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The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-06-17
NOTICE TO

All taxpayers of the town of Win
remucea are requested to call at the
Assessors office in the courthouse and
Eli out statements of 1916 assessments
A. E. ORGAN,
Assessor of Humboldt County, Nevada
.advt.tf.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-06-17
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New Britain herald., 1916-09-08
WAITING FOR AN ANSWER.

l Charles Evans Hughes has invaded l Maine. Ostensibly this visit to the
 Pine Tree State was staged at the 1 height of the local campaign for the
 purpose of saving Maine for the Re-
 publican candidates on Monday. Great 1 as his reception was in Portland last l night 1t Is conceded that it nowhere l approached the ovation given to
 Theodore Roosevelt at the time of the 1 Lewiston speech. This is worrying Republican party managers. They l fear the Colonel has set a bad prece- l dent for their candidate. The Colonel. ] 1t will be remembered, fired 8 broad side at the so-caIled hyphenates This speech was highly endorsed by the Candidate who has as yet made no utterances on this particular phase of the campaign. Hughes has lambasted everything that Wilson has done, but he has never yet fayed that alien
 band which is supposed to have forced his nomination at Chicago. If Hughes comes out on this subject it is feared his candidacy will be lost for ever. He is therefore clutching to his two fondest hopes, outside of the suf- frag1sts, Wall Street and the hyphen- ates.
 Dispatches from Portland show that MT. Hughes may shift his main attack from the picayune things he has dealt upon and 20 after the ener gency Efght-Hour Law which Con- gress adopted in order to prevent a nationwide railroad strike. He has already touched on the subject, de- used the rule of force as against the rule of reason. MT. Hughes has claimed that if he is elected he will use the rule of reason, but he has not said Just what he would have done had he been confronted with the same situ- atton that faced Wilson in the railroad controversy. Any other tactics than those used by the President and the Congress would have meant a nation wide strike, so terrible in it's conse- quences that the mind of man can- Hughes have suffered this nation to go through such a strike? That is a question he should answer before he leaves the Pine Tree State. The peo- pie are waiting for enlightenment on this and othr questions.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-08
Wilson and Lincoln.
Brooklyn Eagle.)

Since the time of Abraham Lincoln no president of the United States has ever had such responsibilities, domes- tic and foreign, thrown upon him as Wilson has had to face. We suppose the problems that have confronted Woodrow Wilson approximate most closely to the Lincoln burden. That is why there was a peculiar signifi canoe in Wilson's tribute to Lincoln at the birthplace of the emancipator.
 Men say that Wilson is a politician. A statesman has been defined as "a politician dead" That Lincoln was a politician no man of his time ever doubted; that he knew and steered by the current of public sentiment was a continuous annoyance to Thad Ste- vens, to Charles Sumner and even to Horace Greeley. Perhaps in a re- public no man, however great, exer- cises tremendous influence on events without being guided more or less by expediency.
 There are ikenesses and there are contrasts when Lincoln and Wilson are compared. Both love epigrams Both prefer homely smiles Both de- pend on direct appeal to the masses in their recorded speeches. In action Wilson Is no more of a partisan than Lincoln, less of partisan in his view of appointments to civil service. Lin coin knew the masses better than Will son does. Wilson knows the history of the world and the philosophy of that history better than Lincoln did, Each had 8 peculiar fitness for the crisis Fate had chosen him to meet To conduct war is more dramatic than to prevent war. That fact will give Lincoln a big advantage on the films of our permanent history when they are developed.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-08
Boob Ballads.

