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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07

This was one of the difficulties
with which Professor Holman had
to contend last term and it was con-
sidered a big factor in making stu
dents lose interest in their studies
in mines schools.
AS is said to have been the cas-
in all schools in the state, Professor
Holman last term experienced diff
ficulty in maintaining the interest
of students in their work and it is
believed this has been entirely elimi-
mated by the new courses and that
students will learn much more
rapidly than heretofore.
Money appropriated for the mines
schools will last until next June and
it is expected the next legislature
will make another appropriation.
State heads also are e~ndeavoring to
secure federal aid.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07
THE HORSE AGAIN
SHOWS IN BATTLE
ALLIED OFFENSIVES WILL SHOW
THE HORSE CHASING
THE HUN

Henry Epstein of St. Louis, Mo-,
now serving with the Fifteenth cav
airy in France, writing home to his
parents, calls attention to the i'm
portant part the horse is playing in
the present He writes:
To change abruptly from eco
nomics to another side of the
a l wonder if people in the
United States know that the horse
is a most important factor in win
ming the war.
Do they know that a horse can
go to Doggy, muddy fields where
a truck cannot pass? Do they
know that England has 100000
horses and mules in the war? Do
they know every horse in France,
if only of average quality, can be
priced at $500? Do they know
that a good veterinarian is of
much more value than an active
participant (by active participant
I refer to one who is in the
trenches)."
Since the above was written the
horse has come further into his
own. In the rout of the Hun by
the British last week, in what was
probably the most important en-
gagement since the allied offensive
began, the cavalry was used o ex
tensively than at any time in the
last two years, and the correspond
ents predict that this branch of the
army service will be more and more
conspicuous as offensive operations
take the place of the defensive tao
tics heretofore employed. Anyhow
the French and the British are MOI
overlooking the value of the horse
as a part of their machinery of war
and Pershing long ago gave oul
own government his views, which
meant horses and horses and still
more horses. 1t is the horse tina
will keep the Hun on the run.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07
ASSERTS MUSIC MAY BE SEEN
English VioIinist Declares Winsome
Notes Can Be Displayed to Eye
az Well as to Ear.

That music may be translated into
color and displayed to the eye as well
as to the ear Is the new and highly
interesting theory developed by Isa-
dore Berger, the English violinist, ac-
cording to the Pittsburgh Gazette.
Music and color, he declares, express
exactly the same emotions and feel
ings, and therefore al opera or a
symphony may actually be turned into
color and seen. BY understanding the
interrelation of color and sound even
the deaf can learn to enjoy music
when expressed in color. Mr.. Berger
says:
"Color Is not to be ar accOmpanf-
ment nor a mere light effect, but "a
clear, logical expression of music. The
synchronism must be perceived emo
tionally rather. than scientifically. For
instance, red always expresses passion.
anger, temper or any intense feeling.
Yellow, the color of light, means love
and happiness. Blue is the mystic
color. Modify the yellow of love with
the mystic blue and you have a violet,
q pensive, sad emotion. All the other
grades of emotion are the result of
the blending Of passion, mystery and
love, or red, blue and yellow. They
are three primary colors and the three
primary emotions"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07
NEW DRAFT MEN
TO REGISTER
SEPT. II
PRESIDENT SIGNS MAN-POWER
BILL AND FIXES
DATE

WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. 81
President Wilson today signed the
mon-power bill and issued a proc
lamation fixing Sept. II as the date
for the registration of all men be-
tween Is and As who are not already
registered in the military or naval
service. 1t is estimated that ap-
p~roximately 100000 will regis
ter.
Those without dependents and
Continued on Page Four
physically and otherwise qualified
for soldiers duties will be taken
first. Youths of Is will be placed
in a separate group and called after
the available supply of others has
been exhausted. The provost mar
shal-general plans to apply the work
Or fight rule vigorously to idlers
and those engaged in non-essential
employment.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07
BRAVE SONS OF FAR WEST
Boys Sole Object In Going to War,
Like That Of Others, Is to
"Can the Kaiser"

