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Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-02-11
WHITE PINE COUNTY ITEMS.
Items of Interest Clipped from shs
white Pine News Of Feb. q.

Mike Nicholson, OF Spring Valley,
Is the happy papa Of l2-pound boy.
A. b. O'Dougherty, a well-known
lawyer Of Pioche for many years, died
at Total Wreck, A. T., two weeks ago
The measles have died out in Tay-
lor. Only two fell victims TO its fury
Mr.. Corby's child and Johnny Tim
son.
We learn that Mrs. X. III. Frank, OF
Cherry Creek, is lying very i'll in San
Francisco. Mr.. Frank has been tele-
graphed for and went down.
About eight inches Of snow fell
here Thursday morning At Ely it
was only four inches, and at Ward but
two. The storm came from the north
east.
Report reaches us from Spring Val
ley that the loss Of stock there is al
ready very heavy, and should an
other big storm come on now, the loss
would be greatly increased.
From away down in California we
receive letters asking if the News is
frozen up yet. Why, bless your souls,
no. We had dust in our streets the
fore part of this week, and men went
around in their shirt sleeves.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-02-11

For the management OF vegetable
gardens and practical instructions con-
cerning the culture OF fowers-for
hints and information concerning all
kinds of seeds, planting and cultivat-
ing all vegetables and flowers, ID. VI.
Ferry & Co. 8 Seed Annual for 1888
will be found as complete as any work
of similar character ever issued.
The variety and extraordinary range
OF the information given renders their
Annual worthy the special attention
of every one interested in having lus-
cious vegetables or beautiful flowers.
ID. NJ. Ferry & Co. make the growing
and sale of onion seed leading
specially, and give so much informa-
ton on onion culture as to make their
Annual OF permanent value to all
onion growers and gardeners. The
Annual can be had for the asking.
Address ID. NJ. Ferry & Co., Detroit,
Michigan.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-02-11

Circus proprietors have been ac-
customed from time immemorial to
post upon the fences and dead walls
throughout the United States gorgeous
show bills representing the actors en-
gagged in performing the most as
tonishing feats, while in the case OF
menageries every wild beast that ever
figured in connection with Noah's ark
was pictured on the bills. II the
patrons of the shows were disap-
pointed at not realizing the expecta-
tions no complaint at any rate was
made, nor were the exhibitors ever
held responsible. Not SO with the
Mexican people. Information comes
from the neighbor republic that
Howe's circus, travelling in that
country, has been seized by the au-
thorities and the proprietors inn
prisoned because the exhibition did not
come up to the pictorial PROMISES
New Orleans Picayune.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-02-11

Lincoln county was first settled by
Mormons, who located at st. Thomas
on the Rio Virgin, Las Vegas, West
Point, Collville and Overton. When
the settlers were recalled by Brigham
Young in 1870 the population was
about 5000. At St Thomas 100000
shade trees were planted including
the following varieties; Silver maple,
locust, Usage orange, cottonwood and
sycamore. Large vineyard and orchards
were also cultivated. The altitude
where the Rio Virgin discharges into
the Colorado river, is but 800 feet
above sea level. In summer the tenn
perature is very hot, the thermometer
often indicating ll5 degrees in the
shade. About three miles south OF St.
Thomas is a mountain range OF rock
salt. Phoebe, Pahranagat, Groom,
Eldorado Canyon and Clarke are the
principal mining districts in the
county. The proposed railroad from
Salt Lake to Los Angeles will traverse
that part OF the Safe.
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LAMB OF INDIANA.
A German's Estimate Of Ris mar
velous GREATNESS.

