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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1899-07-19

He tOuid oet Announcer N1Ets
A middle aged farmer of German
lineage suffered the worst OF n mix up
with an Erie train on one OF the East
Buffalo crossings, and In 1t his wife
and horse had been killed, his wagon
demolished. and lie himself had ~
ceiyod few bruises. For these inJu-
rles and losses he had brought suit
for about $4,000, but rs it was IA toss
ND as TO who was the negligent party
the Dutchman was perfectly willing to
settle instead OF fighting for his 500
100 In the courts.
He appeared Mt the Office of the
roads attorney and after considerable
bargaining said he would accept S200
for his horse. To the attorney this
seemed rather long price, so he asked
the man what he wanted for his wag-
On. The Duichman said he would take
500.
mo; that is impossible" responded
Mr.. Marcy. why, It would cost for
tune to pay for your wife's death II
you value your horse and wagon so
highly! | guess you will have to con-
tlnue the suit
Zach, neinr' began tho German.
"Schust listen to me once. See hier.
You gif me swei hundert for my
horse ind hundert und fifty for der
wagon und er-er--twenty-fiy fer der
harness, ind will call 1t square about
de wife. ! can get another wife, but
the horse und wagon, ach, dey would
cost much money!
Needless to say a settlement was
soon reached which was highly agree
able to both parties.-Buffalo Times.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1899-07-19

protection, and the Indians exchanged
skins aud pelts for trinkets, general
merchandise and whisky. In 1872 the
savages practically destroyed the fort
and massacred fifty-two persons. In
1916 it was rebuilt. Within the next
ten years churches, ferries, stores, no
tells of primitive character appeared
on the scene, and the settlement be-
came a town. Nearly all the new ar
rivals came to start In business. Com
petition became an immediate element
and as early as 1929 there was evil
dent that keenness and foresight which
made commerce the keynote OF one or
the greatest manufacturing and dis
tributing cities In the world. In 1870
the government rewarded resident
for services rendered in negotiating
peaceful relations with the POttawat-
tonnes by building for him free the
first frame house erected In the dis
trict. Chicago's most lordly cloud
grazer does not to-day attract such
universal attention as did the owner
of this princely structure. Up to that
time everything was imported, and
some idea of the progress attained dur
Ing the past seventy years may be
cleaned from the circumstance that the
clapboards. sash. nails and brick used
In constructing this modest little house
were all brought from Cleveland, then
much larger city than Chicago. -Four
years later the first bridges across the
river were constructions of these
was made of floating logs tied together,
and the Indians In Its vicinity volun-
tarlly contributed one-half of its cost.
which was in the neighborhood of
500.
The Sauganash was the grand hotel
In those early days. Here Il half-breed
kept a tavern. now within the memory
of many living patriarch of the West.
He was the towns great musician. and
Just as Nero tiddled while Rome burn
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1899-07-19
while the trophy was smoothed out to
do service as u table-cloth.
Began to Feel Its Oats"

Began to "Fee1 Its Oats.o
BY 1896 the Garden City" began "to
feel its oatsv' The first vessel built
In Chicago was successfully launched,
and ground was broken for the long
talked-0f Illinois and Michigan Canal
The Galena railroad WAS chartered
Speculation became rife, and real es-
tate reached figures that discounted
the widest previous speculatons. Chi
cago was now the largest town In the
State, the question of incorporation
was constantly agitated, and in the fol
lowing year charter was secured from
the Legislature. The population had
risen to ALSO souls, there We're 4 ware
houses, 39S dwellings, % dry goods
stores, hardware stores, 10 groceries,
II lawyers offices, and churches.
The young city, organized and ready
for business, prepared for an immedi-
ate influx of population and wealth,
but was doomed to suffer serious dis
appointment. A great panic presented
itself, and waves of disaster and col
lapse swept over the entire land, from
which Chicago suffered In common
with other cities. A passion for in
vestment had carried the people away,
and lack of money now led to no
end of business failures. lizard Times
held the city in its grasp Retrench-
ment was necessitated, and 1888 fol-
lowed gloomy as a continuous funeral.
A severe drOuth and n most Sprious
epidemic visited the city. Amid this
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1899-07-19
CHICAGO IN 1880 FROM THE LAKE.

