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The Washington times., 1904-10-03
e0ntInues questIon ~ - an.w.r-
Sounds Reasonable.

Sounds Reasonable.
The Snake Editor is waiting for the
Konak TO help him out in The solution
or the snake problem. He can only say
20 the writer or the following letter that
Il sounds very reasonable. though in
making this admission b viii probably
be voted as a very ignorant snake spe-
cialist By others who have displayed
shreWdness IN sending answers that 90
not agree with this one
Mr.. Snake Editor:
Since your snake problem has created
so much anxiety and so many seem TO
try 20 solve IL only TO fail, beg 20 Of
lem. The two snakes being of equal
length and possessing the capacity or
swallowing his own length. should say
snake no I swallows snake 10. and
snake No. 2 swallows snake No. ! and
himself also by being inside snake No.
]. BY this means il leaves them both in
a Clrcle-telesCOpe fashiOn-aud snake
No. Is head behind snake No / head
The circumference being eight feet IN
stead OF sixteen, in the beginning.
Please answer II correct. VERY tTg5iys
so4 D Street northwest. Washington,
"They Just Naturally Die"
And TO 0fr. Altoro. the Snake Editor
would say that he has great degree
Of respect for his imagination, and does
not think II is inclined TO be 0verdrawu-
Washington, Oct. /, 1904,
To the Snake Editor.
Dear Sir. Regarding your snake
problem, I think II IS uafathOmabIe. OF
course, we all have our theories in re-
gard 10 the matter
NV opinion is that If these two
snakes continue 10 swallow and eat up
each other, when they get about half
way round, something has got 60 burst
and die.
Would be only too glad If you would
kindly eiucidate this matter for me. ]
see no other way out Of it,
when they swell and gorge each
other so. ] imagine that they both can
go just so far and no Fart her. Ihen
Something happens They Just natu-
rally die
/ believe that is the result. Very re-
spectfuliy, PETER AIIOhO-
Another Plausible Theory.
Another exceedingly plausible theory
which no previous correspondent has
The Washington times., 1904-10-03
MANY REMAINING
STILL AT LENON
The HengelmulIers Guests
at Foster Dinner.
MARK TWAIN LEAVES RESORT
lar' and Mrs. Westinghouse Will Return
and Occupy Their Summer House
for q Time.

The Austrian Ambassador and Baron
ess Hengelmuller were the guests OF
honor at a dinner In Lenox yesterday
Win Mr.. and Mrs. Giraud Foster as
hosts Mr.. and Mrs. Douglas Robinson,
the latter sister Of the President were
among the other guests. Mr.. and Mrs.
roster will entertain at a hunt break
FAST after run over the Berkshires to-
morroW.
The Washington times., 1904-10-03

advanced is contained in the following
letter:
The Snake Editor.
Sir; AprOpOs OF the snake problem. Il
would seem that in attempting a s0lu-
Lion thereof the problem may be taken
only a 8 it reads. and IL this IS So it fol-
lows lnaL neither snake is capable OF
SWALLOWING or taking in the other. be-
cause tne Two snakes are 'Of equal
-nlckness- A house Of given dimensions
cannot be placed within another house
Of exactly the same dimensions The
pfODleIn states that each snake has the
ca paclrF 10 swallow its own length"
Length or WnaLE Ii fLhe probIem5 does
not state that each snake has the ca
Faclly 20 swallow the other fer 81 f.
did then a different proposition would
be presented. again, the problem saws
t1ey 1.-THE snakesi swallow az the same
speed ana continue 10 DO - as long as
possible Even assuming that each
snake had the capacity TO swallow the
olner1 and that they started 10 swallow
result would be (say at the end OF q
thousand years. an absolutely unchaug-
"a relation of either % the other. For,
with each half inch, say, OF supposed
swallowing By the two snakes. each
snake would have 10 move correspond
ing distance or the circle, and cOnse-
advancing the other end would be re-
treating. ard thus there would be a
continuous lively chase OF the head Of
each snake after the rear end OF the
other, or vice versa, resulting IN a Whirl-
iHE ring Of snakes.
F. F. z
Washington. D. c.. Oct /. 1904
Another Problem Suggested.
In the meanwhile Mr.. william @.
Boyd. Jr. takes the situation phils-
s0DhicaIly and is thankful the Snake
Editor did not ask another question:
Snake Editor. Washington Times.
Dear Sir: Being surrounded by people
who are very much distracted By this
snake problem. and knowing that you
did not want TO increase family troubles
and suicides, having TWO snakes in the
case, ] want 10 express my thanks IN
that you did not ask the more perpleX-
ing question. When would a snake,
under the same conditions mentioned in
your snake problem, have a suEciency
should he contemplate consuming him-
selfF' Your most ber6fL and sincere
enemy WAI. @. BOYD, Jr.
I61 Eighth Street
October ,. 1904
The Washington times., 1904-10-03

