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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-13
President Wilson to Be Host.

The President of the United States
and Mrs. Wilson have invited the post
masters to attend a garden party to be
given in their honor the White
House lawn the afternoon of Friday,
July 81. The President and Mrs. Wilson
will be assisted in receiving the post
masters by the Postmaster General and
Mrs. Burleson and other cabinet officers
and their wives.
The postmasters will attend ban
Guet at the Raleigh Hotel the evening
of Thursday, July 20. Among the
guests at the banquet will be President
Wilson. Vice President Marshall, Speak
er Clark. Senator Bankhead. chairman
of the committee on post Offices and
post roads of the Senate: Represent
ative John A. Moon, chairman of the
. committee on the post office and post
roads of the House, and number of
other prominent government officials
The object of the convention is to
enable the postmaSters to discuss postal
problems and to obtain closer CO.
operation among them with a view to
attaining the highest possible standard
of efficiency
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-13
FIVE PERSONS KILLED
MBROOQW EXPLOSION
Thirty Others Are Injured When
Ammonia Tank Wrecks Four
Story Building.

NEW YORK, July 13.-Five persons
were killed, one is missing and at least
thirty others were injured. many Sc
riously. today. when an ammonia tank
in a Brooklyn butcher shop exploded.
completely wrecking a four-story brick
building.
So terrific was the blast that scarcely
a brick in the building was left stand
ing on another and the victims were
crushed under tons of debris. A pass
ing trolley car escaped the avalanche
Of bricks, but a dozen passengers
aboard were injured, some by shock
and others by flying glass and debris.
The known dead are Martin Schmidt
owner of the butcher shop: two clerks,
the cashier. who was woman, and a
delivery boy. A girl whose father says
was on her way to the store and VINO
cannot be found, is believed also to
have persisted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-13

took charge Of the once Ip1y !. 1914
pursuant to the provisions Of section
$50 Of the District code Of law. Mr.. Dute
ton acting as recorder until the Qualh~
cation today OF Recorder Costello.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-13

The Australian government is plan
ming the establishment of laboratory
for the application of scientific research
to national industries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-13
Convention of National Asso-
citation to Be Held in This
City July 1921. Inclusive.
OVER 1900 DELEGATES
EXPECTED TO ATTEND
President Wilson Will Be Hosts at
Garden Party-Many Addresses
Are Scheduled.

Arrangements have been made for the
convention of the National Association
of Postmasters of the United States to
be held in this city July 1921, inclusive.
The convention this year will far sur
pass any former convention of post
masters. Many important postal prob
lens will be discussed by the postmas-
tiers, and much has been provided for
the entertainment of the visitors The
convention this year will include the
largest number of postmasters ever
gathered at one time; more than 1900
will be in attendance.
The president of the association,
Colin n. Selph, postma ster of ST. Louis,
will open the convention at IL o'clock,
July IS. Postmaster General BurleSon
will then address the postmasters and
Oliver p. Newman, Commissioner of the
District of Columbia, will make an adj
of oil
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-13
THROWS DOWN GAUNTLET
FOR ATHLETIC CONTESTS
Troop A, Cavalry, Invites Diversion
at Camp in Competitions Of Any
Kind-Boxing Match.

Troop A. cavalry. has thrown down
the gauntlet challenge has been
issued by the members for any kind
Of athletic competition that any one
else in the camp can put up. running
matches, hurdling, boxing or wrestling.
The membership Of Troop A is made up
of college men, many of them promi-
nent in college athletics during their
course.
The members believe that they must
uphold their regulations. and at the
same time keep in training for the
hard service which may be their lot
lenges.
Any one in the camp who thinks he
can do anything any better than these
and show up. Otherwise they will
claim to reign supreme.
Private Gates a Victor.
Matches opened yesterday, when a
little fellow in A Battery went over
into cavalry street looking for trouble.
He challenged the smallest man. in
size. in Troop A to a boxing match. Up
StSpPco iiNdIo ". IL YATES, WHO was
looking around for a little exercise,
despite the fact that he had been drill
ing all day in the hard fashion pre-
scribed by Capt. Washburn.
The challenge was accepted forthwith
and the fight was on. 1t was on but a
few minutes. however, for there came
a halt in the second round and the
fight was over. Gates is proclaimed
the victor, the champion of two organi-
cations, and the members of Troop A
say that they will back him to lick
one one else in the camp, to say moth
ing of breaking the monotony of camp
life for those men who are unable to
get passes for the night out of camp.
Gates is assistant solicitor of the De-
partment of Agriculture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-13
Ten Others Are Under Debris.

