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Newark post., 1911-04-26
Fire Drill At Sussex School

Professor Ernest J. Hardesty, sup
erintendenr OF the Sussex county pub
lic schools has issued reguesr to the
principals OF the various High schools
of the county regarding the practicing
o. daily fire drills in the schools. The
Newark post., 1911-04-26

drills were started in the local school
asst week and have met with the favor
of both the teachers and scholars.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1911-03-11
CIRCULAR ISSUED
ON POTASH SALTS

The present discussion regarding
potash gives interest to any available
facts and figures concerning potash
salts. These salts are discussed in a
report just published by the United
States geological survey as an advance
chapter of it's volume "Mineral Re
sources or the United States, calendar
year 1910.' According to the report
which was prepared by w. G. Phalen
of the survey, all potash salts of min
eral origin now consumed in the
United States are imported, chiefly
from Germany.
The principal source of the German
potash is an enormous deposit at Stass-
furt, which at the present rate of ex-
ploitation, will last, it has been esti-
mated, about 100000 years. The re-
port describes this deposit in general,
sketches its probable mode of origin,
and gives lists of the minerals it on
tains.
Many kinds of potash salts are i'm
ported into the United States from
Germany, where a score or more of
mines are in operation. These salts
are used for many and diverse pur-
poses-in gold mining, glass making,
soap making, bleaching, dyeing, photo
graphy, medicine, in making explosives
in fertilizers, and in many other ways.
The value of the imports of potash
in the fiscal year of 1910 was more
than $1,000, 900 and the imports have
been made to devise means from
year to year.
Dafarb lie on abundant constituent
of many rocks and minerals found in
the United States, and experiments
have been increasing at a rapid rate
of profitably extracting it from the
rocks. The waters of some western
lakes, as Owens and Mono lakes, Cal
ifornia, also contain potash and lndI-
cate that the beds of evaporated lakes
in the desert regions of California and
Nevada may include large amounts OF
potash. Potassium nitrate has been
found in the desert region northeast
of Salton, California.
Deposits of rock salt in Michigan
are also of interest in this connection.
The red beds of the southeastern United
States contain deposits of gypsum and
rock salt and may be possible resour-
ces of potash salts. The report suggests
that these beds might proftably be ex-
plored in places where conditions favor
accumulation of such salts.
Potash may be derived from organic
sources, as from wood ashes and sea
weed. The giant sea weeds OF the
California coast contains potash salts
but no experiments have yet been
made to recover them On a commercial
scale.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1911-03-11
ED sTAUNToN MAKING GOOD
AS ASSEMRLYMAN


Assembly Staunton, of Winnemuc-
ca, is fast winning for himself the
name of being one of the strongest
members of the assembly. He is not
n of the cup and down. members
and has not spoken on the floor more
than once or twice during the session,
but has proven himself to be a power
in the committee room and in the
strong work that really counts in the
passage of bills.
His assembly bill 258, which con
veys the power to the various boards
of county commissioners to bond the
cities and counties for the purpose OF
purchasing civic commodities is one of
the strongest measures that has been
passed through the house this session
and was one of the very few measures
which was not debated for an hour or
more prior to passage.
Stanton is a strong advocate OF the
Winnemucca section and claims that
his home locality will be the greatest
within the state. The attempt to
move the capital to Winnemucca was
one that nearly passed the house, ow.
ing to the quiet work of Staunton, and
this action brought him to the notice
of all as a man to be numbered on the
side of your measure if it was to
pass-Carson City News.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1911-03-11
SHIPPED

One car of horses was shipped over
the Southern Pacific railroad ON
March IL, 1911, from Winnemucca to
Fresno, by Chas. Farrell, in car No.
u. p. 61,627. Number of horses 20.
Four horses branded F B, left stlfie;
two horses branded dot inside G, right
shoulder; nine horses branded q,
connected, left shoulder; one horse
branded V /, left stifle; one horse
branded dot inside U, left shoulder;
two horses branded blotch brand, LETT
shoulder; one horse branded wine
glass, left shoulders; n horse branded
Z 6. connected, left shoulder; one
horse branded bar through 5, left
stifle: three horses not branded. In
spected by s. G.. LAMB.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1911-03-11
GOOD SUITS TO ORDER
AT REDUCED PRICES

