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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-07-04
WAR REVENUE BILL
INTRODUCED IN SENATE
Provides For Raising Revenue Of
Sf,67o.0o0 900 For Current
Years Expenses.
INCOMES AND EXCESS PROFITS
BIG SOURCES OF REVENUE
Falls short BY SEAS. 600, 900 of Pro-
vtding For Estimated Expenses Of
War For Next Year.

Washin gton. July 3-Sena.or Sim
mons, of North Carolina. az chairman
OF the senate finance committee. to-
day introduced the huge war revenue
bill. totaling s1,s7o. 900 600.
Even with this great sum, II falls
short by ss45. H6n.0 900 of the $685.
Gee 900 estimated for ttfe expenses of
the war next year The house made
total Of $500. 900 In the bill But
the senate thinks that Secretary OF
the Treasury McAeso has enough I'M
sold bonds TO make up sl.8as. 900
when the sf,sTe, 900, 900 Is counted in.
There will undoubtedly be a fight
on the bill. Senator's Gore, Thomas
and La Toilette oppose IT. They vot-
ed against 1t yesterday. And today in
the committee they voted for sub
stitute bill by La Toilette. This pro-
poses to raise all the revenue need
ed, from income taxes excess pro-
fits and taxes on liquor and tobacco.
Senator Simmons said today there
might he a minority report in the
bill
Sources of Income.
The taxes from incomes. excess
profits and tobacco and alcohol will
But there are many other subjects
common in these war times The va
'rious sources OF taxation are ex-
pected to yield the following:
Incomes, $4,000, 900.
Excess profits. s523 0o0. 900.
Tobacco and alcohol $4,000 900.
Freight transportation. ST., 500. oeo
Express and parcel post, s17,50o,-
=. 600.
! Passenger transportation. ss7.5oo,-
| 600.
| Pipe lines, $4,000
Seats and herths, $2,26e. 600
! Telephones and telegraph. $1,000,
| 900.
Publications s75on,ooo.
| Automobiles, $40. 000,00o
! Sporting goods. 100000.
! Pleasure boats, $500. 900.
Perfumes and cosmetics, 81, 700. 600
| Proprietary medicines. s3,4oo.0oo.
! Cameras. $500, 600.
4 Admissions s23.0oo,ono.
I Playing cards, etc. $50 900, 600.
Tea coffee, sugar. $4,000, 900
First-class postage $50. nnn- 400
I Second-class postage 100000.
! All of these taxes are new and vii
he added to the existing levies.
Income Taxes.
Probably the most important taxa
ton In the bill affects incomes ane
| excess profits The income take.
which are in addition TO the presen
rate are as follows:
One per cent on $4,000 TO $500.
Two per cent on $500 to $4,000
Three per cent on $4,000 TO sl2,
500
Four per cent on s12,eoo to SIS.
onn.
Five per cent on $4,000 TO $40.
900.
Six per cent on $50. 600 to $40, 600
Eight per cent on s4oo 600 to $50.
600
Eleven per cent on $4,000 to $50.
600
Fourteen per cent on $4,000 +
100000.
Seventeen per cent on 100000 +
$4,000.
Twenty per cent on $4,000 t
y 5000. 900.
Twenty-four per cent on 5000, 90
- $3.50 900
Twenty-seven per cent on s25o,o
to $780, 900.
Thirty per cent on 100000
$500, 900
ThirtY-tAree per cent en- more tina
$500. 600.
) Bachelors Limit Low.
Bachelors with incomes from si,o6
, to $1,000 Saust pay two per cent an
I
!
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-07-04
TELEPHONE COMPANY GIVES
RICHMOND RED CROSS $500

Five thousand dollars was received
yesterday by the Richmond chapter,
American Red Cross. from the head
quarters Of the Chesapeake and Po-
tomac Telephone Co. in Baltimore. As
Richmond is only one Of the many
cities in which this company is estah-
lished, the local Red Cross was very
much eiated over this very generous
contribution.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-07-04
AMERICAN TROOPS
WILL PARADE TO-DAY
Given An Enthusiastic Reception BY
Partisan People When They
March Into Capital.

