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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1894-02-17
Coin.

Coin, an Illustrated Paper, pub
lished at Chicago, is the equal of
any first.class illustrated paper of
the world, and is advocating, fear
lessly and intelligently the free coin
age Of silver. Every man in the
United States who believes in silver's
reconciliation, should subscribe for
it and see to it that Coin has a
greater circulation than any other
illustrated paper. 1t has been made
an official organ of the National
silver forces at the Chicago Conven-
ton, is racy and able, and is print
ed on book paper, with illustrations
of high order. The price of sub
scription is $500 a year; $1.00 for
6 months; so cents for 3 months,
and 20 cents for 1 month--one half
the usual price of illustrated papers.
Let silver men see that Coin has the
largest circulation of any newspaper
in the United States, that it may
talk to millions of people each issue.
Address your letters to Coin, 115
Monroe Street, Chicago, III.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1894-02-17
NO BLANKS IN THIS CONTEST.

This Is a competition of rather an unusual
nature. 1t is common to offer prizes for the
best story or picture, or architectural plan, all
the competitors risking the loss OF their labor
and the successful one merely selling his for
the amount OF the prize. But the Press Claims
Company's offer is something entirely differ.
ent. Eacn person is asked merely to help him.
self, and the one who helps himself to the best
advantage is to be rewarded for doing it. The
prize is only stimulus to do something that
would be well worth doing without it. The
architect whose competitive plan for a club
house on u certain corner Is not accepted has
spent his labor on something OF very little use
to him But the person who patents simple
and useful device in the Press Claims Compa-
nys competition, need not worry If he fail to
secure the prize. He has substantial result
TO show for his work--one that will command
its value in the market at any time.
The plain man who uses any articles in his
daily work ought to know better how to i'm.
prove it than the mechanical expert who stud.
les it only from the theoretical point of view.
Get rid OF the idea that an improvement can
be too simple to be worth patenting. The
simpler the better. The person who best sue
ceeda in combining simplicity and popularity,
will get the Press Claims Company's twenty
five hundred dollars.
The responsibility of the company may be
judged from the fact that its stock is held by
about three hundred Of the leading newspa-
pers OF the United States.
Address the Press Claims Company, John
Wedderburn. managing attorney, els street,
n. W. Washington. D. C.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1894-02-17
A TEMPTING OFFER.

To induce people to keep track of their bright
ideas end see what there is in them. the Press
Claims Company has resolved to offer prize.
To the person who submits to it
the simplest and most promising
invention, from a commercial point
of view, the company will give
twenty five hundred dollars, cash
in addition to retunding the fees
for securing the patent.
1t will also advertise the inveD-
ton free of charge.
This offer is subject to the following eondit-
ions:
Every competitor must obtain q patent for
his invention through the company. He must
first apply for preliminary scar h. the cost OF
which win be five dollars. should this search
show his invention to be unpaentable, he can
withdraw without further expense. Otherwise
he will be expected to complete his application
and take out patent in the regular way. The
total expense. including Government and Blu
reau fees. will be seventy dollars. For this,
whether he secures the prize or not, the invent
or win have patent that ought to be valua-
BILE property to him The prize will be award
ed by jury consisting of three reputable pat
ent attorneys OF Washington. Intending COM
and forward it with their applications:
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1894-02-17

to pay delinquent taxes and costs against the
same, unless said taxes, penalties and costs are
paid to me before said date.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1894-02-17
THE LITTLE THINGS THE MOST
VALUABLE.

Comparatively few people regard themselves
as inventors but almost everybody has been
struck, at one time or another, with ideas that
seemed calculated to reduce some of the little
fricuOns of life. Usually such ideas are dis
missed without further thought.
"Why don't the railroad companies make its
car windows SO that they can be slid up and
down without breaking the passenger S backs?
exclaims a traveller. III l were running the
road would make them in such a way"
what was the man who made this sucepan
thinking OFF" grumbles the cook "He never
had to work over the stove or he would have
known how it ought to have been fixed"
Hang such a collar buttonr' growls the man
who is late for breakfast IF | were in the
business 1 d make buttons that wouldn't slip
out or break off, or gouge out the back of my
neck"
And then the various sufferers forget about
their grievances and begin to think of some
thing else. If they would sit down at the next
convenient opportunity, put their ideas about
car windows saucepans, and collar buttons in
to practical shape, and then apply for patents.
they might find themselves as independently
wealthy as the man who invented the iron UNI
brella ring, or the one who patented the fifteen
puzzle.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1894-02-17
How to Have Good Fruit.