That college president who has discov-
cred that Harvard sent six OF the nine
students IN her first class 10 England
does not want 20 forget that two or
three things have happened 10 both
countries since 1912.
The Washington times., 1904-10-03

None OF the New York papers see any
ming funny IN the headline - Prisoner
OF the Police" In the provinces" peo-
pie who are taken prisoner by private
citizens keep stu about il.
The Washington times., 1904-10-03
.COLSON'S MAD RIDE
ON THE EVE OF DEATH
Pursuers Found Him Unconscious at
Side Of His Horse, Which
He Had Killed.

BARBOURVILLE. Ky, Oct. 5--Ihe
circumstance OF the death of eZ-COu-
gresham David q. COlsOn, which We're
suppressed until yesterday show that
his Ieave-takiug OF life was as tuuul-
tuous as some OF the incidents by which
Il was hlled.
In January. $780, three weeks before
Gov william GoebeI was assaszinated,
CoIson engaged in a pistol duel with
Ethelbert Scott, a young fellow who had
commanded a company in the regiment
Of which Ccls0u was colonel during the
Standardization war. Scott and TWO
bvstanders were killed. CoIsOn escaped
with a shattered arm lie was tried
and acquitted but the memory OF the
tragedy proved on his mind and he was
never the same man again.
Escapes From Sick Room.
CoIsou fell IN a short time ago. and
on the night before his death he made
his escape from his sick room uaob-
served, and had reached the stable and
harnessed his favOrite horse TO a buggy
before his absence was discovered. An
effort was made 10 stop him, but he
drove from the stable yard at a mad
gallon and took the road for the noun
tains.
The pursuit was at once taken up. but
the deliriCus man was not OVeTtaken
until ne had completed twelve miles of
Journey every rod Of which was
fraughJ with danger by reason Of the
precipices that line the eastern side Of
the road
When found. Colson was unconscious
beside the dead body OF. his horse in
which We're four bullets fired from Col
sons revolver, with which he had
armed himself before starting.
He was carried home, and died three
hours later without regaining conscious
ness.
The Washington times., 1904-10-03
Points IN Paragraphs.

Some OF the citizens associations seem
TO have awakened.
However, the automobile face ought to
scare any living thing out OF the way.
No more letters OF acceptance for a
lons time now. The sweet peace Of it,
Mr.. Astor's old New York acouaint.
ances made him glad to get out OF the
place.
Parker is TO see his managers. His
party waits eXpectantly TO have him
raise the limit.
New York is afraid Of a typhoid cpl
demic, and several other cities have a
Tght TO feel some apprehension.
The understanding seems 10 be that
Russia's Baltic squadron Is to Join her
submarine navy in the Far East.
Koch IS going 70 Africa in quest of
more microbes although those he al
ready has discovered have worried the
world half to death.
It may be significant that CIevelands
fishing club loses its home by FIRE as
soon as the general public has time to
read his last ukase On the gentle art.
Tt develops that Nj. Hugh Quincy.
third secretary OF the British embassy,
etc, etc, was not q Tod Sloan. after
all, but merely a General Butler.
Vanderbilt motorists IN their Long
Island race must cross railroad tracks
ten times, and the railroads positively
refuse 70 abolish the schedule for the
The Washington times., 1904-10-03

Mr.. and Mrs Whitelaw Reid viii go
to Lenox for a short visit this week.
The Washington times., 1904-10-03

II was certain 70 come. The divorce
business being worn out as a sensation.
a grand opera singer is only restrained
from entering convent by a loving
brother and watchfuI friends.
The Washington times., 1904-10-03

% LenoX Tor a snort visit this week.
Samuel l. Clemens C'AIark Twain'')
has left Tryngnam Cottage. Lenox. TO
look after business in New York, and
is not likely TO return to that resort this
season.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Westinghouse
have left Erskine Park. Lenox. for a
visit in New York. taking with them
their guest, Miss Marguerite Vadsworth
or Albany. They were the guests Of Sec
FetaTy Morton at the Brooklyn navy
yard Thursday. when the battleship
Connecticut was launched. Mr.. and Mrs
Westinghouse have not abandoned their
peauuful summer home. but viii return
there the middle Of this week.
The Washington times., 1904-10-03

