Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-09-09
TAHOE SKETCHES.
NUMBER TWO.

noe, 80 tnat their picasufiuR passes
off successfully and the trout bite
without coaxing. Unfortunately,
perhaps, for the writer, the attributes
of Isaac Walton and his pre-emi-
nent success as a fisherman have
about as little interest to him rs the
fact that Isaac unnecessarily spells
his name with a double "a" We
didn't try to catch any fish but on
fifty or sixty different occasions, oc-
cupying in all not more than five
or ten days, and therefore do not
boast save of the few minnows that
"Mac had persuaded us could be
taken advantage of with
A PAIR OF GUM BOOTS AND A MOS
QUITO BAR NET.
Therefore, instead of wasting time
in angling for "silver," "brook,"
or salmon we devoted our leisure
moments to gathering scraps of his
tory recorded of various people who
have fallen into the pellucid pond,
and, mayhap, now are floating around
at a certain depth in the density of
blue, held up by specific gravity and
certain other disinciinations to come
to the surface. Provided, always,
that they have not long since been
devoured by the voracious and scaly
denizcns of the Lake, whose capture
is the anglers pride, and whose
Drowned carcasses form the daintlest
morscl ON the hotel tables. Within
the knowledge of the older inhabi-
tants of the lake shore, some twenty
four persons, of all degrees of color
and christianity, have at one time snd
another become victims of this vir-
gin lake.
BEAUTIFUL AS A WOMAN,
And frail as man, this fascinating
inland ocean has its dread, its terrible,
almost incomprchensive dread, to
those who have heard the story of its
popularity. And the story is true,
that persons who once sink beneath
its bright waves never again in the
eternity of years rise the surface.
No boom of cannon, no shock Of
heavens artillery-not even
THE INCEsSANT GOSSIP
OF some Of the numerous female
visitors on its shores-gives "open
sesame" to the dead as they forever
float in the oblivion of its bosom.
This retention of dead bodies by
the waters of the lake is accounted
for by various theories, the most
reasonable of which to us is that the
waters are so pure and cold and so
free from alkaline matter that no fer
mentation of the body takes place.
The gall, therefore, remains in nat
ural state, and the gasses of the body
arc not ditfused, IS they usually are
when influenced by stagnant or par
TALLY impure water. This is theory
of our own, and may or may not be
correct. If it is not, somebody can
distinguish themselves by manufac-
turing a more plausible one. We
were enabled only to obtain
A PARTIAL LIST OF THE VICTIMS.
In 1868. on election day, five men,
hilarious with liquor, tempted provi-
dence in a sailboat just off Hot
Springs, and in their orgies capsized
the craft and all went to the bottom.
Their names were, respectively, James
HAnley, Isaac Stein, Charles Ander-
son, George Riddle and James
O'Kain. In the same year, on the
4th of July, Andrew Peterson met
similar fate, though he was sober at
the time. In November, 1868, AL.
Woodcock, John Smith and one
other were capsized and went to join
those who had persisted before. In
October, 1873, Captain Richard Bart
lett DIETER known as "Captain
Dick") was drowned while crossing
over from Emerald Bay to Tahoe
City in a small boat.
CAPTAIN DICK
Was an old sailor, and the most ex-
pert boatman on the lake. 1t is said
that he had a presentiment that the
shores Of the lake would be his grave,
and he had carved his own tomb from
among the rocks of tho beach, and
expressed wish to be laid there
when life had departed. Poor Dick
Fate had decreed otherwise, and ho
sleeps beneath the waves he so loved.
His likeness, the pair of oars that he
used in his last fatal rowing, and =
miniature f1gate built by himself,
now adorn the Office of the Holiday
House at Emerald Bay.
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