Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-02-04
The WEEKS NEWS

J. p, Jones was reelected U s Sen
ater Tor the next six years last Wodnsa.
day.
Frank Mccullough WAS elected
Warden of the State Prison by the
Legislature last week
Tins Winters ice crop on the
Truekee river is reported to be the
largest ever harvested.
Tom Grscey OF Virginia City has
been appointed Deputy Warden Of the
State Prison, vice Pat Cor bett resigned.
John Kelley, the well known mine
Superintendent of Bodie, is reported to
be dying of consumption at San Fran
cisco.
John Sweeny waf arrested in Carson
recently for violating the ls o'sloek
law, and the jury returned verdict Of
acquittal.
The Carson Tribune says: II
military post is to be established in
Nevads, Hawthorne should be the
point"
Diphtheria is said 10 be prevalent in
Virginia CITY, though the Board of
Health has been notified oil only six
eases.
Assembyman Bell of Nye has in
troduced a memorial to Congress for
the establishment of mail route from
Belmont to Sodayile.
1t is rumored in Carson that the
saloon keepers have raised corrup-
ton fund to spend in the repeal of the
IL o'clock closing law.
The Silver State names Francis G.
Newlands or Thomas Fitch as accept
able to the Pacific Coast to fill the va
cancy occasioned by the death of VIM.
Window.
Editor Lovejoy of the Wabuska
Mangler thinks the Legislature should
make an appropriation for the use Of
the Board of Trade in developing our
embryonic resources.
Frank Sunderland, son of Hon.
Thomas Sunderland, we'll known to all
old-time Nevadans, died at the HUM
boldt Queen mine, near Rye Patch,
Hum boldt, last week.
Hon. T. j. Bell has introduced in
the Assembly Concurrent Memorial
and Resolution, asking for the repeal
of the Act granting United States pat
ens to mineral lands.
John Dominis, the husband of the
new Queen of Hawaii, is a member of
the Society of California Pioneers, and
the Princess who will succeed IS a
Nativs Daughter Of the Golden West,
therefore.
The Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men, a benevolent organization in
which every trainman should hold
nem bership, has paid Frank Porter,
who lost leg while coupling cars in
Reno recently, $1,000.
The Trustees OF Virginia have
elected II. e. Wetherspoon, Cali
fornian, principal of the Virginia Cry
High School, to succeed Professor
Bray, who resigned TO accept the prin-
cIpalship of the Reno public schools
Archie McDonel has succeeded d.
B. Lyman as Superintendent of the
Sierra Nevada; James Grant has taken
the place of William Moorhead as
foreman; Ivy Fulton, formerly of the
Jacket, has the position lately held 10y
W. c. Gass as engineer, and Aleck
Frazer, formerly Of the Alta, is the
blacksmith at the mino.
Senator Sproue last week intro
duced bill 6. B. 49,, to amend an Act
entitled An Act reducing and regulat-
ing the salaries and compensation Of
certain State officers and attaches Of
the State Government of Nevada" ap.
proved February q, 1881. Reduces
salary of Governor to So 900, Secretary
of State, Controller and Treasurer to
$4,000, and deputies to $500 1t was
referred to the Judiciary Committee
Alex Arthur, engineer of engine No
"a, when about four miles east of the
Humboldt House Friday, says the Reno
Gazette, noticed what he supposed
to be track walker The man was
etapninr Iow, tho of fy,pnr a