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The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1913-11-06
ADDRESS BEFORE
MINING CONGRESS
Continued from Page One)


land laws. In private transfers Of
land the reservation of mineral rights
is becoming more and more the com
mon practice.
The Government as a Trustee.
1.-The possessory title to the mineral
land should be retained in the gov
eminent simply as a practical method
Of assuring development under the
best conditions. Let us regard the
Federal government as a trustee rath-
err than as a sovereign landlord, and
the idea and purpose of proprietorship
by the people become more easily un-
derstood. The application of the
lease idea to the mining of precious
metals, while logical in certain re-
speets, is not at all of comparable i'm
portance with its application to what
have been termed public utility, min
eral resources, such as coal, petroleum,
phosphate and postash. The mining
law should provide for prospecting
permits that viii give exclusive oeeu-
paney during periods only long enough
- ldii 0NRAOIdliVh bN 0hiN luna va
prospeetors. The annual assessment
farce has had a long enough run. The
prospecting permit will ripen into a
lease whenever the results of ex-
ploration Justify the operation of the
property on a producing basis. Where
the proof of coal or oil or other min
eral substance in minable quantity is
a discovery on the type termed wild
cat in the case of oil, the prospeetor
rendering such service to the industry
and to the public should receive his
lease upon purely nominal terms.
"The essential features of the lease
should be conditions enforcing full
and continuous use, economy and safe
.ty o. operation, and control of occu-
paney. Transfers should not he pro-
hibited but simply made subject to ap.
proval by the peoples representative.
If in any region large units of produc-
ton are seen to favor lower costs and
a longer-lived industry, all for the
public good, consolidation of holdings
should be encouraged and transfers
of leases permitted; but if the purpose
of large holdings is monopolization in
order to curtail production and raise
prices, transfers to that end should be
denied the executive approval neces-
sary to make them effective. The ad-
vantage of the lease is that it allows
the government to exercise continued
control in the public interest
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1913-11-06
SUGAR TRUST WILL
PAY BIG JUDGMENT

The American Sugar Refining com
pany. known justly or unjustly as the
=. sugar trust, , will pay the judgment
of S220,5lS for unmetered water taken
from Brooklyn mains more than ten
years ago and the long controversy
will now be ended. 1t vas guesswork,
we imagine, more than pure mathe-
MATES, that fixed the amount due to
the city. Incidentally, the civil cour-
age Of former Depu' Water Commits
sioner Robert Van Iderstine is vim
dIcated by the surrender of the great
corporation.
1t was Van Iderstine who discovered
the leak from the Ridgewood reser-
voir. and who had the pipes uncovered
through which the water for which all
other manufacturers had to pay was
Ding freely to the sugar refineries at
the rate of about 100000 gallons a
day. He had the evidence as to the
diversion of water in a form that was
~indisputable, but how long this had
been going on, or how much had
been diverted in all the past years
was another question.
The American Sugar Refining com
pany, we believe, is now managed by
men who have no desire to take adj
vantage of the city and no desire to
dodge United States customs. They
will be glad to have the water matter
forgotten by everybody.-Brooklyn
Eagle.
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CHAMBER OF COhLERCE
MEETING THURSDAY EVENING

The regular monthly meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce will be held in
their office ON Thursday Nov. 6, 1913,
at s O'Clock p. m. Kindly attend.
FRANZ GERMAN, Secretary.
Advertisement 81
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REPORT

Weather forecast for Winnemucea
and vieinity-San Francisco, Nov. 6:
Fair; cooler tonight and Friday.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-23


