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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1879
Page
3
Fragmentary note records War Department observations dated in late 19th century. Mentions signals or data points at multiple stations and time coincidences. Reads as an archival military communication with terse timing references and scattered abbreviations.
Local intelligence invites attendance at Centennial Hall for a fireman charity ball with reduced ticket price of 25 cents and supper for 25 cents per couple. A Christmas tree is to be provided after a tree order mix up and Colfax delivery. J M Haworth Interior Department official arrives to study Indian affairs while Miss Guillaume visits Gress Valley for holidays. A grand Christmas entertainment begins at 7 with gifts for parents children and friends. Reliable helpers receive packages after 2 PM.
In Big Meadows two weeks ago five Chinese laborers gathering sage brush for Bob St. Clair were found dead in their camp with a burned hut. Coroner Oppenheim held an inquest and ruled the men stupefied by opium and the fire caused by lamps burning. Some bodies escaped charring. no homicide marks. A San Francisco Chronicle report suggests murder hidden by arson. Authorities track leads while a Centennial Hall entertainment is announced. A Humboldt County rancher, E. Epler, cites 1200 acres in alfalfa for Parkinson’s ranch.
A handwritten fragment describes hanging a baby's Christmas stocking with a grandparent’s extra-long stocking used to fill with gifts. The note mentions a mother and Senta and a playful plan to surprise the baby with stockings and a letter. A hotel ad offers first-class Christmas dinners for guests, and a sale advertises a pair of diamond earrings priced at 132 dollars at Uncle Harris on 221 Kearny Street.
Special locals promote Shilohs Consumption Cure as the best lung medicine, claiming it cures common and chronic coughs in half the time and relieves asthma bronchitis whooping cough croup and consumption cases. It is sold by C A DeSaussure with porous plaster for lung comfort.
An ad style notice touts Shiloh's Vitalizer for digestive ills at 75 cents and Boschee's German Syrup for coughs and lung conditions, claiming world-leading sales and safety. It also reports a church Ladies Fair with Mrs. Robinson's coffee and sandwiches, noting items won by Ebbie Wood J. K. Hopkins and E. Reinhart.
Dr. Stevens records a 14 degree below zero reading at six this morning at 24 feet from his drug store, the coldest Winnemucca morning since January 1868 when the mercury dropped to 22 below zero.
We claim the group shows determination and intent to secure a demand or claim as indicated by the fragmentary notice.
Retail ads urge shoppers to buy dress overcoats at cost from F C Rossy and to inspect 22 hats and cloaks at E Reinhart Co with 25 percent cash reductions. F C Renry’s offers 50 percent off shirts and overcoats. Also promote Hackmetack perfume sold by C A DeSaussure, Druggist, in Wsceusacea Nev.
Dunphy and Hildreth, famed cattle kings of central Nevada, have ordered 100 cattle cars at this station to move about 2,000 head of beef cattle to Iron Point. The cars will be bedded here and dispatched to California as soon as possible, creating a sizable drove.
No weather report reached the Signal Service as wires were down north and east. The office thermometer showed twenty degrees below zero at 7:20 AM, the coldest since establishment. Trains from the East and West were late with the express arriving around 11 PM amid a snowstorm.
A young man, described as a muscle, assaulted two men on the sidewalk in the evening. He was arrested by Constable Ruse and fined ten dollars plus costs in Justice Osborn's Court yesterday.
A shooting affray is reported to have occurred in Unionville the night before last, but particulars could not be ascertained. Meanwhile Paradise Valley Mining Company shipped three bars of bullion valued at 447 dollars last evening.
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