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Show EUREKA, 1TEV. The Sentinel learns that a number of stockmen in Eureka and the surround- i ing counties are anxiously awaiting the ! arrival in this section of the usual I cattle buyers. No dttinite reason for their absence this season (-n De 0j. tained, but it is said that the prevailing depression in the east and the lack of I feed throughout the country are the causes. Cattle have fallen ,,ft about ' a head from the prices paid a year a-o ! f ' " i Death came to shadow another home j in Eureka when George Young passed ' quietly away at his residence here. His ' deatli was caused by cancer of the j stomach, from which he had been a ' sufferer for about a year. Deceased I was a man of method in all that he did, having been raised in the old German ' way and consequently acquiring steady f and industrious habits, his daily walk j was one of industry, strict attention t.i I business and "his homo lif 3. He was one of Eureka's pioneers and has always al-ways borne the respect of the people of this community. Denny Keefe, who is working on a lease at ths Silver Conner mine on Prospect mountain, has started a tunnel tun-nel on the west side of the mountain, in order to better handle the ores from the ICO-foot level on which he is work-ingr work-ingr , ' . : ' i A press dispatch says: "t is learned that Harriman. for reasons not made I plain, has directed that patents be ob- ! tained for all Central Pacific unpat- ! ented land in Nevada. Of the 5,000,0 'rt i acres of the Central Pacific land' grant j in Nevada, not more than one-half hjs I been patented to the emu any. IlnrrJ- 1 man's reasons for patenting the 2. ."00,- ' COO acres of unpatented lands in No-I vada is somewhat of a mystery." j The Virginia City Report says it be- ; hooves owners of unpattntfd miring ' locations to ascertain whether their ! claims are on sections included in the '. land grants to tbeCentrcl Pacific in ' this. state', upon which applications for J patents are applied for by the Southern I Pacific company in time to file protests j within sixty days after the applications are advertised. The-' land grant allows the company twenty miles on each side of the main track' on-'6dd 'sections of the : public domain. I |