Paris. July 3.--A battalion OF
American troops arrived in Paris this
morning TO parade on July 4 The
Americans were greeted by wildly en-
thusiastic crowds which packed the
streets through which they marched
TO Neuilly barracks. where they are
Quartered. Tho oflcers are being en-
tsrtainsd 1t thu military club -
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-07-04
INFANTILE PARALYSIS
In OHIO TOWN

Martins Ferry, Ohio. July 3-The
health authorities today adopted dras-
tic measures TO stamp out the infantNe
paralysis epidemic Fifteen cases we're
reported In this city.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-07-04
6ore Than Six Thousand leu
tons I AIKEN In Second Day 8
! Battle
IMPORTANT STRATEGIC
POINTS CAPTURED
'ourth Finnish Division Gives
Crushing Answer to Tcuton
Theory That Finland Is
About to Secede

London, July 3.--The Russians
have Brxczany, Atty miles south
eAst of Lemberz. almost In their
grasp tonight. \ dispatch from
Pctrograd says the Austro-Ger-
mnns are csacuating the city.
The Russians have invested
Br.cznny from the northeast.
southeast and southwest.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-07-04

Albany. y r. July s--Governor
Whitman tonight directed District Al
tornev SWAMI. OF New York. to ''act
and act al once" in. the matter Of the
Of the part PLAYED by the
New York police In the Ruth Cruger
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give you the best service.
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The Red Cross

~ fighting the nations battle
mt home. Are you doing
YQQR share by joining the
great fdbcc for aid?
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-12-28

Grosh, who was a we'll educated and
we'll equipped prospector, did not
take Comstock into his confidence or
tell him anything of what he called
the monster VEIN" 1t was said that
Grosh hid his assaying tools and
memoranda of their discoveries be-
fore Comstock came to the cabin, but
long after his death, when his heirs
searched in vain for evidence to bear
out their claims in court, little could
be found.
There were so many claims made
later as to what really happened the
following spring that it is impossible
to tell the true facts. The story gen.
orally accepted is not the one told
by Comstock, but concerns two Irish
prospectors who were down on their
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-12-28
gave rich mines away

the camp and gave rich mines away
right and left.
The little drama was, in truth,
very simple. Comstock, one of the
most ignorant and bombastic of men,
had managed by loud talk and pure
impudence to make himself the most
important parsonage OF the epoch.
He had never really round anything
but he claimed everything in sight.
In few weeks, when miners came
from all points of the territory, the
most important man in the region
was thought to be Comstock.
Comstock in His Glory.
Comstock was exuberantly happy
for a few weeks. His Indians did
most of the work and all he had to do
was to watch the sluice boxes and
show visitors around. A party of
ladies from Carson valley were on the
claim one day, and as was the GUS
tom in placer camps, each lady was
the gold as memento. Comstock
and expected to wash it out, keeping
the gold S memento. Comstock
took a fancy to one of the number
and slipped in a large handful of gold
dust, giving her more than $500.
ComstOck was wildly avariciOus
when mining, and as wildly extrava-
CANT with his gold when obtained. He
bought whatever took his fancy ana
gave it away the next minute. His
only pleasure seemed to be the spend
ing of money, and most of his COM
rades were like him in this respect.
Mclaughlin sold his interest for
$4,000; O'Riley was more fortunate
and hung on till he received $4,000,
but he spent it all in stock specula-
ton and died in an insane asylum.
Mclaughlin died a pauper and was
buried at public expense.
Comstock sold all his interests two
months after the ledge was struck,
and a couple of years later, as has
been told, killed himself in Montana.
Virginia City Named.
Comstock called the camp that
arose around the big strike pleasant
Hill Camp" Then it became Mount
Pleasant. In months time there
were a dozen tents, dugouts and
shanties on the present site of Virgin
ia City. The name Winnemucca was
then suggested. But one midnight
Old Virginia, going home with the
boys and a bottle of whisky after
boisterous evening, fell down when he
reached his cabin and broke the bot
tie. Rising to his knees, with the
bottle neck in his hand, he hiccough-
ed, II baptize this ground Virginia
Town" A drunken shout of approx
al arose, and it was decided to return
to the saloon and celebrate the new
name for the rest of the night. The
name was broadened to Virginia City
and became the most famous mining
camp on earth.
Old Virginia was thrown from his
horse in 1861 and was killed.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-12-28
BUILT TELEGRAPH
LINE TO HELENA
JAMES M'SHANE HANDLED CON-
STRUCTION CONTRACT In
MONTANA IN 1864.
Virginia City Pioneer Became Not
able Figure in Railroad Construc-
ton World and Left Five Sons In
U. S. Army; Won Admiration of
President Wilson.

