Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1888-02-08
Los Angeles has Chess Club.
Pasadena is to banquet Jos. Pulitzer
Riverside is to have street electric

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Riverside is to have street electric
lights.
Sutter county farmers are planting
shade trees
A large foundry is to be put UP on
Coronado Beach.
Italy has had stormywinter, with
! ice, rain and snow.
Auburn. Placer county, contem-
plates Incorporating. .
A telephone cable between London
and Paris is under serious considera.
ton.
Ship-building interests all through
Great Britain are booming. The con-
tracts now call for 100000 tons of
carrying capacity.
For the first time in twenty years
French opera company has appeared
in Berlin and has been accorded most
hearty welcome.
james Friel, a shoemaker at San Ra.
fael, was drowned in the Russian river
at Squaw Creek. ten miles north OF
Cloverdale, Sunday.
A gang of robbers went through sew
eral houses at Riverside, Sunday last,
| during Church service, taking small
articles and jewelry.
The wrecking Of a freight train at
Sorrento, San Diego county caused the
delay of trains both ways Sunday.
Rain continues to fall heavily in the
interior and the rivers are all rapidly
rising, some of the smaller streams
overaowing their banks.
Sixteen miles of the Florence, A. T.
canal have been completed. 1t is cal
culated that 100000 acres of land will
be reclaimed by the ditch.
AT Colfax, w. r.. David Conroy, a
railroad foreman has been arrested
foi brutal assault on the daughter of
the editor of the Palouse City News.
The trial of Newton ,Azbell, charged
with numbering John McArdle and
John G. Reardon on the 24fh of Sept.
ember last, commenced at Salinas yes
terday.
A vein of bitumnous has been dis.
covered in the neighborhood of the
Sonth Pass of the Marysville Buttes,
near Sutter City. 1t is about two feet
in thickness.
a rabbit drive Sunday, at Bakers
field, Cal, resulted in the death of
about seven thousand of the pests. So
far nearly 1900 rabbits have been
killed in this way.
The fire in the Plymouth mine at
Jackson, Amador county, has been
eXtinguished and to morrow work will
be resumed. The mine has not been
damaged to great extent.
The wool growers of Butte and sur
rounding counties were in convention
at Chico, yesterday, and resolved to
give support to no man who favors
free trade The wool growers in that
sectlod are nearly all Democrats.
Merced Is in holiday attire and the
town is handsomely decorated and
prepared for celebrating the irriga.
tion ditch opening tomorrow. Gov
ernor Waterman was received with IL
salute from the artillery yesterday.
AT Tom mbst0ne, A. T. President Bis
bee Of the Copper Queen Mining Com.
panyshas placed $4,000 in the hands OF
Mrs, Williams wife Of the Superln.
tendent, with which to erect aud equip
bail for the nse Of miners and other
wage workers in that camp.
One of the paying professions of
Paris is said to be that of trunk packer
In many of the little trunk shops you
can hire for forty cents an honr man
who will pack your trunks artislically
folding expensive gowns and other
garments in tissue paper, and slowing
away dehcatc articles in the safest
way.
The four year old child of Mrs. Fyhe |
near Petalnma, while playing with
other children Sunday, knocked a
loaded Shot gun down. barrel of
which was discharged a No she,
scrapcd badly lacerated the skull
of the child The wound is not dan.
gerous.
The steamer Cleaner, passenger
and treigi.t-boat plying between Asto.
ria, Or, anc various logging camps
lnn3igI in