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Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-01-14
ElLERS MUSIC CO.-One ri:
UNKNOWN OWNER-N.h of N.
- 100000
$12.07

You are hereby notified that the
tax upon your property for the year
1908 is now delinquent, and you are
further notified that unless said taxes
are paid on or before the third Mon
day in January, 1909, to Wit: Janu-
airy is, 1909, your property Will be
sold at the Court House door, in Car
son City, Ormsby County, State of
Nevada, at . o'clock p. M. of said day.
to pay said axe together with 10
per cent delinquency, and ;he cost Of
advertising, and you are further mott
fled that such sale will be subject to
redemption within six months after
the date of sale by payment of all
said sums together with > per cent
per month thereon from the date of
sale until paid. f. O. PATTERSON,
County Treasurer and eX OfficiO Tax
Receiver Of Ormsby County, Ne
Vada.
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- a. 1tlIN 20 '
And in accordance with law and an
order of the Board of Directors made
OH the 9Th day of October 1905, sc
many shares of each parcel OF such
stock as may be necessary Will be
sold at public auction at the Principal
Office of the Company. No. ll6 \.
Carson Street. Carson Ci;y, Nevada,
ON SATURDAY, the 18th day OF De
cemb1r. 1905. at the hOur of two
O'Clock =. NJ. of SAID day. TO pay SAN
delinquent assessment thereon, to-
gethcr with the costs of advertising
nd expenses of the ale
w. l.. PAULSON, Secretary.
iii Merchants Elk. Bid.
San Francisco, Ca!
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-01-14

Your attention is called to the following extract fror
vada Statutes:
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-01-14
DELINQUENT TAX LIST

To the following named persons and
all owners or claimants to the person
improvements thereon, Or improve
N when assessed separately, here
matter described known or unknown
described property:
Delinquent list OF persons and prop
erty owing taxes to the County Of
Ormsby, State of Nevada, on the first
Monday of December A. d., 1908:
WHITAKER, O. R.-The Ne of 81,
II, PearsOn'S and Green's Division.
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German Scientific Forestry

The German empire has nearly 3d.
000, 900 acres of forest. of which 81 9
per cent belongs to the state. German
forestry is remarkable in three ways
it has always led in scientific thorough
ness and now 1T is working out results
with an exactness almost equal to that
of the laboratory; it has applied this
scientific knowledge with the greatest
technical success: and it has solved the
problem of securing through a long Sc
ries of years an increasing forest out
put and increasing profits at the same
time.
What has been the result of the prac-
tice of forestry in Germany? Startinx
with forests which were in as bad shane
as many of our own cutover areas. il
raised the average yield of wood per
acre from 20 cubic feet in 1880 to IS
cubic feet in 1904.
During the same period 1T trebled the
proportion of saw timber secured from
the average cut, which means. in other
words. that through the practice of for
estry the timber lands of Germany are
of three times better quality today than
when no system was used And in "a
years it increased the money returns
from an average acre of forest seven
fold. yet today the forests are in better
condition than ever before.
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ties within the city limits. There is
no loud bawling by hucksters and
one who drives lrattling wagon is
subject toa fine. Piano playing is
regulated by law. The use of such in
struments is permitted only during
stated hours.
LOST cITIzENSHIP-K San Diego. Cal
Seven years ago. at the age OF 90 alerouug man
In California went to Cape ColoHy South Az.
RIGA, where the following year he renounced nj.
leglance TO the United States became Jsritish
subject entering the colonial railway service
He now desires to return to this country How
long VIII il take him TO regain his former stand.
ing as an American citizens
Any American citizen expatriates
himself when he is naturalized in anv
country in conformity with its laws.
The young man, If he wishes to re-
turn to American citizenship, viii have
to follow the law laid down for the
naturalization of aliens.
THE PALAcE-w. P. C.. city. when vas
the Palace hotel destroyed By IRE in 1906, com
pleteds
1t was commenced in 1872 and was
opened early in October. 1875.
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DECENCY MUST HANG
HEAD IN SAN FRANCISCO
Portland telegram

