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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1885-12-16

The following items are from the
True Fissare of last saturday:
Last Tuesday morning. about two
O'clock. sam Barrett laid down the
burdens of this lie and entered into
the great hereafter. Mr.. Barrett was
a native of Cornwall, aged about forty.
seven, aud died of consumption, con
tracled 10y inhaling powder smoke in
the lower levels of our mines. He
was an old.time Cnmsiock miner hav.
ing lived In Virginia City for about
eighteen years. During the past three
years he has lived in Canlrlarm, and
the esteem in which he was held by
lee people OF The town was testified bv
the unusually large number of People
who attended his funeral. His hand
was at all times really 10 20 down in
his pocket lc relieve the necessities Of
his fellowmen. and IN his death we
lose good, whole soa!ed man.
The mill al The State Line mine, at
Cold Mountain, Is work. ing awnv
steadily with twenty stamps and xiv.
Ing very satisfactory returns. so salts.
factory, indeed, that The remanins
twenty Stamps will be put in opera.
ticn III few days From forty tn
fifty tons OF ore are worked daily.
TWO shifts are working On both levels
oi The NM, and everything u bout the
mill and NINE is looking and doing
we'll.
While Ovid Davis was driving out
If town on Wednesday he attempted
10 stop his team, and in doing so fell
under the Wagon. A wheel passed
over his rieh, ankle. bruising ii con
,idcrably He also hurr one OF hi,
hands While The accident is bud
enough. everybody is Il al thai it is no
worse.
o Gavelr rtrcivpd letter from
Dewcys patent agency "Wednesday
evening inforaing him that letters
patent haa neen rranled him on his
combinel harrow, drill, sewer and
roller. The True Fi,sure hopes he
| will make y milion oGt OF il.
A gentleman recently from the
center of the country informs the re.
porter that Brooks MtClshc has sold
the Julia mine TO Archie Fsfington
tor 81 900
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1885-12-16
Rotv tn. W eaItn, Fail.

The recent mortality among the
wealthy and great af The world has
alarmed the hagiasps OF the gord re.
gcohs. The death OF Vanderbilt, fol
lowing So closeiy IN those of Sharon
Donxhue and others, has CAUSED The
Hawthorne gold miners tol,rcmnls On
their claims. Wealth has now &C
quired ierrors, aud Knapp, Forbes,
Summcriield. Van Alslinc, Cracker
and the proprietor OF This paper, are
feeling uncomfortable over me IN.
certainty OF earthly affairs
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1885-12-16
Pare from Ei.tory.


who was BenjaMin Franklin - con,
tinued the teacher.
The man who invented lightning"
replied the prompt student
well not lightning exsctly, but
lightning rods, you mean; don't your
"Oh, yes, sir"
And so he is directly responsible
FOR the lighiuihgrod agent; /, he not y"
ayes, sir"
EXACTLY. Well, What else DO you
know obuut hims'
HE was n printer"
"Jnst so--one Of the first in the
country; and ST. he paved the way for
the uh,qni'ous book.sgen,, thg'
"Yes. sir"
well. what else did hr dog"
H invented a'manacs.'
No, he dida'l invent them, hut he
established them on this continent,
md so opened up that great avenue
FOR the sale Of patent medicines Can
you think Of anything else Nc did9'
Il dunno"
why, he discovered positive and
negative electricity, and so nay be
called the foie.runner of the liver
pad-ehs"
'"Ycs, sir"
- isl 20 and in the light of all this.
should we no, reverence his mem.
or, -
Yes, sir"
Did he do anything elsef'
That's MS far MS We took
"Oh, well axe The nrxl three pages
for 10 morrow. y The Judge.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1885-12-16

