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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-08-07
BIRDS THAT KILL RATTlERS.
Road Runners OF Arizona a Deadly
Enemy to the Snakes.

Road Runners Of Arizona a Deadly
Enemy to the Snakes.
In country where a quarter Of a
century ago a rattlesnake was to be
found under every rock and in every
hillock, the reptile is rapidly becoming
rarity. With his human relative, the
Apache. the RATHER Is disappearing
from Arizona and Is now found only
in the most isolated districts.
To the advance of civilization and the
unremitting warfare of the road run
ner and the king snake may be attrib-
uted the determination of the RATHER
Wherever irrigation has found Its way.
the rattlesnake has been driven to
higher ground, and there the prospect
or and miner have slain him whenever
and wherever found. The road runner,
that long-legged. feathered warrior. the
fighting cock of the desert, has done
his part. and has done 1t WELL
Much resembling. but more lightly
constructed than the fighting cock, the
road runner Is one of the most dreaded
enemies of the rattler. In fact, SO
great are his snake-killing proclivities
that heavy penalties are provided by
the territorial statutes as a protection
to him from the gun of the hunter Ap-
parently immune from the venom in
the poison sac of the RATHER, the road
runner attacks the largest snake with
impunity, and has never been known to
lose a fight. Frequently, indeed. the
road runner has been known to battle
with and kill pair of large diamond
rattlers. whose total weight was five
times that Of his own.
Not so common an enemy TO the
rattlesnake, but no less deadly, is the
king snake. large species of the bull
snake family. Rarely seen in the lower
countries, but often found In the North
ern forests and higher mountains. the
king snake wages constant warfare ON
the RATHER, and when his great 1.-THE
form coils around the body of the rat
tlesnake, the life of the later Ia a mat
ter OF only few seconds.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-08-07
A Glass Hospital Ward.

An "aseptic. ward" of the honuvl
Temperance Hospital contains ho's'
features. 1t is IA by II feet III aiea'
and 10 feet high, being intendeo ~ ~.
only one patient at time. Inc "I ',.,,
and ceiling are of enameled glass; W,, ,a
rounded angles, and the floor OF lna, Ia
mosaic, with angles also rounu,
A plate-glass window, with ou's'u.
blind, forms three-ffths of the Ne. s
wall. The door is of ground glass; a .no
the frame-the only wood about Wv y.
wards Of hard teak. No pipe "a
drain opens into the ward. 'Grea' .a, o..
has been taken with the ventllallns :,
rangements, and the ward IS cut w. ~
from the rest of the hospitaf pya W. -,
tilated lobby The bed, chair pau ',,.s
locker, ETC., ale of metal. EveFy'n' ,a,
In the room can be washed III no, - :,
without harm, and it is suggested ' "a.
future houses will give similar plo'' :,
ton against the entrance, gro""
escape of harmful germs. =. IS
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-08-07

had taken with him nearly $4,000,
which his colonists had been kind
enough to make for him.
A writer who is still alive is RESPONSE
BILE for the millions of James McKen-
ma, the finder of the Half-Moon Greek
diggings in Alaska. 1t was poem of
Bret Harte's, written thirty years ago.
which put it into McKenna's head to
go to Alaska. In the poem in question
Bret Harte describes miner as WELD
ing his pick in the midst of snow and
ice in Alaska. Why shouldn't there be
gold up there? thought McKenna, al
though none was then known of. He
reached the country two years before
the Klondike rush. and attributes all
his good fortune to his fayorite poet.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-08-07
THE LOST GARDEN.

Somewhere in the distant southland
Blooms a garden-lost to me
Warm with peoples burning fragrant,
Drowsy fires | may not see.
Subtle shadows fit and beckon
Down dim pathways bound with yew'
Where a white wrath wanders lonely
'Twixt the darkness aud the dew.
I'm the ruined walls that echoed
Once to happy-hearted moods.
Now the stealthy, lightfoot lizards
Unmolested rear their broods.
"And beneath the oleanders,
No clear voice sings, as of old;
But the fleet caressing snnbeams
Whisper secrets to their mold.
Though | follow as the southwind
Fares his way through wood and plain,
Though | question hill and valley,
| shall never find again
MY lost garden-where lie buried
Joys that swift the glad hours sped;
Only one could bid me enter;
Only Loye-and Love is dead!'
-Ainslee's.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-08-07
FACED DEATH MANY TIMES.
Lad Who Has Been in I'm minent Peril
Frequently, but Still Lives.