Under natural conditions tree
must attain certain age before it
will bear fruit. This varies greatly
with different kinds of fruit, some
coming into bearing much earlier
than others. Whenever we allow
or force tree to bear fruit before it
is reasonably well established, the
vitality of the tree is injured.
Natures way is to let the tree reach
maturity before it sets to work to
effect its reproduction by seed. We
may by dwarfing the tree obtain
fruit earlier. In some cases and
under some conditions the same va
rieties of trees will bear earlier than
at others, and in testing new varie-
ties dwarfing is often allowed in or
der to get at results earlier, but
when this is done extra care must
be given or the vitality of the tree
will be injured.
In the ordinary orchard it is best
to let the tree bear in it's own good
time rather than attempt any fore
ing. Cultivate and fertilize so as to
give a healthy, vigorous growth.
Get the tree well-established and or
dinarily it will bear good crops of
fruit.
Most trees, if thrifty and vigor-
Gus, are inclined to overbear, to set
more fruit than they can properly
mature without a too severe draft
on the vitality. One reason why so
many trees bear fruit only in alter
nate years is that they are allowed
to overbear to such an extent one
season that the tree is so exhausted
that it requires the next seasons
growth to recuperate. For this rea-
son proper pruning in season and
careful thinning after the fruit has
formed we'll is necessary in order to
prevent the tree from overbearing
and at the same time secure a bet
ter quality of fruit.
The formation of fruit buds de-
ponds not so much upon changes
which occur during the present sea-
sons growth as upon those which
preceded it. Bark and young wood
in Autumn and Winter are laden
with stores manufactured in the
leaves the year before and stored up
for use when required. Generally
speaking, the fruit buds, too, are
formed the year before, and the
management should be such as will
promote the development of fruit
buds at the expense of the leaf buds
The fruit grower, SO far as he is
able, must check the growth of one
and develop the other for fruit for
nation. But after the fruit is fully
formed it is essential that too much
be not allowed to remain on the tree,
especially if a fine quality of fruit
is desired. Thinning SO that no
two specimens touch each other will
aid in improving the size, color and
flavor of the fruit. 1t is the fruit
grown under these conditions that
pays the best profit, as it sells read
lily for good prices.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1894-02-17
NOT so HARD As 1T SEEMS.

A patent strikes person as an appallingly
formidable thing. The idea is that an inventor
must be natural genius. like Edison or Bell;
that he must devote years to delving in compli-
Gated mechanical problems. and that he must
spend fortune on delicate experiments before
he can get new device to patentable degree
OF perfection. This delusion the company de-
sires to dispel. Itdesires to get into the head
of the public a clear comprehension of the fact
thatit is not the great complex, and expensive
inventions that bring the best returns to their
authors, but the little, simple and cheap ones
the things that seem so absurdly trivial that
the average citizen would feel somewhat
ashamed of bringing them to the attention of
the Patent Office.
Edison saws that the profits he has received
from the patents on all his marvellous invent
ions have not been sufficient to pay the cost of
his experiments But the man who conceived
the idea of fastening bit of rubber cord to a
child ball, so that it would come back to the
hand when thrown. made fortune out of the
scheme. The modern sewing machine i, mi
raele of ingenuity-the product of the toll Of
hundreds of busy brains through hundred
and fifty years, but the whole brilliant result
rests upon putting the eye of the needle at the
point instead of at the other end.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1894-02-17
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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1894-02-17
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get Twenty-Five Hun
dred Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner Has Clear Gift of a
Small Fol- tune, and the Losers
Have Patents that May Bring
Them in Still More.

Would you like to make twenty-five hundred
dollars? If you would, read carefully what
follows and you may see way to do it.
The Press Claims Company devotes much at
tention to patents. 1t has handled thousands
of applications for inventions, but it would
like to handle thousands more. There is plen-
ty of inventive talent at large in this country,
needing nothing but encouragement to produce
practical results That encouragement the
Press Claims Company proposes to give.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1894-02-17
orchard and Garden.

