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Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1918-06-17
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
No. O1266

Department of the Interior, u. 8.
Land Office at Elko, Nevada, June IL,
1918.
NOTICE is hereby given that Pearl
Toyn, OF Lee, Nevada, who. on Janu.
airy 9, 1914, made desert land entry
No. 0l266, for 81 SWh, and 81
SEA OF Section "a, Township 81
North, Range IS East, Mount Diablo
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The persons who removed a re.
volving piano stool from the CHATEAU.
qua groutds last week are requested
to return same to the owner, M. II.
Clinton, ct tho Lytton residence on
Idaho sticet.-Ady. 1919.
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New prices for Dental worn. a.
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JOIN THE coLoRs

Nine former Y. NJ. c. A. war work
secretaries at Camp Kearney have
Joined the army and navy. A service
flag with ninc stars hangs in the Y.
NJ. c. A. administration building at
the southern camp.
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TOWN TALK

+. n. Bird is here from Deep Creek
Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Weathers, oI
Deeth. spent Sunday in this city.
A. w. Smith came In from Arthur
yesterday.
Florence e. shamlln came in from
home at Lee yesterday.
J. r. Riordan was a visitor over
Sunday from Mountain City.
Ed Hendricks and his wife came In
from Lamoille yesterday.
HaIIeek Mayer is down from FL
burr.
Sherman Berlin is here from Col.
conda for a few days.
C. }. Weeks and wife OF Glover Val.
ley spent yesterday here.
c. A. Womaek was in town yester.
day from TipDerary.
w. A. Moore was in from Straw.
berry yesterday.
w. }. Gardner came in from his
ranch in Ruby Valley this morning.
!. T. HandIey and wife are here
from Eureka for a few days.
Vim. E. Barney is here from Gold
vile attending to legal matters.
S. v. Smiley is visitor here from
Deeth today. o.
A special band rehearsal is callet
for tonight. Everybody out.
A free lecture on Christian Scienc
is to be given at the Bradley tonight
Or. Henry Hagar and his son wer,
visitors here from Cave Creek yes
terday.
Andrew TourreulI, the Charleston
sheepman, is spending a few days II
town looking after business matters
Mr nttn uyIiti,n,. -at,,r,aa how.
this morning from Tonopah where h
went to attend the state convention o
the Masonic order.
Speaking Of catching that Wake
river sea serpent, Eddie, good fisher
men never get snakes.
Mrs. Alma Campbell left Saturda.
for San Francisco where she will
spend two weeks with her mother.
Mr.. Lou Henderson left Saturda
for Reno to attend the race meet. MI
Henderson is one of the associate
judges OF the Reno race meet.
r. M. Horton and Mrs. Horton ar
here from Battle Mountain today. NJ
Horton says that Battle Mountain |
entirely out Of flour.
Miss Dorothy Pereivai, one of tn
Independents staff, left Sunda
evening for three weeks vacation &
California,
Mr.. w. NJ. Wiley and Mrs. VILE
were here yesterday from Metropolis
Mr.. Wiley delivered a very interestin
lecture at the Baptist church las
evening.
Joe Saval came down from hi
ranch this morning. He says ths
while there was nice local shove
here yesterdty, the country around hi
place Is still mighty dry.
Katherine Mullen, one OF Mis-
Anne Martins campaigners Is in 4
ko today boosting tho interests Q
Miss Martin as a senatorial candidat
this fall.
The trial Of James Wood, erstwhil
deputy food administrator for tbi
state, upon a charge OF graft in cor
nectlon with the EIko Milling CON
pany cases, will be held In San Fran
cisco commencing July 9Th.
There will be a parade and speak
ing here on the morning OF the Fourth
Just to let people know II Is Fourth
OF July. The exercises here will bt
over In time for everyone to attend
the celebration at Lamoille OF Carlin
Our third teIearsphIo file received
today says that lightning struck a
cable box near Winnemueca and con.
sequnntly wire service was Mt stand.
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FOUED--A pair OF trimmed specta.
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By calling at this office and paying for
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FOR SALE-Hamiltonisn and Shire
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There will be parade and speak.
ing here on the morning OF the Fourth
just to let people know It Is Fourth
OF July. The exercises here will be
over in time for everyone to attend
the celebration at Lamoille OF Cariin.
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FOR RENT:-Two room furnished
house close to tho Western Pacific
Roundhouse. Phone I33.--j7u.
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Our third teIesraphIo file received
today says that lightning struck q
cable box near Winnemucca and con.
seauently wire service was at q stand.
etill for some little time this after
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Katherine Mullen, one OF Miss
Anne Martins campaigners Is in FL.
ko today boosting tho interests Of
Miss Martin as senatorial candidate
this fall.
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FOR RENT-Four room furnished
house. Lights, water and bath. En-.
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The trial Of James Wood, erstwhIle
deputy food administrator for this
state, upon a charge OF graft in con.
nectlon with the Elko Milling com.
pany cases, will be held In San Fran.
cisco commencing July 9Th.
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Joe Ssval came down from his
ranch this morning. He says that
while there was nice local shower
here yesterdty, the country around his
place ls still mighty dry.
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TWO FURNISHED housekeeping
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street.--june1Iu.
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Mr.. w. NJ. wiley and Mrs. Wiley
were here yesterday from Metropolis.
Mr.. Wiley delivered a very interesting
lecture at the Baptist church last
evening.
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Miss Dorothy PereivaI, one of the
Independents staff, left Sunday
evening for three weeks vacation in
California.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09

