Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1915-05-01

ZIP N many respects the Austrian Ty
81 rel is the most picturesque corner
IA OF Europe, says Thomas O'Hagar
III in the Detroit Free Press. 1t has
too, beauty all its own. Its chic
city, Innsbruck, which was known by
the name of Innspons in the days OF
Caesar, has most charming situa
ton. The snow-capped Bayarian Alps
stand as sentinels at its very gates
This gives it royal setting. They are
Gods watch towers-royal watch tow
ers on the earth.
To many travellers Austria makes
greater appeal than Germany. III the
first place, there is more variety and
individuality in its people. Then the
proud Hapsburg line reaches so far
back and lights up the pages of his
tory with SO much splendor and vi
cissitude of fortune, that you turn
from the new realms of the earth to
the history-dowered castles of Aus
tria which was great when Guelph and
Ghibelline commended on the streets OF
fair Florence.
There is probably not a prouder
people in Europe than the Austrians
But, of course, in the Austrian empire
are many races-many tongues. The
Hungarian, the Bohemian, the Croa
tan, the Dalmatian, the Pole, the Ga
lician, the Tyrolean-all these diffel
one from the -other. In the Tyrolear
the Teuton and the Latin meet, and il
Is an excellent blending. When you
take, for instance, the Teuton of the
north of Germany, his character and
temperament are too hard and cold
and material to attract. Indeed, you
cannot find in the Teuton of the north
that warmth and radiation which
mark the men and women Of the Tyro
lean valley The climate, too, in the
Tyrol seems to be blending of Italy
and Norway without the extreme ten
denotes of either. The strength of the
north and the tenderness of the soutf
meet at Innsbruck and unite in 6
pleasing harmony.
Known to Anclents as Rhaetia.
The Tyrol as an ancient realm
reaches very far in history. Togethel
with a portion of eastern Switzerland
the Tyrol was known to Greek ant
Roman writers as Rhaetia. Horac,
sings of "The Alpine Rhaetia Ions
unmatched in fight" The Romans
who were a most practical people, bull
road through the Tyrol as a thor
oughfare between Italy and Germany
Perhaps the most dramatic episod,
or chapter in the history of the Tyro
is that which centers around the nam,
of Andreas Hofer This chapter 0
Tyrolean history is known as the Pa
triotic war of 1909. Andreas Hofer i
to the Tyrolese what William Tell |
to the Swiss and Bruce and Wallace I,
every Scotchman.
1t is the time of the great Napoleon
when his conquering sword CLEANS il
triumph a. every battlefield in Europe
In 1905 the Austrians were defeate,
at Ulm and a French army under Maj
shall Ney occupied Innsbruck. Thei
came the battle of Austerlitz, whicl
shattered the power of Austria and tn
treaty of Pressburg. by which Tyre
and Vovarlberg were given up to .Ba
varia. In 1906 the Bavarians took fol-
NAL possession of this new territory
The Tyrol people rose against thei
new masters, and the figure tina
stands out in bold relief in this na
tional rising is Andreas Hofer, an inr
keeper of Sandyland, in the Passe
valley. He forthwith went to Vienna
interviewed the Archduke John, an
returned to his home invested wit
full power as commander in chief o
the national forces. This was in tn
beginning of April. 1909, and so wei
did Hofer lead his countrymen VIII
fiocked to his standard that before tn
end of April the Tyrol was agail
free-except the fortress OF Kufstein
still occupied by the Bavarians.
But at this moment Austria CAV,
the command of the troops to Chas
teller, who, in few days. lost all tina
Hofer and his peasant army had won
On July 6, 1909, Austria, vanquishe,
at Wagram, was forced to sign tn
armistice of Znaim, and in this cor
vention the Tyrol was ignored.
Andreas Hofer, however, refused t
abide by this convention. and, hiddeI
away in an impenetrable gorge, h
sent from valley to valley his call t
arms. A price was placed on tn
head of the rebel. and as is Away