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The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-01-22

Then the connection subtly put out
by Longstreth apparently dawned mp
ON the other. Somehow through this
girl her father and cousin were to be
betrayed. Duane got that impression.
though he could not tell how true IL
was. Certainly Lawson's jealousy was
his paramount emotion.
'"To hell with you'll" burst out Law
son. incoherently. He was frenzied.
"I1l have her, or nobody else willl"
You never WILL" returned Long
streth. stridently. $50 help me God
I'd rather see her the rangers wife
than yoursl"
While Lawson absorbed that shock
~Longstreth leaned toward him, all or
hate and Ems in his mien.
Lawson. you made me what am"
continued Longstreth. 81 backed you
shielded you. You're Cheseldine-if
the truth is toldi Now it's ended. l
quit you. I'm donei"
Their gray passion-corded faces
were still as stones.
Gentlemen" Duane called in far
reaching voice as he stepped out.
you're both donel'
They wheeled to confront Duane.
Don't novel Not a muscle! Not a
fingerl" he warned.
Longstreth read what Lawson had
not the mind to read. His face turned
from gray to ashen.
'What dye mean?' yelled Lawson,
fereely, shrilly. 1t was not in him to
obey a command, to see impending
death.
All %quivering and strung. yet with
perfect control, Duane raised his left
hand to turn back a lapel of his open
vest. The silver star flashed brightly.
Lawson howled like a dog. With
barbarous and insane fury, with sheer
impotent folly, he swept a clawing
hand for his gun. Duane's shot broke
his action.
Before Lawson even tottered, before
he loosed the gun Longstreth leaped
behind him, clasped him with left arm,
quick as lightning jerked the gun
from both clutching fingers and sheath.
hbiESllCAH DiOlttltu ulluStll VIII JIG
body of the dead man. Duane saw
red flashes, puffs of smoke; he heard
quick reports. Something stung his
left arm. Then a blow like wind. light
of sound yet shocking in impact,
struck him, staggered him. The hot
rend of lead followed the blow.
Duane's heart seemed to explode, yet
his mind kept extraordinarily clear
and rapid.
Duane heard Longstreth work the
action of Lawson's gun. He heard the
hammer click, fall upon empty she'll.
Longstreth had used up all the loads
in Lawson's gun. He cursed as a man
cursed at defeat. Duane waited, cool
and sure now. Longstreth tried to lift
the dead man, to edge him closer to-
ward the table where his own gun
lay. But, considering the peril of ex-
posing himself, he found the task be-
yond him. He bent peering at Duane
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under Lawson's arm, which Topped
We're the eyes of a man who meant
to kill. There was never any mistak-
ing the strange and terrible light of
eyes like those. More than once
Duane had a chance to aim at them,
at the top of Longstreth's head, at a
strip of his side.
Longstreth flung Lawson's body off.
But even as it dropped, before Long
streth could leap, as he surely in
tended, for the gun, Duane covered
him. called piercingly to him
Don't jump for the gum Don't !
I'll kill you! Sure as God I'll kill
you'll"
Longstreth stood perhaps ten feet
from the table where his gun lay.
Duane saw him calculating chances.
He was game. He had the courage
that forced Duane to respect him.
Duane just saw him measure the dis
lance to that gun. Duane would have
to kill him.
"Longstreth, ~listen," cried Duane,
swiftly. "The games up. You're
done. But think of your daughter -!
I'll spare your life-In try to get
tou freedom on one condition. For
her sakel I've got you nailed-all the
proofs. There lies Lawson. You're
alone. I've Morton and men to my aid.
Give up. Surrender. Consent to de-
mands, and I'll spare you. Maybe /
can persuade MacNelly TO let you go
free back to your old country. It's
for Rays sake! Her life, perhaps her
happiness, can be savedl Hurry,
mani Your answer"
suppose l ~refuse?" he queried, with
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CHAPTER XIV.

