The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1914-03-28
SATURDAY. MARCH 90. 1914
LOCAL BREvITIES.

and passenger agent OF the Southern
Pacific, was a visitor to Eureka last
Monday.
Ed Halstead came up from Duck
water Tuesday with a four horse
team for a load of seed grain and
other supplies.
The long spell of fine March wealth
er was broken Thursday by several
small snow squalls, which have since
continued at intervals.
Mrs. Agnes orrison and daugh-
ter, Miss Mary, were in Eureka the
first of the week from Antelope Val
ley for a load of supplies.
Mrs. d. w. Tungate of Los Ange-
les, California, was an arrival by last
Mondays train for a visit with Mrs.
Wilbur E. Sanders at the Alkali
Mines.
Earl S. Cobb, accompanied by Eu-
gene Rice and Dan Nostrosa, Jr.,
left here by private conveyance for
Tonopah Thursday, where they go to
seek employment.
The Postal Department has ordered
that a record be kept of all parcel
post packages entering and departing
from the Eureka Office for Is days
commencing with April 1.
Miss Jeanne Pecoitz, a sister of
Mrs. John Etcheverry of Eureka, ar
rived by Mondays train from her
home in France, and will probably
take up her residence here.
R. A. Dean, who has been teach
ing the school at D~uckwater, Nye
County, has resigned the position, and
will shortly return to Hamilton to
resume work on his mining claims
there.
Tw~enty-one shearers came up or
last Mondays train, and it is under
stood the work of shearing the sheer
of the Eureka Land and Stock Com.
pany was commenced at Oak Station
on Wednesday.
The Normal school in Eureka that
has been closed for two weeks oil ac-
count of the illness of the teacher,
Miss f. l.. Koontz, was re-opened
last Monday, Miss Koontz having suf-
~ficently recovered to resume hel
duties.
Angus McNaughton, driver of the
stage between Eureka and Mineral
Hill. was taken quite i'll here the first
of the week with an attack of pleur.
isy. He is now reported improved
but still confined to the house. Her
man Bremenkampf is driving in his
place.
The Eureka Land and Stock Com
pany has employed James Romance of
Eureka to take charge of its Fish
Creek ranch. and he went out there
to-day to assume its management.
His family will take up their resi-
dence there with him and expect to.
go out in a few days.
Dan Morrison and w. II. Russell
made a trip to the Sadler ranch in
Diamond Valley last Monday in Mr..
Morrison's auto. With the excep-
ton of having to go through from Il
to Is inches of water in the slough,
six miles north of Eureka, they re-
port the road down the valley in
good condition.
Mrs. Hattie Robinson, colored. q
sister of Henry Berry. died of tuber-
culosis at Cortez, Nevada, last week,
and the burial took place Sunday.
Deceased was a former resident OF
Eureka, but left here a number of
years ago with her late husband.
Henry West, for Cortez, where the
family has since resided.
1t has been decided that the China
man brought up from Buckhorn last
week for an examination as to his
sanity is about mentally all right,
and that his delirious condition was
the result of illness. He is still be-
ing kept in the county Jail. but his
condition has improved so much that
the nurse employed to look after him
has been discharged.
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