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The Detroit times., 1916-01-14
School Happenings

Eastern highs basketball team
will open the season Jan. IA with a
game With Northwestern quintet.
The Indians, Of Eastern, have been
practicing for more than a week
The following is the schedule OF the
games which Eastern viii play This
year: Jan. y. Cass at Eastern
Jan. 20. Central a. Central; Feb. 3
Pontiac high az Pontiac Feb. d.
Western al Eastern. Feb. Is. North.
western at Northwestern Feb 25r
Cass at Cass. March 3, Central at
Eastern; March 10 Pontiac al East
ern; March a.. Western at Western.
All games viii start az 8 p. m. and
reserve teams OF both schools play
ing will compete at Z p. m
The Detroit times., 1916-01-14

nave wondered whether ylu and }
1ra suited go each other atJcr a.l '
And .i Ve were uotf asked.
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us throat suddenly $50 dry scarcely
could speak My husband -hrus-,d
Hs -houljers
WHY NJ We we're not.' he 55't.
In matter of taat tone. I sup.
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rculd NOT answer him
The Detroit times., 1916-01-14

Ten grade schools iu tLe vicinity.
OF Nort,wostaW uah have ae
visited by tho sa..sf students
that school Talk HHr. given CO.
the eighth grade graduating classes
on "The benefits of hIch -choo.
education The -chcoi. visited
and the speasers boz each ral.
were Cheney. f1gbcrt I-JeU 90.
don junior high Donald AleEaudar
Estabrook. Dornand Hill, GOLDBERG
Clarence Kaufman Hancock. Dor
mand Hill. Marx, Hazen Wilson
McGraw. c. Warren Wilson; owen
James Williams Pitcher Wright
McClenahan. and Wingert, Frank
Showalter.
The Detroit times., 1916-01-14

Ih- streets I'M more 'ea -s4
towns IN France and rae portions Of
Algeria chat 20 governs ar0 lighted
exclusively wIrh 1cetyJ,re
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1916-04-29
GEORG|ANS PREPARE
FOR WATER WAGON
BY Pae. and Intl Rsws Service.

ATLANTA, Ga, April 29.-Saloons
in this state are doing a rushing bust
ness today, for at midnight tomorrow
Georgia goes dry. Approximately 300
saloons in Atlanta. Augusta, Savannah,
and other large cities will close. Sun
day, falling on the last day OF the
month. makes the dry measure become
operative one day earlier than intend
ed by the law makers who voted to
make the state dry May 1.
Preparations for the long arid spell
that faces them were made by hun
able to obtain their straight rye and
bottled beer from the founts that so
long irrigated them under the guise of
near beer" saloons.
Bullying hip pockets and little round
packages were common sights on the
streets and in the street cars.
Advices received up to this after
noon show that the police in the
various cities had prepared for the &C.
casion and held the situation well in
hand. Whenever drunk" appeared
he was promptly squelched or sent to
the police station to sober up.
The greatest loss occasioned by the
passing of the saloon will fall upon
owners of the property occupied by
the "grog shops" but real estate men
say that this loss will be negligible, as
nearly all the desirable locations have
already been leased to business con-
| Germs.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1916-04-29
APPLICATION NO. ssss.
Notice Of Application for Permission
to Appropriate the Public Waters OF
the State Of Nevada.

Notice Is hereby given that on the
10th day OF April. 1915. In accordance
with Section So. Chapter 14o. Of the
Statutes OF 1913. one Arne w. Parus
OF Edgemont. County OF Elko. and
State Of Nevada, made application to
the State Engineer Of Nevada for per-
mission to appropriate the public
waters Of the State of Nevada. Such
appropriation Is to be made from Deer
Creek, at point approximately in the
NWA Of sen of Sec. II. T. Is N. R.
81 E., NJ. D. B. & NJ, by means Of
natural channel Of creek and laterals.
and LEO cubic feet per second is to be
conveyed to the NWA Sec. Is, T. As
N. r. 81 E.. M. d. B. & NJ, by means
OF natural channel OF creek and later
ais, and there used for irrigation and
domestic purposes from April LIST I'M
til July 18th of each year.
Water not to be returned to stream.
w. M. KEARNEY,
State Engineer.
First publication. April 10, 1916.
Last publication, May 20, 1915.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1916-04-29
FAMOUS Old NINE
HAS BEEN BONDED

