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The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1916-02-23
JOHNSTON PRICE CHOSEN
CITY CLERK OF fALLON
City Council Orders Dogs Muzzled
and Prepares Expense Budget
for Year 1916.

At the regular meeting of the city
council held last Tuesday evening,
Johnston Price was appointed City
Clerk, vice w. H. Reayis who has
resigned to go into business. The
new City Clerk will enter upon the
discharge of his duties on March
1st, when Mr.. Reavis' resignation
becomes effective.
An ordinance requiring the muz-
zling of all dogs in the city of Fall
Ion was passed on second reading
and ordered published. The ord
nance becomes effective from and af-
ter March 1st.
An ordinance regulating the Ii
censing peddlers and hawkers on the
streets and alleys of the city receiv-
ed its first reading.
The City Engineer was requested
to prepare estimates of the cost of
concrete street crossings in the bus
mess section of the city
The budget for the year 1916 was
made up and calls for an expendi-
ture by the city for civic purposes
o. $4,000 as against $1,000 for
the year 1915, a saving that will be
appreciated by the taxpayers since
It involves no curtailment of neces-
sary improvements.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1916-02-23
FATAL AFFRAY AT
BATTLE MOUNTAIN

At Battle Mountain early Monday
morning, during an alteration, T.
S. Mays, young man well known
at Golconda, was shot and fatally
wounded by man named Fred
Holmes, who was in town from
Copper Canyon.
From what can be learned of the
affair, Holmes had a twenty dollar
bill changed in a gambling game
and an argument started over a
bet made on a card, Holmes claim
ing that he did not receive the right
change. Holmes left the saloon,
but returned shortly with an auto
matte pistol and after hammering
the bar with the butt end of the
weapon said he would get somebody,
or words to that effect, and shortly
afterwards shot Mays in the abdo-
men, the bullet passing completely
through the body. Holmes was ar
rested and lodged in Jail.
DR.. Pope or Wlnnemucca was
called and with the assistance of
DR.. Clark of Battle Mountain per-
formed an operation with the hope
of saving Mays life, but he was
mortally wounded and died at about
10 o'clock that night.
Deceased was "a years of age and
native of Georgia. He resided
for some time at Golconda, where
he was night clerk at the Hot
Springs hotel At Golconda he was
commonly known as the Georgia
Kid"
The body will be shipped to At
lanta, Georgia, where the mother
and sister of the deceased reside
Humboldt Star.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1916-02-23
CASES SET AND DECIDED
IN THE DISTRICT COURT

Henderson Longton Company,
Plaintiff versus A. N. Trolson. ct al. /;
trial date as heretofore set ordered
vacated upon mutual request of both
parties and jury excused.
In the matter of the Estate of
Warren w Williams, deceased, the
executor and executrices were au-
thorized and ordered TO execute deed
of conveyance of certain real-estate
to Joe Buralli as prayed for in their
petition
G. M. Gardner versus Pacific Pow
er Company; motion for new trial
presented by defendant company,
same being argued by respective
counsel. Judge b. F. Curler of Ell
ko and Attorney Haight appearing
for plaintiff and Hon. Geo. A. Bart
lett for defendant Motion ordered
submitted, decision to be rendered
and filed within a few days.
Application for appointment of
III tIt is9bs<tC VI Ahti
tie A. Casey deceased, granted to
r. ]. Casey, and Letters to issue up
on duly qualifying. ]. I. Theyer,
Wade Lewis, and William Josephs
were appointed appraisers.
In the Estate of John Neillson,
deceased; Administrators petition
to sell all the property of the estate
to meet claims and expenses of ad-
ministration, granted.
In Estate of Dan Griffin, deceased;
Application to sell real-estate and
personal property set for hearing
March 22nd. proper and legal no.
tice to be given and the absent
heirs and creditors to be represent
ed
Lucy Whitten, plaintiff, versus
A. L. Whitten, defendant; A decree
OF divorce granted TO plaintiff upon
the grounds alleged in her petition,
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1916-02-23
NOTICE

