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Walker Lake Bulletin.
WEDNESDAY.OCTOBER 13, 1897
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SAMPLES.
Mrs. George White went to Day
loB Saturday.
Ross Edwards of Candelaria spent
several days in town last week.
A. R. Conklin, Superior Judge of
Kern county, died in San Francisco
last week.
Seven car-loads of cattle were
shipped front Bishop to San Fran
cisco last week.
Mrs. A. J. Church and children left
(or Independence Monday. They
will remain about six weeks.
Jennie Forest died in Carson last
week. She was a well-known char
acter in the early days of the State.
Persons indebted to the Bulletin
are earnestly requested to remit.
Like the baker, we “knead" dough.
See?
A. S. Neibeckerand family return
ed last week from Spokane, after an
absence of six years. They will re
side at Bishop.
Philipp Deidesheiraer.a well known
mioiug man, is exporting the May
Lundy mine in the interest of prob
ble purchasers.
The Supreme Court of Caiiforuia
has decided that the old Board of
Supervisors in San Francisco shall
keep their seats.
Clem Ogg, Jim Reid and two other
miners are working on the copper
mine in Sau*a Fe district for Mr.
Hardy of Mason valley.
Peter Hayes was killed in Jordan
last week by James Hopkins. They
had a dispute about a mining claim.
Both were old prospectors.
An Austin dairyman notifies his
customers that he will hereafter tax
them $3 a quart for milk. The lactr
ous fluid must be scarce in Austin.
T. B. Smith, the Smith Valley But
ter King, has sold his ranch, dairy,
stock and all other possessions in the
State, and will move to Oakland.
Alva Miller and wife and Mrs.
Crutcher left for San Francisco Sun
day. Both ladies are in poor health,
and hope the change will be benefi
cial.
Jee Patchen paced a mile in 2:01}
at Terre Haute last week, and Star
Peinter reduced the world's record
to 2:00} on the same track the same
day.
Do you know how to locate a mine
under the new law? If not, provide
yourself now with the necessary lo
cation blanks. For sale at this office,
25 cents each.
Charles A. Hilton and Miss May
Tibbitts were married Tuesday at the
residence of Mrs. Oscar Hilton in
Bishop. Miss Tibbitts formerly lived
in Hawthorne.
A son and heir was born to Char
ley Qui last Thursday. Charley is
very proud of himself, and says:
" You bet, I laisem eabbage, turnip,
beets and babies."
W. H. Thomas, Mayer of Cande
laria, came down last Saturday. He
siys times are improving about Can
Maria and he thinks we are on the
verge of better times.
The Austin bank building was il
luminated last night by electricity,
am] the building was crowded with
people, many of whom had never be
fore seen such a light. It is only a
matter of time when all our business
houses will be so lighted.—Reveille.
While news cencerning the Rands
burg Railway is now always largely
discounted, still it is a fact that the
enterprise is going ahead, and there
are uow six loads of ties coming down
the coast for the use of this road,
and as soon as these arrive work will
be commenced.—Randsburg Miner.
Highest and Lowest.
hi Inyo county are the highest and
Ifiwest points in the United States,
a'id within fifty miles of each other—
Mt. Whitney, 15,000 feet above sea
'•'el, and Death Valley, 480 feet be
low sea level. Whitney is the culmi
nation of the southern Sierra; Death
valley, between the I'auamint and
Amargosa -anges, the arid bed of an
Hucient lake.
It Saves Croupy Children.
Seaview. Va.—We have a splendid sale
on chamberlain's Cough Remedy, and our
customers coming from far and noar speak
It In the highest terms. Many have
said that their children would have died of
croup If Chamberlain's Cough Remedy nnd
«ot been given.—Kellam * Ourren. The
? ’ and *> cent sizes for sale bv R. M. King,!
Druggist.
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SILVER PEAK.
Ed. Bulletin: There seems te be
a " revival " in progress down here.
There are about 15 meu working iu
the Blair mines taking out ore for
sampling, and it look; as though we
might have a good camp here yet.
Even if the parties who are interest
ed in this deal do uot take the prop
erty. we have ground enough out
side to make room for a good crew of
men.
The Mary ledge never looked bet
ter. There are a couple of hundred
tons of ore on the dump, and the
ledge in the upraise is eight feet
wide. The leaching works are clean
ing up the tailings from the last run,
and the mill has been put in order
for auother. Hauling will begin iu
a few days, and as the rock is high
grade things will hum around here.
