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The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1917-02-02
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CARSON CITY! New, Jan. %
The state highway bill concerning
which there is widespread interest,
and which is recognized as one Of
the most important constructive
to come before the legis-
lature has been introduced by the
committee on roads and highways
Of the assembly, of which George b.
Ackerman of Mineral county is the
chairman. The bill has been cOnsd-
cred in the committee for several
lays and has also been submitted to
number of legal authorities in or
Ter to secure q strict conformity to
he constitution
AS ii stands the bill creates a high
way department of three members,
%ho do not receive IA stated salary,
their remuneration being fixed at $40
)er day while in actual attendance
lpon their official duties The three
directors are authorized to employ
highway engineers, whose appoint
nent must be approved by the fed
aral department of good roads, at
II annual salary of $1,000 per year
rhe engineer is made the executive
lead of the department, subject to
emoval of the highway directors.
The bill authorizes the department
o make a reconnaissance of the high
Ways of Nevada and in their discre-
ion to declare any trunk line roads
o be state roads, which shall be i'm
proved and maintained by the state
highway department. A highway fund
S to be created by tax of two mills
lpon the dollar, and to secure i'm
Mediate funds for the department
he Legislature is asked to appropri-
tte the sum of 10000 which is to
)e repaid into the treasury from the
department. funds as soon as they
'ecome available from imposition of
the special highway tax
From the fund so created the state
to extend financial cooperation
sufficient to meet the federal high.
way appropriations made to the state
" Nevada, the remaining funds tC
be expended by the department in
he construction of state highways
)ne-half the cost of which construc
ion shall be borne by the counties
in which such highways may be To-
;ated. A special provision in the bill
permits the department to reduce
the amount required from county
financially unable to advance half the
cost of construction within it's Dor
iers. The bill does not provide for {
bond issue, the theory of the propon
ents being that the two mill ia,
would be sufficient for the work tina
could be accomplished within the
next two years. The bill also empow
ars the department of highways, will
the consent of the prison warden, t
employ prisoners from the state
prison at the rate of rs cents pei
day.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1917-02-02
NOTICE OF APPLICATION

For Permission to Appropriate the
Public Waters of the State of Ne
vada.
Application No. 4233.
Notice is hereby given that on the
lst day OF December, 1916, in &C
cordance with section SO, Chapter
lao of the statutes of 1913, one Chas.
Dimmick of Elgin, County of Lincoln
and state of Nevada made application
to the State Engineer of Nevada for
permission to appropriate the public
waters of the State of Nevada. Such
appropriation to be made from
Willow Spring, at point in the NE
a of Sc "A, Sec. 20, #. S s, r. So.
E., NJ. d. B. & M, by means of small
dam, and u of one cubic foot per
second is to be con veyed to NEA of
SEA Sec. 20, r. s., r. So E., M. d.
B. & NJ, by means of small dams and
there used for stock watering pur-
poses, water not to be returned to
stream.
w. M. KEARNEY,
State Engineer.
First pub. Feb. 2; last March 2, IT
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1917-02-02
LEGISLATIVE NOTES

A, l.. Haight of Fallon, who was
secretary of the Nevada senate in the
legislature of 1915, has been employ
ed by the present legislature as the
official bill drafter and receives a
salary of SIS per day for his serv-
ices
The increased cost of paper was
brought to the attention of the sen
ate last week by Senator Harrington
who introduced bill amending the
act providing that all the supreme
court decisions should be published
1t is proposed to raise the cost of
printing the decisions from $125 to
$3.50. The decisions are published
in the Carson newspapers.
A slight change has been made in
Senator Huskey's new primary eiec-
ton bill. The change provides that
independent candidates cannot lle
after the primary election. The
change is undoubtedly wise one
The most material change in the
present tax commission measure, as
proposed by the administration bill,
which is to be fathered by Assembly
man Alderman of Mineral county, is
the adjustment of the place of sec
rotary and associate commissioner
and the creation of commissioners
representative of the livestock indus
try Under the new act the duties
OF the secretary would be purely
clerical. l.. +. Adamson is the sec
rotary and associate commissioner
now.
The legislature adjourned to Re-
no last Thursday afternoon where
the members enjoyed themselves un-
til Monday morning
Thee members of the senate and a
like number from the assembly were
appointed to conduct the University
of Nevada probe. The senate mem
bers are: Chaplin, Buol and Hesson
Those from the assembly are: Cory
ell, Bell and Fulmer
The assembly passed what is
known as the Lazy Husband"
bill, introduced by Alexander of
White Pine county. The pro-
posed law fixes matters so
that the husband cannot have a
share in the earnings of his wife or
children. In the future Lazy Hus-
bands" will have to rustic for them
selves.
Booher of Elko county has intro
duced bill repeating the act which
makes the lieutenant governor the
commissary OF the state police at a
nice little side graft on the state of
500 per month. A similar bill was
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1917-02-02
SEEKERS OF PUBLICITY

