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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-03-18
Dogs Save Child fom Coyote

Two dogs, belonging to a rancher
in the Lovelock valley, saved TIVE
children from a rabid coyote re-
Gently. The dogs were pets of the
o. L. Crossmans of Giant Point and
were playing in the yard of the
Crossman home with the two chill
dren. when a coyote, with frothing
jaws and swapping teeth. appeared
in the yard and started for the
children. The dogs attacked the
coyote and the noise was heard by
the mistress of the house, who
courageously shot the rabid animal.
One of the dogs was untouched and
will be permitted to live, but the
other was badly cut by the teeth of
the coyote and was killed as a
measure of precaution.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-03-18
Three SiIOs i'm Nevada

The state of Nevada has but
three silos in working condition.
The state hospital for mental
diseases in Reno, the state fair
grounds and the Wingiield demon
stration farm in Fallon are the
only possessors of what farmers in
the middle west consider a neces-
sary adjunct to a successful farm.
The state agriculturalists are work
ing for a more general adoption OF
I've silo by the farmers and cattle
men Of this state, as it is possible
to save a crop even in bad wealth
er for feed by cutting and placing
in the silo.
Evening star., 1916-09-04
BIG TENNIS BATTLES.
Quartet of Stars Meet in Semi Finals
of National Tourney Today.

FOREST HILLS, y. Y, September g.
Four of the countrys best tennis play
ers. VINO have survived a week Of hard
matches on the turf courts of the West
Side Tennis Club. will play this after
noon to decide what pair viii meet to
morrow in the final battle for the ma
tionaI singles championship. william
NJ Johnston Of San Francisco, the title
holder. by virtue of his consistent per
fcrmances in the earlier rounds. still IS
a slight favorite in spite Of the thrill
Ing victory won by Robert Lindley
Murray Saturday over George N.
Church.
Johnston and Murray will meet at
$3.50 O'Clock this afternoon. and the vic
tor will play the winner Of today's
match between Il. Norris Williams. I'd.
of Philadelphia, and Clarence J. Griffin
of San Francisco. Although Williams,
the champion Of 1914, has a higher rat
ing than Griffin in the official
ranking list. he has been beaten
twice by Griffin this season. once in the
Longwood tournament and once at
Newport. Williams is regarded as the
sole remaining hope of the east, since
Murray. although now a resident of
Bayonne, y. j.. moved here but recently
from California, and still is considered
a representative of Pacific coast tennis.
Evening star., 1916-09-04
BAKER TO HOLD OFFICE
UNTIL SENATE ACTS
Excise Commissioner, Reappointed,
Will Be In Until December,
at Least, Is Belief.

Henry S. Baker, appointed a member
or the excise board by the President to
succeed himself, will continue to hold
office as excise commissioner at least
until next December, notwithstanding
the fight which has been threatened
against his confirmation in the Senate,
1t was predicted today at the Capitol
Under the law member of the excise
board holds office until his successor
qualities.
Mr.. Bakers nomination has been op-
posed by the same senators who caused
the rejection of Gen. Robert G. Smith,
who was reappointed Il member of the
board some months ago by the Presi-
dent.
This opposition is due to an investi-
cation made by a committee of the
Senate year ago in which it was re-
ported by the committee that the then
excise board had permitted evasions of
the excise law. Gen. Smiths renomi-
nation was rejected for that reason,
and 1t was expected that Mr. Bakers
also would be rejected.
The Senate District committee, in
spite of the efforts of Senator Smith of
Maryland, has not been able to get a
quorum together for meeting for sew
eral weeks. Therefore the nomination
Of Mr.. Baker is still before that COM
mittee. In view of the fact that Con-
gress proposes to adjourn its session
within a few days, there seems to be
no chance for action on the Baker
nomination.
Evening star., 1916-09-04

prosperous city many centuries before
1t became the metropolis of Islam. Tie
Makoraba OF Ptolemy and the capital
of the Hedjaz. it has been a notable
trading center since very early times.
and the famous kaaba. originally J.
heather shrine containing a miraculous
fetish. attracted pagan pilgrims long
before Mahomet made IL the hottest
shrine of the Moslem world. Except
for the Great Mosque and a few minor
buildings. most of Mecca has been re
built in modern times.
AS well die Jew or a Christian as
not mako the pilgrimage to Mecca, said
Mahomet: and no obligation of Islam is
| more piously discharged. 1t is believed
| that the ritual connected with the visit
! TO the kaaha-the square building
| and the kissing of the black stone go
| back to days of idolatry. the time of
! ignorance" before the new faith
| bloomed- The black stone. which meas
| ures about six inches by eight. Is be-
! lieved to have fallen from paradise, to
| have been guarded during the deluge
| and handed to Abraham by Gabriel
! when the kaaba was built. Certain
parts of the ceremonial-the throwing
| of stones at the devil and the imitation
| of Hagar's distracted wauuer.n.s in
| the desert. are supposed to have had
| Significance for the re-Mohammedau
times as well as for Islam.
Evening star., 1916-09-04
LONGFELLoW's INSPIRATION.
How the American Poet Came to
Write His Most Famous Poems.