to write letters for their men, and
every man must do it for himself.
"2. When no letters are received
from overseas the greatest distress
is caused to those at home. They
either feel letters have been writ
ten, but lost en- route. or else they
imagine all sorts Of evils, such as
sickness, wounds, even death Both
are bad for the active militant spirit
which every true American man and
woman must possess if our army is
to obtain the real victory that all
20 earnestly desire.
"3. Every one in the United States
who has son or brother in the
American expeditionary forces is
proud Of him, ls constantly thinking
of him, is anxious to hear from him.
Letters home will bring many letters
in reply, and the closer home ties
will have potent influence for good,
both in France and in the United
States. All officers should realize
this fact. and both by encouraging
their men and providing them with
the proper facilities do everything in
their power to interest them in this
vital question of writing home"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09
Write Home Often,
Is Pershing's Order
To American Forces

WASHINGTON, June 8.-The War
Department to-day made public gen.
eral order issued recently by General
Pershing encouraging members of the
American expedtionary forces to keep
up correspondence with their relatives
and friends at home. One of the
greatest arguments for constant flow
Of letters between France and America.
General Pcrshing said, was that it re-
licves much distress and anxiety.
Generai Pershing's order said:
a.. Duty to ones country does not
end on the parade ground, nor even
on the battlefield, but consists in
doing everything in ones power to
help win the war. To write home
frequently and regularly, to keep in
constant touch with family and
friends, is one Of the soldiers most
important duties. Mothers and
fathers %ill suffer if they do not
hear often from sons fighting in
France. In the present large com
panies it is not possible for officers
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09
Jews Murdered by
Hundreds i'm Ukraine

PogroEs among the Jews of Turk
cstan and Ukraine have taken place.
recently, according to advices reachinc
the Jewish Press Bureau in New York.
through Stockholm and Petrograd.
In khokand more than three hundred
Jews have been murdered and thou.
sands deprived OF their proper.y
From many other towns, especially
Samarhand and Tashkent, have come
reports Of the almost constant perse-
Gution OF the Jewish population. M
Herzteld, the Minister of Finance Of
the Turkestan Republic, who also was
a representative of the Zionist district
committee, was murdered in a recent
race uprising. In Gluchow, almost the
entlre Jewish population has been put
to death. '''
=, Relief committees for the victims Of
these excesses are being formed in
various parts Of Russia.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09
5 British Planes
Fought Squadron
Of Twelve Boches
Account for Two in Battle
OFF the Dutch
Coast
Also Suffer Loss of 2
One Machine Forced to De.
scend, Crew Sets 1t Afire
and Then Escapes

