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The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1906-11-02
COUNTY HIGH
SCHOOL QUESTION
To BE DECIDED TUESDAY
Should Receive the
Support Of the
Voters.

des1re Tor SOmo sort OF an educa-
tional system whereby the possi-
bilities of higher education may
be placed within reach of every
boy and girl blessed with am
bition and lofty aspirations to
rise in the world.
The common public school sys-
tenn was an excellent one in davs
of pioneer life. But the progress
of the great Carson Valley with all
the advantages which nature has
SO lavishly poured upon it has left
the rural school the last Landmark
receeding and sinking below the
horizon. Such a system is yet in
deed well in its place but it should
be brot up from the rear and ex-
panded to suit the progress of the
age with which the citizens of Ne
vada have ever kept apace. This
means the establishment of
County High School; which if
located at central point would be
within driving distance from the
most remote ortions of the county.
Every year sees a number of
children sent out of our county TO
attend some high school or bust
ness college, far away, far from
parental care. A high school is
the means of bringing to Douglas
county with little expense that
which costs enormously each year
to secure elsewhere; to say nothing
of giving to all alike those oppor-
tunities which under the present
regime can possibly be offered to
the select few. Suchlan institution
moreover gives decided advan-
tage to the county school in as
much as most such schools are a
sort of miniIure university rather
top-heavy. One teacher dealing
with all grades from first receiving
up thru a curriulum that might do
credit to full fledged high school.
They need pruning that the un-
dergrowth may get more sunshine.
High school studies should 10
taught but any attempt to deal
with them in the district school
only draws time from the younger
pupils from whom such schools are
maintained and energy from the
teacher. Carson Valley is one of
the few places of worldwide fame.
Four thousand feet above sea level
yet her waters mingle not with
those of the ocean. Her genial
climate; her inexhaustible soil
watered by the never-failing noun
tain streams as they go winding on
their wonder working journey; her
verdant mesdoms and green pas
lures; her fields of grain waving
and ripening under mid-sum-
mer sun; her silvan slopes and
wooded dells contrasting with phe-
nominal grandeur the rim of gray
mountain tops on one side and the
snow-clad peaks of tho majestic
Sierras on the other-all these de-
viations from the monotonous ordi-
nary, combining their enchanting
powers with those of utility into
one grand total, bequeath the
choicest spot tha Nature has pre-
pared for the abode of man. But
facinating as these gifts are, how
ever, without good schools they
alone are still impotent to draw a.
mong us permanently the choicest
element of society-a cultured edu-
cation-loving people.
Let the coming election then,
signal to the soiourner among us
now, that henceforth to whatever
land he may return, that from the
fruitful narations which he may
there disseminate, his people gather
no harvest of barren regrets.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1906-11-02

Jake Eggers has had long ex
perience as a revenue officer. III,
will make a good Controller.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1906-11-02

Ed. Cults is one of Nevads's
oldest residents. He will soon be
its Treasurer.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1906-11-02

Chas. Schuman and Martin
Christensen went to Reno yester.
day.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1906-11-02

NJ. A. Murphy isa fearless Judge.
Don't forget.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1906-11-02

ALL shipments appearance
so large stocks We have on sale INTEREST," bargains.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-11

citizens, suffer from the waste of the
drinking habit as we'll as the repub-
licans. Democratic business men lose
when the wages which should pay for
boots and shoes and groceries go into
the saloon till. just as the republican
business man does. The passage Of
this question from the realm Of par
tizan politics to one of economic and
moral debate, which began with re-
versal of democratic tradition in Mis-
souri, where Governor Folk enforced
the laws, has been a happy thing for
the country, but a trying ordeal for
the politicians. 1t has made it impos-
sible hereafter to line up the demo-
cratic party for whisky. 1t can no
longer be done in Ohio, Kentucky,
Tennessee or Pennsylvania.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-11
CONSUMING OUR INHERITANCE

The disappearance Of the country's
hardwood timber is a menace even
more serious than the melting away
of our pine forests. A new growth OF
pine can be secured in forty years, but
century would not replace the mag
nificent groves of oak and elm that
are falling before the lumberman A
committee of the National Hardwood
Lumbermen's association reported re-
Gently that at the present rate all the
countrys timber, both pine and hard
wood. will be consumed in thirty-five
years. The report also recommended
that there should be legislation for
bidding expectation Of logs, and ex-
empting all tree plantations from
taxes 1t is certainly high time to
take some measures of this kind to
encourage forestation. 1t is too late,
however, to raise new forests OF
hardwood in time to replace those
that are disappearing. and hardwood
lumber seems to be an essential in
many lines of manufacture.
Steel has replaced lumber to large
extent in the framework of buildings
and bridges, but in the manufactures
there are many places where hard
wood seems indispensable In making
furniture and agricultural implements
it is an essential, and a hardwood
famine would work a tremendous rev.
olution in such industries. Already
northern forests are vanishing, and
about the only hardwood north Of the
Ohio and Missouri rivers that is still
abundant is birch. There is nothing
to take the place of oak in all the
great forests of the Pacific coast, and
the whole country is looking to the
south for it's supply. 1t is no uncom-
mon thing to ship lumber from the
far southern states a distance of thou
sands of miles, and meanwhile many
great cargoes are being sent abroad
from southern ports. The end is in
sight, and an ero Of high prices is
following the long years of abundance.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-11

