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Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1916-07-22
YOUNG GIRL BROWNS At
SILVER LAKE

Geraldine Fitzgerald, the 13 year old
daughter of Thomas F. NJ Fitzger.
aid, superintendent of the Tonopah
Belmont mine, at Tonopah, was
drowned Tuesday morning at Silver
Lake, where the family was spending
the summer camping. The child was
the second oldest of the family and
one whose charming ways endeared
her to every acquaintance. This al
lection was demonstrated last winter
when Geraldine was injured in coast
ing accident, sustaining fractures of
the thigh that threatened to cause
permanent injury. By the close atten-
ton of the best surgeons the disabili+
ty was overcome and Geraldine had
scarcely more than recovered from
her long siege than the family pro-
ceeded to spend the heated season
among the snow clad hills around
Mono lake.
The information about the death
was contained in telegram received
by Postmaster ]. P. McQuillan, which
stated simply that Geraldine drowned
covered at the time of filing the mes
sage.-Bonanza.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1916-07-22
SHEEPHERDER ATTACKED
BY A RABID WILDCAT

Ramunda Bilboa, a sheephe-der em-
ployed by Frank Garteiz, was attack
ed by wildcat Friday at the latter 5
Chimney Creek ranch, in the Santa
Rosa mountains near Amos.
The cat jumped on Bilboa and BIZ
him twice on the neck besides wound
ing him in the back with its claws.
The herder managed to free himself
but he had no weapeon at hand and
the cat escaped. 1t is believed the
animal was rabid, and no chances were
aiken and Bilboa was bought to
his wounds treated by DR.. Giroux.
Winnemucca Friday afternoon and
his wounds were treated by DR..
Giroux, who will administer the Pas
teur treatment. t.-Winnemucca Star.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1916-07-22
UNITED STATES
MARINE CORPS

A military-naval camp for the train
ing of citizen volunteers in the two
fold duties of the United State.
Marine Corps will be established a
Landsdowne, Pa. beautiful sub
rrb. of Philadelphia, on July 2l, ant
will continue for six weeks. The
course in training will extend over ;
period of three weeks. which may b,
taken continuously for the whole
period, or men may come to the camp
Tor two weeks of continuous train
ing with the privilege of taking tht
remaining seven days on succeeding
week-ends. United States Marine
Corps recruiting stations Throughout
the country will enroll the volunteers
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1916-07-22
LOVELOCK TO SEND t
40 MEN TO FRONT

Maurice J. Sullivan. lieutenant gov
ernor of Nevada and adjustant gener.
al, visited Lovelock "Wednesday to
confer with Captain Jess Connel
in the matter of recruiting member;
for the National Guard, says the Re
view Miner
According to Sullivan, Lovelock'
organization of approximately fort,
men may be called upon at any mo
ment to join tie forces patrolling tn
Mexican border line.
A conference is to be held in Sai
Francisco Saturday of this week, a
which time arrangements OF accou
trements for the Lovelock compan,
will be taken up. :
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1916-07-22

| In commenting last week upon the
proposed Federal tax on copper, we
did not have the text of the meas
ure before us and therefore had to
| be cautious 1t was inconceivablt
to us at that time that copper alone
among the metals should be taxed
yet mention of no other was made
in the press dispatches. However
they prove to be correct. Out of the
entire long list of crude commodities
copper is singled for tavation
That Congress should have such q
conception is dumfounding. Why
copper and why not iron, lead, zinc
and the resto Why not coal and
petroleum.? Why not wool, leather
wheat, corn and cotton? The one
thing that badly stands out is the
unfairness OF this project Here wt
have class legislation with venge
ance. Copper producers are right il
otoiuihS dShdot a. tHC SHoiHlil
the idea.
But this is not the worst of it. The
proposed act reads, every person
smelling copper ore, refining metal.
lie copper or alloying copper shall
pay-an excise tax-(on) the gros.
receipts-from the sale or disposition
of refined Of crude or copper alloys
and from the sale or disposition OF
crude or unrehned copper if sold o
disposed of for any purpose excep
for refining or alloying.
We interpret this as meaning thai
the miner does not have to pay any
thing unless he smelts and rehnes
The smelter does not have to pay any
thing unless he sells his pig copper
for casting purposes. The rehnei
has to pay (of course he will
throw back upon the smeltei
and the brass maker has to
pay again for the refined copper tina
he uses. If the proht be less thai
10 per cent, nobody has to pay. This
lets out the careless little fellow. OF
course it is only the small class
big fellows at whom Congress in it
present spirit is aiming. The thini
IS bungling and monstrous.
Alas Class legislation is the gov
erning idea in the new revenue bill a
a whole. The income tax is double,
i'll rate without there being any reduc
ton in the exemption limit. Thi
tax is thus kept distinctly as a clas.
tax. 1t has very small percentage
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1916-07-22