The police fear that others, passers-
by, may have been buried under the
falling walls which crashed down upon
the sidewalk and street. Only a huge
pile of debris and wreckage marks the
spot where the building stood.
One hundred firemen and a dozen am
balances were rushed to the scene and
the work of extricating the bodies be-
gan. Fire Commissioner Adamson, di-
recting the work of rescue, said it was
not possible that any one who was in
the building at the time of the ex-
plosion could have escaped with his life.
Four Powder Plant Victims.
HASKELL, N. j., July 13.-Four work.
men are reported to have been killed
and three injured in an explosion
which wrecked one of the mills of the
du Pont smokeless powder plant near
here.
Buildings several miles away were
shaken by the conclusion, and windows
and crockery broken. Telephone COM
munication with places near the plant
ceased after the explosion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-13
Last White Man Served Till 1881.

The last white man to hold the
office of recorder of deeds of the Dis
trlct was George A. Sheridan, who was
appointed May II, 1878. and served
until May II, 1881, when President Gar
field appointed Frederick Douglass to
the position. Douglass being the first
colored man to occupy it.
Douglass was succeeded by James H.
Trotter. colored. of Massachusetts
Trotter by Blanche K. Bruce, colored.
who had been United States senator
from Mississippi: Bruce by Charles H.
j. Taylor, colored, of Kansas; Taylor
by Henry p. Cheatham, colored. of
North Carolina; Cheatham by John c.
Dancy, colored, of North Carolina, and
Dancy by Henry Lincoln Johnson, col
ored, of Georgia.
johnson resigned June 30, 1914, where
upon Robert w. Dutton, who had been
appointed deputy recorder July 1. 1909
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-13
COSTELLO TAKES OFFICE
AS RECORDER Of DEEDS
First White Man to Fill Position
Since 1881-Is Met by
Employees.

John F. Costello, democratic national
committeeman for the District of Co
lumbia, today was indicted into office
as recorder of deeds for the District Of
Columbia Mr.. Costello is the first
white man to fill the office since 1881.
The oath of Office was administered by
Justice Gould of the District Supreme
Court in his chambers.
Acting Recorder Dutton. who has
been in charge Of the Office since the
resignation of Henry Lincoln Johnson
as recorder, June 80. 1914, accompanied
Mr.. Costello to the office Of Justice
Gould.
The oath was taken by Mr.. Costello
in the presence of Mr.. Dutton, Robert
E. Mattingly, a fellow-delegate with
Mr.. Costello to the democratic conven-
ton at St Louis. and Frank E. Gun
bingham. assistant clerk of the court
Justice Gould warmly congratulated
the new recorder.
After taking the oath, Mr.. Costello
TOOK charge of the Office, and held an
informal reception. at which the clerks
and employees of the office were pre-
sented to him by Mr. Dutton. Mr. Co.'S
tello asked to be excused from ex-
pressing any policy in regard to the
conduct of the Office, saying he was
TOO new to make any statement
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1916-04-15
IMMIGRATION BILL PASSES HOUSE
Vote So Large That IL Would Seem to
Make a Veto Useless, If Bill Reaches
President