The war department, the forest
department, the department of agri-
culture, in fact none of the depart
ments of this great government Of
ours made any apportionment for
newspaper advertising, yet there
isn't day goes by that the newspa-
pers are not flooded with gov
ernmental literature accompanied
with a demand, it could be, hardly
be called request, that it be print
ed. Forever asking for space for
which the paper can expect no re-
Enumeration.
Added to this injustice every year
legislation against the newspapers
is becoming more drastic and un-
onable.-Tonopah Times.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1917-02-02
TO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN:
That the partnership heretofore con-
Quoted by the undersigned X. r..
Orr and Il. X Lynch under the firm
name and style of City Garage has
this day been dissolved by mutual
consent; the said r. r. Orr will con-
tinue the said business under the
same name and the said t. X. Lynch
retiring therefrom. The said r. r.
Orr will pay all bills due from said
firm and will receive and collect all
accounts due the said firm.
Dated. Phoebe, Nevada. December
21st, 1916.
r. r. ORR
Il. X, LYNCH
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1917-02-02
DEPUTY FOR
STATE NINE INSPECTOR

CARSON CITY, Jan. 27.-An ad-
ditional deputy for the state inspect
or of mines is provided for in a bill
introduced yesterday by Assembly
man Tannahill of Storey county.
Under the existing law the mining
Inspector is allowed one deputy
whose salary is $4,000 per year.
Under the Tannahill act he will have
two. the salary of each to be $4,000
annually.
Another bill introduced by Tanna-
nil, provides that buckets used in
shafts must be equipped with a plat
form, the idea being to prevent &C
cidents such as occurred recently in
mine in southern Nevada when a
miner fell from bucket and was
killed.
Laws For Hotel Keepers
Three bills designed for the pro-
lection of hotel keepers were intro
Golden of Washoe. One does away
with the present provision of the
statute making it necessary to sam
mon witnesses from another state
to certify that a man passing a
bogus check on an outside bank did
not have any funds on depo 1T in
that bank when he wrote the check.
Another makes the crime of defraud-
ing an inn keeper an extraditable
ofense. The third defines the liza
bilities of inn keepers relative to
baggage deposited by guests and au-
thorizes them to levy an ''inh eep-
ers' lien on property left by guests
who decamp without paying their
bill
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1917-02-02
BILL SHOULD BE PASSED

There is pending before the legis-
lature at Carson bill providing for
semi-monthly pay day. We be-
lieve that this is agood bill and can
see no reasonable objection to its
passage. We are of the opinion that
semi-monthly pay days are benne-
fetal to the hotel and lodging house
keepers, the stores, as we'll as to the
wage earners and their families.
The lower house of the legislature
passed the bill almost unanimous
ly; but late news from Carson indi-
encountered much opposition in the
senate.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1917-02-02

introduced in the legislature Of two
years ago by Assemblyman Beason
of Lincoln county, but was killed
the lieutenant governor having too
many friends in the lower house who
felt that the official should draw the
extra stipend in addition to his reg
ular salary of $4,000 per year. Con-
siderable opposition has already de-
yelOped to the BOoher bill.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1917-02-02
ATTORNEYS DECLARE
DRY BILL LEGALLY DRAWN

CARSON CITY, NEVADA, Jan. 25
Attorneys who are strong propon-
ents of the prohibition bill. which is
now before the legislature upon mi
ative petition and which will be sub
mltted to the people at the next gen
eral election, say the enacting claus
es of the measure are not illegal as
has been claimed by opponents of
the bill.
In support of their contention they
point out that there is variation in
the wording OF the iniative enacting
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1917-02-02

