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Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-08-17
FORTY YEARS
AGO TODAY

The Appeal of August II, 1869, de
scribes the antics Of a one armed man
named Col WestmOreland, who was
a sort OF Il dead beat and made a
specially of persons who couldn't be
beaten.
Amicus has another letter in which
he compliments state Printer Nigh
els and Lieutenant Governor Slim
gerland.
The eclipse of the sun is criticised
as an affair that did not come up to
the advertising announcements. The
lowing herds did not come home. the
chickens did not 90 to rOOst and the
eclipse was not at all what it was
hoped to be.
A half column is used to define the
word 'coOlie" and the definition is
not plain when the article is finished.
Senator Nye's speech is reported in
synopsis. c. n. NOteware presided at
the meeting and the address seems to
have been a more or less laudatOry
recital of the dOings of the G. o. P.
A messenger boy In Gold Hill was
robbed by foot pads OF $21.
Alexander SmIIn and Brigham
Young We're having an oratorical tus-
sic in Salt Lake.
The plan of NJ Ferdinand de Les
seps, to fill the Sahara desert with
water and create an inland sea. was
announced.
A boy climbed into an apple tree
after dark and hOoted like an owl
doing the job so we'll that his father
ran out with a shot gun and "gOt
him.
Another boy, whose name is not
given. fell Off the new Fox building
| onto a pile of lumber. He was bruis-
ed a bit but ran home
A five line item says: THE Nevala
Methodist Conference will meet at
WashOe tomorrow. Bishop Kingsley
will preside. The conference includ.
es, besides this state, a number OF
counties in California" (The confer
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-08-17
KILLS ROOTER
WITH A BAT

RENO, Aug. 17.-News came to
Reno yesterday by telephone from
Beckwiti of a tragedy growing out of
a Sunday baseball game in which
. gorge King. a buckaroo rooter at the
game and an employe of the Sparks
Humphrey Meat company was struck
over the head with baseball bat by
J. c. James OF Loyalton, and was so
badly hurt that he died yesterday.
James is held awaiting the result of
the coroner's inquest. which will be
held today.
The details, which are meagre. in
dicate that during the Loyalton-
Beckwith game Sunday. James was
roofing for Loyalton. and King for
the Beckwith nine. when they be-
came involved in an alteration that
resulted in free fight. in which clubs
were used as weapons.
King was felled to the ground with
his head crushed in and died Monday
morning at IL o'clock.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-08-17
CAN'T LET THE
CONTRACTS

An application for temporary re-
straining order was granted yester-
day by the supreme court to prevent
the Lyon county commissioners from
granting contract for construction
of a new court house.
Since the destruction OF the court
house at Dayton by fire, a hot fight
has been waged by YeringtOn and
Dayton for possession of the county
seat. A suit in mandamus is now in
the supreme court for decision. on
prayer to compel the county com.
missioners to hold a special election
to remove the county seat
Yesterday was the day set to open
bids. it is understood, for the con-
structiOn of the new court house at
Dayton. Attorneys for the Yering-
ton interests hurried to Carson and
secured the temporary restraining or
der and then started back TO Dayton.
The attorneys were in an auto which
broke down and the two attorneys
hiked into Dayton. arriving in time to
serve the order of the court on the
commissioners and stop proceedings
toward letting the contract. The
September I.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-08-17
FEAR RIOTS At ELECTION

NEW ORLEANS. Aug. 17.-Accord-
ing to reports received here. serious
riots and a possible revolution may
result from today's Presidential elec-
ton in Costa Rica. There is a fierce
rivalry between the two parties. Pres
ident Iglesia. of the Republican or
Government party, is seeking re-elec-
ton. and is opposed by the Democrats
headed by Congressman Jiminez. The
latter is alleged to be the candidate OF
President Zelaya of Nicaragua and is
reported that he has received arms
and ammunition to start a revolution
in case the appeal to the ballot box
fall
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-08-17
ORMSBY'SORES
GO FOR WARD