Underworld Gets His Money-Head- Vice parts the yoke from his wind The Wastre1 from his soul When Reuben went to Babylon
 They always got his roll. It's been the same since time began; The careless persons feet Are sure to lead him into towns That aren't fit to eat. When Jason from the rowdy west Came back to buy in Greece They put some gum drops in his booze And pinched the Golden Fleece. Crooks had a trick in Egypt's prime, When none sat on the lid, Of selling phony chances on
 King Khufu's pyramid. One boob may die, but deathless is The royal race of hicks When Ahab went to Ascalon
 They sold him gilded bricks. When Solomon was king he tried To run a decent town, But Proverbs shows the System threw His good intentions down. The old Falernian that they poured On Circus days in Rome Shook filings from the neat-herd's
 teeth- And then they shipt him home. Tn spite of all you say or sing No boob will take the hint, But scatters all his wealth in dives That aren't fit to print Giles still asptres to beat the game Still thinks his failures odd When Hezekiah went to Gath They always got his wad
 Don Marquis, in New
 York Evening Sun.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-08
Bitlis, q Picturesque
 Community 0f Asia Minor
Tt was in the 14th century that

1 Tt was in the 14th century that a
 subject of the great Mongol war lord, i Tamerlane, was appointed to rule this
 part of Kurdistan after the conquest ! of Diarbekir. The official entrusted with this duty was Amir Cara Uth- 1 man (Black Lord Uthman), who, in 1 stead of perpetrating such cruelties i as did his master in building a pyra-
 mid of 2,OOO human beings piled up l with alternate layers of brick Ind mortar, conquered the land by matri- 1 mOny. Taking a daughter of the i noble Kurdish family of Hakkari as
 his wife Cara Uthman soon won his way into the affections of the people,
 so that when Tamerlane's power be- gan to wane this viceroy was able to retain strong hold upon the noun
 tain tribes. Uthman's descendants
 adopted the title of Princess of Bit
 lis and they held sway in this region
 for more than four centuries. The
 last of this remarkable line was
 Sharif Bey who held out against the
 preponderant power of the Turks for several years during the first half of the 18th century, but was finally de- feated and taken a captive to Con- stantinople in 1849.
 "The Kurds who constituted swo- thirds of the population of Bitlis and who have held sway in this mountain Ous region of Asia Minor for many centuries, have been yariously ap- praised by travellers. One extreme view is that they are as destitute of annals as the wolves and jackals among whom they have lived in the high mountains from immemorial times,' while the writer who estimates the other side of the shield of their character speaks glowingly of the mountaineers thus: Every nation that ever acquired fame and name in the eastern worlds history-Assyrian Parthian, Greek, Roman, Persian. the Arabs, Mohammedans and MongoIs- has invaded this part of western Asia yet the "holders of the hills and the possessors of the tongue" have with stood every army and have retained the purity of their Aryan blood and their Aryan language' !
 "COnsidering the origin of the l Kurds, there are two picturesque Per sian legends. The first relates that | at the suggestion of the devil the ser pents of the mythological monster Zohak were regularly fed upon human brains. Two youths who had been condemned to have their heads robbed for serpent sustenance escaped death by substituting goats brains for their own. Those youths became the pro- genitors of the Kurds.
 The other legend is a bit more erotic, as if it had come from the.men- tai loom which wOve the tales of the Thousand and One Nights. It re- lat.s that during his campaign for the collection of 700 wives, King Solo,
New Britain herald., 1916-09-08

bility released from active service under the National Guard and allowed to return to their civilian pursuits. They will return here better men than when they left. They have seen ac- tive duty on the border for two months and half and during that time have acquired military know ledge they would not gather in years of training in armories or at annual encampments. These men have ap- proached near the real standards that measure the soldier The nation is better for their sojourn on the border. If at any time the National Guard is again called to the oolors and is made part of the regular army these men will be in the highest class of effl- ctenoy. Despite the attempts of po- htical leaders to make capital out of the National Guardsmen being de- tatned on the border, the whole plan has fallen. The men returning home will bring the true story of their ex- per1ences and these will serve to strengthen an administration that called the men to do their duty. If they were not intended for soldiers they should never have enlisted in the National Guard
New Britain herald., 1916-09-08