There seems to have been great re-
gard entertained for the honor OF men
who knew not honesty. who condoned
kidnapping and jury fixing. and who
would have shown but hypocriticaI
sorrow had murder been committed.
But. with all that we have heard but
little about the furnished honor OF the
city; about the educational value OF
the apparent impOssibility to condemn
corrupt wealth san Francisco may
never see ft 70 punish the men who
have brought moral shame upon her,
but so long as they go unpublished de-
cency in that city must hang its head,
and there must follow the admission
that the wonderful story OF the last
three years. written in stone and
bricks and steel, is not the whole story.
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ELlOT'S LIST OF
BOOKS PRAISED
Omission of Shakespeare and
Bible Accounted for by
Saying They're in
General Use
EDITOR CALL: Would it not be well
| for those entering the DIR. Eliot

ED1TOR CALL: Would il not be wei
for those entering the 'Dr. Eliot
controversy to pause long enough
to consider what they are so blindlS
attacking?1
writer in a recent issue of The
Call speaks of DR.. Eliot's astonishing
list of the best books" Nothing could
be further from DR.. Eliot's intention
His is not a list of best books" not
the list for desert island existence
but merely a list for furnishing the
essence of "a liberal education There
is vast difference. A thousand lists
similar to DR.. Eliot's might furnish the
same essentials. DR.. Eliot does not
affirm that his is the only list. but
simply one such list.
Perhaps they are not all great books
but do our colleges offer only great
books to those seeking an education
Glance over the announcement OF
courses of any university. A student
might take them all, if he had time. and
then be unfamiliar with some of the
very greatest books. The object of a
liberal education is to give up knowl-
edge of what has been thought and said
In the world-to let us see the world
from many sides-to let us talk with
the slave Epictetus or converse with
the Emperor Aurelius. to learn from
Plato, a foreigner and an ancient, or
to heed Emerson, fellow citizen and
a modern; to know the orthodoxy OF
st. Augustine or the newer theology OF
Darwin; to wink at the world with
Beaumont and Fletcher or to frown al
it with Bunyan.
Will the critics deny that a perusaI
of these books will broaden the mind
and give one an insight into various
thoughts and times and customs?
The Bible and Shakespeare are not
included? Every one is supposed to be
have to go to college to know them and
hence not to the Harvard classics.
Such books are not on the FIVE foot
shelf, but on the parlor table,
Mr.. Cahill says in scorn: His brief
book shelf would make weary work for
aspiring youth" We might remark that
youths had better not aspire to any
thing-even liberal education-if they
don't expect weary work" Good books
can not be lightly skipped through-the
author who offers light vaudeville has
no claim as a dispenser of liberal edu-
cation.
c. n. H.. University of California.
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Gossip Of RailWaynen

TT was some years ago, before Edwin
| Hawley became a great railroad
L man and when he was working for
the Southern Pacific as assistant gen.
eral traffic ger, that a conference
was held in New York over the south
western situation Some of the Texas
lines had been absorbed by c. P. Hunt
ington and the eastern men, not ia
miliar with the railroads in Texas,
were puzzled at the liberal use of in
itials.
Now, will you. kindly tell me- asked
one of them, what does C. H. and S.
A. stand for?'
"Ghve Hawley and Stubs ALL, was
the prompt answer.
This name chung to the G. H. and S.
A. for many years. and though c. X.
Dunlap. the traffic manager, made
many remonstrances, it was unavail-
ing.
There is one nickname to which Dun
lap objects violently when mentioned
Houston, East and West Texas, and
some bright mind dubbed it:
HI, Either Way You Take It,
The lines east of Chicago have here
tofore never given stopovers on round
trip tickets sold from the Pacific coast
to New York and eastern destinations,
except at certain points. The Pennsyl-
vanfa lines have issued a circular au-
fhorizing stopovers at any point on
their system west of Pittsburg on
nine months and special occasion and
round trip tickets within the final
limit either going or returning. East
of Pittsbtrg stopover of 10 days is
permitted at Washington, Baltimore
and Philadelphia. This will enable
California travellers to purchase round
trip tickets to New York. where in a
great many cases heretofore they have
had to purchase to Chicago and re-
turn only, and buy locally east of Chi
cago, making the cost of the "trip con-
siderably higher than at present.
The Pacific navigation company is
the name of a new corporation which
has been granted a concession by the
Mexican federal government for the
opening of a branch steamer line be-
tween San Diego in this state and MAJ
allan, stopping both. ways at San Jose
del Cabo, Magdalena bay, San Quintin
Santo Domingo and Ensenada- AS the
company has the privilege to extend
this branch to Manzanillo, Luis A.
Martinez, the president and the lsrg-
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ANSWERS TO QUERIES

