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The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1912-08-08

Don't forget our Summer Clear
ance Sale of spring and summer
goods. Mrs. J. w. Williams,
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1912-08-08

Ladies', Misses and children S
Sill pers at summer sale prices.
Mrs. J. w. Williams.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1912-08-08

J. M. Daniel and daughter,
Miss Cora, of Winchester, visited
relatives in the city last week.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-01-23
PACKARD PRINCE
OF entertainers

At the Nixon opera house, Saturday
evening, Alton Packard proved him
self to be prince of entertainers. For
one hour and half he held his audi
ence, without intermission, which is a
feat few men can accomplish. His
cartoon work was excellent, and in this
particular line he is probably without
superior in the country. He is also
a musician Of far more than ordinary
ability. His songs, which possessed
the merit of being his own compost
tion, were new and set to catchy
music.
The entertainment Saturday evening
was the second of the series being Civ
en- by the county high school. The
third and concluding number will be
given on March 81, when Ratio, the
impersonator, will make his appear
ance.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-01-23
COMPLETION OF THE
FRANCO SWISS TUNNEL

The completion or the great C0ntl-
mental railway lines for international
trade is increasingly keen, and engi,
neers are constantly studying the best
means of shortening the journeys be-
tween southern and central Europe
and the north of the continent, while
inanciers seem always ready to sink
capital in a tunnel that has reason
able prospect of securing the interna-
tional traffic at present running over
other lines. For example, the Lotsch-
berg tunnel, nine and a quarter miles
long, which is to cost $9,732, 900, was
not constructed for the convenience Of
few thousand peasants in the Ber-
nese Overland valleys, but to attract
the traffic between northern Europe
and Italy, which at present passes over
the st. Gothard and the Simplon
routes.
In 1907 an international commission
was appointed to study the best means
of improving the connection between
France and Italy and central Europe,
and it was on the basis of the conclu-
sions of this commission that the
French government carried on it's me-
gotiations with the Swiss republic
More than a year later a conference
met at Berne, attended by delegates
of the two countries. In 1909 another
conference met, which drew up a con-
vention concerning the approach lines
to the Simplon This convention stipu-
lated, first, for the building of the
Frasne- Vallorbe line and the Mont
dor tunnel; secondly, for the con-
struction of the Moutier-Granges line
and tunnel.
| The new line and tunnels will cost
about $7,200,000. Work was begun on
September 8, 1910, and it is hoped that
the line will be ready for traffic in the
spring of 1914. So far there do not
appear to have been any particular
difficulties encountered. For the first
three months all the boring was done
by hand, but since then compressed air
machinery Of the Meyer type has been
used, as is the case on the north side
of the Lotschberg. There are three all
eompressors at work, two of 320 horse
power and one of 100 horsepower
Near the French entrance of the tun
mel compressed air station has been
erected; it is worked by electricity
the current being brought in from
Joux by high tension aerial line. Ven
tilation in the Mont dor tunnel is by
means of compressed air, as in the
Lostschberg. Italian workmen are EN-
ployed, as in the case in all Alpine
tunnels.-London Times.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-01-23
HOTEL LAFAYETTE ARRIVALS

A. Packard, New York.
j. ID. Walker, National.
p. q. Clayton, Sacramento.
Harry Darlington, agent Harper Co.
Joe Schlossberg, San Francisco.
j. j. Smith, Chicago.
w. A. Donald and wife, city.
Ii. A. solomon, San Francisco.
A. ID. Munroe, National.
Thos. Huston, Reno.
c. +. Wade, San Francisco.
Il. Olmsted, Reno.
Nj. l.. Siegel and wife, city.
l.. j. Masero and sister, San Fran
cisco.
G. X. Mcclellan, Hobart Mills.
V. +. Paris, Elko.
G. j. Harley, Salt Lake.
G. s. Brundt, San Francisco.
j. M. Mendell, San Francisco.
w. Il. Gore, San Francisco.
John A. Gill, Reno.
r. A. Brannan, Cincinnati.
ii. w. Mailer, Knoxville.
Il. w. Collet and wife, National.
NJ. l.. Walker, city.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-01-23
D|CKERSON Dis
CUSSFS POLITICS