On April 1st, 1916, every mer-
chant who belongs to the Fallon
Merchants Association will make
complete list of all his customers.
This list is gone over thoroughly by
the merchant turning it in and the
managing secretary of the Associa-
tion, and all names are rated either
as good pay, slow pay, too slow for
profit, or bad.
With very few exceptions, every
merchant of Fallon belongs to this
association, not by any means for
the purpose of harming anyone, but
On the contrary to make it possible
for those who are entitled to credit
to get in, as we'll as to protect the
merchants from carrying accounts
on their books from three to six
months, and to escape the loss
caused by giving credit to the pro-
fessional deadbeat.
(Signed)
FALLON MERCHANTS ASSOC.
February 81, 1916. 1t.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1916-02-23
Well-known Lecturer to Appear i'm
Fallon. Colonel Miller Under
HiQh School Auspices

Colonel Miller has been in demand
from the Middle West to the Pacific
Coast as a speaker before Boards of
Trade, Chambers of Commerce, and
at the annual conventions of many
trade organizations. His work along
these lines resulted in his being
called to Spokane. Washington, to
lecome editor of the Western Lum-
herman and to assume direction of
tie Community development De-
partment of the Western Retail
Lumbermen's Association This,
the most unique and effective organ
ziation of its kind in the country. is
essentially an educational institu-
ton. 1t promotes the interests of
it's members by encouraging them
and helping them to bring about the
conditions, in both town and coun-
try, which make necessary better
living and better homes, for all the
people.
nc MCsSdEt VI llll5 uldl1 10 tAlld-
ordinarily we'll liked by ordinary
men and women. Making no claims
to being q great or profound think
er, he stimulates every hearer to
think. Sometimes they call him the
Mark Twain of the Lumber Trade, :"
Not because he initiates anybody
either living or dead, but because,
in his own way, 'he puts a smile in
TO business" Every sentence is a
lamp which lightens the commercial
and social pathway. He is a rapid
fire speaker. crowding the ordinary
hour and a half lecture into seventy
minutes of good humor, that helps
folks by heartening them.
Colonel Miller will be heard at
the Temple Theatre Saturday even
ing, March 4 Reserved seat tickets
so cents, general admission, S5
cents, school children 25 cents.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1916-02-23
RECEIVES HIS COMMISSION
AS FALLON'S POSTMASTER
Geo. w. Likes Will Assume Charge
of the Local Office on Next
Wednesday.

George w. Likes received his COM
mission as postmaster of Fallon last
week. The commission bears date
of January 18th and is signed by
President Wilson and Postmaster
General Burleson.
Mr.. Likes states that he has made
arrangements with Postmaster john
son to take charge of the office on
March 1st He is now in the Office
studying the rules and regulations
and getting acquainted with the
work under the Instructions of the
retiring postmaster. who is extend
ing him every courtesy. Mr.. john
sons commission expired officially
on January 21st, but he did not as
sumo the Office until March 1st,
1912, hence under the arrangements
made he will have served his full
term of four years next Wednesday.
Mr.. Likes states that he has re-
ceived a number OF applications for
positions, but at present has made
no selections and will probably not
be prepared to make announcement
of his assistants for some time yet.
1t will be Mr. Likes endeavor to
make the change with as little fric-
ton as possible in the conduct of the
service and to this end he is receiv-
ing every possible assistance from
Mr.. Johnson, who has volunteered
his services in assisting him to grasp
the details of the Office routine until
such time as he feels capable of 'tgo-
ing it alone" In this connection it
might be well to remove an impress
sion that exists in some quarters to
the effect that Mr.. Johnson was re-
masters are appointed for a term of
four years. The change that has
taken place is purely a matter of pol
itics. Had Mr.. Taft been elected
four years ago, there is no question
but that Mr.. Johnson would have
succeeded himself had he so desired
with the full support of the citizens
of Fallon, as he has made an able
conscientious and faithful official,
and leaves the Office with the good
will and esteem of all with whom he
has come in contact in the perform
anpe of his dutiee during thn fnur
years past.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1916-02-23
DELEGATES SELECTED TO
NATIONAL CONVENTION
Democratic State Central Commit
tee Decides Against Holding
a State Primary.