Maj. e. Alexander Powell, in Scrib-
ner's Magazine, says 'it has been my
good fortune to have marched with
many armies, but none of them has
given me the thrill of pride which runs
up my spine when I see these loose
limbed, brOwn-faced, clear-eyed sons
of the far West go swinging by under
the slanting lines of steel.
"They are for the most part serious
looking, with a curious set expression
about them which makes you feel that,
though they realize the immense diff
Guilty of the task for which they are
preparing, they intend to see it fin
ished, no matter how long it may
take. Just as their fathers carried the
frontier of civilization westward from
the Mississippi, so these, their sons.
are going to push that same frontier
from the Rhine.
"But that isn't the way that they
would put it. Should you ask them
what they are fighting for, they will
say nothing about the liberty of small
peoples or about making the world
safe for democracy. They will assure
you that their sole object in going tc
war is to can the kaiser And, upon
thinking 1t over, it seems to me that
their answer, though somewhat inele-
gantly phrased, perhaps, expresses the
sentiments of all of US"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07
New Uses of Cotton.

The people as yet little understand
the wonderful variety of uses to which
cotton is now put. One industry has
established at Columbus, Ga, at a cost
of 100000 a mill whose machinery
Is capable of producing 53 different
kinds of cotton weave, says a CORE.
spondent. The government has re-
Gently placed orders for many million
yards, it having been found possible
to substitute cotton for linen in the
manufacture of wings for aircraft, and
also to substitute a cotton weave for
the rubber gas masks and rubber coats
which airmen wear. Secretary Dan
lels has ordered the purchase Of no.
0OO,O 600 pounds of cotton for navy
uses and 2OO,OOO.OOO yards Of cotton
gauze for surgical purposes. Chemists
making researches believe that within
a short slime additional uses of cotton
will be found; and yet only a few
years ago about the only use of Amer
lean cotton was in the manufacture Of
cloth,
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07
JOE O'BR|EN DIES IN
CALIFORNIA TOWN
BRIGHT,S DISEASE TAKES FOR
MER JANITOR IN HIGH.
SCHOOL

Joe O'Brien, one of the old resi-
dents of Goldfield and former dep
uty sheriff and janitor in the high
school, died yesterday morning az
his ranch near Paradise, Cal. He
left here early in June for the
ranch and his condition at that
time was considered critical. He
died of Bright's disease.
O'Brien was born in Ireland and
vas SO years of age. He came to
Goldfield in 1906 and was widely
known. .
He is survived by his wife, his
son, Joe O'Brien, and two daugh-
tiers, Mrs. Fred Holmes and Mrs.
w. c. Allen. Mrs. Holmes is now
at Paradise and Mrs. Allen and her
husband will leave for there this
evening. 1t is supposed burial will
be in Chico.
The flag on the high-school was
placed at half mast this morning.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07
Y.M.C. A. WORKERS
DISPLAY HERO|SM
AMERICANS ATTACHED TO
FRENCH ARMY DISTIN-
GUISH THEMSELVES

WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES,
Sept. 3. - American Y. M. c.. A.
workers attached to the Moroccan
division of the French army distin-
iquished themselves by their heroism
during the recent offensive in the
Marine salient. They took an active
part in relieving the wounded of the
division, were under constant shell.
rifle and machine gun fire and
many had miraculous escapes.
They carried water, cigarettes
and food to the fighting men and
acted as interpreters, many of the
men of the division being of differ
ent nationalities.
Among those mentioned for dis
playing extraordinary heroism I'M
der fire were r. H. Bacon, New
York City; Frank Hamilton, Buffa-
10; S. H. Bush, Iowa City; Ray
Coyle, Berkeley, Cal, and William
Murray, Brooklyn, N. Y.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07
Fraud Charged

Charging that a fraud was per,
petrated with intent to swindle
creditors of the Dayton Reduction
company and secure possession of
the holdings of that company, R. A,
Mckay, as receiver for the Dayton
Reduction company, has filed suit in
in the federal court at Carson
against Henry j. Robinson and the
Dayton Securities company. The
complaint asks the court to declare
void the proceedings under which
Robinson and the securities COM
pany acquired possession of a con-
tract, under which the Dayton Re-
duction company was to receive 40
per cent of the net earnings of the
Dayton Placer Recovery company,
operating on the Carson river near
Dayton.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07
IT'S A PREMATURE MONUMENT
Tall ObeIisk Was Raised by the Turks
to Commemorate Anticipated
Capture If kut.