The following circular letter which
has been received ftom the citizens
committee, explains itself:
Carson City, Ncvada,
December :. 1885.
Ed. sULLETIN-Dear Sir: BY reso.
luton Of the Citizens committee hav-
ing il charge measures looking 10 The
reopenlng OF the United States Mint
In our State, Il public meeting of the
citizens of Nevada has been appointed
to meet al Carson City on Saturday,
December 10, 1885, at 8 O'Clock 2. NJ,
to take into consideration an address,
to The President of the Uuited States,
and such other matters pertinent to
the question as may be suggested on
on that occasion Eminent speakers
have been invited to be present and adj
,ress the meeting 1t is earnestly
desired that the assemhlage shall he
as large, and rs fully representative of
all portions of the State Of Nevada rs
possible. The time now intervening
is short. but unasodably SO, in view
Of the Importance of the matter in
hand and the necessity of prompt
action This is a STATE altar-one in
which every citizen is Interested.
You are mist respectfully and W.
gently invited 10 be p.ts"nt in person
at The meeting and take part in its de-
liherations. Should you be unable To
be present, a letter expressive of your
views and wishes upon the question of
reopening of the mint would be most
acceptable.
Very respectfully your obedieni
servant,
II. s. MASON, Chairman of the
| Committee.
WELLS DRURY. Secretary.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1885-12-16
An Indian with IA Wine.

An Indian who knows the anxiety
which his white neighbors feel about
mines, has let it leak out that he
knows whore there is wonder
full deposit of precious metal. Now
ii is one of the favufite decisions OF
both old and new time prospcctors,
ihAi the Indians know As much about
mines as they do about weather, and a
number of fortune-h hunters .rcedilv
swallowed the story. The guilcless
co tenant OF The Reservation, ha. prom.
ised several that he will act as gnidc
10 the hidden wealth, and has hard
time disposing of the mane s,lfrep,i
tious boiips of whishey which his
eXpectant bcneficaries present to him
Those who know the Indian nature
best, are waiting patiently, a. they are
well aware that it he does know any
thing, he won't tell ii for whl>key, but
that his soul will urn Inside out for
the man who gives him dose Of nasty
medicine and pulls tooth for him
when he is sick after his SPREE.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1885-12-16
Th,. pictaioa.

development WAS made in The
Dictator last week, which will almost
Immediately place it Oh the list of
paying minks. A large VEN Of free
gold quartz has been uncovered, the
assays being from $50 To $40. As this
is on the large and strong ledge Of
Hawthorne District, and right at the
crest of the slope tostre railroad, tie
value of he discovery csn Ne easily
seen. Extraction will be easy and
The cost of hauling To the mill At Kin.
koad will be but slight. II there is
no sudden chs l1Ie FOR The worse, Moss
will soon have 10 enlarge his mill.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1885-12-16
Boomitrg Aurora Mining DihfrfSt.

Fron Governor Blasdel, from II. NJ
lerlngtnn and from Judge sewcll it is
learned that the sale of the group of ~
mines 10 the English syndicate is II
settled fact. S2,500,0N is already on
deposit in the bank AS Il working cap.
nal, the same toSbe used in developing
the property. 1t is asserted by those
in authority that work will bc com.
menced on the mines and mill to be
erected within a few days. Within
Tie past three months Free Lance
reporter has prospeeled every mining
hole and diff in the camp, and upon
the Information thus gained We predict
that III the near future Aurora will be
the largest bullion producing district
and the liveliest camp in The State of
Nevads,-Fiea lance.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1885-12-16
An Edi,or's opinion.

Baltimore, Nd The Daily Tine.
says + II HE Province ol ,urnalism
to discass anything whlch affect, tn,
public welfare, and n recent medical
discovry comes, il scpns Ia us, within
thai category. or course II certain
prejudice exists against proprietary
preparaiions. the formula I'll which l.
known only 10 the compoundtr.
However well founded this feeling
may be an general principles, 1t would
be Foolish ta entertain IT, when analysis
shows that the remedy has ii,etuafcd
yittaes. beoaisc in that ease he world
would not reap the a6vahis yes OF many
Improvements and discoveries in arts,
mechanics or science A recent mel
lcnl discovery has attracted so much
attention from. scientific and public
men and received such .irt NJ endorse
M n ironi them. rs also from health
Off cials all ,ver the country, that il,
claims 10 recorniliah ctnipt b. *.
nored. We refer rs Red Star Cough
Cure, which owing 10 its freedom
from opaleS or poi >dn, snd i,s purely
vegetable character. mark. according
10 the testimony of experts, n nsw dc.
parture in the treatment of throat rnd
lung troubles. The 'ong and hohor,.
bic hu>iuess career and acknowledged
Integrity Of tbe pr0rrietors, The
Charles a. Vogeler Cornpiny, und the
popular price, rwenty.fv cents IT Dol.
tie, ~ which The remedy is sold, hire
zach arguments in favor lis I'd ,piian
by AL who nec;!--and who does nol p
An absolrtely safe, promp, aud sure
couagh remedy.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1885-12-16
4 Iftilh Ecn.

