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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
PERSONAL

G. B. HARTLEY, wife and fam
lily, are here from Mazuma, in
Humboldt county. Mr.. Hartley is
vice president of the Lone Star
company and will spend the winter
in Goldfield in connection with
mining operations of the company,
which have been resumed.
r w. b. HINCHMAN, assistant
traffic manager of the Tonopah &
Tidewater railroad, wife and child,
left this morning for a trip to
Los Angeles and San Francisco.
The T. & T. office is now in charge
of the efficient s~tenographer.
MISS ALLEN MADDEN, for
many years in charge of the Trib-
une office, left this morning for
San Francisco, where she will
make her home with her mother
and sister. Miss l.. A. Sheafor of
Los Angeles has succeeded Miss
Madden.
TIM CONNOLLY left this morn
ing for Reno.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21

Heroic presence of mind exhibited
by his ifteen-year-old daughter, Kath-
ryn, saved the life of Harry B.. Gregg,
a broker of San Francisco, when he
fell with his horse on the brink of a
cliff while pursuing a deer, according
to his story.
Gregg was dangling over the side
of the cliff, clinging to the bride of his
frantically Juggling horse, when his
daughter hurled a lasso around him
and cinched it about a tree. Gregg
says he scrambled back to the path
with difficulty, as his leg from the
ankle to knee had been bruised in the
fall from the horse.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
CLAIMS CENTURY-OLD FUND
Chilean Government Asks Return of
Unexpended Portion of In
demnity Paid in 1921.

The full bench Of the Massachusetts
supreme court has been called upon
to determine the ownership of a fund
nearly a century old, which is claimed
by the commonwealth of Massachu-
sets on one hand and the Chilean gov-
eminent on the other.
In 1921 an American ship returning
from China to Boston was seized by
Chilean revolutionists and its cargo
confiscated. When normal conditions
prevailed in Chile the United States
demanded indemnity and Chile paid
$7O,4OO.
William III. Gardiner of Brookline,
money among those entitled to it. He
executed the trust except as to two
Chinese-known only as Paqua AMI
Moqua, northumberland Thomas Fur
Der of Boston. Mr.. Gardiner failed to
locate these persons or their represen-
~tatives. When he died the trust was
transmitted to his son, and upon the
latter's death to the grandson and
great-grandsOn, Robert III. Gardiner
and Robert HI. Gardiner, Jr., who are
now its c%ustodians.
The present holders of the fund
have searched through the records of
the state department, through the
American consular service at Canton,
China, and through various other
sources, for the heirs of Paqua, Moqua
md Thomas Furber, without success.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
England's First Typewriter.

So long ago as TIA a patent for a
typewriter was taken out in England
~ Henry Mill it was called a ina
.hine for impressing letters singly and
progressively as in writing, whereby
Ill writings may be engrossed in paper
10 exact as not to be distinguished
rom print" His machine was very
.lumsy, and it was not until more than
/ century later (1S29) that anything
urther was attempted. Then the first
American typewriter. "called a typo
rapher," was patented by w. A. Burt.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
FORESAW RAPACITY OF HUNS
Many Years Ago Charles Dickens
Looked Into the Future With Wis.,
ion Remarkably Prophetic.

There is something almost uncanny
about the accuracy with which Charles
Dickens foresaw the Hun and his aims
as we know them today. Not long
ago there was quoted part Of Dick
ems reply to an invitation to become
a member of a peace society hat a
number Of persons were endeavoring
to form in 1851. The words written
then by the great English author are
worth repeating:
Look out toward Austria, look out
toward Germany" he counseled. do
you see nothing there?
II tell you that it is because there
are the wild beasts Of the forest . &.
because I would not be soldier ridden,
o have other men so, because I dread
and hate the miseries and tyranny of
war, that I nm not for the disarming
of England, nor can I be a member Of
your peace society"
Every reader of Little Dorrit" will
remember the landlady of the "Break
of Day Inn" of Chalons. Words Of
this French character of his have a
peculiarly prophetic ring. Here they
r
And / tell you this my friend -.
That there are people whom it is nec-
essary to detest without compromise.
That there are people who must be
dealt with as enemies of the human
race. That there are people who have
no human heart, and who must be
crushed like savage beasts, and clear
ed out of the Way,"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
U.S.SOLDIERS ASK MORE
!: BOOKS SINCE ARMISTICE

