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Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-07-03
HOW RENO GETS
COMMERCIAL CLUB
Nevada Metropolis Sets An Example
That Should Be EmuIated BY
Ambitious EIko

The Reno Gazette last night has an
article showing how the campaign is
progressing for the new Commercial
club in Reno. The comments of the
Gazette aptly apply to conditions here
, In Elko. 1t says:
Part of the wonderful growth of Los
Angeles Is unquestionably due to the
work of its City Club, an organization
of the lading men in the professions
and in business. Every Saturday
noon the members would meet at the
Westminster Hotel dining room and
with the mayor presiding, listen to
talks by experts on live public topics.
These talks would be brief and would
then he discussed by different men,
bers. Later the club became SO bad
ly mixed up with politics that many
of its best members stayed away, but
Tor years it was the big factor in civic
development. There are many i'm.
provement organizations in Los An
geles, besides the chamber of COM
merce, but all these bodies usually
sought the approval of the City Club
before pushing development plans.
When the plan went before the pub
lie, therefore, it was ready to be car
ried out
1t Is such club that Reno needs
and The Reno Commercial Club, under
the plan now, being carried out, pro-
poses to stand in much the same re-
lation to Reno as the City Club of Los
Angeles stood to Los Angeles. Every
body who is not a member of the or
ganization should join and, when the
weekly luncheons are begun, as many
members as possible should attend
and give their personal advice in the
general discussion of every subject
that shall be proposed Everybody
wants Reno to grow and everyone can
see that now is the time to bring
about that growth. The Reno Com
merclal Club will not only advance
methods of increasing the population
and business of the city but it will
also constitute standing committee
on ways and means. II will be an or.
ganization for Reno and Nevada first,
last and all the time.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-07-03
COMPLAIN OF
LINCOLN HIGHWAY
Why Cant They Como BY Way Of
Overland Trail Which Is
All Right?
Reno Journal:

At meeting of the directors of the
Commercial club held in the club
rooms last evening. n movement to
repair the part of the Lincoln High
way passin gthrough the Sand Springs
country in Churchill county was
started.
Many tourists arriving in Reno
lately have complained of the condi-
tion of this stretch of road and have
Informed their friends to such an en-
tent that a portion of the transcon-
tinental travel is going south by way
of Los Angeles" said w. II. G. Buck,
secretary of the Commercial Club.
The directors have decided to ask
the cooperation of California cities
in repairing and maintaining this
stretch of the highway.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-07-03

their products TO San Francisco. The
following account OF the pumping pro.
jects in Grass valley is taken from
Thursdays Silver State:
During the coming two weeks TWEEN
ty Grass valley farmers will harvest
profitable crops, while ten more have
their land cleared and will this year
raise what garden truck they need.
Last week James Edmunds cut his
first crop of alfalfa, securing good
return, considering the fact that 1t was
only planted last July. Samples OF fall
wheat and rye will be taken to Reno
tonight by II. A. Allen, the University
expert, and from there forwarded to
San Francisco, where IL will be placed
in the Nevada building at the Exposi-
tlon. II Is expected that both exhibits
will take prizes, as the wheat stands
over five and the rye considerably over
six feet high, with the heads well
filed.
These crops we're irrigated from
wells, and the results are extremely
gratifying to all interested in this
form Of irrigation.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-07-03
NIXON SUES GIRL
Reno Journal:

According to the San Francisco
papers, Bert e. Nixon has brought
suit in the superior court in San
Francisco to collect $26.16 from Miss
Annie Stoddard as cost in a suit re.
Gently instituted against him by the
girl, who is a factory worker.
Nixon and E. A. Fiske were sued
by the girl for damages alleged to
have teen done when she was injured
in an automobile accident. The Jury
in the case freed Nixon who was not
In or near the machine at the time
of the accident but awarded Judgment
for $500 against Fiske.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-07-03
LONG DRY SPELL" BROKEN
BY SURVEYoR.GENERAL
Silver State:

Silver State:
The long, dry spell" in Humboldt
county political appointments was bro
ken Tuesday, when Surveyor-General
Deadly appointed w. NJ. McGhie, OF
Winnemucca, draughtsman in his of
fee. To the best recollection of the
Oldest settler, this is the first state ap
pointment carrying a salary that has
fallen to this county in about 20
years. The new appointee is a civil
engineer of recognized ability and was
connected with the Santa Rosa forest
service for a number of years.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-07-03
FOUR NEW NAMES
ADDED TO REGISTER

