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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-05-18

Notice is hereby given that ons Chung Lung.
Administrator of the estate of Hong Book deceased
has filed in this Court petition for the distribu-
tion of the residue of said estate to the parties by
law entitled, together with his final account of
said administration, and that Saturday the 26th
day of May 1906. at 10 O'Clock A. M. of that
day, at the Court Room of said Court in the
Town of Phoebe. County OF Lincoln, State Of Ne
vada. has been set as the time and place for the
hearing of said petition and the settling of said
account at which time all persons interested
in said Estate are hereby notified to appear before
said Court and then and there and show cause,
if any there be, why the said account should not
be settled and allowed, and why an order Of dis
tribution Of the residue of said estate should not
be made and the same distributed among the
heirs OF said deceased, according to law.
EUGENE GOODRICH,
Clerk of said CourtO
Chas Lee Horsey,
Attorney for Administrator.
First pub. May 4th 1906
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-05-18
Notice to Creditors.
IN THE COURT OF THE
FOURTH JUDICIAL
DISTRICT COUNTY OF
LINCOLN, STATE OF
NEVADA.
In the Matter Of the Estate

IN the Matter Of the Estate
Of
Benjamin Reberti. Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned
was duly appointed administrator of the said
estate OF Benjamin Robeeti, 1e:eassi. oa the 2al
day Of April A. D. 1895 by the Fourth judicial
District Court of the State of Nevada. in and for
the County of Lincoln. aud duly qualified before
said Court as such administrator on the 2nd of
April. A. D. 1906.
All persons having claims against said estate
are required to file the same, with proper vouch-
ers and statutory afiiavits attached. with the
Clerk of said Court within forty days from the
first publication of this notice
Date Of this Notice, April 23th, 1896.
JAMES LEMOINE,
Administrator.
First Publication. dated May 4th 1905.
Chas Lee Horsey.
Attorney for Administrator
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GRAND JURY
REPORT.