outside. Then we heard something
crawl away. We did not go out, for.
of course, the grizzly might turn and
attack us, and we we're not in a
strategic position for, any attack In
the open.
I'VE kept awake until daylight
and then cautiously felt our way
outside. There was no bear In sight,
but, as Guy said he weuld naturally
crawl away to die, we crept down
toward the place where we stable
our mules, and there we saw some
blood. We followed it and it led US
straight to the stables" We shud-
dered, for perhaps we would find
that our animals had been butchered
by the bear.
"But, no, there we found poor old
Jumps leaning up against a tree.
looking very sad; his left ear was
badly torn and bleeding. The other
mules we're shifting at him, and then
we knew. Guy had forgotten to feed
the beasts, and Jumps had come
shifting around our camp to find
some fodder, and he lost his ear In
stead.
Guy has been furious all days.
says that it was my fault for choos-
ing to come on this kind of we'd
ding trip. But tell him that even
If our bear had turned out to be q
mouse or goat we had all the
excitement we would have had In
killing bear, and all the fears. too.
But he does not see things my way
any more, and 1t looks as though
we would be soon going where 1 cam
not wear my trousers nor see bears
in my Sleep"
At latest accounts the Count and
Countess de Lasteyrie are still in
the mountains, but another range.
They are looking for grizzly In
the Rockies, and, as the Count says,
"If the bear does not see them first,
they may get it."
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Why Rag ime Is the
True Music of ssEIustlers'

spring. Much dross will have to be-
cleared away in the process, much
vulgarity and consciousness will have
to give place to a saner, finer ideal.
What then Is rag time? Mr..
Louis Hirsch, we'll known composer
of such music, has recently declared
that the essence of rag time" Is. the
mixture of two rhythms,' Mr.. Frank
Kidson. in Groves Dictionary OF
Music defines rag time as broken
rhythm and 1t may be added that
in American slang to rag melody
is to syncopate normally regular
tune,
Rag time then, may be said to
be a strongly syncopated melody SUI
perimposed on strictly regular ac-t
compartment, and 1t Is the combina-
ton Of these two rhythms that gives
rag time It's character.
Nor must the words OF rag time
songs be forgotten: they must notbe
contemptuously dismissed as mean
ingless rubbish. They may bo<any-
thing as literature-inaeed, they
often cannot be said to be either
sense or grammer-but for all that
they are an interesting study in the
fitting of verbal to musical pat.
tern. No one In his senses tries to
hear the words OF rag Tina song
with a view to understanding their
meaning; but any one can hear
enough OF them to see how the me-
tres and >rhyme-schemes emphasize
and increase the rhythm Of the
music" =;
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Thomas Honeymoon

funny that just as plan to shoot bear
or cat always get chased home by
some kind OF an animal. I never knew
before that wild animals were such
speeders. And / never knew either how
fast could run. I'll win all the races
next season at Bailey's Beach, I am sure,
without trying. But to return to the ex-
element
Guy was too cross to get up and see
what the trouble was with the mules, and
so we went to sleep, but suddenly
walked UP feeling that someone was look
ing at me. It was just the feeling that
you read about in psychological novels.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-23
T1HE new and tremendous vogue
in London OF popular rag
Il +t,,an ,,,,s,o n,tioh or,o;,,t

T~HE new and tremendous vogue
in London OF popular rag
4 time" musio-which original.
ed in the United States about twenty
years ago and steadily gained In pub.
lie favor ever since-has inspired
that grave and weighty newspaper,
the London Times, to justify. even to
applaud, rag time" in the following
whole-hearted manner:
There Is no doubt that there Is al
present one class Of creative and
executive artists whom the public
of the United States is disposed 10
idolize and enrich-namely, the com
posers and singers of rag time Can
the world also respect them? Char.
acter and vigor earn respect all the
world over, even when the charac.
ter is unpleasant and the vigor mis-
directed.
Now Of the character OF rag time
there can be no Doubt Is absolute
ly characteristic of Its inventors
from nowhere but the United States
could such music have sprung; 1t IS
the music of the hustler, of the
feverishly active speculator; OF the
'skyscraper' and the grain elevator
Nor can there be any doubt about its
vigor-vigor which is, perhaps, emp
ty sometimes and meaningless. but,
In the hands OF competent interpre-
tiers. trimming over with life.
Here, perhaps, then. for those who
have ears to hear are the seeds from
which national art may ultimately
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-23
always get chased home" writes the Countess.