raising. Requests pouring in show
tremendous demand for technical,
educational books. Recognizing
warehouses to expedite distribu-
ton"
Fiction continues to be read by
the army in spite of its more SER
ious trend of mind at the rate of
hundreds of thousands of volumes
a month, Mr.. Stevenson said. Kip
ling and Service are still the favor
lite poets of the American soldiers.
Among the requests that came
in during the past week were two
for ordinary primers or A B c
books, from American-born men
who are finding their first oppor-
tunitt to study their W Ian
quage in a foreign country. Mr..
Stevenson believes that the need
for such educational books in the
months after peace is declared
before the men can go back to
their own country, will! be ire
mendous.
The American Library ~associa-
ton is so we'll organized in France
that any soldier who makes a re-
quest for a particular book from
any camp is apt to find it in his
hands almost more quickly than
he would be able to procure it in
the United States. The associa-
ton beat it's own records the 9th
er day, however, when two boxes
of books were delivered by air.
plane to aviation camps.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
CIVILIANS ARE
BITTER TOWARD TtUT0NS

the hardships that their soldiers
and officers have inflicted upon
us. Shall they not salute our Of
ficers, descend into the cutters as
our soldiers promenade on their
sidewalks?
at is ~inconceivable that their
women will be spared the humilia-
ton of humbly begging of our SOL
diers a passport to travel between
Aix-la-Chapelle and Cologne as
our wives and daughters had to
do to go from Bruges to Ostend?
Ii we end it now they are beaten
militarily, but they are not van
uuisched in their pride, in their
hearts"
"He is a hotel keeper. The
Germans requisitioned $4,000 bot
ties of wine from his cellars" vol
urteered one of his audience
standing near by.
OF all the allied soldiers the Bel
gian was the one who appeared to
have the greatest desire to enter
Germany. His country is strewn
with the wreckage of former hap
by homes, perhaps the very one
uheer the soldier dwelt is now a
heap of ruins. But these soldier
boys display no hatred.
They have not been robbed of
their cigars or their wine: They
have merely risked their lives in
rain-filled trenches and bullet
swtpt fields for the past four
years.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
NIGHT MESSAGE
RATE LOWERED

While other sections of the
country have always had the bene-
fit of a reduced rate for short
overnight messages without re-
striction, the Pacific coast has
never had the benefit of night me
sage rates except to comparative
ly nearby points.
This has now been corrected by
Postmaster General Burleson, who
has ordered that, effective Jan. /,
a universal system of night mes
sages at greatly reduced rates shall
obtain in all parts of the country.
Manager Stephens of the West
ern Union office here advises that
under the new schedule of night
message rates the people of the
Pacific coast will have a rate as
low as so cents for messages of
10 words to New York and other
placse on the Atlantic seaboard,,
with an added charge of only two
cents per word for additional
words.
To Chicago, where the night
message rate has been 60 cents
and four cents for each additional
word, the new tariff is only As
cents plus two cents for addition
al words, while corresponding re-
auctions are made throughout the
system. To nearby points the
minimum rate is reduced from 25
cents to 20 cents.
There is a large and constantly
increasing need for quick COM
munication across the continent,
which this new system of short
overnight messages at cheap rates
is designed to meet.
Where the present rate for tel
egrams is 25 cents and two cents
additional for each extra word the
new rate will be 20 cents and one
cent additional for each extra
word. Night messages will be
dropped in the post office for de-
livery.
1t must be remembered that this
new rate is on a basis of 10 words
and does not apply to night let
ters, the charges for which have
not been changed.
Following is a table illustrating
the new rate, the first column be-
ing where the telegram rate is"
the second "where the present
night message rate is" and the
third the new rate, effective Jan.
/. The second figure in each col
umn is the charge for each extra
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21