We print the following from ''The
MaFtinsville Daily News" with a broth
erly 50 npathy:
The editor OF this paper went 70 Roam
oke yesterday, and one Of our composit-
ors Is ill; and even the ONCE devil is
down in Roanoke betting on the races.
so being very short Of help, the force Is
obliged 10 90 TO press a little short Of
news but watch for tomorrow's paper
The Washington times., 1904-10-03

Russians MI trenches with sharpened
stakes 10 impale the japanese. japanese
decline 20 permit burial OF the dead
about Port Arthur, hoping the corrup-
ton viii start an epidemic Blessed is
war
The Washington times., 1904-10-03

What month October is! Baseball
clubs In line for a bob-tailed finish. foot
ball teams lined up for the FIRST display
OF form, and politicians stripped 20 the
waist for the greatest thirty-day walk
Ing match In the last four years.
The Washington times., 1904-10-03

Some OF the citizens associations seem
TO have awakened.
The Washington times., 1904-10-03

A Newport News man-is 20 marry the
woman whose testimony enabled him 20
secure divorce. OF course, she had
not tofeseen that his gratitude would
md This method Of expression
The Washington times., 1904-10-03

II the authorities OF Lexington, XIV.
really want 10 shut the town tight on
sunday they ought 70 begin with the
sloeooards and kitchen cupboards in
stead OF the drug stores and hotel bsrz
The Washington times., 1904-10-03

Mr.. Astor's old New York acquaint-
ances made him glad to get out OF the
place
The Washington times., 1904-10-03

However, the automobile face ought TO
scare any living thing out OF the way.
The Washington times., 1904-10-03

Parker is 10 see his managers. His
party waits eXpectantly TO have him
raise the limit
The Washington times., 1904-10-03

No more letters OF acceptance for a
long time now. The sweet peace Of It!
The Washington times., 1904-10-03

II develops that MI Hugh Quincy.
third secretary Of the British embassy,
etc, etc, was not 4 Tod Sloan. after
all, but merely a General Butler.
The Washington times., 1904-10-03

New York is afraid OF a typhoid cpl
demic' and several other cities have a
right to feel some apprehension.
The Washington times., 1904-10-03

The understanding seems 10 be that
Hussla's Baltic squadron Is to join her
submarine navy IN the Far East
The Washington times., 1904-10-03

1t may be significant that Cleveland
fishing club loses its home by FIRE as
soon as the general public has time to
read his last ukase On the gentle art.
The Washington times., 1904-10-03

Koch IS going 70 Africa in quest Of
more microbes although those he al
ready has discovered have worried the
world half TO death.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1904-09-30
To st. Louis and Return.

The st, Louis Exposition is drawing
to close. The next sale dates are
September 10Th, 10Th, 2sth and 29th
October Sd, 4th, 9th, 9th, 18th, Goth,
26th and 27th. On these dates and
these dates only, can you leave Reno
for the st. Louis Exposition. Fare for
the round trip between Reno and st.
Louis S67 30. To st. Louis and return
by Chicago $3.50. Tickets are good
for ninety days to make round trip.
Write me for sleeping ear reservations
and say the date you wish to leave
Reno and all arrangements will be
made for your trip. If you wish
further information write to me.
Address John NJ. Fulton, District
Passenger Agent, Reno, Nevada.
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Assessment A Notice.

Office of Alpine Land and Reservoir
Company. Location of principal place of
business Gardnerville, Nevada. Loca-
ton of. works Alpine county, California.
Notice is hereby given that at Il meet
ing of the Board of Trustees, held on
August eth, 1904, an assessment (No. \
amount ofa cent per share was levied
upon the capital stock of the corporation,
payable Immediately in L.. S. Gold Coin
to the Secretary at the Office of the COM
pany, the Douglas County Bank, Gard
nerville, Nevada.
Any stock upon which this assessment
shall remain unpaid ON the 9Th day of
October. 1904, will be delinquent: and ad-
vertised for sale at public auction and
unless payment is made before, will be
sold on the 5th day of November. 1901,
topay the delinquent assessment, to-
gether with the cost of advertising and
expense of sale.
BY order of the Board of Trustees.
EARL CHRISTENSEN,
Secretary.
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Leased the Arlington Hotel.