Ormsby county's exhibit for the
mining congress at Goldfeld will &c
forward tonight. thanks to the energy
of State Mining Inspector Stuart.
He has been working over week
getting things ready and securing the
county for the different exhibits he
wants. Owners of fine specimens
have loaned their samples and with
the historical data and affects he
will ship tonight Ormsby county VIII
have one of the best exhibits at the
congress.
Out of compliment to tae capital
county of the state Ormsby has been
granted space where its exhibit
will not be combined with that of any
other county, which will help some.
Stuart has gathered samples OF the
glass sands of this county. of the por-
cclain clays, carbonate of lime and
product of u combination oi lime and
silica He also has a manufactured
SILICA to show.
Sollenbergs mines have complete
line of samples as has the Bruins
wick Consolidated. The exhibit in
cmdes samples of graphite. the pig
ments. from which are made the
mineral paints sold N car load lots
from this county, gypsum samples,
crude, crystalized and manufactured
products from the Regan works. gyp-
sum samples from the Adams works.
matrix of ruby crystals, lapis lazrli.
fine sample of travertine. loaned by
Mayor Van Etten. fire clays from the
Brunswick Con. properties. kaolln'
iron and copper ore from the Bruins
wick, berium. hematite. bi-sulphide
of iron. gold and copper ore, photos
of tae mills along the Carson river
as they appeared in the SOS, maps.
one showing the old Treasure City
district in White Pine county, rec
ords of the productions and tonnages.
mineral soaps, the pestle that Mark
Twain used to pound out his samples
with at Aurora. and many other sam
pies that will, when arranged and
classified, show that 'ittle old Orms-
by county contains nearly every
known mineral ut some point within
her borders. Stuart has Guy Guinan
helping box the samples and Com
missioner Et Yerington is classifying
and gathering in many valuable piec-
es as the work goes on. II is hoped
to ship the whole 900 pounds tonight.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-08-17
HUGE PROJECT
NEARDAYTON

A huge piece of construction work
is reported as under process of prep
aration by the U. S. Reclamation en-
gineers for Sutro Flat, east of Day
! ton.
The engineers in charge of the pro
| ject in Churchill county have begun
to realize that they must have more
ample supply of irrigation water and
that their reservoirs are not large
enough
The present reservoir in the Car
son river takes the inflow from the
Truckee river and the Carson river at
a point few miles above RagtOwn
but this reservoir. huge as it is. does
not begin to handle the winter and
spring run off of flood waters. all Of
which will be needed when the 2O0,~
600 acres under the project are under
cultivation
The engineers have therefore re-
served from entry the public lands in
Sutro Flat and will throw big dam
across the outlet of the fiat near the
river and fill the valley with water
A canal to carry the flood waters of
the Carson river will be constructed,
to head near Dayton, and to be large
enough to take practically all the
flood waters of the river. To do this
the project will of necessity be enor-
will be employed on it for many
weeks
1t is believed that this reservoir
will forever assure the lands below of
ample water for irrigation as the an
nual flood run off Of the Carson river
is almost as great as that of the
Walker river. one of the highest tor
rental streams in the Sierras.
The creation Of such a large lake
in the desert between Dayton ar
Ramsey will have a good effect on the |
lands that surround it. to say moth |
ing OF the lands along the canal. the !
good that will result from the pre-
ventiOn of annual floods in Carson |
river valley itself and the economic !
use of the millions of cubic feet of !
water that now go to waste every
winter and spring.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-08-17
WANT TO STOP
THECHILDREN

/ SEATTLE, Wash, Aug. 1.-THE
4, citation congress on the Indiana plan
for preventing the propagation OF
criminals and idiots, developed an al
! most unanimous sentiment in favor OF
| the plan, and was. according to Pres
ident J. T. GilmOur of Toronto, Can
ada the most profitable discussion the
association has held in years.
During the discussions one deie-
gate moved to terminate the discus
sion as there were many women pres
ent. The women at once rose and
entered the debate and ran it into the
ground before the men folks could get
in a word edge ways.
The feature of last nights session
was the report of the committee on
prevention and probation, presented
by Judge Ben Lindsey. or the Denver
Juvenile court, who said in part:
Our criminal law as it came
down to us through feudalism. tainted
with its extreme respect for property
that only eQualled its corresponding
disrespect for human life and feeling,
was an instrumentality OF government
far from perfect. even for the pur-
poses for which it was intended Ad-
mitting that it was necessary and
justitiable as a system in that period
OF social deVelOpment-aS we must
yet we must equally admit it must do
more harm than good so long as it
rests alone on force, violence, ven-
geance and punishment.
The time may come however. far
in the future it may be. or how un-
prepared We may be for it now. when
the state will come to deal with
criminal much as We do now with the
insane.
But this treatment of the criminal
will be as unlike the extreme meth
ods in vogue, in stripes, iron cells and
other reminders of depreciation, as it
is in the treatment of the insane.
who, wv 49, "o0tury, We're as com
pletely brutalized and degraded as
are now
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-08-17
COMM MERCiAL LAWS