THE HAGUE. June 8-Five British
and twelve German seaplanes of the
largest type fought battle Tuesday
evening off the Dutch coast, accord
ing to Terschelling dispatch to the
"Handelsblad." One of the German
machines was observed to fall In
flames into the sea. One British ma
chine was forced to descend, but
landed safely.
Another British machine which had
descended to the surface of the sea
for repairs because Of a defect in the
propeller, two hours before the bat
tie, was later set on fire by its five
occupants, all of whom waded ashore
and gave themselves up for intern
ment. The crew included two Cana
dians.
The British machines were SQUAD
ron of five seaplanes which started
Tuesday afternoon on reconnoi-
tring expedition off the northern
Dutch coast. During the afternoon
they had met squadron of five Ger
man airplanes. which they drove off
without difficulty in three successive
encounters.
The Germans, however, returned
reinforced by seven seapanes. A
lively fight ensued, and in addition to
the German machine which fell in
flames another German was brought
down.
A British machine commanded by
Vobert Paul. of Buffalo, N. Y, a mem
ber of the Canadian Flying Corps, de-
veloped engine trouble and was forced
TO descend to the surface. Ensign
Joseph Eaton, a New England man
who was senior pilot o. another of the
squadron, was detailed to protect the
disabled plane and circled about it
for an hour while the Germans were
continuously attempting to attack the
cripple.
During Eaton's defensive work hi:
mac..iie Was ridd!ed with bullets, but
he was able to keep the air until the
Germans were driven off He ther
descended, his machine wrecked, bu
all the crew got ashore safely.
Ensign Eaton, whose home is il
Connecticut, has been interned here
His parents live in Massachusetts.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09
In the Dark About
The Main Elements

Unfortunately we have no indi-
cation whatsoever Of the positive
numbers Of loss as contrasted with
the comparative rate. The whole
thing has developed with such rapid
ity that identification of the oppos-
ing divisions is always difficult and
often impossible. All we can say
by this time is that something not
far short of fifty divisions must have
been thrown in within this six days.
Certainly there was much more than
forty. That means Of infantry alone
say 100000 men. What proportion
of these were put out of action we
do not know
Neither do we know the second
element in the affair, which is the
proportion of strength in which the
Allied command has chosen to meet
and engage this offensive. No one
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09
Plotted to Bring
Ex-Czar to America
Servants Indiscretion IJr...
Conspiracy Headed BY
Russian Prince

AMSTERDAM, June s.-The d;....
cry of plot to free the former A..
peror Of Russia while he was conS,.,
to Tobolsk, to take him to Sweden .,s
thence to America is reported in c.
man newspapers received here.
According to the accounts publishes
the chief conspirator was Prince p.r,
Dolgorouki, grand marshal of -.
imperial Russian Court under E,nr..'
or Nicholas, who placed 100000 rnbi.-
at his disposal with Which to brihs' .Is
the members of his guard. q"
The plot failed, the papers say =.
ing to the indiscretion of a sessas,
who divulged the plans. "''
A dispatch from Petrograd to l.,
don on May 13 said that the sov;a.
government had officially conSr,,ss.
reports that Nicholas Romanof a 10
former Emperor, together with ~.
former Empress and one Of +bs;.
daughters, was removed from Tobolst
to Ekaterinburg in consequence Of IN
discovery Of peasant conspiracy 't.s ~
assist in his escape
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09
Keel Laid 90 Seconds
After Ship Quits Ways
Chairman Hurley Congratulatce
Savannah, Ga, Company on
New Replacement Record
Especial Dispatch to The Tribune

Especial Dispatch to The Tribune,
WASHINGTON, June Sin laying a
new keel in ninety seconds after the
Quinnesec had been launched the Terry
Shipping Company, of Savannah, Ca,
has set new record for rapid replace
ment in vacated blocks, the Shipping
Board announced to-day. This feat
drew from Chairman Hurley Of the
Shipping Board the following tele-
gram:
81 beg to congratulate you upon the
launching of the ship Quinnesec at
your yard, and Mr.. Schwab joins with
me in offering your company, your or
ganization and your employees hearty
thanks for patriotic speeding of our
shipbuilding programme. We are par
ticularly gratified at the spirit shown
in laying a keel in ninety seconds after
the way was vacated"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09
Miss Lucille Wood Is
Bride Of Donald Dietz