apart land to aid the project. A por-
ton Of the allotment fell within the
made, the lots bringing an average Of
1874. Deals In the same became brisk.
A "boOm" was started, settlers came
In, Chicago began TO make metropol-
itan history, and the years since then
have been simply forward strides Of
majestic progress.
1t Is pleasant and interesting to note
what occurred to bring all this about
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1899-07-19

ed, he played for his guests while Chi
cago grew up. 1t Is related that In
those days such things as white sheets
and table linen were IA rare commodity,
and that after a guest was asleep the
specious landlord would invade his
room with a hideous yell, suggesting
Indians whip away the sheet from
the frightened stranger-who would
prudently burrow In the blankets
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1899-07-19

lift great castings, plates, shafts and
other unwieldy pieces which form parts
of battleships, and carry them to the
place where they are wanted. They
do the work more rapidly and more &C.
curately than it was done by the old
derrick process, and it takes only few
men to operate them. When the first
electric crane was suggested Its failure
was predicted by many mechanics,
who have since then learned that tina
cranes are valuable labor-saving ma.
chimes,
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1899-07-19
A southern Standard.

The vara, which is frequently inen'
toned in deeds to land and in cohve'.
sation in Texas, New Mexico ana o'h''
parts of the country which were iV'.
merly under Spanish rule, Is meas".s
Of surface; 100 vara equal squai'
yard, so that for all practical purpose,
the vara is equivalent to the yard an'
may be so consldered.-St. Louis uiop''
Democrat,
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1899-07-19
MONSTER CRANE,

Electric Cantilever Device Used for thu
Building of Sea- Going Vessels.
pieces of machinery used for the build
ing of sea going vessels at the Newport
News ship-buildlng yards. This crane
has span of seventy feet, is worked
by electricity and can lift at the cen.
trail point thirty-iive tons, and six tons
at the extreme ends. These machines
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1899-07-19
Two of n Kind.

Il wonder" said the horse ed''o'.
why some of those wall sus''
chromos are called securities
1T Is on the same principle rep',es
the snake editor, that plays ""
won't draw are called attractions
Pittsburg Chronlcle-Telegraph.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1899-07-19

The German army dogs are SO tralpfu
that when they find dead body Tue!
set up Il prolonged bowling. IL no on0
comes they take the dead mans Guy
or some small article, and with TINS ~
heir teeth go on a hunt for their lraih'
~, whom they lead TO the spot IL 'u'
man Is wounded he gives his cap TO 'n'
dog, and tile same object Is acco'n'
plished
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1899-07-19
AN OBSTINATE ARTIST.

He Painted Red Ear on the Baron de
Rothschi1d.
"a portrait painter can't afford to be
entirely Independent unless he has Il
tremendous vogue remarked an artist
who has spent number of years in
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1899-07-19

~ UST seventy years ago something
oil Ia the nature of "boOn" struck
~ Chicago. gave 1t a start towards
Before that, Its history was practical
ly that OF frontier village, IA trading
point. In 1880 canal connecting the
Illinois River with Lake Michigan was
under consideration. Congress set
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1899-07-19
A Suitable Position.

Here's a place just ht for wo'nAA'
Quite regardless of her rank;
Since she cannot keep u secret,
Make her teller In q bank. :
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1899-07-19

the metropolis i'll n way. A century
ago the advantages Chicago utliizeu
were counted trivial, but close appllca-
ton and shrewd enterprise have an
initiated distance, bridged rivers. ana
tumbled mountains, until, for all prac-
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1899-07-19
A Valuable Cat.

The costliest cat in the world is own
ed by Mrs. Charles Weed, OF Bound
Brook, \. ]. 1t Is Il white angors
named Napoleon the Great, and IL u
valued at $1,000.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1899-07-19

gloom the first theater was built
Strange to say, 1t was success and
was patronized by many who We're
unable to pay their debts.
For fully ten years the effects of the
panic acted as Il caution upon citizens
Legitimate trade was nurtured, and
the marine interests of the city slowly
built up. Newspapers Were started
municipal buildings erected. In 1913
the Pioneer, a locomotive, arrived on
brig from the East, and pulled the
first train out of Chicago over the
Galena road. on NOV. 20 of that year
the first wheat ever transported by
rail arrived, and the locomotive began
to make regular trips over the ten
miles of the road then completed.
From this Insignificant beginning the
most magnificent railway system in
the world has been built up in half a
century. 1t was the railroads that
made Chicago the metropolis Of the
West. and 1t Is the railroads that will
ever keep the city in front, each new
tributary line adding to its greatness.
In the same year the canal was COM
pleted. and board of trade was or
gained with a total membership OF
eightytwo.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1899-07-19
King of Ethiopia aud the Toys.