Congressman John Wise of Vir-
ginia tells a good story on John +.
Lamb Of Indiana, for whom he spoke
during the late contest Of the latter in
his State. Wise did not know how
popular Lamb was at home. lie was
ON the cars going TO Terra Haute,
where a short Roman-nosed German
turned about and said bluntly:
BE you a drummer"
No" replied Wise.
he you traveller"
"No."
=" So," rejoined the German. "Then
what be you2'
/" am here" answered Mr.. Wise,
" in a Democratic district, to make
speeches in favor Of the Republican
candidate"
" You don't tell me you're going
down to Terra Haute to make 4
speech against Schon Lamb?"
=" Yes" said Mr. Wise, "I am"
" Mine friend, you make one mis-
take. Sehon Lamb is one OF the
EhNatSSA biNh
" What" replied Wise, with
smile, lis he greater than General
Granti"
4" Yes, mine friend, he is greater
than four Sheneral Grants"
" Not greater than Gar6eld?'
Garfield was not a circumstance to
Sehon Lamb. Why, mine friend,
Schon Lamb is the greatest man that
ever lived"
"Nop said Wise, you don't mean
to say that he is greater than Sol
omon2'
"Ah! mine friend" reioined the
German with enthusiasm, al don't
say that Schon Lamb is now a bigger
man than Solomon and here he
leaned over toward Wise and shook
his finger solemnly in his face" but,
mine friend, Schon Lamb vas young
yet" - Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle.
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District Court Summons.
In the District Court of the state
of Nevads, Eureka County.
VHE STATE OF NEVADA SENDS GREET

TIyHE STATE OF NEVADA SENDS GREET
ing to John killen.
You are hereby required to AZ pear in an nc
ton commenced a2sinst You as defendant by
Martin Phantom, plaintiff in the District Court
OF the State of Nevada, Eureka county, at tie
town Of Eureka, and answer the complaint
therein, which is On file with the Clerk of said
Court. within ten days after the service on you
of this Summons exclusive Cf the day of
days II served out Of ssid county, but within
this District, and in all other cases forty days:
or judgment by d, fault will be taken against
you, according to the prayer of said complaint.
The said action is brought to receiver jndg
mont against you, the said defendant, for the
sum of s554 40, with legal in. ersst ON S307 So
thereof from date until paid and for costs,
alleged to be due plaintiff from you on a judg-
menb beret fore rendered and docketed
against you in favor of plaintif in the District
Court Of the sixth Judicial District, Eureka
county, Nevada, on the Sd day Of December.
1881.
And you are hereby notified that, If you fail
to appear and answer the said complaint as
above required, the said plaintiff will tsko
Judgment By default against yon for the aum
of 1854 40, with legal interest on 1907 35
thereof from date until paid. and his costs OF
suit. All of which will more fully appear from
a certified copy OF the complaint hled herein.
served with true copy Of the summons
herein.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, |, +. II. HARMON.
have hereunto set my hand officially,
TsEAL.l and affixed the seal of Rsid Court this
I'd day Of Dec. A. d. lss7.
Ooun ty CLERK and ex oiicio Clerk Of the District
Court of the State Of Nevada, Eureka County.
d3l
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An AwfuI Drean,

A party of gentlemen were seated
in coy parlor the other evening
when the conversation turned upon
the personal dangers they had in
CURED. Several stories were told with
varying degrees of modesty and bra
vado, when the demure and pretty
wife of the host claimed attention.
d" NV experience, she said, was
only a dream, yet think you will
agree with me that from a woman's
standpoint, the situation was more
thrilling than any you have expe-
rienced
~ dreamed that was taking sleigh
ride, unaccompanied. | was driving
down Park Avenue at rapid rate
when my horse, taking fright at some
object by the roadside, bolted and
ran. At the same instant | discov-
cred mouse in the bottom OF the
sleigh. | have a mortal terror OF all
manner of rodents, as have most
women. The horse was running so
fast that | dared not leap out, and it
was all | could do TO keep him in the
road. The mouse came nearer. |
was too much frightened to scream. ]
thought l should die. The mouse
came nearer still. could stand it nc
longer, so | awoke. Now it is all over
perhaps it is woman's curiosity
have often wished | had remained
asleep little while longer just 10 see
how the adventure would have turned
out. II was one of the few disap'
pointments OF my life that | didn't"
And the men never said a word
Minneapolis Tribune.
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A WALKING WAITER.
The Curious Antics of u chicago
IIash.Sil niger.

