Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1922-08-12
NEWS HISTORY Of
THE PAST WEEK
A Complete History of What Has
Been Happening Throughout
the World
WESTERN

News OF a gold-silyer strike seven
miles from Lodi Tanks about forty
i've miles from Luning, has started a
rush from Tonopah, Goldfleld, Reno,
Fallon, Nina and other points. Sam.
pies of the ore are stated to assay
from few hundred dollars to over
$oOO per ton. with about eighteen
inches OF high-grade quartz exposed.
The ore is electrum, with values
equally divided between gold and sill.
yer, with secondary gold enrich.
ment. The discovery was made by
Hughes and Hatterby. two prospec-
tors, shortly after locating an aban-
doned claim. Scores of claims have
Oeen located and genuine boom
appears imminent.
Salt Lake City has sold 5000 900 in
tax anticipation notes to a National
bank Of New York, the notes to bear
interest of 4 Is per cent, the lowest
rate for city borrowing for a period of
for or five years.
Great interest Is being shown in
the Pocatello community long dis
lance swimming contest which will be
held in this city over a period of five
days, beginning Tuesday, August 10,
and closing Saturday, August 10. The
contest Is being sponsored by the
Pocatello Rotary club, which has pro-
vided two gold medals for the winners
In the divisions The intermediate di-
vision includes all contestants be-
tween the ages of 16 and u, and the
! Junior division includes all under 10
years of age. The contests will be
against time, and each entry will
swim alone and his record sealed
| until the close of the contest, after
which the records will be compared
and the trophies awarded.
Trappers from the trading posts on
| Lake Athabasca report that the In
dams are dying in large numbers
of influenza. The present pop
ulation Of Fond du LAC is said
i to be about 400, with many
bands still in the hunting grounds
The recent deaths of seventy-four ma
tives there with losses from influenza
at other posts indicate, said the trap
pers, that the Canadian Indians are
rapidly being wiped out.
The prickly pear pest is spreading
at the rate Of 10000 acres month
In New South Wales, causing a pri
mary loss to the state of at least
10000 pounds sterling, according te
the estimates of the agricultural
authorities, received at Salt Lake
CITY, About five million acres OF
lands are infested with the pest now
with loss in value of at least 250.
100000 pounds sterling and an annual
loss in production of about 300, 200
pounds sterling, the authorities esti.
mated.
GENERAL
Suffering from lack of nourishment,
]. II. Smith was taken to hospital
at West Palm Beach, Florida, where
lie died. Hospital attendants, search.
ing his personal belongings in an
effort to locate relatives, reported
they mad found $37 900 In cash in the
clothes he had on his back when he
entered the institution.
The harbor tug Edward was blown
| to pieces and the five men of her
crew were killed when her boiler ex.
ploded while she lay in her slip on
the Brooklyn side of East river, three
blocks upstream from the Manhat-
tan bridge, New York.
Government agents announced that
$4,000 to 100000 worth of pistols
had been stolen within the last few
months from the United States APP
praisers' stores, and that many OF
these high-powered automatics of for
eign makes were believed to have
come into possession of the under
world.
Six dead, nine seriously injured,
including two who may die, and more
than fifty badly bruised and shaken
up, was the toll when Cincinnati, Lee
banon Northern train No. II met in
head-on collision with a negro excur-
sion train carrying more than 200
persons, at Lester station, suburb of
Cincinnati.
Foodstuff exports during the past
fiscal year fell off by more than
$500,000,000 as compared with the fis-
cal year of 1921, according to foreign
trade reports issued by the COM
merce department.
''If you must drink, Try the lake
and when that is gone, the ocean is
always ready 10 be tapped" Judge
Adams told ThomAs Andler. at Chi.