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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1906-08-18

with local application, as they can
not reach the seat of the disease.
Catarrh is a blood or constitutional
disease, and IN order to cure it you
must take internal remedies. Halls
catarrh cure is taken internally, and
acts directly on the blood and mu-
cous surfaces. Halls catarrh cure
is not quack medicine. 1t was pre-
scribed by one of the best physicians
in this country for years and is a
regular prescription. 1t is composed
of the best tonics known. combined
with the best blood purifiers. acting
directly on the mucous surfaces.
The perfect combination OF the two
ingredients is what produce such
wonderful results in curing catarrh.
Send for testimonials; free.
F. J. CHENEY & Co.. Toledo, @.
Sold by all druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
stipation.
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Registration Notice.

Notice is hereby given that the Registry Books
for the General Election to be held on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
1906. viz: November 6, 1900. are now open at the
Office of the Registry Agent for Piummer Pre-
cinct, Lyon County, State of Nevada, and will
remain open daily on all legal days from 10
O'Clock a. m. to O'Clock p. m from the Ist day
Of June. 1906, up to the 10th day OF September.
1906. and for ten days preceding the day set for
the closing of the books they shall be open at
hours of O'Clock and O'Clock p. m in addition
to the hours heretofore mentioned The books
will close at the hour Of O'Clock p m. the sth
day of September. 1905.
Naturalized citizens will be required to pre-
sent their natur alixation papers FOR inspection
by the Registry Agent at the time they appear
and request their names TO be registered.
G. II. PLUMMER.
Registry Agent for Piummer Precinct.
Lyon County Nevada.
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Items " Interest Clipped
from exchanges and Gca.
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A landslide caused by cloud
burst at Floriston the latter part
of last week, wrecked several hun
dred feet of S. P. track. Traffic
was delayed several hours.
Jess Roberts, an old resident of
Churchill county. committed sui
eide at Eastgate last week by
shooting himself in the head No
reason is given for the act.
Nelson and Cans have signed
an agreement to fight at Gold
field on Labor Day for a purse of
$4,000. Win or lose Nelson will
get two-thirds of the purse.
Chas. c. Boynton, of the firm of
Peck and Boynton of San Fran
cisco, is taking steps to appeal
from the decision of Judge Haw-
ley eight water cases in which
Tom Hickey is interested.
The shortage in the accounts of
Sheriff Logan, who was killed at
Manhattan last Spring, will amount
to about $4,000. The bondsmen of
the dead sheriff will be sued for
the amount of the deficiency.
While engaged in boring holes
for the steam-heating plant in the
capitol building at Carson, work
men encountered an army of bats.
The stencil arising from the bats
nearly asphyxiated the State Off
GERS.
Dan Donald, of Reno, made a
murderous attack on James Baker
Friday night of last week. Don
aid is a recent arrival from Death
Valley and the heat of that re-
gion is thought to have unbalanced
his mind.
In addition to the Nelson-Gans
card at Goldfield on Labor Day,
arrangements have been made to
pull off bullfght. Some of the
fercest bulls on Montana and Wy
oming ranges will be secured for
the event.
The body of Charles Smith was
found in a cabin back of the Mid
way mine at Tonopah last Mon
day. His head had been beaten
into an unacceptable mass. 1t
is believ ed that jealousy was the
cause of the murder.
Three convicts confined in the
State prison at Carson dug their
way to liberty Friday morning of
last week. Indian trailers were
put on the tracks and one of them,
named Vernon, was captured a
few hours later at Clear Creek,
west of Carson. Another one of
the escapes was captured Tuesday
near the Lake.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1906-08-18
State rlew$

GoldnelQ mas payIoll vi S5OO,
600 a month.
Several cases of smallpox are re.
ported at Panaca, Lincoln county.
Carson people will hold race
meeting at that place some time in
October.
A rich gold strike has been
made in Washoe county, near the
Oregon line.
Several Mexican pocket hunt
ers are looking for gold in the
Pinenut hills.
Justus Greedy, of California, is
under arrest at Sparks for passing
a forged check.
The Commissioners of Nye
county have ordered an official
survey of Tonopah.
A freight car loaded with four
teen safes was destroyed by fire
Saturday of last week.
The State Board of Pardons is
in session and grinding out par
dons by the wholesale.
