Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-07-30
ABOUT EMPIRE
FIRE.


The sun blazss bright upon the sand Of the
dry and thirsty road which takes the way
farer hence to the city of Empire, nesting
ike a salamander upon the hot banks of the
the dwindl;ug Carson. And yet our sister
city is not 80 saamander- like as to resist the
flames, unscathed does that sonlewhat
fabulous reptile Still it has just come off
with q fortunately light searching from a
threatened contlagration. Last Friday even
ing the residence of Charley Wolfberger, the
village barber, took fire inside, and before his
neighbors could resolve themselves into an
impromptu fire department, the furniture and
lining and papering were all licked up by the
flames. The wonderful thing done at this
fire was the combining OF tho flames within
the walls of the house This was done with
buckets OF water obtained by the slow pro-
cess of pumping from neighboring well
They worked like heroes, those Empire men.
Charley loss is partly if not wholly covered
by insurance. The cause OF the nishap was
not revealed.
TIE sCuOOL HOUSE
There are great many children to
the square yard of Empire sand To
accommodate these small statesmen and
matrOns, our Empire friends of the ''Port
have just been erecting an addition to their
substantial district school building. This
annex Is so FAR along toward completion to
promise to be in readiness for the little folk
so soon as their vacation is over
A BIRTHDAY PARTY
There viii be birthday party Tomorrow
at the residence of Mr. F. ID. Stadtmuller.
Master Freddie and Miss Nettie have issued
great many invitations (real, sure enough
invitations, printed on tinted paper and en-
veloped in envelopes, Just like old folks), and
there are all the indications of great gather
ing OF the infantry of Empire, Indeed this
party bids fair to be an Event, with n great
big capital T.
DOWN BY THE RIVER.
We soc the boys of Empire, stripped to tie
buff. big boys and little boys, taking all the
day comfort Of swim. Sitting
i'll an open buggy, undergoing the broiling
process, and perspiring at every pore, the
male adult, bound thrall to the hard, intlaxi-
Bile rules Of propriety and CUSTOM that ne is,
is fain to wish he were boy again, even ii
he must play hockey and get his back blistered
by the patcrnal hand as well as by the sun Of
heaven.
THE WOOD DRIVE
Is snugly at harbor or securely coming in. |
That Is to say, it is past all dangers of the |
1windlin.t river, past all shoals and bars, past |
III chutt,s and sloughs. Much Of the shrink |
age Of the river is due to the irrigating bitches
up along the valleys; but the burning sun,
pouring reIcutlessly upon yon banks of snow
has melted down the supplies until the lesser
riyulets are very shallow and thread-like,
BUSINESS.
OF course the labor of taking the wood |
from the river makes some stir on the banks |
and bottoms; hut those who know confess
that Empire is sharer in the widely prevail
ing dizziness Of the times, Still we note !
hat the Mexican and Morgan mills are at
York and that the MERCHANTS, notably Stadt-
muller and Co. and Beer Brothers, keep on
land a large and various stock and preserve
III appearance of cheerful solvency and well
grounded expectation. 1t is to be said that
he eclipse visited Empire with that impair
iality of precision which characterizes the
phenomena of astronomy, the regularity OF
movement inseparable from the solar system
nd the periodicity of our own modest
atellite. A necessarily brief visit prevented
more extended view of the situation and
uller gathering of items.