Approaching Kut-el-Amara from the
south by the River Tigris, the first
thing one sees nowadays is a tall ODE
lisk. 1t stands on ground sacred to
no people in the world but the Brit
ish, Eleanor Franklin Egan writes In
the Saturday Evening Post. 1t stands
on the wide, sheil-torn and deeply
trenched neck Of land-base of the
peninsula on which the town Is built
where for IA days the shattered rem
nant Of a British army withstood q
double siege of constant b~ombardment
and slow starvation.
This obelisk was raised by the
Turks to commemorate the surrender
of General Townsend and their vic
tory wei the British forces that had
tried so long and so heroically to re-
lieve lin. To me 1t was ar exclama-
ton po.nt to punctuate my W aston
ishment!
1 saw 1t first in the wonderful
lights of early evening" tall white
shaft in a half-circling fringe of palm
trees, lifting itself against a back
ground Of placid river, which lay In a
short, straight stretch to the north, re-
fiecting the colors of the sunset.
Was ever anything quite so prema-
ture? 1t makes one realize, rs moth
ing else could, how confident the
Turks and the Germans were that they
had the British in Mesopotamia per-
manently defeated. Defeated! It
seems incredible that anyone could
have imagined 1t. In the face of things
as they have become, that Obelisk
seems to me to express a kind of
whimpering enmity, as though 1t felt
itself strangely inappropriate and
would get away If it could to follow
its builders on the long trail of re-
treat to the north. 1t Is a monu-
mental misconjecture, the ironic hui
NOR of it being unique and a thing in
which Englishmen may now rejoice.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07
Relieved.

AT Camp Dodge n night a Swede
was on guard duty. Being new to this
business. time dragged slowly, but
finally the officer with relief came
along. The Swede said: "Halt." They
halted, and next he said: "WhO was
dat?" The officer replied: office
with relief" The sentry. after wait
ing several minutes In a vain attempt
to recall to mind what he should say
brought forth this startling command
Dismiss yourSelfs and be reconciled "
Needless to say the stiffness of tn:
night was broken by a oar Of laugh
ter.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07
The Parrot of Amiens.

Possibly for English readers the
fame of the Jackdaw of Reims has
eclipsed the fame of the Parrot of
Amiens. But Vert-Vert was a bird
who made history in a small way. He
was a monastery parrot renowned for
piety until he was sent on a visit, by
canal boat, to a nunnery, and acquired
a new vocabulary on the way-with
terrible results, as can be imagined.
The author of his adventures, Jean
Baptiste Gresset, a native of Amiens.
had to leave a clerical school in con-
sequence of the scandal caused by the
poem of which Vert-Vert was the
avian hero.-LOndOn Chronicle.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07
CIRCUS OWNER TO
REBUILD FRAN CE
WITH ELEPHANTS
JOHN RINGING TO ASK ALLIES
TO USE AMI
MAILS
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 81. = Jol

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 81. - John
Ringing, circus owner, has deter
mined to propose to the allied gov
ernments that African elephants be
tanned and used in the reconstruc-
ton of France after the war.
Because gun and shell fire at
the battle fronts are slaughtering
mules and horses by the tens of
thousands, Mr.. Ringing and Ed
mond Laplea of the university of
Louvain, Belgium, met in confer
ence here the other day and dis
cussed plans for using the African
elephant in reconstruction work in
Europe.
The men agreed that the loss of
horses and mules could not be re-
placed for many years and, since At
rican elephants may be found in
vast numbers and be tanned easily,
both felt positive the allies would
assist in the shipment of the big
beasts.
Zone elephant will do the work
of 26 horses" said Mr.. Laplea, who
has charge of the Belgian govern
ment's business in the Congo. "Eu-
rope must be reconstructed and
there will be no horses.
I'VE are using the African ele-
plant in carrying timber from the
forest, in blowing and in all kinds
of farm work. He carries and lifts
beams and Orders for the construc-
ton of buildings"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07
YOUNG ALASKANS
TRAVEL LONG WAY
TO ANSWER DRAFT
COME FROM REMOTE MOUNTAiN
REGIONS TO ENTER
ARMY