The meeting of the Democratic
State Central Committee at Reno
last Saturday night for the purpose
of settling the question of the Sc
lection of delegates to the National
convention at st. Louis on June 14th
next was a disappointment insofar
as it failed to develop the much ad-
yertised split" in the party.
Chairman S. M. Pickett announced
that the executive committee had
never discussed the question of
methods to be followed in the Sc
lection of delegates and hence there
was no disagreement among them.
After some discussion, it was decid-
ed that the holding of State wide
primaries to select delegates to a
convention that would in turn Sc
lect the National delegates, involved
an expenditure of time and money
wholly disproportionate to the i'm
portance of the end sought, especial
ly as there was no contest either in
presidential candidates or among
those seeking the honor of being del
egates to the convention. Accord
ingly the committee resolved itself
into a convention and selected the
following delegates to the National
convention: Senator Francis G..
Newlands. Senator Key Pittman,
Charles A. Stout of Washoe
county, r. W. Hesson of Elko coun-
ty, Ed w Clark of Lincoln county
and J. f. Vardaman of Esmeralda
county.
The alternates named were: A. ].
Melville, Anthony Zurich, j. It.
Goodin, w. r. McFadden, John Nc
Grath and B. F. Baker.
The delegates we're instructed to
vote for the denomination of Wood
row Wilson for president, but the
convention declined to bind them
by a first, last and all the time"
pledge.
Resolutions were adopted endors-
ing the administration of President
Wilson, the work of our Senators in
Congress and the State administra-
tion of Governor Boyle. The Senate
bill grant of 100000 acres of land
to the public school and the univers-
| fly was also endorsed.
The selection of national commit
teeman, now held by John Bell of
Winnemucca, was left to the choice
of the delegates with no recommend
ations.
The committee meeting was one
of the largest ever held in the State.
Every county in the State was repre-
sented either by the regular COM
mittee or by bona fide citizen Of
the county with proxy, hence it
was an unusually representative
body, and presages an interesting
and vigorous campaign.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1916-02-23
NEW PROJECT LANDS ARE
OPENED TO SETTLEMENT
Includes 30 Farm Units on Public
and Private Lands Comprising
Nearly 5000 Acres.

Public notice was received at Rec
lamation headquarters yesterday an
nouneing that several thousand acres
of land ON the Truckee-Carson prof.
eet will be opened to settlement on
March 9Th, 1916.
The land to be restored to entry Is
located in townships Is N, r. 29 E.;
T. 10 N, r. 20 E.; T. 10 NJ, r. 80
E., and T. 19 N, r. 81 E., NJ ID. M,
being between Fallon and saltwater.
The terms under which the land
will be opened are similar to those
at the drawing a couple of years ago.
All applications should be filed at
the L. S. Land Office in Carson be-
tween March 4th and March 9Th,
and where there are two or more ap-
plieations for the same unit they will
be treated as having been filed sim
ultaneously, and there will be a
drawing as heretofore.
The territory covered extends
three miles south of Fallon and six
miles north, and runs IL miles east
from Fallon, embracing all farm
units adjacent to ditches now con-
structed. which are scattered among
improved farms.
There are to be opened : . public
land units. covering s 076 acres, and
2,s93 acres of private lands-a total
of 5,969 acres.
The first water payment is SO per
acre.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1916-02-23
APPROPRIATE EXERCISES ARE
HELD IN OATS PARK SCHOOL

