Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-05-15

klre department.
In compliance with the provisions of the
ordinance passed by the Board of Town
Trustees, an election for Chief Engineer
OF the Fire Department will be held at the
Courthouse to-day. The polls will be
open from l O'Clock until 7, and all those
whose names appear on the rolls Of the re-
spective companies, as handed the Clerk
on Monday, and published in the SENTINEL
OF Tuesday, will be entitled to vote.
Messrs. o. =. Scott, Dan. Immel and d.
W.. Levan will be judges of the election,
and Smith Harris and Duncan Falconer,
Clerks.
As yet no Independent candidate has
appeared in the field, although it was
claimed in certain quarters yesterday that
mt would be brought forward this morn
ing. This is hardly probable, though pos
sible, and the fight will undoubtedly be
between the men nominated by their sew
erai companies, namely, Tommy Douglas,
OF the Hooks and Knicks., Owen McDer-
mott, Of the Richmonds, and William
Montgomery, Of the Rescues. All are
good men, with creditable records, and
either would undoubtedly fill the place
acceptably.
The contest between the rival candidates
has been a lively one, but has been waged
in an honorable and friendly spirit, en-
tirely free from tile acrimony and bitter
ness that usually characterize such cleo
tons, and, whatever the result may prove,
1t will be accepted in the same spirit.
THE CANDIDATES.
Thomas s. Douglas, the nominee Of the
Hooks and Knicks, Is a native Of Boston,
Mass. and has been a fireman from his
boyhood up, and since his arrival in Eu-
reka, which was in its infancy, has always
been identified with the department. From
1872 until 1877, and at various times since
he was foreman of the knickerbocker hose,
a position he resigned to accept the candi-
dacy Of the Hooks and Kricks for Chief
Engineer. He is about AZ years old, of
medium size, of frank disposition, a warm
friend and a good hater, impnlsive to a
fault, and lacks that tact whereby some
men conceal their true feelings when it is
to their interest to do 80. His saloon,
residence and contents were destroyed by
the fire.
William Montgomery, the choice of the
Rescnes, is a Kentuckian by birth, is fully
six foot in height, Of a p~hlegmatic tenn
permanent, and q man whose appearance
would~indicate that he is always prepared
to take the world as it comes. He has
been on the coast for years. has always
been regarded as an honorable. upright
man, and filled the position of Treasurer
Eureka county creditably and accept
ably. OF late he has been engaged in the
business, and like Douglas he lost
his home by the fire.
Owen McDermott, the candidate of the
I.ichmouds, first saw the light Of day on
Ireland's green Isle, and has been in Amer
lea about sixteen years, and in Eureka
about four. He is proprietor Of a black
smith shop on Main street, and was one OF
the organizers of the Richmond Company.
Like Montgomery, he is tall in stature, of
a warm, generous disposition, and has a
genial physiognomy that nnmistak-
betrays his Irish descent.
Any one OF the men named would un-
doubleday ill the place acceptably, and the
will really prove more a matter Of
personal popularity than anything else.