The rise In the price of silver is
having its effect in Nevada and Elko
county. Mr.. George Russell announces
that he has bonded the famous old
Leopard mine at Cornucopia to A. a..
Outright, who represents a company Of
Salt Lake capitalists.
Cornucopia was once one of the most
active mining camps in Elko County,
and the Leopard was It's big mine. 1t
is said to have produced several mil
lion dollars, but the characterization Of
silver caused 1t to be shut down, and
1t has been idle for quarter Of GEN.
tury. Recent tests prove that with sill
yer at Its present price and with mod
ern methods OF extraction, that the
dumps, which contain many thousands
OF tons, can be successfully worked.
1t Is estimated that they are worth
several hundred thousand dollars. 1t
is also proposed to open up the old
works and prosecute development
work. A modern mill will be erected
to reduce the dumps and ore from the
mine.
The present year promises to wit.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1916-04-29

shot. H. Badt 23.5 It., w. Higginboth-
am second. and Thompson third.
Heavy weights used 12-lb. shot. H.
Van Drielen 26.5 #, Reed second. Rowe
and Wahlund tied for third.
Broad jump: Light weights. H.
Badt, ISL IT,, ]. Harris second, and
Thompson third. Heavy weight. Van
Drielen first with 1872 It. Scranton and
Lebriski second.
High jump: Light weights. H.
Badt #. u In. ]. Harris and Thomp-
son second. Heavy weights. Mckee
4.4h it., Scranton second. and Reed
and Lebrish third.
50-yard dash: Light weights. w.
Higginbotham seconds, Stenovitch
second and Cullens third. Heavy
weights. Mckee ga seconds. Scranton
second, Lebrish third.
100-yard dash. Light weights. Badt
1871 seconds, Harris second. Heavy
weights. Van Drielen Is seconds, Lee
brisk second, Scranton third.
Pole vault: Harris.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1916-04-29
MORE TRACK
RECORDS BROKEN
(By A. J.)

All the inclemencies OF nature could
not keep our boys from breaking few
more records yesterday afternoon.
Clawson broke last years 220 yard
record by sprinting 220 yards in 26.2
seconds. Weed was second and w.
Mayer third.
Clawson also won the 50-yard dash,
time 81. Badt and Supp took second
and third places respectively.
The 440-yard dash was won by Weed
OF Wells. time So seconds. Leslie was
second and Sutton third.
Clawson ran the 100-yard dash in
11.3 seconds, with Mayer second and
Kopp third.
In one of the closest half mile, races
crossed the finishing line barely foot
ahead of Weed and Case. The time
was 2.12 minutes.
Supp, Mayer and Griswold ran the
220-yard low hurdles for time. May
er's time was 2S.3 seconds, Supp 80 As
seconds, and Griswold 81 seconds.
The Elko high school easily won the
relay, time LAB 2-5.
The pole vault was won by Mayer.
Weed. Kopp, Supp and Lambert rep
resented the Wells high school, and
Clawson, Leslie Sutton. w. Mayer.
Turner, F. Badt, Griswold and Case
were entered for the Elko high school
Clawson, the popular idol of the
track fans. won everything he tried
for and broke three records.
Weed, OF Wells. is a good all around
athlete and is strong in anything he
enters. Supp of Wells made a fine
showing in the running events.
Judging from the results of yester,
days meet, it seems a certainty that
the Elko County high schools will
have strong teams at Reno.
The grammar school boys also broke
some of last years track and field
records.
! r. Mckee broke last years high
jump and 22O-yard low hurdle records
J. Harris also bettered vast years hur,
die time.
The field and track outcomes were
as follows:
Shot put: Light weights used S-lb
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1916-04-29
AppLIcATIoN NO. 80