Edward Dempsey, son of once
noted oarsmar, has been near deaths
door thirteen times, but the portals are
still closed 10 him. He is IL years old
and has walked hand in hand with
death in every year of his life and never
1inched. Saturday morning he met
with his thirteenth accident but that
he has passed the hoodoo number In
safety is affirmed by the physicians at
the Jefferson hotel.
The boy was riding his bicycle down
Chestnut street when he ran into a
trolley car at Eighth street, striking his
head against the iron part of the fender
on the rear Of the car. Leading his
wheel he walked to the hospital, not
knowing until he arrived there that he
had received a fractured skull as the
result of the accident. The doctors say
he will recover. He cheerfully bears
his confinement and seems concerned
only in the baseball scores
Edwards father, Patrick Dempsey,
who Is now employed in hotel on
Eleventh street, below Chestnut. was
prominent years ago as an oarsman and
coach. When the family lived at Falls
of Schuylkill some years back the boy
was concerned in more accidents than
a hospital ambulance. Once he shot
the falls of Wissahickon creek in frail
rowboat and 1t was common occur
renee for him to fall overheard while
rowing and swim ashore.
This remarkable lad has been the vic
tim of gasoline accident, was hit by
trolley cars galore, chased by the an
cry subjects Of his practical jokes and
in many other ways made the hero OF
incidents of which he was too modest
to keep account. But the boy survived
his thirteenth accident probably the
most serious of all, and the physicians
are certain that he will be ready for an
other one next year.--Philadelphia
Press
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-08-07
A Deadly Revolver,

A revolver which fires fifteen times
with one loading is the next thing to be
added to the already long list of death
dealing weapons. This, which is the
invention of an American, embodies all
the latest improvements in firearms
pin-fre, safety-triggers, automatic
shell-ejectors, and the rest. The weap-
on is furnished with two barrels, one
placed above the other, and the outer
row of ten bullets in the cylinder is
fired from the upper barrel, while the
inner row of five is fired from the low.
er barrel by means of a second trigger,
which works independently of the
other
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-08-07
THE LITTLE WIDOW

y7N the sunshiny room Of Mrs. Endi-
colt there was buzz of converse
ton and the sound of shipping Of
scissors, and 1t was evident that the
Embroidery circle Of Huxbridge was In
conclave. Mandy Nichols occupied the
chair by the window, and as she raised
her head from the bit of satin on which
she was working an impossible flower,
she gave an exclamation.
Here Is Mrs. Hemenway," she an
nounced, land the little widow just
passed her In her carriage and bowed
to her."
"The lmpudent thing. Did Mrs. Hem
enway-oh, here she is," and the host
ess arose to greet her guest who with
much rustling of stiff silk entered the
room.
80 glad you came, DEAR" cried Mrs.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-08-07

will not come to want. Some years ago
Mr.. Carnegie erected two great office
buildings on Fifth avenue, New York,
one Of them decided to his wife and the
other to Margaret. By the time that
the latter is of marrying age the In
come from this office building will have
accumulated into a great fortune, for
the rental of the Fifth avenue building
is enormous. And now a magnificent
castle is being built for her at Chaun-
cey, Westchester County, and by the
fall it win be complete and will pass
into her exclusive ownership. The
castle is a replica of famous Scotch
stronghold and will be luxuriously fur
nishad
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-08-07
Small Beginnings, Big Results.

The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial
Institute for colored students started
in little shanty with one teacher and
thirty students. At present there are
about |. 100 students and eighty-tao in
structors. Starting with no property
the institution now owns property val
ued at $350,00o including more than
1900 acres of land and forty eight
buildings. Practically all of the bui,d-
ings have been erected by the labor of
the students hemselves.-Colliers
Weekly
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-08-07
FOUNDED ON NOVELS.
Fortunes Built from the Imaginative
Pages of Fiction.