Last week II. G. Dunn, one of Car
sons best known business men, leased
the Arlington hotel from Mr.. Brough-
er, the lease being for a term of five
years.
Mr.. Dunn is recognized as one of the
most careful BUSINESS men. His meth
ods and record shows that he takes a
a firm hold of whatever he does and
does it right The Arlington is prob
ably the best known hotel in the State.
1t bears the name of the finest in the
Western Nevada and with the inn
provements which have been made
since Mr.. Brougher purchased the
property is rightly entitled to the
name it bears. 1t is safe prediction
that Mr.. Dunn will conduct it in the
same able manner and will give the
guests the same good care that they
have received. Carson Appeal.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1904-09-30
Money in Honey.

C..C. Tidd, of Smith Valley, pur-
chased last year fifty colonies of bees,
paying therefor the fancy price of $3.50
per colony. This season he will harry
est from these colonies seven thousand
pounds of the finest kind of comb
honey. He has been offered Sc per
pound for the honey by "A California
concern, but is holding for l0c.
Should he receive the latter price he
will clear over $500 on his investment
from his first crop of honey. pretty
good business for the money invested.
Times
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1904-09-30
STATE News.

An Aerie of Eagles will soon be in
stituted at Carson. 1t will have a
charter roll of some eighty members.
Mr. IL. A. Lennon of Dunn & Lem
men, publishers of the Carson CITY
News, has purchased Mr.. Dunn's in
terest in that paper.
White Pine county is a paradise for
the sportsman. Sage hens were
plentiful this year, and the wild duck
season has opened up with ducks
galore.
The fellow who annexed himself to
Ex-Governor Sadler's valise at Winnie
mucca during the fusion conventions
is to spend one year with Warden
Consdine for his rash act
There is some talk of vigilance
committee being organized in Church
i'll county to put stop to the hold
ups and run the tough characters out
of the town of Hazen.
In the fight at Tonopah last week
Mcdonald of California was knocked
out by Lundy of Bodie, in the first
round. Over 50, 600 changed hands on
the fight.
The trial the four men from Win
nemucca who are charged with muir
der will come up in the District Court
in Reno on September 30th. Sevener
one of the men, will act as one of the
attorneys in the case
There was quite heavy storm on
Lake Tahoe Thursday. The small
steamer that has been in service since
the 18th, rocked with the waves to
such an extent that most of the pas
sengers We're genuinely sea sick.
The Board of Commissioners for the
Insane met yesterday in Carson and
after accepting the resignation of DR..
Patterson as superintendent of the
Insane Asylum elected DIR. Gibson of
Reno to fill the vacancy.
About ten miles north of Silver
Peak, in Esmeralda county, Nevada,
there lies by the roadside deposit of
alum and sulphur which has been
many times located and prospected as
"A sulphur mine. Not until recently.
however, has the relatively important
amount of alum in it been recognized.
Word from Goldfleld says that there
is a rush of bad men to the camp. To
a Tonopah Sun reporter Detective
Thacker of the Wells Fargo Express
Company is claimed to have stated
that he counted eighty-six ex-con-
victs, thirty of whom are desperate
men.
Under the name of the Stalwart
Silver Party, Ex-Governor Reinhold
Sadler, last Friday, filed a petition
containing over fourteen hundred
names in the office of the Secretary of
the State, along with the nominations
of the party which recently met in
Reno at what is known as the Rump
Convention.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1904-09-30

Grading for the new street railroad
at Reno was started last week.
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Notice of Appointment
OF ofAdministrator.

In the District Court of the first Judic-
ial District of the State of Nevada in and
for Douglas County.
In the Matter ofthe Estate of Jacob n
Winter deceased.
Notice is hereby given that on the 2Sth
day of July, 1904, Richard Kirman was
appointed administrator of the estate of
Jacob Winter, deceased, by the District
Court of the First Judicial District of the
State of Nevada, in and Tor the County OF
Douglas, and all persons having claims
against the estate of said deceased are re-
qured to file the same with the County
Clerk of Douglas County, together with
the proper vouchers and statutory af1i-
dayts attached, within forty days from
the date of the first publication OF this
notice.
Dated August 26 1901.
RICHARD kIRMAN
Administrator of the
Estate of Jacob y. Winter.
deceased.
Mack u Harrington, attorneys for ad-
ministrator
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1904-09-30
REPUBLICAN
TICKET.
NOMINATED At THE
Regular Republican State
Convention
HELD AT
Winnemucca, August 9Th, 1904
To be Voted For at the General
Election.
T,oedau Novomhor 9th t00I
Tuesday, November Sth, 1904.