~p6ISAIION NO. ~
Notice q Application for PsssslssisN
TO Appropriate tho Public Watsrs
Of the STATE Of Nevada.
Notice II hereby gwen that o. the.
10th day OF April, 1915. In AceerdannS
with Section 50. Chapter 40. Of the
Statutes Of 1913, one Victor =. Parus
Of Elko, County OF Elko. and Stsae OF
Nevada, made application to tho State
Engineer Of Nevada for psrmission -
appropriate the public waters Of the
State OF Nevada Such appropriation
is to be made from an unnamed creek.
sometimes called winters Creek ~
q point on unsurveyed land, appro1t
mately In the NWA OF NEA Of Sec.
IS. T. As N. R. 81 E. N. d. B. Z n.
by means of creek bed and laterals.
and $50 cubic feet per second 10 to
be conveyed to the NWh Of SEA, M
Of SWA of Sec. 13, SEA OF NEh.
NJ OF SEX, SwA OF SEA and SEX
Of SWA OF Sec. II. T. IS N. r. 81
E.. N. D. B. & NJ, by means Of creek
bed and laterals and there used for
irrigation and domestic purposes from
April LIST until July 18th Of each year.
Water not to he returned to stream.
W.. N. kEARNEY.
State Engineer.
First publication. April 10. 1916.
Last publication. May 20. 1916.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1916-04-29
FORMER CARSON BOY
RECEIVES HONOR

Arthur Heidenreich formerly OF Car
son City. but now of Des Moines has
been awarded by the American phar-
macentical Association. certificate
OF excellence and elected to member.
ship in the Association on recommen-
dalton of Highland Park College Of
Pharmacy, as a prize offered by Prof.
James R Chittick for the best all
around work in organic chemistry at
the school during the year ending
August, 1914.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1916-04-29

44o-ysrd dash. Light weights. Har.
ris first. Hicks second. Hunter third.
Heavy weights. Van Dnelen first. Nc
Carmic second.
220-yard hurdles. Light weights. ].
Harris 34.3 seconds. Meavy weights.
Mckee 1922 seconds. Mckee also
gave a fine exhibition Of high hurdling.
The yellow squad won the relay
race.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1916-04-29

ness more activity in mining In North
ern Elko County than in many years
past Many famous old producers viii
be opened up. and new ones win be
developed. II silver reaches seventy
five cents. as It is likely to do. Cornu-
copia may again become one of the
most active producers in Nevada
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1916-04-29
Attention

Miss Brown, Dean Of the Women of
the University of Nevada, will be here
Friday and would like to meet all
graduates, former students and friends
of the University at seven o'clock Fri.
day evening at the High School before
the Defamation contest.
MOLLY d. CURLER,
Sec. of q. of N Club.
a-20-21.
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OUR PROPOSITION.

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going to authorize a number OF
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nished on application either in per
son Of by mail.
EVERY WORKER WILL WIN.
This Is not a voting contest
where only two or three can win.
Everyone will be rewarded accord
Ing to his efforts. We never liked
voting contests. They necessarily
cause too many disappointments
and heartaches. Twenty per cent.
Of all money collected will be al.
lowed to contestants, and besides,
each will have chance to win one
OF the beautiful prizes.
OLD SUBSCRIBERS TO SHARE
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And we are not going TO overlook
our old subscribers, the good fell
lows who have kept our presses go
ing these many years. We are go
ing to treat them Just as well and
even better than the new ones. BY
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while this contest Is or. They,
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tho same as the reduced prices to
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contest.
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The enterprise., 1916-10-05

thrills of pleasure up and down the
spines of motion picture fans.
The corporate name of Coburn s
combination is the Great West Film
company, and the first film to be pro-
duced will be entitled "The Golden
Goddess" the scenario of which was
written by Coburn himself. Coburn
also plays the leading role in the pic
ture. Grouped around him are such
we'll known cowmen as Shorty Gelse,
Doc Young, Johnnie Mayberry, Clay
ton Snyder, John Shady, and Clar-
ence Brockway, all Of whom did val
liant range service when the COW game
was good. For the filming Of the ar
rival of the little school teacher, the
heroine of the piece, the Dodson-Lit-
the Rockies Stage company loaned
one Of their old Concord coaches.
A portion Of the picture was film
ed at Malta, and the principal streets
of the town were given over to the
work Of the moving picture artists.
Many Malta citizens loaned them
selves to the undertaking, and the
Great Northern depot, shady's barn,
and other points of interest.
The same company will produce
Yellowstone Pete's Only Daueh-
ter" the scenario Of which has been
adapted from the poem by Coburn of
the same name. Many Montanans
are familiar with Coburn's poems,
but for the benefit of those who are
not the poem which is to be made
over into a screen drama follows:
Yes. this is the Milk River Valley,
And that's the old ranch that you see,
Where Yellowstone Pete lost his daughter
The pride of the Z U. r.
Was she pretty? Well, stranger your
knowledge
OF these parts il so incomplete.
When you ask such comical question
Bout the daughter of Yellowstone Pete
Why, man, if the Heavens were bluer,
And pansies were deeper in hue,
They couldn't "size up" with her peppers
Which shown like the spring poets dew
Her teeth were like snowdrops made
whittier,
Her hair like the sealskin she wore,
Only softer and silkier and browner,
And she was true blue to the core
Was old Yellowstone Petes only daughter
Whose voice was the envy OF birds,
The enterprise., 1916-10-05
Pioneer Talk on Old Times; Hov G1lch Was Named