In an interview published in the
Elko Free Fress Ex-Governor Dicker-
son, upon his return from the western
part of the state, is quoted as follows:
Congressman Roberts will no
doubt be the Republican nominee from
Nevada and from present indications
there are three good men from the
Democratic ranks who are spoken Of
as his opponents, Attorney Miller, of
Lyon county, Judge Sanders, of Tono-
pah, and Pat McCarren, of Reno. 1t is
understood that Judge Sweeney will
not again be a candidate for the su-
preme bench and Judge Tallman, of
Nye county, is spoken of az Demo
cratic candidate for this office. While
II is too early to get a line on the
individual candidates, 7 find that the
Democratic party throughout the state
is in harmony this year, mad will en-
ter the fight with a solid front, and I
believe the national delegates will go
to Baltimore on June 25th instructed
for Wilson as the man to lead the
Democratic party to victory.
Ny trip has been made from a
purely business viewpoint and / ac-
knowledge politics has entered into it
more or less. ePrsonally ] have no
political ambition, whatever, but can
see nothing but Democratic land
slide this year.
ct find everything and everybody in
q very optimistic mood, the mines in
the southern and western part of the
state producing more every month,
new important discoveries have been
made the past summer, and new prop
critics being developed. Ely is in bet
ter condition today than ever before
and more men are employed than at
any time in its history.
"But of all portions Of the state
Elko county has the best outlook.
Everywhere the possibilities of this
county are talked about. You are GO
ing TO have thousands of land seekers
from the east visit you this year, and
you should make provisions to take
care of them. Your mining outlook is
exceptionally good, Jarbidge and Gold
Circle being conceded by mining men
to have as good future as any camp
ever known. With George Wingfeld's
stamp of approval on the JarbidPe dis
trict there will be a rush in there as
soon as the snow makes it possible to
work the surface, that will rival the
early mining days of Tonopah. / am
going back to Ely to attend to i'm
portant business matters, and then
] am going into the Jarbidge district
to look that camp over.
81 was in Carson City at the time
the assessors were in session and it
did me world of good to see the
Southern Pacific road assessed at the
figure ! always contended it should
have been-$35,000 per mile. This is
the right figure, and should have been
there years ago.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-01-23
NO MORE FAST TIME
FOR WINEMUCCA

Sunday the Western Pacific adopted
time table No. s, with Pacific or l20th
meridian time for its standard. AS
both railroads have now adopted what
is locally known as "slow time," it
is probable that there viii be no furth-
er annoyance to citizens of Winnemuc-
ca owing to an hours difference in time
between the town and railroad sta
tions. Under the new schedule pas
senger trains will arrive and depart
at this terminal as follows: No. 1
will arrive at LAS a. IN. and will
leave at 1:50 "a. m; No. will arrive
at 3:45 a. m. and will leave at 1855 a..
m; No. will arrive at 11:49 a. IN. and
will leave at 11:59 a. m; No. will
arrive at 500 p m. and will leave at
5:l0 p. m.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-01-23
BACKACHE IS A, WARNING
Winnemucca People Should Not Ne
glect Their Kidneys

Backache il nature most frequent
signal of sick or weakened kidneys.
To cure the pains and aches, to re-
move the lameness you must reach the
cause.-the kindneys. If you have
pain through the small of your back,
arinary diordcrs, headaches, dizzy
spells, or are nervous and depressed,
start treating the kidneys with test
cd kidney remedy. The slightest symp-
toms of kidney trouble may be ma
ture's warning of approaching dropsy,
diabetes. or fatal Bright's disease.
Doan's Kidney Pills should be used at
tho first sign of disorder. Doan's Kid
ney Pills are especially for sick kid
neys--have been curing kidney trouble
for over rs years. Read Winnemueca
testimony.
Mrs. George Gingery, Railroad st.,
Winnemucca, New, says: Although
have never had occasion to use
Doan's Kidney Pills personally, l
know they are a good remedy for back
ache and kidney troubles. They have
been taken in my family with excel
lent results and l can safely recon-
mend them.'
For sale by all dealers. Price SO
cents. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the nams-Doan 's-snd
take no other.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-01-23
RICE CONDUCTS
HIS own DEFENSE

