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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-08-17
PROPOSE
ODD PLANS TO
END WAR
ONE INVENTOR WANTS TO
PLASTER GERMANS WITH
CEMENT

LONDON. Aug. 10. = If the
dreams of numerous British anna
teur inventors who have been be-
sieging the ministry of munitions
could be real Eed, the war would
have been over long since and little
would be left of the German army.
Recent proposals include the fol-
lowing:
Freeze the clouds and mount ar
tillery thereon.
Train cormorants to fly to Essen
and pick the mortar from Krupp's
walls so that they will crumble.
Train from balloons monster mag
nets that would snatch rifles from
the hands of German soldiers.
Perch men on shells to steer
them.
A suggestion often submitted is
to attach a %searchlight to an anti
aircraft gun, project the light on
a Gotha and shoot along the beam.
Unfortunately, shells will not follow
a path of light.
Among more miscellaneous pro-
jects are:
To petrify German soldiers by
squirting cement over them.
To throw snakes by pneumatic pro-
pulsion into the enemy trenches.
To penetrate and attack Germany
itself with a tube" built "all the
way" from England.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-08-17
Wood Withstands Quakes.

The ability of wood construction to
resist severe shocks and strains again
was demonstrated in the earthquake
that destroyed Hemet and San Jacinto,
CAL, a few days ago. Telegraphic re-
ports from Helmet say that "the Vos-
burg hotel, a frame structure, with
stood the shock, while its brick neigh
bOrs fell fiat"
Lumbermen point out that there Is
nothing peculiar in this. On account
of the toughness of its fiber and its
resiliency, wood IA stand many a
twist and Jar before it breaks or loses
its shape. A wooden building will
"give" without injury to itself and then
resume it's original shape. At the
worst, in case of an unusually severe
earthquake shock, it might be twisted
out of shape a little but would not
crumble or collapse. Brick buildings,
the other hand, have no elasticity.
The brick and mortar of which they
are constructed are brittle, when COM
pared with wood.
The reports from California, the lum-
bermen declare, merely go to empha-
size the ACCESSIBILITY of building of
wood in districts subject to earthquake
shock.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-08-17
UNCLE JOE HAS
0UT-SERvED ALL
HAS MISSED ONLY TWO TERMS
IN CONGRESS- SINCE
1873

WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. 10
If the voters of the eighteenth llli-
nois district elect "Uncle Joe" Can
non for a 22nd term in congress
next November he will have equaled
a record achieved by only one
other in point of congressional serv-
ice. Already the former speaker
has out-served all other present and
former members of the house for
long service in that body. The late
William Boyd Allison, former rep
resentative and later senator from
Iowa, held a record in congress
with A years service in both
houses.
Mr.. Cannon's record is for service
in the house alone. Were 1t not
for an affair in 1890, when the dem
ocrats took control of the house,
following passage of the Mckinley
tariff law, and another incident in
1912, when the ~progressives split
the republican vote, Mr.. Cannon's
service would have been for "a
terms continuous. AS it is, he be-
gan his service in 1878 and has
served since with the exception of
the two terms mentioned.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-08-17
Cattle and Sheep Going Fast

A shipment of a trainload of cat
tie and sheep left Winnemucca a
few days ago over the Southern Pa
cific. Shipment of stock east at this
time is being made because there is
no western market for feeders, due
principally to the shortage Of hay
and pasture in California. The
shortage of hay in this state makes
necessary the selling of cattle and
sheep that otherwise would be held
in the state. Other shipments are
being made from Golconda.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-08-17
TRIED
ONCE TOO OFTEN
ING TO BREAK
RECORD