litical framework which we have spent
century in admiring and glorifying
leaving ourselves no time for the sub.
is dynamic and VITAL not merely a
mechanism that may be wound up
like clocl; ard them left to run by
itself
1t is exactly this active partcipa-
ton in politiacl rights and in the dis
charge of civic Dues that should
constitute the substance of the civic
education of our youth. Also, We
ourselves should participate in it. We
are as much in need of civic and po-
ltical education as our children. Mos
certainly we cannot hope to inform
them if we ourselves do not under
stand. We cannot expect to inspire
them while our own hearts are cold
Politically there is the greatest need
that, in President Wilson's phrase
we "go to school to each other"
Worked out along these lines VIC
shall have a system of civic education
both for youth and adults, that will
develop so vital and enduring a po-
litical unity, so active and SO righteous
:. public conscience, that military
service, when necessary, will appear
merely incidental to the functioning
of our vigorous nationality. Let II
work out civic education in the higl
schools in the American spirit, still
cherishing that liberty for which our
fathers fought as our greatest and
most glorious heritage.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1916-07-22
PROPOSED TAX ION COPPER W.T.
-0PPRESSSs SMALL PRODUCER

OF the population of the country and
chiefly upon the people of few
States. The proposed tax on copper is
even more narrowly limited. There
is talk among the producers of spread
ing it among consumers. genei ally,
but how is that going to be when hall
of our copper production must be
sold in foreign. markets in. competi-
ton with the copper Of the rest Of
the world?
We find no fault with the princi-
pie that taxes must be raised. We
advocate military preparedness, and
that is going to cost money, which
must be supplied by the people. but
let them do it on basis of equality
We do find fault with plans for un-
equal taxation, for class. taxation.
that are made the cloak for all kinds
Of governmental extravaganza. We
grumble about a tax on copper to
provide money to build marble post
offices in Yahoo and shack-towns and
to dredge creeks in the prairies. We
object to the expenditure of public
money to maintain and aggrandizI
the jobbers-the ibureaus-in Wash
ing that spend vast sums to prepare
bulletins gravely to inform us that
the Dutch have taken Holland, to
print the mouthings of quasi states
men at enormous expense and to car
ry on a variety of enterprises that
broach upon the scandalous.
Now that Congress has learned how
easy it is not only to spend other
peoples money, but also to get it,
how long is it going to be before the
income tax is quintupled and tax
On copper is levied and quadrupled?
And what is going to be the economic
result if the earnings of profitable i1-
dustry be sucked away to be wasted?
This copper tax may not be felt
so keenly when copper is above Zoe.
as it will at the normal of about l5c.
and under. Consider producer
whose cost is l2c. and whose output
is 100000 lb. at lsc. Gross out
put, l0,050,000; net output. $20l0,0O0;
excise tax, $l9l, 500; rate, 9 IL per
cent When the price for copper gets
down to lac. the determination of the
10 per cent profit under the clause
that grants exemption will begin to
be esting-Engineering and Min
ing Journal.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1916-07-22
5000 POUNDS OF BLANKETS
AND BEDDING ARRIVES FOR
NEVADA'S NATIONAL GUARD