A special dispatch from New York
to the Goldfeld Tribune, under date of
January 20, says: Tex Rickard was a
witness for George Graham Rice in his
trial in the Federal court and doomed
the mining properties promoted by
him and his associates. The govern
ment objected to him testifying as an
expert, but the court allowed him to
do so as practical miner who said he
knew all about mines and ores and
worked in them and prospected for
them and owned an interest in them,
and described for the jury the meth
DDS used in mining gold and copper.
Rice, who conducted the examination
of the witness, was in huff because
the government protested against
Rickard telling Of the value of prop
critics adjoining Rawhide Coalition and
the population of Rawhide in 1908. "I
simply want to show" shouted Rice,
"that I did not go into desert to
kick up heap of sand and call it a
mine'
Rickard said he made large invest
ments in Rawhide Coalition and re-
ceived big dividends. In reply to
Rice he declared he once tried to buy
Ely Central control at SO per share in
behal of W. B. Thompson, owner of
the Copper Mines company, and testi-
fed he was in Bovard at the time
Scheftels & Co. promoted the Bovard
Consolidated Mining company. He
saw men taking ore out personally
and examined Ely Central and Raw
hide Coalition. Both were good mines
and in operation and he bought prop
erty adjoining Ely Central. The copper
deposits there were so rich, he said,
the ore was shoveled up with a steam
shovel. Rice tried to get Rickard to
explain the reason for the Ely Central
market slump from $4 to $l25 per
share in November, 1908, but the court
stopped the witness, declaring he was
not qualified to answer such a ques-
tion.
Under cross-examination Rickard
said John D. Ryan, president of the
Amalgamated Copper comany, at one
time tried to get control of Ely Cen
tral.
Harry Hedrick was recalled to
read the market letters he wrote for
the defendants. There was no refer
ence in them to possession of stocks.
Counsel for the defense claimed the
letters proved that the house was not
a bucket shop because it gave custom
ers importial advice to buy and sell.
In the wrangle with the government,
the latter intimated that the advice to
sell other shares was given so defend
ants could get their customers to buy
their "house' stock subsequently.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-01-23
DISTANT VIEW OF
THE MOUNTAIN

Ashland (Ore.) Record: Sylvester
Patterson returned Monday night from
Winnemucca, Nevada, where he was
called last week by his brother law,
David Payne, who has made a rich
find of gold ore. Mr.. Patterson
brought back samples of ore from the
general run of the Payne ledge which
assay SAT to the ton. Half mile from
the Payne ledge ore has been taken
out that assayed $l50,000 to the ton.
Just north of Winnemucca is mine
whose ore is so rich that it is shipped
under guard. While Mr.. Patterson
was there he saw two autos come in
with fifteen sacks of high-grade ore
under heavily armed guard. The fif-
teen sacks were from the National
mine, and were valued at $4,000.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-01-23
Mining BUREAU
AD|SAPPO|NTMENT A

Those familiar with the steps taken
to establish the federal bureau of
mines recall that the functions of the
institution did not receive the full
consideration of mining men that it
certainly deserved. This was not case
of oversight, because it was ackowl-
edged at the time that the important
thing was to secure first of all the
passage of the act creating the bureau
in any form that would command the
vote of congress. This bureau as it
stands was the result of years of inter
mittent effort to gain further recog-
milton of the mining industry in the
executive branch of the government,
and the mere establishment of it was
considered as a point in itself, without
regard to immediate particulars.
Now there is a disposition to i'm
prove upon the bureau, to enlarge it's
scope and more carefully define its
purposes. In the west great deal of
emphasis is laid upon the extension of
the bureau IS activities to the matter
of ore testing and solving of metal
lurgical and ore-dressing problems.
This arises from a desire of mine own
ers to see devised or improved neces-
sary methods of treating complex, low
grade deposits of mineral. Owners of
small properties are especially anxious
to have the bureau establish metallur.
gical stations in the west, and dis
position to advance local interests in
this respect has cropped out at several
points.
On the other hand, some mining and
metallurgical engineers oppose what
they consider to be an effort to have
the bureau invade the province of
private enterprise. Certain problems
of ore dressing and smelling are held
to be in the realm of private duty and
not properly the business of the gov
ernment. The more conservative indi-
viduals would exclude the government
from investigations that bear directly
upon the work of the consulting engi-
neer, while others admit that there
may be some broad questions, beyond
the scope of private work at this
time, winch the bureau of mines could
appropriately take up. These questions
concern manly the problems of con
serVation, where conservation is not
now attempted by private enterprise
rms is aside from the primary con
sideration OF preserving the health and
llves OF worknlen, which, as is well
known, was the prime argument in Sc
curing the establishment of the
bureau.
Signs exist that congress will, soon
er or later, adopt a new organic law
Tor the bureau of mines, perhaps
broader and more general in its scope.
The director, j. A. Holmes, has made
proposals In this direction, with the
cooperation of members of congress.
There Is no reason to believe that the
general nature OF the legislation will
change the understood purpose of the
bureau, although, as already pointed
out, there are some who would prefer
to restrict its activities to the direct
lines of health and safety to mine
workers, provision against accident
and similar ends.-Mining Science.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-01-23
YOUR BILL SHOULD BE
PAID PROMPTLY