Judge Castle reports that four more
women have registered for the sewer
bond election which takes place July
2Sth. The community is practically
unanimous for voting the thirty thous-
and dollars in bonds for repairs and
extensions. Thus there is nothing to
stimulate interest and call the women
out to register.
The total women registered thus far
is rs. There are probably 800 WON.
en- in town eligible TO vote.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-07-03
STATE NEWS

new 35-room hotel is to go up in
Winnemucca.
The first shipment of four and hall
tons of ore was made this week from
the new camp of Volcano near Gold
field.
Winnemucca like Elko will not cele
brate the Fourth this year Golcon,
da, Lovelock and McDermitt will
celebrate.
II is reported that over 200 wild
horses have been shot and killed in
White Pine county in the last few
days in the camalgn to rid the county
of these marauders.
Some twenty years ago Alf Chartz
the Carson attorney acquired state
fame by running series~of letters
in the Gardnerville. Courier under the
pen name of "Quelqufois." He has
now resumed these letters and the
first one to appear in the Record
Courier of yesterday In defense of
the Germans in sinking the Lusitania.
a motion picture concern expects
to establish headquarters in Reno af.
ter the close of the Exposition. II
employs rs people.
The Reno Gazette thinks the mem
bership in the new Reno Commercial
club may reach 1000.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-07-03
PEACE GOING TO
TRAP SHOOTS

Chief Dispatcher w. S. Peace, of
the Western Pacific will depart to-
night for San Francisco. He is going
to participate in the Pacific Coast
handicap shooting tournament on July
Z, 8, and 10, and in the Los Angeles
tournament on the IL. IL and Il. Mrs.
Peace will accompany him to San
Francisco. Mr.. Peace will return in
about three weeks but Mrs. Peace will
remain couple of months.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-07-03

house and opened fire when he found
the banker '.'
Two shots took effect, one in the
groin and the second in the leg. Meth.
er wound is fatal.
Morgan grappled with the assassin
and thus saved his life.
Holt was turned over to the police
Holt says he is German. He
charges Morgan with having supplied
the allies with war munitions.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-07-03
CLAUDE SCHOER
PRINCIPAL OF UKIAH

Claude SChoer is spending the day
in Elko. lie came here on account of
the illness of his father who was re-
Gently operated upon in Salt Lake for
appendicitis. The old gentleman is
expected home today.
Mr.. Schoer has been teaching in the
Chico High School and was reelected
for the coming term, but he later re.
ceiyed word OF his appointment TO the
priuciDalsbiD Of the Ukiah High
School, which he has accepted. Ukiah
is about one hundred miles north Of
San Francisco.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-07-03
THOUSANDS OF VISITORS
LOOKING FOR INVESTMENTS
Reno Gazette:

One of Elko's hotels had SO over
night guests Tuesday-mostly people
passing through on their way to dis
tricts nearby. This Is only another
proof of the interest that Nevada
holds in the minds OF outsiders. Thous-
ands of visitors are looking over the
state with n view to investment.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-07-03
RECEPTION ROOM
WRECKED BY BOMB
Crank Tries to Destroy Capitol Build
ing AS Exclamation Point In
Plea For Peace
Special to The Independent

WASHINGTON, d. c.. July 3.-The
explosion Of the bomb which wrecked
the reception room in the east side OF
the capitol building last night follow.
ed the receipt by Morgan of a letter
from {. crank who signed himself, "R.
Pearca". lie says the explosion was
the exclamation point in his plea for
peace
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-07-03
Special to The independent.

NEW YORK, July 3.-John Pier
pont Morgan, the banker, was shot
twice today by F. Holt, who forced his
way into Morgan's country home at
Glencove, Long Island.
Holt Is an instructor in Cornell Uni
versity. He says that Morgan started
the European war and could have
stopped 1t.
Holt held up the butler at the Morg.
an home with two guns, entered the
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-07-03
GRANDFATHER ROBERTS

WASHINGTON, July 22.-Walter
Johnson, premier pitcher of the Ameri.
can Baseball League, hurried home
this morning from New York to see a
baby boy which was born during the
night. Mrs. Johnson is daughter of
Congressman Z. f. Roberts of Ne
vada.-Gazette.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-07-03
MEXICAN GENERAL
MAKES HIS ESCAPE
orazeo Held With Huerta Skips Out
And Leaves No Trace of His
Mysterious Disappearance
Special to The Independent.