Duane returned to Fairdale and
camped In the mesquite till the twenty
third Of the month. The few days
seemed endless. All he could think
of was that the hour in which he must
disgrace Ray Longstreth was slowly
but inexorably coming. In that wait
ing time he learned what love was
and also duty. When the day at last
dawned he rode like one possessed
down the rough slope. hurting stones
and crashing through the bush, with a
sound in his ears that was not all
the rush of the wind. Something drag
ged at him.
Apparently m side Of his mind was
unalterably fixed, while the other was
a hurrying congiomeration Of flashes
of thought. reception of sensations.
lie could not get calmness. BY and by
almost involuntarily. he hurried faster
on. Action seemed 10 make his state
less oppressive; it eased the weight
But the farther he went on the harder
II was to continue. Had he turned MS
back upon love, happiness, perhaps on
life itself?
There seemed no use to go on iar-
Their until he was absolutely sure Oh
himself. Duane received a eiear
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SOLDIERS LOT NOT so BAD
American Fighters at the Front Not
In the Trenches Continuously
Plenty of Amusement.

The trouble with the American pub
lie is that they have heard and read
so much of the great war and Its hor-
rors that they think their boys are go-
ing to be continually In the midst Of
bloodshed and constantly In discom-
fort, and they concentrate on the ter
rible side of it and ask, "How long
will it be before he is killed." They
don't see that that is not all there is
to It," declares a war correspondent.
1t is natural enough of course. A
man writes a book about the war,
takes M incident, and another, and
another, makes chapters of them, with
the result that the man and woman
who read his book read a succession
of horrors, and they think 1t is all like
that. They don't realize, or they for
get, the weeks between these "hor-
rors' and discomforts.
A mar is in the front trench under
fire, say, two days, and sent back four,
or perhaps four days and sent back
eight. Usually a. brigade is in the
fire sector 80 days. Then 1t is sent
back to the rest billets for an equal
time. Here the men are in practical
~ no danger-perhaps an occasional
shell. They are together in jolly COM
radeship, having lots of amusements-
football, baseball-plenty to do. They
are well fed, well equipped, well
amused.
OF course, the grouchy soldier is GO
ing to have a grouchy time, but the
life Of the American soldier on the
western front is going to be just about
what he makes it. If he goes into it
in the right spirit he will find that it
isn't so bad as it is cracked up to be.
And then he will be in a great state of
indignation because the reports of it
have made it seem so awful.
When he realizes that 1t isn't so
bad, he mustn't forget to sit down and
tell the folks at homel He knows it's
a lot better than he thought it was GO
ing to be. But they don't.
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Winnemucca Is Years Ago Today
From The Daily Silver State

g Joe Rougon returned Saturday from a business trip to San Fran
= cisco.
. The Elko Independent asks: "why do women wear their dresses
{. eight inches too long and then hold them up twelve inches too high?
= The contract for carrying the mail from Winnemucca o Kennedy
. was yesterday awarded to J. r. Benton, he being the lowest bidder.
g w. d. Jones announces in the last issue Of the Austin Advocate
/. that he has purchased the Reese River Reveule, which will here
{. after be published semi-weekly, and the Advocate will be moved to
. Battle Mountain.
. The Wnnemucca hose company will give its grand annual masque-
/: raed ball IN Wednesday evening, February q.
/. William NJ Stewart was reelected to the United States Senate
{. yesterday by a unanimous vote.
. More than 100 Chinese are at present placer mining in American
. Canyon, just out of Lovelock.
Q Q Q @ Q 6 90 O o o
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An Heirloom.

A prerevolutionary mansion is to be
preserved in Albany as a historic
shrine, says the Brooklyn Standard
Union. This was the home of Gen.
Philip Schuyler, who was In command
of the continental troops In the victory
Of Saratoga in 1777. The house had
been erected 10 years before and stood
In the open country within what r
now the city limits. The estate, with
IT'S ample grounds and negro slave
quarters, was known as "The Pasture
After their surrender at Saratoga Gen.
eral Burgoyne and other British Off
GERS were held as war prisoners at his
home by General Schuyler. Washing
ton, Franklin and Lafayette were en-
tertained there, and in the main par
Tor General ~Schuyler's daughter, Eliza
beth, was married to Alexander Ham,
ilton, whom she long survived after
the fatal bullet fred by Aaron Burr at
Weehawken ended the life of Washing
toms secretary of the treasury.
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horses and sheep within the HUM
BOLDT NATIONAL FOREST during
the season of 1918, must be filed in
my Office at Elko. Nevada. on or be-
fore February Is, 1913. Full informal
ton in regard to the grazing fees TO
be charged and blank forms to be
used in making applications will be
furnished upon request.
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Copyright by Harper and Brothers