Fortunes Built from the lima ginative
Pages of Fiction.
Oxygen parties are now the rage in
fashionable circles. The gas has. the
property of reviving tired nerves and
bodies in a way which no tonic can
equal. 1t is supplied in tanks, and the
guests inhale 1t through long tubes
just as Turkish smokers do tobacco
smoke from a hookah The firm Of
Ellsworth, who supply the gas, is rap
idly reaping a fortune, and this for
tune they will owe, Indirectly at least,
to the novelist, Jules Verne.
One of Jules Vernes books-"Dr.
Ox's Experiment''-deals with a scien-
fist who flooded little sleepy Dutch
town with oxygen. and thereby pro-
duced fruit and vegetables such as the
world hal never before seen. Incl
dentally, its effect was also to render
the phlegmatic Dutchmen violently
quarrelsome. The perusal of this book
gave the head of firm of chemical
engineers the idea which is now caus-
ing such delight to bored people of
fashion.
Jules Verne. with his wonderful
prophecies and inventions, which have
since he wrote of them, become actual
facts, Is responsible for more than one
individual rising from poverty to rich
es. No one was ever more fascinated
by a story than was Claude Leverson
by Jules Yerne's Journey to the Cen
ter Of the Earth In this book the
novelist describes how party climbed
down the crater of an extinct Icelandic
volcano, anad so reached the inner re-
cesses of the earth. Young Leverson,
who was at school when he read the
book, made up his mind to copy the
adventures of his hero, and many
years afterward did actually explore the
craters of number of unmapped peaks
In New Granada. 1t was in 1894,
while camped on the shores of the
river which fills the old crater pit at
the top of the San Geronimo Mountain,
that he made his famous discovery of
the Geronimo emerald field. which has
since made him one of the five richest
men on the South American continent.
In Edward Bellamy's Looking
Backward" the people of the world,
as it is to be couple of centuries
hence. use no money at all. 1t Is,
therefore. rather curious that the book
should have been the means of bring
ing large fortune to an enterprising
American who tarted a COLONY in Mex
leo on the lines laid down by Bellamy.
TIL colonists used no money, but they
grew immense quantities of fruit and
corn. which their manager. whose
name was Daily, sold for the public
good. and bought with the money such
supplies as they needed. No one seems
to have called on Daily for accounts
of his transactions; but one day he
disappeared, and 1t was found that he
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-08-07
WAR AND THE RAILROADS
No Fuss Made Over Number Killed h,
the Latter.

No Fuss Made Over Number Killed BY
the Latter.
IL 1923 men were killed and 462O
were wounded in battle, even the most
staid newspaper would be pardoned for
using sensational headlines. A thrill
of horror would vibrate civilized peo-
Piles, prayers would be uttered in all
churches for the dead, and sympathetic
feeling for relatives and wounded
would be universal.
Such a calamity, however, happens
every year. almost without comment
But for the official report of the Inter.
state Commerce Commission. annually
rendered for Congress, the world would
be but little the wiser for 1t, and as II
Is, goes on almost unmoved and uncon.
cerned about 1t. The figures given
above form the brief official announce
ment of the number killed and injured
by railways of the United States for
the year ending June 80, 1899. The
statistic Is officially softened by a ratio
statement that only one person was
killed or injured for a certain number
of million miles accomplished by
trains. The public is still further re
assured to the effect that only 239 pas
sengers were killed and only 832
were injured, which gives over sixty
million miles travelled for one injured.
We are told that 4,574 persons killed
were really trespassers, as were also
6,355 of the injured. They get in front
of the trains when they ought to have
business elsewhere Some Of them
were only tramps, stealing rides, thus
Kidding communities of their mainte
nance and pilferings. and saddling tho
burial expenses on the railway corpor
atoms.
A careful examination of the Official
report fails to reveal any other phlhn-
thropic or reassuring features. On the
contrary, glance at a table In the re-
port shows that during the period from
Sept. 80, 1888, to same date, 1899 ns
awful slaughter of railways amounla
to 7S,412 killed and 415,707 injured-a
population greater than the city OF Ne"
| Orleans
But what is strictly germane TO tni'
| article is the fact that during tnose
years the number of railway employees
killed in the United States was zo,9s"
and the number injured was 322,l4o'-
Harper's Weekly. 56s
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-08-07
CHILD MELTED HIS HEAer
What the Piuched Face Did f.
Hard Man of th. wa-,, IN

