Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-11-03
IT LOOKS BAD
FRAUD IN OPENING OF WALKER
LAKE RESERVATION.
An Effort VIII BE Made to Have All
Reservations Cancelled Made
on the 10Th of October.

Tie Walker Lake Indian reservation
vas opened at noon last Monday and
half an hour later the signal admitting
thousands Of prospcctors had been
fired, countless mining claims had been
located and townsites established.
Mushroom cities are springing up at
the mouths of Dutchman and Cotton
wool creeks, in the vicinity OF which
the richest mining territory is sup
posed to lie
Although there were many who pre-
ierred 10 locate claims according to law,
and waited at the boundary lines, nu-
merons men had rushed into the COW
eted land the night previous. rs re-
suit, the race from the boundary was
a farce. j. p. Miller, who started from
Hawthorne with about 500 men when
the dynamite signal was fired, beat au-
tomobies and vehicles with his fleet
horses, covering the distance OF seven
teen miles i'm twenty-nme minutes. lie
secured as locations valuable Arastra
mining property. George Green with
\. Nye and ?. L. O'Brien OF Tonopah,
ran in the race from Walker mountain
from the Yerington side, covering four
miles OF preeiptous country in twenty
one minutes They also secured four
teen Arastra properties. George Nagle,
supposed to be acting for United States
Senator Nixon, staked out townsite at
Dutchman's creek.
Holders OF claims Immediately pa
troled them with rifles, but as nobody
cared to dispute their location, there
was no bloodshed. 1t is feared, how
ever, that when surveys are commenced
there will be disputes which may cause
trouble Half dozen women partici-
pated in the struggle for mining land,
and in some instances succeeded in Sc
curing rich properties. As a rule, the
people who waited until the regular time
before rushing into the territory did not
secure anything for their efforts, and
many honest prospectors who had spent
all their savings TO participate in the
opening turned back dedicated.
Special Land Agent Frank Parks has
received no reply from Washington in
answer to his recommendation that the
present opening be annulled on ac-
count of irregularity. lie asserts that
Mondays proceedings are an injustice to
those who sought to obey the laws re
garding the opening and whose efforts
were baiiled by those who rushed
through ahead of time because the
boundary lines were not properly
guarded Had it not been for the work
OF private citizens who assisted the
fourteen Indian police there would not
have been the slightest semblance OF
regularity in the opening,
So rich is the country that has been
opened that numbers OF prospectors dis
played free gold that they had washed
from their claims Monday afternoon.
The news Of the strikes that were made
has spread like wildfre.
Special Agent Parks said Monday
II appealed to Washington, and am
sorry lult tIie opening tooii hot haNe
been postponed at the last minute. |
am still awaiting word from Washing
ton, and there is yet possibility that
: the recent opening may be declared in
valid and a new one called for"
T Sub-Indian Agent Robert Lovegrove
made a sensational statement Monday.
: lie said "The United States engineers
e who were sent here for the purpese OF
carrying out reclamation work on n
, portion OF Walker reservation spent
< their time in placing launches on the
4 edge OF Walker lake, contrary to the
law, which states that all persons should
= keep off the coveted ground until the
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