LONDON, Aug. 13.-Major James
B. McCudden, recently killed in an
aviation accident, was an extremely
reticent boy who hardly looked his
23 year, but who, within a little
more than two years of flying, had
won a long string of decorations
and had come within two victories
of being the premier flyer of the
British and Canadian forces. He
was in quest of these victories when
killed.
While with a party of friends in
London one night shortly before his
death he lamented the fact that he
soon was to be ordered to instruc-
ton work and probably would not
have another opportunity to better
his record of So Hun machines.
He confided to friends, however,
that he planned to slip across the
channel soon from a British aero
drome and attempt to down two
more German machines before he
settled down to the safe instruction
work.
True to his plans he drove a fast
battle plane from a British aero
drome to France and was flying to-
ward the German lines at a low alti-
tude when his machine crashed to
the ground. Those who witnessed
the accident are certain something
happened to the airplane, but the
real cause of his death may never
be known.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-08-17
MOTHS INVADE
QUAKER CITY
WAR SAID TO BE RESPONSIBLE
FOR CATERPILLAR
PLAGUE

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 9.-Wag-
ing a losing fight against an old
and persistent enemy, arborcultur-
lists in this vicinity are sending out
an IS. o. S." call for the house
holder and t%ree-lover to cooperate
in combating the caterpillar, whose
scientific name is the tussock moth.
Inability to obtain men for the
tree-cleaning squads is the chief
reason for the spread of caterpillars.
Instead of cleaning up entire Sec
lions of Philadelphia as heretofore
the little squad at the command of
the arborculturist is able only to
respond to hurry calls.
OF the 100000 trees on this
city's streets it has been possible to
,clean only about 10000. In some
sections the leaves already have
been eaten from the trees.
The second crop of tussocks is at
work. The size of a crop can be
Judged by the fact that from 200
to 900 eggs may be contained in
one O and there may be from
200 to 800 on a tree.
Continued cool weather will check
their growth, but a hot wave Will
produce a bumper crop.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-08-17
FORTS HOUSE MACHINE GUNS
How the Greatly Dreaded "PiiI
Boxes" First Devised by Ger
mans, Are Managed.

1t used to be thought that the Bel
gian forts Of armored steel and con-
crete, almost completely buried in the
ground, would hold out against any
artillery. But when the Germans
brought up their great howitzers and
hurled undreamed of quantities of
high explosives on these forts, they
broke and crumbled to pieces, writes
A. Russell Bond in st. Nicholas. Then
1t was predicted that the day of the
fort was over. But the machine gun
has developed a new type of warfare.
Instead of great forts mounting huge
guns, we now have little machine-gun
forts, and they are far more trouble
some than the big fellows. To the Ger
mans belong the credit for this type
of fort, which consists of a small con-
crete structure, hidden from view as
far as possible, but commanding some
important part of the front. "Pill
boxes the British call them, because
the first ones they ran across were
round in shape and something like a
pill box in appearance.
IneSe PHI Jokes are just lurSe
enough to house a few men and a
couple of machine guns. Concealment
Is of the utmost Importance; their
safety depends upon it. Airplanes are
particularly feared, because a machine
gun emplacement is recognized to be
so important that a whole battery Of
artillery would be turned upon a sus-
pected pill box. 1t is claimed that
some pill boxes are built with turrets
that rise out of the ground. Normally,
they are completely buried and COW
cred with turf so that no one would
expect their existence. During the
bombardment preceding a charge they
would remain hidden and only a
chance shot could put them out of
business. When the charge took place
the elevating mechanism would be OPP
Grated, and out Of the ground would
rise the miniature fort, ready to halt
the advancing soldiers.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-08-17
To France in Fathers Kit Bag.

"Pack up your troubles in your old
kit bag" says the song, and Private
Henri, a French-C Canadian soldier, did
1t literally. He packed his ten-year-
old son in his kit bag and took him to
France, according to the Montreal Star.
Henri's wife and son followed him
to England when he left Canada. The
mother died and when ordered to
France Henri could not bear to leave
son. So he packed him in his kit bag
and took him along. AT Boulogne the
boy was discovered and promptly ship
ped back to F~olkstone, where he be-
came a pet of the police.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-08-17
REVENUEB|LL
IS Being
FRAMED
COMMITTEE WORKING ON
TWENTY-FOUR BILLION DOL
LAR MEASURE

WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. 10
War taxation with all its problems,
and it's benefits as we'll as it's evils,
is the subject which will occupy
congress almost to the exclusion of
all others when it reassembles for
regular sessions on Aug. "a.
A statesman of the older genera
ton once remarked that govern
ment was nothing more or less than
the power to levy and collect taxes.
1t is obvious that while the sub
jet of war taxation has the atten-
ton of congress it must necessarily
command the attention of the Amer
lean people, because the stability of
government is measured chiefly 10y
its
The ways and means committee
of the house now is engaged in the
preliminary work of freeing the
$24,OOO 900, 900 revenue bill which
is to provide the sinews of wac for
bill by the house in substantially
the form in which it comes from
the committee promises to be a
matter of course
In the senate, however, will come
revision and reconstruction, often
the subject of prolonged debate and
even filibuster, which will put the
bill more nearly in the shape in
which it ultimately will become, the
senate, as some historian has said,
being the saucer in which is cooled
the hot tea coming from the cup of
the house." the deliberations there
are sure to be prolonged.
After the bill has been passed by
the senate, it will go to confer
ence,'' often referred to as the place
where bills really are made. Here
a joint committee representing sem
ate and house smoothes out conflict
lIS PlONlolOhOt I'll AZ
es for hard-fought amendments, and
finally, inducing each side to give
way a little, or when agreement is
Aown to be hopeless, discarding
kovisions entirely, reports back to
both houses of congress a complet-
ed bill.
Sometimes n house or the 9TH
er, insistent on some provision, re-
fuses to accept the decisions OF the
conferees and demands further con-
sideration, but in the end a bill that
is adopted by both branches of con-
gress comes out.
The war revenue bill will be
threading it's way through these tor
tuous passages in the halls of con-
gress for several weeks, possibly I'M
til 10Y flies.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-08-17
LAY in SUPPLY OF OXYGEN
Substance Necessary in Human Body
to Produce Explosions, Otherwise
Muscular Power.

You are a whiZzbang, a five-nine and
a 42O-howitzer shell all rolled into n
If you only knew 1t. You can explode
more forcibly than the 20O-pound, thin
shell aero bombs On moonlight nights.
And the only thing that saves you from
blowing yourself up every minute of
your life is natures provision for dis
tributing the spark throughout your
system.
Well, its like this:
DIR. Ronald C. Macfie of Aberdeen,
Scotland has discovered that every
muscular movement is accomplished by
an explosion. You are different from
an airplane motor in three essentials,
component matter, design and the man
ner of exploding.
When an aero cylinder explodes,
Just so much gas Is gone, not TO be re-
generated within the motor. But when
you WELD the hoe in your war garden,
your muscles of the hand and arm are
propelled by an explosion of part Of
their own substance. The burnt-up
portion is automatically replaced by
natural processes.
If you require a great deal of mus
cular power-if you explode a good
deal, DIR. Macfie explains-you must
eat starchy foods and take all the oxy-
gen you car get.
In other words, "lay off" the meat,
eat potatoes and go walking in the
open air at night instead of going to
the movies.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-08-17
Euclid in British Army.

Another war hospital publication to
hand is with the Wounded" the Or
gan of the B~rondesbury Park military
hospital, which also echoes those high
spirits which seem the peculiar prop
erty Of war hospitals. It's contents In
clude Euclid in the Army" from
which we extract the following definl-
lions:
"AIl regimental sergeant majors are
equal to anything, but the side OF any
three sergeant majors, taken together,
is less than that Of any three brigadier
generals taken ut random"
"a major has the shortest temper
between two meals"
We should like to see some more or
these definitiOns.-LOndOn Globe.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-08-17
ORDERS ISSUED
FOR SIBERIA
CONFIDENTIAL INSTRUCTIONS
GIVEN MAJOR GENERAL
GRAVES

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Aug. 8. -
Confidential instructions covering
the American military expedition
to Siberia were handed Major Cen
eral Graves at Kansas City Tuesday
by Secretary of War Baker.
Mr.. Baker said he assumed jap
anese officers would be the rank
ing officers of the allied forces and
would preside at any conference or
the various commanders.
The American forces probably
number less than 10000. The num-
Der of Japanese probably will ex-
coed the American forces slightly.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-08-17

George Won Steinberg of Berlin,
New, has not found it necessary to
change his name. His actions are
sufficient proof of his loyalty to
the government. Won %Steinberg was
employed by the Webster Mines
company, near Berlin, and recently
gave a man a couple of black eyes,
kicked him over the mine dump and
then down a flight of stairs for
making unpatriotic remarks.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-08-17
Uncle Sans Best Seller.