their tools to the hotel for safe
keeping.
French Lick has been advertised all
over the country as the Monte Carlo
of America. 1t has been standing
disgrace to the law-abiding people, OF
the state of Indiana. 1t has been
strong enough to corrupt the local
keepers of the law. 1t is now ques-
ton whether it can cow the admins
tration of the state.
The fact that the proprietor OF this
highly interesting joint is chairman OF
the democratic national committee
and that the administration of Indi-
ana is republican has no bearing on
the case. If there had been a political
motive back of the activity of the at
torney general of the state he would
probably have found it convenient to
move on Mr.. Taggart's works during
the campaign. That he has done SO
between campaigns is suggestive OF
pure motive to clean up the state and
to assert the sovereignty of the law in
Indiana.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-11

students who intend to study abroad
to Japan rather than to European
countries, and especially to the United
States.
The anti-American boycott agitation
in China during the last eight months
has been furthered by students more
than by any other element. The bust
ness relations of the United States
and China have been threatened
more by this n-commercial portion
of the population than by any other.
1t is unsettling and, having nothing at
stake, irresponsible. From this class
trouble in the future may possibly
come. However, it is one of the most
favorable aspects Of the new turn of
things in China that the danger OF
disturbance to follow a too sudden
turning from the old to the new Is
appreciated.
The result of this new system of
education ought to be a constantly
increased demand for all classes of
foreign goods, for foreign books, in
struments and appliances, for ma
chinery of all kinds; in short, for all
those articles of foreign manufacture
which go to make up present-day
western civilization. A general de-
mand for such goods from China
need not be expected in day, but the
demand will come in good time.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-11
WARM WAVE PASSES OVER STATE
Western Washington Experiences Hot
Wave Blasts Equal to Those in
Eastern Part Of State.

In his weekly report on the weather
conditions for the past week, G.
N. Salisbury, section director Of
the weather bureau, says
During the entire week the weather
was extremely warm in all parts of
the state, except the northwest coun-
ties. The 3rd was an oppressively hot
day in the western counties, and the
maximum temperatures We're the high
est ever recorded at a number of sta
tons (the record extending back to
1877 at Olympia). Although it was
considerably cooler on the 4th and the
following days of the week throughout
the western counties. the weather was
still very warm and above the nor
NAL, while in the eastern counties it
remained very hot throughout the en-
tire week. The beginning of the
heated term was on June Goth, and a
hot wave of such long continuance is
very rare in Washington.
The maximum temperatures during
the week ranged from SO degrees to
III degrees in the eastern counties,
and from So degrees to 104 degrees in
the western counties. The highest
temperature reported was Ill degrees
at Odessa on the 9Th.
The minimum temperatures ranged
from so degrees to IS degrees in the
eastern counties, and from AZ degrees
to Ga degrees in the western counties.
The lowest temperature reported was
Al degrees, at Olympia, on the 18th.
There was no rain during the week,
except .02 of an inch in a light storm
that occurred at Walla Walla, on the
18th, and a trace at two or three
other stations The skies were
bright every day, except for some
cloudiness on the last two or three
days with a few light thunderstorms
Hot winds from the north and north
east were quite prevalent in the east
ern counties.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-11
DEMOCRATS AND WHISKY.