Miss Lucille Jean Wood, daughter a,
Mr.. and Mrs. Oakley Wood, was mar.
ried to Donald fillmore Dietz, Of hi,
city, yesterday afternoon, in the chapeI
Of St. Ambrose of the Cathedral o.
St. John the Divine. Canon Robert =
Jones performed the ceremony.
The bride, who was given awav bv
her father, wore gown of orchid col.
ored tafeta with hat 20 match, and car.
ried bouquet Of mauve orchids and
morning gores. Miss Carla Dietz. slate,
of the bridegroom. in costume Of bin,
tafYeta, was the maid Of honor and onlv
attendant. Corporal Charles A. Hun.
ter, y. S. r., was best man.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09
Judgment Must
Be Negative

Under such circumstances the ef-
fort Of the force within the salient
must be to widen the salient-that
is, to get elbow room, as the saying
goes. That is precisely what the
enemy did on Saturday, June 1, the
sixth day of his advance. He did not
try to force the Marne or to 70 fur
ther In his direct advance. He threw
his weight at right angles westward
down the Ourcq Valley, got right to
Neuilly on the south of that stream
and to Chouy on the north of it. He
advanced In a sort of pocket Ave
miles deep. He had also thus en-.
larged himself on the right and
shaken the westward side of the ga
lient, which had been crampine him.
and he had further enlarged the area
OF his war movement and increased
the length of the line upon which the
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09

knows how an action is proceeding
unless he knows at least the mere
numerical standing of the opposing
forces. 1t Is impossible for that
element in calculation to be made
public. Nevertheless there is some
thing more than mere negative
point here and it is important that
public opinion should appreciate that
something.
This is the fact that the defen-
sive up to what it judges to be the
climax of any action works on the
principle Of the use of the minimum
numbers. The defensive may mis-
judge the moment of the climax and
if so it loses the battle. 1t may, as
was the case at Che Marne, judge its
moment exactly, in which case it
wins the battle, however impress
sive the previous successes of the
offensive may have been.
But the thing to remember is that
up to this chosen moment the defen-
sive must in the nature Of things
keep back as many men as possible.
In those words "as possible" resides,
Of course, the whole difference be-
tween good and bad calculation, be-
tween victory and defeat. But the
commander, whether he is good or
bad, whether he will be victorious or
defeated, while he is on the defen-
sive works on the minimum. That
is the very meaning of his position.
The Military
Theory of Defence
People sometimes write as though
the defensive were a sort of hurried
attempt to stop the attack by throw
ing in everything one has and rush
ing up all available resources just
as men rush up water to put out a
fire.. The offensive in it's bulletins
always represents the defensive in
this light, because that is the one
which must unfavorably describe it
to the public. All the more must we
in the present crisis remember that
the reality is far otherwise. The
defensive is always doling out men
sparingly and thinking of the least
force with which the task at hand
can be accomplished.
We do not know how many divi-
sions the Allied command has put
forward to meet the fifty divisions,
more or less, of the enemy up to
date, but we do know with absolute
certainty that it has deliberately
met them with a smaller number.
That is the point we must keep
fixedly in mind during the whole
course of the action up to the point
where the counter attack is engaged.
Of that moment and of the fate of
such a counter attack neither we nor
the enemy know anything.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09

