Mining Company.
The California Central Railroad surveyors have completed the survey in Nye County. The railroad will run within 45 miles south of Belmont, and we understand that the work of construction will be pushed with great energy early next year.
The work of development in the mines at Reveille is being pushed with energy, and the chloride ore extracted is of a rich quality. The mill is running and we learn that it is doing good work. Reveille in the near future will prove a good mining district, as rich mines are known to exist in that section.
WHITE PINE ITEMS.
From the Cherry Creek News of the 19th.
Another venire for jurymen was telegraphed from Hamilton Thursday, and it is more than likely that further drafts will be made.
Superintendent Goss passed west last Tuesday, from a trip among the surveyors and graders of the E. & O. R. R., out in Spring Valley.
Just now, the hardest thing to find in Cherry Creek, for love or money, is a house to live in. Rents are away up, too. Pretty good signs of a prosperous community.
Wash Hyde, a former well known resident of Cherry Creek and other mining camps in Eastern White Pine, is said to have been killed lately by a policeman at Sedalia, Mo., while resisting arrest for some trivial offense.
Dr. Hagar was summoned to Ward Tuesday last to attend Fred Hilp, who was said to be seriously ill. As the doctor has never lost a patient over there, it is safe to say he will bring Fred out all right.
He Had to Go.
It was in Union street close to Main street last night, says the Bodie Free Press. He was about to enter a lager beer bazar to squander certain of his dollars. Suddenly a stalwart female stepped from the deep shadows in the rear and came upon him. He turned and started to run, but the stalwart female grabbed him by the collar, pushed him up against the building and whispered loudly in his ear: "You're a nice one, ain't you? I thought I would catch you. You said you was coming home early; but you'll go now!" And she tightened her grasp on him, and he trotted home without a murmur.
Fresh Oysters.
Gibfried & Brisacher of the Jackson House Restaurant have made arrangements by which they will be constantly in receipt of fresh oysters, which they will serve in every style. They will keep an all-night house hereafter and meals can be secured at all hours of the night or day. They will also pay the strictest attention to arranging and furnishing balls and parties with luncheon or suppers.
The Luscious Bivalve.
The oyster season has arrived, and this is nowhere more apparent than at Mrs. Brown's Restaurant, where at all hours of the day and night the bivalve is served in any style known to the art of cooking. Oysters are received by express daily in cans and in the shell from both the East and West. Families supplied.
Still Coming.
Messrs. M. J. Franklin & Co. are constantly receiving all the new designs in carpets, wall papers, and everything in this line. Call and see the new patterns.