"Just between ourselves there are
times when would like to see first-class
chef come ambltng up the trail! 1t Is not
so very adventurous, after all. to have to
make ones own coffee and cook ones own
meat. 1t Is adventurous to shoot the meat,
but, ON. the cooking of it!
And the coffee. l make It myself, and
1t is far harder to drink 1t than to make It,
Guy told me this morning that he has
about decided that coffee is bad for his
nerves. and that from now on need make
it only for myself. The truth Is, that
think it has got on my nerves, too, and
shall not make any more. Perhaps our
nervousness will leave us when we get
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-23

back where good coffee can be found!
"How many grizzlies have we shot?
S4h:h.h! S-h-h-h! There are none here
In California. We are going later to Col
orado, where the grizzly, they say, grows
as commonly as stones do here We have
several black bears and two big brown
ones, shall have their skins sent to
( France. Then killed one mountain lion
all by myself. No. / did not shoot it'll
was too scared to aim straight-but l
rolled a big rock down on him as he.was
coming up the trail and he fell over the
precipice He is still down there, so that
ts one skin won't have.
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ITS funny but every time we plan bear hunt we always

do we want with guide? might az we'll
nave brought my maid-only, of course,
she would not have come
Let me see. what do think of this
west? Well, it is very straight-lsfced and
prim. might as we'll think of wearing
trousers In Boston as In San francisco or
Los Angeles. but do not intend to write
about that part of the Vest 1t is too
tame.
MY first day Wit. the muHe was not a
happy one. You sec ,IumpsS q call mine
Jumps, and Guy CTS hisj 'Bumps) had
sensed the difference immediately, even
though l did wear my breaches. He
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-23

"a +. +
4seemed to have almost human intelligence.
-aihnd he kicked as much as mother ever did
ewhen / tried to introduce the breeches
l'ynabit into Newport Guy couldn't help
,nme, for while Jumps was living UP to his
asname Bumps was living up to hers, and
OF she bumped poor Guy off half dozen
os times before we got fairly started. But
Ia after while they got used to us and we
ie had very little trouble. am sending you
\ q a sketch showing Guy and Bumps at one
wt sad moment"
en- The quotations given here are not all
lei from the same letter, but are culled from
!sla series that her friends call the Honey
moon Series. They give mental snapshots
OF of various episodes that occurred to the
el venturesome bride and her acquiescent
! 3 husband:
otl Our camp is not bit like the Adiron.
Ttdack camps that I've visited. 1t Is the
lreal thing we have two shacks, or tents
ll-one to sleep in and one to keep our stuff
pin. and we eat here in bad weather. We
afhave plenty Of running water. The creek
altruns right in front OF our camp, but SO far
nsNature has not provided any running hot
idwater.
M DO you know, there are times when I
sNhink that Guy regrets his home comforts
ixhnd wishes that we had elected to honey
hfmoon at some hotel in New York, where
,4lyalets are as common as snow Ia here.
nAIiAnd he says that he never has shaved be-
Whore with cold water. He is a product OF
an effete monarchy and will always re-
sMY main so, I fear.
n "The first three days While he was try
ing to make lather with icy mountain
water, pure and sparkling, he swore fright
fully. lie does not swear any more, but.
then he does not shave any more, either.
Then the daylthe mountain lion chased
/, us up q frightful precipice he did not seem
to he very happy. He seemed to regret
something that he had done in his life.
4 was not unhappy, because ] was we'll
ahead Of Guy any way. And I adore adj
enture. 49, :s
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The Countess
de Lasteyrie,
the Exponent
of the
New Honeymoon.