I have on hand a number Of pieces
of goods which I desire to close out at
a reduction of $3.50 to $40 from former
price. Suits made to order for as low
as $27. Come early to secure The best
selection.
If. j. Z. GhANDEL.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1911-03-11
DIR. Bells Anti Pain

A sudden attack of Cholera Morbus
is dangerous. Keep DR.. Bells Anti
Pain al hand, a dose relieves almost
instantly. 1t also cures Oarrhoea,
Cramps, Flux and all Bowel Com
plants. For sale at Eagle drug store.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1911-03-11

FOR SALE-Within the next two
weeks, six stations of the famous
double-square brand, two 3-year-oids
and four aged. May be seen at the
Gerdeman ranch, Paradise. Address
Gorham & Rankin, Paradise, Nevada.
fed28w2.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1911-03-11

WANTED-Man and wife to cook
n mining camp at Natinal, beginning
March l.. Address J. s. Mclaughlin
Winnemucca hotel. u.
The National tribune., 1911-01-05
ST. ANDREWS BAY COLONY.

Tribune receiving
Florida colony,
Washington County
Washington County recognized being the best
trucking Florida and far north
grapefruit and other sabopical products
The first tonsite will be located ST. Andrews Bay the largest
and best natural harbor the Florida
The United has authorized the expenditure Of
quarter of million dollars for the improvement Of this
harbor deepening channel This began December
1910.
The following prices hold good for short time only:
One 5ox5o of farming land outside
the Bay Development Company for $4,000.
hveace the latter constituting
solid and shares tie capital stock par value
S1oooo ea of the St Andrews Bay Development Company FOR
$4,000.
Three lots three The latter constituting
Of tie capital stock (par
each Development Company for
$aoooo
the latter constituting
and four shares the capital stock p
Andrews Bay Development Company for
100000
offer holds good until the first assignment OF prop
stock will be offered to later
subscribers. will also be sharply advanced.
Colony lands rapidly completion
will be Immediately after the
completed.
opportunity at these prices
Address THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, Washington D. C.
The National tribune., 1911-01-05
WHO ARE GETTING THE BENE.
FITS

The Rochester (N. Y.) Herald has
an unusually vicious screed on the pen
sion expenditures 1t cannot under
stand why, with $4,000 pensioners dy-
ing every year, the pension expendi-
lures should increase. This shows the
Herald's difficulty in reasoning clearly
on any subject. Pensions are based on
disability. Age is a disability, and it
increases with the passage of the years.
Consequently those who are on the roll
are much needier to-day than they
were 10 years ago and much more de-
serving of the Governments assistance.
The Herald goes on to say:
The people of this country have no
desire to be niggardly, but it is impos-
sible to remove the impression that a
large number of people are receiving
pensions who do not deserve them.
There is no reason why a man should
receive pension merely because he
enlisted to fight his country'S battles.
There is no reason why his widow
should receive one. a man owes a
duty to his country. If a man is what
he ought to be, he will always stand
ready to fight his country's battles
when the necessity arises. He will be
reward and to bestow material reward
upon him will seem to the sincere pa
triot cheapening of his service rather
than an acknowledgement of it. OF
course, the soldier who is injured in
service is entitled to the utmost con-
sideration from the country. He is en-
titled to more consideration than he
sometimes receives or can receive sc
long as men are pensioned literally for
service, whether they were injured ma
terially or not, or even smeIled gun
powder or not when in service.
This is the usual cant of men who
are opposed to pensions in every form
| They begin by pratins that they want
the deserving soldiers TO be generously
treated. and wind up by not finding
any pensioner deserving. The country
/ has always given service pensions 10 its
veterans, and this fact, which has re
ceived such an overwhelming approva
from the fathers of the country, mus
| be more convincing than the incoher
ent ideas of some shallow writer Th,
editorial terminates with this screech
! which is so absurd as to turn the Who'll,
article to ridicule:
! In few years more there will no
be a veteran Of the civil war alive; bu
| what guarantee, jud .ng by the past
! have we thai the pension roll Will no
still continue to eXiSt-nay, that il vii
not continue to increase in volume
| There Will be sons and grandsons anC
| great grandsons of veterans. Shall W.
not be called upon to pension these
| Yes, most assuredly, we shall, If il bt
The National tribune., 1911-01-05