How Helena was christened and
Last Chance Gulch received its name
was graphically told by Former Pres
ident John W. Blair Of Helmville, at
the annual meeting of the Montana
Society of Pioneers in Helena, just
adjourned. Mr.. Blair's address was
in part as follows:
"It was in the spring of 1864 that
the Cowan party consisting of John
Cowan, John Crab, D. J. Miller and
Reginald Stanley, after prospecting on
the upper waters Of the Little Black
foot crossed the divide and camped
in this gulch. It seems that they pros
pected little and found gold but not
in paying quantities. They moved on
further north prospecting on the
headwaters of. the Dearborn, Teton
and Marias rivers but finding nothing
that would justify working, they con-
cluded to return to where Helena now
stands again as their last chance for
the summer. They returned here and
after prospecting for short time
found. rich diggings. They at once
named the gulch Last Chance
"The report Of the rich find soon
spread to other mining camps and the
stampede to Last Chance was quite
large and it soon became necessary to
call meeting of the miners to estab-
lish bylaws for the camp and to give
name to the little village which was
the nucleus of the mining camp.
How Helena Was Named.
"There is some dispute as to how
Helena got its name, but the most au-
thentic is that at the meeting of the
miners called October 30, 1864, to
establish laws and regulations to gov
ern the camp and to name or christen
the town, John Sommerville was elect
ed chairman and when the question of
naming the town came up in the
meeting, there was quite q number of
names proposed and voted down,
when Chairman Somerville got up and
said that he came from the best state
in the Union, Minnesota, and from
the best county in the state, Scott,
and from the best town, Helena, in
that county and 'by the eternal this
town should have that name.' This
little talk carried the day and proved
acceptable to a majority Of the min
ers and the name Helena was adopted.
No Lumber in Camp.
"Quite number of log cabins and
dugouts were built that fall and VIM
ter near what is now the head of Main
street. There was no lumber in
camp save that which was whipsawed
by hand, and the houses were Of logs
of wood, rolled into squares and
daubed with mud. The coverings or
The enterprise., 1916-10-05
Real Co1vboys Mouje Heroes
Wallace Coburr1 Reproducing Old West
Yellowstone Petes Only Daughter in Motion Picture

The old time cowboy is making one
Of his last stands at Zortman. And
he is a real cowboy, Of the happy-go-
lucky gun fighting kind. But his
game is only make believe. He is re-
enacting the good old days of the
west before the homesteader came
and turned his range into wheat
fields, only he is doing it before the
motion picture camera, for the profit
of the barons of the motion picture
world and the pleasure Of the thous-
ands of screen fans, who have seen
lots of spurious cowboys but never
the real article.
The man who is back of this un-
dertaking is Wallace Coburn. singer
of songs of the good old range days,
which exist now to very large ex-
tent only in the memory of old tim
ers who lived them. Coburn is the
son of one Of the old time cattle
kings of the state. He has been a
cowboy himself from the buck strap
to the Mexican stirrup.
AOIlludI Is tuc SCcllC Ol llllS uldkG
believe cowpunching. Zortman is one
Of the few places in Montana repre-
sentative Of the wild life of twenty
five years ago. It is 40 miles off the
railroad from Malta, and has retained
all the characteristics of the old time
COW town and mining camp. 1t is a
bad place to go looking for trouble
right now. One Of its characters was
the late Jew Jake, the gun fighter
who lost leg in battle with the Of
ficials in the town marshal days of
Great Falls. The Jew later ran a
saloon at Malta and he used Win
chester for a crutch. It was about
as handy as regular crutch, the Jew
explained, and it was mighty handy
crutch when some of the old timers
got to dreaming of old days and start
ed to shoot up the town.
Brookside ranch, the home place
of the Coburn Cattle company, has
been made over into the Universal
City of Northern Montana, and here
Coburn has gathered choice coterie
of men, and women, too, who know
how to ride and shoot and do those
things which will send those exquisite
The enterprise., 1916-10-05