The eagerness of women to do their
bit by canning is shown by the enor-
nous number of requests made to the
government for instruction in it. The
best seller among the latest novels
cannot compete for popularity with
the Farmers Bulletin No. 800 on cold
pack canning. Every h~ousekeeper
should SEND for it. There is no charge
for it. The cold-pack methods, when
directions are followed exactly, give
perfect results.-Woman's Home Com
panion.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-08-17
WHY RED CROSS ASKS HELP
Read This List Of Part Of Materials
Needed by the Organization, and
Then Loosen Up"

Here are Just a few of the articles
Of which the Red Cross must carry a
stock In its stores: Foods, wearing APP
parel of all types and descriptions,
beds and bedding for hospital and
civilian uses, hospital supplies. surgi-
cal dressings, surgical instruments
and drugs of every kind, splints, fur
niture, farming machinery, lumber,
portable sawmills and mixers and rock
crushers. gasoline tractors, cysto-
scopes, chloroform masks. s~cariiers,
nitrous oxide gas plants. building ma
~terials, every kind of tinware for use
In canteens and hospitals, china and
glassware, Photographs. games for In
doors and outdoors, smoking materi-
ais, libraries, field kitchens. kitchen
trailers; portable X-ray machines for
use in the field, fully equipped In mo-
torcars; portable disinfecting outfits
for men and clothes, consisting of sew
eral rooms. where men coming from
the trenches, covered with filth and
vermin, enter and remove their
clothes, which are passed through a
sterilizer while the men proceed to an
other room and are bathed with disin-
fectants and shOwered, finally passing,
thoroughly cleansed, to a room where
their clothes are returned to them dis
infected and dried. This particular
piece of equipment alone costs $4,000
francs, and the Red Cross Is installing
them In the army camps and behind
the trenches as fast as the need arises.
Elizabeth Frazer, in the Saturday
Evening Post.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-08-17
"BL|MPS" GET
MANY U-B0ATS
PILOTS SAY THEY ARE GREAT
EST DESTROYERS
KNOWN

AN ENGLISH BALLOON BASE
IN ENGLAND, Aug. 10. - The
"blimp" is the nickname which the
American pilots have given to the
little dirigible airships which are
technically termed IS. S." or sub
marine scouts.
The gas bag of the blimp is about
$50 feet long and 80 feet in dame
ter. The lower structure is virtual
ly that of a scouting airplane of
medium power, so that the whole
effect is that of a sort of a cross
between airplane and balloon. The
crew is usually one pilot and an
observer and the speed is about 40
miles an hour.
Hundreds of blimps are constant
" on duty around the coasts of
France and England. American
pilots and observers are just begin
ming to take up this work. 1t is
the greatest U-boat destroyer in ex-
istence, if the men who work the
blimps are to be believed.
One enthusiastic American pilot
who had been dropping bombs up
and down the Irish sea for a
month, remarked to the Associated
ess correspondent, THE blimp is
not only one of the ways of destroy
ing U-boats; it is the way"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-08-17
EvADERS OF DRAFT
IN POVERTY ON
BORDER
ENGAGED IN MENIAL
JOBS