A request has been made for 500
seats for women to witness the
coming fight at Goldfeld.
During a storm last week light
ming struck a house in Washoe
Valley. No fatalities occurred.
A haystack on the experimental
farm at the State University was
DESTROYED by fire last Thursday.
G. A. Hammond, government
official, is examining the damsites
at the headwaters of the Carson
River.
A goat farm is to be started near
Reno by a California man. The
milk is to be used for infants and
invalids.
The spur road being built from
Hazen to Fallon by Southern Pa
cifc people will be completed in
few weeks.
Mining News is the name of a
neat four-page paper published
at Wonder, a new mining camp in
Churchill county.
The employees of the Tonopah
and Goldfied railroad have had an
increase of 20 and IS per cent.
made in their wages.
Judge Brown, of Elko, recently
decided that sheep inspector had
no right to dip sheep that were
not infected with scab.
Hailstones the size of pigeon
eggs fell in Carson Valley last
week. The damage to growing
crops will be considerable.
The will of the late Theodore
Winters will be contested by two
of his children, who were cut off
from a share of the estate.
The Southern Pacific is having
some trouble in securing posses
sion of water rights at Inlay, the
proposed new division point.
N. P. Nelson was stabbed in the
side several times at Palisade Fri
day of last week by man named
Matson, and will probably die.
]. c. Kennedy, deputy U. S.
mineral surveyor, nearly lost his
life by drinking water from Stove
pipe Spring, Nye county, Friday
of last week.
|. w. Huffaker, an engineer on
the canal system in Churchill
county, while in swimming, was
drowuad near Ealiou Thursday
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-08
AUSTRALIAN CHAMPION
LOOKING FOR A MATCH

Special Dispatch 10 The Star.
SAN FRANCISCO April 7.-Charlas Grit
fin, featherweight champion of Australia.
is the latest arrival from the Antipodes who
is looking for a match with some of the
American boys
Griffin is q Notwithstanding youth and
says that he Is here to do business with
any man his weight The lad halls from
Duneden, New Zealand, and is considered
the best .featherweight the Antpodes has
produced for some time.
The New Zealander cares little for the re-
finements of the game He believes in a
hurry-up finish and is willing to swap
punches with any boy his weight.
The newcomer has only been fighting
eighteen months and In that time has
fought his way up to the championship.
He Is a quick. nervous-Iooking little chap,
well built. and a lad who appears thorough
ly able to take care of himself in a mix-up.
His first fight of note was with Finlay
whom he beat in two rounds. Next he dis
posed OF Seaman In two rounds. Griffin
beat Talefr In a round. Duggan succumbed
to Gritiins hard punches in eight rounds
After beating Duggan Griffin metand dis
posed of COnroy in two and one half
rounds. The New Zealander's two best
fights were with Clark. whom he defeated
twice. the first time in six and the last
time In eight. -
Griain won the featherweight champion
ship from Tom Jones. whom he defeated IN
a few rounds
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Jump into the slldes ana go. tearing. slam
banging down. into tina mad whtrtpools Al
the foot of the boiling cascades. Gown they
come. fifty q hundred. two hundred at q
sciip-huge logs so immense that dozen
men could not lift one. all lifted and tossed
like feathers by the water that slides down
ward so silently and smoothly
..Sacre. Sacre," That was what we heard
one morning at the head of gigantic
log-slide when a drive was coming down
"Sacre. Bheeng de punt queeck. Breeng de
punt
A twenty-foot log with great lumber
man on il was floating fast toward the
slide The man had stepped on 1t to push
1t along into place and 1t had gotten be-
You'd his control IN the grip of the wicked
current Swiftly 1t moved. and long before
the punt made It's clumsy way to the head
of the slide the log was swinging into that
great green head of water.
When the lumber jack saw that he was
doomed to take plunge he turned SIDE
ways Oh the timber and began to roll 1t
swiftly with his feet, very much the way
a CIRCUS performer twitls sphere when he
is standing on it and walking" it around
the ring. Only this log whirled twenty
times as. fast as any circus man ever
whirIed his apparatus. 1t was spun so
swiftly that when it's enc end ar last dipped
in the water as ii starred down the slide
the eye could not see 1t whirl at all.