roofs were poles covered with dirt
and they had ground floors. Some
of the floors we're covered with the
raw hides of wild animals.
"Early in the spring of 1866 pony
steam saw mill was set up on West
Main street, about three hundred
yards above the foot Of Bridge street,
now called State street, and thereaf-
ter houses were mostly built Of rough
lumber.
"The first business houses were
about as follows: Nolan and Weary
we're the first bankers on Bridge
street, the First National bank start
ed in 1866 on the corner of Main and
Wall streets. Among the first groc-
ers we're Constans & Jurgens, Mike
Reinig, Carpenter and Watson. The
first hotel, Hutchens and Lissner, on
opposite corners of Main and Bridge
streets. The first butcher shop was
on West Main street. Hale was the
first druggist.
More Stores Came.
"Gans & Klein were the first cloth
iers and are still in business.
"Parchen & Paynter opened drug
store soon after and Mr.. Parchen is
still in the business here. The first
brewery was erected on West Main
street a little below Orofina gulch.
The first saw mill was erected on
West Main street about three hun
dred yards above the foot of Bridge
street. Toole, Leech & Co., started
the first dry goods house. The Travis
brothers, Wes. and Ches., ran the first
feed, livery and sales stable on Main
street across from the foot of Wood
street. Sunday was the principal sales
day, when often as many as a hun
dred horses we're sold, mostly at auc
tion. They were mostly saddle horses
and pack horses.
"Dunphy and Bentley fenced the
first farm or ranch on Ten Mile just
north Of town. The poles were lash
ed to the posts with rawhide throngs.
Sanford & Evans built the first flour
mill on Prickly Pear just as it entered
the foot hills. John H. Shober was
one of the first attorneys and is still
camping on the trail.
"Helena too had aspirations to be-
come the capital almost from the
start. First Of the territory and next
of the state.
"The first contest was between
Virginia City and Helena in 1867 and
was left to vote Of the people and
was decided in favor of Virginia. An
other vote was taken in 1869 and Vir-
ginia won again. Five years after
the capital fight was again renewed
and apparently Virginia City again
The enterprise., 1916-10-05
STATE LAND SALES AT
SHELBY AND CH0TEAU
TOTAL OF SALES REACHES $780,.
600; TRACT SELLS FOR
$39.50 PER ACRE.

Upwards of $150,O0O worth of state
land was sold this week at Selby and
Choteau by Register Sidney Miller
and Deputy G. B. Hopkins of the state
land office.
At Shelby 6,02S acres we're put un
at auction and 1856 acres purchased
The total received was $34 4,246, the
average price $14.53 an acre and the
highest price $1S an acre.
At Choteau 1864 acres of Teton
land were offered and 1883 acres
purchased, bringing total of $118,-
953. The average price was $16.11
and the highest price $39.25.
The enterprise., 1916-10-05
M011tu11a's Marksn1e11 Best
Score Higher Than Regular Army
Camp is Sanitary: Food Excellent, Says Shelby Soldier

The Second Montana infantry, sta
toned at Douglas, Texas, has estab-
lished the record for average marks
manship, according to Sergt Ralph V
Buckner Of Shelby, who has just re-
turned.
The Montana regiment has an av-
erage mark of 81 hits out of each
possible so. This is three points
higher than the score made by any
regiment of the regular army.
cit hasn't been unbearably hot, -
Buckner said in reply to question
"Of course, I'm used to the climate
of Indiana and Illinois, so / didn I
mind it. The nights are cool.
"One of the hardest things to get
used to was the bugs and animals
We found scorpions, tarantulas, cent?