q dark and terrible earneStneSS.
''Then I'll kill you in your tracks I
You can't move a hand! Your word
or DEATH Hurry. Longstrethl Be a
mani For her sakel Quicki An
other second now-Tn kill you"
"All right, Buck Duane, l give my
word" he said, and deliberately walk
ed TO the chair and fell into it.
Longstreth looked strangely at the
bloody blot on Duane's shoulder.
There come the girls!' he sudden,
~ exclaimed. "Can you help me
drag Lawson inside? They mustn't see
him."
Duane was facing down the porch
toward the court and corrals. Miss
Longstreth and Ruth had come in
sight, were swiftly approaching. evil
IDENTIFY alarmed. The two men sue
ceeded in drawing Lawson into the
house before the girls saw him.
duane, you're not hard hit?" said
Longstreth.
Reckon not" replied Duane.
I'm sorry. If only you could have
told me soonerI Lawson! Always
I've split over him !"
But the last time, Longstreth."
Eyes, and l came near driving you
to kill me, too. Duane, you talked me
out of it. For Rays sakel She'll be
in here in a minute. This II be hard
er than facing a gun"
Hard now. But I hope it IL turn
out all right"
duane, will you do me a favor?'
he asked. and he seemed ~shamefaced.
"Sure.'
LET Ray and Ruth think Lawson
shot you. He's dead. 1t can't matter.
Duane, the old side of my life is
coming back. It's been coming. And,
I'd change places with Lawson if |
couldl"
"Glad you-said that, Longstreth,"
replied Duane. "And sure-Lawson
plugged me. It's II secret"
Just then Ray and Ruth entered the
room. Duane heard two low cries, so
different in tone. and he saw two
white faces. Ray came to his side.
She lifted a shaking hand to point at
the blood upon his breast. White and
mute. she gazed from that to her
father.
"Papa" cried Ray, wringing her
hands.
Don't give way" he replied, husk-
lily. Both you girls will need your
nerve. Duane isn't badly hurt. But
Floyd isis dead. Listen. Let me
tell it quick. There's been a fight. II
lit was LawsOn-it was Lawson'S
gun that shot Duane. Duane let me
off. In fact, Ray, he saved me. I'm
TO divide my property-return so far
as possible what I've stolen-leave
Texas at once with Duane, under ar
rest. He says maybe he can get Mac
Nelly, the ranger captain, to let me
go. For your sake!"
She stood there. realizing her deliver
: ance. with the dark and tragic glory
of her eyes passing from her father
to Duane.
you must rise above this" said
Duane to her. 81 expected this tC
ruin you. But your father is alive
He will live it down. I'm sure l car
promise you he'll be free. Perhaps
back there in Louisiana the dishonoI
will never be known. This matter OF
land, water, a few stray head of stock
had to be decided out of court. To
protect himself he bound men TO him,
He could not control them. He be
came involved with them, and so he
grew into the leader because he was
the strongest. Whatever he is to be
judged for, l think he could have been
infinitely worse"
ITO Be Continued
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SPFmM.