Strange to say, the foreign papers ex-
press establishment and admiration at
our census methods, and freely admit
their superiority to their own. The
French point out that we gather mass
of statistics and publish the results in
side of two years, where it takes the
French. three years to deal with the
population not half as large as ours.
Our information is gotten out in time to
be of service to the public, while that
in France becomes obsolete before it is
published The information that our
census people gathered is very much
more extensive and exact than that
gathered in any of the European coun-
tries
The National tribune., 1911-01-05

In all this clamor about the high
cost of living there comes out in The
Pittsburg courts n story of laborer
receiving s1.35 per day who supports
in comfort and, cleanliness, with sufii-
cient wholesome food, IL persons. The
probation officers visited the house Of
the family, and had nothing but praise
for the cleanliness, order and comfort
of the home. The father and mother
have 10 bright children, of whom the
oldest is girl 13 years old. The father
and mother were justly pronounced a
credit to any community
The National tribune., 1911-01-05
TARIFE REVISION.

A man looking out of the car window
at dog running along and barking at
the locomotive wondered what he would
remark applies to the Democrats, who,
having barked tariff revision loudly and
continuously during the campaign, have
Unexpectedly caught it and aresat loss
to know what to do with it. The New
York Herald, which prides itself upon
been canvassing the members-elect of
the Sixty-second Congress. and finds
that of the Democrats there are III
who declare for tariff for revenue only.
If 1t had pushed this canvass a little
further 1T wonld have found out that
these men were only covering up their
lack of decision as to the proper tariff
policy by going back to the old exhaust
ed campaign cry. Probably not a score
of them are really in favor of tariff
for revenue only" which would place
all the taxes on necessaries and be a
burden upon the peoples daily lives
that would at once raise a storm of
Indignation sweeping from the Atlantic
to the Pacific. 1t would take the pro-
lection off the products of their own To-
calities, which they would resist as
strenuously as anybody.
There are 30 Democrats and IS Re-
publicans who believe that the tariff
should be lowered, but the principle of
protection preserved. That is they
ents produce and free trade on that of
everybody else. The declared "standpat-
ters" are 61. all Republicans, and 43
members have not been heard from.
Victor l.. Berger, the Socialist member,
is set down as not classified"
If this canvass means anything it
means that there will be some changes
in the tariff, but nothing radical 1t
will be the farthest remove from the
wild economic theories which were let
loose when Cleveland came in the sec
ond time. Conservative influence will
dominate the House in spite of the un-
expected Democratic victory, and the
Senate will still have a certain working
majority of Republicans. Among these
there is a strong divergence of opinion.
but the divergence is not irreconcilab BILE.
Senator Cummins, leader OF the Repub-
tlican insurgents, has introduced a res
olution to permit action by both houses
on the tariff. schedule by schedule.
Chairman Payne, of the House Ways
and Means Committee. has assented to
this idea, as well as that of a Tariff
Commission. Senator Aldrich, who
wants the Democrats turned loose in the
next Congress, says that 1--WE are all
agreed that it Is desirable to take up
the tariff by subjects, not by schedule" 4"
These expressions are generally in
terpreted to favor careful study of the
tariff by an expert commission and the
removal of whatever inequalities may
be found or may be developed in the
operation of the law. 1t Is felt that
what we want is not wild exclamation
on the stump, but a general and thoro
study OF the subject in all It's bearings
| which can best be done by the com
mission urged by the President.
The National tribune., 1911-01-05

D. Minor Steward, Commander, De-
partment of Tennessee, G. A. r.. wrote
a most touching New Years address to
the comrades of his Department, in
which he reviews the past, tells the
comrades how much they have to be
proud of and grateful for. and urges
the comrades 10 stand close together
rs their number diminishes. He urges
upon all comrades the great value of
patriotic instruction in all communities.
He pays a tribute to the work of the
Woman's Relief Corps, and particularly
that of the Department President, Mrs.
Mary E. Thomas, and compliments
highly his Assistant Adjutant-General.
H b. Case.
The National tribune., 1911-01-05
S41.965,156
42S,S14