. PARIS. Dec. 10. = With more
READING time on their hands than
lever before now that the fighting
a,has stopped the American expedi-
,.tionary force, which required a
million books a month, will devour
;, literature at a much more stag
,egering figure.
= The book shelves of every Y. Nj.
&C. A. nut are polished daily by the
constant return of books read and
the taking out of new books, and
1.-THE difficulty is in supplying rap
+bidly enough, according to Burton
Stevenson, head of the American
,rLibrary association.
:, What the soldiers like best IN
. the way of reading is reported back
.,to Mr.. Stevenson through the Y.
IN. c.. A., the Red Cross and the
cother organizations among which
rthe books of the American Library
association are distributed, as well
as through letters straight from
the soldiers themselves. His FORE
cast of what they are going to
want was cabled back to the Unit
ed States the other day in the
following order for books:
"Need Immediately 1000 each
elementary and advanced arithme-
tics, geometries, trigonometries,
chemistry books, agriculture, stock
breeding, forestry, business meth
DDS, accounting, commerce, bank
ing, law, architecture. Two hun
bred each bookkeeping, poultry
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21

BRUGES, Dec. 49,. - The civil
of Belgium is much
ore bitter toward the Germans
ian the soldiers who have fought
lem to a standstill during four
ears, crushed them, battered
EN- about and wrecked the en-
re during the past four months.
rms of bitter e~xecration , hate
I'd revenge come from the civil
ms alone.
A kind little old woman, the
vner of a cigar store, after SELL
g the Associated Press CORE
onGent a villainous cheroot, an
rsatz'' cigar relic of the German
cupation, launched forth into a
1lent denunciation of the unin-
led guests who made Bruges
cir home for four years.
"This war must not end like
u.s." she said with a vehemence
lich c~ontrasted greatly with her
mile appearance. eve must so
% Germany; they must suffer,
plate" On the day of their de-
rture the Germans robbed her
IRE of $500 worth of her best ci-
rs and cigarettes.
On the Grande Place in the
adOw of the famous belfry, an
tie gentleman was ~discoursing
idly, gesticulating wildly. "The
81, the infamous swine," he was
ring. "Shall it come to pass
It they will escape punishment?
it possible that the German
oulation will not suffer any of
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21

And in accordance with law, and
order of the Board of Directors
made on the 18th day of November,
1918, sc many shares of each parcel
of such stock as may be necessary,
will be sold at public auction
Room 265 Russ Building, San
Francisco, California, on Monday, the
Goth day of January. 1919, at the hour
of 200 o'clock p. m. of said day., TO
pay delinquent assessments there
on, together with costs of ADVERTISING
and expenses of the sale.
CHARLES d. OLNEY,
Secretary.
Office, Room 265 Russ Building,
San Francisco, California.
Dec. 21, 2S, 1918
JAM. 4, II, IS, 1919
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
Conscientious Directors.

The most contemplate use to which
an outward profession of religion can
be put is a cloak to hide cowardice by
hirking. A most appropriate use to
which such men could be put would be
to send them into No Mans Land to
draw the enemy's fire, in order that
real American soldiers might locate the
gunS.-OregOnian.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
Heard on the Golf Course.

He had pulled his golf ball far to
the left.
SWELL" he said by way of consol-
ing himself. I'D much rather have a
pull than a Slice"
''That depends" replied the expert
enced player. "In golf it may be bet
ter, but I've noticed lin the game of
politics they frequently play for a pull
In order to get q Slice"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
WORK STARTED
CONTINUED from Page One)

gan shaft. Two other shafts are
each 800 feet deep.
During the past five years con-
rol of the company has changed
hands a number of times and
7ery little work was done. Re-
.ently the control passed into the
lands of New York interests, who
)lan for development on a
)road scale of what is regarded as
unusually promising territory and
n which there is, according to
General opinion, an excellent OPP
,ortunity to find orebodies similar
O those recently discovered in the
Ierger, Spearhead and Blue Bull.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
Guard Yoar Work.