The Burnett bill to restrict immi-
grafton passed the House of Repre-
sentatives by a vote of 303 to 81. 1t
was not a party vote.
The majority is so large that it
seems to make probable the passage
of the bill over the Presidents veto,
if he should again veto it.
Bills of the same sort have three
times passed both Houses of Con-
gress, but we're vetoed by Presidents
Cleveland. Taft and Wilson.
The new bill, as it goes to the Sem
ate, contains the 'literacy test"
which would keep out of this coun-
try all immigrants who cannot read
their own or some other language.
The fight in the House centered
around this part OF the bill, and on a
motion to strike it out was retained
by a two-thirds majority.
Mr.. Burnett, the author of the
bill. argued that the conditions in Eu-
rope make it more than ever neces-
sary to protect this country from ex-
cessive or undesirable immigration.
According to him. there is no doubt
that at the end of the war this coun-
try will be invaded" by millions of
immigrants from the desolated and
tax-burdened countries of the Old
World, unless the tide is checked as
it would be by this bill.
Besides the literacy test the bill
increases the head tax" from 81 to
So; but this tax il not to Apply to
immigrants under 16 years of age.
1t now applies to all.
Heavy penalties r provided for
steamship companies that violate the
law by bringing in diseased. feeble
minded or otherwise defective i'm
migrants. Hindus are excluded. as
we'll as all others who cannot be ma
turalized under the present laws.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1916-04-15
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES

/. This week marks the end of the
eighth month of school. there being
just eight more weeks remaining in
the term.
Several of the students have heard
from Estella Gianoli, who left school
recently to teach at Eye Canyon. She
reports her work very pleasant.
A dance will be given by the High
School students in the Opera House
on Friday night, May 5, the proceeds
to be used toward the new piano.
Peter Merialdo, of the Sophomore
class, left on this mornings train for
Reno, where he intends to spend a
week. He accompanied Edgar Ea-
Their.
AT a meeting of the student body
held in the assembly room Wednes-
day. it was decided to apply the
money remaining from the recent
high school play to the purchase of a
piano. This is something which we
have long been in need of. and the
funds now in the treasury will make
a substantial first payment. 1t is
hoped that arrangements can be
made so that we can have an instru-
ment here before the close of the
present term of school.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1916-04-15
Mortgage Given By Mark Twain

That Mark Twain, in his adventur-
Gus career in this State in the COS.
was broke on at least one occasion is
attested to by a document recently
found by Auditor Clyde Johnson,
while copying records in his Office.
The document was executed at Au-
rora, which was at that time in Es-
meralda County, and is dated Au-
gust 5, 1868. 1t states that twelve
months from the date mentioned S.
B. Clemens promised to pay I. K.
Hutchinson or order 81 1000. with in
terest at 5 per cent per month from
date until paid. The mortgage was
given on a lot on Antelope street in
Aurora. The interest rate would
to-day be considered exorbitant.-
Goldfeld Tribune.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1916-04-15
Old Time Menu At
PlaC0rVillo Hotel

Following is a copy of an original
bill of fare from the Ell Dorado hotel
at Placerville, that had been prepared
for Christmas Day. 1849. The menu
which is in the possession of Charles
S. Greeley, who claims to be a des-
cendant of the famous Horace. is
yellow with age, and had been given
to Mr.. Greeley's father years ago by
one of the '49ers, who was one of the
diners on that occasion. Some of
the items on the menu were:
Bean soup, 81; roast beef, $1.50;
beef plain, 81; beef with n potato,
lbs; baked beans, plain rs cents;
two potatoes. medium size) SO cents;
two potatoes peeled, rs cents; sauer
kraut, 81: bacon, stuffed, $1.50; hash
Qow grade) rs cents; hash. 18-karat,
81. Under the head of game: Fish
balls, rs cents; roast grizzly, 81; rice
pudding with molasses, 81; rice pud-
ding with brandy peaches, So; square
meal with dessert, So. The meal
was payable in advance, and notice
given that gold scales were at the
end of the bar.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1916-04-15
Fades at Sight of Skeleton

