Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1898-12-21
walker Lake Bulletin.
rEDNESDAY -. DECEMBER IL. 1898
SAMPLES.
Merry Christmas.

A. Garrard dropped down from
Bodie Sunday.
Miss Laughton departed Saturday
Tor San Francisco to spend the hoi
days.
Douglass is closing out his line Of
tovs and Christmas goods at reduced
prices.
The Register says that Ed. Brown
i. hunting quail in the vicinity Of
Bishop.
Miss Naudo Bruette, teacher OF the
Marietta school, is visiting her sister,
Mrs. Alva Miller.
H.H. Warburton and Miss Elite
Clifford were married in Belmont on
December 4th.
Adams & Miller have received q
lot of fine fat turkeys. Get one for
YOUR Christmas dinner.
O. F. Taylor has fine display Of
Christmas goods. His fancy china
ware is just too lovely.
Here's q par sdox fer you'll A man
in Hawthorne got hot because his
wife poured ice water in his shoes.
Don't forget the dance next Friday
night. The boys say there will be a
not time in the old town that night.
Go to Douglass store and take a
peep at tho fine assortment of toys,
dolls and all the nice things for Chris
mas.
Captain Armbrust, well known to
all old Comstockers, is reported to be
dying in the Soldiers Home at Yount-
vile, Calf.
Ed. and Miss Nettie Green drove
down from Sweetwater Monday.
Ed. returned yesterday, but Miss
Nettie will remain several days.
Jim Yerington passed through to
Carson Sunday. He says his mill
near Bishop Is temporarily closed
down, owing to the water supply frsez-
ing.
Douglass has just received fine
lot of oranges, lemons, dates, fresh
oysters, all kinds Of nuts, candy, pop
corn and other good things for
Xmas.
A schoolmaster in Bodie recently
received the following note of apol-
gy: Twill yu pleas q's my son
Fred for not cunmin' to skool this
mornin He's died."
Superintendent Colcord attributes
the closing Of the Carson mint coin
age department to its being ignored
by home producers sending their
bullion away for coinage.
Mathew Mayer has begun suit
against George Caravere for $40 on
account Of wood alleged to have been
furnished defendant. The case will
come up for hearing December 9th.
Gilbert Briggs, defeated candidate
for Sheriff of Ormsby county, plead.
cd guilty to the charge of not filing
q statement of his expenses. as re-
CURED by law, and was fined one dol
lar.
Yep Sow, Chinese, who was sen
fenced by Judge Rising to life i'm
prisonment for tho murder OF fel-
low countryman in Candelaria in
1886, will apply for a pardon next
month.
In the estimates Of appropriations
for the Pacific coast by the Secretary
Of the Treasury the allowances for
the Carson mint are as follows: Sal
aries, IS, 900; workmen wages, 81 500
contingent expenses, $4,000.
Report, Since the preparations
for the Inauguration Of deep mining
began, business on the v. q 7. is in
creasing. Every day carload OF
more of supplies for the pumping
plant arrives on the Comstock.
4 Sweetwatsr correspondent asks
What time of the year should tree'
be trimmed, particularly elders?'
We submitted the query TO jim Yer
ington, who is expert in horticulture
and his advice is to cut the Elder,
Just before camp meeting,
Conboie and Kuhn, two rival un
dsrtaters in Virginia, got into dis
pute over bill at the Masonic cemc
terry, and Conbois prevented Kuhr
from depositing the remains in the