Washington, D. C., Sept. S.-Bitlis Russians conceded their retirement recently in the face of a superior Turkish force, is the subject of the following war geography bulletin is- sued today from the Washington headquarters of the National Geo. graphic Society.
 With it's thick-wa1led houses built of volcanic rock, the town of Bit lis, spreading over the steep banks of the Bitlis Chai, a tributary of the Tigris, is one of the most picturesque communities of Asia Minor. It's in habitants, 35, 900 in number, one-third of whom are Armenians and the oth- CTS of Kurdish descent, are largely en- gagged in the manufacture of a coarse red cloth, while their comm ercial ac- tivities are chiefly confined to the ex- port of an inferior grade of tobacco and the gathering and shipment of gum tragacanth
 "B1tl1s for hundreds of years has been town of great strategic i'm pOrtance because 1t is situated on the main highway between the Van plateau and the plains of Mesopo- tamia. Lake Van is only GO miles to the east; Mush is 40 miles to the northwest, and Erzerum a little more than 100 miles in the same direction Roads lead through a mountain pass in southerly direction toward Mosul, which Is more than 15O miles distant in an airline.
 lowing to its elevation, nearly q mile above sea level, Bitlis suffers greatly from snowstorms and it not infreauently happens that many of it's narrow streets are blocked bv snowdrifts for four or five months of the year, although the temperature seldom falls below zero
 Hike many of the towns in this morning land of history Bitlis has had a most interesting past Fact and fable are so intricately inter- woven, however, that the reader of Kurdish literature finds it equally hard to be whole credu1ous or alto gether skeptical. One of the most in teresting traditions of the town con- cerns the site of the ruins of a castle occupying the triangle at the juncture of two streams near the center of the city. Here Alexander the Great Is said to have built a fortress during his campaign of world conquest. Nineteen centuries later almost under the shadow of this castle, the great Turkish sultan, So1yman the Magnificent met one of his few de- feats at the hands of the Persians whom he subdued many times, just as he defeated many European armies on the plains and in the mountain fastnesses of Hungary of Hungary during his brilliant reign of nearly a half century, marking the height of the Ottoman empire.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-08
WHISPERING EM OUT.

All those newspapers and partisan loliticians of Connecticut who spent |lany months worrying over the two Bhousand or more votes held on the |Iexican border need fear no more. The boy,s@are coming home. Evident B, President Wilson had change of (eart He did not want to, see a spe- iaI session of the Connecticut Legis- ature called with all the added ex- ,ense of sending a commission to col ect two thousand votes for Charles Evans Hughes. So, out of the kind less of his heart, the Chief Executive nformed Secretary Baker that the inc was at hand for mastering the National Guard out. of the Federal ervice The regiments mustered out viii be ordered home immediately )nIy those harboring sickness will be .llowed to remain on the border.
 As soon as the Connecticut troops Lrrive here they will be in all proba-
New Britain herald., 1916-09-08
Both Wrong.
(BOStOn POSt.)

Curiously enough, two men of to- tally diqering habits of thought, Pres ident Ripley of the Santa Fe railroad and President Gompers of the Amer ican Federation of Labor, agree in regretting that there was no railroad strike, each believing that victory would quickly have come to the cause he espOused had the terrible test been made.
 Both are on the wrong track in de- siring that such contest with it's in evitable inconveniences, privations and dangers and it's possible horrors should have been fought out. Both are wrong in believing that the strug- gle would have been speedily ended. Both are wrong in wishing public suf- fering as a price of triumph for their respective sides. The toll would have been far heavier than any that is like ly to come from the operation of the eight-hour day for a whole genera ton.
 Incidentally, it may be confidently assumed that the politicians who are now foolishly denouncing the presi- dents part in the settlement of the trouble would today, if the executive had not acted, be shouting themselves red in the face over his neglect of duty in permitting a ruinous strike to engulf the country and be imploring congress to do something, anything, to end the calamity.
 The fall crop of 'has beens'' in the political line this year promises no shortage Press.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-08
Big Enough For All.
(Collier's Weeklvl

