Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1902-10-11
General News.

in France. II is worthy of note,
however, that neither Of the con
testants was a Frenchman.
Tvbn, the rebuilt locomotive for
the Inyo Development company, is
again at Keeler. after being in the
shops at Carson for AN overhauling.
The ballot paper for use in the
coming election has just been for
warded to the various county clerks
bv Secretary of State Howell, The
paper is light blue in color.
Magistrate Did | understand
you to say that the parties used high
words?'
Witnsss Yes, your worship
their voices were unusually high, and
their language was extremely low. "
A Minneapolis jury lately did a
fine days work in behalf of purity in
municipal affairs. Chief of Police
Ames, who accepted bride, was
sentenced to six and half years in
the penitentiary.
\ new philosopher on diet teaches
that all food should be chewed until it
ceases to have any taste, and the re-
mainder rejected An opening ex-
pertinent with an onion would be
interesting,
The secretary Of the treasury is
buying up government bonds Of the
loan Of 1894, paying for them at the
rate of l05 flat. The amnunt of 5s
of that issue now outstanding is Sl4,-
40, $50 The department has antic-
ipated the October interest.
When "A man announces that he will
not vote for this or that man ON his
party ticket one is reminded of the
fact that very many men think they
ought to be theWhole Convention and
that the other fellows should make
up the Ratification Meeting
The feature of the naval estimates
for 1904, which have been made pub
lie at the navy department, is the
iberality of the recommendation for
each Of those branches of the service
which have to provide for the equip
&. nent of our fighting ships. The total
estimates are $82. 900, 600
There is probably in all the world
only one town built OF glass, and that
is to be found near Yellowstone park
The glass is not artificial, but nat
ural, an obsidian formed by volcanic
action 1t is Il dark green or black
in hue, but in every other respect re
Sembles the artificial product.
Cook stown is Il seaweed settlement
in Alaska. 1t was originally built Of
clay bricks, but the action Of the sea
salt, with which the air is heavy,
caused the bricks to crumble away
and in their place was substituted
slabs of seaweed mixed with salt,
compressed and baked.
For the purpose of determining the
density of the earth Prof. f. w Nc
Nair of the Michigan college, and
Major John +. Hayford, chief of the
computing department of the United
States coast and geodetic survey,
will conduct experiments at the Tam
arack mine, near Calumet, for Il
period of two weeks or more.
People generally will sympathize
with the piano-makers strike. The
pianos that sell for $500 could be sup
piled for one half that sum- and then
the manufacturers would be making
about 100 per cent. There is no
monopoly in the country more exact
ing than the pooled piano manufac-
turers monopoly
The latest bulletins Indicate that
the San Pedro, Los Angeles Il Salt
Lake railroad has been sold to the
Chicago, Milwaukee n st. Paul The
latest bulletins also Indicate that the
sale has not been made Readers
are at perfect liberty to take their
choice Nobody with any authority
to speak has as yet discussed the
matter. Salt Lake Herald
The Thunder Mountain advertise
ments are gradually moving further
and further east and getting into the
back country newspapers. The suck
ers out this way have all been caught
The magazines will presently begin
the publication OF articles with the
caption, The Sad Truth About
Thunder Mountain !; or How IA
Modern Gold Mine is Worked. or
TO FOOLS Country and Back.