For United States Senator
HON. GEO. S. NIXON,
OF Humboldt County.
For Member of Congress,
HON. JAMES A. YERINGTON,
OfOrmsby County.
For Supreme Judge,
HON. FRANK ii. NORCROSS,
OF Washoe County.
For Presidential Electors,
HON. JAMES BUTLER,
OF Nye County.
HON. c. A. AHERN,
OF Storey County.
HON. W. J. PLUM,
Of Elko County.
For Regents of the State University
Long Term:
HON. OSCAR J. SMITH,
OF Washoe County.
Short Term:
HON. j. +. STARRET,
OF Elko County.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1904-09-30

the treaty between the United States and
the Republic of Panama in the vain at
tempt to interdict The building of the
canal.
UNITED STATES SENATORSHIP.
We congratulate the people of Nevada
upon the awakening of her prosperity
in field and mine, and that the hour is
struck which closes quarter of cen
tnry of State depression. That the dawn
has begun ola new era wherein this COM
monwealth is destined TO take high rank
in agriculture, the industries and min
ing. New leaders are called for 10
represent in Congress this new spirit of
State developments For the Senate of
the United States the Republican party
presents the name of George $. Nixon, as
an able, true and loyal citizen worthy of
such choice familiar with and interested
in the various industries of our state and
who is the first candidate for that
supreme Office presented by a Nevada
convention in the past twenty years,
who is bona fide resident and citizen
OF Nevada, and pledges the efforts of the
Republican party 10 use all honorable
means and the votes of its members in
the State LegislatureI to secnre his cleo
tiou
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1904-09-30

\ copy of the Nevada Edition of the
prospector's Companion sent to any
address postpaid on receipt of 30 cents,
80 pages, paper cover and contains
information which every miner, pros
pector or camper should. know
game and mining laws of Nevada,
formation of mountain ranges in Ne
vada, Geology, mineraiogy, field tests
for ores etc. in every day language.
Address, w. II. Chapman, 725 First
West St, salt Lake City, Utah.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1904-09-30

The Nevada Fence Company, back
ed by Reno capital, has filed articles
of incorporation. The company was
organized by several gentlemen from
San Francisco who think there is a
fine field in this state for an iron and
wire fence manufactory.
The capital stock of the concern is
100000. The paid up capital is So
500.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1904-09-30
CAPITAL AND LABOR

We submit the labor record of the
Republican party against the professions
OF Democracy. Republicanism has built
up tariff wah about this country which
gives the American markets TO the pro-
ducts of American labor 1t has in
every State where in power enacted
legislation favoring shorter hours and
sanitary conditions OF labor, prohibited
child labor, and passed stringent laws
Tor the safeguarding of the life and limb
of employees. 1t has under Theodore
Roosevelt submitted arbitration, rs in
the coal strike, for the bullet and bayo-
net Of the last Democratic administra-
ton in its settlement Of the Pullman
strike. Promising little. performing
much, it has been the true and tried
friend of both capital and labor, whom
IL holds rs equal and concordant parts
of the nations industrial economy. The
Republican party will not support capi-
tai in oppression nor labor in violence.
Ii recognizes organized labor as the unity
of industrial action, striving 10 secure
fruits of industry. II is the trusted ally
of both capital and labor; for capital in
the things which are essential to the
successful government of enterprises,
and with labor in its crusade for reason-
able hours at the highest wages consis-
tent With the successful conduct of
business. In this State it favors eight
hours labor upon all public works and
rs the legal work day in mines, quartz
mills and smclters, and will uphold
legislation giving it proper and equitable
force and effect.
STATE INSTITUTIONS.
We favor the economic conduct OF the
State government, the generous treat
ment of the orphan wards of the State
and the humane care of the insane. We
are justly proud of the public school
system of Nevada and the State Uniyer-
sty and will favor all reasonable prop
ostions calculated TO improve their
efficiency and usefulness.
INVITATION TO SILVER REPUBLICANS.
Recognizing the fact that many Of the
most patriotic and progressive citizens of
the State of Nevada have for several
years past east their ballots against the
Republican ticket because of their dis
belief in the financial views of the fact
that there is no issue between the party
and the national parties upon the subject
ofiinance, cordially invite all such fellow
citizens to renew their political fellow
ship with us and To share with ms in the
coming general election.
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Wilkommen to Papa's Place.

Solehe Gaeste will ich haben,
Die stets friendsam discurien,
Essen, Trinken, aahlen germ,
Ind dan ruhig abmashiVen,
Thnen nueneh ieh Fried und Glnech
Kehren Sic zu mir zuruck.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1904-09-30

According to the times Yerington is
likely to experience a wood famine
this winter, owing to the roads lead
ing to the mountains having been
washed out by cloud bursts.