On page 5 of the Commissioners Re-
port he gives the number of survivors
whose names were dropped from the
roll on account of death during the year
at 3J,312. Now, it is fair to assume
that from July, 1910, to June 80, 1911.
when this bill will become operative,
there will be at least 40, 900 deaths. AS
the average yearly increase of pension
proposed by the bill is about 500 per
aHnum, this would make a deduction
Of S4,0O0,000 We find there are upon
the roll the names of 1886 soldiers
whose pensions are $24 per month and
above, and as fully half of these are
$50 per month and above it is fair to
assume that they would not be benefited
by the proposed bill, and should he de-
Quoted from the estimated increase of
cost. As the average annual increase IN
the pension proposed by the bill is about
800 per annum, this would reduce the
cost to the extent of $5,S35.500. Add
this to the reduction on account of
death, and we have the total of So
S3J, see, which would reduce the cost
TO the sum of 32.029,65 instead of
S45.4S9,4 46S, as estimated by the Invalid
Pensions Committee, a difference OF
$13, ,459,S12
From the above estimate of S32.OOO,-
0OG it seems just to make several i'm
portant deductions. The first is with re-
spect to those who are now receiving
from $14 to- $23 a month. fair esti-
mate would make the reduction under
this head s2,20O,0O0, which would re-
duce the above estimate to $29,929.656
Some other important deductions might
be made. which will he considered sub
sequently, and 1t is fair to maintain
that the total cost of the bill the first
year will not exceed $2G,000.000
Thenceforward the reduction will go on
| with the greatest, we might say, mourn
full rapidity.
1t must be remembered that for the
first time in the history of pension leg
islation we are figuring against q con-
slant decrease. In all previous pension
legislation we had to take into account
The National tribune., 1911-01-05

The Canadian papers say that they
want free trade with the United States
in coal, lumber, oils, fish and all prod
ucts of the farm and orchard. 1t will
be interesting to see what the Maine
papers say of this. Maine is heavily
protected against Canadian potatoes,
hay and lumber, the main source of
8iaine's wealth. The London papers
are opposed TO the Canadian idea. as
they desire to preserve the British mar
ket in Canada. They denOunce the free
traders as freaks" and tools of the
Free Trade Union of England" They
have been worked up into quixotic
fever of reform by screeds from this
Free Trade Union, which should not be
taken too seriously.
The National tribune., 1911-01-05

At last it looks as If the hands will not
be turned back on the clock in Spain.
In the Spanish Cortes Premier Canale-
jas has had hard-fought battle over
the relations between the State and the
Church, and has come out victor by
the handsome vote of 10s to 20 In the
Chamber of Deputies. The bill which
won is not great step, as measured hy
those in other Latin States, but it is a
long one for Spain TO make. 1t pro-
hibits the creation Of any new religious
orders for two years, and subjects those
already organized to inspection and
regulation by the State. Canalejas.
himself Roman Catholic, is the lead
er of those of his faith who wanted less
domination by the Vatican and more
control of the States internal affairs
ny the State itself.
The National tribune., 1911-01-05

The Army and Navy Register regrets
that the Worlds Works articles have
not attracted the attention of the news
papers as they should. The Army and
Navy Register should know that the
newspapers are edited by newspaper
men who know news when they see
it The Worlds Works articles are
only a dreary rehash of stuff that years
ago was shown to be untrue and mis-
leading. If the Army and Navy Regis
ter or any other paper will discover
something that is both new and true in
regard the operation of the Pension
Bureau it will have all the publicity
that it may wish for.
The National tribune., 1911-01-05