Formerly very little sutiiced to enter
tain Menelek, and il Is even related
that the first sugar loaf which was
presented to him caused him ecstasies
of pleasure and that he and his CON
sort were discovered with that blessed
product of civilization between them.
licking it vigorously. But those good
times are past. Europeans have brought
him so many toys that he has become
critical. When II new traveller is an
nounced. he awaits with impatience
The customary present, trying to find
out beforehand whether 1t is some
thing new, in which case the audience
Is speedily granted. lie Is much inter-
ested in all machinery, which, includ-
ing watches. he invariably takes to
pieces. Sometimes he deigns to be pres
ent at the unpacking of the travellers
boxes and to appropriate any little OBJ
ject that pleases him. Such Informal
examinations amuse him vastly. If
l had not been n king" he remarks at
times, Il should like to have been n
custom house officer. -Nicomte de
Poncins in Nineteenth Century.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1899-07-19
Some City improvements,

Gas came to Chicago in 1850, and the
Illinois Central Railroad began To plan
out its line. In the following year the
drinking water system of the city was
put on a progressive basis, obviating
the buying of small quantities from
two-wheeled carts, which. dispensed
the same 1t the rate of from 3 10 10
cents Il barrel. The rule now seemed
TO be the organization of Il new rail
road company about every two years.
The Fort Wayne, the Michigan South
ern, the Burlington and Quincy, the
Alton. and numerous other lines sprang
into heinz. bur onlv at the behest Of
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1899-07-19

caused by fluid poison injected by
the insect into the wound in order Ia
make lhe blood thin enough to fioat
tnrougp me mosquitoes throat
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1899-07-19

teal purposes, Salt Lake City Is nearer
to Chicago than Boston was to Phila-
delphia the year Fort Dearborn was
huilt
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1899-07-19

larry anu helpful TO Chicago, and the
Iowa farmer, the Michigan miner, the
INDIANA merchant, the Wisconsin lum-
herman, have all helped TO build UP
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1899-07-19

In the chief square of Belgrade, Ser
via, innumerable little frogs hop about
as unconcernedly rs ii they We're far
away IN the country. How they came
there end how they survive, no one
seems to know.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1899-07-19

NEARLY every woman Is n miser OF
jolllty. Men are willing to catch pleas
,lre as it flies. but women must have
everything just SO before they can
abandon themselves to enjoyment, and
then they are usually too tired To take
H." said n lecturer to an audience OF
women It's disease, but fortunate
~ not incurable. Women say it is easy
10 talk this way. but that one can't
be laughing when one is hurried and
worried. All l can say Is that YOU
might be as hurried, but you wouldn't
be as worried If you did laugh. l hap
pened once to speak of my husband to
little girl. and she said:
why, didn't think you were mar
ried.'
:. Why | asked
"'Oh. cause
"'Cause why
"'Cause you laugh so much.
Wasn't that II commentary on mat
rimony? Chicago Times Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-09
Rival BiOgraph Concern Secures
Fight Pictures.
Six Men With Cameras Beat the
Big Machine.
EVERY MOVE TAKEN.
Jeffries Agrees TO Give Sharkey
Another Chance.
The Champion and Sailor Meet
and Shake Hands.