The lunberman had worked his way well
back toward the after end of the log by
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ATHLETES FROM AUSTRALIA
MAY COME TO AMERICA
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
SAN FRANCISCO, April 7.-Severai
notable athletes of the antipodes are said
to be considering trip to the United States
with a view OF meeting the foremost pro-
fessienals and amateurs Of this country
Inquiries have been made recently by Will
liam Chemslow, an all-round athlete of
Sydney. New South Wales. as to when the
outdoor season opens here and what chance
there would be for an International contest
should a team of athletes visit this country.
In a fourishing condition in the antipodes
and there are several all-round men there
who would be able, he believes to compete
successfully against the athletes OF any
other country.
It Is considered more than a possibility
that a strong team OF Australian athletes
will make tour OF this country IN the
neGI future.
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RIDING THE FORESTS
TO THE SAWMILLS

its silence. Everywhere. far and near, Is
strange murmuring. The ice is breaking up
and moving to the urging of the southerly
wind. Now a thin sheet near shore rips
apart with a silvery crescendo Now a
deep chorus of bass growls thunderousiy
aiar in the night where the thick foes are
breaking like grinding ships Shiverins
sighs seem to WAIVER everywhere in the air.
Gritting and grating and tinkling and snap
ping and booriiiIig-the ice is going out
At last the steady will of the soft wind
prevails and the shove is on Ghost
like the white ice flimIners over all its ex-
panse, thrills waivers nlovesi First 1t
creeps with motion slow that the eve
can scarcely see 1t go. Then IL glides All
at once il runs. Before the next night 1t
is piling itself up on the leeward shore aud
trees and even points of land are being
sheared away as clean as lawn mower
shears a velvet terrace.
Hardly does the black water show be-
fore the lumbermen in the middle of the
bobbing drives of logs with pike poles and
hob-naiied boots, two hundred-pound cats,
Gaping from log to log and riding the
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SNIAIl RAT CONG Nth TIE n>hD

Soiut5 fol "a hundred square miles around
him. The Iumberman has been there ana
has ridden the trees down cataract ana
rlveIzto the land of towns and sawmills.
The ride of RuStum Begh was Il canter
compared To this roaring ride that sweeps
headlOng through the wilderness eacH
srriug-the ride wherein the horses are
trees that crash over and at each other ana
leap as never horse ridden of man could
leap Driven by the spring floods they ca
,ecr southwark. diving headlong down me
wicked green of waterfalls whose shouting
.t-r-ouuds the shouting even of the mighty
.mb-rmru and whose embarrassed might
losses 70 whole Topped forest into the river
below aS If each vast tree were chip and
r..4 tweuJy-fool log were "a wisp OF straw
-a straight north from Toronto 3on miles
and u an that Journey YOU Will be going
rHrouE4 Il land Of big and little waters.
...r. Is hardly a height from which the
r.. viii not Ice greeted by the sheen of
l.I,. or thc silver flashes Of running river
There are lakes north. east. south and west
There are rivers and brooks and creeks in
every bottom. There are lakes large enough
ta toss a steamer in the angers that
come on them as suddenly as pretty
women moods. There are lakes that are
hardly mofe than ponds Each is set IN
Pho or balsam or birchen frames And
coaxing north, the waters Iun toward him.
Sometimes the rivers turn east or west for
Il space; but ever they seek the south
Gut the traveller finds himself AT last
somewhere about latitude 81 north on high
places And one day. from the peak of
one of the mountains he looks forth on an
other land of many waters where the
streams are all rolling to the north. That
is the watershed Of eastern Canada At his
feet is the dividing crest The rivers that
run north are going to Hudsou's bay.
Now he is at the northern limit of the
grounds Of the wild riders. They can wrest
whole forests from the earth and drive
them a hundred leagues. but they can
only drive them down Aill Where the
waters cease TO turn south, they must halt,
too.
All through the winter they had Gu;
trees and piled the logs ready for the rid
Ing Sometimes they pile them on great
sllds ON the banks of the lake or river,
Cauted So that they viii all topple headlong
wien a. key log Is knocked away. AT other.
time. they may be piled bodily on the
frozen water $50 that they viii be ready
r. float away when the ice breaks.