The democratic party has so long
been associated in the public mind
with a liberal policy toward the liquor
interest that it excites the curious to
find that party in some states leading
the way with regard to the regulation
of the traffic. In Ohio the democrats
put up and elected a strong temper
ance man governor, whose untimely
death has probably given a setback to
movement for the enforcement Of
the liquor laws in the cities of the
state. Governor Pattison had an
nounced that he would remove may
ors who did not enforce the laws.
He did not remove any in his short
term, but there was a general move
ment toward better enforcement Of
the law. The lid was put on in Gin
cinnatti by a democratic mayor, Toledo
cleaned up and other cities followed
suit. In Kentucky a democratic gov
ernor put the lid on Louisville, one of
the most charmingly frank whisky
towns in the world. In Tennessee
both parties have called for better
regulation of the liquor business in
their platforms. Senator Tillman has
gone home to South Carolina to put
in a busy summer, not with constitu-
tional questions, but in suppressing
the "speakeasies" which have thriven
under the dispensary law in his alb
sence. Last year in Pennsylvania the
democrats fused with the prohibition
lists on a candidate for state treas
urer and elected him. This year they
have fused with republicans on a
candidate for governor whose plat
form calls for law enforcement in all
things. including the dispensing OF
drinks on the Sabbath day
There is no reason why democrats,
as such, should be for lax enforce
ment of the liquor laws. They as
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-11
SUDDEN DEATH OF A RANCH HAND
o. p. Northup Suceumbs to Heart
Disease at Reser Ranch-Body
Shipped to Fisher Landing.

The remains of D. P. Northup, a
ranch hand who died suddenly Of
heart failure at the Reser farm, south
of Walla Walla yesterday afternoon,
were shipped to Fisher Landing, near
Vancouver, last night, for interment
by the Cookery & Holloway under
taking establishment. Mr.. Northup
was 81 years of age and leaves a
family of several children besides his
wife. The dead man was in the habit
of coming to Walla Walla every sum-
mer to work during harvest and had
worked for Mr.. Reser nine seasons.
Yesterday in company with Mr.. Reser
he was on his way to the barn from
the fields when he was suddenly seized
with an attack Of hiccoughs.
He laid down on the ground to rest
a few minutes while Mr.. Reser went
on to the barn. Shortly afterward one
of the ranch hands found Northup
dead. The body was viewed by Coro-
ner Cookery who decided that no in
quest was necessary. The body was
brought to town and shipped to Fisher
Landing last night.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-11
DEEP PloW|MG SAVES WHEAT CsOP
Grain On Well Cultivated Land IN
UmatiIla County Resists Hot
Wave Last Week.

Reports from the Helix and Athena
districts say that the wheat which is
now growing on land plowed from
seven to eight inches deep is standing
the hot weather much better and will
be injured less than that on land
plowed from three to five inches in
depth, says the East Oregonian.
A majority of the farmers in the
Helix district are now blowing deeper
each year and cultivating their land
more and more each year, thus giving
greater fertility to the soil and max
ing the wheat stronger to resist
drought and hot weather.
This hot spell has been a severe
test on the methods of farming en-
ployed and it is current knowledge
that the crops where deep blowing has
been practiced look better today and
will suffer less loss from improperly
filed grain than those where deep
blowing has not been practiced.
Hereafter it is safe to say that more
deep blowing will be done. after this
practical object lesson. 1t is said that
the land cannot be cultivated too much
on the summer fallow year.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-11

Mr.. Bryan showed good sense in his
attitude regarding the sudden and
rather premature rush to the place
where his standard may be set up
sometime. He says speaking of his
indorsers: Il do not regard their ex-
pressions as binding upon them or
upon the party of their state. / shall
not prosecute them for breach of
promise if they transfer their affec-
lions to another, will not even pub
lish their letters. 1 may add that it
would not be just to me to be put in
the attitude of announcing my candi-
dacy or admitting the certainty of my
being a candidate. 1t is two years
before the convention meets and 1 am
not willing to sit on a stool and look
pretty that long. 1 prefer to be in a
position to say what l think ought to
be read, write what I think ought to
be written and to do what / think
ought to be done. 1 am advancing in
years and cannot spare two years out
of my life just at this time" OF
course, if anyone wishes to throw in
dorsemtns over the transom Mr.
Bryan is not going to unchain the
bulldog
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-11

DR.. Dowie's crime seems to be the
financial coup of OvercapitaliZation
complained of by Senator La Toilette
He capitalized his Zion industries at
seven times their actual cost, sold the
stuff to his faithful followers at par
and used the big rake-off for the
spread of his gospel, purple robes
costly jewelry and expensive trips. A
little less vanity and a little more
careful working of the game and the
prophet would have had the noses OF
all Zion on the grindstone for all time
or at least until the laws regarding
financial games are improved.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-11
Old Insurance Rates Continued.

Mr.. Martin, secretary and mana
ger of the Northwestern Mutual Fire
Association of Seattle, says that his
company has no San Francisco losses
to be paid at the expense Of new pol
icy holders, and therefore has no oc-
casion to raise it's rates, as the board
companies have done. No states that
in his twelve years of experience in
Oregon and Washington, the losses
and expenses combined, Of the COM
panies he has managed, have not av-
eraged more than SO per cent of the
board rates as they stood before the
increase was made. Policy holders Of
these companies get the profits, and
have already been saved in the two
states, nearly million dollars in pre-
miums. This raise in rates simply
means that these companies will be
able to save that much more in pro-
portion to the rates Of the stock
companies.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-11
Pacific Coast Nurserymen Meet.