led at the May term of the dis
trict Court in and for Lincoln
County, beg leave to submit this
our final report and asked to be
discharged from further attend
ance on this court. z
State of Nevada VS.. w. D.
Carleston- Forgery.
State VS. Robert Shafer- Assault
with intent to kill with deadly
weapon.
State VS. Geo. o. Sawyer-Felony
State VS. H. J. Goodrich Felony
State VS. A. o. Devitt-Felony
State VS. A. o. Dewitt Felony
State VS. Peter Morrissey-Felony
State VS. Peter Morrissey-Felony
State VS. S. G. Neal Embezzel-
ment.
State VS. S. G. Neal-Embezzel-
ment.
The Grand Jury recommends
that the District Attorney inves-
tigate the complaint of Chas. Clay
against Justice of peace
McElwain of Searchlight.
Attached hereto we submit
the reports of the various COM
mitties Of this Grand Jury which
are made part of this our final
report.
Respectfully submitted
J. |. Earl
Foreman of the Grand Jury
We the COMMITTEES on County
Roads find the county Roads in
bad condition in different parts
of the County and especially
along the Meadow Valley Wash.
This committee recommend that
the County Commissioners ap-
propriate enough money to make
the roads passable for teams.
We recommend the plan of
only paying orders on the 0. K
of the appraisers and recon-
mend That appraisers be appoint
ed only on petition of the voters
OF the Road District where ap-
pointed.
w. A. Liston
II. 3. Mills
w. II. Edwards
We, the committee on Public
Buildings find the Court House
and Offices in good condition and
find the surroundings are; being
put into repairs. We find that
the jail is III ventilated and we
recommend that the County
Commissioners provide and make
it as comfortable as possible for
the men who are placed their, as
the Jail in its present condition
is not tit place to keep a human
being.
A. w. Geer
w. A. Liston
Peter Buol
We, the undersigned members
of the grand Jury duly appointed
by the Foreman to examine anC
report the conditions of the
Sheriff Office hereby submit the
following report. That we have
carefully examined the books il
the Sheriff's office and find tha
for all money received in sale
office the Sheriff holds the
receipt of County Treasurer ant
that the books are being duly
balanced on the first of every
month. This report covers tn
period from Sept. 1st 1905 t
May /, 1906 and we further fn'
that the Office is in very goo'
business order and entirely salts
factory. F,
]. A. Denton
A w Coar
Chris N. Brown
We the Committe appointed t
examine and enquire into tn
State of affairs of the Indigen
Fund find that the amount pal
out of the INDECENT Fund for tn
care and support of the Indigert
of the County since Sept. lst 100
until May 1st 1906 was $182O.s
and that we believe said none
was expended in a just and judic
Gus manner as far as we know
David Francis
]. L. Allen
C. w. Roeden
We, the committie appoints
to examine the books of the val
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examined the books of the Treas
urer, Recorder and Auditor, and
Sheriff and find the accounts in
each of these Offices to be correct
and the books being kept in a
careful and businesslike manner
also that the new system of book
keeping recommended by Mr..
Moore expert accountant is being
followed and is a marked i'm
provement over the old system.
C. c. Ronnow
E., Bunker Jr.
Ben Cowan
R. j. Pace
H. H. Church
The undersigned, your Com
mittee appointed to consider
public morals Of the County of
Lincoln State of Nevada, respect
fully state that it is within our
personal cognizance, and it has
been made to appear to this Com
mittee, that the conditions ex-
isting in the various unincorpor-
ated towns of the County of
Lincoln are deplorable. That
saloons and saloon-keepers in
some of said towns in the County
of Lincoln openly and notoriously
harbor and keep in and upon
their premises, during both the
day and night time, common
prostitutes who then and there
ply their trade in the open day
light and solisit the unfortunates
i'll the presence of women and
children.
We find that no heed whatever
is paid to the Act of the Legis-
lature providing that houses of
i'll fame shall not be established
within four hundred yards of
any public School House or
Church in any town within the
State Of Nevada, and that officers
heretofore and now have closed
their eyes to such conduct, and
have taken no step whatever to
remove the same and punish the
offenders.
We also beg to call attention
to the fact that idle and dissolute
persons, with no known means
of support are also harbored and
kept by certain houses in various
unincorporated towns in this
County, for the purpose of as
sisting in the profits of the
owners of these establishments
and to solicit trade and patronage
for the unfortunate occupants
attached thereto.
We therefore respectfully urge
and demand that the District At
torney of the County of Lincoln
and the Sheriff of the County OF
Lincoln, take immediate steps to
prosecute all offenders under the
laws of the State of Nevada, anC
to Immediately cause the removal
of any prostitute or prostitutes
who ply their vocation within
four hundred yards Of any Public
School House and Churches II
said County, and that the person
or persons who rent, or hire t.
any such prostitute or prostitutes
any building OF buildings fo.
unlawful use, as afore said, be
prosecuted to the full extent O
the law.
We also find that, Throughout
the said County, the law in re
lation to minor entering and fre
quently saloons and gambling
: houses has been in some in
stances, and we regret to say t.
many, violated and entirel.
ignored. We therefore call tn
attention of all Peace Officers t
this deplorable condition, ant
: demand that in future the Law
,, in regard hereto be strictly en-
, forced.
: Respectfully submitted
j. A. Denton
A. w. Geer
H. B. Mills
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NOTICE: TO SHOW
CAUSE WHY DISTRIBU-
TION SHOULD NOT BE
MADE.
In the Fourth judicial District
Court, Of the State of Ne
vada, in and for Lin
coin County.

In the Matter of the Estate of
of
Hong Book. Deceased.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-03-27
TALE OF BIRDS DEVOTION

Stories of affection and apparent
reason among wild animals have di-
yided the "nature-writers" into two
schools. One believes that animals
act merely from instinct; the other
holds hat the dumb brute feels and
reasons. In THE Life of a Scotch
Naturalist" NJ. Smiles quotes from
the journal of Thomas Edward the
story of how a little flock of terms
rescued a wounded companion which
the naturalist had shot.
l fired, and he came down with a
broken wing, screaming as he fell in
to the water. The report of the gun,
together with his cries. brought to-
gether the party he had left, in order
that they might ascertain the cause
Of the alarm.
After surveying their wounded
brother round and round, as he was
drifting unwittingly toward the shore
with the flowing tide, they came fly
ing in a body to the spot where |
stood, and rent the air with their
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-03-27
Too scalv 10 Believe

