The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1910-08-13
GOSSIP OF THE
NATIONS CAPITAL
Especial to Silver State.)


WASHINGTON, August 13.-It is
almost impossible for person to get
any sort of respectful attention in one
of the larger Washington stores unless
he has an account there. Of course. if
one looks especially well groomed, it
may make a difference, but the person
not running an account is looked on as
undesirable. Several persons were dis
cussing this few days ago in Wash
lington ,and one lady declared that she
had simply been driven into opening
accounts although she did not like to do
lit at all.
81 have been earning my living for
good many years. she said. "and
considerable portion of that time
have lived in Washington. / tried to
get along by paying cash. but find I
couldn't do it. The people who pay
cash are not catered to at all. They
are looked on much as if they were un-
able to get credit, and when I once
asked to have a small purchase charged
until the end of the month / was re-
fused, although l had been cash Gus
toner of that house for years. / found
that l almost had to run accounts and
finally succumbed, although I be-
lieve l pay more that way, and I know
buy more because it is easier and one
does not always stop to consider how
much the months bills will total.''
This helps to explain why there are
so many banks in Washington and WHY
they have so many small depositors. It
might be good thing if it encouraged
thrift, but very many of these deposit
ors carry their accounts merely to i'm
press the merchants they are doing
business with, paying sums even less
than one dollar by check. The con-
sequence is that there are many bad
debts, and prices of merchandise are
higher than one must pay in most other
cities In order to recoup the dealers for
those who do not pay.
Hitchcock's g Status.
Not long ago a local paper ventured
to make a few speculations regarding
the status of Steam Roller Hitchcock
with the administration. The postmast-
er general is just home from Europe
where he went for rest and recrea
ton. and the fact that he went away
without bidding the president good
bye looked suspicious to some people
They thought also that since the presi.
dent acquired new private secretary
he had not consulted Hitchcock 90 much
as he had done formerly. and the ser
vices of the man who managed the Re.
publican national campaign. Since
then still another thing has happened
The president has sent Senator Mur-
ray Crane, of Massachusetts, On a trip
to see how things are lining up through
out the country. Formerly the pilot of
the steam roller in politics did this sort
lof scouting. That may be another
lsign that Hitchcock is no longer the
high authority on politics he used to be
in the cabinet.
i However, there may be another ex-
Iplanation of all this. 1t may merely
mean that the postmaster general is
preparing to wander down to Arizona
and establish a residence in the soon.
to-become a state so that the grateful
people there may send him to the Unit
ed States senate. Mr.. Hitchcock is
said to have helped considerably to get
the statehood bill passed. He has Of.
ten gone to New Mexico and Arizona
on hunting and vacation trips, and it
is understood that he would be willing
to be chosen senator from one Of the
prospective states.
Farming in Alaska.
Since the department of agriculture
first took up the question of farming in
Alaska there has been great deal OF
interest manifested in that subject, and
it must be confessed. some skeptisism
However. the department is now in a
position to give out some definite infor
nation regarding this subject in the
annual report of the Alaska Agricultur
al Experiment stations for 1909, which
is for sale by the superintendent OF
documents, government printing Office
"Would you care to run trucl
farm with strawberries selling at $1.2s
to 80 a quart asks the department il
bulletin announcing the publication
of the report, "cucumbers So to IS 9
dozen, celery so cents each, tomatoes
so cents to 81 pound, and other pro
! ducts at proportionate pricesf Oh
would you prefer general farming with
a few pigs and chickens as a side line
with hay selling at $50 to 800 a ton
hogs 80 cents pound, young pigs IT
. cents pound and eggs 50 dozen
These prices are received in Alaska un
. der favorable market conditions.
{ There are several successful farmer
at Fairbanks. The climate shows I
wide variation. The coast towns ar,
ih1lu LOT tnat region, hcitHcr cithd no
Kodiak reaching zero during 1909 whil
: Juneau only reached five degrees below
, in January with a daily mean for tn
month of 1415 degrees.
t Astronomers to Convene.
The International Union for Co
{ operation in Solar Research will con
vene in it's fourth session August 80 a
Mount Wilson, California. Forty as
? tronomers and physiciasts from Europe
have signifed their intention of being
present. There will also be largs
! number of American astronomers there
The forty from abroad will leave Bos
ton August 20 under the direction Of
: the Astronomical and Astrophysica
Society of America, and will go to Chi
cago via Niagara Falls to see th'
Yerkes observatory. Thence they will
! 60 to Flagstaff, Arizona, to see th'
: famous Lowell observatory, and from
/ there they will proceed to Pasadena
J. which is at the foot Of the mountain
/ where they are to hold their session.
/ s. W. Gundaker. president of tn,