James McShane, one of the men
who constructed the telegraph line
from Virginia City to Helena in 1865
and 1866, died last week at Omaha at
the age of rs.
McShane, who will be remembered
by pioneers of the state as having
been associated with his uncles,
Count John A. Creighton and Ed
ward Creighton, and with Senator
Willard and John S. Collins in the
construction of telegraph lines all
over the west, was born at Spring.
field, Ohio, in 1871. In Nebraska
he went to Omaha and made several
trips across the plains with wagon
trains in the interests of the Pacific
Telegraph company.
In 1864 he came to Virginia City in
charge of a wagon train, and during
the next three years was engaged in
building the line to Helena. In 1869
he was present at the ceremony of
driving the golden spike at Promono-
tory, Utah, which marked the COM
pletion of the Union Pacific to the
coast.
In 1867 Mr.. Mcshane left Virginia
City and Joined the Union Pacific as
construction contractor to begin a
period of nearly SO years work in
railway construction that covered
railway building in Montana, Ne
braska, Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho,
the Dakotas and Kansas. In every
one of these states his name is known
as one of the most potent forces
among the builders of railroad sys-
TENS which made possible the rapid
spread of civilization in the west.
Mr.. McShane left a widow and 13
children. Six of his sons are in the
service of the government, five be-
ing in the military branch. The fam
lily prizes a personal letter written
to Mr. McShane by President Wilson
when the chief executive saw the REC
ord of the sons. James McShane, a
son, is resident of Miles City.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-12-28

decided to cross the Sierras to Cali
fornia to raise money with which to
mine and mill the rich quartz ore
they had found. Overcome by terrible
mountain storms, he managed at last
to reach a mining camp, but died
there IL days later.
Enters COmStOCk.
When Allen Grosh started ON his
fatal journey, he cast about for some
one to leave in charge of his effects.
Comstock, a prospector, seemed the
most available man. 1t is said that
a written contract was drawn up,
by which Comstock was to have one
fourth interest in one claim for keep
ing it from being jumped in the alb
sence of Grosh, and was to live in the
rough stone cabin that had been built.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-12-28

1t was Sampson, who in his youth,
slew lion with the jaw bone of an
ass, but from the Superior country
comes story that almost rivals the
exploit of the Swoboda of old Israel
Just as the victorious hosts of Britain
are sweeping the plains of Palestine,
scene of SIMPSONS muscular glories,
Charles Corn, the strong man of
Mineral county, with his bare hands
kills a big buck deer which gave him
battle.
The story is undoubtedly true be-
cause Corn, the killer, tells it him
self. One day last week, when he
was going over one of his fields, he
came face to face with big buck
deer. The buck, throwing discretion
to the winds, gave the two-legged in
truder battle.
Rode on Bucks Antlers.
Corn has a local reputation as a
wrestler. The challenge of the buck
reused his wrestling instincts. AS
the animal rushed towards him he
grappled with the bucks antlers. The
force of the1 bucks rush threw Corn
off his feet and lifted him in the air.
He kept tight hold of the antlers, and
could feel that the weight the buck
was carrying was wearing him down.
All Corn had to do was to hold on
tight. His was the predicament of
the man who caught the bear by the
tail. He wanted to let go but deemed
it inexpedient.
The buck was winded. The great
burden he was carrying on his an
tiers was exhausting his store of en-
ergy. Finally he stopped. Corn
could feel himself getting down to-
wards terra firma. The buck was
all in when Corn's feet touched the
ground. His strength intact, Corn
wrestlers do, and began his side of
the singular contest. After thresh-
ing about the ground for some time
he managed to get the hammer lock
on Mr.. Deer. The antlers gave him
leverage and when he put forth all
his strength, and gave tNe antlers a
swift twist, the deer followed his
head. turned with it and fell.
End of the Battle.
In an instant he had his knee on
the bucks neck, while he held the
deer's head in the fashion that cow
boys d1IcCL Ill uOlulNS uOWu u HUI 30
that is about to be branded. While
he held the animal securely on the
ground, out of the reach of it's
threshing feet, he drew his trusty
bowie knife, and slit it's throat.
Then he went back to his farm
house, secured help and brought in
his trophy of the chase. He called
his friends in to witness that he had
gone out unarmed, and that aside
from a slit jugular there was no
wounds on the carcass of the buck.
He showed them, in the snow, the
track of the deer, and his own, where
the deer had allowed him to reach
the snow with his feet. His bloody
hunting knife corroborated part of
his story, and the severed throat of
the fine buck made good his version
of the killing. They believed him,
as do most of his neighbors of the To-
cality. While the story may be doubt
ed by those who do not know the
man, in that section of Montana, 1t is
ha1iavnd
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-12-28
When Pete Sets a Speed Mark
.ECTIONS OF RAWHIDE RAWLINS