Miss Maria Wilde, an authority on
ceramics, told this little story recent
ly OF her early days as a collector:
Il was buying some pieces of Be
leek one day when the salesman
asked me if l knew the secret of the.
high glaze of the Irish Beleek. On
my replying in the negative he said
he had it from good authority that it
was obtained by putting powdered
fish scales in the mixture.
THE next time l saw J.. Hart Brew
er, the Trenton potter, who succeeded
in making American Beleek superior
TO the original Irish product, | told
MIN with some citation that 1 had dis
covered the secret of the glaze and
related the powdered fish scale story.
AS Mr.. Brewer listened a look of
amusement overspread his counte-
nance, and when l had finished he
said:
Miss Wilde, that's a fish story /"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-03-27

Very often the doorways are quite
elaborate, and display an attempt at
architectural and decorative effect,
more especially in the case of cones
that have been turned into temples,
churches or chapels. On entering
the doorway of any of these cone
dwellings we find ourselves within a
spacious chamber, about the walls of
which inches and shelves for the
storage of small household effects
lave been cut into the stone. The
stairways leading to the upper stories
are like wells or round chimneys, and
one ascends to an upper story by
means of ladder holes cut in the rock.
The floor between the stories are usu-
ally thick enough to withstand any
weight that might be put upon it, but
occasionally the excavators miscalcu-
lated the thickness of the floor, and
so had to make one lofty chamber in
stead of two. AS many as nine stories
may occur in n cone, but most have
only two, three, or four stories, which
can be counted by the windows.
0AO0b uhbCA VI bnS COnO QWGlllHBS
are used to-day as d%ovecotes for hosts
of pigeons, the eggs and flesh of
which are used by the cave jewellers.
The windows of such pigeon houses
are always walled in, holes being left
for the passage of the birds.
The natives of this region are still,
to all intents and purposes troglo-
dytes, but if we leave out of consid-
Grafton the fact that their dwellings
are at least partially underground,
they differ in habits and customs in
no whit from the ordinary Turkish
villagers with ordinary humdrum sur
%roundings. Sometimes the front of
the house is built of blocks of pum-
ice stone. while all the rest of the
abode is subterranean, the zone or
cliff being used as an annex; but in
most cases a modern dwelling is ex-
cavated, not in a cone, but in the face
of the bluff, and thus becomes a cliff
dwelling, properly so-called. This
is true of the business street of the
town of Urgub, where the front room
or facade opening on the street, is
the only room in the dwelling into
which the light comes. The other
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-03-27

houses offered for sale near New York.
The noble pile with the sloping roof
known as the Chateau de Villandry
can be bought for $4,000. 1t was
built toward the close of the sixteenth
century and is regarded as a very
pure specimen of that period.
The wings of the house enclose a
beautiful court of honor. There are
ornamental gardens in the French and
English style done by experienced
landscape gardeners toward the close
of the last century.
A lake lies in the woods of the large
park surrounding the house and there
are Conservatives, terraces in the
front of the chateau and several
islands in the River Cher that belong
to the property.
Older still is the chateau near
Druex which was put up in the days
of Louis XIII. and is called a perfect
specimen of the architecture of that
period, having undergone no alter
atoms or changes in any other style
since it was first built. There is a
court of honor, and the lake. as the
picture shows, stretches almost to the
windows in n wing of the house.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-03-27

If we draw a line through Tarsus
due north across the Peninsula of
Asia Minor, and another through
Smyrna directly east, the two lines
will intercept in the volcanic region
Of Mount Argaeus, where the cone
pyramids and pure cliff dwellings of
~Cappadocia are found, writes ]. R.
Sittington S%terrett, an English trav-
eler and artist, who has recently Wis
tied that out of the way country. The
whole region is of volcanic formation,
which covers a vast area extending
west to Seine and south to S~oghanlu
Dere, and is composed of a deep layer
of pumice stone, tufa or peperine,
overlaid in the region of Tatlar by
rugged lava fields. The pumice or
tufa is of almost incredible thickness,
but the overlaid layer of lava is COM
paratively thin, not more than three
feet at any point. The tufa is so
soft that it can be dug away with the
shumbnail, so that only time and
patience were necessary to %excavate
1t into chambers of any required size.
1t is known that a chamber 25 feet
long, 10 feet broad, and 10 feet high
was excavated by a single workman
IN the space of thirty days.
In this region the ~troglodytes of
Cappadocia have the wonderful dwell
lngs which were first described by
Paul Lukas, who travelled in Asia
Minor on the commission of Louis
XIV. His story was discredited, but
1t is correct in every vital particular,
and he perhaps understated the truth
when he estimated the number of
at $4,000. The region was Wis
tied in succession by Texier, Hamil-
ton, Tschichatscheff, Ainsworth,
Barth and Mordtmann, but it is still
virtually unknown. The height of
the n varies greatly, ranging per
haps from 80 to 300 feet. The tall
est cones usually stand in the center
OF an eroded valley, but not always.
The process of disintegration by the
solvent action of water still continues,
Of course, and in many cones the ex-
terror wall has been worn away to
such an extent that the chambers are
laid bare. Such exposed chambers,
If they lie fairly in the sun, are used
for drying grapes and other fruit,
as they are safe against invasion by
animals. Often the cones are almost
perfect In shape and originally all of
them were crowned by caps of lava,
which were the primal cause Of the
cone formation. The caps maintain
their position as they form one int
grail conglomerate mass with the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-03-27