FLOATING NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Alameda.
Cal Where and what is the floating island Of
Idahos
II is in Henrys lake on the dome of
the continent in a depression in the
Rocky mountains, called Targees
pass. A writer has described it as
follows: The lake has an area of 40
square miles. and all around it rise
snow capped peaks. some of them be-
ing the highest of the continents
backbone In this lake is the floating
island about SOC feet in diameter. 1t
has for its basis a mat of roots so
dense that il supports large trees and
a heavy growth Of underbrush- These
roots are covered with rich soil sew
eral feet thick The surface is solid
enough to support the weight of a
horse anywhere, and there are places
where A house could be built. The
wind blows the island about the lake
and it seldom remains p hours in any
one place"
oUIETEST cITY-Subscriber. City Is It true
that Berlin, Germany. is the quietest city in Eu-
ropef
II is said to be- Railway locomo-
tives are not permitted ia blow whis-
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Letters From the People
CONDEMN 10 OF CALHOUN JURORS


Editor OF The CALM common with
many citizens in this section I am not
only panied but puzzled at the outcome
of the late trial OF Patrick Calhoun
or rather at the attitude of the solid
ten who voted for his aequittal do
not seek to usurp the role Of the said
ten or like to sit in judgment upon
them In fact. but for their pub
lished utterances / should say moth
ing. but assume that on the evidence
which can not be followed closely at
this distance. they were justified in
their verdict.
But their own words provoke doubt
and wonder. For they admit there
was plenty Of evidence to convict. Yer
they would not accept il because OF
their contempt for the former super-
visors who testified. Why the con-
tempt? Clearly because the former
supervisory were confessed bribe tax
ers But does not a bride taker imply
a orioe givers And does any religion
or code of ethics hold the temDter less
guilty than the temptede T,rnfDe-
states evidence in all other conn
tries is held to benefit the state: in
TACT. 10 be its only possible method OF
Furnishing crimes OF this sort.
In every case OF bribery the bribers
and the bribed are the only parties
present Other evidence than they
oner must be indirect and circuu-
stantiaL Where. then. is the logic or
justice of this and other recent iuries
OF San Francisco in absOlutfnc ienor-
ing the evidence offered BY many Of
the cnlprits2
a couple OF years ago when these
supervisors confessions were Dnb-
lished people in as we'll as out Of San
Francisco were everywhere Savine
This means conviction of All tbe
guilty and an end for a time to bribery
or oricfalS- Nearly every one fer
then that the evidence was sufHcfent
legally-as it certainly has been
morally And morally. at all events
despite the self-satisfied ten. the 49,
dence was sufficient: in fact. amnls
and morally Mr.. Calhoun is a convfcted
man. Why. then. do some of the ten
express regret that the verdict vas nor
an acquittal. so they might shake M
Calhoun by the hand? Do thew ill.,
to shake the hands OF morally con
victed man2 Tastes differ. OF co,rsa
but that is not the kind OF hana
should wish TO shake. though i NAV
be squeamish.
Ten of the late Calhoun Jury hav.
voted not 10 condemn Mr.. Calhoun
Well. out of their own mouths a.
one Of the great body of the outside
jury. vote to condemn the ten.
CHARLES n. JOHNSON
Mereed. June a.
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San FranciscO's Will Can Not
Be Thwarted by Spring Valley
JUDGE sEAWELLs decision DENYING fbe petition