I turned to Guy. for, after all, he Is
a man, even If do wear breeches,
and felt that needed the comfort
that man can give. Guy was-er
we'll, he'd been working hard, you
know, and newell, he was snoring,
but he woke up when I kicked him,
and then we both looked round, and
there, shifting round under the edge
Of our tent, was the wickedest look
Ing nose you ever saw.
II shuddered and whispered: It's
a grizzly! know, for I've seen
them at the Zoo, and I've seen pic.
lures OF them, tool
Guy reached out and found his
rife, and while we were expecting
to have our tent topnle over each
second and be sma shed by the bear,
Guy lifted his rife and fired. It was
a terrible moment. There was n
most unearthly shriek-one that
seemed almost human-and then the
most horrible clatter and rumbling
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-23

Hu8ety as could be all the eve
ming, and said that / thought
they smelled bear or perhaps
a big cat. But Guy was cross.
He had spent the whole day
trying to open some cans Of
beef and fish, and cleaning up
the camp generally, and he was
tired and cross. l felt fine,
although I'd walked ten miles
along the trail and been
chased five miles back by
a brown bear. 1t is SO
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Observation-Disclosures

Guy shot big lion yesterday He says
that he really could not help it-that the
beast got right in front OF his rifle while
he was aiming at q rabbitlike animal, and
the lion was SO much bigger he simply
could not have missed him any way.
"Ive sent to San Francisco for some
more trousers. The four pairs brought
with me are wearing out, and l must not
be left breechesless!
II am far too comfortable without
skirts ever to want to wear them again.
but cannot see the chatelaine of the De
Lasteyrie chateaus going about In trou-
sers! But I'll revel in them while / have
the chance.
We had the most exciting time last
night. The mules (even Bumps) were as
The Nome daily nugget., 1913-12-16