last week little poker game was
going on in Richardson's saloon, be
tweea a chinese gambler and dssi.
patcd pslatsr. The painter was ahead
and 4 large stake was on The table,
when a boy carrying some chairs acct
IDENTITY Knocked the lamp over on The
table. The light went out and HE
chinarian thinking the acc dent was
part OF IL plan to rob him. threw him.
self on The table over the money. The
painter doubling the motives of TIE
clliralnan, threw himself on top Of
his opponent and there was a lively
scramble until lamps WE'RE re.lit, when
explanations restored peace and the
game went on to the mutual seii,tac.
ton of the original players, as an out
slider sal in with them and began los.
ing.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1885-12-16

The Following ARE tie arrival. nj
the Lake View House since last Wed

49,
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'ne LAKE view mouse since last "td
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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1885-12-16
lie Ps,rllico,

The Pam'co is sill showing orc,
winch Is -eally Astonishing in valha
Instead Of rock, some OF this pieces
mny be described AS gold having \
little quartz mixed With il. OF course
there is no immense ledge OF this kind
of material, t,ut Little goes some dis.
tance. and tie six lnchs. that nov
show are about us npulent inches as
can be toond id this part d the coun.
Try.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1885-12-16
he Population.

II might have been expected that
the population would rapidly Increase
under the eufnuins of gold discoveries,
and such really WIS tic CASE, although
at present lbn Increase Is not very APP
parent. The reason Is That no sooner
does a fresh SIMPLY Of Inhabitants
arrive, than new district is discovered
and smother stampede oqualizes the
voting strength Of the commtlniy.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1885-12-16


a woman In the northern part of
Vermont is mlling OF The way she
foohd the inspecting Dr. Nay of New
York, on one of the recent Montreal
trains, She had determined not 10 be
vaccinated TN the train, and 50 sewed
Y hrtten under the sleeve of Tho dress
near Where the arm is usually scraped.
The Inspector came along and ordered
her 10 bare her arm. But it isn't
necessary, SIR; you can feel the scab,'
she saul. He planted his hand on the
button, the woman gave scream OF
pretended pain, and DR.. kay moved
'aion..
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1885-12-16
cs,p,iet uajta,iot,s.

The following are the latest copper
Quotations from the Chicago markets
Ingot-l.ake. llA@1i3sc; baltimort
'Stahdara. I0I- dslte " N
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1885-12-16

Lake View Lodge No. II A, o. U
T., meets an the frs, and third Mon
ay> 6i each month.
j, Il CAgDwELL, W. NJ.
= u. RIcE. Recorder
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1885-12-16
u, my Hea,,t

The worst cast df pneumonia CAP
be cured by outward applications Of
ST. Jacobs OIL and "a fcW doses OF Red
Star Cough Cure. ..e..t ii
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1885-12-16

The regnla, .mo.iiHg of E-meralda
.udge M. 10, Knights al Pythias. is
reid every third Thursday. So.
turning breiares, III good Standing
;'rdia'ly invited W.
J II McBRfDE. e. g.
A, SYMMETRY X al Il ind :
sunsclsSnEfor tho EULLErIN.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1885-12-16

Fre'h bulermiik every Tuesday ard
Friday nj Wabuska. Send can with
osderlo z. P Loveioy,
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1885-12-16
WINES,

i'is the nearea. rglo1n W the depot, ~
polite and prompt attention Is paid
10 DAsfUHS.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1885-12-16

sunscls1nufor the EULl ErIN
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1885-12-16

The following circular letter which |
has been received ftom the citizens
committee. explains itself;
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-26
&c car-driror.s Litnn c..

