Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-09-23
SAM PIES.

Reno.
Over foot of snow fell in Bodie
Friday.
james Acheson of Sweetwater was
in town yesterday.
Politics bid fair to make more
strange bedfellows than ever before.
Dan Holland is a candidate for
District Attorney on the Bryan tick
ct.
A Garard has declared himself as
a Democratic candidate for the As
sembly.
Dick Miner is the Democratic aspi-
rant for the Superior Judgship of
Mono county.
The high noun tains around Haw-
thorne were covered with snow last
Friday morning.
Judge Mack departed for Texas
Sunday night. He will be absent
about one month.
u Strosnider, an old and respected
,itizen of Mason valley, died at his
nome last Friday.
Diphtheria has made it's appear
ance in Dayton and the schools are
closed in consequence.
A. J. Mccarthy left for Reno yes
terday to attend the meeting of the
Nevada Press Association.
A lot of 49 tons of ore from the
Gertle mine, near Coryville, yielded
about 81, 400 at the mill this week.
Fusion between the Democrats and
Populists has been effected in Illinois,
the latter getting two of the cleo
tors.
Mrs. S. R. WATSON and family, who
have been sojourning in Mason val
ley for few weeks, have returned
to Silver Peak.
The Australian ballot law is in
force in all the States except Della
ware, Florida, Georgia, North and
South Carolina,
Dan McGilvery is driving A. Lai
ola's team between here and Bodie.
His first load is for the Copper
Mountain mine, near Lundy.
Senator Wilson and Commissioner
Shields came over from Pine Grove
Sunday, to attend the meeting of the
Board of the Board of Equalization.
Forty men were put to work at
Copper Mountain, near Bodie last
week. The Miner says the number
will be increased to sixty next week.
A Philadelphia boy smoked cigar
cites, on "a wager against time. 1t
took HIM only half an hour to absorb
poison enough to kill him. He died in
a few hours.
Surveyor-General Pratt is prepar-
ing to put the smallest steamboat on
earth on Washoe lake. 1t is designed
to carry a man and dog and small
demijohn of Kentucky frog soup.
'Oh no. There amt any favorites
in this family soliloquized Johnny.
"Oh, no. If I bite my finger nails
catch it over the knuckles, but the
baby can eat his whole foot, and they
think its clever. "
This is an insectiverous campaign.
We have the goldbug, the silverbug,
the boodebug and the straddlebug,
and whole lot of humbugs writing
and talking about the rest of the
bugs.
Hon. Francis G.. Newlands ad-
dressed mass meeting at Metropol-
itan Hall, San Francisco, last week,
the occasion deing the opening of
the Silver Party campaign in Cali
fornia.
The c. & G. r. r. will sell tickets
Tor the round trip to Reno and re-
turn during the State Fair as follows:
From Hawthorne, 50; from Candle
laria, Sl2 80; from Soda, SIP. Tickets
good to September 2Sth.
Vim. r. Hearst, proprietor of the
New York Journal and San Fran
cisco Examiner, has offered to sub
Scribe onn Aaliay for nynrU dollar
subscribed by Others through the
agency Of his newspapers for the
election of Bryan.
There is a huge mountain lion In
The mountains between Ellsworth and
BONNEVILLE, and every night for two
weeks has gone to the house of the
Downey Bros. at Downeyville, aud
S Snen very near by, roars frightfully.