Probably the busiest Office III the
State Capitol these days is the office
OF Adjutant- General Sullivan. He
L.. received orders from the govern
Dor to proceed with the organization
ID mastering in OF the first install
n.tnt of volunteers for service on the
J axican border, and is doing al, OF
I thousand and one things neces-
>. ry to get things in shape for the
/: .ival OF the men in Carson, where
will be mustered into the service
ted out with their uniforms and
aer equipment in the least possible
I ne and sent to the front. Yesterday
tc office received from the military
tadquarters in San Francisco 5000
POUNDS of blankets and bedding toi
, c men who are expected in few
Us, and the stuff was Immediately
f. zen to the State armory building
AID slowed ready for assurance &c
Inv iHSH NHSu thSy "'i'
;rmory, which is known as the State
lice building, was yesterday clean
cd out in readiness for the use OF the
.4valrymen as' sleeping quarters. The
F., n, until Uncle Sam recognizes them
d takes them over, will be boarded
the hotels OF Carson.
Mastering officers have been ap'
rointed at different points over the
S.ate, and citizens who wish to serve
country may have their names en-
He'd by calling at the places where
big flag flies. Those III charge
{ the enlisting stations are supplied
V tn the necessary information, an'
viii supply it on request
Applicants for enlistment will b'
examined by physicians at the plac'
g. enlistment, and after passing thi
st will be furnished transportation
Carson where they will be board
ed and lodged at the expense of thu
ate un-h the full quota shall have
en- accepted as physically fit, wher
ey will be given in charge of thu
mted States authorities and for
>arded Immediately to the frontier
hen horses will issued to them ano
ihey will be soldiers in fact.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1916-07-22

The quarters here will be all reno
waited and fumigated, and ready b.
the time the first installment arrive
10 order to conduct the busines
as expeditiously as possible, Lieuten-
nt-Governor Sullivan has found il
necessary to employ special steno
grapher, and Mr.. McCabe of Reno j
doing the work.
Enlistments in Ormsby Count,
have been very backward, those elig
ible apparently believing that the,
ere not needed for immediate service
and not wishing to be enrolled an
wait about for orders. From nov
until the quota of Nevada shall hav,
been mustered i'll. there should b
life about the enrolling quarters
When the two troops are ready, !
will be too late to add your name to
the lists.
In Douglas and Lyon counties
George A. Montrose of Gardnerville
will keep open an Office for the en-
l,stment OF the volunteers, and c. n
Clark OF Carson will perform the
same duty for Ormsby and Storey
Enlisting officers are authorized t
enlist recruits and administer the of
fcal oath.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1916-07-22
NEvAOAUTAH SUGAR COMPANY URGES
FARMERS TO CULTIVATE BEETS

sential if the plant is to run next
year that contracts for the 4,OOC
acres be signed up within the next
month.
Meanwhile the company's repre-
sentative, Mr.. Hanson, will remain
onv the ground to answer all inquir-
les OF prospective growers and any
agreements he may make will be
ratified by headquarters. Mr.. Han
son is an experienced beet grower
and his advice and counsel are at
all time to be at the disposal of the
patrons of the Nevada Utah Sugar
Company. In addition the hiterto
perlexing problem of field labor has
been solved by the presence here OF
MIR. Nishiyama, who is prepared to
furnish laborers in any quantity to
care for the crops after they have
reached the thinning and wedding
stage.
has now done everything that lies
in its power to establish the beet
sugar industry on this project. What
it means to any community where
it has been established has been am
ply illustrated in many of the western
States and it is difficult to believe
that the people of Churchill county
will permit an opportunity to pass
that would be eagerly grasped by any
one of hundred communities in the
west were same offer made to them
as is now ours for the acceptance.
1t should be borne in mind that
it will be the many small growers
who must make up the larger par,
OF the required arceage. In fact
it is the policy OF the company to
discourage attempts to plant large
areas by owners of small farms, es-
pecially until some experience has
been obtained. The company is de
sirous OF seeing the grower satisfied
and prosperous and hence prefers tt
see many individual growers rathei
than a few large ones.
The farmers OF Fallon and vicini-
" should realize that this is a cru
cial moment in the history of the
project and that it behooves each ant
everyone to stand back of the move
ment even at the expense OF slight
Inconvenience or disarrangement o
plans.
If you cannot plant five acres, ther
plant one acre. But by all means
plant beets next year.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1916-07-22
SUPREME LODGE KNIGHTS
OF PYTHIAS