In spite of the rapid advance of pro-
hibition during the last few years, the
Internal Revenue Commissioners re-
port shows that many millions of gal
Ions more of liqnor were produced and
consumed in the United States during
the fiscal year ended June 80, 1910,
than the previous year. There were
156, 237,526 gallons more than for the
previous year withdrawn for consump-
ton. The amount of fermented liquor
increased 3,1S1,62O barrels. There was
a strong decrease in all the dry"
States, and the increase was mainly in
the licensed or wet States, especially
in New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois,
which have the three largest licensed
cities The decrease in the use of fer
mented liquors in the dry" States of
Alabama, Mississippi. Georgia, Kansas,
Oklahoma, Maine, Vermont, New
Hampshire, North Carolina, North Da-
kota, South Dakota and Tennessee
amounted to 71,7O1 barrels. while it in
creased 1,636,601 barrels in New York,
Pennsylvania and Illinois.
The National tribune., 1911-01-05

The commission form Of government
is the newest political fad to pervade
the country. At n special election held
at Springfield, ILL.,, Jan. 2 the people
decided on d commission form Of gcv-
eminent by a majority of 700. How
long will it be until the air is full of
complaints as to 'one-man power in
the City Government" and somebody
claiming that he owns the whcle cor
pora tion?'
The National tribune., 1911-01-05
James A. Harris, Chairman of th

James A. Harris, Chairman of the
Republican Committee of Oklahoma,
denies that Oklahoma is a Southern
State. Northern settlers are coming in
rapidly, and tho $4,000 Republicans
were disfranchised thru vicious laws at
the last election. they only lost the
State by 20.5OO. The Republicans have
called a convention to frame a fair
election law. and If the Legislature will
not authorize the convention q demand
will be made thru An initiative refer
endum for it.
The National tribune., 1911-01-05
.BILLIoNs UPON BILLIONS"

The New York Sun, representing, as
it always does interests" which are
greedy for appropriations from the Ma
tional Treasury, and therefore wrathful
and jealous at seeing the money they
wanted for themselves diverted to pay
pensions, throws a fit under the head
ing of Billions Upon Billions" 1t says:
More than four thousand million dol
larsi A thousand million dollars more
than the total cost of the gigantic
military operations which occupied the
Government during the four years from
1861 to 1865, including the pay and
sustenance of all the armies, the build
ing and maintenance of all the fieetS,
the transportation of troops. the re-
cruiting and bounties, the arms and
ammunition and war material in every
form-in short, every item of Govern
ment expenditure on account of that
great struggle except the interest on
money borrowed wherewith to continue
the fight.
Four thousand million dollars on
pensions alonei Almost four-fifths OF
the total estimated valuation by the
census of 1s6O-true valuation, not as
sessed-of all the II Southern States
composing the Confederacy-
Four thousand million dollars More
than 10 times the total cost Of the
Panama Canal the greatest work of
peace ever undertaken by man.. s.s
The Suns figures are grossly mac
curate. Instead of the expenditure for
pesions being greater than the total
expense of the war, it is probably not
half that. \ year or two after the war
Secretary Sherman estimated that the
war had cost $500, 100000 This did
not take into account the vast pay
ments of interest, principal, etc, to the
bondholders and the hundreds Of mil
lions that have since been paid by the
Government on war claims, etc. 1t is
proba bic that the cost of the war ont
side of pensions will approximate sl0,-
000, 100000. The Sun forgets also that
the boudholders. who lent the Govern
ment not one-half what the veterans
donated to it of their wages, not one
half what they sacrificed in money in
order to save The country, have re-
ceived about sc, 900, ,000, 600 in principal
and interest. Where the bondholderS
lent greelbach dollars worth less than
so per cent of their face, they were
paid back gold dollars worth 100 cents.
10 to 12 per cent on what they loaned
the Government. The Sun was one Of
the papers that advocated this payment
of the last cent that the bondholders
could claim as "a matter of National
honesty" Now. why should it not be-
lieve that National honor requires that
the Government should treat the men
honestly" who gave to the Govern
ment far more than any money could
purchase? If National honor required
that the money lender should be paid
back more than three times what he
lent, why does not National honor as
strongly require that the men who sac
rifieed their prospects in life TO enlist in
the Governments service should be
given such a support in their old age as
will insure them against want and go
that far toward repairing the damage
they suffered by serving 1t in the field?