| ground Is frozen.
The best crops Of stra wberries are
grown with clean culture.
The peach tree is a very rapid
grower if planted in very rich soil.
Well-mulched trees will not start
to grow quite so early in the Spring.
| Manure from the hog pen is one
of the best that can be used on
peach trees.
Cultivation of all young trees, at
least for some years after planting,
is a necessary condition of their
making a vigorous growth.
Ii currants are given decent treat
ment in the way OF maintaining and
cultivating properly, no plants are
more satisfactory choppers.
AS rule grating improves the
stock, for the scions successfully in
serted develop their own leaves,
bark, wood, blossom and fruit.
With the tomato early sowing of
the seed is important; also frequent
transplanting, so as to secure vigor-
Gus, stocky plants for setting out in
the open air.
By having the small fruit plot
run over a knoll so as to give a
southern and northern slope it will
prolong the fruiting season nearly
or quite 10 days.
One mistake often made in the
garden is planting in too close and
in too short rows SO that all the
work must be done by hand rather
than with the cultivator.
In pruning trees of all kinds it is
better to have one strong branch or
limb than two or three weak ones.
Keep the heads low and let the suns
rays all through the trees.
All superfuous shoots on stalks
that have been grated or budded
should be removed as soon as they
start. If neglected, a more or less
serious check would follow to the
graft.
More trees die from neglect than
from any other one cause. One
thing that is often overlooked is
mulching or keeping the soil stirred
so as to retain moisture near the
surface.
When a tree first leans it is easily
righted up, and may be held in its
place by stake or prop, or, if
small, by earth or sods weighted
with stones. A surer way of keep
ing it straight is to carefully stake
and tie when it is set out.
When the soil is not rich enough
it should be made so by fertilizers
or by blowing clover under. For
strengthening and renovating apple
trees wood ashes are excellent, but
growing grain and hay constantly
in the orchard is certain to prove
injurious.
We may trim our trees and vines
so that they will make scarcely any
growth. Trees cannot grow without
leaves. They make constant eff
fort to throw out more leaves, and
whenever it is desirable to check or
stop growth, all that is necessary is
to cut off the larger part of the leaf
bearing shoots.
Young apple trees should be
shaded during the first year after
planting. Want of drainage has
much to do with the Winter killing
in orchards. The trees grow well
till the roots get down to the wet
subsoil, and then fail There is no
danger of freezing the trees when
the land is we'll drained. So local
ity has much to do with successful
apple growing, though failure often
results from bad stock.
Coin.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1894-02-17

81 submit the above described invention in
competition for the twenty-five Hundred Dol
lar Prize offered by the Press Claims Company.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1894-02-17

NOllCE Is HEREBY GIVEN TO THE
l following named persons, or to the owners
or claimants TO the real estate and improve
ments thereon, or improvements when assessed
separately. hereinafter described, known or
unknown, that in accordance with law each Of
the following described pieces or parcels of
property will be sold at public auction, at the
Court House door, town, county and State
aforesaid on
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1894-02-13

FIRST ANNIyERsARY,
Celr bratiOD at The Young Mems
Institute Last Evening.

Las, evening the members of the Young
Mems institute celebrated the first ami.
versaryoi their organization. Although
tue beautiful building which thev occupy
was not formally opened Until May /.
1893, the organization properly was
etfect,d the 18th of February, and a
happy crowd of members and friends
filled the spacious rooms of the building
to celebrate its birthday. 1t was an
event OF more than usual Importance
IN that it indicated the degree of appre-
citation there is for the enterprise on the
part of those who are its be eticiaries.
Considering the difficulties which have
beset this work which promises so much
to Asheville's colored citizens, he success
so far has been exceptionally n"tewor
thy. Poverty, inexperience. previous
training and prejudices have initiated
against the progress OF the work, vet in
spite of these obstacles the results are
cheering. A roll of more than half a
hundred members within less ,h n a
year since the building was opened
shows marked appreciation and presages
a bright future for the work.
The members and their guests assem-
bled in the social rooms and parlors OF
the institute. indulging in conversation
and games. till 1890. when the doors OF
the assembly room were thrown open
and supper. consisting of oysters. chicken
salad and ham sandwiches, cream, am.
brosia and coffee, was served. A mum.
br OF toasts were delivered which
abounded in hope and enthusiasm.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1894-02-13
RAZED TO THE GROUND
THE FATE OF ONE LOUISIANA
TOWN.
A Cyclone Struck It-aHOw All
Over The North and II Inches
Deep I'm st. E,ouis-Trains Much
DELAYED