Special to The independent.
Ell PASO, Texas, July 3.-General
Orazco, held with Huerta. in the Mexi-
can plot to start new revolution
made his escape last night. He left
no trace. His disappearance is a mys-
terry.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-07-03

dings?
How long will IL he before Elko has
more people than Reno7
How many acres of land was IL that
Mr.. Catlin bought on the shale belt ?
How many people will 10 from Elko
to Lamoille for the Fourth?
Are there 162 voters in Elko who
want commission government? Why
1852?
Does Joe Mcnamara who speaks al
Lamoillc on the Fourth have IN mind
the fate Of the boy orator from Ne
braska?
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-07-03

J. NJ. Requa, county commissioner
of Eureka. is in town to receive medi.
cal care. He is at the Mayer.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-07-03
GERMAN CRANK SHOOTS
JOHN P|ERPONT MORGAN

BANKER eRAPPLEs WITH ASSASSIN HIS LIFE
BE MURDERER PROMINENT INSTRUCTOR IN CORNELL UNI.
VERsITY. HOLDS POINT OF GUN AND FORCES
INTO MoReANs COUNTRY HOME .EE'E 80. .sEss
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-29

He wags his head cocky after this
speech and pats the bulge of his watered-
silk evenin' vest apprOvin'. So our little
reunion want turnin' out such huge
success, after all. Leavitt, though, don't
seem disturbed. He glances round at the
pink satin chairs and sofas, at the silk
rugs on the floor, and at the snowy chan
delier swung from the high ceilin'.
mo doubt about that, says he. LETS
see, you're in some manufacturing line,
aren't your"
"Drain pipes" says Hicks.
"Really!" says Leavitt. "Why, that's
odd!"
Struck me he says it pleasant and inof-
fensive enough; but Hicks turns on him
sharp.
ayes, drain pipes, he snaps, "just COM
mon, ordinary drain pipes-for sewers and
such! Nothing high flown about EN-; but
this is what they bring in, and he waves
dumpy hand around lordly.
"You sure have got swell place here, "
says l, tryin' to switch the line of chat to
safe grounds. Owe heard about your
dinin' room decorations too"
That soothes him down sudden. "Come
on" says he. an show you through"
HE includes Leavitt with jerky nod;
so we starts off on grand tour of the
house. And when Hicks gets started ex-
hibitin' his new home he does it thorough.
We has to inspect everything, from the
vacuum cleaner machine in the basement
to the oriental garden on the roof. He
tells us how many square feet of mural
decorations it took for the dinin room,
and what it cost him to put in them
sunken marble tubs in the bathrooms.
admires tapestry hangin's and Circassian
walnut wainscotin' and so on until Pm
nearly hoarse sayin' "Great stuff! Bully!
Fine dope!" and I'm glad when he leads
us back to his Turkish smokin' den on the
first floor. By that time Hicks is feelin'
SO good that he sets out mineral water,
Scotch, and cigars.
$50 you see what can be got out of
drain pipes" he shoots significant at
Leavitt. "Now l suppose you've been
maxim a fortune writin' poetry?'
Leavitt laughs easy. "You don't mean,
Hicks" says he, "that in all this time you
haven't forgiven me for those jngles in
our school paper?"
81 haven't forgotten, anyway" says
Hicks. Chubby, or not Tubby,' they
began Oh, you had a lot of fun with me
then, didn't you? Had all the girls laugh
ing at me. For months after that they'd
giggle whenever came near. One of the
smart ones, you were! Well, where has
it landed you, eh?" And Hicks looks
him over scornful. "Got anything like
this" he demands, ito show for your
smartness?"
Leavitt shakes his head, eyin' him calm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-29
SUNDAY MAGAZINE for August 90, 1915