The Mary is the keystone of the arch
in the Peak. Without it there would
bo nothiug to hold up the camp, aud
as it improves with development, we
feel confident that the ledges go
down.
The mill at Alida is working on
gold rock from a mine near the Bus
ter, in the Pigeon Springs country.
Louis Teitjen has bonded a mine ill
that vicinity for a nice little sum of
money, but he told me “privately”
that he had not got any money yet,
“ so you say nottings about it." Don't
mention it in the paper until the fel
lows who have the bond “ put up,”
and don’t you say anything then.
George Leidy came iu from Fish
Lake the other day with a load of
beef, bog oranges rjd things. He
reports everything all right in the
valley. There is some talk of ship
ping ore from bis mine in the White
Mountains to a smelter for a test of
the ore on a large scale.
Frank Inman and Charley Lynch
went to Smoky Valley a few days ago
to haul a mill down here to work ore
frain a mine in which Inman is in
terested.
There is an undercurrent here of
news, but it is as hard to get at au
item.as it is for a Methodist minister
to admit that yellow legged chickens
are not an inducement to good work.
Montgomery district is looking up
and will probably come to the front
when its name is changed to some
thing decent.
The weather has been so warm as
to make some of our people wish they
were in Chilcoot Pass, but it will be
chilly enough for most of us in a few
weeks here; in fact some of the boys
are humping up their backs already,
and talk of taking a trip to the Pimo
country, or somewhere below the
snowline. We have a great country
in America, and if we would only
study our comfort, the Northern
States would be depopulated during
half the year and the Southern ditto
during the yellow fever term. Why
can't we make a law compelling all
hands to move South in September
and North in June, like the buffalo
used to do? No one would freeze to
death or die of fever if we adopted
that plan, aud if we keep the country
as it is now, there would be room
en cgh for us to move around with
out i' terfering with each other.
Volcano.
Silver Peak. Oct. 1.
The Sweetwater School.
Following is the Roll of Honor for
the Sweetwater school district forthe
month endiug September 30, 1S97:
Audrey Acheson
Maude Conway
Mary Bidart
Frank Compton
Maidie Acheson
Elsie Conway
Henry Acheson
Jim Compton
Beroniea Ridart
Hazel Acheson
Brack M. Atherton,
Teacher.
There Is more Catarrh In tills section of
the country than all other diseases put to
gether. and until the last few yours wns
supposed to bo incurable. For a great
many yer.ru doctors pronounced It a local
disease and proscribed local remedies, and
by constantly failing to cure wito local
treatment, pronounced it incurable. Now
science hus proven catarrh to be a consti
tutional disease, and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh
Cure, munufactvrnd by F. J.Cheney A Co
Toledo, Ohio, Is the only constitutional
cure on the market. It is taken internally
in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It
acts directly on the blood and mucous sub
stances of the system. I hoy offer one
hundred dollars for any case it fails to
cure. Send for circulars and testimonials.
Address F. J. CHENEY. Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists.75c.
Hall’s Family Pills are the best.
A Cura for Bilious Colic.
Resource, Scrven < o„ Ga.~I have been
subject to attacks of bilious colic for sev
eral years. Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera
and Diarrhao Remedy is the only sure re
lief. It acts like a charm. Ono dose of it
Rives relief when all other remedies fail.
G. 1>. Sharp. For sain by K. M. Kinfr,'
HriiRgist.
Mr. Mackay Depart3.
John W. Mackay. who is report'd
to be interested in a project to buy
the Blair miurs at Silver Peak, re
turned from the mines last Monday,
after a week’s examinatiou of the
property. The great miner did not
seem to be at all enthusiastic ever
tiie outlook at the Peak. Iu answer
to a direct inquiry as to what he
thought of the mines he said : "There
is a big couutry and there seems to
to be lots of quartz. But the quartz
is low grade and it will require the
outlay of a large amount, of money
before anything can be realized. The
conditions at Silver Peak are all un
favorable for cheap mining and mill
ing Wages are high, supplies are
high, transportation charges are
high. I visited the Peak on the in
vitation of friends who think of buy
ing the mines. I cannot say whether
the sale will be made or not."
Mr. Mackay has come and goue
mud nobody is much the wiser, and
whether the mines are to be sold or
not is still a mystery. Mr. Mackay
goes to California, where he will re
main two months. He will not return
to the Peak. L. E. Hanchett accom
panies Mr. Mackay to San Francisco,
but will return in a few days.