have little girl" said the street car
driver, and II makes me sick when every
once in while I notice that she is growing
big. 1t will be sorry day for me when
she gets 50 big that she has to be digni6ed.
Why2 yon ask. Well, it's plain enough
case 70 me, though / don't wonder at your
failing to understand it. You see / live
about half q mile from the car track, and
my little girl brings me my lunches twice
day, and as the lunches are fresh and the
coffee hot, Of course that is q comfort. But
that isn't anything compared TO the pleas
IRE get out of having her ride always
with me on the platform. It's against the
rules OF the company for driver to carry
on conversation while on his car, but I
don't do 1t, bless you. She carries on the
conversation all by herself. She stands
close behind. me and talks faster than the
horses trot and never stops for streets,
either. She tells me all about her mamma
and home, and the neighbors, and herself.
and the dog, and I stand there and hold the
lines and twist the brake, and take it all in
with delight. If it weren't for that girl l
believe l should lose all recollection Of the
appearance Of my own home and its sur
rouudings, as in this business we have to
get up 50 early and stay out so late. When
the girl gets SO big and dignided that she
can't make run with me every day I'll
quit driving. '-[Chicago Herald.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-26
Leaks in the kitchen.

your own strength is insufficient, YOUR
family too large for doing the work your
self, or If the reduction in income does not
require the giving up of all service, there is
much that may be saved with one servant.
with management the large waste. too
often the accompaniment of hired service.
can be reduced 10 q sum which will not Sc
riously interfere with the income. In the
first place, make up your mind that your
own care and oversight must be constant
and that no duty is so small but that vos,
yourself must know the length, breadth
and hight Of it. Make up your mind that
you will be full of care, bring all your force
Of character to bear upon your tssr ~
money-saying, and remember that eternal
vigilance is the watchword of the thrifty
housewife, Il Your servant is too conse-
suential or too ill-tempered to bear your
oversight in the kitchen, and tact and kind
illness will not win her, dismiss her and try
again II may not be easy to find one who
Tiu bear constant watching and direction.
but there are good dispositions amonk sery.
ants as elsewhere, and kindEness and con-
sideration will help you to carry your
point. This being arranged. you enter
upon your domestic rule in sort of
unequal partnership-the servant is to be
the hands and yourself the brains. From an
ignorant belief that the more good things
that are put into the making Of dish the
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-26

better it will be, and from an entire indif-
ference to the cost of supplying, the aver
age servant uses third more material than
is necessary TO place palatable dishes on the
table, and the poor housewife surveys with
dismay the emptying butter jar and sugar
box, and the fast disappearing eggs and
spices and sits disheartened before the thin
purse and unbalanced accounts. 4 far
more effective way is to take share in the
cooking yourself, and to appear often in the
kitchen. When you know certain dishes
are TO be made, be on the spot and yourself
check the lavish use which is so closely
allied TO willful waste that the result is the
same. You know that two or three eggs
viii make your pudding as well as five.
that your cake IS far more apt to be heavy
with heaped cup of butter than scant
one; you can Judge just how much your
family will eat, and can see that little is
cooked TO be left over. and the best of it
cold or hashed up" that distressing form
Of bad diet. Only yonr authority can stop
these leaks.-[Good Housekeeping
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-26
OLD PAPERS AND MAoAzrUrs-Tn n,

OLD Papers AND MAGAZINES in these
days, when with good reason, there is
much said about pernicious literature. and
considering that which is weak without
really being wicked, how much more good
might be done if the papers and magazines
which have served their turn in one house
hold, could be re-distributod in families
that cannot afford such reading first-hand.
There are homes where every weeks pa
pers are sorted over, and bundles sent to
country homes. ranches in the west, or 10
hospitals and other charitable institutions.
1t costs only little time and trouble. and
few postage stamps, but who can estimate
the good results2 A short-sighted person
might think such Il course would tend to
diminish the circulation Of papers, but if a
! boy has grown up on good reading will he
not supply himself with tenfold more than
II he had never known its worth? This
matter calls fer individual work. and dis
elimination must be used in order to at
tain the best results don't send a fashion
magazine to western farmer, or a society
paper to a country housekeeper; although
certain class Of literature is suited 10 all
occupations, any specialities should be sent
, to their own place.-[Exchange
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-26
AnnetIte o. a. prin,t,re -