"What you been doing, anyway asks
Hicks.
"Why," says Leavitt, 81 specialized in
chemistry while at college. I've been fol-
lowing that"
"Chemistry!" snorts Hicks. "Never
heard there was much in that"
at is sometimes useful in the industrial
arts, says Leavitt.
al know" says Hicks. Owe hired
chemists out at my plant; paid 'em
twenty-five week. can get any num-
Der for that-women chemists for sixteen
and eighteen. Just as good too. Lookin'
for job, are your"
Leavitt don't even flush up. "Thank
you, not just now," says he. am taking
a rest. But about this drain-pipe bust
ness-how did you get into that?'
"By starting work in brick yard
wheeling clay" says Hicks. did that
all one hot summer. Then they put me in
charge of the firing. Inside of a year was
foreman. Why? Because | lived on the
job, stayed with it day and night was
saving my pay too. The second year
bought ina third interest. Two years
more and | owned the yard,-Hicks'
Bricks. Sold 'em everywhere.
"Then found there was good money
in drain pipe. l got hold of plant over
Got it cheap. And I'd run across an old
German who knew how to turn out glazed
stuff. got together gang of good work.
ers,-not loafer in the lot. picked out
the ones that would work cheap and
would stand for ten-hour day. OF course
the unions tried to make trouble; but |
put 'em out of business. Wouldn't let
'em dictate to me how to run my business
not a bit! put on boys at half wages,
and got as much out of 'em as if they were
men. That's how l could undersell the
other firms and land the big orders.
"The plant grew year by year, and
saved my profits. We lived in little
frame house near the works. was there
every morning before the whistle blew. l
kept the force on the jump. Oh I'm let
ting up little now; but I've got foremen
who can get the work out of 'em,-drivers.
They got to be- or I've no use for 'em.
They know me. WE'LL that's how it's
done. That's what brings in this sort of
thing" And he puffs away at his cigar
satisfied.
"Now do you think it's odd," demands
Hicks, "my making drain pipes?"
"PERHAPS should explain why aid
that" says Leavitt. "Let me ask,
though, what glazing process you are
using now?"
Same one I've always used," says
Hicks. "Why?"
Haven't tried the Won Lieder method?"
asks Leavitt.
"Never heard of it" says Hicks.
- IN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-29

| was over there, when the war knocked
the bottom out of things, working as a
shop chemist and getting the hang of
their ways. A firm in Budapest sent me
up. I'd been experimenting on my own
hook too, and at last worked out pro-
cess which l think is even better than
Won Lieder's."
"Huh!' says Hicks.
"Now, just what does it cost you a cubic
yard to glaze your pipe?" asks Leavitt.
Don't know" says Hicks. "Never fig
ured that fine-never had to-
"Well, on thousand feet of ten-inch
pipe-a rough estimator" insists Leavitt.
Hicks scratches his head and makes an
offhand guess. Leavitt takes pencil and
does little arithmetic on the back of an
envelope.
"Using my vacuum retort process" says
Leavitt, al can do better than cut that
cost in half"
d don't believe it, says Hicks.
"Neither did the Draco people," says
Leavitt, until set up my demonstration
kiln and proved it. Then they were ready
to talk business"
"The Consolidated Drain Pipe Com
pany?" says Hicks, perkin' up bit.
Business rivals of yours, aren't they?"
says Leavitt. "Perhaps you'll be inter-
ested then to see the offer they made.
have their letter somewhere. 1t had Just
come when | was taken ILL., All, here
it isl"
Hicks he reads it careful, and the deeper
into it he gets the more stary-eyed he
grows.
"Why, see here Leavtt!" he gasps.
"1f-if this is so, then they-they can run
me out"
"lf they adopt my process, says Leavitt,
"they can undersell any firm in the
business and still double their profits.
guarantee that. And they offer me two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars for it
outright"
"RUT you-you won't sell to them will
you?" pleads Hicks, the sweat startin'
from his forehead and his pasty face turn
in blotchy. "Why, they'd break me in
side of two months! Any other time l
might have pulled through; but just now
well, you see, I've been chump enough
to try to make splurge; got all my spare
capital tied up in-in this. 1t was this
way: We'd been nobodies all our lives,
Mile and me. We thought we wanted
something grand for home. Well, we
got it, Fifty thousand cash I've put into
this place-and during dull year too!
Honest, haven't made dollar in six
months. Now things are Frightening up.
There are big contracts about to be let,
and if you tie up with the Draco people
why, Leavitt, I'll be ruined man!
Yes, sir, ruined! McCabe you talk to
him. just think, we're old friends, went
to school together, and here you come
and-please, Leavitt!"
II haven't signed up with them yet"
says Leavitt; though I'd about made up
my mind to take what could get Really,
| should have share in the profits We
might talk that over, say some day this
week."
"Why not now, tonight" urges Hicks.
"You haven't got to go anywhere else,
have you? And there's our new guest
room suite! Come, want you to christen
it. Well make you comfortable here. Be-
sides, | couldn't think of letting you go.
What would Mrs. Hicks say-an old friend!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-29