The other day | chanccd into
a State street cafe, where the
walters were ebony tinted and the
style oppressive. While waiting for
the serving of my modest order |
spent the drollest quarter OF an hour
ever put in outside OF a minstrel
show, and came to the conclusion that
a man need not expend 81 80 for a
theater ticket to witness good COM
edy any more than he need make the
same expenditure to get glimpse OF
the tragedies of life. The waiter who
presided over my table was seemingly
possessed of the spirit of metrical mo-
ton. Everything he did was timed
to an inward tune. He advanced
upon the laying of the service in stac-
cato time; he diminuendoed on the
water Jug and erescendoed in passing
the pickles. He dropped napkin
and turned about three times to es-
tablish the perfect time of his interior
measure. He went down the room in
a succession of quarter notes, and re-
turned in i-demi-semi-quavers
At last, catching my eye fixed upon
him, he struck a series of brilliant
octaves and fairly hummed about his
work like the measures OF a Straus
waltz in double-quick. lie turned
about twice every time he changed
plate, and pirouetted around the table
between courses. Finally he opened
the door for me to depart with a wild
evolution of gymnastic strides that
seemed like the closing chords in a
splendid bravura. gave him dime
for his performance, and am willing to
duplicate it any day when | feel an
approach of "blues in the air.-Chi-
cago Journal.
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Tho Pneumonia season.

II New York had one-tenth as
many deaths from any disease that
comes under the head OF pestilence,
and typhoid fever seems to belong
there, as it does from pneumonia, it
would be wildly panic-stricken and
every Gothamite who could get away
would be ON the run. This wholesale
destroyer is busy all the year round,
chiefly, of course, after the cold
weather begins. At the present time
it is doing its fatal work all over the
city and adding TO the death rate
every day. The doctors are very little
more successful in treating it than
they were twenty or thirty years ago,
when it was called either inhamma-
ton Of the lungs or congestion of the
lungs. 1t probably is not any more
prevalent than it was then, but we
hear great deal more about it, any
way. The frequent mention Of it in
the death notices would seem to indi-
cate that nearly half the deaths in the
Winter are caused by it. Neither
young nor old, feeble or strong has
any immunity from it. Men appar-
emily i'm the most robust health are
stricken down by it almost instantly,
and death frequently ensues within AS
hours. II the aged are attacked by it
a fatal result is almost absolutely GER
tain. Some Of the doctors are now
talking about microbe that they sup
pose to be at the bottom Of it, but
that does not seem to help them in
treating it. Microbe or no microbe, it
pursues its fatal course, sparing
neither rich nor poor.-New York Cor.
Detroit Free Press.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-02-11
A Pit,.burg widow.

A young and very pretty widow,
dressed in elegant mourning, stood by
an open trunk at the Custom-house
the other morning. A lynx-eyed
woman inspector was going Though
the spoils Of Paris. Presently her
nostrils quivered. She scented game,
and pulled out u package of kid gloves
of various colors and tints. "These
are not for your own use, madam. "
"Why not ?" asked the lady, an omi-
nous pink spot coming TO each check.
You can see they are my size
holding out a dainty little hand.
There was a you can't-come-it-over
me expression on the others face as
she replied: "People dressed as You
are do not wear colored gloves
"Ah," said the pretty widow with
contempt. "do you suppose I'm going
to wear mourning the rest Of my
life ?" The inspector YVES crushed,
and replaced the gloves Of the lady
from Pittsburg.-New York Press.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-02-11

