Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-03-18
THE WEEKS NEWS

in S,n Francisco.
John F. Swift, L. S. Minister TO
Japan, died in Toxic last week.
Quail shooting is now forl lden by
the California law until September
10Th
Hens worth 1000 apiece attracted
curious sightseers ut recent poultry
show in New York.
Somebody has computed that II 30
100000, people should clasp hands
they could reach around the earth.
General Palmer, the Democratic
nominee, WAS elected To the United
States Senate from Illinois, Tuesday
Hugh ], NOLAN, the Irish orator.
is showing Faber on the Colorado
Weekly Graphic, published ut Denver
Instructions have been given, says
the Nevadan, TO work "A force of
twenty miners in the GrantsvIle NINE
J. 7. Williams, formerly eritf of
/ Douglas county, shipped his hon ehold
goods to Utah, where he intends to re-
side.
1t Is the purpose OF a company of
capitalists to run n steamer on the Sea
of GaIilee, for which they have OBJ
tanned a concession.
II. X. Donnelly, formerly Snperin-
tenaent of the Eureka Consolidated
mine at Eureka, died at Coronado,
California, last week.
A San Francisco firm has sent 10000
pounds Of fresh butter to Iowa. Here
totore the firm has been importing
butter from Iowa aud Nebraska.
There were 90 deaths in Butte dur
ing February. The eriope cost Butte
65 lives, for that number of deaths
were the consequence OF influenza
Major Dennis of the Virginia Chron-
icle, slipped on the icy sidewalk on G
street the other day and sustained n
fracture of the right arm at the
shoulder.
AS General Fremont claimed the
ownership of Alcatraz Island in the
Bay of San Francisco, his heirs ars 40
ing to press their claims against the
Government.
Henry Duffy, an old Comstock
printer, was adjudged insane, and TAX
en- to the Reno Asylum last Saturday.
Melanchola seems to be the nature of
his disease.
The U. $ Mint at Carson is running
at full blast and turning out in the
neighborhood OF 100000 per month,
about equally divided between gold
and silver.
The Bank of France has in It's vaults
$500, 100000, of which $242 900, 900 Is
gold and S24S.000000 silver Its
authorized paper ci culation of legal
tender notes is over 1888, 100000.
The dozen or more chambermads of
the Baldwin Hotel, San Francisco
have gone out or strike. They were
ordered out of bed an hour earlier to
sweep the Railways and do other work
previously performed by Chinese.
Pressed paper pulp has been sug-
gested for railway ties. The various
uses to which this material has been
put since the introduction of the wood
pulp process gives rise to the sugges-
ton. There seems to be no good rea-
son why il could not be put to this
| use.
The White Pine News says ore
which carries go per cent. of lead
some iron and $50 in silver, is found
in lodges of considerable width near
Hamilton. All is life over that way
just now and old White Pine mountain
is being worked from Shermantowa to
its extreme north end
If there is any one thing more than
another that needs thorough over
hauling, that same is the mountain
mail business. In most instances the
original contractor gets all the profit
and rolls in clover, while the actual
| carrier wallows in snow and catches
hill all along the route Homer
Index
A few days ago Bella Preusch, a
young lady in Virginia City, was pass
ing house Of ill-fame, when woman