New ORLEANS. Feb. 13.-Advices re-
ceived in this city indicate that storm
approaching i'll violence to a cyclone
swept over Louisiana and Mississippi
Monday night and left in its wake
many casualties and a vast amount of
destruction.
Communication with the points most
severely affected is interrupted. as all
the wires are down and a most meagre
report has SO tar been received. The
most alarming reports are from Newton.
which place is said TO have been wiped
off the tace of the earth.
CHICAGO. Feb. 13.-During Yesterday
afternoon the storm increased at Chicago
the wind at times rising to velocity OF
70 miles an hour and the snow growing
heavier, 1t was the worst storm Chicago
has ever known.
New YORK, Feb 13 The city is wrap
ped in a mantle of snow several inches
thick. The storm is the most severe one
OF the season.
KANSAS CITY. Mo-, Feb. 13-The
worst snow storm in years ragged all
over Kansas and Missouri Monday and
last night and today not single train
in the two states are on time.
ST.. LOUIS, No., Feb. 13 The snow
here is Ia inches deep.
NANTUCKET, Mass, Feb. 13.-The
worst storm of tine winter has prevailed
here Since yesterday afternoon, the wind
attaining velocity Of 60 miles an hour.
Nantucket is covered with nine inches of
snow on the level.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1894-02-13
A NICE POINT OF LAW.
4 0ues,Ou In Law That IL of In.
terest Here.

0uesuOn In Law That IL of In.
terest Here.
After the wreck at Bos,an's bridge or
the Western North Carolina road NOR,
than two years ago, ]. c. Brown O
Asheville obtained letters of administra
ton on the estate of Samuel German
"ne ot the Ashevllle tiremen killed in tht
wreck. For some time before his death
Mr.. German had been in the employ Of
Mr.. Brown and resided in AshevIlle
subsequently the plaintiff recovered a
Judgment against tire 'ai|road company
tor damages in the sum of $4,000
1t turned out that some one in Wash
lngton City, where the widow OF Mr.
Z 'rman resided, also administered on
the estate OF the deceased and brought
suit against the railroad COMPANY not
tar from the time suit was brought by
Mr.. Brown. The suit in Washington is
still pending and one of the dcfcnces re-
lied ON by the railroad company
is plea in bar on the ground that the
whole matter has been adudicated here
Charles Leonard Frailey. Washington
attorney. has been here for several DAYS
looking up the acts tor the purpose OF
endeav"rlng to meet the plea in bar.
Lawyers say that it is possible that
letters of administration on the estate
OF the deceased might regularly have
been granted both l.ere and in Washing
ton, and the serious question presented
is, 1t the SUIT is brought by both for the
same cause of action, Which admins.
tration will be allowed to pursue action
to the end. The better opinion, it is
said by some, would seem to be that the
administrator who first recovers judg.
ment would be entitled to the game.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1894-02-13
IN AN ATLANTA COURT.
Frank n. Hewitt Charged with
I.ibeling W D. saul.

The Atlanta Constitution gives the
particulars of an interesting case in which
Frank R. Hewitt Of Hewitt's. N c., a
man we'll known among Asheville bust.
ness men, is principal. Mr.. Hewitt is
charged with libeling W. S. Saul, of the
Nantahala Marble and Tale company,
who lives in Atlanta. The libel alleged
was in letter written by Mr.. Hewitt to
l.. B. Nelson of Atlanta, the contents of
which we're found out by Saul. Then
Saul filed an accusation in the Atlanta
court charging Mr.. Hewitt with crimi-
nal libel. An application for requisition
to Governor Carr of North Carolina,
asking the arrest of Hewitt, was filed
with Governor Northern of Georgia. The
application represented that Hewitt was
fugitive from justice from Georgia. The
requlsition was granted by Governor
Carr and Hewitt was arrested and taken
to Atlanta where he gave bond for his
appearance before the Criminal court.
When the case came up. as learned
from the Constitution, Mr.. Hewitt's
attorneys filed a demurrer, plea of
privilege and plea of justification and
at the same time filed plea claiming the
protection of the State court upon the
ground that the court and laws OF the
United States provided only for the ex-
tradition of tugitives from justice, and
as MIR. Hewitt had never been in the
state OF Georgia, be could not flee there
from or become fugitive from justice.
After the issue was Joined and these sew.
eral pleas filed, with a plea of not
guilty. and after the jury had been i'm.
p 'neled and sworn and the defendant
put on his defense. the solicitor of the
court was Permitted to enter a "nolh
Prosequi" over the protest OF the defend
ant and his counselors. Mr.. Hewitt was
discharged. but Immediately rearrested
upon warrant charging him with
practically the same ,.ffense.
Mr. Hewitt carried his case to the
United States court and his position
upon the habeas corpus proceedings will
be: that he is in Georgia as the result
of a fraud practiced upon the governors
OF two states and the court of Atlanta;
that he has been involuntarily brought
within the jurisdiction OF the state court
under the color of Federal prosecution;
that he has in a proper and lawful man.
ner appealed in vain to the state court
to enforce in his behalf the supreme law
of the land; that the appeal has been
denied and that the court of the United
States should interfere for his protection.