Toilet Soap. three cakes for 25 GEMS
all excellent quality. See our window
display. Come in and buy a supply
now. You won't be able to get Soaps
at these prices again in a long time.
EAGLE DRUG co.
The RexaIl Store
7Stf Advertisement.
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Economize your time. Use wantads.
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CHAPTER lin Wellston, Texas. II
becomes with Buckley Duane a case OF
fight or run from Cal Balm. Duan kills
his man and becomes an outlaw.
CHAPTER HE meets Luke Stew
ems. an outlaw.
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CHAPTER XIX-Laramie is found
dead. a bullet hole in his breast. Ray
ship. She suspects her father of crook
ed practices.
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CHAPTER IV-Duane goes TO BANDS
outlaw stronghold in the Rim Roc and
after shooting Bosomer. who quarrels
with him over Stevens death. decides
to stay there. Euchre takes Duane for
a partner and tells him about Bland,
the outlaw chief, and his band.
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CHAPTER V-Duane practices gun
throwing and hears more about Bland
and his gang.
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CHAPTER XX-Duane. spying on
Longstreth and Lawson. knows them
for rustlers n bandits. and is nearly
trapped by them.
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CHAPTER XVI-Colonel Longstr
daughter Ray, and her cousin. J
one of the robbers. but is puzzled
the colonel's conduct.
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CHAPTER vI-Euchre and Duane
call IN Kate, BANDS wife. and Jennie,
a girl whom Benson kidnapped and sold
to Bland
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ranger camp. McNeIly offers him par
don and social restoration If he viii
become n ranger and clean out the
Cheseldlne gang In the Big Bend coun-
try.
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and accused OF numbering a woman
Duane rides into Shirley TO deny. th'
murder. After a narrow escape from
lynchfng. he proves his innocence and Il
allowed TO go.
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CHAPTER xVIT-Tn Fairdale Duane
malres friends with Laramie. and cap
turing a man who has held M Laramie.
Fairdale. who discharges the thief
without a hearing. Duane calls Long
streth's hand before several honest men.
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CHAPTER III-Stevens goes into the
town of Mercer to buy supplies and is
shot by a rancher. Duane buries him.
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CHAPTER XV-Buck Duane. ranger
strikes the Big Bend country and be
gins work. Cheseldine IS a mystery, &
power and a horror TO the country.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-30
Exploiters ofL abor
(Tucson Citizen.)

hNoOA NAAANtIsf
 F. J. Croaff and George D. Smith are names mostly identified in the Arizona mind through their promi- hence in connection with the state wide strike call issued as a Mooney sympathy movement for May l, and in connection with the state and na- tion-wide strike proposed for August last, in the same cause. Organized labor refused to have anything to do with these calls; the violence of Croaff and Smith in connection with the issue made them idious as dis ciples of the wobbly l. w. w. school of literature. Smiths record as that of the man who refused to permit the American flag to be put up on the union hall at Globe when war was dG clared. did not help to free him and his superior officer in the Arizona State Federation of Labor from the taint that organized labor in the state recognized as attaching to the pair when it denounced the May l strike call, made at an hour when the gov ernment needed every ounce of m>n- power it could bring to bear.
 Notwithstanding all of which. Croaff and Smith have the audacity to pose at the present time as the sole rep resentatiyes of organized labor-iR deed, or all labOr-as against Amend ment 100, a measure designed in the brCadest spirit of justice to labor. at the request of labor and with the close cooperation Of labor Except for the initiation of negotiations by the State Federation in the early part Of 1917 there would have been no Amendment 100.
 The Croaff-Smith regime, with its Hunt-LowenthalI w. W. patronage and betting, has done much to dam age the cause of labor in Arizona in the last several months. The saving fact has been that labor has re- fused to recognize the leadership. has speweed 1t out on various occasions in disgust. and will shortly add further Co its good standing by repudiating the CrOaffSmith faction at the polls on November , by voting in favor of Amendment 100 just as pronouncedly as it voted against the May 1 strike and repudiated the anarchistic speech of Croaff in Phoenix on August l. In current street terms. these birds are done for, which is and will be for the good of all the commonwealth and all of organized labor
Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-30
Hun Character
 Stripped Bare

With the FTanco-Prussian war fresh in mind, Ruskin wrote February If. 1874, of the intense, irreconcilable difference between the French and German natures"
 "A Frenchman is selfish only when ne is vile and lustful; but a German selfish in the purest states of virtue and ignorance; but no quality of learning ever makes a German mod est. Sir says Albert Durer of his own work (and he is the modestest German 1 know), it cannot be better done Luther serenely damns the en- tire gospel of St. James because St. James happened to be not precisely If his own opinion.
 Accordingly, when the Germans get command of Lombardy they bom- bard Venice. steal her pictures (which they can't understand a single touch of and entirely ruin the coun- try. morally and physically, leaving behind them misery, vice and intense hatred of themselves wherever their accursed feet have trodden. They dc precisely the same thing by France crush her, rob her, leave her in misery of rage and shame; and return home, smacking their lips and singing Te Deums"
Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-30
LudendOrf