what am Experienced Aurfst Told
Reporfer


How do | know that man had
something the matter with his right
ear?" repeated Delaware street au-
rist, with whom a Journal reporter
was talking. Why, because he told
me so. Didn't you see him do it?p
The reporter confessed that he had
not heard the man make any remark
as he passed the window where the
aurist and the visitor we're sitting.
Well, he did it. Out there on the
corner OF my house have little tin
sign containing my name, beneath
which are the words, Eye and Ear
Now, II is a very strange phenome-
non, but nine men out OF ten who are
troubled with Affections Of the eye or
ear will reveal the location OF their
disease when they see that sign. They
do it unconsciously. A man passes in
a deep brown study. lie is oblivious
Of everything. Even the direction
and the style OF his gait are mechan-
ical. When he is opposite that sign
he is mechanically reminded that he
is interested in it, and he begins to in
yestigate the magnitude Of his inter
est. II his eye is sore he will rub it
if he wears glasses he will take them
off and wipe them, or il his hearing is
bad he will put his hand to his ear. 1t
is all mechanically done. That man
to whom | called your attention put
his hand to his right ear as soon as he
saw the sign, The demonstration is a
freak OF nature which shows that we
can never become so engrossed in any
thing as to be regardless Of ourselves"
indianapolis Journal.
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BARBERING MULES.
A Mooted Question that Unsetties q
Nebraska Family.

We met a settler near Lodge Pole,
Neb., as he was watering his mules at
alittle creek on his way to town. We
noticed that the tail and manc OF one
Of bis mules was trimmed in the high
est style while those Of the other were
long and bushy.
Colonel" said Briar, with bland
smile, "why don't you barber your
other mule?"
A rather sickly smile spread over
the mans face, and he replied
Had mules orter be trimmed up2"
Why, they nearly always are.
Don't you think they should be?"
That's the question. That's the
pint my family is divided on. julie
says they should be, the old woman
claims they shouldn't trimmed
that off mule's name with square cor
ners an very small swell along the
center, an cut his tail like two paint
brushes showed into each other, to
suit julie, an left the other go to
please the old woman. julie claims
it's the fashion in mules everywhere
square names and one or two swells
in the tail, whichever becomes the
mule best. She says she's read about
il in history, an that the style was
first introduced in France by the Duke
OF New Orleans, an that from there 1t
spread into this country. She says
the crowned heads and other folks
that are way up all over the world
keep their mules trimmed up all the
time. She says YOU go to New York
or Chicago an You'll find every mule
that amounts TO anything trimmed
in fashion. A mule will notice it an
act sneakin' an balky il he amt ia
style, she claims. The old woman
don't know nothing bout history nor
don't claim it didn't used to be style,
but she says the custom has been
swept away by progress. Reform has
knocked 1t, she claims. She saws that
women used TO wear skirts as big's a
hay-stack an men long hair an short
pants, an mules rufiied tails, but that
all these things are out of date. II
you're going to tuck mules tails, says
she, why not stick the same kind OF
fimmydiddles on horses and cows
tails?' When the old woman says it's
agin the spirit of the age julie says the
spirit of the age is TO spile the booti-
iul everywhere, an that it's low
down spirit an We must set ourselves
agin it. They fit about it so often that
jes' trimmed up one mule an left
the other go. 1t want altogether
peace even then, cause when my boy
come home from Omaha, where he's
clerkin' in a store, he said there was a
lack o harmony in them mules that
hurt him. He lowed it want art.
lie claimed the toot ensemble was
ornery. He wanted me to put UNI
brell' covers on 'em while he was
home. That's the way it goes ut my
house, an I'm goin' to write to the
editor Of our farm paper. an if he
can't settle the question so we can have
peace Pm goin' to trade my mules fol
Ilosses. | reckon there amt any ques'
ton about the fashion in them. -
Chicago Tribune.
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the GUM.CHEwING HABIT.
BiII Nye Discourses for sbe BeBe-
nt OF n vassar Girl.