A Night with the Knights.
Hon W. H. Grant, Graud Chancel
lor of the Knights of Pythias of Cal
ifornia, was tendered a reception by
Hawthorne Lodge K. of P. last
Thursday eveuing. Mr. Grant en
tertained the local Lodge with a most
interesting talk ou Pythianism and
its objects, iuterjecting several ap
propriate anecdotes to illustrate the
points of bis lecture. Brief responses
were made by Messrs. Reading,Sum
merfield and Knapp, after which
cards and refreshments served to
close a very pleasant evening.
FOREIGN NOTES.
The town of Windischmatrel, In the
Tyrol, it well-known tourist iesort, has
been burned.
According to the London Times’ cor
re' pondent at Bontbny “the nren of
which the plague has taken hold forms
less than a tenth part of India."
The anonymous subscription of near
ly 1.000,000 francs to the fund of the
burned charity bazaar in Paris is now
announced to be the collective donation
of members of the Rothschild family.
Among 121,574 emigrants who left
Europe by German harbors last year,
only 25,771 were Germans. Of the total
number, 105,339 went to the United
States, 7,553 to Brazil, 2,280 to Canada,
3,024 to Africa, etc.
The late Sir Henry Halford be
queathed to the Royal College of Physi
cians in London a very tine portrait,
by Sir Thomas Lnwrence, of liis grand
father, Sir Henry, who was physician to
three sovereigns in succession, nud who
was president of the college for uenr
ly a quarter of a century.
HOUSEWIf-ERY AND INDUSTRY.
The expenses of your house will be
large or small, as you are a bad or a good
housekeeper.
Among the most homely, but most es
sential accomplishments of a young
woman is that of housewifery.
Laziness is very apt to come with
wealth, and there art undoubtedly a
great many more lazy girls now than
50 years ago, but there are no more nat
urally lazy girls in the world than
usual.
Girls who acquire a really good edu
cation now accomplish much more gen
uine hard work thnn those in “thegood
old times," who only learned to read and
write, and occupied the most of their
time in the kitchen and dairy.
Nothing that can be called education
nnd accomplishment can be achieved
without great labor, ami the principal
reason why good housewifery is so
much neglected as an accomplishment
is that the time is so much occupied in
study.—J. G. Holland.
INTHEST ALES.
One 64-yenr-old resident of Pettis,
Mo., snvs that he has never worn n pnir
of overshoes, n watch, or a paper collar.
Twelve thousand feet of lumber was
unloaded from a railroad car nnd piled
up in 20 minutes at Gardiner, Me., the
other day.
To gain her liberty a negress man
aged to squeeze herself between bars
only six inches npnrt at the Paris
(Tenn.) jail, it is said.
It has been estimated that 10,000 dead
fishes were cast upon the shore of the
lake at Loring I’nrk, Minneapolis, when
the ice melted this year, the unusual
thickness of the ice during the w inter
having caused the fishes to perish of
■u£Tocatlan.
rile purest water in ine worm is
said to be that of the smnl! Swedish
river Lokn. which in 100,000 pails con
tains only .•134 parts of niinrral sub
stances. The Thames at London bridge
contains in the same quantity of water
from G!> to 70 parts, the Seine in Paris
23 to 24 parts, and the River Jordan, 13D
parts.
The Paris meteorologist. Prof. Sieter
iclit, estimates the quantity of water
turned into vapor by the sun in the
Mediterranean sea alone on a clear,
hot summer day ct cot less than 5.2S0,
000,000 tors. At that rate, thcqnnntity
of water taken from the entire globe
on one hot day within the limits of the
temperate nnd tropical zones would
amount to not less than 2is,()00,0t:o,000
tots.
‘THE CREDIT MAN.”
An Important Person In the Com
mercial World.
Ilia Dutlaa Are to Protect Lar«t Com
oarna from lupoaltloa om tha
l*Mrt of I nknowM ( at
toMrra.