An entertaining program was
given by the teachers and children
of the Oats Park School Tuesday af-
ternoon at 2 o'clock Appropriate
exercises were held in commemora-
ton of Washington and Lincoln S
birthdays. A large number of par
ents and school patrons were pres
ent. Following is the program rend-
cred:
/. Song, Columbia the Gem OF
the ean"-School.
2. Reading. "The Life of Wash
ington Nellie Morton.
8. Recitation, THE Boy Washing
ton'-Six 5th grade girls.
4. Song. George Washington
Boys 4th and 5th grades.
5. Recitation. Thelma Spreyer.
6. Song. Star Spangled Banner
School.
7. Recitation, Jack Howard
S. Washington Conundrums-Giv
en- by Wendell Nelson, answered by
the audience %
9. Recitation. Dale Likes.
10. Song. There are Soldiers
who Don't Wear the Blue"-School.
Il Reading, 1.-The Life of Lin
coln"-Oliyer McCormar.
u. Songs-Girls' Glee Club.
13 Reading. "Lincoln's Gettys-
burg Address" Nelson.
IA. Song. America ca'-Audience
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1916-02-23
w. MOFFATT MARRIES
MRS. VIRGINIA DAVIS

William H. Moffatt, prominent
Reno stockman, and Mrs. Virginia
w. Davis, formerly of Knoxville,
Tenn, and for some time past a
resident of this city, were united in
marriage Friday night at quiet
wedding at the Alamo ranch, south
of Reno,
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1916-02-23

Also plaintiff given care and custody
of the minor children, and defend
ant ordered to contribute $4,000
per month for support and education
of said children, and also to pay
$4,000 as fee for plaintiffs attor-
ney.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1916-02-23

eT III reference 10 the subject dis
cussed:
Letter to Prof. Scrugham
Washington, d. c., Feb. 1916.
Professor j. c. Scrugham, Universi-
ty of Nevada. Reno. Nevada.
MY Dear Mr.. Scrugham-I have
before me your letter of January
4th, making certain inquiries with
respect to desert-land reclamation
under the desert act by pumping
must beg your pardon for not ans
wering more promptly. As | desire
to give the matter some personal at
tention, | have not found 1t practi-
cable to do so until now.
''In reply will say that your un-
derstanding of the desert-land
regulation as well as of the law. Is
substantially correct. | may say,
however, that there Is nothing new
about the regulation, for 1t is only
an application of the requirements
of the desert-land acts as they-haye
always been TO pumping PROPOSE
tions. The law requires water sup
ply for all the irrigable land sought
to be patented, and it is the view
that such water supply is not avail
able within the meaning of the law
until It is ready to put on the land.
Former regulations some years ago
required that all the land be actual
ly irrigated and reclaimed and one
eighth In cultivation. Later regula-
tions have held that only that por-
tion had TO be actually reclaimed
and irrigated that was required un-
der the law to be cultivated to crops
so long as the water supply was
available for all the land and ditch
es ready for further reclamation
and cultivation. | do not think IL
is either advisable or in accordance
with the law to hold that an under
ground water supply is an available
water supply of irrigation when 1t
still remains in the ground undeyel-
oped. unproven and with no install
lation OF apparatus to get the water
on the land, any more than II would
be correct to say that water In a riy-
er some miles from land To be irri-
gated is an available water supply
before any diversion or transmits
sion ditch is provided. Moreover,
as the law requires an available
and sufficient water supply for the
reclamation of all of the irrigable
land within the entry, there would
be no way of enforcing compliance
with the act If patent were TO issue
on a showing of n water supply suf-
hcient for the reclamation of only
one-eighth of the irrigable land in
the entry On the other hand 1t Is
held that II sufficient water supply
for the entire irrigable area has
been made available and ready for
use, we are justified in issuing pat
ent. for in such cases IL is apparent
that substantial compliance with the
act has been shown. and little or
nothing would be gained by requir-
ing the irrigation of land not ready
for cultivation.
I'm this connection would fur
ther call attention to the fact that
there is nothing in the law that
compels n desert entryman to take
S20 acres; that is only maximum.
and he can take whatever he is able
TO reclaim within the period proyid-
cd by law. / think the 320-acre
desert entry is generally conceded
to be too large. | recommended in
my last annual report that this
area be reduced to 160 acres. On
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The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1916-02-23

One of the most curious features
of the war is that Germany and
Italy are not at war, but German
soldiers are fighting against Italian
soldiers They pose as mere Ger
man civilians, who have volunteered
in the Austrian army, and they are
careful TO have certificates to this
effect on them when they fall into
the hands of the Italians.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1916-02-23
New Postmaster at Winnemucca