The colored shine of an Elko bar
Der shop recently walked out of the
shop and saw a skeleton sitting in an
auto with its bony hands on the
wheel. The colored man immediate
ly aeroplaned for the open desert
and did not return for some hours.
The car in which the skeleton was
placed belonged to an Elko doctor
who was in the shop. The skeleton
came from the doctors office and
was placed in the car by a local wit.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1916-04-15
Nevada State News

The Winnemucca Star says that
during the past few days the water
in the Humboldt river has raised
about eight inches and is running
about bank full at the bridge below
town. The adjacent land is gradually
being flooded and from present indi-
cations it will not be long before a
sheet of water covers the bottom
land.
No trace has been found of Ralph
Young, who disappeared last Satur-
day night. The last place he is known
to have been was at Reno, where he
cashed a check. Mr.. Wore, proprie-
tor of the Elko Soda Works, for whom
Mr.. Young was working, reports the
books to be in very bad shape and he
believes that there is a shortage of
upwards of $2000.-Elko Independ-
ent.
In the next ten days the air con-
nection between the Halifax and the
Buckeye on the 1900 level will be
holed through, completing an event
that will be of inestimable value to
both properties. This will establish
an underground avenue by which ev-
cry working mine in Tonopah dis
trict will be connected and making a
continuous passage extending for a
distance of over 40 miles from the
Halifax to the Extension and Victor.
In an air line of almost three miles
from the eastern to the western ex-
tremity of the camp.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1916-04-15
APRIL 10. 1915
v PRESS COMMENT
Consult the Communities


Tonopah Times: 1t is desirable
that the members of the State Board
of pardons have full access to the
sentiment and opinions of the tax
payers who paid the cost of the trial
and conviction of these SO prisoners
who are now asking for parole or
pardon. 1t is the practice and GUS
tom, we understand. for the able
members of the Nevada board of
pardons to scrutinize infinitely the
records in all cases. consider the con-
duct of the prisoner after his incar-
ceration and take careful counsel of
every phase of each case. The Times
believes they should go farther and
sound the opinion of the public in
every community from which a
prisoner comes. This paper believes
in our Board of Pardons. 1t also be-
lieves in our judges who have tried
all these cases. The Times also be-
lieves in the people and would sug-
gest that voters in all the counties in
which these convictions were made,
take the trouble and time to write to
the board of pardons on the appeals
that directly affect their commune
Ties.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1916-04-15
Plenty of Platinum Soon

Just in time, South America comes
to the front with discoveries of plati-
mum ore. Former supplies of this
metal came almost wholly from the
Ural Mountains. and the war has cut
them off. Platinum now sells for
many times it weight in gold. Max
ers of electric light bulbs and false
teeth have been at their wits end to
get supplies, for no other metal will
answer these purposes. The newly
discovered pres r reported to be
very abundant. They are in Colon
bia.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1916-04-15

Mondays Elko Independent says
DR.. Henry Hagar and son Harry
were in town from Cave Creek in the
south end of Ruby. Harry reports
an exciting encounter with a rabid
coyote several days ago. Two cases
Of rabies have been reported lately
from that section, which indicates
that the plague is gradually working
south. DR.. Hagar says that one of
the rabid animals vas among his
stock for some time and he fears
that some of them were bitten.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1916-04-15
EXPIRES. Bu.ine.. in No Danger

The great express companies have
proved that they are able to survive
the heavy blow given them by the es-
Establishment of the'parcel post. In
many ways they give better service
than the Government can give. The
earnings for December. 1915. show
an increase of over 400 per cent as
compared with December 1914. The
shares of the principal companies
have increased about so per cent in
market value during the past year.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1916-04-15