JUDGE SEAWELLs decision denying the petition of the
+ ! Spring Valley companys payer advances
- one more step the way municipal ownership of the
water supply.
We may expect encounter other obstacles like
and purpose obuct and hamper municipal advancement
pocy OF the Spring Valley company like that of all the other
public service corporations with the exception telephone
company, hold the city servitude without being at
particular about the that end.
We continued series of these suits
long as the lngenutyof corporation lawyers bought
These suits brought good
by Judge Sawe they have legal standing backed by
no real OF action They only the Spring Valley
water company ready degrade the by making
instruments in the campaign for delay and obstruction
1t OF the evils of judicial the
permit themselves be discredable process
This judicial tolerance puts powerful weapon
unscrupuou corporations and persons with money enough
lawyers 1t gives such agencies indefinite power of obstruction
defeat the public good OF the open
to all complaints but there should be limit the
which substantially similar and pretended
command judicial attention
That is say the law should impose
penalties gan who be shown have repeatedly used
judicial process for purposes of obstruction
We not change these conditions in and there
fore be prepared for continuance of the campaign
their minds this subject and they will go completion
the Hetch Hechy what obstacles
Spring Valley may be interposed.
The decision of Judge Seawell clears away
with which hoped block the way testimony
the wisdom with which the pepextes and difficulties of the legal
ange have been avoided.
The opinion of the model OF convincing and
secuve that easily brushes away pettoggng
techncalties invoked by the corporation. attorneys
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Demonstration
Tor Naval
Efficiency

things toecasted happened
admitted the that the supplied useful
training for the personnel In fact there cordial disposition
to brag about the affair the following editorial Of
Secretary Meyers made by the New York Tribune will show
credtable gratifying encircng
o by
will be recalled political
which they asserted mschevous dangerous
done vessels themselves
would be
all which would
crippled condition and would have be OF commission for
while they largely rebuilt
The fact is that while the ships have been home only few months
condition
and the total of the repairs has been only s5o for IS OF the
$500 for each
dollar mile for the sixteen for years cruising It would scarcely be
skill of ship builders engineers and nvgaors be finely vindi
That is very pretty voyage easily worth
and would have been worth great deal
only of efficiency that supplied The
the material equally well under that and
recognized for its full worth the world
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MERELY EXAMPLE
OF JURY SYSTEM FAILURE
Cleveland Plain Dealer

The trial OF Patrick Calhoun. result.
ing in jury disagreement. must be
a serious disappointment 10 the people
Of San Francisco. The jury can not be
criticised Undoubtedly each member
took the stand he thought justified by
the evidence presented for considera-
ton That ten stood for one verdict
and two for another is no proof that
the two deserve condemnation. The
result is but one more example OF the
failure OF the jury. system.
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CALHOUN WILL NOT
DARE BRING LIBEL SUIT
TuIsra RaZistsr

If the papers have criminally IibeIed
Mr. Calhoun he can set lot Of news
papermen TO picking iute or breaking
rock Win he try it2 Never And
why? Because Mr.. Calhoun would then
be compelled 10 go on the witness
stand and he would have 70 show what
became OF that $500 600. Patrick Cal
hOun will not bring any libel suits
against newspapers for that particular
statement that he furnished $500 600
for the purchase Of Abe Ruef and his
board OF supervisors.
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est stock holder of the steamship
company. says that no doubt it will
come still farther north and run yes
sells from San Pedro, Cal, to Mama
Milo, touching at all the intermediate
ports.
Surveyors in the service of the Ore
gon Short Line and the projected Gil
more and Pittsburg are said to be in a
race to reach the Salmon river pass be-
low Salmon. Idaho. When last heard
from the Gilmore and Pittsburg par
ties were about two days ahead. The
Salmon river canyon is the only pas
sage out of the Salmon district toward
the coast, and but one roadbed can
be built through it.
F. Dumont Smith. well known
writer, has written a book entitled
Book of a Hundred Bears which has
been published at the expense of the
Union Pacific and the Oregon Short
Line. 1t described life in the Yellow
stone park and the numerous stories
about bears make it one of the most
interesting of recent publications.
Tracks were laid through the Beck
wourth tunnel last Monday, thus con-
Meeting the lines of the western pa
cific with their two big tunnels, the
Beckwourth and the Spring Garden
There yet remains 230 more miles to be
built In three gaps. The first gap is
from the second crossing of the
Feather river to Spring Garden. SO
miles. The second gap is from the
Beckwourth tunnel to Antelope, 1876
miles, and the last gap is from Winnie
mucca toward Battle Bountain, "A
miles.
Fred w. Blanche of the New York
Central line has returned from Seattle
where he had been on business con-
nected with the company
d. l. Ewing, in the Office. of the third
vice president of the Rock Island
Frisco lines, is in the city.
George w. Colby of the Great North
ern has returned from business trip
TO the northwest
Lincoln Godfrey, a director of the
PENNSYLVANIA lines. is in the city.
w. H. snedaker. general agent OF
the Illinois Central. has returned from
the north on business trip
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by full ambassador One does not exactly how things of
international import going Venezuela but recent memory
recalls the period when interests that cranky obstreper
republic guarded by much nobody
seemed know the difference
In the meantime the president said disturbed by the
reluctance important take charge
legations IN London and Picking Vice President Fairbanks the
declined the Doctor Eliot
late OF Harvard university prefers making up funny of
instructive books doing the honors for America court Of
st James Cuba is said American ambassador but
the right for the place hard find There
peplexity in exalted circles
Nevertheless international appear suffer
Business proceeds and mpoaons grow Secretary not
embarrassed by the lack of convey his his
opinions foreign Indeed there suspicion that
the whole diplomatic corps medieval which has
become wholly supeuous the installation of international
cables The nations get along quite well without these polite
but Intermediates Their purpose and unc
ton purely ornamental and that condition more
emphasized by the prevalent talk about the obligation an
American ambassador spend large spuge
Indeed the unwingne of fit gurehead for the
nation abroad proceeds partly from this sentiment and partly
the that ambassadors duties mostly trivial The real
work is done by the secretary Of
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Penn S Book Admired