It is not otoo late to enjoy that
 beach. Unfortunate it is that not s11
 of us can reach either Califc,nia'e.
 thousand miles of it, or tho golden
 sands of New Jersey, or the ruder ShoreS Of Maine. That is one penalty
 of our bigness-but it adds to our ne-
 tlonal safety, what with submarines and sharks. The beach is withal the great midsummer club. It's member ship embraces both the rising gen. eration and the elders Gossip runs rife on the hotel piazza and at the summer coIony's "casino" but at tho waters edge the keen salt breeze and friendly sun combine to shame all petty malice. Merely to watch tho waves endlessly marching, curling. break1ng-merely to listen to their perpetual plangent throb-c!cansea the spirit. Here, if you're still a youngster, you tread the borderlands of paradise. You build sand forts with turrets and bastions and meats, and watch their sturdy resistance and gradual crumbling before the rising tide. You dig wells" in the wet sand and watch them fill. You race along the water line lodging the darting tongues of foam. You scamper into the drag of an ebbing wave to rescue some retreating streamer of wet keIp. Then you stretch 1t or split it. or merely flop about in ecstasy. You hurI out chunks of driftwood for your yelping puppy to retrieve. And if vou are lucky you may happen upon a crab sidling about, backing and filling in most ingratiating fashion. Be- tween dips, sturdy lads and sweet six teen loll about the sand in pleasant. 4 innocuous communion. Miss Boarding School and her pal, the near-sopho- more, vie with one another in getting tan No middle-aged bachelor col bring meerschaum takes more pride in the process than youth does in his sun Drowned shoulders. Probably the little episodes and heartburnings Of puppy love leave no deeper traces than sunburn does. They serve, more over, to divert the elders basking in their beach chairs From the gen. tie languor of the moment all these actors in the comedy of summer de- rive and store up energy against a season of workaday tomorrows. The novel lies unread; the pipe goes out Sea gulls poise and sweep above the crested waves; while sails fleck thee steely horizon. The sounding blue ocean, the drenching sunlight, the warm sand unite to fix ones mood of perfect peace.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-08

mon ordered contingent of 400 v1r- gins from the Far East While on their way to Jerusalem they passed through the Bitlis region and here a band of evil spirits mingled with tho prospective brides of the Wisest King. The news reached Solomon and he i'm med1ately ordered the young women to come no nearer his court, but to remain with the spirits who had con- taminated them. The Kurds, says this legend, are the offsprings of thisr mating of the virgins with the evil ones."
New Britain herald., 1916-09-08
OPEN, HIGH, LOW, AND CLOSE

It was President Wilson who said: I am a candidate of 8 party but citizen. 1 neither seek the favor nor fear the displeasure of that small alien element amongst us which puts loyalty to any foreign power before loyalty to the United States.
 It was Candidate Hughes who said :
 Now, didn't say that!
New Britain herald., 1916-09-08

MT. Hughes spoke disparagingly of the child labor act. He disapproves of the railroad eight-hour law, which averted a nationwide strike. He is infall1bly against everything that con- gress or the administration may do, and being in an entirely negative frame of mind he has nothing to offer instead except that an experiment be made in the White house.-New York World.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-08
A Per'ilOus Game.
Washington -Star.)

Don't you play bridge whist at Crimson Gulch?"
 Not any more," replied Bronco Bob. "It upsets all the rules. When you lose at poker you can keep your troubles to yourself and not talk about the hand. But when one of us loses at bridge whist he doesn't know what minute his partner is goin' to draw gun an rely on verdict of iustifable homicide"
New Britain herald., 1916-09-08

If there is a flaw in the constitu- tionality of the eight-hour law the supreme court won't have to hunt very long for it. It is estimated that some 2,000 lawyers counsel for the 225 interstate commerce railroads are looking for the flaw.-Springf1e Republican.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-08

MT. Hughes spoke against the roar of the tide from the ocean. .''-News dispatch from Hampton Beach, N H. Not wholly surprising, in view of his well-known facility for finding things to speak against.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-08
THE RIGHT MAN.