Portland, Oregon. is getting ready
to doll up" again, This time it will
be for the entertainment of the Su-
preme Lodge of the Knights of
Pythias, which meets in that city
August to 10. Portland will be
decorated from the water front to
the hills in red, yellow and blue, not
the least portion of which will con-
sist of flowers. Portland has 500
miles of of rose hedges from which
to call her decorations, and which
are at the disposal OF visitors. Port
land women even supply their visitors
with gloves and shears, as we'll as the
rose bushes to work from
1t is expected that $4,000 Knights
of Pythias will attend the convention.
The large portion of visitors will be
subordinate lodge members who will
be taking their vacations from bust
ness. For the entire crowd an Ella
borate entertainment has been pre-
pared.
Special trains will begin arriving in
Portland about July &c..
These will be carrying eastern peo-
pie. Other sections of the northwest
will arrive by special trains in the
following two days. Headquarters
for the officers of the Supreme Lodge
will be at the Hotel Portland, while
sessions of that body will be held in
Masonic Temple. The great State
Armory, where 1000 men march and
countermarch in comfort, will be the
scene of the public receptions.
Special committees will meet all
trains and secure hotel accommoda-
tions for all visitors.
Auto owners are being urged &c
drive through to Portland. The trip
will be delightful, and the machine
will be handy in making trips over
the wonderful scenic boulevards which
Portland has just completed.
Portland wants you to come.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1916-07-22

We have lived too long in the light
ever again to go cropping through the
black night of igorance. We have
learned not to fear the truth. We take
our destinies in our own hands and
dare all the powers of evil to thwari
luS.
At this period the youth must be
actually initiated into life. He will
not be satisfied merely to view il
from distance, or through the media
of book and teacher. AS applied to
modern conditions, the idea of long
proud of preparation, of idealizing be.
forehand, of development in seclusior
of stanchness of character that viii
take the youth later safely through al
snares and pitfalls of an evil world, i;
wholly fallacy. Life itself develops
character, as also it creates its own
standards and ideals Moreover, j
is needful that the student in high
school be allowed to see that life
is essentially good; that the very
stress and struggle and hardship OF
it are what make for vigorous man
hood and give power to achieve and
capacity to enjoy,
In civic education especially we shall
have to cut loose from the past. This
does not mean that we should ignore
the past but that we should recognize
that the life of the present is the great
GALLEY TWO
problem, and that 4 study of the past
is valuable in order to throw light up.
on that problem.
And right here we reach the very
heart of the problem of political edu
cation. So far we have directed the
mind of the student almost wholly tC
the past. Inheriting the most splen-
did political organization the has
ever known, we have thought it suffi-
cient to make our youth acquainted
with it forms, its history and with the
lives of those patriots, statesman and
heroes who lived and died for it. Oui
attempts at analysis have been con
probation. What Washington advised
What Hamilton proposed, what JET
cerned almost wholly with their inter
ferson thought, what Jackson stood
for and what Lincoln maintained
have always been the fire at questions
ir the teaching of civics and politics
in our schools Meanwhile the To-
cal political community either has fall
len into decay or never has come in
to existence in any vital sense.
The fathers gave us spendid po
stantial working out of the great
scheme There is need for positive
attitude toward political rights and an
active view of political duties. We
have TO realize that self government
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1916-07-22