JUNEAU, Alaska, Aug. 31.-Draft
calls for men in the remote and Iar
away sections of Alaska ave
brought youths out over many naro
miles to report for service.
Hunters, trappers, traders anu
p~rospectors, in answe to the draft
calls, have ONE from the tundra
country up along the Arctic, the
hills and valleys along the Yukon
river and the remote mountain sec
tions of southeastern and southwest
ern Alaska. They have been mopii-
lied at Alaska forts and later sent
to the states for training.
One young man, Claude Harrison.
received his draft QUESTIONABLE as
he was making plans for spending
the coming winter hunting and trai-
ping in the Lake Minchumina
try, about so miles northwest OF
Mount Mckinley.
Harrison Immediately dropped his
plans and set out on 125-mile
''mush" to the office of the United
States commissioner at Kantishna.
When he arrived he found the COM
missioner had gone to Nenana,
nearly 100 miles farther, SO the long
hike was continued on until the Of
fetal was found.
Twelve young men, who gathered
at Marshal to board a steamer for
Nome, in answer to their calls,
found on their arrival that on &C
count of the slowness of the malls,
they were classed as delinquents.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07
STRANGE Military BADGES.

Having helped many a soldier
through weary hours in trench and
hospital, playing cards are now being
pressed into active war service, says
the London Chronicle. You may have
noticed the new and neat little cloth
badges on the sleeve of our men from
the front, but possibly have failed to
understand the designs. They are
nothing but the familiar club. spade,
heart and diamond of the playing card.
Under the new scheme regiments are
divided into packs. each company
having it's symbol in a certain color to
serve as an Identification mark. all
other badges being removed before go
ing over the top.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07
AUG.WAS BAD
MONTH FOR
COTTON
PAST MONTH HAS BEEN MOST
DISASTROUS OF HIS
TORY

WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. s.
The department of agriculture fore
cast for the cotton crop is 11,137,-
900 bales. The condition of the
crop on Aug. % was: California, 92
per cent; Arizona, SO per cent.
NEW YORK, Sept. 3. - The gov
eminent cotton crop report caused
a swift advance of approximately
$11 a bale in future prices compar-
ed with the close Friday.
The statement said: "The past
month has been the most disastrous
in it's effect upon cotton that has
ever been recorded. The yield is
145 pounds pei acre smaller than
any ever before reported. A large
acreage permits the forecast of a
crop but slightly smaller than last
year"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07
Irrigation Project Proposed

A plan to conserve the waters OF
both the east and west forks OF the
Walker river, which flow through
Lyon county and thus secure the
farmers of that district an adequate
water supply, Is being considered
by Charles A. Norcross, director of
agricultural extension at the uni
versity of Nevada. 1t is said lack
of water storage cost the farmers
of Smith and Mason valleys $780,
600 this year in crops lost.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07
mo Lick, No Candy"

SIN going to buy some candy with
my penny" lisped a little twO-year-old
girl.
"Tm not" said her brother, who is
not quite six years old. I'm going to
save mine and buy another Thrift
stamp"
"Well, 1 want some candy" argued
the girl.
saw, go ahead and buy your candy
replied her brother, but I'm going to
save mine and buy a Thrift stamp
cause daddy said that will help lick the
kaiser, and he says If he amt licked
there won't be any candy"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07
JAP ADMIRAL NOW
FORMOSA GOVERNOR
ARMY WINS APPOINTMENT DE-
SPITE CLAIMS OF
NAVY

TOXIC, Sept. 8. - Lieutenant
General Baron Teibi Ando, governor
general of Formosa, has resigned
and Lieutenant General Motojiro
Akashi, commander of the Sixth di-
vision, stationed at Kumamoto, has
been appointed as his successor.
In connection with the appoint
ment there was keen rivalry be-
tween the Japanese army and navy.
the sea forces claiming the post for
an admiral, but the army won the
position.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07
MORE WHEAT IN CAL.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3.-The
California food administration au-
thorized a discrimination of wheat
less Mondays and Wednesdays and
abolished the rule requiring the
equal purchase of substitutes with
wheat flour, because of improved
conditions abroad.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07
CHILDREN Of
GOLDF|ELD
PARADE
JUNIOR RID CROSS CLOSES VA
CATION PERIOD OF
WORK