DETROIT. Aug. IA meeting of
the committee on commercial laws
of the American Bar Association was
convened in Detroit today and will be
continued tomorrow. 1t will be fol-
lowed by four day session of the
commission on uniform State laws
At the latter conference the uniform
bill of lading will be one OF the mat
ters discussed
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-08-17
REPUBLICAN PRIMARY

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. l7,-Re.
publican candidates for city Offices
will be named In today's primary In
San Francisco. II is taought the
mayoralty nomination will go to Will
liam Crockcr, a retired lumber dealer,
who has received the endorsement of
the committee of twenty five of the
citizens committee.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-08-17
WE DENY THE
WHISPERS

w Il AAOA AAlA NJ
| About hree years ago this month
we invited a friend of former days
| to come here and make a short visit,
| go fishing and get next to this part
| of the country. he being unsophis
| ticated and a'that.
He came. He saw ;tn there was
| to see here and got acquainted wich
| some fine folks and he haO a fine
| fishing trip. the finest he ever had. he
| says so himself.
Since then ne has graduated from
| the sporting editors desk on the Los
Angeles American to the sporting
editors desk on the -,ew York Am
erican and has a department of his
own and a column he calls Under
the Old Straw Hat" When it rains
he calls the column by another name
that fits the weather all right.
Following is his latest effusion
Under the Old Straw Hat" talking
fight
BY c. E. VAN LOAN
The public note has shifted a few
keys.
Last week it was ''if the fight
Now ii is when they fight
The carson City affair still stands
IL 10 oh,
tie of the generation. The coming
fight between the best black man of
his race and the greatest white fight
er that ever laced a iOw-necked ring
shoe will eclipse the Carson City af-
fair in point of interest
Carson City was a lemon. financial
ly speaking. 1t was too far away
from anywhere. Carson City is a
small brick town. huddled in the only |
fertile valley in a days travel Every |
other man in Carson City wears |
whiskers foot long. and is either Q |
former Governor. Senator or Con-
gressman. Nearly all of them are |
now milliOnaires of the Nevada va
riety. The first thing that every
visitor to the town wishes 10 see is
the site of the COrbett- -Fitzsimmons-
finish battle Aged inhabitants
take these trusting tourists by the
hand and march them ont a few
blocks to the race track where they
are shown a field of grain
Right over yonder." says the
guide. They amt no ring any more:
1t was sold for firewOod'
Then the oldest inhabtant will sit
down and tell about the great time,
twelve years ago when the town was
flied with strangers for he first time
in its history. and all the prominent
sporting men of the world met on III,
board sidewalks and drinks flowed
like water. The oldest inhabitant is
always comfortably potted. This is
have custom waich dates back to
the first territorial Legislature. The
first customer of the day is entitled
to a free drink on the house. The
oldest nhabtant is always the first
customer. and as there are about for
ty saloons in Carson City he man
ages to exist in beautiful state of
irrigation. The oldest inhabitant is
the best irrigated bit of scenery in
the whole State of Nevada
The camp followers WHO manage to
see every great light without the for
maiity of purchasing "ducket," had
a hard time getting to Carson City.
The Nevada town was as inaccessible
as the walled city of Lhassa. Of LAS
sa is not walled. it should be- One
eyed Connolly was one OF the few
who made the trip. The San Fran
cisco mOOchers suffered keenly
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-08-17
PIONEER CASE STILL ON