P2leolithic man used to eat his brethren;
and so used his com paratiYely highly civ
ilized successor 1--WE must not say descend
anti Of the new stone age. Ia Italy, in the
dried-Gp lakes (terra-mares) which con
tains remains Of the old stone age, one finds
human bones not gnawed only, but broken
for the sake Of the marrow-treated Just
like the beasts bones among which they lie,
In France it IS the same experts say they
can tell the difference between the marks
OF q rats or tigers tooth and that ola man,
and no animal has ever got so far as break
ing the bones that it mumbles. In our
British barrows there is not the slightest
doubt from the arrangement of the re-
mains, that when chief was buried, not
only were his slaves killed and buried with
. him, but their bodies first furnished out the
funeral feast. The horrible old Hellenic
myths, such as Tantalus cooking his son
Pelops rs meal for gods and Atreus dish
INC up his brother Thvestes children and
asking him to dine off them, are survivals
of q time when the man-cooking oven was
as much an institution in Greece as it was
the other day in New Zealand or in Fiji.
Dog does not eat dog; very few animals
will deTour their own kind, unless like sows
or rabbits, they do it under the influ-
enoe of terror but man in this, as in some
other matters of conduct, soon got below
the brutes, even if he was not a cannibal
at the outset.-LAll the Year Around.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-26

fioNTRACTORS AID BUILDERS. ARE PRE-.
~ paIed tc 40 all kinds OF work Ia their lire
u city or country. PRINCIPAL place of business
SacFa5centO. shop, No. 112i Second street. be.
tween K and {. P0stofiice Box No. 40. sae7a.
mellN- & t,,.f
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-26
The Blue Sun.

A dispatch from Pittsburg, July 10TH
says: Prof. C. P. Longley, of the Allegheny
| Observatory, returned to-day from Europe
! He is making researches as to solar heat
and spots upon the sun for the Government
| The greater part OF his trip was spent at
! the various o5seryatories in England and
I France. My observations have convinced
rue, said Prof. Longiey, that we have a
| mistaken conception OF the color of sun
light. Many suppose it to be white. while
in reality it is blue. The delusion is owing
TO our senses, because we have never been
able TO see the true color of the sun. Sup
pose q ulan who had lived from infancy
under the roof of cavern, where the light
outside was inferred only by its shadows.
was brought for the first time into the full
splendors of the sun, what would be his
conception of the color? If that cave had
| been lit by a sunshine coming through
reddish glass in the roof, would the perpet-
ual dweller ever have an idea but that the
sun was red2 How is he to know the glass
is cOlored if he has never had anything in
his life to compare il WITH How can be
have any idee but that this is the sum of
all the sun ! radiation corresponding to our
idea Of white or colorles5 light? VIII not
the habit Of his life confirm his idea that
the sun is red, and viii he not think there
IS no color in the glass so long as he cannot
go outside TO seer Habit IS equally strong
with u.s. whether we dwell in cave or IN
der the sky, All men, educated or ignor-
ant, appear to have the evidences in their
senses that the airs colorless. and that pure
sunlight is white, SO that if l venture to
show that the sun is blue and the air really
acts ike an orange-colored veil, or seive.
which picks out the blue and leaves the
white, do so in the confidence that am
to prove the assertion, as it has been a
study of mine for number of years. do
not mean to say that the original sunlight
is pure monochromatic blue by any
means, but that, though its rays contain
red, orange, blue and all the other spectral
colors, the blue and the violet and the
allied tints were originally there in dispro-
portionate amounts. The results OF the
Professors observations win be published
by the Signal Service Department in book
form
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-26
AN INK EEsE CANE NUasgpY-Tbis is n,

An IMMENSE GAME NURSERY .-This is not
good time for selling a large estate. saws
the London World, but should think that
the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh will have no
difficulty OF finding purchaser for the IA
nous sporting property of Elvedon, in
Suffolk, which he has resolved to get rid OF
as he proposes shortly to leave England,
The Elvedon estate, which is near Tibet
ford, and adjoins the Duke Of Grafton's do
main of Eusson, extends to IL 600 acres. of
which 1880 are in hand. and devoted to
game rearing. Last year there were sales
of s., $50 head, including 1891 rabbits
6,7S0 cock pheasants and 2,329 partridges.
The biggest seasons bag at Elvedon was
1900 pheasants and 9,400 partridges. 1t
was hheeaar mat the Maharaiah made bis "a
nous bag Of 784 partridges in one day. OF
late 10000 pheasants eggs have been sold
every year. Elyedon Hall was rebuilt on
the site of the old manor house of the
Newton family soout fifteen years ago, and
is surrouEded by capital gardens and
charming grounds. The Elvedon estate
has been renowned for its sporting for more
than century past.