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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1904-03-26

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of grade completed. Track is
now being laid at the rate of half
mile day.
Goldfield has its first lawsuit.
The alleged original locators OF
the Ohio claims are suing to re-
cover the ground subsequently To-
Gated by other parties.
The Steamboat Springs Resort
Company will begin work very
soon on the large hostelry to be
erected there. 1t will probably be
ready for guests in June.
The man who shot Arnold
Maher at Goldfield recently was
discharged upon having pre-
liminary hearing, but was rear
rested and taken to Hawthorne.
Governor Sparks has rendered
the Office of Surgeon General of
the Governors staff to DR.. w. L.
Berry, of Hawthorne. The office
carries with it the rank of Colonel.
Through the enterprise of the
A. 0. U. w. lodge Elko is at last
to have a town hall Lots have
been purchased and in the near
future a $4,000 hall will be erect
ed.
c. J. Waider, agent for Wells,
Fargo & Co. at Gold Hill, received
last week one of the latest pattern
ed automobiles to use in the trans
fer of express matter to and from
the train.
Wells, Fargo & Co. will have
their office at Goldfield i'll opera
ton by April Ist. H. c. Cutting,
agent at Tonopah for the compa-
ny, will also have the management
of the new office.
E. O. Mccormick, passenger
traffic manager of the Southern
Pacific Company, has been pro-
NOTED to the position of assistant
to J. c. Stubs, traffic director of
the same company.
Dan Webster, a half-breed In
dian, has been discovered to be
the "peeping Tom" of Reno. He
was shot in the arm the other
night by a resident through whose
window he was peering.
The last Legislature of Nevada
passed law making it unlawful
to ship outside of the State any
river or brook trout, or land-locked
salmon. The penalty is severe
one for violating the law.
The Carson News reports the
marriage of George Walton to
Jennie McGeary. Both parties
are Indians, the groom being a
graduate of the Carlisle school
and the bride Carson mahala.
Great activity is reported along
the line of the new Tonopah rail-
road. Any man who is willing to
work may secure employment, and
the contractors are confident they
will have completed the line on
time.
A negro was killed by a mob at
Mojave one night last week. He
was under arrest for some offense
not stated, and was taken from
the officers and given a coat of
tar and feathers. During the
scuffle he was either shot or hit on
the head with a bar of iron and
killed. There is much doubt
about his committing the crime of
which he was accused.
The first motor vehicle to belong
in Carson City arrived there Mon
day. 1t is demonstrating, or
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1904-03-26
Republican
State Convention.
HEADQUARTERS REPUBLICAN STATE
CENTRAL COMMITTEE,
CARSON CITY, New, Feb. IL, 1904

To the Republican electors of Nevada:
In accordance with established customs and in
obedience to instructions of the Republican Ma
tional Committee, the Republican State Central
Committee of Nevada directs that State Convent
ion of delegated representatives of the Republi-
can party be held in
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State rleW$


