STRUCK HIS PICK INTO A SKULL.

Three weeks ago H.F. Porch, Oscar Jameson, Charles Erickson, and others,
stampeded to Death Valley on a hunt for gold.  At a place called
Hole-In-The-Rock, ten miles south of Daylight Springs, the party eamped
[sic].  In an effort to level the ground for his blankets under a rock,
Hoodlum Jack struck his pick into the skull of a man buried near the
surface.  The grinning skull parted from the body and adhered to the
pick.  It was a weird sight and will not soon be forgotten by the party. 
There was no time for the investigation and it will probably never be
known whether friend or foe gave the unknown such a shallow grave. –
Bullfrog Miner.

Inyo Register, Bishop, Inyo County, California
May 4, 1905

Transcribed by David A. Wright