TACOMA, Wash, July 1.-THE Pa
cific Coast Association of Nurserymen
is holding it's annual convention here
Members from all parts of the Pa
cific coast are in attendance, and
among them are some of the most
prominent men in the business. An
interesting program has been prepared
for the convention, and after it's close
most of the delegates and their ladies
will take various trips before they re-
turn to their respective homes.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-11
Will Be a Sweet Affair,

NE wYORK, July 1.-THE Confec-
TONERS Supply Dealers opened their
annual convention at the Manhattan
Beach hotel today. 1t is we'll attend
ed and will remain in session. two
days. Trade matters will form the
subject of discussions.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-11
MOVING ON T. TAGGART'S WORKS

The public will. no doubt, be sur
prised to hear from Thomas Taggart
a denial if the fact that gambling flour
ishes at his hotel at French Lick
Springs, and not surprised to hear
that it does make some Roadway in q
nearby building" Under the cir
cumstances, people will wonder why
the authorities should have raided the
hotel and taken out a great amount
of gambling paraphernalia. Perhaps
the nearby people had gotten wind of
the impending raid and removed
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-11
Starting for the State Convention

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, July IL
Republicans from eastern Tennessee,
among them the delegates elected in
the eastern counties to the republican
Vile tomorrow, have arrived here in
considerable numbers and will start
cial train.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-11

French magistrates are also failing
reckless chauffeurs "Ten days" holds
down the pace of the driver who
draws it, and has some little influ-
ence with his friends
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-11

Congress having adjourned and the
country having quoted, it is about
time for somebody to start a maya
zine.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-11

New Zealand has advertised for
$4,000 women. Not only do they get
husbands, but the right to vote.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-11

Mr.. Bryan is to come to New York,
coo softly a few times and then sail
for New Zealand.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-11

LOST-LARGE LEATHER VAL1SE
with small tin box attached. Left
by a cabman by mistake. Notify the
Palace hotel.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-11
LOST.

two inches thick containing about 400
bills. Finder return to this Office and
receive reward
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-11

THE stray bullet" is just as hard
to stop as any other kind.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-05-21
A Short Cut.

'There goes a man." observed a
steamship agent as he directed atten-
ton to a surly looking individual who
had just engaged passage for Europe,
whose efforts are devoted to con-
structing short cuts in business meth
DDS and in eliminating all time con-
Stunning men and their propositions
from his busy existence. He is man
of very few words. Same years ago
this gentleman crossed the ocean and
had very unpleasant trip. One morn
ing a sympathetic passenger offered
him lemon, expressing sincere wish
that it would give relief. The pale
traveller seized the lemon, hurled ii
viciously into the ocean and growled:
This is a quicker way than the
other New York Times.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-05-21
An odd Moorish Custom.

AS people the MoOrs are already
we'll inclined to anything that gilds
life. A correspondent says: Nothing
delights them more as means Of
agreeably spending an hour or two
than squatting on their heels in the
streets or on some door stoop, gazing
at the. passersby, exchanging compli-
ments with their acquaintance. Ma
tive 'swells' consequently promenade
with a piece of felt under their arms,
on which to sit when they WISH"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-05-21
EASILY SCARED.
An Adventure with n Rhinoceros In
East Africa.


OF curious encounter with rhi-
noceros an African traveller writes in
the Globe Trotter, published in Nairobi,
British East Africa: HE was peace
fully grazing on choice patch of green
stuff and apparently meant to do the
well bred thing and allow US to pass
by; so, with my heart in my mouth,
nothing in my pockets and an empty
magazine rife in my hand, attempted
a Slide for a more secure position. But
l was Immediately foiied OF this OBJ
Ject by suspicious movement on the
part OF the enemy. A swish of the tail.
suggestive uplifting of the snout and
snin of the atmosphere. and the deli
cate and fairylike creature bore down
ponderously upon my two native bear
erS and myself.
My knees promptly refused to work.
could not move muscle, and so with
all the British pluck and courage of
Which we have read so much l calmly
resigned myself. By this time the hide
Gus beauty had advanced to within ten
yards of its prey, when, to my surprise,
the two boys accompanying me hastily
dismantled themselves of all baggage
and, with all muscles stretched, ready
| for a sprint, they stood their ground
and, without moving an inch, began to
whistle for all they were worth.
Quickly noting the satisfactory re-
suit of the maneuver, l blew my
whistle hastily and with good will
The shrill notes struck strangely on the
untutored ear of the rhino, for be
promptly turned tail and fed"