Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-04-01
THE WEEKS NEWS

inclusive,
A writer in the St. Paul Press offers
as solution of the Indian question,
that the red men be taught how to
make whisky, and then lei nature take
its course.
Cattlemen along Mono Lake say
stock was never in better condition at
this time OF the year. Fat ANIMALS
are in demand aud fair prices are
offered.
A big story comes from the Bonanza
mine, in Santiam district, Oregon
Two men in three hours broke three
tons of ore worth all The way from
Sl5,0 900 10 $4,000 per ton,
With the new ore discoveries on the
Comstock, general supply of water for
agricultural pursuits, aud the prob
ability of a competing railroad line,
the outlook for Nevada is decidedly
encouraging.
Joseph Sauve and Peter Hawkins
have uncovered ledge II feet wide,
which assays SOL per ton, near Glen
brook, Lake Tahoe. There is much
excitement, and the whole country ls
being located.
Senator Kaiser, of Churchill county,
has gone TO California to recuperate
his health. He will visit the Hawaiian
Islands before returning to Nevada,
and expects to be absent from the
State for six or eight months,
This Winter has been comparatively
as severe in Arizona and New Mexico
as that of year ago in Nevada. 1t
did not cause such II heavy loss of
cattle as was experienced in Nevada in
1890, but sheep have persisted by the
thousands.
The Carson Appeal says: ANY law
yer who takes the trouble to examine
the matter will find that there is now
no such thing in the State of Nevada
as an Assessor holding Office in accor-
dance with the law now on the Statute
books"
Developments at the Inyo Marble
Quarry are such as to justify the belief
that railroad communication with
Mojave rlust soon he made, as it seems
certain that present railroad facilities
cannot much longer handle the ship
ments of this one industry Inye
Index.
A press dispatch from San Francisco
says: Captain Bray of the ,ugboat SER
vice, came in from the Heads this
morning towing the British ship Glen
cairn. He reports quite school of
whales on the outside. One of the
leviathans came in past Fort Point,
where it sported for an hour or So.
A deal of stupendous proportions
that will astonish the mining world is
about to be consummated in Colorado,
by the sale of vast area of mining
ground to an English syndicate, The
various properties are now producing
about $5,000000 annually. The pur-
chase price is said to be $17,000000
The average of the ore from the
Homestake mine, South Dakota, is
only So 1t is free milling and
about $4,000 tons per month are
worked, producing from 100000 TO
100000 in gold and enabling divi-
dends to be paid This production has
beer kept up for several years. Near
ly 1000 men are employed.
Advices from Keller state that Fred
Fisher, quarryman employed by the
Inyo marble works, was killed last
Wednesday morning. A blast had
been fired, and as Fisher approached
the spot, large mass Of marble rolled
upon him, cutting of both legs and
badly cruising him. He was conveyed
to the County Hospital, but died en-
route. He was single man, about 2S
years of age.
At 8 o'clock on the merning of
March 6, an unaccountable darkness
enveloped the town Of Auburn, Ala
and caused great alarm. Merchants
closed their stores and went home, and
students in the various colleges were
dismissed from their recitations Ne
groes and ignorant whites ran out of
their houses screaming and frightened,
thinking that the judgment day had