JUAREZ, Mexico, Aug. 10. = De.
serters, draft evaders and pro-Ger-
mans who seek refuge in Mexico
find little welcome or comfort here.
These aliens sit around the old
passenger depot, watching for a
chance to steal a ride south, walk
up and down the main street beg
ging money from any of their own
nationality or work at the most
mental jobs obtainable in the stores
and homes of the foreign residents.
Recently three draft evaders who
appeared on the streets here were
true types of the many who have
come to Mexico since the United
States entered the war.
One was a German boy of 20 who
had fled from Germany to escape
army service, had lived With an I'M
Gle in Chicago and finally crossed
the border to prevent being intern
ed. A second was an Italian shoe
factory worker from Boston who
had failed to register and had fled.
A third was an American of the
tramp type who was demented from
lack of food and worry.
All were dirty, unshaved and des-
titute and all expressed a desire to
return to the United States and sur
render.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-08-17
Normal Schools i'm Counties

Requests have been made for the
establishment of normal schools in
every county in Nevada. Under a
new ruling a high-school graduate
who completes a one-year course in
a county normal school will be CIV
en- a certificate to teach for a per-
iod of three years. Not less than
five high-school graduates must
apply for entrance to a county
school before the institution will be
established and then as many as de-
sire may enter the school.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-08-17

Adjutant General Sullivan has
been advised by the war department
of the necessity for preparing for
the new draft. The instructions are
urgent and will Immediately be FUR
nished every draft board in the
state. They advise the immediate
preparation of registration booths
and registry agents. According to
estimates by the var department,
more than double the number OF
men registered June 5, 1917, will
be registered when men from IL to
As are handled by the boards.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-08-17
The Rioht Spirit.

President John Grier Hibben OF
Princeton said the other day:
ut costs $4,000 to make an airman,
and no airman should be foolishly
reckless. for his country can't afford
to lose him.
II like to think of the Princeton hoy
who was asked, when he went from
his training camp to the front:
"'Well, are you prepared to die for
your country?
"'Not a bit of it, said the young
airman. I'm prepared-and well pre-
pared-to make about six Huns daily
die for theirs"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-08-17
Recruits We're Dry

A contingent of 500 drafted men,
most of them from Idaho, recently
passed through Winnemucca. They
given a big reception. At Col
conda, members of the contingent,
explaining that they were from a
dry territory. purchased 1900 bot
ties of beer.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-08-17
NOTICES,
o OF LABOR.

And all mining blanks for sale at
The Tribune Stationery Store.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-11-09
SEVERAL HURT IN
STREET ACCIDENTS

Ralph Ryen. thirteen years old
651 Eighth street northeast, is in a
serious condition today in Casualty
hospital suffering from a severe in
~ TO the left foot sustained last
night when he was struck by a street
car OF the Capital Traction Company
while roller skating on F street, be-
tween Sixth and Seventh streets
northeast.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Mitchell, OF
224 H street northwest, were slight
ly injured last night when they were
struck by an automobile operated by
lean Stanton. 22l1 Fourteenth street
northwest at New Jersey avenue and
H street northwest
A street car OF the Washington
Railway and Electric Company jump
ed the track at Twenty-fourth and
Rhode Island avenue northeast yes
terday and colli3ed with a trolley
pole. Motorman Albert Coleman re-
ceived slight injuries to the head and
body but refused hospital treatment.
Damage to the car is estimated at
500.
Slight damage resulted when an
automobile operated by H. R. Lauer.
OF Washington Barracks. collided at
Sixteenth and streets northwest
last night, with an automobile oper-
ated by Mary z. Stocking, 1928
Girard street northwest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-11-09
CHINA WANTS JAPAN
TO QUIT KIAUCHAU

China will ask at the peace talk
that the Japanese evacuate Kiauchau
authoritative disclosures here indi.
cate.
This territory. formerly indefinite.
ly leased to Germany by China. wal
taken by Japan after a spectacular
seige that began with her entry into
the war. Unofficial statements from
Toxic at the time OF the occupation
were that Japan would withdraw her
forces at the end OF the war.
Later intimations OF Japanese
statesmen have been that Japan in
tends TO hold Kiachau as well as
other German possessions in the Pa
cihc and the East with the sanction
OF the entente. Chinese officials see
a confirmation OF these intentions in
the permanent development enter
prises and undertakings inaugurated
by the island empire in Kiauchau and
in the surrounding provice OF Shan
tung.