Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1899-12-23
O MENTION.


atwo weeks vacation.
Latest New York quotations are: Silver,
59s; lead-brokers. "a As.
Martin Brown this week purchased a
fine buggy horse from Ben Regli.
Rev. NJ. s. Riddle went to Elko last
Monday and will return Saturday.
Thursday, December 81, was the Winter
s~oIsti,e, the shortest day in the year.
The practice of the Star Band in Eu-
reka last Sunday drew q large audience.
Mrs. James White Of Palisade came up
to Eureka last Saturday on legal business.
Henry Weekend of Newark Valley
came in last Wednesday with q big load Of
game.
The SENTINEL extends greetings to all its
readers and wishes everybody a Merry
Christmas.
Mrs. John Donnelly and two children
returned to Eureka from Salt Lake by last
Saturdays train.
The condition Of Mrs. Owen Rice, who
recently suffered a paralytic stroke, is said
to be quite serious.
j. w. Williamson, assistant agent Of the
Southern Pacific at Palisade. spent last
Thursday in Eureka.
Postofice Inspector Cowan has been
transacting official business in Eureka and
Hamilton this week..
Miss Portia Wittenberg is home from
the Nevada University to spend the holt
days with her family.
The Senate on Friday the 18th instant
confirmed the appointment Of @. L. Broy
as postmaster at Eureka.
ID. j. Lindsay, solicitor for the Chicago
& Northwestern Railway, arrived in Eu-
reka by Thursdays train.
Mrs. p. G. Woods Of Oakland, accom-
panied by her two children, is visiting her
sister, Mrs. G. ID. Abbott, at Palisade.
Two Masses will be held at the Catholic
Church Christmas morning. the first at s
and the last-High Mass-at 10 o'clock.
The usual religious services will be held
Vt the Catholic Church to- morrow at 10
o'clock. Sunday School meets at Q o'clock.
Fred Hip, q former resident Of White
Inc county and well known throughout
= ; State, died in San Francisco last Mon
cay.
Julius Huebner has returned home from
Cortez. He has been running q car in the
mine there, but the work was too heavy for
him.
Frank Winzell this week took a large
band of calves from the Winzell to the
Coil ranch, where they will be fed this
Winter.
Miss Rose Kind, who has spent several
months in Winnemucca and various places
in California, returned home by last Tues.
days train.
Oliver Benson, w. 7. Stewart, T. r.
Jewell and Amos Plummer were up from
the northern part of the county On Grand
Tury duty this week.
= Z. Boomhower came up Tuesday to
spend the holidays with his family. He
reports the snow in the region of Alpha as
being over a foot deep.
There was good sleighing for several days
last week, and our people took advantage
of 1t, particularly Sunday, when everything
on runners was in use,
L. Boomhower, Amos Plummer and NJ.
b. Bartlett appraised the estate Of Robert
Bailey, deceased, on Wednesday, placing
the total valuation at 81, SOC.
Rowdy McMenomy was in Thursday
from Fish Creek. He reports the tempera-
ture at that place to have been IA degrees
below zero last Tuesday morning.
Bert Henderson will leave about the
last of the month for Cherry Creek, White
Pine county, near which place he will be
engaged in teaching school the coming
term.
Mrs. ]. L. Muir of San Jose, wife of the
agent of the Mutual Life Insurance Com.
pahy' Joined her husband here last Satur-
aay. They are stopping at the Brown
Hotel.
commissioner Haworth lost one of his
matched team Of wheel horses last Monday.
The ANNA died of blood poisoning, caused
oy running the point of a pitchfork into its
fetlock.
Mrs. M. Bailey, who spent two weeks
IN Eureka on legal business, left on Friday
OF last week for Salt Lake, where she hes
rented a dwelling and will make her home
In future.
The cause Of the delayed arrival of the
train last Tuesday was a fro zen spout on
the water tank at Alpha. It was necessary
TO thaw this out and the train wa, two
hours late.
A rich gold discovery is reported to have
been made near the Hagar ranch in Rubv
Valley, Elko county. Much excitsmsnt
prevails there and Christmas is forgotten
in prospecting.