Rye crops flourish in Lovelock
Valley without irrigation.
Feed is said to be starting up in
good shape on the ranges through
out the State.
The vault of the new Elko
county bank is in place and ready
to receive money.
An opposition stage line has
been put on between Carson City
and Gardnerville.
Tuesday, September goth, has
been set as Nevada day at the
St. Louis exposition.
w. ]. Smith, former Empire
merchant, has become totally blind,
says the Carson News.
Fifteen inches of snow fell at
Summit Monday, and the depth
there now is eleven feet.
The new Tonopah railroad is
keeping the machinists in the v.
& T. shops at Carson busy.
The Commissioners of Humboldt
county contemplate planting black
bass in the Humboldt River
Battle Mountain has the honor
of organizing the first Republican
Club for the coming campaign.
There are 20 civil cases to come
to trial at the session of Court at
Belmont, Nye county in April.
A Reno man is under arrest for
removing dirt from a public thor
oughfare to fertilize his garden.
]. S. Dolen, an old and respected
resident of Bodie, died there last
week of acute bronchitis, aged 50
years.
An application has been made
for the establishment of a postof
fee at Montezuma, Esmeralda
county.
1t is reported that a deal is on
for the sale of the Sparks mine,
near Reno, to Captain Delamar for
100000.
A test of 5000 pounds of Don
nelly Mountain, Humboldt county,
ore at Reno, returned $3.50 per
ton in gold.
Bob Logan will resume the work
of sluicing at the Mexican mill,
near Empire, about the first of
next month.
There is gap of only two hun
dred miles to fill to complete the
so-called Clark railroad from Salt
Lake to Los Angeles.
A lively poker game took place
in Tonopah few days ago in
which newspaper man is said to
have quit 81 5000 winner.
Ed White and E. J. Curtis are
under arrest in Reno charged
with robbing Harry Askius of
500 in diamonds and coin.
A woman invaded the Washoe
Club Rooms in Reno one night
last week and marched hubby
home at the muzzle of pistol.
Gardnerville people must do
without electric lights for some
time to come unless they guaran-
tee company $500 per month.
Mrs. Margaret HAST, widow of
the late Goth Hast, died at the
residence of Wilson Locklin, in
Virginia City, last Friday evening.
In the basket ball game in Reno
last Saturday the Nevada Univer-
sity team was victorious over the
Stockton team by score of ten
to nine.
Private poker parties are quite
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didn't have Furnaces and Modern Con-
veniences enough to suit Jones, though
he got into Hot and Cold Water when
ever he met Standish, so he sailed
away with the Mayflower for Eng
land.
Then the Young Wives and the little
children, Even some Strong Men, and
the gentle Governor Carver Ate less
and less each day. Often not at all.
But the Less they Ate the More they
Prayed, Singing weakly, I'm a Pill
grim, Pm a. Stranger. 1 a larry, 1
can larry but A Night" And One by
One they set off on a Longer journey
Alone.
In the spring there were so many
widowerS and bachelors that the wo-
men were not Tempted to waste Time
and money in Matrimonial Agencies.
but only had to Decide Whom they
would Condescend to Marry.
This Deciding Things troubled Pris-
ella Molines. Priscilla was the French
Maid. She Laughed q Great Deal, for
her Teeth were Small and even as a
Squirrels. She was the Best Cook in
Plymouth Colony, and she could Shrug
her Shoulders and look out of the Tail
of her Eye at a Man. Other girls said
she had Red Hair.
One day Governor Bradford took the
Little Captain by the Buttonhile. Said
he: "Myles. I'm going to talk to YOU
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The Crusade in Brief.

The cor ..mption of liquor per capita IS
now about twice what it was t~wenty-three
years ago.
The Edinburgh School Board has de-
cided to have the systematic teaching Of
temperance in the schools under its juris-
diction.
The Hoboken On. j. Town Council have
prohibited the employment of women in
public houses. The Danish authorities
have done the anne
There arc many things to be very thank
full for. Great railroad corporations have
come to the conclusion that sober help is
preferable to help addicted to drinking.
The temperance papers published in 'he
German language have made quite a gain
in numbers.
In Germany Count Won Haesler is prob
ably the most conspicuous total abstainer
among the aristocracy.
The nations annual drink bill used to
be Just one billion dollars, now it approx
mates Il billion and 1 half.
In almost all the great iraternal orders
being engaged in the manufacture or the
sale of intoXicants Is Il bar to admission.
And we should all be glad that it is so.
The Good Templars Of Natal have built
a new hall at Durham. costing $4,000, and
including club room accommodation. Thc
building was opened by a distinguished
company of adherents and administrators
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Next day Standish walked out to the
green Wheat Field on the hillside
Rose Standish slept beneath it with
Fifty others from the Colony. Then he
thought of Priscilla Molines and the
way she Laughed at the Men. Myles
Standish Groaned. Then he Thought
Out a Pretty Plan.
There was John Alden. John was q
big, soft-hearted Strawberry Blonde,
Priscilla Looked at him Frequently
but he Never said Anything.
John and the Captain lived togeth'
er. Myles wasn't much for Size. but
he Didn't have his red beard for Moth
ing, and he Bossed John. John would
do Anything for him.
Myles went home and he said: John,
90 and tell Priscilla Molines that 1 am
Ready to Marry her"
John nearly Fell to Pieces. He had
been trying for q Month to get his
Grit up and ask her for Himself. He
Gulped twice and said: yes. sir"
He damned his hands into his Hip
pockets and Started to the Elders
house. He Forgot his Hat.
Priscilla was Spinning. She asked
Were the Savages Coming? He said
he did not Know, he Hoped so, and
that Myles Standish was Ready to
Marry Her.
Priscilla's eyes looked Dangerous,
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}uying the Thanksgiving Turkey.
A Picture of Puritan Days, Drawn by Lynn B Hunt.
TON. Wait on. AppETrTEsANn: HEAITtt ON eo7E-

