Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-01-22
ucolker Lake Bulletin.
JANUARY %, 1896
WEDNESDAY :
SAMPLES.

80 feet of snow in Bodie.
Ice Klein now serves delicious
milk punch to his customers.
Tom Hickey was a passenger for
the South on Mondays train.
lack O'Brien, miner well known
bereabouts, is visiting Hawthorne.
The Democratic National Conven-
tion will be held in Chicago on the
9TH of July.
The Register says: Tony Sais has
taken another pack train to Silver
Peak. Looks like business.
Will Adams of Genoa, who has
been visiting his brother for the past
month, returned home Friday.
W. C. Rippey, the man who shot
John Mackay in San Francisco about
three years ago, died last week.
J. A. Yerington and Gov. Colcord
were examining mines in Hawthorne
District and vicinity last week.
There were ovee 100 mining loca-
ton notices put on record at the
Court House since January LIST.
The tax rate of Nye County for
1896 has been fixed by the Commits
sioners at 81 on the 500 valuation.
The Inyo Index has collapsed
again. The plant hes been purchas-
ed by the Register and Independent.
The wind blew perfect gale in
Hawthorne last Thursday. A num-
Der of fences and outhouses were de-
molished.
John McGillis, fireman on the G.. Il
G. has been confined to his bed for
the past week with severe attack
erysipelas.
OF the 1000, 900 acre grant award
ed Nevada for school purposes by
Uncle Sam in 1880, only about I51,-
900 acres remain.
The big wind last week blew all
the old, stale and wornout atmos
phere out of town and the heavy
rain freshened up the new consider
ably.
DR.. Moore and family left on yes
terday' train for Lincoln, Placer
County, CAL, where the doctor has
purchased an interest in drug
store.
Council No. 8, of the A. p. A. of
Nevada organized in Wadsworth
Eighty per cent of the population is
said to be opposed to it.-Cars an
News. So
The Supervisors of Mono County
have declared the road from Ante
lope Valley to Bridgeport a free
road, upon which no more tolls are
to be collected.
The Anaconda mine at Butte,
Mont, emulates the Comstock of
former years in the amount of tim
Der it swallows, requiring an aver
age supply of 100, 900 feet per day.
One of our citizens intends to
move his chicken house to within
shotgun distance of his residence.
He hopes that his neighbors will not
take it as a reflection on their hon
esty.
The "Washoe Seeress told De
Lamarite not long ago that the rich,
est mine in Ferguson district hadn't
been discovered yet. This will slim
ulate lot of recent locators to work
TO find it.
Congressman Newlands and wife
are again occupying their residence
in Washington City, where their
daughter, Miss Edith, is one of the
buds of the present season in that
gay capital.
The Genoa, New, Courier says
the Eastern parties who bonded the
Urn group of mines nave been given
thirty days longer, until January
24th, to take the property. The
price was raised from S75,0 900 to
$4,000.
The semi-annual apportionment of
State School money has been made,
and Esmeralda's portion is 1915.
The superintendent is made on the
basis of about IS to each census
child, and we have POS children of
school age.
Work in the Silver Peak mines is
progressing. Ore of good grade is
being taken out steadily and in q few
h.