New York Nov. st is now declared
that the rival biograph concern which
secured pictures of the Jehries-Shar-
key fight by stealth will ask Tor an IN
junction against the BiOgraph company,
which paid for the exclusive privilege
of taking the pictures. If successful IN
preventing the exhibition Of the pic
lures by the Biograph company, the
latter will be loser by $4,000 and more,
which was spent in securing them
Maurice Kraus, a theatrical manager,
is authority for the statement that Joe
Howard of Howard & Emerson, vaude-
vile agents, is the representative of the
non telegraph company. Krauss says
Howard approached him, showed sew
era. feet of the film, which were bona
fide photographs of the fight and OF
fered to exhibit the series in the kraus
theater.
The story of how the pictures were
secured, as told by Howard, kraus
says, is that six Edison moving picture
machines We're smuggled into the Coney
Island arena, each strapped around the
waist of a man who wore q long mack
intOsh. Three of the men sat on one
side of the ring and three on the other.
They worked cOnSecuiVely, each taxing
a round.
The men all wore white Fedora hats
and signaled when they had finished by
raising their hats. Every move taken
was successful. Immediately after the
fight the six men went to a nearly no
tel where elaborate developing rooms
had been fixed up. BY 5 o'clock Satur-
day morning all the pictures had been
developed, and then a man rushed to
Washington, where they were copy
righted.
Washington, D. c., Nov. 9-Mere ap-
plicatiOns for copyright are not made
public and there is nothing to prevent
a dozen men from taking pictures of the
same event and cOpyrighting each.
There are scores of copyrighted pictures
of Mckinley, for instance. The copy
right end of the New York story is alb
surd, according to officials here.
Regarding this matter the officials of
the MutOscOpe and BiOgraph company
say they are by no means alarmed. 1t
is understood that a few rounds of the
fight We're obtained in the manner above
described But Billy Brady and
O'Rourke say that they regard the ac-
ton of the rival company as blackmal,
and they will take legal methods to
prevent the exhibition of the pictures
in question.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-09
AN EYE ON NEW YORK.
Treasury Officials Are Watching the
Money Market.

Washington, Nov. 9.-Treasury Off
Gals are watching the course of the
money market in New York, but it is
said no steps are contemplated at this
time to relieve the strinSency in rates
which exist in some quarters. Officers
are disposed to think the rates are
made largely by banks to customers
who want it for use in speculative ven
lures and that for ordinary business
the financial institutions are able to ac-
commOdate their clients at the legal
rates of interest.
Secretary Gage, in speaking of the
matter, said he did not consider that
any stringency existed Warranting any
action by the government; that there
was no great accumulation in the treas
ury and that the outgO of government
money was running pretty even with
the receipts. In this connection the
secretary said he knew nothing of the
statement current in wall street that
there was to be a conference between
himself and well known bankers of the
metropolis to consider the money ques-
ton. The secretary was in communi-
cation by telephone with prominent
banking house in New York today, the
officials of which informed him that
they had enough funds to meet the
wants of their regular customers at
ordinary rates of interest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-09
COMING DRAMATIC EVENTS

The revival of Steele Mackaye's ro-
mantle drama Paul KauVar,' in which
r. r. Spencer and Miss Isabel Pengra
are starring this season, will be given
a performance at the Crawford theater
both afternoon and evening Saturday.
The supporting company includes Mr..
John A. Lane, who has appeared in
the leading support of Edwin Booth,
Lawrence Barrett, both the older and
younger SalVinis, Madame RistOri,
Madame MOdjeska and others of equal
prominence. Mr.. John Milton for a
number of years leading juVenal man
with the late Thomas w. keene; Geo.
Morton, formerly of Augustin Days
company of Days theater New York;
Mr.. Joseph Zanher, late Of Stuart Rob
sons company; Mr.. Joseph Nanery, last
season with Mr.. Charles FrOhman, and
others equally as well known.
Labadie's production of Faust will
be seen at the Grand Opera House Sat
urday night The Shenandoah, Pa,
Chronicle, said of it:
THE general verdict of all who wit
messed the performance of Faust last
night by the Labadie company, was
that the rendition was in every partic
uIar satisfactory, the scenic and me-
chanical effects We're heavy, well han
died and proved a prime feature in this
excellent production. The parts We're
mainly well cast, in the hands of good
capable artists we'll versed in legiti-
mate drama. The company was in ev-
cry way worthy of liberal patronage"
Mr.. Paul Gilmore, the young romantic
actor, viii be seen in the version of
Dumas ''AIusketeers'' used in this
country by the younger Salvini, at the
Crawford theater Monday night. MI
Gilmore and his company recently ap-
peared in Dubuque, Ia, and one of the
papers there printed the following:
THE very hearts and souls of the
vast thrOng seemed with the gifted
young actor, and well did he wear the
hOnOrs that hard work and study have
brought to him. Nature, undoubtedly,
fashioned him for an actor of romance
and a star at that, for there is the at
mOsphere of greatness about him and
his magnetic influence controls an audi
ence at once and unremittingly Ease
and grace are his in fullest measure.
His pOise is perfect and he does not
act; he lives his part A deep, we'll
mOdulated voice, a fine figure, a full
expressive face, a bright, sparkling
eye, nature has we'll equipped him for
the part of the dashing, daring DAT
tagnan. He we'll knows the value of
light and shade and gives to his part
the studiOus reserve typical of the fin
ished actor, the master of his profess
sion. Supported by a thoroughly ade-
quate company he satisfied in every
way the large and critical audience
in a manner that left no room for
doubt"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-09
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.
MarconTs Assistants Have Gone to
South Africa.