Either as a sop to the allied demands or because of his own overbearing arrogance and imperative demeanor, Ludendorff has been deposed as commander of the German armies in the field. Frankly, this column, as devoted supporter of the allied cause, Is glad to note the passing of this Prussian general. He is that type of German most to be feared Possessing all the vices of his race, namely, pride, stubbornness, cruel ty, he also possesses rare qualities of leader ship and knowledge of war amounting almost to genius. Elindenburg IS the Prus- sian boar, but Ludendorff is the Prussan panther He leaped at the allied throat last spring and only missed cutting the jugular vein by hair The old ding dong, hammer and tongs, trench warfare was revolution ized by this lean, saturnine, polished demon from Potsdam He developed that plan of advance that must continue until it had passed the artillery positions. Thus it was easy for him to make that thirty mile ad- vance right into the heart of the allied lines and all but take Amiens and menace Paris and threaten the channel ports and cast the shadow of his spiked helmet across the al- lied cause in such fashion that no man knew what the morrow would bring.
 This man Ludendorff was a disciple of the Napoleonic school. He was daring and original and had the ability to make these
Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-30

France, having had the most disastrous Hundred Days in history, century ago, is now having the most glorious. Napoleon returned from Elba, conquered France, fought and lost at Waterloo and was sent to St. Helena, all in one hundred days. Foch met the last tide of German invasion on the Marne, turned 1t back, reconquered most of northern France and Belgium and brought Germany to her knees as supph- ant seeking peace, all in one hundred days. This man FochI He will surely come to rank with the great military commanders of all time. Alexander Hannibal, Freder- ick the Great, Turenne, Napoleon, he IS worthy to rank with any of these when the magnitude and the scope of his operations are considered Yes, and he ranks far above any of them when his motives and his ann bitions are considered, for they all fought for personal gain and aggrandizement and the extension of their own power. While this modest simple Basque gentleman fights only for the republic of France. No province, town or people will pass under his rule when it is all over His worn gray uniform his cross of the Legion of Hon. neur and his unblemished fame will be all that he will take away with him when he lays his burdens down at the end of the war In military genius Foch can be com pared with the great strategist Marshal Turenne, better than any other, but in goodness and simple worth, it Is with our own Washington that he compares best Washington, too, fought for a republic, and never a personal ambition was born in bis breast in all the flame of war and glow of victory.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-30
"BarbarOus Yankees

It isn't the fuss and the fighting I feaI (said Fritz, as he cautiously sampled his beer).
 It's the cranks. Now, butchering babies, and torture and loot Are methods of warfare quite certain to suit
 But it's queer To struggle with people who don't comprehend. They feed all their captives; our wounded they tend; They make me quite nervous. Now Himmel preserve us
 From cranksl It isn't the noise of the guns that i dread Said Fritz, as he rubbed the soft spot on his head),
 It's the tanks. Now, poisonous gases and red liquid fire Are sports which fervently love and admire
 How ill-bred. To Haunt whole brigades of those engines of death. An make a chap run till he's all out of breath It's simply disgusting! Small use to be trusting
 In tanks. It isn't the English and French that I hate Said Fritz, as he gnawed at the bones on his plate)
 It's the Tanks. I've told them and told them I'm win ming this war. For answer they give me the merry Hal Hal"
 Grim as Fate In hundreds and thousands they reck- lessly come, Insultingly chewing their ration of gum. It's fierce to be flouted and. utterly routed
 By Tanks! Gott strafe the nation, The whole combination! l need vacation-that's perfectly flat (Said Fritz, as he playfuIiy blinded the cat).
 -VILDA SALVAGE OWENS.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-30

inhabitants of invaded towns the max imum of suffering You must leave the people through whom you march nothing but their eyes to weep with. Bismarck.
 The more unmerciful the conduct of war the more mercifuI in reality, for the war is thereby sooner ended. -Hindenburg.
 The innocent must suffer with the guilty. All that is as nothing com pared with the life of single Ger man soldier.-General Von Bissing.
 International law German version) is by no means opposed to the ex- ploitatiOn of the crimes of third parties ,(assassination, incendiarisI.. robbery and the like) to the preju- dice of the enemy-German War Book.
 Create examples which by their frightfulness will be a warning to the whole country.-Wilhelm II