Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-05-09
SAMPLES.

spent day or two IN Hawthorne
last week.
Mrs. Ben Rosenthal is in Oakland,
Cal, under doctors care, she being
in poor health.
Work was resumed in the War
Eagle last week under the foreman
ship of Joe Kennedy.
Wild excitement prevails through
out New Mexico over the gold dis
,coveries in He'll Canyon.
D. H. Jackson, formerly Superin-
tendent of the Holmes mine, is now
located in Lincoln county.
II. F. Swasey's fast freight will
hereafter run through from Wabuska
to Lundy via Bodie, once week.
Sheriff Stewart visited Douglas
last week. He brought keg of wa
ter from the bi-chloride spring for
Hawthorne friends.
The family OF S. A. Hamlen arrived
last week from Modoc county, Cal.
They will reside in the house former
ly occupied by J. E. Hart.
State Commissioner James Yering-
ton is making neutrality-suspicious.
tor the celebration of Nevada Day at
the Exposition on May 18th.
The next Republican State Conven-
tion of California will be held in Sac
remento on June 10, when Cover
nor and other State officers will be
nominated.
Frank Wilson, nephew Of Mrs.
Abe Travis, and former resident
of Taylor, will get $4,000 through
the sale Of the Monitor mine in Fer
guson district.
That Baron Rothschild won the
first prize of f100, 900 in the Marseil-
les Municipal Lottery is another
coroboration of the old saw, Them
that has, gifts.
Mrs. Shattuck, who shot Harry
Poole in San Francisco last March,
was found guilty of murder in the
first degree. The verdict Of the jury
is life imprisonment.
Joe Klein returned last Thursday
10 hn
street boys lecture on mining
stocks, and made a nice little clean
up on Con. Virginia.
Our local ball tossers are practicing
for their game with the Rock Rollers
of Douglas on the Fourth Of July.
The boys are little out of order, but
they will soon catch on.
Mrs N. B. Torp returned last
Wednesday from months visit to
the Midwinter Fair. She reports
that it is a splendid exhibition, and
should be seen to be appreciated.
]. R. Williamson, who com mitted
suicide at Austin last week, had been
insane for three months before his
death, but his insanity was of mild
type and it was thought to be only
temporary.
Ben Rosenthal and Solly Summer
field returned from the Midwinter
Fair last week The report that
they were shanghai and shipped on
a whaler to Bering Sea is without
foundation.
A bi metallic conference is being
held in London. Its object is to urge
upon the British Govern ment the
necessity of cooperation with other
nations for the establishment of free
coinage of gold and silver and fixed
ratios.
A party of prospectors, consisting
of Jim Perkins, young Sam holland
and Abe Summerfield, visited Whis-
ky Flat last week. They are hunting
for a quartz ledge in that vicinity
from which very rich float has been
found.
1t is stated that the Jenkins mill
at Kennedy is only capable of reduc-
ing about six tons of ore in "a hours.
That by the present process the mill
is not able to save the gold and that
the tailings assays from So 90 to $40
per ton.
w. ]. Douglas was taken sick last
week at Silver Star with inflamma-
ton OF the stomach. Robert Stew
art took him to Sodaville, where his
family resides, and it is hoped that
he will soon be at his post again in