/
He was comfortable and fuu.,a.
having just done ample Justice .
sumptuous meal. AS he stood II
door of the cafe a ragged. unka,o1 .Ae
diyidual approached him and askad "
money that he might eat. The n NJ
looked at him coldly and SHOOT aa
head. pass on" he said rougblv. us
As the tramp disappeared around -,
corner the hard lines around the moa NC
mouth grew harder and his eyes COLD
He was thinking of how he had to nv. NJ
for his money. Why couldn't this Ok,
bodied tramp do the same? Then q nis
ing treble broke in ON his thopabtP
The man looked down and behald
diminutive persona little girl with
half-dozen papers under her arm ons
the saddest and most pitifully bunoas
pinched face in the world.
| Buy paper, misterr she asked
The man cleared his throat. owhu
yes. certainly; here" He handed bor
silver dollar.
Il hain't got the change" the lt,,.
woman said, hesitatingly.
Don't want it; keep it."
The man looked down the street and
wondered why his heart had suddenl,
grown so warm. The child was silent
awed with the vast wealth that boa
just been thrust upon her. The man
reached down and patted her head
You're mighty small affair to be ont,
ON the street." he said. almost tendorlv
She did not reply. Her mind was still
dazzled with her newly ACQUIRED
wealth. Finally she found her voice
"Good-by, mister" she said BACKING
away.
"Good-by, little girl" and the man
coughed suspiciously. "Gad!' he said
half aloud, Pm glad and thankful nv
babies are in out of the cold Poor M.
tie thing. l wonder if she has any
place to go?"
Then he walked down the street feel
ing strangely at peace with himself
and the world.-Denver Times.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-08-07
ndicott. but you look rather up

Endicott. "But you look rather up
SET"
THAT impertinent little mink just
bowed to me as | was entering your
gate. Mrs. Endicott."
1.-THE idear' "Impudentr' "Horriblew
came from the different parts of the
room.
But l glared at her," added Mrs.
Hemenway, trlumphantly.
81 saw her talking with the minister
last night and l shouldn't wonder but
that she will sing in the choir" said
one.
IF she joins the choir, then l leave.
| won't sit in the same bench with a
singer of French songs said another,
the leader of the choir.
And the way she runs after the
men, spoke up Mrs. Endicott. MY
husband declares she is the brightest
little woman In town.
"Oh, a man always falls in love with
a woman when she is French. widow
and little mysterious. Mr.. Endicott
ia not the only man who admires Mrs.
Sartoris," yentured Mandy with a look
In Mrs. Hemenway's direction. Unfor-
tunately that woman intercepted the
look and her whole figure set in stiff,
rigid lines. And In short time the
circle broke up.
Helen Sartorls was a young widow,
who, with her 4-years-old child and two
"a In tnl- tt,
Huxhridge some two months since. The
good people of the town called upon
her and their calls We're dutifully re-
turned, and the widow seemed charm
ing until 1t was discovered that the
men of the town We're raving about her.
Thea the women froze in their manner
towards her. and after few wretched
days, filled with snubs and cold glares
from her erstwhile friends. the little
widow laughed at her prosecutors and
their snubs and became deeply gracious
to the male relatives of these same
possible course for her to pursue--but
she was woman.
The grounds of Mrs. Hernenway ad-
Joined those of Mrs. Sartoris, so that II
was not wonderful that Guy Hemen-
way should see the widow in her gar
den and fall in love with her pretty
little self. And Helen, her short mar
ried live having been loveless and cold.
welcomed the new tender feeling In her
heart for Guy Eemenway.
When Mrs HemenWay reached home
that afternoon she was much excited
over the hint she received from Mandy
ri hear Mrs. Sartoris is joining the
choir" she said.
''Well, she ought to. She has de-
lightful voice"
Have you heard her sing?" inquired
!. his mother, sharply.
Guy recovered himself. yes, often,
TO her little girl in the garden here"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-08-07
Wool from Limestone.