Too busy TO 90 Counting, so he sent
him.
Priscilla said she did not Like little
Men. and there could be too much Red
Hair in One Family. .
John felt Better and told her how
Kind and Honorable and Brave and
Gentle and generally Elegant the Cap
tain was, until Priscilla's Thread got
Tangled up. She took a Step Toward
John. She Tipped up One Shoulder
and looked Down at him from the Cor
ner of her Eye. Her lips were Red.
why don't you Speak for Yourself,
John?" she said. Then John Took a
few Steps and her Thread Broke and
She Ran away.
But Myles Standish was Mad Clear
Through.
Well, the Pilgrims Worried through
the Summer, though there was Plenty
of Nothing but Prayer and Privation.
"All Fasting and no Feasting makes
me Weary" said Governor Bradford
80 after the Harvest, in November, he
Ordered a Week Of Feasting and
Thanksgiving. Massasoit and Ninety
Braves were Invited, just to show
them that the White Man Forgave the
Indians for Living.
The Indians came early and Brought
their Appetites. Most of the Pilgrims
were in Bed. Massasoit did not Ring
the Doorbells. He merely gave a few
Playful Warwhoops and his braves did
the Rest. The Pilgrims Got Up.
"a Dog does not Bite the Hand that
Feeds him." said the governor. Ely
around, girls, and get Breakfast"
This was the Bill Of Fare:
Hasty Pudding, Treacle. =
Clam Chowder. ..
Cold boiled Venison.
Turnips. :; ...
When the Guests Left the table there
wasn't Anything else left except the
Dishes. and not having Pockets, Mas
sasoit and his Braves did not Carry
Away the Spoons as Souvenirs.
Next Captain Standish had his Inn
ings. The Captain Played in Great
Form. He marched his Army Of Nine
teen Men down from the fort by Twos
and Threes and Fours. They made
Hollow squares and Every Old Thing
he could think of. They Blazed away
with the Cannon on Top Of the Fort,
and the ramon on the Hill, Then
they All fired together into the air. At
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FOREIGN.

King Peter visited Prince Ferdinand
at Sofia and pledged mutual friend.
ship.
An arbitration treaty was signed by
France and the United States.
The Russian and Japanese armies in
Manchuria were i~ntrenched close to
one another and 4 great conflict was
expected.
The Anglo-R Russian negotiations were
reported to be proceeding satisfactorily.
Port Arthur underwent Il terrific
bombardment, and it is believed the
final assault was in progress.
A special st. Petersburg dispatch
says u letter received in Cronstadt
from an officer Of the second Pacific
squadron proves the tension in the fleet
which might have led to m%istakina
British fishermen for Japanese.
Six British warships arrived at Eigo
The Lancaster's commander went or
board the Kniaz S%ouvaroff and had s
conference with Admiral Rojestvensky
NJ. Combes, the French Premier, ha.
presented to tie Chamber Of Deputie!
his plan for the separation OF Church
and State, providing for 4 period o:
transition.
The German Foreign Office apparent
" makes light Of the firing on thu
Sonntag by the Russian Baltic squad
ron, and may not lodge a protest at st
Petersburg.
Hostilities were renewed near Muk
den, the artillery firing being heavy.
Owing to the request for the protec
ton Of European residents. French AMI
English cruisers, a special cable dis
patch says, have sailed to Larache, Of
thp Moroccan coast.
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-~ONG, long ago, there was
@0 The Rock. 1t lay in tAe
1# r b shallow Mud Flats of the
Hta ~ LH Bay, looking out across the
@~@ ocean 80. and Waited for
What was Coming. When at last 1t
came The Rock remained Cold ana
Unsmiling. 1t knew its Own Worth.
This was in December, 1920.
Then the Pilgrims landed and TOOK
the Rock and called it Theirs. They did
not build a fence Around it the F1rst
Season, for they had Something Else
to Do beside Knocking off Pieces OF 1t
to keep in their Writing desks for pa
per weights and Curios.
There were One Hundred One Pill
grims and the baby, Perigination
White, who came on board so late that
he didn't have to Pay any Passage
Money.
Massachusetts Bay is Not Virgin
ia,'' said Myles Standish as he wiped
his Feet on the Rock. This was No
Joke and the Rock Felt it. -. - !
Then Standish got Ready to make it
Warm for Jones, the Master Of the
Mayfower, for landing them There.
But there was so much Snow and Ice
that it was too Big a Contract; besides,
Governor Carver said he was a man of
Peace, and there was No Proof that
the Dutch had agreed to Put up Doodle
for Jones if he landed the Pilgrims out
side Manhattan Colony Limits.
Somehow, The Rock wasn't Up to
Date as a place for Housekeeping, and
the Log houses the Pilgrims built
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Old Battles.

