Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1911-07-20
On The Right Track

bic a future that "a believed several years back. Up to the
time of the introduction Of electricity a a motive power other
methods of raising water were too expensive to be considered in thu
reclamation of arid lands
This County unfortunately overlooked many opportunities in the
matter of reclamation. During the early days when two streams we're
aumed into this section and could have been purchased o abandon
ment the people declared it another industry gone and inquired out
their loss. Some moved away, but there ws n o attempt to benefit by
the waters that we're brought here by hume and pipe. 1t as allowed
to return to its natural channel and there it flows today
A number OF private individuals are endeavorng to place irrisable
lands in condition for the settlers. The proposition is to place such
lands in a cultivatable condition. sell them to ne settler TO a reason
able profit and turn their time and enersy to other ground in this
section. One ucces will mark a beginning that will practically have
no end. 1t is an endless chain plan. The profits of ne tract makes
profits from the neighboring acres
1t is expected that within tw eve months that the first lot OF
land will be offered for sale This should result in the real land
boom that Ormsby County has been in need of since the first settler
arrived. 1t will not be a boom of fancy prices, but one of conserva-
tive estmates' It will cost per acre to 'risate arnhcaiy tina
by natural streams and allowances are to be made for such conditions
The orHnators are O the right track and this county will benefit
thereby.
IN Los Angeles there is a sr ugge going on between the detect
ives IN the one hand to secure evidence which will ecur evidence
which will secure the conviction Of the men accused of blowing up
the Los Angeles Times building, and the friends of the defendants,
who are doing what they al to block the schemes OF the sleuths
Into the middle Of this struggle a woman has been forced, and she is
surely having a hard time of it. She has the misfortune to have for
a husband a man who is said to have confessed that he is a dynamiter
and murderer. and is presumed to know some details in connection
with the horrible crime At last accounts the detectives had failed to
make her tell what she knows, or what they think she knows, though
they have resorted to all the crueldes permitted by law, and probably
have interpreted the law rather literally as to how far they may go
in forcing a confession. The woman is not accused of having com
mitted any crime, yet she is Swallowed every moment by detectives
has been taken to an Office and cross-quesioned by shrewd lawyers
and hardened detectivea browbeaten, cajoLed and threatened until her
health has been injured and her nervous system shaken. In other
words, she has been given the third degree, with all the trimmings
Through it all she has refused to tell what the detectives want her to
This looks like carrying things too far, when a lot Of hired human
bloodhounds are permitted to harass and abuse a defenseess woman
into telling a story the way they want it told. Justice must be hard up
in Los Angeles when such methods are necessary-Wonder Mining
News.
Andrew Carnegie again says that he desires to die poor. In try
ing to learn when that strange idea first took possession of him W e find
that it was aher he W. sure of a fortune of several hundred million
dollars.
Dr. Woods Hutchinson onte nds that the average woman OF to
Day is taller than the aver-ge woman of a generation ago. He may
have in mind the pile of artificial curls and pufs the top of her
head.
An Eastern druggist has been sued for putting whisky in a temper
ace workers ice cream soda. He must have served his apprentice
ship in Kansas and have mistaken some innocent motion for a signal
The announcement that ven
merchant marine should be a repChina is building up a creditable
terprise. roach to this countrys boosted n