The functions of a credit inau are not
generally known to the public, but he is
iu many respects the most important
person employed by a mercantile con*
corn, lirielly, lie is supposed to be in
lorined concerning the commercial
standing of every firm or individual
i "iUl "iioin ins own house liasuny deni
1 ings. He is a kind of wulkiug "Brad
; street's," and the firm for which he
works has the exclusive heneilt of his
: investigations, his knowledge and his
! experience. It does not trust to him
aloue, oi course, becuuse in the ease of
a large house there would be rather
more than he could attend to. The regu
lar mercantile agencies are depended
upon for a certain amount of informa
tion, usually that which concerns the
oldest and richest corporations, about
whose solvency there is commonly no
question. The credit muu may, however,
if his employers suspect a necessity for
It, be called upon to probe still further
than the regular agencies go, in order to
make assurance doubly sure.
\\ hen a would-be buyer from some re
mote part of the country presents hiiti
! £elf to a firm to which he is entirely uu
! known, he is introduced at once to the
I credit man. The lutter receives what
ever credentials the stranger has to
olFer, and if he is satisfied that the
house will run no risk in selling to him
he states the fact, and his judgment is
accepted. Various considerations de
termine the amount of security which
a new customer is required to show,
and not infrequently it is stiuulatcd
tbut lie shall have a real estate backing
which is known to be responsible. The
credit man also figures out at once the
largest amount of credit which can bo
granted to the new buyer, this being de
termined according to the figure ut
which he is ruted.
Subsequently, as he runs up bills for
goods, they all pass under the credit
man's watchful eye, and if It is found
that the customer is close upon his
credit limit the Inst purchase is often
held until it is proved to a certainty that
its delivery will entail no loss to the
firm. This.process of keeping track of
every buyer’s limit imposes a nercr
ending task upon the credit man, and
it is one which requires delicate hand
ling, too. While great caution is nec
essary, there must be as few needless
suspicions ns possible, for these ure
often the means of driving away per1
fectly trustworthy customers, who feel
themselves insulted by the reflection
upon their financial methods.
I n cases where there is good ground
for believing that u customer will bear
watching the credit man’s investiga
tions urc very thorough. lie Inquires
ns to the private affairs of the buyer in
question; finds out ns nearly as possi
ble the amount of his income, nnd how
liiB money is invested, and keeps un
eye as well upon the way in which he
lives nnd spends. With every precau
tion, however, there are many losses,
nnd it is the business of the nnnual con
vention of credit men to discover bet
ter ways each year of protecting mer
cantile interests.—N. Y. Tribune.
DEATH DUE TO FALLING WIRES.
More Persons Killed by These Than
by Railroad Accidents.
We have recently had nn opportunity
to examine a batch of newspaper clip
pings giving accounts of accident* due
to the falling of electric wires. These
clippings cover the months from May
to September, inclusive, but it is not to
be supposed that we have found in them
reports of all or nearly all the acci
dents of that character which have
taken place. We have found enough,
however, to show that the matter is a
very serious one.
We find in the five months reports of
122 accidents due to falling trolley
wires. In 11 of these accidents 12 per
sons were killed, and in 2S of them 31
persons were injured and in 18 of them
21 horses were killed. During the same
fi\e months we find reports of 40 ac
cidents from falling electric light and
telephone wires, showing that 9 per
sons were killed in 9 accidents and 27
were injured in 22 accidents, and 7
horses were killed.
The nature of the accidents is very
familiar; that is, a broken live wire
falls into the street and a passer-by
steps on it or picks it up and gets a
shock which is often fatal. We thus
find, during this period, a total of 21
fatalities resulting from falling live
wires of all kinds. At this rate of mor
tality, if it were kept up, 50 persons
would be killed in the year. In 1895
there were 38 passengers killed in
II Mill III.TTUIT11S till (111 lilt* !m*UIII
railroads of the United States, so
far ns we have been able to un
certain. It appears, therefore, that
more persons are killed by live wire
accidents than are passengers in rail
road train accidents, and the difference
might be still greater if complete sta
tistics of the former were obtained.
There have been widespread and per
sistent efforts made by the public in va
rious ways and for many years to mini
mize train accidents by legislation and
by agitation in the press and by inves
tigations and recommendations on the
part of rhilroad commissions, but the
serious mortality due to live wire acci
dents does not appear to huve attracted
much attention from the public. There
are simple and obvious means, which
we suppose are not very expensive, for
preventing accidents of this class; but
until the public realizes the serious
ness of the situation and the practica
bility of remedying It probably little
will be done. We suggest thi9 subject
ss an interesting one for the daily
newspapers.—Railroad GaMtte.
LEVI -STRAUSS & CO.
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