President Merrill Nibley of the
1,sv9da da-Utah Sugar Company was q
visitor in Fallon last Friday between
trains He was returning to Salt
] axe from visit to Eastern Oregon
Vlcre TIE company with which he is
asoe:atcd are building a couple OF
l.rgc mills in the Hood river coun-
t..
&c was the bearer of good news
to - people of this valley who are
endeavoring to revive the sugar beet
industry, as he announced an increase
in the price that would be paid for
beets at the Fallon factory in the
event that the required area of 4,Oo0
acres were planted here. The new
scale will be $3.50 per ton for beets
ranging from II to Is per cent sugar
content and 80 per cent purity. In
addition a bonus of 10 cents per ton
one per cent sugar content above l.
will be allowed on each one-half oi
per cent.
Past experience has demonstrated
that beets grown in this valley un-
der proper conditions will average
about II IL per cent or better, max
ing the price 5000 per ton. The
matter OF the haul is also provided
for, inasmuch as the contract pro
vides that no haul shall exceed four
miles, as loading stations will be
provided at suitable points to insure
the farmers OF the minimum haul
Asked il any arrangements has beer
made with the railroad company
looking TO an extension of lines tc
the OUTLYING sections that might
plant beets, Mr.. Nibley stated that
the matter had not yet been settled
but that this need give the growers
in the more distant sections no con-
Germ, as if no other means were
available for Transporting the beets
from the stations line of trucks
would be placed in operation by the
factory.
Mr.. Nibley stated that he did no.
quite understand the apathetic at
titude OF the people of this valley II
failing to respond to the request for
an acreage that would warrant the
company in undertaking the expend-
itrre that would be necessary to
place the factory in running condi-
ton. The time is growing short Tor
the placing of ofdeis for new and
uptodate machinery to rehabilitat'
the factory and it is absolutely es-
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1916-07-22

Paw Paw, w. Va, offers to raise
cavalry troop of mountaineers in
which no member shall be less than
six feet.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1916-07-22

"As soon as we can get around to
il, probably early next week." said
Sullivan, "thc Lovelock boys will be
taken to the mobilization.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-07-02
THE WHEELS OF COMMERCE.

Back of every ambition there is an in
spiration. Back of every movement there
is motive. Each soul gropes upward
through some other higher force The mer-
chant in his counting house counting out
his money, rises to meet the call of COM
merce because the hand of little child has
c1ungSto his the night before and baby lips
have called him father As he sits before
his desk, stern, hard, inscrutable, giving or
ders that shake financial centers, deep in
his heart he carries vision of that child,
seated in this smae chair, at this same desk;
bearing his name and handing it down to
generations yet unborn.
The wheels of commerce move that wom-
en- may go clad softly and little children
may be happy. Back of all the stress and
strife of living the hearthstone flames and
f1ickers
It is the ambition of every father to place
his children little higher in the scale of
living than he has been placed, to give his
sons and his daughters better chance in
the struggle of living
Whatever may be said of the shadows of
life today, of the increase in divorce, and
the trend of the times away from the family
as a unit, the fact remains that the world
of commerce revolves about the home as it
has always revolved, and that the love of
wife and children and the ambition for their
happiness and comfort is the great lever
which moves world.
The laborer who takes his full dinner pail
and is off while the dew is fresh on the
grasses; the hardman of business, whose
word sways tens of thousands, have before
them the same light, though for one it
may shine through tiny-paned windows and
for the other through plate glass.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-07-02
BAGDAD.

Bagdad, July f.-Mr. w. G. Work
departed for Chicago Monday even
ing, after ten days stay here.
Walter Lindebeck left for Chicago
Monday. He has resigned his posi-
ton with the mill company here, and
will nat return. He will be missed by
his numerous friends here, who all
wish him success in Chicago.
Bunk Greenwood went to Pensacola
Tuesday, returning Wednesday morn
ing.
The many friends of ]. A. Sampley
wish him a speedy recovery of the
severe accident which occurred to him
in the mills the first of the week.
J. C. Mellor went to Pensacola Mon
day, returning the same day.
p. 4. Nielsen spent Monday in
Pensacola.
Miss Alice Sampley returned, to
New Orleans Saturday, June "a, after
spending ten days vacation with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. A. Sampley
She is leaving to be a trained nurse
and her many friends wish her sue
cess.
J. NJ. Autre, who has been confined
to the bed for several weeks, but is
improving, went. to his home near
Selma, Ala, Wednesday.
Miss Olive Creary, who is en-
ployed in the company Office here,
spent Sunday in Pensacola, returning
Monday morning.
Mr.. Watson, of Pensacola, was in
Bagdad Wednesday night, coming
over in the morning and went back
to Pensacola the same day.
Mrs. Cradle Holland, of Brewton
Ala, who has been spending an ex-
tended visit with home folks and
friends, returned to Brewton Thurs
day evening.
Mrs. J. F. Brown left for Cleve-
land, Ohio, Wednesday to the bedside
of her sick daughter.