screams. These they continued to ut
ter, regardless of their own individual
safety, until began to make prepar.
ations for receiving the approaching
bird. | could already see that it was
a beautiful adult specimen, and l ex-
pected in a few moments to have it
in my possession, since I was not
very far from the waters edge.
While matters were in this position
| beheld to my utter establishment
two of the unwounded terms take hold
of their disabled comrade, one at
each wing, lift him out of the water
and bear him out seward. They were
followed by two other birds.
After having carried him about six
or seven yards they let him gently
down again and the two Who had hith-
erto been inactive took him up.
In this way they continued to carry
him alternately until they had n
veyed him to a rock at a considerable
distance, upon which they landed him
in safety.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-03-27
ON A MISSISSIPPI STEAMBOAT.
Struggle for Wealth Almost Equal to
Wall Street Frenzy.

Struggle for Wealth Almost Equal to
Wall Street Frenzy.
A young fellow, a fellow passenger,
was leaning upon the rail beside me,
looking upon the scene below. He told
me to watch and he would show me
some sport. He drew a dime out of
his pocket. He waved his arm to at
tract the attention of the negroes
down upon the lower deck, and then
he flung the coin. II fell tinkling, and
rolled between two cotton bales. With
yells, the negroes rushed at 1t tumul-
tuously, piling over one another, a
tangled mass of waving arms and legs,
whence issued muffled groans and
grunts. Then, suddenly, the mass dis
solved again into a mob of rousters,
gaping up at us with rolling yellow
eyes, and heaving chests and dilated
nostrils. Another piece Of silver
twinkled in the air and fell among
them. Leaping and grabbing, the
negroes snatched at the falling coin,
then plunged again into heap.
BY this time others of the passen-
gers had heard the noise and the
scuffling, and o quite a crowd was
gathered along the rail. A shower
Of change began to fall upon the deck
below ami into the crowd of now
half frantic blacks.
II was a comical spectacle. A
little while before the negroes had been
quietly busted about their own affairs;
A handful of cheap silver had fallen
among them, and in less than a min
ute their small world was transformed
into a pandemonium. I have heard 1t
said that the same phenomenon occurs
sometimes on the stock exchange
Harper's Magazine.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-03-27
Chateau De Farauette.

for $4,000, although it vas put up in
1850 by one of the most noted archi-
tects of his day. Then there are sixty
two acres of wild and ornamented
ground about the house.
Another chateau more modern but
beautiful can be had for $4,000, along
with its twelve acres. 1t has existed
for about a century and years ago re-
ceived the name of LIE Chateau des
Penitents because of it's rather ecclesi-
astical aspect. The Seine runs at the
foot of the lawn and the views from
the windows stretch through the valley
to Paris.
There are many other chateaux of
the same kind offered for sale, but
these are typical and show that next
to Spain France is an easy country to
acquire a home in.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-03-27
Told Of Kinq Alfonso.