Arguments proceeded In the federal
court today in tae matter of the con-
test in titles to rioneer mining ground
interest to transfer from state to fed
eral courts. Oscar J. Smith of Reno
is interested.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-08-17
RELIEF CORPS MEETING

All members of the Women's Relief
Corps are requested to attend a meet
ing of the corps to be held Tuesday
evening. at which some important
matters to the corps will come up.
by order OF the President.
NETTIE NJ. QUILL,
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-08-17
KINGS DAUGHTERS TO MEET

Kings Daughters will meet We'd
nesday evening at 1880 at the home
Of Mrs. Huffaker and full attend
ancc of members Is desired
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-08-17
MASONS ATTENTION

q A stated communica-
" tion OF Carson Lodge
NGrM ~ No. |. +. 4 A. NJ.
YslIG% will be held Thurs
F>%/N day evening at 1880
o'clock. All members
are expected and sojourners are In.
vited to be present
by order Of the w. NJ.
=. u. VANDERI.IETH. Secty
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-08-17
TENNIS GAMES
BEGIN TODAY

NEWPORT, Aug 17-One of the
greatest events of the Newport sea-
son had its inaugural today with the
beginning of the play In the annual
national championship tournament of
the United States National Lawn
Tennis Association. The principal
matches of the week will be the de-
Tense of the doubles championship
now held by Frederick B. Alexander
and Harold H. Hackett and of the sin
giles title now held by William A.
Larned. The national interscholastic
championship, which will be played
Thursday, has also attracted much at
tention.
championship matches will be
the best three in five advantage sets.
In the double and single champion
ships, first, second and consolation
prizes will be given; in the inter-
scholastic a fine prize will be given
The consultations are open to all play
ers in the first match actually played.
Matches will be the best two in three
advantage sets.
The most formidable challengers
are Mclaughlin and Jones. of Cali
fornia who started east from San
Francisco two months ago, playing
every team between the Pacific coast
and here. They have been defeated
but once, in a practice game at White
Plains, N. Y. with the champions.
6-1, 6-3.
Morris Mclaughlin is the Nc
Laughlin mentioned and was born in
this city,
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-08-17

handicap was run off this afternoon.
ence is to meet a week from We'd
nesday in this city,
Charles Martin resigned as super
intendent of schools and the county
commissioners appointed r. R. Par
kinson to the place.
The ladies of the Presbyterian
church gave an ice cream social
Forest and brush fires filled the
sky with smoke. which became so
thick here that it incOnvenienced
everyone.
A tree fell on Chinaman in Genoa
and killed him. Two dozen of his
mates who had been sent to Genoa
to cut wood under contract quit i'm
mediately and came here looking for
work.
Supreme court handed down a lot
of decisions and recessed until the
23d.
President Grant declared that Tex
as could not be reinStated until it ell
ected state officials who could take
the test oath. and elected a legisla-
ture that would ratify the fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments.
Castle Garden. New York. received
24200 more immigrants than during
the same period in 1868.
The Pullman company reported that
it was operating 147 cars On western
railroads.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-08-17

The Loveiock baseball team has
defeats.
A number of Carson City sports
men went down to Reno this morn
ing to take in the opening day of the
race meeting. The Riverside Hotel
handicap was run off this afternoon.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18
A Realistic Actor

Malcolm was three years old. He
stood stock still in the middle of the
floor, one arm extended horizontally.
His mother. looking up from her sew
ing. saw the door open.
"Shut the door. Malcolm. please" she
said.
No response. She reprited her re-
quest. Still no response.
Malcolm" she said more stcrnly. II
asked you to shut the docr."
Still Malcolm stood in the middle OF
the floor with his arm outstretched
and did not move.
"Alalcolm." said his mother. "if yor
don't shut the door Mt once shal
have to punish you"
Malcolm burst into tears and flung
himself on his mothers knees. "AIuv
ver," lie cried, II was bein' II yooder
sign. an wooden signs can't shu
doorsw-Woman's Home Companion.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18
MAKING BETTER ROADS,

