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Show "SOONERS" GET BEST OF CLAIMS - THOBNE, Nev Oct- 29.-'Wlth the txaig of a mighty ; blst of dynamito from thejtop of Grant pak, the highest 'point in the adjacent mountains, the Walker Lake Indian reservation was ; opened at noon today. . " At the given signal, hundreds of . searchers for gold hurried" helter-skelter over the boundary lines at plain and ' mountain, and boore the great cloud of smoke which rose into the ir from the dynamite explosion had. drifted away, a spectacular race of aatomobiles, race horses and vehicles was on. So great was the rush across the des ,ert from . the line nearest Hawthorne that a number of persons narrowly escaped es-caped being trampled over, and in nu-.' nu-.' merous instances injuries were reported. Hones were ridden until ; thty - dropped,! and men recounted their ill fortune when their autos became stalled in the deep sands. Jaded and overcome by thirst, numbers of prospectors barely summoned enough - strength to make tlafir loeations. . Those who had waited for -the signal from the top of Mount Grant by rush-, isg into the reservation found that all the most valuable claims in the vicinity of the rich Dutchman. Cottonwood and numerous other creeks emptying into the southwestern portion of Walker lake bad been taken up by men who had rushed in the night before. - |