The man who can pay his bills and
doesn t is one of the public enemies
who are responsible for the slow re-
eovery of business. He cripples indus
try, restrains trade and creates long
line of debtors who cannot pay. He is
brake upon prosperity, drag upon
humanity.
lie has been deterrent factor in
business tn epast five years, ranking in
Oppressive effect next to the financial
furry of 1907. The habit of deferring
payment, contracted anew in 1907, has
become chronic with individuals, firms
and corporations, and has served to
harass business to an extent apprecia-
BILE only to the bankers who carry the
accounts of the retailers and smaller
manufacturers.
BY withholding payment of one bill
procession of difficulties is formed.
boards his cash and embarrasses b,
who has to put off G, and ID is pressed
to the wall The chain of evil, started
by the prosperous, reaches down
merce and labor, cramping enterprise,
confning trade and CALLING most of all
the men at the bottom of the busines
structure
This survival of panic times has be
come engrafted upon our business sys-
tenn to such an extent that in some
circles the pride in being considered
prompt pay is now regarded as old
fashioned, and skill in putting off
one IS obligations has come to be reck-
oned desirable acquisition
But the business situation today SER
iously demands the classing of the de-
iherate slow payer with the cheat.
His reformation would free the invol-
untary slow payer from plight that
is none of his choosing, and would
make the wheels of business hum with
prosperity.-New York Mail
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-01-23
THE GREAT GIFT OF
NATURE, GASOLINE
What is gasolines

what Is gasollnef
Commercially speaking, it is the rea-
sonably limpid, colorless fluid, care
fully thinned and lightly sprinkled
with tiny splinters-these latter being
provided to clog your carburetor-fo
which the proprietor of the wayside
garage charges you from Is to 40 cents
per gallon, according to tn edavertis-
ed price of your car and the presence
or absence of chauffeur on your list
of accessories. Ordinarily, gasoline is
found surrounded by "No Smoking"
signs, the inference being that a
lighted cigar is dangerous in it's
vicinage; although many hold that the
article frequently encountered today
might be used with the utmost success
as the sousing factor of a fire ex-
tinguisher.
In nature, we find gasoline to exist
in petroleum, an indolene, oleaginous
juice which went to the bowels of the
earth to hide from the eye of man, and
was dragged out and put to work.
And, in this connection, some day or
other, when gasoline comes into its
full recognition, a learned savant is
going to get up a mighty interesting
little monograph which will throw
new light on the true cause of earth
quakes and place the blame where it
belongs.
Chemically. one distills gasoline
from petroleum. A little natural gas
fizzles out at first; then little frac-
tion Of rhigolene. Rhigolene, by the
way is an anaesthetic, and in it's pres
ence here we find another example of
natures wonderfully beautiful work
ing; being about to endow us with
gasoline and all that it entails, a per-
fectly reliable pain-kill is first pro-
vided, to be tucked away conveniently
and used when needed. The rhigoline
worked off, gasoline comes to exist
ence. There are several varieties,
plain and fancy, light and heavy, each
with its uses. The last of the lot to
come over is "stove' gasoline, and
even this lives up to its honored sur
name, as a source of action and enter
tainment Handled by an absent
minded person, in just the improper
way, a gasoline stove will furnish more
real motion and diversion than any
one thing under the sun. With the
load of gasoline removed, a pang of
shame comes to petroleum.; it settles
down contentedly to give forth kero-
sene for our lamps, vaseline for our
burns, paraffin for our jelly jars and it
gasolines no more.-Edgar Franklin, in
the February Popular Mechanics.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-01-23
"elGHTS" ARE THEIR HOODOOS
Postal Clerks Say Stamps OF That
Demon ination Cause Them
Mucn Financial Loss.