There comes u night when the wind is
soft tl tae cheek and the dusky light in the
west By more @yaucsceut and tender than
tat s-IegdiI UUsks Of the bright northern
W.afa There is d suuudless stir in the
forests. and over the broad waters. The
l-.. herman. expanding his wide chest, says
t.af ; change is coming. \ poet would say
tau. Faa is wandering through the woods
H. .leal ami ready still.
T.a. night tie primeval world casts of
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on THE MAY TO TIE Mill


whirling trunks of trees as if they We're
saddled mares broken to sultan's lady
Iii Oh dem all up togeder roUsan' horse crazy
Scarce dem VIII onder an lightning an dent
As log runnin' down De rapide. after de boom
See dem mex lay on de basin. YOU link dey was
Cut Wiz de 'I sword an bullet lynn along de
You pity de deg I'm sure an say twas
But man goln' i'roo de same thing, you'd pity
dat more
songs Of Johnny Corteau.
Oh. The wild ride! Oh. the fight through
the lone places Duck and heron rise In
terror and fly TO the marshes. The anuered
kings with palpitating hearts flee TO the
darkest lairs from the rushing troop. Trees
leapiBg bodily through the air as they take
the plunge down cascade and iog-Sllde,
turning over and over as they drive into
the White-lipDed pools. diving deep into the
CLASSY black swirls-so they career south
ward. now crowding together like heroet
bulls now floating wide apart till they fill
a whole lake with their shining round
backs.
= y
one hundred thousand logs in single
drive still Is no rare thing. once, when the
woods stood thick as grass in Canada's
country. a drive might number 10000 or
100000 logs; and in those old drives were
such woods as white and red pine huge
cedars and other trees that are precious
woods now, because they have all gone.
Still, the stranger in the lumber country
If he come from the older lands where the
woods have long since vanished, is amazed
at the prodigality of the people
II he takes a river or lake steamer and
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elect. Take Buffalo and the decisions rem
dered there. No one In particular remarks
that they were wrong. but when changes
were made at Detroit. they were neces-
sariiy wrong Mr.. Warner. who put q
pointer bitch over Coronation. Is being
specially scored. There are far too many
dogs winning here very much on the plan
of some classes at our horse shows. so per
cent for horse and so per cent for appoint
ments. In the dog case II Is 80 per cent
dog and 50 per cent foreign halo. In plenty
of peoples opinions MI. Warner has gone
up into higher class on account OF his
In voicing his own opinion
That Is just what we want In judges. but
what we do not get in many cases. and the
result Is a follow my-leader series of prizes
to dogs which not worthy OF their posi-
tons. OF the merits of Mr.. Warmers de-
cisions only those at the show have any
right to express an opinion.
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II it is a raft tow. the fire may remain ap-
parently in one spot through hours. for
when whole forest has been converted
Into floating island it is not easy to move.
The great RATS go not foot by foot. but
inch by inch. Often man lying in a
lonely camp will drop off to sleep with the
fiery hing of the boat shining IN his
eyes and when he awakes the next morn
ing, the raft will he almost in the same
position, ard through the .unstirrtng air
there will come to his ears the French
Canadians:
"A rouant m2 boulant roulant, roulant
ma boulant
On one end of these vast RATS Is great
platform with stablinS fer horses and huge
windlasses When the logs reach a big
AXE the Iumbernen row ahead, their punt
piled high with mighty hawser and a two
ton anchor. Having carried 1t as far as
they can they drop it and the horses are
set to work to wind the rope in, while an
other crew of lumbermen goes out with
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This year seems to be prolific of dtstem-
per and more exhibitors took the disease
home from the New York show than at any
exhibition held at Madison Square Garden for
many years. Not one word can be said
against the veterinary inspection, which Is
the strictest of any show in the country.
so it is very puzzling to know how so much
infection was brought from there, when no
dog gave any evidence of it. There IS more
to learn about this disease than is to be
found In the text books, and Ii Is TO be
hoped that the rumor of the mtcrobe haN-
ing been discovered by a French scientist
Is correct. We may look for some remedy
II such Is the case.
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VHE baisam is strong now In the
north. Foaming waters are be-
ginning to run. Spring is break
u ing winter across his sinewy
young knees up there.
Where the moose and the caribou stalk.
thluned TO the bone, with their winter coats
hanging in ragged patches from TANKS and
runps. the toughest, widest, most skillful
and daring of civilized men are their
way now. bound southwark on the most
splendid voyage that is left in the tanned
world.