Prof. S. c. Dinsmore, director of
the state pure food and drug de-
partment, " in serious condition in
st. Marys hospital at Reno, and al
though hope is held out for his re-
covery, his attending physician, DR..
A, Paryer Lewis, says he is very low
He was operated on Wednesday night
night for appendicitis.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1917-02-02
Severe Cold Quicly Cured

ION December first | had a yer,
severe cold or attack of the grip as
1t may be. and was nearly down sick
In bed" writes o. j. Metcalf Wealth
erby, Mo. II bought two bottles of
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and
1t was only few days until | was
completely restored to health
firmly believe that Chamberlain
Cough Remedy is one of the very best
medicines and will know what to
do when / have another cold. Obtain
able everywhere. Adyt.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1917-02-02

The legislators down at Carson
seem to like Reno, for they will
quit Carson on the least provocation
Too bad the capital isn't at Reno.
Think of the car fare that would he
saved.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1917-02-02

instead of swelling up like little
white sponge. Then it loosens from
your toe-and. glory hallelujah! the
glove off your hand"
Yes "Gets-It" is the corn discov-
cry of the age. More "Gets-It" Is
sold by many times than any other
corn remedy in existence. Try it
and you'll know the reason why. 1t
takes two seconds to tuply Ii, md
it dries at once. That's all DO It
eXperiment-follow the eNperlsnIN
of millions and use "Gets-It."
"Gets-It" is sold everywhere. 2sc n
bottle, or sent on receipt of price by
T.. Lawrence & Co., Chicago. III.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1917-02-02

The prohibition bill will have hard
shedding in this legislature. The dear
people will have to settle it at the
next general election. So Nevada
will not be an arid state for at least
two years
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1917-02-02

1t is very evident that the late
cold snap down the Meadow Valley
wash has cut that part of the county
out of the banana belt.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1917-02-02

Sheriff Nesbitt declares that Pi-
oche is better town than Carson
and there are others,
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1917-02-02
"Kie.Yie.Yie Get
Me 'Geis.lt' Quiek!"
9 Drops Make Corn "Falp' Off!

'I've Joined the Never-Again Club.
Never again will l use anything for
corns but 'Gets-lt.' Put drops
ond the corn begins to shriyel.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1917-02-02

Shall 1t be Meet Me At Caliente
at the Fair or, Nothing Doing, at
Caliente!"
Evening star., 1917-03-25
Boomers Boon1-and Why
By FRED c.. KELLY

the Dear Sir all right. but from there on
all became a horrible blur He bore about
the same relation to shorthand that a
slgn-painter does to spelling
Boomer was determined. however. to
bluff ii through or die. When he took
dictation, he wrote down as much as he
could i'll a mixture of shorthand and long
hand, and had to memorize the rest.
Then he rushed to the nearest typewriter
to get the stuff down before he forgot.
He found that he did not dare TO trust
to his memory unless he caught the spirit
of what the boss was debating as well as
the mere phraseology. On that basis he
was obliged to acquire good inside view
OF hotel management. And, naturally. he
developed wonderful memory. Because
OF this memory Boomer soon outgrew his
shorthand job. He remembered every
thing he heard, and came to know all the
details of hotel management In little
while he became sort of traveling SUPER
visor of the Flagler hotels along the
Florida coast.
When he took charge of the largest
Evening star., 1917-03-25

hotel in the world. there was some aues-
ton about the ability of any management
to fulfil the wants of so many guests all
under one roof. 1t was feared that the
service might be too machine-like Boom
er'S answer was that the more machine
like system is, the more efficient it
should be.
For instance, you go to small hotel
and ask the telephone girl to connect
you with Mr. McCray. The girl knows
from memory that Mr. McCray has been
occupying room ~. She does not know
that he has just moved to Sc SO when
there is no answer to y she reports that
he is out.
In the bigger hotel nobody trusts to
his memory. 1t is all matter of sys-
TEN. Before making the connection. the
telephone girl would definitely ascertain
from the chart just where MIR. McCray is.
After he had made the largest hotel a
success, Boomer was asked to take charge
also of another hotel, which happened to be
at one of the most advantageous locations
in New York, but which had never paid.
Evening star., 1917-03-25