From the Kansas City Times.
When Henry wadsworth Longfellow
was appointed professor of modern
languages and literature at Harvard
University IN 1885 he took up his resi-
dence In the old vassal mansion, once
the most pretentious home in Cam
bridge. It was there that Washington
made his headquarters when he took
charge of the colonial army in July,
1775, and under the elms which shaded
met and conferred.
It was in this home, according to no
less an authority than Hezekiah But
terworth. the historian, of Boston that
many of LongfeIlow's most famous
poems were written. The original of
The Clock on the Stairs" chimed the
hours as the poet worked. 4 summer
morning was the inspiration of The
Psalm Of Life" in 1898, when LongfeI-
low sttil was young man. He placed
1t IN his diary and for many years
would not consent to its publication
but when he finally did 1t quickly flew
| over the world to quote Butterworth
rev lines of the poem in japanese
characters on Japanese fan once
were found by a friend travelling in
the orient. who sent the fan to Long
fellow as evidence of the wide audi
ence which The Psalm of Life" en-
Joyed.
| In 1879 a storm of unusual violence
swept the New England coast, and that
| night Longfellow could not sleep. He
got up and wrote The Wreck Of the
Hesperus." finishing the verses as the
clock on the stairs struck 3.
| The Hanging of the Crane" was sug-
| gested when Longfellow went to call
| on bride and a bridegroom, He found
| them seated at a little tea table In
| front of the hearth. The young hus-
| band also was a poet, and Longfellow
advised him to write a romance on
the Acadian custom of hanging the
| crane. Ten years later they met again
! and, finding that his suggestion had
not impressed the other, Longfellow
wrote The Hanging of the Crane"
| himself
| Hawthorne told Longfellow the story
of Evangeltne, adding that he had
been urged to write a romance based
on it, but thought it better suited for
verse. The story of Hawatha. re-
lated to Schoolcraft by Abraham LIE
Fort, an Onondaga chieftain, furnished
the poet with the outline of his en-
bellished verse. The Tales of a Way
side Inn" were suggested by an old
colonial hostelry at Sudbury, Mass
which still Is In existence.
Evening star., 1916-09-04
Tornado of Shell Fire.

No sooner had the British taken Gull
lemont and swept through il than the
Germans turned on it a tornado of
shell fire from their immense conceu-
tratton of guns in this section.
The whole movement was like that
Of July ] with the army swinging on
its position north of the Ancre as its
pivot.
The French between the Somme and
the British right under the protection
Of an amazing hurricane of shell fire
co-operated in brilliant advance
From a hill the blue of French soldiers
and the khaki of the British could be
seen side by side as they charged, and,
figures Of the Germans filing back to
the rear as prisoners completed the
spectacle under an unbroken stream
of shells overhead.
The guns were so thick behind both the
British and French infantry and their
action was SO furious that ii appalled,
Imagination.
Prussian guard prisoners taken said
the German emperor had let 1t be known
to his troops that there would be no win
ter campaign. They believed the deci-
sion of the war was coming In this sum
mer's fight. and in the fighting of the
wanted for it. The Prussan guard al
ways had plenty.
The fiercest struggle Of all was for the
possession of Ginchy-that commanding
high ground. When the Associated Press
correspondent left the corps headquarters
the British had more than half the vii
lage. and the struggle amid the ruins
hidden by curtains OF shell smoke was
bitterly continuing.
Evening star., 1916-09-04
Big Business of the Day.