IAN Indian chemist says the Phar-
maceutical Era. has applied for pat
ents on process of making wool from
limestone. After some sort of chemi-
cal treatment the rock is subjected to a
drawing-out process, by which. 1t is
said. Ii is converted into the finest and
most pllable wool, OF beautiful white
color, soft as down and both water and
fire proof"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-08-07

When you offend woman, and take
her box of candy In the hope that she
will make up. she accepts the candy.
eats it, and, after 1t is all gone, wipes
her lips. knocks the crumbs oil her
dress, and says TO you: Now. don't
you think you are meanT
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-08-07

Laws that Fail of Their onleoS s,o,
Carroll ID. Wright, the Federai f''v W.
Commissioner, has come''to the cono' NV
sion that the employers liabtily' F. ~,
Of the various. States are psactl'A.s !.
worthless as a means of protection !"
Injured employees. .,,e.,l ~
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-08-07
A RICH HEIRESS.

Margaret Carnegie Will Soon Be the
Happy Owner of a Castle.
Whether Andrew Carnegie dies un-
disgraced in not dying rich, 1t is GER
tain that his little daughter, Margaret,
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-08-07

BE natural, and you cant 50 very -. No.
wrong. If this course lapds you IL ,lI
penitentiary, you will be more "'''
there than elsewhere.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-08-07

Your really undesirable relatives new.
er see any reason why they should not
accept invitations unwillngly given.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-08-07

Trlplets are problems that can y
solved only by the rule Of three
Arizona republican., 1901-08-09

tory building this dewfall could be col lected in pails for drinking purposes. Sornctines three gallons of dew could be collected in 8 single night, and was drunk by the astronomers as great luxury.
 Tho telescope by means of which Professor Pickering secured the photo graphs of the moon to Illustrate ms new atlas is peculiar from the fact that it is firmly fixed in one position, point ing down hill This arrangement, how ever. does not seem SO strange, when one learns that beneath the lower end of the ( lescope is large mirror which can be moved to throw any portion of the h avens within the field of vision. The tube of the teles -ope is 136 feet long and is made of wire netting and build r's paper surrounding a wooden frame work The reflection of a heaV- en'y body is thrown by the mirror through a large lens and up the tube to the eye of the observer or upon sensitive photographic plate. While the tube remains fixed parallel to the axis of the earth at an elevation of lS degrees, the mirror, lens and plate holder are moved synchronously with the movements of the earth and moon by means of ingenious electric motors governed by clockwCrk.
 In the course of his vestigations profcsor Pickering has discovered cu- rious chang in tha moons appear ancc which are accounted for by the theory that there is snow as well as vegetation upon the moons surface.
Arizona republican., 1901-08-09

There is special reason for gratifica- tion in the statement of the enormous god balance in the THE treasury, aside from GREAT GOLD the assurance it af- BALANCE. lords that ths govern
 ment is far removed from the possibility of a stringency such as aided in the precipitation of the panic of 1893 This great flood of the yellow metal demonstrates, first of all, that the pessimistic forecast of the silvsrtes of five and six years ago that there would turn out to be not enough gold to maintain it as a safe and reliable single standard is untrue. Wheat and silver parted company long ago and there is today no promise of a fai!ure of the gold supply which will menace the stability of the countrys currency system.
 Again this showing proves the con- tinued prosperity of the American peo- pie. Gold flows into the public coffers because there is great abundance of money in circulation. There is no stringency in any line and credit is high. Foreign balances are in our favor and there is no drain toward the east. The trade situation is thus clear ly reflected in the shining mass of gold piled up in the public vaults, forming a bedrock foundation not only for the public credit. but also for the commer- cial enterprise of the country.
 It is also particularly pleasant to re- fleet that the larger proportion of this gold has cone from American mines. The development of the Alaskan fields was in itself a serious blow to the sil- verites claims ofa scarcity of the yellow metal. Within the past few years, too, has come the cyanide process of gold reduction. which has permitted the working of low grade ores formerly dis Narded as not worth the cost of mining Colorado. and we are pleased to ob- serve this territory, are enjoying a re- markable prosperity in consequence of these enterprises and the consequent output of gold is steadily growing It was only the othsr day that MT. Towne admitted in an interview that gold is no longer to be considered as too rare a metal for a safe basis for a national currency system.