"Tve never been in the place, remarked
Boomer" but I'll venture to say that can
guess what must be the trouble. The
location is so good that the management
thinks people will simply have to stop
there, no matter how they are treated.
So they try to let a mere item of geography
take the place of courtesy. 1t won't
work.
Boomer had hit the nail on the head;
and in a few months he had the place on
a paying basis
while ago one of Boomers assistants
received an offer to manage a big hotel in
another city. 1t was good oppor-
tunity but the man was a trfie dubious
about his ability to fill the position.
Here was the clever though simple wayin
which Boomer enabled that man to make
good. He wrote letter to the mans S new
employer, stating that if for any reason
the man did not prove satisfactory, he
would like to take him back at his old
salary. The result of this was-as
Boomer had expected-that the man in
the new job was treated with great con-
sideration. His employer gave him free
rein in the management.
"NO manager-of hotel or anything
else-can succeed, says Boomer, "unless
he really is the manager"
Evening star., 1917-03-25

TUCIUS M. BOOMER is the manager
of two prosperous Broadway hotels
in New Iork--one of them the
largest hotel in the world-and also of a
big downtown restaurant. He is regarded
as one of the wizards of the hotel business.
And how does he do it? Why is he able
to manage the largest hotel in the world.
and two other big enterprises, while some
other intelligent man somewhere finds
1t is all he can do to manage a hotel of
twenty-five rooms?
If you were to ask Boomer himself, he
might tell you that he owes his success
partly to the fact that when IA Young man
he was an atrociously poor Stenographer
Boomers first job was looking after the
model of the proposed Nicaraguan canal
at the Chicago Worlds Fair back in 1893
and his pay consisted of pass into the
fair grounds.
Then he studied shorthand.
A little later he obtained a lob as seq
retary to the manager of one of the
Flagler hotels in Florida 1t was there
that he realized how parsmonious had
been his stenographic education. He
tried to jot down what his boss dictated
IN the little sign language used by short
hand operators and Chinese aundrymcn;
but 1t was no go. He knew how to take
Evening star., 1917-03-25
Hot Goals
Continued from page 5

AS his look remained on her, she be-
came effervescent, elated, careless. II do
feel like dancing she said, bubblng with
sudden gaiety. "And am hungry. Let's
have the party" Her face sparkled
"Fine, applauded Ambrose Luxe, turn
ing her toward the Great White Way.
$50 young Goth has been to see YOU he
added in slowed voice. "What about"
"Youre inquisitive!" commented Gen
tian, her face alive with coquetry. Lets
forget Coventry"
"Let's," conceded Ambrose Luxe.
In a snowy trottery, they danced one
step, fox-trot, and three Hawaiian
waltzes. They drank and ate frothy con-
coctions. They enjoyed the usual surface
eXhilaration.
ON the battered brownstone steps of
Miss Tabitha's boarding-house, they
said good night.
"I'm glad you liked the party" he
laughed as he went off
IL adored it, she sent giddily after him.
He stopped on the defaced concrete.
81 adore you, he flung lightly up to her.
"You fiatter me, she mocked.
Like happy peacock, she waved her
hand to him, pulled a rose from her bodice,
brushed it against her lips, and tossed it
to him.
She fitted her latch-key, and ran into
the boarding-house. The dim gas-jets in
the halls reflected the sparks in her eyes
as she spun up to the fourth floor.
When she opened the door of her
room, a slight little figure rose from
chair by the window.
She found herself facing little Lulie
Goth.
"Of all people." she said amazedly.
"Why-Lulie!"
Lulie, trembling with excitement, seized
Gentian's hand
"l've been waiting for you hours and
hours!" she stammered. "I've run away
from home Nobody knows. | got YOUR
address from Mis- Felt. I've run away
from Coventry"
Pretty teeth chattering, violet eyes
wide, Lulie slung to Gentian.
Gentian put her arm about Cyrus Goth's
little sister. She led Llllie across the room
to her couch-bed, and made her sit down.
"Why have you run away" she asked
"Because!' painted Lulie. Because
Oh, Gennie, my mother and Cyrus are
very angry with me! My mother SAYS.
Though thou shouldst bray fool in a
mortar among wheat with pestle. vet
will not his foolishness depart from him
Gennie, am a fool. | am" She beat
Evening star., 1917-03-25
MAGAZINE SECTION for March e5, 1917

