Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-05-08

the southern part OF Colorado that the
ranchmen want them killed off to save
their property.
Honolulu Is keeping up with the trade
procession of the day. 1t is to have a
$2,0000O0 packing-house establish
ment. The islanders will thus be able
to get fresh meat without the long re-
frigerator plan.
Memphis, Tenn, is taking no little
pride In her distinction Of being the
mule metropolis of the South. Some
one, referring to this fourishing and
wealthy city, says there 1t is case
of banks and brays."
There are signs that the immigration
of Northern families to the South,
which has been notably large for the
past five or six years, will be larger
this year. Western States contribute
as much to this flow southwark as do
the Eastern States.
Tobacco raising In northwestern Wis
consin has been demonstrated to be q
simple matter, experiments In La
Crosse County having met with COM
plete success. Ten acres planted last
year yielded $500 pounds Of fine leaf
and numerous farmers contemplate go
ing into the business.
In 1900 one packet sloop carried from
Philadelphia to Washington all the fur
niture of the United States govern
ment, together with all the Federal
archives, which filled "seven large
boxes and four or five smaller ones"
AS contrast, see the thousands Of
buildings the government owns to-day
The Belgian hare fad seems to have
had quite run In Jefferson City, Mo-,
during the legislative session there. One
of the state senators wns heard to ex-
press the opinion that the craze had
not been productive Of any great bene-
fit there. "In fact" he said, with con-
viction, ut don't taste bit better than
rabbit"
Texas is not only an oil field, but it
may become an important asphalt dis
trict. Tests from the Lucas well re-
suited In two grades Of asphalt being
obtained from 1t. One grade Is hard
and the other soft. DR.. Forward says
that this asphalt is 9S per cent pure,
while the Trinidad asphalt is only 45
per cent pure.
A printer working in Emporia, Kan,
went house hunting and found difficulty
in securing a desirable place because
he had three young children. Then he
advertised for house, adding by way
Of Joke that he was prepared If nee
essary to kill two of the young ones.
The advertisement appeared In week
ly and next morning his wife presented
him with twins.
Half dozen leading artists In New
York have planned a twelve-story stu
dio building which Is intended to be
the center of bohemian art circles.
There are to be a dozen studios with
living apartments and two dozen with
bachelor quarters attached. The prof.
ect grows out of the difficulty In secur-
ing kitchen accommodations In connec-
ton with studios.
A mission of savants from France is
about to proceed to Mukden In Man
churia to examine some manuscripts
recently discovered there, which are
believed to have been taken from
southeastern Europe by the Mongol and
Tartar invaders of six centuries ago.
The members of the mission hope to
find many lost works, those Of the his
torian Polybius, for example.
In preparation for the bicentennial
of Yale to be held In October next a
committee has been appointed to Or
ganize the great body of Yale gradu-
ates who will attend the celebration
This committee will have its headquar-
tiers at the Yale Club In New York, and
the function in which 1t will take part
Is a monster torchlight procession with
costumes, allegorical and historical
floats, Nominations, etc.
In order to be able to feed the SOL
dlers in the Philippines as they are fed
1t is necessary to keep kind of pro-
cession of supply ships on the water
ways from New York to Manila by way
of the Suez canal and across the Pa
cific from San Francisco. 1t will not
do to store immense volumes of sup
plies In Manila, for that is tropical
climate and all food is more or less
perlshable In so hot temperature.
Therefore ships are going all the time.
The Count Won Zeppelin, whose ex-
perlments in aerial navigation on Lake
Constance last year attracted a great
deal of attention, has spent about $780,
900 of his own money on his airship
and the trials, and the corporation
which backed him supplied fully $780,
600 more. The King Of Wuertemberg
was liberal contributor to the latter
sum. The company has now been dis
solved and the Count can have the air.
ship at Friedrichshafen on payment of
$4,000.
Members of the Players Club of New
York have given to the Church of the
TRANSPORTATION (the little church
around the corner') Bible for the lee