Last night the Junior Red Cross,
on the occasion of the closing of
the summer school vacation period
of work, held a parade that was
considered by many the cleverest
event of it's kind promoted in Gold
field since this country entered the
war.
The Juniors appeared in uniform
and there were many children in
the procession wearing costumes Of
various descriptions and others
pushing doll-carriage floats with
soldiers" suffering from wounds
lying on miniature stretchers
mounted on the carriages. Two
Juniors impersonated the Greatest
Mother in the World and the old
hose wagon of the fire department
was used as a wel~l-arranged float.
The parade was led by the Eagles
drum corps and the flags of Ameri-
ca and the allied Nations.
During yesterday the Juniors held
an exhibition of their work in the
building on Main street formerly
used as headquarters by the Gold
field chapter of the Red Cross and
during the day a large number of
visitors viewed the exhibits and
purchased articles on sale. The ex-
hibition was continued into the
night and following the parade the
room was crowded. Refreshments
we're served and, altogether, yester-
day was a big day for the Juniors
and one that netted the organiza-
ton a good sum of money.
Two blankets on display, the
work of the Juniors, were the sub
ject of much favorable comment by
visitors. One of these blankets will
be disposed of for the benefit of
the Juniors and the other will be
sent to France, probably to the Den
yer hospital unit in which Miss
mary Curley Is serving.
The pillow cases on display we're
taken by A. Ferguson and the dolly
by Mrs. Frances Smell.
Under direction of Mrs. Harry
Moon. the founder of the organiza-
ton in Goldfield, the Junior Red
Cross has come to the front with
big strides and, with her helpers,
valuable adjunct to the parent or
g~aniZation. From the first it has
been more than self-supporting and
much work has been accomplished,
notably the manufacture of the kits
with which the members of every
contingent of soldiers leaving Gold
field are furnished. In addition to
the kits, large quantities of manu-
featured articles have DeGn shipped
by the Woodworking members, who,
in addition to their work, always
have found time to rustic" money
in various ways.
The vacation period has been
spent profitably by the children of
Goldfield and the Junior Red Cross
and it's work will be continued I'M
der direction of school officials dur
ing the coming term.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-09-14
"on a. recent severe engagement,

con a, recent severe engagement,
Stephen R. Brown displayed ,undaunt-
ed courage by time and again expos
ing himself during terrific shell FIRE.
Employed during the whole551of one
night at a medical station, the fol-
lowing afternoon he brought up, gas
masks travelling across sheil-sWept
area in full view Of the enemy: fs;
administered treatment to, the
wounded. His fearlessness and un-
tiring endeavors came under my. d.
rect observation.
"I cannot speak too highly OF his
spirit Of self-sacrifce, his bravery
and his calm disregard Of all dangers.
He supplied men in the first line with
cigarettes and chocolate, even visit
ing advanced observation posts help
ing all men he found. The gratitude
of the officers and men OF, my. organ
ization toward him knows no hounds
.'He, later, assisted in the disposal
of the dead. In every possible. way
he could, he assisted, refusing. to SO
to the rear Until the troops were
relieved though he had not slept or
eaten for many hours"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-09-14
:. 49, .ts1s~H5sr IA ri, y
Cotton Market.
Corrected daily at 12so;ei0ckss HeosA;,
p. q. BOWMAN. Cotton Buxax
Good 1fidding "a Is.
Strict NIiddiing 33 7-S.
Middling 33 5-8.
Strict Low Middling 80 IL.
Pennsylvania to Make War Records.

Harrisburg, Sept. 12.-Pennsyl-
-anians participating in the great
war are to be recorded by the history
committee OF the State Council OF
National Defence.
State Senator William G. Sprou,
head of the State Historical Society.
is chairman Of the committee IN
charge of the work! A. E. McK1n-
ley is secretary.
The data is to include Pennsylvan-
ians in the naval, military and marine
:orps service in this country and
overseas. Names and service OF those
in Red Cross work, with the U M.
c. A, War Work Council, Emergency
Aid, Liberty Loan and War Stamp
Campaigns and all kindred patriotic
organizations will be included.
A permanent record of Pennsya-
vania's war work is TO be preserved
in the State capitol.