lsa never saw Pete show speed anti II
re n y,ano norn they m re al
them tinean1
O a tea o ii the
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The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-12-28

In some unknown spot in Alder
gulch, near Virginia City. in Montana,
or on the banks of Grasshopper creek,
near Bannack, is an unmarked, for
gotten grave that contains the bones
of man who persisted, friendless and
alone, by his own hand more than
half a century ago, but whose name
will live in the history of the west
as long as civilization endures. That
man was Comstock, first owner OF
the famous Comstock lode at Virginia
City, Nevada, which has produced
more than $3.50, 100000 in gold and
silver.
Comstock realized only $1,000
from the famous mine that bears his
name, and which became the most
widely known mining property in the
world. In a few months he had lost
every dollar he had, and discouraged
and disappointed at having allowed
the greatest strike in mining history
to slip through his fingers, he wan
dered Off into the mountains on
prospecting trip. Finally reaching
Montana, this man who a short time
before had in his undisputed posses
sion wealth enough to have made him
the richest man of his time in Amer
lea, sat down on the side of creek,
and placing his pistol to his temple,
blew his brains out.
Tossed Away Vast Wealth.
4 I,
portunities, might soon have flashed
across the skies OF Paris and London,
the greatest speculator of the CEN
fury, running printing presses night
and day to supply the demand for
stock in Nevada mining claims for
miles around Virginia City. AS it
was he believed when he sold out that
he was getting more than his inter
ests were worth. Others who fol-
lowed him undervalued opportunity
also, and yielded in time to the old
law of the survival of the strongest,
but none could give again so much
for so little as did Comstock.
Comstock was not the real discov-
erer of the Comstock lode. Two bro
theirs, Hosea and Allan Grosh, sons of
a Pennsylvania Universalist minister,
found rich silver ore on what after
wards was known as the Comstock
lode about 1855 or 1856 and realized
that they had made rich discoveries.
But they had no capital and were
forced to spend most of their time at
placer mining to get enough gold to
buy food, in the meanwhile neglecting
the rich quartz deposits. There is a
offn0f ctr o1y,, ~,
and trader named Brown had agreed
to supply them funds to develop their
monster vein. Selling out his store,
he was about to join them when some
desperadoes murdered him. Then
Hosea Grosh crushed his foot by a
glancing blow of heavy pick, and
a month later he died in their rude
cabin from blood poisoning. Allen
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-12-28
MONTANA @ULH is TOMB OF G0ST@GK WHO SOLD FOR Sill 900
G@MST0GK LODE NM NEVADA THAT YIELDED $3.50

