Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-08-19
NOTES AND QUERIES.

country, with his shoes the color OF boiled
ton; e, and goes to the kitchen pantry for
the backing box and brush, and emerges at
the end Of sweaty half hour fourishing the
brush and swearing, it may be inferred that
the maid- OF -all-work has been using that IN
strument to polish the stove with. The lus-
ter of the leather under such trying circum-
stances is very pronounced. ...." The Com
pany's" sawmills ct Glenbrook are ending up
the season with some rushing days work.
About ten minutes per log, we should say, Is
something near the gait. We counted ten
cuts of the saws in four minutes, on Friday.
This includes all the handling and shifting.
The great saws seem to go through log about
as rapidly as an ordinary walker goes over the
ground Major Gardner's stent Of 5000 ,OOO
feet of lumber being done, he has laid up his
locomotive and cars for the season. He has
made some tremendous clearings in the for
est ~ One hundred and twenty cords OF
wood to barge is an average shipment, towed
by steamtug from the south end OF the Lake
to the Glenbrook cove. .... Lew Drexler and
wife Of Virginia, and Miss Howe of Carson,
and Mr.. C. j. Hillyer and wife and Mrs.
Stocking Of Washington, D. c., are at Yanks.
They came in there on Thursday from Hope
Valley. Drexler when here borrowed Jake
Muller's gun On the day of his arrival at
Yanks he and Hillyer went cunning Drex-
Ter aimed Jake's gun at robin and pulled
the trigger. He felt as if mule had kicked
him, and when he got over his surprise his
gun was missing. The right barrel had burst,
midway Of its length, and the conclusion fol-
lowing the explosion was what Mr.. Dre1ler
had experienced The left barrel was bent
and ruined by the shock. Mr.. D., by piece
of rare luck, escaped with bruise or two.
The bear depredations in the mountains above
Meeks's Bay continuing, the people there
about set trap. A few nights ago they
caught cinnamon bear, weighing something
under 200 pounds e. At Senator jim SmalIs
ranch fridays old station) the abundant
grass crop is pretty much harvested Mr.
Srnalls is much the finest and most valuable
ranch in Lake Valley. When you write
letter at Yanks to your sweetheart or your
landlord or your publisher, or anybody else
in Carson, you are not consoled by the infor
nation that your epistle must take the tortu-
GUS course of trip to Tahoe City and True
kee, and SO on round, next day by rail, in
stead of being brought straight through by
Benton's stage from the Glenbrook. Satans
dominions are full of such mail facilities as
the likes o that I! ... They have the finest
beef at the Lake that can be found IN all
these parts. 1t is fattod Oh the rich, juicy
bunch grass, which is so abundant there, and
and is killed before it has had to travel over
dusty roads to the hot shambles. Our friend |
Powers is the man who furnishes this most
excellent provend . The Lake is three feet |
lower than al this time last year. II you
want 70 take q strong, well-bulit, thorough |
going survey OF the Lake and its surroundings |
call at Benton's stable and interview Happy |
Jack" And here we leave this somewhat |
vatery, but still fruitful, subject for the SEA
son. Now for terra frma and the treadnlll.
A sensation of an unusual character for
Carson was produced at the railway depot last
evening, few moments prior to the departure
of the train. A woman known as Scotty'
was DESTROYS of leaving these scenes for pas
lures more green, when police officer pro
duced warrant for her arrest, accusing her
of theft, by stealing some articles from the
landlady in whose house she had been living.
The officer insisted upon searching her trunk
before he would permit her to depart. Amid
sobs and protestations the indignant female
pulled forth bunch Of keys and handed them
to officer Sterne who, in company with officer
Ingrabam, Immediately made a dive for the
interior Of the trunk. After diligent and
thorough examination no cOntraband or stolen
articles were found, and the woman was per-
mitted to depart in peace, with EXPLANATIONS
more forcible than elegant This affair col
lected an unusually large crowd near the
depot. many of whom seemed to relish the
discontinue Of the poor woman How shock
ingly deprayed human nature 49,
THE CALEDONIA CLUB, on Friday evening,
distributed the prizes won by those compel
ing in the various games on the occasion OF
the late picnic in Carson. We notice among
the awards that the first prize, in the run
ming Jump, silver engraved pickle castor,
was won by E. Culver of Carson, who jumped
II feet and inches. James Var of Carson
woa the first prize, silver cake basket, in
the 400 yard race and E. Fl. Culver of
Carson the second prize, silver engraved
revolving butter dish. In the ladies' Is
ward race Miss Ella Read of Carson won the