One who signs herself " a Vassar
Girl writes to know if the habit Of
gum-chewing is really injurious, and
also whether it can truthfully be con-
sidered de trop. The letter, though
carefully and ingeniously written, is
scarcely the work Of Vassar girl. A
Nassar girl with the educational adj
vantages OF that institution, and,
knowing as she must, that man is a
cudless animal, would hardly address
such a question to the undersigned.
This young woman must be playing
upon the credulity of one who is easily
made the dupe Of those who write
tender words with Gothic penmanship
and seductive odors. A Vassar girl
would not need TO ask whether il
would be injurious or not for person
not having four stomachs to try and
emulate the cud-bearing or endoge-
nous mammalia. She would know it
at once.
But it is not alone that gum-chew-
ing is injurious that ! would speak
against il. 1t is unnice. None
OF us are using gum this Winter in
our set. Ii interferes with the clear,
nasal enunciation and when one goes
TO bed with gum in the mouth it is
too apt to be stuck on the headboard
OF the bed, where, as it becomes more
and more frequent, it mars the SYM
metry OF the furniture and takes off
the varnish. Moreover, you seem TO
accomplish so little in chewing gum.
Chew, dear one, rs long as you may,
but wad of spruce has gum TO stay.
Man gets weary at set of sun, but
chew cannot fatigue cud Of gum.
II can do anything further in the
way of advice or album poetry, am a
chewer service. Nye in New
York World.
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mo. SOS
Application for a Patent.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE, !
R.. No.-.1a Nav 1r -

UNITED STATES LAND oFFIsE, I
RUREKA, Nevada, Nov IS, IS :.
NOTICE fs HEREBY GIVEN THAI
~ Eugene N. Robinson. whose Pnstctiice ad-
dress IL SelIgman. Nevada, has this DAY iiled his
application for patent for ff'esn hundred
linear feet Of the Pursell mine or vein, bearing
silver, with surface ground six hundred feet In
width, situated in white Pine Mining Dis
triet, county Of white Pine. and STATE Of Ne,
vada. and designated by fhe held-notes and
official plat on dle In this Office as lot No. u. in
Township 10 north. range 81 east, OF Mount
Diablo meridian. The exterior boundaries Of
said lot 40. II being a. follows:
Beginning at post marked No. l, q. Z. sur
vey No. ", the same being identical with the
original location corner. whence section corner
common h sections 0. 10, Is and l6, township 10
N, range 81 T.. Mount Diablo meridian, bcars
\. SO deg, as min. W., arc feet. and the
mouth Of tunne No. l on this lode tears N. 50
deg W, s4l feet; thence running Il course
g.. oia deg. W., 900 feet, to . st marked No. 2
U. y. survey No. II, the same being the original
location corner; thence second course NJ. est
deg. W 800 feet, to post marked No, 3, Z. 5.
survey No. ", theSsame being identical with
the original location corner; thence third course
n, 6Ia deg. E, eeo feet. TO pos; marked No. 4.
U. survey No. II, and identical with the orig
iual location corner. and thence fourth coaIs5
s., 2st deg. T., 1900 feet, TO post No. !, the
place Of beginning.
Mag netlc variation l64 deg. east, containing
30 15 100 scres.
Recorders Office Of White Pine Mining District,
In Book A Of page So.
The adjeining claimants are on the north the
CRUSADER on the south the PurselI No. 2.
Any and all per.ons claiming adversely any
portion OF said Pursel mine or surface
ground are required to file their adverse claims
with the Register Of the United States Land
Once at Eureka, in the State OF Nevada, during
the sixty days period OF publication hereof, or
they will be barred by virtue of the provisions of
the Statute.
d. HALL. Register.
II is hereby ordered that the foregoing notice
OF application for patent be published for the
period Of sixty days (ton consecutive weeks), In
the Eureka SENTINEL, g weekly newspaper
published at Eureka, Eureka county, Hevads.
d3. Cod ID IL HALL Renisfer.
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Religion shouid Thrive There.

Since the big storm and the thaw,
says the Virginia Enterprise, our un-
dermined community has taken a
fresh start in its downward and east
ward slide. Houses all along G street
can he heard to crack and crush in the
still hours of the night. The gas
mains in Gold Hill and Virginia have
been badly ruptured, and the big
water pipes are also in the same fix.
1t is all caused by the settling motion
OF the ground under US, and it ID
enough to make timid people a little
nervous