q few weeks.
Enemy Losses
Light at First
Now, If we turn to the present
great action which is going on upon
the watershed between the basins of
the Disc and the Marne, though we
have very few indications to guide
us on this question of the proper
tion of losses, yet we have few
hints afforded even by the meagre
news which has reached US so far.
1t would seem that the enemy's
losses on the first day were compar-
atively light. The blow was sud
den advance. it was very rapid, and
opportunity for engaging the enemy
heavily in the centre was clearly not
presented. His losses began to be
heavy on the two wings in front of
Rheims and in front of scissors;
then came at the close of the second
day and throughout the third what
evidently were very heavy losses all
along his line; that was the day
when he was fighting his way for
ward over the Vesle River and up
the slopes Of the Tardenois plateau.
Much Of the country during this
days fighting was wooded and con-
fused and he by that time was op-
posed even in the centre by forces
which may have been as much as
third of his own. On the f1anks he
lost very heavily indeed in failing
to debouch out of Scissors, and he
lost heavily in the series Of attacks
and counter attacks outside Of
Rheims. In the forty eight hours
following, during which he again adj
vanced rapidly in the centre, his
losses were once more light, but tow
ards the end Of that period he met
heavy counter attacks on both his
hanks, ana MS loss must again have
been very high. Lastly came the
great local action of Saturday, June
1, in the valley of the Ourcq, which
gave him pocket Of about five miles
in depth by eight miles in breadth
and brought him as far west as
Neuilly.
take it if one could have a curve
plotted of the enemy's losses during
these six days, from the morning of
May 81 to the evening Of June /,
we should have not a steadily rising
line, but one rising in three great
waves, of which the last is perhaps
the Steepest.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09
The Relative
Rate of Loss

The defensive, however sorely tried.
must always work to hold the often
slve with a minimum number of
men up to that moment when the
defensive phase shall terminate
Its whole object is to compel the
offensive to waste men until tho
equilibrium is restored. This mere
calculation, however, suffers from
two great disadvantages which
gravely affect military practice in
the field. The first is the effect rnon
civilian feeling in great war Of
invasion which the continued ad-
vance of the enemy is sure to pro-
duce, coupled with the certain and
increasing effect, greater or less, ac-
cording to the intelligence and dis
cipline of the retreating troops. upon
the army which is compelled to re-
tire. The second is the loss in ma
terial and prisoners which the re-
tirement involves.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09

inferior forces of his opponents have
to meet him.
Nothing, however, has been de-
clded of even a subsidiary nature
and of course there is nothing what.
ever to be predicted of the future
Such predictions are always impossi-
BILE in any large sense, but in this
case one cannot even suggest the al
tentative possibilities of the next
few hours.
What we do know is that certain
factors, Of which there is and can
be no public knowledge, are the real
essence of the situation. In other
words, our judgment must be almost
completely negative. We can say
only that the issue depends upon
certain clements which, when they
become known, will explain the op-
posing mannuvres, but which at
present are known to no one alive,
only one-half of those elements be-
ing, as matter Of fact, fully known
to a handful Of men on either side
IN the opposing commands.
OF these unknown elements by
far the most important is the rela-
tive rate Of loss of the two sides.
1t was the very great rate Of the
enemy loss which stopped the ear
der phases Of the great German Of
fensive and compelled the months
halt in operations between April 20
and May 27. 1t is the same factor
of the comparative rate of loss
which will determine the present
enemy effort in his favor or ours,
according to the price which each
side is paying on the battlefield.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09
Offensive Can
Afford Greater Loss

The loss of prisoners is eo,,iva-
lent Tor the purposes of war to an
actual loss in killed. The men whom
the enemy seizes in his advance
many of them unwounded and MANY
more only slightly wounded are a
complete loss to the retreating side
loss permanent and irreparahle.
whereas the force which is adyanc-
ing recruits itself in time from the
recovery of its wounded. Therefore
the offensive can afford a much
higher rate of total casualties than
can the defensive and will vet re-
main superior.
We had very good example Of
this fact during the great move
ments of last March. The first
losses of the enemy were very high.
After two days interval came an
other period Of heavy loss in the
battle for the ridges of the somme
Valley. Then four days later there
was another period Of heavy loss on
the line where the enemy was at last
held. But though the rate of loss
that Is, the number Of men hit-on
the German side was very much
higher than the French and British
their capture of prisoners was on
such scale that no sort of eouilib-
rum was established and the battle
went on for another month unceas-
ingly to the north.
AT the same time the loss of ma.
terial was so heavy that though it
was rapidly replaced it also DELAYED
the moment when the enemy was
compelled to halt. On this last
point, however, we have to remark
that the present war with it's vast
industrial bases fully developed az
1t now is in the west differs from
wars of the past. In the past
great capture of material was often