When a meek little man stepped
up 10 tie stamp window in a branch
Office and asked for an eight cent
stamp he caused as much consterna
tion as If he had demanded your
money or your life
All the clerks came TO the window
TO take look at him They muttered
to one another and made strange and
fantastic signs, crossed their fingers.
Knocked on wood and did various 9th
er things that are supposed to drive
away evil spirits
We're Just out OF eight cent
stamps clerk finally stammered
Got lots OF two and ones"
Well, gimme a five and three"
said the meek little man upon receiv.
Ing which he paid for them and de-
parted
What's the matter with the
e'ghts?" queried an inquisitive specta.
tor
The stamp clerk was still too nerv
GUS to answer. but one OF the others
said, with smile:
EiSnts are noouOoS. none OF the
email Offices handle them II they can
help 1t It's this way: They are just
wee shade different in color from
the ones and II Is no infrequent thing
Tor stamp clerk in hurry to hand
out a lot of eights when ones are
asked and paid for II always costs
him seven cents a stamp when he
does 1t. The clerk here the other
day, during the rush hour, when the
offices are closing. was called upon for
q dollars worth of ones. He handed
out hundred eights instead Cost
him seven dollars Then he got rid
or all the rest of the eights and now
ne won't have anything to do with
eights. Even says eaten instead OF
ate"
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-01-23
VISITS DAUGHTER ATTENDING
SCHOOL IN WINNEMUCCA

T. l.. Dwyer, of Ogden, arrived on
s. z. No. 5 Saturday morning to visit
his daughter, Rhea Dwyer, he placed
in school here. Mr.. Dwyer is an engi-
neer on the Southern Pacific and has
been in the service of the Hartman
lines 26 years.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-01-23
SHERIFF LAMB RETURNS
WITH STOLEN HORSES

Sheriff Lamb returned Sunday even
ing from Oakland, bringing with him
two horses claimed to have been stol-
en- by R. c. Wilson and shipped to
Cochrane, the horsebuyer. Both
horses had been resold, one for ship
ment to the Hawaiian islands and the
other to the Standard Oil company.
One of the animals was stolen from L..
G. Grigaby, Of Paradise valley, the
other from Sam Evans, who resides in
the Pine Forest country.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-01-23
DIR. WHEELER'S FAMILY
COMING FROM OREGON

Mrs. L. G. Wheeler and Miss Edith
Wheeler, wife and daughter of DR.. l..
G. Wheeler, the well-known mining
man, will arrive from Baker, Oregon,
this evening. DIR. Wheeler has decided
to take up his residence in Winnemuc-
ca, in order that he may conveniently
look after his extensive mining inter
ests in this county.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-01-23
FLOWER AND GARDEN SEEDS
FOR FREE DISTRIBUTION

Senator Nixon has sent to the Sill
yer State, for distribution among resi-
dents of Humboldt county, a large
supply OF flower and vegetable seeds.
Parties wishing them may call and se-
cure what they need.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-01-23
DIR. DONALD WILL
LOCATE AT MANHATTAN

W. A. Donald and DR.. Donald left
on No. 5 this morning for Manhattan,
where the latter will open dental of
fees while her husband attends to his
mining properties situated there.
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Hardin, Dr. Don
AIDS parents, left yesterday, via the
Western Pacific, for Southern Califor-
MIA, where they will remain for the
next few weeks, returning to Winnie
mucca in March.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-01-23
VERDI LUMBER COMPANY
REDUCES PRICE OF WOOD

Attention is directed to the new dis
play advertisement of the Verdi Lum-
Der company, which appears in another
column of this issue. The feature is
the announcement of the reduction in
the price of wood, which has been cut
from $500 to $4.75 per load of one
cord. This is cheaper than a consumer
can afford to go out and cut sagebrush
for.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-01-23
CHANGE IN MANAGEMENT
AT 1.-THE BUD' CAFE

The latter part of the week, Sutton
& Sutherland purchased "The Bud"
cafe from W. }. Bradley, taking p,s
session Sunday evening. Both gentlt-
men are wellknown Salt Lake caterers
and will continue to conduct "The
Bud as frst-class eating house.
serving everything in the market at
re asonable prices.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-01-23
LAKE IRRIGATION
co. LETS CONTRACT

The latter part of the week the
Continental Lake Irrigation company
let contract for an additional mile of |
canal and the concrete headgates to r.
Fl. Vickers.