Later in the morning the big business
of the day began from Devils wood
southwark through to the Somme. All
and machine guns, was exerted to the
utmost. Guillemont was the prize the
British sought. Two weeks ago this
village was the most completely devas-
tated of any on the front and the Brit
ish had been pounding IT day after day
with every caIiber of gun. Guillemont
no longer is a village. but an iron and
lead mine. Twice the British had car
ried their charges into it and even
through ii, only to be forced out. 1t is
estimated that 100000 shells were fired
into it and that 100000 of bullets trav-
ersed it.
Sapping forward and connecting IN
shell craters into trenches, the British
worked their way, aided by occasional
charges. to the village. but the Germans
established themselves in small
trench salient southwest of the village,
where they We're only thirty or forty
yards from the British and so near
that the British guns dared not fire on
them for fear of hitting their own men
Here the Germans had machine gun
so placed that it swept the space be-
tween the trenches, but the British
! managed to get across. and about mid
! day swept through the village OF Gull
| lemont, cleaning up nests Of machine
| guns, and across the fields on the other
| side. establishing themselves in a
| sunken road. But south of Guillemont t
one section of the Prussan guard re-
| sisted desperately in Faafemont Farm
and Wedge wood, and here all the aft
ernoon booming and hand hand
| fighting were proceeding. Here the
| guard had high ground which they
| turned into fortress and they were
| evidently determined to keep faith
/ with their prestige.
Evening star., 1916-09-04
HUMAN RIDDLES
That Have Vexed the World
Bv John E1freth Watkins
Leanore P;ber-What Is Her Po,oey9

A masked man entered modest cot.
proceeded to a room where an uncon.
sctous woman leaned over a table. hel
head buried in a pillow. her hand
clutchfng a pencil whose point rested
upon pad of paper. The woman's
hand commenced to write messages te
the masked man-communication al
legged to be from his relations beyond
the grave. This mysterious visitor re-
turned to the New England cottage
day after day. being always announced
as Mr.. Smith" At length, he became
convinced that the information writ
ten to him by the unconscious woman
was such that no living person but
himself could possibly have known
Much to the astonishment of his
brother savants, he announced his be-
lief in the power of the living to COM
municate with the dead
The masked man was DIR. James n
Hyslop, professor of logic and ethics
at Columbia University, New York, and
the mysterious woman who converted
him to the spiritistic hypothesis was g
modest and retiring New England
housewife, MIS- ieanOFe flpeT. UHl1ke
her predecessors, she had assumed her
uncanny role unwillingly, had never
given public seances, never demon
strated her powers before other than
scientific Investigators.
This strange woman was the dis
covery Of Prof. William James of Har-
ward. brother of Henry James, the
noted litterateur. A quarter century
ago, Prof. James. delving into mys-
teries of psychic research, learned that
she suffered now and then from pecu-
liar alterations of consciousness, during
which it had been accidentally discovered
by her family that she could reveal GER
tain truths that could not possibly have
come to her from any living parsonage
Prof. James tested her powers, and
communicated results to DR.. Richard
Hodgson, an English psychologist liv-
ing in Boston. and in order to subject
her to an acid test Dr. Hodgson con-
spired with Prof. Hyslop, whom he
knew to he a Skeptic and a careful
scientific Investigator. Thus it was
arranged that. Prof. Hyslop should
mask himself, disguise his voice and
proceed to the Piper homestead un-
known and unannounced, entering the
presence of the alleged medium only
"fter she had lapsed into one of her
spells of Inconsistencies.
In the course of these experiments
during which the woman of mystery
never saw his features or heard his
natural voice, Prof. Hyslop alleges. the
pencil In her hands wrote a secret
password from his dead father, a wore
unknown to any one else, and which
he was sure could never have beer
communicated to Mrs. Piper by any
living consciousness. Reams of paper
bearing alleged messages written by
Mrs Piper in Prof Hyslop's presence
convinced him that her demonstrations
were absolutely above fraud and he
had her subjected to medical tests
Evening star., 1916-09-04
TAKES POST WEDNESDAY
AS RECRUITING OFFICER
Mai. Thacker v. Walker, N. G. D. c..
to Establish Headquarters at
L Street Armory.

Mai. Thacker V. Walker, y. @. D. c.,
cruiting officer for the National Guard
of the District Of Columbia, has re-
ceived his orders from the Department
Of the East, and viii take charge of
the recruiting stations Wednesday
morning. He will establish his head
quarters at the L street armory, where
recruits from the four other stations
will be sent to be sworn in and have
their final papers made out. Mai.
Walker will be assisted at the armory
by Mai. L. H. Reichelderfer, the med
icai examiner.
The rest of the detail of commits
stoned officers who will assist Mai.
Walker is composed of Mai. John C.
Whitaker, Capt. Edward NJ. Nevis,
Capt. D. Spencer Bliss and Capt. Al
fred K. McGonegal. Lieuts Lionel j..
johnson, Jesse c. Sweeney. w. l.. Haz-
ard and Julian y. diff, who have been
handling city recruiting, have been re-
l!eved, and it is expected that they
will rejoin their companies at Camp
OrdWay tomorrow night.
Mai walker stated this morning that
he has changed his plans in the matter
OF moving any of the present stations
in the city. Also, for the present, re-
cruiting will continue as before. with
the exception that the headquarters
will be in the city instead of in Camp
Ordway.
Recruits will be sent over to Camp
Ordway when sworn in, and after camp
is broken, when the troops leave for
the border. the new men will be sent
TO barracks at Fort Myer and Will be
drilled and instructed by the regular
soldiers. Mai Walker also said that
new men probably viii be sent to the
border in quotas after the main body
leaves
Evening star., 1916-09-04
COMPROMISE CABINET IN.
Appointments by Chinese Premier
Confirmed by Parliament.