August Bodine, who holds a bond
and lease on the Helen M copper
property near the Evans ranch in
Pine valley, is erecting new buildings
on the property and preparing to
work the mines on an extensive scale.
He now has a force of ten men at
work.
Manager L. R. Thatcher of the
mines at Union is preparing to COM
mence heavy shipments of lead ores
as soon as the roads are in condition
for hauling. he already has one
auto truck and four and 8-horse
teams ready to commence work. A
new set of large team scales has just
reached Palisade for the Union
Mines Company and will be installed
at Union switch on the local railway
at once.
A new joint tariff issued by the
Southern Pacific, Western Pacific,
and Eureka-Nevada railway CON-
panies giving a rate on speiss (slag
from furnace dumps carrying gold,
silver, lead, copper and from. from
Eureka to Utah smelters, becoms eff
fective May Is, 1916. The rate un.
der this new tariff from Eureka tc
Palisade is $2.05, and from Palisade
to Utah smelters $2.75 per ton
Minimum shipments are to be not
less than 60 tons per week.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1916-04-15
Sale of Bad Poultry

The people of New York City are
paying 81, 000, 900 a year for. poultry
that is unfit as nourishing food, and
is dangerous to health. That is a
statement made by the State Depart
ment of Foods and Markets. and con-
6rmed by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1916-04-15
Test For Tungsten

Dissolve about 2 grams of p~ulveriz-
ed ore in concentrated hydrochloric
acid, avoiding long boiling. Filter
or decant into another vessel, and
add a piece of sheet or messy zinc.
Tungsten is indicated by the appear
ance of a blue color.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1916-04-15

Chas. Mitchell and DIR. A. J. Hood
of Elko recently sold a band of $500
sheep to Fred Taylor of Lovelock.
With the sheep were included the
ranch and Improvements. The pur-
chase price is not known, but the
transfer involves the largest pur-
chase of sheep made in Elko County
in many months.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1916-04-15
Great Store of Lead

From Boston comes the word that
the United States Smelling corpora
ton has the largest supply of unsold
cad in the country and as a result of
its market attitude stands to make a
handsome profit.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1916-04-15
Growth Of Postal Saving.

The postal savings banks continue
to prosper. AT last accounts the de-
posts were $73. 900. 900, from $780, 0(
depositors.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1916-04-15
Veteran. Of Mexican War

The Commissioner of Pensions says
there are still on the..lists the names
of 563 American soldiers who fought
in the war with Mexico. The war
ended 68 years ago.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1916-04-15
THE LATEST NEWS
Received By the SENTINEL at Noon
To-day By Telephone From
Palisade

The formal demand of the de faco-
to Mexican government made upon
Secretary Lansing demanding the
withdraw of American troops from
Mexico, while couched in diplomatic
language, clearly conveys the dis
pleasure of Mexico at the presence of
American troops in pursuit of bandit
leader of border raid. and declares
the United States acted without
definite consent of de facto govern
ment in sending soldiers across the
line. Following this formal demand
President Wilson and his cabinet
held a long session yesterday, but
nothing regarding this meeting has
as yet been made public.
The American troops now located
at Parall, Mexico. we're attacked
Wednesday by a mob of Mexicans.
and when hard pressed the Americans
turned loose with their machine guns
and killed 40 Mexicans. Two U. S.
soldiers were killed.
The Panama canal, closed for about
a year on account of slides in the
Culebra cut, was re-opened to-day
for general traffic.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1916-04-15

The United.States Department of
Agriculture report on the condition
of meat prices prevailing on March
18th shows an increase in the price of
meat animals-hogs, cattle. sheep
and chickens-of 1874 per cent over
the price of a year ago this time, and
an increase of 1877 per cent over the
average price for the last six years
on March Is. That this jump in
price was sudden is shown by the
statement that between February Is
and March Is this year the price paid
to producers for meat animals in
creased 8.4 per cent, while the in
crease for the same period during
the last six years averaged 81 per
cent.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1916-04-15

Legal blanks and mining locations for
sale ct this Office.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1916-04-15
Must Give Politics TO
Vote At Primaries

1t will be necessary for all who
wish to vote at the primary election
in August for the selection of dele
gates to the State and nominating
conventions to register their party
politics. The law is very plain on
this point. No one whose party poll
tics is not designated after his or her
name can vote at any primary cleo
ton. The right to vote only extends
to voting at the general election,
when the party utilization is not
given. This is important to the
women voters and should be borne
in mind by them when registering.