Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-06-07
SAMPLES.


90 men at work.
Billy WOODBURY. will deliver the
Fourth Of July Grafton at Genoa.
Six bars of Mt. Diablo bullion val
ued at $1,000 were shipped below
Sunday.
The Comstock payroll for the
month of May amounted to slOl, III
or So, 472 less than April
Fourth of July is nearly here, but
our people are too poor to indulge
in a public celebration.
1t is reported IN Reno that Bishop
Leonard will take personal charge of
Whitaker Hall next term.
A little over a thousand dollars
have been subscribed for a church to
he built at Battle Mountain.
Dr. F. J. Schneider died in Eureka
last Friday of apoplexy. He was the
pioneer druggist of Eureka
H. NJ Yerington and wife, accom-
panied by Supt. Laws, went to Kee-
Ter last week and returned Sunday.
Tom Jaggers is working on the
old Fulride claim and is getting
some ore that goes up in the hun
dreds.
The weight of cubic foot of gold
is 1903 pounds avoirdupois the weight
of cubic foot of silver is 645 pounds
avoirdupois.
1t is considered risky to eat doves
killed in the vicinity of Mason Valley
at present, as the birds pick up poi
soned wheat put out to kill squirrels
Miss Forbes left yesterday for an
extended tour of the Eastern States
and Canada. She will visit the
Worlds Fair and be absent ser eral
months.
Bob Bergman writes from Indiana
that the people there are all gold
bugs, and he is kept busy night and
day making silver speeches. Go for
'em, Bob.
Senator Forbes, Sheriff Stewart
and Commissioner Klien visited Be-
die and way stations last week. They
went to examine the condition of the
county roads, which are badly in
need of repairs.
Commissioner Wilson and family
left Reno this morning for their old
home in Michigan. They will spend
week in Chicago now and another
week on the return trip Bon voyage
John Harrington and John Booker,
former employees of the Mt Diablo
Company, arrived in town Sunday,
Harrigan will remain in Hawthorne
for the present While Booker will 20
to Bodie
The Diablo mine has shut down
and every train brings four or five
men bound for new fields. We fear
that this is the last straw that will
break the camels back Candelaria
now is but the ghost of it's former
self
Allen Bragg, who has been an in
valid for ten months, has again re-
sumed editorial charge of the Reno
Gazette. He pays deserved COM
pllment to John Denis, who has so
ably edited the Gazette during his
Illness
Five stamps of the Cambridge mill,
on East Walker river, which have
been pounding the past fonr weeks
on low grade free-milling ore from E.
T, Beaman's mine, were hung up on
the Both ult The run was satisfac
tory, $500 being cleaned up.
1t is reported that the tunnel on
the Contact claim at Silver City has
been jumped by the owners of the
Red Jacket mine everybody in that
vicinity carries a gun. There is a
hope for the old mining camp if guns
have been brought into requisition.
The Appeal says as U. S. Marshal
Humphreys was taking a batch of
prisoners to the United States dis
trict courtroom one of their hats blew
of. One who was not hancuffed was
requested to get the hat and when
last seen was chasing it over the hill
toward Glenbrook.
JOHNNY SWeenv.