THE RIGHT MAN.
 epublicans in convention assem-
 0 having decided upon Marcus H.
 comb as their choice for governor, @ Democrats have lost no time in
 using their attention upon a wor- M champion for the same honors. Heir gaze has centered upon the most
 nmanding figure in the state-CoL #rris G. Osborn, of New Haven.
 Colonel Osborn is known wherever
 nans gather as 8 man among men.
 possesses all those qualities of
 Rrt and mind that endear him to
 bse who come within the magnetism
 his wonderful personality. Were
 ranged along side of Governor Hol-
 nb in the race for gubernatoriaA
 aors, this state would be assured of # ofeche cteanest campaigns in it's
 iticaIs history. AS yet the venerable #tor of New Haven has not stgnif1ed \ intention of becoming candidate. \ wfItynot readily do so, for his mod &y is uZlbosanded. But, if the time @ come. eand we believe it has) when @n1usta aforsake his own sanctum sanc- &um for the general good of Demoo- Sy In this state, then those who 8 8ouse the cause of Thomas Jefferson kst see to 1t that Colonel Osborn is %ae thsir candidate.
 ust as Governor Holcornb did not #k the honors bestowed upon him, so &1onei Osborn has made no move one $y or the other to court this favor. Ere his name placed at the head of Democratic ticket it would mean Ast two of the highest types of men < the state would be brought face E face In the political arena. The 8sent occupant of the chief execu- Se chair is a life long friend and Nnfrer of the man whom the Demo- Sts should place in the field. And A Colonel would have the loyal SUD- 8.t of just as many Republicans as svernor Holcomb could command #mocrats. Further, Colonel Osborn 4uld take a large vote from the 8pgressives. from those who have Ned of the activities of the Old ard in the Republican party and A lined up with the progressive Dem Aats.
 &rhose who are faithfully support & President Wilson, who have fol- aVed his glorious career in the White #use and wish to see Connecticut Ast it's seven electoral votes in his Eor, will take kindly to the candi- Fey of Col. Osborn. They must pre- #iI upon the Colonel to go forth and an the battle In this state. He can 1t. He is the man. His friends #1d forth in every section of the Sate, in every city, every town, every Runcement is made of his candidacy zere will be one grand stampede to NJ in back of him and work for his zsotion. Ills very name breathes en- gusiasm.
 Here in New Britain support for bI Osborn Is already pledged. Ex- knator George M. Landers in an in grview printed elsewhere in the serald today announces himself In lvor of such action. As state cen- sa1 committeeman, Senator Landers' knouncement should go a long way producing the desired effect. Dem- Irats all over the state will rally to Ne call. There is little time to be |st, and Colonel Osborn should be Lade the candidate of his party even
 petition must be circulated to bmmand prompt action. He Is the Ian the Democrats want if they want win in the November elections. [e would help Woodrow Wilson and woodrow Wilson would help him, a pmbinatiOn hard to beat. WHISPERING 'EM OUT.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-08

Mayor Scully of Waterbury made a speech in which he declared that Waterbury was making half the war munitions of the world. Now the Wa terbury papers rise up to tell him that he has seriously exaggerated. Not even Waterbury wants to assume re- sponsibility for so much helishness. Hartford Times.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-08

The allied drive is slow but it is certain. New gains are made every day and thousands of prisoners are being taken. It will be a long time before the Germans release their hold on French territory, however, Meriden Record.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-08
Reasonable Doubt.
Pittsburgh Dispatch.

Suitor-5o you told your father that I was earning $4,O00 year. What did he say?
 The Girl-He haid he knew you were getting that much, but he doubt ed you were earning 1t.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-08
COMMUNICATED,
All Public Schools, Including the High School, Will Open Tuesday,
 September 19.

To the Editor of The Herald:~
 Will you kindly state whether the date of the opening of the city schools which was changed for one week will affect the High school? Thanking you,
 A HIGH SCHOOL PUPIL.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-08

Nobody can please everybody. Everybody can please nobody. MT. Hughes is pleased with his western p.''- Buffalo Enquirer
New Britain herald., 1916-09-08

The automobile season reached it's zenith yesterday and Sunday when tourists in Berkshire had to sleep in their cars because there weren't beds