They are the lumbermen of Canada-the
last strong adventures of the north; and
in a Few years they. too will have ragged
themselves out and passed into history, for
they stamp The forest from the face of the
earth where they draw their trails.
Already the explore who goes even as
fdr as 2Oo miles north from Toronto will
paddle through mile on mile of stumps.
Iough he may lie in solitude that is alb
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looks down into the stoke hold, he win see
great piles OF wood slabs being hurled into
the furnace by the cord. 1t makes pretty
sight at night. Far AWAY In the intense
unpierceabie blackness of the tree-fsame ed
waters. suddenly scouting of fire sprays
to the sky That Is a lake steamer or a
raft tug. sparkling with her roaring wood
fire.
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| second aueaor and drops it ahead of the
,rI,,,- ll, 80. 90 f,,1 .,,,i -,7,,,,ole,t f-,e.h
., - - -, - -; IL -, ~, i,.-,s,j
tAeA- IS they WORK piaclaty Gown tile p[ ,..tt
The Whita tenfs Of RE mon elpa11i.i, On
them.
x
But there are great winds in those places.
ard tbay strike nm their times most mex
.,l, -r, - = ..,-a .t a., ,,,,1
~ " "
TOE Suuf 1ie' Johnny INTO tiie VIVA ana Sc
leei' For, though the wind may scarcely
move the raft AT first when she does begin
. ~ - g. .,;- s -, ~.
49, -, -" 80 - =, 80 80
, T,, - tt, -, - = 80. -. -, itf ~,
~, tba lee el.,.a H., llat9s '-''>' o
Tfan # - Ia - aan,,r.r az, o ,,,i,,4,-,,.l
sIot,tire of MANI mon tho cIanlyiDg 90 c,r,4
hooks ana pike poles and the grinding OF,
great timber; and in the morning he will
mo d quarter OF ihie OF water on us
T.Fo' ~ i'Ia,!Is $3.50 - ~
drive to The trees along shore 10 sa,.n II
from going 70 wreck nm The onDosttn si,le
II was on such a night thar ola FreoZ,.
Dovey's towhoat was blown over under-
meath him while his haors broke ana Lot
his Wild drive career IA To su,ar,, Ia,,5s
before . hlacL so1,aII. and-ae No CIR, fd.oJ
The side Of Mis- singing rraft he sgno the
song that is famous still in the norm:
'N''7 '''' It" -''' "'''' ~ 'iiN ii'i III
Blow, ye gales! Blow, ye winds! Blow the
Va MOI Nm Sn'pg ui n ,, ,,,,. ,. ,.,, 49,.
We eau Elyv me '' NV" my '''"'' Ou'
' DO rt5,,,
ne real version isn't quite as polite as
TINS ne lumpermen OF canada are the
most mos Ii,iishea sweaters IN the WEoie world
civilized ana uncivilzed' not excepting even
the tayuen boatmen-and they make
strangers blood run cold though he can
understand only about half their lingo.
Tough as original sin with all tho modern
improvements, rough as the logs that they
the n,oosa ap,nbihIo,s a . H. n+t1a,4
brave as wild bulls are these lumber iackst
and when thew hit a town viii tbatr AL
that town bumbIv ducks rs be.,d ana los
them have the whole ar il III the, oct
throupb nla,-iny nth :, 49, eS -
Ihey walk and run along bobbins logs
ovsr icy water 2J8 feet deep as lightly ana
carelessIy as a dand, p,incas aJ,,n. d, -,
avepua TIC, 1T, - :. 49, 20 -
avenue ihey cIlmb under mad torrent
where a thousand logs are jammed pell nell
III pie twenty feet high with fifty thou
sahd monsters wrestling down ca top of
tncn IN the upper river, and there, whis-
tIlhs ana singing ribald songs in line very
race OF a fearful DEATH they puck at the
mass with pike poles and axes &c pull out
the key logs whose Ioosening will bring the
whole brutal mass down on them vita a
roar.
start to run. SothTp a 70 come the do tneg
skiil. strength and agility can save them
lloIh peihg crushed Again and again
that he si1as .'s s,, naii pTeadth OF margin
has passed over the whirlnool there is NO
such thing left as the great creature that
was he few moments before His body
has vanished into something as imDa Ina HE
as his soul But at the next lam a dozen
others will respond to the cry of the fore