DuU III Seems lne ueceHt lnlHR 10 90,
specially since he'd been so good to little
Sully. Anyway, gets him started. |
expect was little curious to get line
on him. Then too it was up to me to be
little socable with Hicks. He'd been
lvin here two or three years sort of quiet
in rented place, and then all of a sudden
he'd branched out and built this big, fancy
house.
Fancy may not be just the word but
that's the way it strikes me. Even by
moonlight, as we swings in through the
high-arched white gateway and up the
cement drive, it looms up sort of pompous
and snowy on the bare top of the hill. But
Hicks is bit that way himself, One of
these chesty, high-shouldered parties that
walks heavy on his heels and waggles his
head when he talks. just the kind of
house. come to think of it, you'd expect
him to build.
It's more or less whale of joint, all
white cement, with the walls carried above
the roo and cut up odd, like the top of
fort, or the front of a storage warehouse.
The entrance is some fossy, bein' through
twenty-foot arch, with the inside all
worked out in different colored tiles, like
a movie palace, and illuminated brilliant
by bunch light.
"Most knocks your eye out, don'tit?
says l, pushin' the button.
Leavitt only smiles and gazes around
curious while l interviews the grouchy-
lookin' butler. First off the prospects of
our gettin' any further than the mat
didn't look good; but in minute or so
back trots the f1unky actin quite diff trent.
He throws the big door open vide and
tows us into the grand reception-room,
where Mr.. Hicks, in full evenin' regalia,
and wearin' thick black cigar jaunty in
one side of his face, is waitin' to greet us.
@WHY, hello, Shorty McCabe!' says he.
about time you were getting around
to see us. And you've brought a-er-
why"
The cordial hail is choked off abrupt,
and he stands starin surprised at Leavitt.
It's plain he don't quite place him.
81 hardly thought you d remember me,
says the boyhood friend. "Bob Leavitt,
who used to go to the old Webster Street
School when you did; under Jumbo Will
Jams, you know"
"Oh!" says MIR. Hicks. "Slat Leavitt,
eh?"
"That's right, Tubby," says Leavitt,
beamin' friendly.
But that don't work up chummy re-
Spouse from Hicks. He's gain critical
at the outin' shirt, takin' in all the details
of the baggy trousers, dusty shoes, and
chin stubble.
"Huh!" says he. How'd you come to
find me?"
He don't even offer to shake hands, and
Leavitt smiles sort of fused. So Jumps
in and explains how he'd rescued little
Sully on the road, and how, when he'd
mentioned KNOWN Mr.. Hicks that lived
here, I'd insisted on bringin' him round.
Hicks mods, but don't enthuse.
"'Tramping, eh?" he shifts. "Looks as
though you'd done good deal of it
too"
Which struck me as putin it kind of
raw. But Leavitt don't seem to get
peeved. He just shrugs his shoulders
careless.
81 have, says he. a find it a good way
to see the country and indulge in fresh
air"
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-02-19

THE blouse for general wear is made
] Of several materials besides those
reliable cotton or linen wash fabrics
which always have been and always
will be good. Just now crepe de chine,
which washes beautifully, and cotton
or wool crepes are put into requisitionl
and have proved themselves usefM
and afforded a means of variety as
we'll.
The pretty blouses of crepe de chine
are made in white and light colors,
cut rather plain, and are usually deco
rated with sprays Of embroidery IN
self color, very sparingly used. Col
lars of fine batiste, and sometimes
cuffs of the same, make the prettiest
finish for them. Sleeves are long and
necks high, although it remains to be
seen whether the high collar will hold
its own or give place to the high
necked guimpe. A detachable high
collar is far more practical than the
blouse and collar In one. The latter
has to be washed as soon as the collar
tecomes soiled, which is much too
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-02-19

soon for the good of the blouse, or
she who must pay for its Tubing.
A pretty blouse is shown here OF
wool crepe showing shaded stripes In
yellow, brown, gray and occasional
fine lines of black. 1t is made with
a yoke and has long sleeves. A neat
collar of batiste finishes the neck
Such waist will wear long time
without needing to be washed, and
will stand the washing, when it must
be done, without detriment to its col
ors. That is, if care is taken, almost
any waist made can be successfully
washed.
Printed chiffons are liked for dres-
sier waists and are made up with
laces into the loveliest affairs EN-
broidered voiles are dainty and more
lasting than chiffons. If one wishes
sheer, fine. lacy-looking waist that
will last long enough to pay for any
amount Of elaborate work in making
and decoration, fine cotton wolfe Ia OF
all fabrics the best to use.
JULIA RoTToMLEY.