Williamsburg Journal-Tribune: Las
Friday the automobile owners of the
town did commendable act when
they gathered up three car loads Of
men and made an attack on the
"chuck holes" that lined the roads
leading out of town. There were mer-
chants, bankers, grain men and one
travelling salesman, Frenchman
named Boyle from Cedar Rapids. Ton
Jordan went along to show the
boys which end of the shovel tor spad
to use and the way the dirt flew was
surprising the wonderful. Svera,
miles of road were looked after and
scores of chuck holes were leveled
up, thus insuring smooth and uni
form roads. Another trip will be made
next week and the volunteers'in the
cause of god roads have already earn
ed the thanks of the travelling pub
lie.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18
A CALL TO The WEST.

Governor Johnson of Minnesota in
his recent Seattle speech said in
part:
st is time that the West threw off
the shackles of the East. l would
preach no sectional divisions and
no sectional strifes, but Minnesota
and Washington and the States be-
tween them, with those to the south
of us, should rise in their might and
claim for themselves that fair share
of influence in the halls of Congress
and in the administration of national
affairs to which they are entitled by
every law of common sense, as well
as of political economy.
eve, as an integral part of the
llAmerican people, should cast our in
fluence and our votes, not only tt
advance the material interests of oul
own particular section, but we should
be broad enough and big enough tt
labor for common good of our com
mon country. We have in the States
west of the Mississippi the undoubtet
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18
Immune Fron, Arrsx.

In Washington, III the c:.!:i.a! of the
nation, there reside 200 men who. With
their households. have absolute immu
nifty from the laws of the land. even
though they commit crimes of the first
degree. They may shoot down the
man who Injuries them; they may. If
they see fit. paint the equestrian statue
of General Phil Sheridana vivid pea
green, yet the hands of Unce Sam
must be kept from their shoulders. and
woe unto the unterritied policeman or
other servant of the law who under
takes to bring them to justice once
they have declared their official con-
nections. These men who are so cloth.
ed in immunity are the members of
the diplomatic corps, and their shield
is international law. 1t is provided IL
the laws of nations that they must
answer before the tribunals of theil
own countries for the offenses they
commit here in Washington. but that
they shall not be tried by any court OF
the United States.-Washingto Star.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18
erecian Food For preamers.

Hasheesh. the strange drug which
has given our language its word ''as-
sassin"-a man so frenzied by the drug
that lie accomp!islcs murGrr-is used
by the Persians. Turks and Egyptians
in Il manner akin to the use of opium
by the Chinese. 1t is the product of u
plant grown in large quantities in the
Peloponnesus tsouthcrn Greece in tht
district about Tripolitza. TIE plant
grows to Il height of about four feet
and its branches are tilirkly covered
with small leaves aGd stii,,dcd with
tiny seeds. The entire pil:; stalk ana
branches. is cut within few inches %!
the root and laid on, il uv SUI. 10 dry
The branches are then rl;l,li.tl Ia Sp;rl
rate the seeds. and thpS" III turn ;ir,
ground into Il fine powder which ,ctu
stitutos the drug The ..ii;. las tne
power of irdu''ing sleep ard ;.-t,,urin:
pleasant and fantastic d:t:lms Con
tinucd use of haSheeSh renders ii.
devotees reckless aud r: suits in /;
wreck nf their mental ard l,hNsicn
constitution Montreal Standard
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18
TOMORROW AND TODAY.
Tomorrow is a bully day on whi
f1. 4 lr,,.

Tomorrow is bully day on which
to nov the lawn;
To get the baby's buggy Dat and
have new wheels put on;
To clean the dirty furnace room and
fix the pump which leaks;
To rid the doors about the house OF
irritating speaks.
To change the furniture about with
groans and weariness;
To take the children to the park and
grant their every wish,
But today's the day of all the days
on Which 70 60 and fish.
Tomorrow is a splendid day to pay g
little BILL
To get haircut or shine or take
liver pill;
To read good improving book OF
square your tax account
Or head Ii big subscription list and
give a snug amount.
While having molars cobbled up dow
in a dentists chair;
To buy ton of china or a carpet
for the hall.
But today's the day of all the days
to see game of ball
Peoria Herald-Transcript.