PEKING, September 4.-Parliament
today confirmed the following compro-
mise cabinet, as proposed by Premier
Tuan Chi-Jui: Foreign affairs, Tang
Shao-Yi: finance, Chen chin-Tao; in
terror, Sung Hung-Yi; war. Tuan Chi
Jul: navy, Chon -Kuan; communities
tfon, Hsu-Shih- Wing: justice, Chang
Yao-Tseng: agriculture and commerce,
Ku Chun-S Shu education, Fan Yuan-
Lien.
The vote received by Premier Tuan
Jul was almost unanimous. There was
much opposition to several members of
the compromise cabinet. but the critical
and the seriousness of the japanese de-
nands for police power in Manchuria
and in inner Mongolia silenced party
strife.
Evening star., 1916-09-04

proving that while writing these COM
munfcations she was beyond question
in state OF anesthesia. insensible to
pain.
Having convinced these men Of
science that the dead could communi-
cate with the living, Mrs. Piper re-
ceived an invitation to visit England.
by the famous London Society for
Psychic Research. After some per-
suasion she went abroad. stopping In
Liverpool. where, at the residence OF
Sir Oliver Lodge. president of the Uni
jected to rigid EXAMINATION. COM
mittee asked the alleged medium Ito
communicate to them Just what two
persons, whom they knew Toin to be 1o,n,1s utter
by minute in London at that precise
time. Mrs. Piper, entering the trance
state, wrote a description OF these
persons acts during the evening, and
comparison later divulged that she was
correct. Proceeding to London. she
underwent a long course of investiga-
tfon at the hands of a committee OF the
Society for Psychic Research and many
more learned savants capitulated to
her. Describing his experiences with
Mrs. Piper to me some time ago, Prof.
Hyslop said:
II wore a black mask covering my
face from my forehead to below my
heard when began to visit Mts. Piper.
L
year. and thus hid my identity from her
until after the results of those expert
ments had been obtained. She goes
into a trance, while seated in a chair.
her head resting on pillows piled on
a stand before her. She turns her face
to the left so that she cannot SEQ the
writing executed with her right hand.
which. holding q pencil, rests upon a
pad on another table to her right. She
talks on various subjects until sud
denly dropping forward on the pill
lows"
An example of the testimony alleged
to have been communicated by Mrs.
Piper to him was described to me by
Prof, Hyslop as follows:
"Once while I was having a sitting
with Mrs. Piper. message was re-
ceived from a man. stranger to me,
home town. He also stated that he had
lost a finger. I made inquiry In the
county and town mentioned as his
home. and found that the Oldest resi-
dents of the same name. people
seventy-ive and eighty-four years old,
a cousin of these peoples father who
had had the same name and had died
before 1 was born. Pursuing my in
Quires still further, I found that this
nan had lost a finger in the war of
1872"
ed in retaining the confidence of all
who have Investigated her. and be-
| cause of her persistent refusal to make
public demonstrations of her alleged
phenomena she has retained the re-
spect even of the skeptics, who refuse
, theories as to the source from which
her alleged messages" are derived.
What is her power? Will any one
ever know?
Evening star., 1916-09-04

To Ask $25, 900 Annually.
Mr.. Whitaker intends to ask Congress
for an appropriation of $25.00o annually
for ten years. With a total appropria-
tion of s250,o00 in ten years, he expects
to develop an institution, including the
female department, that will show a
total value of a million and a quarter
dollars. The difference between the ap-
preparation authorized and the actual
value developed will be supplied
through the utilization of prison labor
in construction work and in the man
ufacturing of materials and supplies.
Not only is the project under con-
temptation an enormous one from
building standpoint, but it involves an
experiment in the handling OF prisoners
that will be watched with interest by
prison experts throughout the world. 1t
is planned to handle the long term men
workhouse. They will not be confined
in cells. but will live in buildings of the
dormitory type. with sunshine and fresh
air and a chance to develop mentally,
socially and morally playing a big part
in their daily routine. Industrial schools
will be established and every prisoner
will be taught a useful trade. Likewise,
in the female department.
But one more important legislative
step requires to be taken before the
project can have it's fullest realization
that is the passage of an indeterminate
sentence law which will place in the
say when a prisoner has been properly
conditioned to return to society. Effort
will be made during the next session of
Congress to obtain such law.
Evening star., 1916-09-04
Berlin Bank Statement,