luck--Peter O'Riley and Patrick Nc
Laughlin. They took up an unpromis-
ing looking claim for placer, but
Then they decided to start digging
a trench straight up the hill from the
bottom of the gulch to cut through
some hard blue clay and yellowish
gravel that they had noticed.
The Big Strike.
At depth of four feet they came
upon deposit of dark, heavy soil
which sparkled with minute flakes
of gold. Running for gold pan, one
many dollars in gold. They had dis
covered the top of the famous Ophir
claim, the north end Of the Comstock
lode.
Just as they were finishing the
last cleanup for the day Comstock
appeared. He had been looking for
his lost horse and now galloped down
the ridge, and as he noted the gold in
the pan, he shouted, you've struck
it, boys"
Comstock was a foxy individual,
and he did some quick thinking.
Look here" he said to the two
miners, "this spring here was Old
Man Caldwell's. You know that;
there's his sluice box. Well, Nanny
Penrod and I bought his claim last
winter and we sold tenth interest
to Old Virginia the other day. You
two fellows must let Nanny and me
in on equal shares"
foY rI,1 fnI
strenuously at first, but they were
a little afraid of Comstock, and be-
sides SO feet of placer claim was
more than they could work in sea-
son, so it did not amount to much
after all So when Comstock added,
by way of clincher to the argument,
that five persons, of whom he was
one, had located 100 acres on the
bench as a stock range, and he
thought they were within it's boun-
DIARIES, they gave up like lambs and
agreed to everything rhlt Comstock
proposed.
The First "Freeze- out"
Now occurred the first freeze-out
that the district had known. Com
stock rode swiftly to the camp OF Gold
Hill, told Old Virginia, a we'll known
prospector, of the tale he had told
the two Irishmen, and offered Old
Virginia his horse and bottle OF
whisky for Old Virginia's alleged in
terest in the property. After drinking
half of the whisky, Old Virginia sign
ed a bill of sale.
ComstOck's own account OF the
who1a matter ia an artistic piece OF
lying. He said in his account of the
strike: I had owned the greater part
of Gold Hill and had given the pros
rectors working there their claims.
At Ophir O'Riley and Mclaughlin
we're working for me. l caved the
cut in and went after my party to
form company. With my party l
opened the lead and called 1T Com
stock lode" Comstock goes on to ex-
plain how he acted as good angel to
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-12-28
A Relic of Prospecting Days

In the COS Montana gold knew many pospectors of
the type of Comsock who made the biggest strike mining his
tor, only to die without cent few months later.
Monanas early gold seekers built for themselves cabins like
the pictured above which stands today the banks of Yogo
creek the Little Belt mountains interesting relic of day
that has passed forever This cabin built by oeString Joe
pospector who in the first rush Yogo He killed
Yogo and taken to White Sulphur Springs friend
there furnished him with fast horse and Montana knew Toe
String
murder committed in this cabin only couple of years
and the slayer prospecor who killed another miner is
serving time at Deer Lodge.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-12-28
SUPERIOR MAN IS
SIMPSONS RIVAL
KILLED FIGHTING BUCK DEER
WITH HIS BARE HANDS
AFTER STRUGGLE.

Met Animal in Field and 1t Attacked
Him; Caught Hold of Antlers and
Twisted Deer's Head Until it Fell;
Then Cut Its Throat; Is Local
Wrestler.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-04-01
FNSS1
= SOCIETY &
SSN@N
9th YEAR

THIS is Holy Week, and therefore, no
Social functions Will he given. The
'o''S da!s Of pcnance will he brought
- IN end this week and all sorts OF
at'ractiN. affairs have been planned for
'he days which follow Easter. Society
hS h"cn so absorbed i'll tho work of
inc Womau's Service League and plans
iof preparedness that il has paid very
1t'i" attention TO even the most in
formal entertainments these past few
weeks Meetings arc held nearly every
d.tE under some sort Of auspices for
sewing and bandarc- making and knit
tur. and what not, but 1t is all
splendid thing. and. as. ono woman has
Witty put IL, Seven million women
have mobiiizcd for service for two
million men in case or war" Perhaps
II VIII take that many. Who knows?
The people who have been spending
the winter months and the carly
sprinS season in tn" far South arc
turning to their homes. Many country
places VIII he opened up for Easter.
and several holiday house parties have
been planned. With the nc" holiday
system in force at most of the colleges.
the. daughters and their friends have
como home for the spring vacation aud
gone again. so that Easter VIII have
fcw OF the schoolgirls III town for that
week. Eut the college boys and their
guests will come troopns home at that
TING. and iuany attractive little parties
VIII hc given III their honor.
Many 81 the social functions ot :hn
coming spring season arc as We; un-
decided upon. 1t l. not formal sea-
son, and the crtainmcnts given then
arc very nice. informal affairs. There
arc chatting guests lingering over tho
tea cups until the sun has gone en-
tirciy down behind the Boulevard and
tho Country club. and still others stay
iug on To dinner 10 meet your twin sons
who have been playing ball with other
Mid Indians Oh the plains OF a vacant
lot.
For this wcck. then. tho days viii
hold NIL. " interest IN the way Of
entertaining. Holiday guests will begin
% arrive at the end % the week. and
al vii hc III readiness for the sum
shine that l. sure to come on Easter
sunday. EEE&T WITT.