The king of Spain is young and
hkes to have a good time; yet he is
often obliged to work twelve hours or
more a day. Not long ago he handed
his prime minister a sealed petition,
with the request that it should be
granted Internationally. When it was
opened it was found to be in the
Kings " handwriting. He demand
Gu lot himself an eight hour day and
no work on Sundays and holidays. On
another occasion his automobile was
stopped by a policeman who did not
recognize him at once. but who nres.
entity began to apologize profuselv
Why was the automobile Stoned.
anyway" said the king. "Becanse
motor wagons are not allowed on
TINS street" Very we'll" retorted
Alfonso; then l shall have 10 he
o careful in future"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-03-27
Castles for Sale
Former Homes of the Aristocracy
of France Offered in Open Market
II
Especial Correspondence.)

tiouity, although that would not en-
dear it to many persons who seek for
more beauty in a home. To those
who want a castle that not only is
really old but also looks old the I'M
adorned exterior would not be repel-
lent.
For 100000 there is a beautiful cha
teau in the style of Louis XIV, that
possesses a park of twenty acres and
a facade Of stone columns from one
end of the house to the other. There
are also beautiful woods and architec-
tural gardens attached to it.
Another chateau, that looks as big
as a railroad station, can be bought
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-03-27
Man and Wife.

The snow was falling. The day
was still and gray and cold, DR..
Parkhurst, shaking the white flakes
from his shoulders, said:
81 have just witnessed an instruc-
tive h~appening-a happening that
might teach us why some marriages
do not succeed.
"A man and his wife were walking
down a back street. The man had his
hands in his pockets. The woman
carried a basket filed with cabbage
and beets.
"A group of boys danced like imps
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-03-27

rooms are in midnight darkness all
the year round.
The owner of such an abode can
extend his dwelling indefinitely into
the bowels of the earth, a feature
which is not without it's advantage in
a land where the wise man ~conceals
the fact that he is wealthy. The in
terror chambers are used chiefly for
granaries and storage; even their
chaff, which is made to take the place
Of our hay, is safely slowed away in
these dry and dark chambers.
The landscapes amid which the
modern troglodyte dwells are never
tame, and are often startling. The
modern t~roglodytic usages add to
rather than detract from the general
w%eirdness of the prospect. The soil
is fertile and produces vegetables and
fruit, chiefly apricots of superb quail
ity. Indeed, one Of the old travellers
claims this region as the original
home of the apricot. Garden and
desert are often close neighbors for
the reaso that the garden 1ourishes
wherever the stone hats rotted suf-
ficiently; whereas the adjacent but
naked and unrotted stone is the most
barren of deserts. The real center of
these cones and t~roglodytic abodes is
the region about Udj Assaru, a huge
mass of pumice stone rising in the
midst of many branching valleys.
The Turkish name means the Castle
of Udj, but it is not known whether
Udj was the name of some princeling
or of a district. 1t is a mere shell,
honeycombed to the very pinnacle
with chambers sufficient in number
to satisfy even the wealthiest troglo-
dyte.
1t is very difficult to fix a date for
the origin of these cave dwellings.
They are mentioned by no classical
author, except perhaps Cicero; but
there is an ~allusion in the works of
Leo Diaconus, who f1ourished about
$50 A. d. Prof. Sayce, however, be-
lieves that the cones of Cappadocia
were well known and inhabited in
the Hittite period about 1900 B. c.,
a date beyond which we cannot and
need not try to go.-New York Times.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-03-27
TRICK EASILY SEEN THROUGH.
Mine Promoters Not Sharp Enough
to Deceive Hannah.

Mine Promoters Not Sharp Enough
to Deceive Hannah.
Hannah, l can't make this out, "
said the old farmer, as he looked up
from his paper. Here is a company
out west that advertises a gold mine.
1t has S1,000,000 worth of ore in
sight. It estimates the amoun of
ore on the claim to be at least $780,
100000. Its shares are 500 par value
and worcestershire. It offers shares
at n cent each to the first 1000
people who apply. 1t reads straight
enough, but"
Samuel, what an old blockhead
you are" exclaimed the wife. "Why,
even a blind man could see through
that trick"
Wall, what's the trick?"
"Why, they want to make you a
shareholder, and as soon as that's
done they'll send on a begging letter
asking you to contribute S. toward a
steeple for some Baptist church
somewhere. You just let that stock
alone. We have been Methodists
for over thirty years, and we have
got along without a steeple to our
church, and if the Baptists can't do
the same let 'em sell off their cows
to build one"
1 guess you're right, Hannah.
What tricks they do invent nowadays
to make a man think he is going to
get something for nothing and then
find himself fiphopped."-Baltimore
American.