BERLiN, via London, September A.
The statement of the Imperial Bank of
Germany. issued August 81 shows the
following changes:
Total coin and bullion decreased L.
63f 600 marks -
Gold increased $4,000 marks.
Treasury notes decreased 7,353.O0O
marks.
Notes Of other banks decreased ss2. 900
marks
Bills discounted increased 418.902. 900
marks.
Advances increased 100000 marks.
Investments increased 1888, 900 marks
Other securities increased 1887 900
marks.
Notes in circulation increased 254, 701,
600 marks.
Deposits increased 144,3S4.00o marks.
Other liabilities increased 1882, 600
marks.
Total gold holdings, 2,46s,o36, 900
marks
Evening star., 1916-09-04
LIVERPOOL COTTON.

LIVERPOOL. September 4.-Spot in
Limited demand; prices lower: good
middiing. s.s4: middling, 9.6s; low mid
ding, 9.52; sales, 5000 bales. includ
ing 1000 American. Receipts, 1900
bales. including 16,500 American. F'u-
lures closed quiet September, 96O15
September and October $50; October
and November, 9.59h; November and
December, 9.55h; December and Jam
uary, 3.55; January and February.
s:54 y; February and March, 9.54:
March and April. $50: April and May,
s.92; May and June, 9.51s; June and
July, 9.49h; July and August, 9.4sa.
Evening star., 1916-09-04
Funeral to Be Held Tomorrow.

Funeral services for William F.
Reinhart, who died suddenly Saturday
evening. will be held at the residence
of his sister, Mrs. Robert Anderson,
1910 E street southeast, tomorrow aft
ernoon at 2:3o o'clock Further serv-
ices will be held at the Church of the
Holy Comforter at 3 o'clock, and inter
ment will take place in st. Marys
cemetery.
Members of the Capital Beneficial So
ciety and of the Crescent Benevolent
Society, of which Mr.. Reinhart was a
member, will attend the services in a
body.
Evening star., 1916-09-04
WEATHER.
Fair Tonight and Probably Tomor'
row: Warmer Temperature.

\
row; Warmer Temperature.
For the District Of Columbia and
Maryland. fair tonight and probably
tomorrow: warmer: moderate south
erly winds
For Virginia, probably fair tonight
to south winds.
For West Virginia. probably fair to-
night and tomorrow; warmer tonight
An extensive system OF low pressure
covers the northwest and within 1t
there are two storm centers. one over
katchewan. High pressure prevails in
the eastern states.
There have been showers within the
last twenty-four hours at scattered
points in the gulf states. the upper
lake region. the upper Mississippi val
ley and the northwest.
The weather Is quite warm for the
season in the great central valleys,
the Rocky mountain and plateau re-
gions.
The indications are that there will be
showers in the region of the great
lakes, northern New York. northern
new England, Florida and on the east
gulf coast. Generally fair weather VIII
prevail in other sections east OF the
Mississippi river during tonight and
tomorrow.
The temperature will rise tonight in
the region of the great lakes and the
Ohio valley, and tonight and tomorro"
in the middle Atlantic and New Eng
land states.
The winds along the New England
coast will be moderate south ana south
west: on tine middle Atlantic coast mod
crate southerly; on the south Atlantic
and east gulf coasts moderate easterly'
Tide Tables.
Today-Low tide, 6:56 am. and 6:45
IN: high tide, 1921 pm.
Tomorrow-Low tide. 1859 am and
pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-sun rose 5;3s am.' sun sets
6:36 pm.
sets 6:35 pm.
Moon rises 1888 pm.
Automobile lamps to be lighted one
half hour after sunset.
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
The following were the readings Of
the thermometer and barometer at the
weather bureau for the twenty-1our
hours beginning at pm.
Thernome ct cry esterday, pm. 10;
| 8 pm, 62; 12 midnight, "a: today, 4
| a. M, 80: am, so; noon, rs. maximum,
IS, at 4:30 pm. yesterday; minimum. so,
at am. today.
| Temperature same date last year
| Maximum, 81: minimum. So
| eter-Y esterday, pm. 1927;
| 8 pm, 3O2s; IL midnight, 1880; today,
| am, 1890; am, 1890; noon, So.25.
Up-River Waters.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
HARPERS FERRY. W. Va. Septem-
| Der, 4-The Potomac river was clear
and the Shenandoah slightly muddy
| this morning.
Weather in Various Cities.