ntr Jed intellie ence to the task to be ken up after the mind has had a tie holiday than before. oh. 1t is not easy to cast aside these 'rious things, even for few minutes, alone n few hours. especially If one l las allowed oneself to get too deep should be done and it must be done | by him who would succeed. \ mind change of thought is bigger sset to tho man of business than Il dozen GUS toners. For the freshened mind will devise ways to get the new custom CTS and hold them.
 NTi ny businesses are ruined by noth- irG more than because the firm Is down .r ,ut and will not get out. Many businesses are saved because the rut has nnen discovered In time and the
 firm IS manfully climbed out of 1t.
 A good way to get out of any rut mentnl or physical. is to change the routine little Don't think SO much about yourself and the business. Get cut and go to things that are lively md fverting read books of any kind that interest you Mingle with people on pleasure bent and go to church and listen to sermons on subjects that dD rot at of business. You will find that there is a whole lot ill the world besides what you could see from the rut and you will also discover that there are many new ideas and thought t!.it had not come to you but which ''.n h" applied tn the business for it's aiv,nc, ment
 When a man finds he is in a rut. no matter how many years he has been there. his best move is to get out of it at once. He'll h" surprised to find how 1t changes things to swing aiound and see conditions from a broader viewpoint.
 Ch; nge the routine occasionally. get i' where things are lively and where [ ] ,lsiness can he put aside for a time
 ird then when you go back to busi- , ness you will notice that the rut is not x" deep and that new ideas will me which will push things along Get this change of scene of environ
 m"nt. of ideas often enough and after q while the rut will disappear and
 business will become profitable pleas ure
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will be useless without the prop crews to man them. And more. the will not be any use in manning the. at all unless at the same time we pr' vide for their support by that branc If the army without which the' would be no army. The infantry.
 our entire coastline is practically de- ferseless. Our every island and out lying possession is defenseless for lack of coast artillery. But there will b" l;ttle use in aurmenting the gunners and the guns unless at the same time we give them the infantry which will make their pr, lection possible.
 Artillery. both light and heavy. Is absolutely essential to anly system or defense Cavalry is necessary and the several stan corps are necessary. Rnt cr'v as adiuncts to the infantry. With "n: q proper proportion of foot soldiers the rest of the army might just as we'll not he. The infantry is the army and the other branches are supports for the infantry.
 All praise unto the gentlemen in congress who have seen the necessity of planting guns along the defenses of 'he canal. More praise to them if they will while they are al 1t. make these l"fc ses as in,pregnable as possible. Hut the highest praise will be reserved foi a congress which will learn enough of military lore from those whose busi- ness is national defense to make them realize that none of their appropria- lions will he worth while until they provide m adequate increase in tn :.
 'I.rtry arm of the service and 'h"n t,rce the whole outfit to get in and make real soldiers out of themse,, 'S. The army will io it if congress will give Il ch'nCe.
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pnc of the very worst habits in the world is the habit of getting into a rut and staying there. It Is bad to get into d manual rut and 1t Is bad to get into physical rut and either habit is q mighty hard habit to overcome
 The average man of business gets into rut and it is bad for the man, fer his family and bad for the business Moreover the longer he drags himself along in the rut the deeper the rut gets, until finally it is so deep that he cannot see over the edges of 1t and he doesn't know that there is a great big world outside of the rut, full of vital and interesting objects and sug- cestions
 Right here. when the business man reaches the point when he cannot see ever the rut that he has been travel ing in for years Is when his business is most likely to go down hill.
 There are right now men who not only are wearing down a rut for them selves. but they started in rut. the one that father left them. This rut was already pretty deep when the man took hold of 1t and he has plugged along in it year after year until it Is now so deep that a derrick couldn't lift him out and if he did manage to get up into the fresh air of advance ment he would probably be killed by the shock.
 People often complain that business Is bad. Very true. at times business is bad. but 1t is a good deal worse for the man down in the rut than 1t is for the man who has kicked him. self free from the we'll worn path and ds monstrated something original
 When the brain has been in the rut too long it is almost impossible to pry it out but it can be done.
 Che bad rut to get into is the one where man thinks that business is going to the bow VOWS if he isn't on tho job every minute of the day and thinking about the job half of the night. A proper attention to business details is of course necessary. but one continuous and concentrated thought or business and self is a bad thing for both.
 If rlan can for a few ours every day throw the cares of business en- tircl" away. forget for even a little time the perplexities. the worries and the figures. he will have accomplished much in the way of getting out of the rut.
 He will find after a few hours of recreation that he can give more and better thought to the problems that confront him than if he had kept his weary mind grinding always on the subject. The mind is refreshed by the relaxation and what refreshes the mind refreshes the body.
 It is hard to cast aside the worries that come with the management ol business. or with the following of ( rrofcs:ion and yet if the habit of cast. i2s it all aside. for little time eacf day can be formed one will be ablt to briny more of energy. more of con.
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The steamship Cristobal sailed out oi New York harbor today with the inst battery of guns to be mounted on the defcnscs of the new Panama canal. That Is cheerful news. Much more cheerful than some of the honorabl gentlemen In the senate and house oI representatives of the United States wish us to hear. for some of these gen tlcmen actually d!saprovcd of fortify- ing the great inter oceanic waterway that we have built.
 It is d remeakable thing that some ot the governors of this land of ours, if we may call the conglomerate body composing the legislative branch by so distinguished d title as governors i'm plies. have never been able to see the necessity of preparing for the defense of the great land that we have hewn out of the virgin wilderness of North America or for the protection of the empire in the way of colonies and out lying possessions that we have builded from the fragments of the earth that have como into our possession either hy peaceful means or by conquest
 We have left our own coasts de- fenseless. pray for any foreign foe that may wish to attack us. We have escaped 1t more by good luck than good management. We have re- lied upon the vastness of our terri tory and the prompt response of our manhood to the call to arms to repel invasion or to make invasion impossi- ble. We have replied upon these two ferces and yet had the time come or stould the time come now when a for eign foe assails our shores we would find that thousands upon thousands O. good American lives would have to b.. sacrificed to make up for the dila . tCriousness of the men who rule us.
 Sending guns to the Panama canal zone is an excellent and necessary thing and we should send not one bat : tcry but many batteries of these in svrance agents of peace. To half do the job is as bad as not doing it ot all
 In this connection there is another matter that so far the legislative gen. t!emen who are having the guns sent tu the canal have overlooked. It is a very serious omission and it might render the guns useless and the money appropriated for their construction thrown away. That is the lack of men to man the guns once the engineers have put them in place.
 A horse is useless for all practical purposes without driver and these bs. ttseies which are going to be em- placed on the defenses of the canal