her small hands together "They are
angry with me!'
"What about" asked Gentian.
Lulie began to cry.
"All | did was to meet him once or
twice in the Nathan Hale cemetery. We
only talked. Only once or twice he kissed
me. He's my friend!"
The violet eyes brimmed with tears,
and rivulets ran down the sanity littleface
"ive run away from my mother and
Cyrus, whimpered Lulie. "They don't
understand She dashed her tears away,
and her piquant face lighted up. "Oh,
Gentian, | sang so sweetly at Thankful
Meekes's funera!" she rhapsodzed. "He
came to hear me! Gcnnie, fearful
again,-"I'm not suited to hard, cold
life. | want bright, beautiful things :"
The little face was suddenly suffused by
bushes. "Gennie,' hesitantly, 81 want
to become a choir singer in New York
Do you know where-Mr. Ambrose Luxe
goes to church,"
The words ended in delicate hutter.
Gentan, her face scarlet, put out her
hands and took Lulie by the shoulders
She opened her mouth to speak; but no
words came.
Paling and blushing, Luie gave back
guilty-innocent stare.
"You must go back to Coventry, Lulie, )"
was all Gentian said, with difficulty.
A stubborn look locked the sanity little
face. Lulie cast a vindictive glance at
Gentian-slimly resplendent in her wrap
OF metallic brocade and her gown of gold
and silver tissue.
Look at you, all dressed up!" she
pouted. "And you won't help me a bit."
Gentian unpinned the roses and laid
them aside.
$50 to bed, Lulie," she said quietly.
"To-morrow you must go back.
Lulie cried again. Nliserably she took
down her hair and unbuttoned her child
ish body from her prim and proper clothes.
In her white cotton night-gown, she crept
between the covers of Gentian's couch
bed, and wept copiously.
Gentian slowly undressed Every now
and then she looked at Lulie-Lulie, a
year younger than she, fresh as dew
trembling on the petals of rosebud:
Lulie with her beguiing, tremulous mouth.
sanity brow and touch of Cyrus in her
sun-shot hair.
Alphabetically Gentian brushed her
coppery-black, shoulder-length locks. The
discovery that, while Ambrose Luxe had
played with her, he had beckoned little
Lulie Goth to come and play with him.
weakened and dulled her spirit. 1t
bruised her concet. 1t shook her self
esteem.
She sat at her window and put her ell
bows on the grime-hecked sill Outside.
Evening star., 1917-03-25

dawn revealed the ugly magnitude of the
city; house-tops stretched away, and
beyond and away. Suddenly she became
afraid. She wondered-in terror-how
many vain girls those house-tops rooted!
For the first time in months she knelt
down.
Dear God" she sobbed, Il am simply
a fool"
CENTIAN gave up her position in La
Petite Vanit6 the next afternoon
and took Lrlie Goth back to Coventry.
The village was buzzing with Lulie's
disappearance when the two girls stepped
from the train
Followed by eyes and tongues, Gentian
and Lulie walked along the windy main
street to the Goths' austere house.
Lulie was shaking like a leaf
"1ou open the door," she begged
Gentian. "l'm scared to DEATH"
Gentian turned the cleanly door-knob.
The interior of the house was orderly and
quiet.
Lucretia Goth sat on the horsehair sofa
in the parlor holding plush-framed
photograph of Lulie between her hands.
Like bird that has flown too soon,
Lulie, broken-winged, huttered toward
her mother.
Lucretia stood up, and cradled her
youngest daughter in her spare arms.
Her severe eyes. softened by nights
anguish. focused on Gentian.
"Cyrus found out ter-day from Abigail
Felt thet Lulie he'd gone ter you, she said
"He TUX train ter fetch her,
81 guess we crossed trains said Cen
tian. She gave Lucretia Goth sweet
look. Unostentatiously she left
The wind from Coventry Lake blew
dankly as she went down the street to the
blacksmith shop.
Abigail Felt, repairing hay-tedder
laid down her tools. She held out fire.
bronzed hands to Gentian.
"Hlow fine the shop looks re-painted,
Mother Abigail, said Gentian, taking the
hands. She laid them for moment
against her checks. Then she went to the
forge and warmed herself at it.
She saw Cyrus Goth that evening. He
stopped her on the main street.
81 want to thank you for bringing
Lulie home, he said in terse voice.
"NIother thanks you, too"
Eyes down, Gentian was silent.
"When are you going. back to New
York; he asked coldly.
She made II confused gesture-and
hurried on.
The next day Gentian Belaire took up
her trade in the smithy But when Lean
der Osgood, Phineas Dobbyn, Joel Bur-
pee, and Rufus Topliff gathered in the
shop, she was apt to leave it. She took