AT a temperance meeting held some years
since in the State Of Alabama, Colonel Le-
hamowski, once a Polish count, and who
had served many years in B%onaparte's ar
mics, addressed the meeting. He arose be-
fore a large audience, tall, erect and vigor-
Gus, with the glow Of health on his face,
and said: "You see before you a man sew
e1ty-nine years old. l have fought 200 bat
ties, have fourteen wounds upon my body,
have lived thirty days upon horsefesh,
with the bark of trees for bread, snow and
ice for drink. the canopy of heaven for my
covering, without stockings or shoes on
my feet, and with only a few rags to cover
my body. In Egypt I have marched for
days with the burning sun upon my naked
head, feet blistered in the hot sand, and
with eyes, nostrils and mouth filled with
dust, and thirst so tormenting that I have
torn open the veins in my arms and
sucked my W blood. DO you ask how I
could survive all these horrors? I answer
next to the kind providence of God, I owe
my preservation, my health, vigor, my all
to this fact. that l never drank a drop of
spirituous liquor in all my life" And he
added: Baron Larry, chief Of the medical
staff of the French army, has stated it as 4
fact that the 5000 survivors who safely re-
turned from Egypt were all men who had
abstained wholly from the use Of ardent
spirits"
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Succeeded.

Many years ago Mr.. Gladstone heard OF
two young men in the village who had be-
come notorious for their drinking habits,
and he determined to make an effort to
save them. He invited them to see him
at the castle. and there in "The Temple Of
Peace" as his library was called. he i'm
pressivc'y appealed TO them to change their
ways. and then lnelt with them and fer
vently asked God to sustain and strengthen
them in their resolve to abstain from that
which had hitherto done them so much
harm. The sequel cannot be told better
than in the language Of one of the men
concerned, who says: "Never can I forget
the scene, and so long as I live the rassnory
of it will be indelib!y impressed on my
mind. The Grand Old Man was profound
" moved by the intensity of his ~solicita-
lion. Ny companion is now a minister,
and neither of us have touched a drop of
Intoxicating drink since, nor are we ever
likely to violate an undertaking so impress
siveiy ratified in Mr.. Gladstone's library"
National Advocate.
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I'll GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF lNTeMPERANcE.
The Enormous Profits of the Liquor Eusi.
moss and How It's Manufacturers Are
Enabled to 1.-Two on Incomes Derived
From It's Sale-Men in tho Trade.

The Enormous Profits of the Liquor Busi.
ness and How It's Manufacturers Are
Enabled to Live on Incomes Derived
From Its Sale-Men in the Trade.
In former Governor Of Illinois John p.
Altgeld's new book just published, "The
Cost Of Something For Nothing" occurs a
passage concerning the liquor traffic which
might have been written by one Of our
own reformers.
I'm America the liquor traffic has yield.
ed great profits both in manufacturing and
in retailing, and men engaged in this bust
ness show, for a time, evidence OF prosper
ity. Some of the most palatial homes in
this country belong to brewers and distil-
lers, their equipages are the best, and their
manne of living is sumptuous.
Zone generation of brewers and distillers
in America has passed away, and we can
study their lives and pass judgment on
their work. The most impressive thing
that strikes the observer of these men is
the universally of their moral ruin.
PERSONALLY, many Of the men engaged
in this business are not only men of hill
;ty, s%hrewdness and enterprise, but they
are men of kindly impulses and inclined
by nature to be generous, and some OF
them possess a considerable culture.
"'Why should a blight hang over them?
It is a moral faint in their business that
comes home to them, withits trail of death.
"Why say moral faint? Because the eff
feet OF the whole business, as now con-
Quoted, is to cater to the weaknesses, to de-
stroy the character and lower the social
status Of men and of communities, and
this decentralization and ruin reaches back
to the source from which it sprang.
Vibrations in the atmosphere move in
q circle in all directions from the point Of
disturbance, and all that come within that
circle feel more Or less of the shock. In
the traffic in liquor, both the hand that de-
livers and the hand that receives the liquor
becomes palsied.
IF liquors were made and sold as drugs
and groceries are sold. the effect would be
different. If men took them as they take
drugs and food, a small per cent. would be
used, and the Generalization following
would be comparatively small.
but the manufacturers OF liquor want to
make money, and they endeavor to swell
their sales. For this purpose they encour.
age the opening of saloons.
"These saloons become lounging places,
where characters and habits of industry
are destroyed, where habits of drinking and
c~arousing are formed that pull down not
only the individual but his family. and
every time the drunkard and his family
sink a notch lower. the moral effect tends
to blight the family of the saloonkeeper,
the brewer and the distiller, who created
the conditions from which this ruin pro-
ceeds. It is the reactionary effect of hui
man conduct. The microbe of moral degra.
dation works backward as we'll as for
ward"
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Swallowing Dirt.