New York, Nov. 9.-Passengers on
the steamship St. Paul will have the
advantage of hearing the latest South
African war news some time before the
big liner touches shore. Signor Mar
conf, the inventor of wireless biography
leaves on the st. Paul, taking with him
a full set of his Instruments. He says
he can communicate with the English
government station at Lands End.
when he gets within a hundred miles
of that point.
SignOr MarcOni was trying to finish
his delayed correspondence when a cor
respondent called on him last evening
at the Hoffman House.
YES" he remarked, my departure
of my assistants. MeSSrS. Cashier, Lock
yer, Franklin, Bray and Elliott have
started for the front. taking 80 sets
of instruments. They left on the trans
port Servia for Durham on November
2. Others viii follow. making II or IS
in all. I should like to go to South
Africa myself and I may start after the
of the directors of my company are
nerVOuS-they seem to fear that might
be killed or injured"
Have you completed your expert
ments for the United States govern
ment?"
almost cut in two on account of the
war;
Signor Marconi explained that with
the short time at his disposal he could
not construct instruments capable of
demonstrating the full value of wire
less telegraphy, but he would return
next March to continue the expert
ar1f
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-09

stomach. which made the mysterious
boxer lgur inaudibly. In the ninth
Smith was almost taken off his feet
by an upper cut from McKeever's left.
McKeever put a straight left on the
mouth in the eleventh, and drew hrst
blood by cutting Smiths eye with an
other left jab. Smith replied with
similar blow, which raised a lump over
NIcKeever's left eye.
From this point Smith, who had had
the worst of it, began to improve. In
the twelfth he stepped in with a hard
right on the wind. McKeeVer cOuntered
and Smith swung his left on jaw. In
the thirteenth Smith swung his left to
the eye and AIcKeever landed hard on
the kidneys. AT the close of the round
Smith drove a terrible left to the ribs.
In the next two rounds both men con-
tinued to visit the body with lefts and
rights at close quarters In the fifteenth
Smith sent a straight left to the face,
AIcKeever sending left to face and body.
At the close of the round Smith stag
erered AcKeeVer to the ropes with a
hard right swing on the body. In the
following round both landed hard let's
on the face and fought roughly at close
quarters. MckeeVer came out OF TINS
mix-up with a cut under his right eye
There We're hard exchanges on the body
and head in the seventeenth, and in the
eighteenth both landed right swings
on the head. AcKeever jabbed his left
on the jaw. but had the worst of the
hard infighting which followed In the
nineteenth Smith rushed, but was
blocked. and Mac drove his left to the
wind. Smith sent a heavy left to the
head and Mac countered lightly. There
was some vicious work on both sides at
this stage of the game, and in a half
clinch Smith threw Mac from him, the
Philadelphia going to the floor where
he remained nine seconds on one knee.
Nothing more was done in this round.
Many persons cried foul on account OF
Smiths work, but the referee paid no
attention to them.
In the final round Smith was very ag
gressive and got left and right to Macs
continued to force a terrific pace, get
ting all over his opponent, who landed
the last blow of the fight, straight left
to the face, which rocked Smiths head.
The referee declared Smith the winner.
Smith was the favorite, odds of 100 to
so and 100 to so being laid on his
chances.