The nomination of James Ritchie
as postmaster of Winnemucca has
been confined by the Senate. He
will assume the duties of the office
as soon as his commission is receiv-
ed from the Postoffice Department.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1916-02-23

the case of the larger projects,
where several desert entries are ir-
rigated under the same scheme, we
require what appears to be neces-
sary in that section from all infor-
nation which we can get. We have
recently approved for patent consid-
cradle Carey Act areas in Southern
Idaho, where soil and climatic con-
ditions are not unlike those in Ne
yada, on a showing of is acre-feet
per acre net on the land or at the
farmers headgate. While l believe
this is ample when the water is used
economically and in rotation, we are
nevertheless receiving some COM
plants at this action alleging that
the requirement was too low On
the whole, for your purposes. l
should say that the supply should
not be less than one acre-foot per
acre during the irrigating season.
Yours very truly,
"CLAY TALLMAN."
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1916-02-23
COMMISSIONER EXPLAINS
DESERT LAND RULINGS
Saws No More Land Should be TAX
en- Up than Can BE Actually
Irrigated

The following interesting letter
was published in the Carson Appeal,
having been received from Clay Tall
man, United State land commissioner
in answer to a letter from that pap
er in reference to the subject dis
cussed:
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1916-02-23

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Washington, D. c., Feb. 1916.
Professor j. c. Scrugham, Universi-
ty of Nevada, Reno. Nevada
La Junta tribune., 1916-10-14
Declined Ia Endorse Eight-Hour Ia

I Woodrow Wilson. while president
OF Princeton University. was re-.
I quested by Prof. Frank Parsons OF
the Bureau of Economic Researrh
/ In September. 1905, to Join with
others In signing this declaration:
Firs,-we favor the eight-hour
day
Second-Belieying that the eight
hour day means longer and richer
life. fairer diffusion OF wealth
and power. n better citizenship and
higher civilization through leisure
for education, recreation. civic and
social life. We welcome each step IN
the progress of the eight-hour move,
ment and earnestly hope for the sue,
cess OF the typographical unions .n
In their efforts to secure the eight.
hour day.
Woodrow Wilson refused to sign
either of the propositions, saying
1T seems to me that nothing ot
this sort can be decided thus IN the
abstract and tina, no valuable con.
clusion can be arrived at except by
real discussion of the specific
cases"
This II what Woodrow Wilson
then really thought OF the eight
hour day-what he probably now
thinks about II. when permitted to
think free from the prospect OF an
election.
What will he think after March
9Th, whether elected or defeated
La Junta tribune., 1916-10-14
SATURDAY. OCTOBER IL, 1915
REMINISCENT
UnPILIs fRO1 TRIBUNE
FILES Of
TWENTY iEARSAG0

\ railway mems sound money
club was organized at Dodge City
with membership of ninety-four
ID. 4. Cooper. OF Lamar, was nom
mated by the republicans for state
senator TO succeed \. +. Bent, who
decliled to make the race.
The Santa Fe was selling round
trip tickets to Denver for s7.25 for
a special occasion. Railroad fares
are much cheaper these days for
similar occasions.
Miss Belle McCord went to Eliza
bethtown, y. NJ. to we'd w. l.. Bur
nett. formerly editor OF the La Junta
Democrat, but at that time editor OF
the New Mexican Miner.
North La Junta was enjoying
more of a boom" than any other
portion of this fifteen
houses having been recently COM
pleted or under course of cunstruc-
tion
The largest locomotive ever seen
in the west and one of the largest
In the United States. made trial
run from Denver to Pueblo on the
Rio Grande. hauling forty-five cars
1t was claimed that the engin.
could run seventy-five miles an
hour.
c. l.. Seeley and one Davis in.
dulged in political argument OF
the main stem of La Junta. Davis
a Bryanite. became so eloquent. ant
gesticulated to wildly that one ol
his gestures landed ,on seeley
Uranium. Both then threw Their
hats in the ring and went at It ham
mer and tongs. and the finish was
the same as happened on the sue.
ceeding election day-the McKinlrg
itc won out.