This is by Bob Burdette, the well-known
humorist:
"My homeless friend with the chromatic
nose, while you are stirring up the sugar
in n ten-cent glass of gin, let me give you q
fact to wash down with it. You may say
you have longed for years for the free, in
dependent life of a farmer, but you have
never been able to get enough money to
buy a farm. But there is where you are
mistaken. For some years you have been
drinking a good improved farm at the rate
Of 100 square feet at a gulp. If you doubt
this statement figure it out for yourself.
An acre of land contains 1850 square feet.
Estimating, for convenience, the land at
1886 an acre, o will see that it brings
the land just one mill per square foot.
Now pour down the fiery dose and imagine
you are swallowing. a strawberry patch.
Call in five Of your friends and have them
help you gulp down that 500 foot garden.
Get on a prolonged spree some day and
see how long it will take to swallow a pas
ture land to feed a COW. Put down that
glass of gin: there is dirt in it-3OO feet of
good, rich dirt, worth $3.50 per acre."
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ORR ADOPTED ISLANDS.

The protected cruiser Tacoma, in
Porto Rican waters. he's been ordered
to New York for extensive repairs.
The Duke Of the Abbruzzi. cousin OF
the King Of Italy. who is making a tour
Of the :. orld on board the cruiser Ligrl.
ria. of which he is in command, arrived
in Manila. T. I. - ..
Commissioner Forbes, who is at! the
head of the Department of Commerce
and Police, Of Manila, was in confer
ence with shipowners arranging for a
Government system Of interior trans
portation, which will give employment
to idle coasting vessels and also tho
vessels Of the coast guard fleet.
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Threw Kerosene OIL Over Beef.

A truckload of meat was standing at
First avenue and Forty-sixth street, says
the New York Sun, when a number Of
striking meat handlers gathered about.
One of the men jumped up on the drivers
seat and s~prinkled something from a quart
bottle on the meat. Policeman Fitzgerald
saw the man and chased him down the
avenue and caught him with a bottle in his
hand. The policeman found that there
was kerosene in the bottle and took the
man to the Yorkville police court. -
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EkGG1
NUndM
RrehkfhM
1STuoble

IT'S Really Sweet. I q,
Eow sweet. in LIES weak, feeble, breath,
To never fear the sting ofTdeath,
But silently await the Power
That takes US at the given hour.
And look to heaven, mans greatest prtzes
Where tears can never dim the eyes,
.taa ,1r,-'tlS Sgstti pgJ5iiEs.
How sweet to know that Ill Is well.
When one can easily foretell
The joyous welcome that's in store
When landing on the other shore.
Here countless thousands gladly sing
Sweet praises to the Chrilt their King
How sweet to think when suh' ing pain
The soul is free from every stain,
That in the coming. of the dawn.
You're nearer to the Master drawn, yla
Where sorrow shall forever cease,
And love reign out in perfect peace.
How sweet the though that night orday,
Whene'er we humbly choose TO ;pray,
That every honest spoken word 5,,SI
Is sympathetically heard,
So quickly does it reach the, ear
Him, whom mortals all should fear.
..ssrHrxV 81 :~2i .sJ}tsSa Z.
How sweet to know that after all,
The power of Satan can't enthran
A single soulswho will bat try
His wicked ways to e'er, defy. gssS
Blu. if his company you, keep,
Prepare eternally to weep. q
IS 2aE 81 AGeorge. Mckenzie.
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Ialand of Black Cats.

One of the q~uccrcst corners of the earth
is Chatham Island, says the Boston Tran
script, off the coast of Ecuador. Captain
Reinman, who recently visited it to inquire
into the proper g%roundings OF a deep sea
cable, says it abounds in cats, every one of
which is black. These animals live in the
c~revices of the lava foundation near the
coast, and subsist by catching fish and
crabs instead of rats and mice.