Editor Call: Professor Newcomers
comments on Dr. Eliots list of books
calls attention to one not often seen
PENIS Fruits of Solitude" In the
edition l have is an introduction by
Gosse from which I copy the following:
THE publication of Robert Louis
Stevenson's Letters has revealed the
fact that he was a warm admirer of
the Fruits of Solitude, He met with
the little book at a critical moment of
his own career in December, 1879. while
he was wandering disconsolately in
the streets of San Francisco, con-
valescent after a very dangerous ILL
ness. yet still somewhat of a messy
ruin and doubtful in what spirit to
face the world. again. To the exile.
with his hopes re-excited, his spirit
grown buoyant, his moral fibers tight
ened by hardship and fear, the small
book of PENIS maxims came With what
seemed a direct message from heaven.
Stevenson was singularly moved by
the Fruits of Solitude which he
picked up in San Francisco. Two years
afterward he gave that particular copy
of the book to Horatio f. Brown,
with these words:
"If ever in all my human conduct"
I have done better thing 20 any
fellow creature than handing on to you
this sweet, dignified and wholesome
book 1 know l shall hear of it on the
last day. To write book like this
were impossible; at least one can hand
it on, with a wrench, one to another.
My wife cries out ard my own heart
misgives me, but stilI--here it is
And in later letter to the same
friend:
will know what an invaluable present
have made you. Even the copy was
dear to me, printed in the colony that
Penn established, and carried in my
pocket all about the San Francisco
streets. read in streetcars and ferry
boats, when / was sick unto death, and
found in all times and places a peace
full and sweet companion. But 1 hope,
when you shall have reached this note.
my gift will not have been in vain;
for while, just now, we are so busy
and intelligent, there is not the man
living-no, nor recently dead-that
could put, with so lovely a spirit, so
much honest, kind wisdom into words
stevenson had intended to make
this book and its author the subject of
one of his critical ESSAYS, but he never
found the opportunity to discourse to
us about the book he loved so much.
But it has left an indelible stamp on
the tenor of his moral writings. The
philosophy of Robert Louis Stevenson.
as revealed to us from 1879 onward. is
tinctured through and through with the
honest. shrewd and genial maxims of
Penn. Courage and common sense. a de-
termination to win an honorable dis
charge in the bankrupt business of
human life. cheerfulness in facing
responsibility-these were qualities
which Stevenson possessed already. but
in which he was marvelously strength
ened by Fruits of Solitude. So the
little Quakerish volume has a double
claim upon us-for itself, so clean and
sensible and manly a treatise, and for
its illustrious student and .sedulous
ape, our admira>de Robert Louis
stevenson"
Yours sincerely.
]. A. SANFORD.
stockton, June rs.