Do not work so hard that you have
no time to look up and around you, no
time to exchange ideas with another.
NO time for quiet thought. To work
without growth means exhaustion. The
spring itself must be fed if its waters
are not to fail.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
SHORTAGE OF RICE
IS SERIOUS IN
PORTO RICO

SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Dec. 10.
Many towns on the island are with
out a single bag of rice and the
shortage in many localities has
brought about a condition describ-
ed by those in a position to know
as bordering on famine.
This food shortage is adding
very greatly to the seriousness of
the influenza epidemic and many
deaths are attributed not so much
to the disease itself as to the COM
plicationsi brought about by lack
of food. !
Shipments of rice from New Or
leans and other gulf ports which
are now from four to six weeks
overdue, probably will bring some
relief, but in the meantime the
island authorities anticipate much
suffering and hardship that at
present they seem powerless to
prevent.
According to Albert E. Lee, fed
eral food commissioner and chair
mar of the Porto Rico food COM
mission, the question is now who'll
ly one of transportation and the
commission has considered the To-
cal situation so serious that it has
urged upon the United States
shipping board the necessity of
immediate relief. Help has been
promised by the shipping board,
but so far the local food commits
sion has not been advised of the
sailing of any ships bringing rice.
For the first time in a year and
a half the food commission has no
reserve stock of rice on hand, all
of it's stock having been released
as needed in anticipation of the
arrival of the new crop. In order
to provide the Red Cross with rice
needed for the relief of earthquake
sufferers the commission was fore
ed to pick up small lots Of rice
here and there.
Many sugar centrals on the ISL
and employing large quantities of
labor have been securing the ISL
and for rice at any price in order
to provide food for the sick On
their plantations. In many in
stances they have not been able
to buy a single bag.
Four ships, each of which was
to have brought rice to Porto Rico,
have been delayed in sailing by
strikes or other causes or else have
been rushed to Europe with food
supplies which are badly needed
there. Whether other ships to
take their place will be directed
here promptly is a question that is
giving many people familiar with
the food situation on the island
very serious concern.
The average consumption of rice
on the island is in the neighbor-
hood of $4,000 bags per month.
Not to exceed $4,000 bags of new
crop rice have so far been deliv-
cred to Porto Rico.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
AHeuorical October.

In some of the calendars of u a
lent Saxon ancestors the month of
october IS allegorically represented by
he figures of a husbandman carrying
sack on his shoulder and sowing
rain. II was the sowing of the fall
+ winter wheat, as we call it in this
ountry.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
Got Drinking Water From Dew.

On the rock of Gibraltar and in
some parts of England drinking water
is obtained by condensation of the
abundant dew in especially prepared
"pans," which are pits in the earth
filled with straw and covered with
clay.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
MAPS SHOWING sPEARHEAD

Large colored maps of the Gold
field district, showing Spearhead
and other properties. Price 81.
F. M. Hertzer, Goldfield, New.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-21
DELINQUENT SALE NOTICE
silver Pick Consolidated mines
Company

Location of works: Goldfield' rs
meralda County, Nevada. on4
NOTICE There are
upon the following described stock,
on account of Assessment No; 10, lev
led on the nth day of November
IeIs. the several amounts set 2
site the names of the respective
shareholders, rs follows:
No. No.
Name Cert. Shares Amt.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-12-19
Christmas Afternoon

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The afternoon OF Christmas day may be rather
quiet for the older folks. The gifts have
been unwrapped and arranged and lowered
from time to time. The usually tidy looks
like bazaar for the sale of fancy goods. Per
haps neighbOrs and other friends may come to
exchange Merry Christmases!" and to say, May
1 thank you here for your lovely gift?"
Between the dark and the daylight, after the
callers have gone and the children have returned
from their play, comes the peaceful and happy
Christmas evening. The great day is dying;
Christmas is nearly 1t Will be a whole year
before shall enjoy its merriment again or re-
member happy Christmas of the past.
We may lose many things-home, friends, health.
money-but memory abides, and can take
from US the happiness that has once been ours.
On Christmas night remember the old days.
We think of those who were once here to share
our joys. Christmas be the same
again ~ many people exclaim when they feel as
If the JOY of life has gone forever. If all took
that view Christmas itself might die 1t depends
upon deep spiritual insight.
Let u.s. If can, forget our troubles and even
our sorrows and try TO rejoice If have chill
dren about US 1t is not hard to be merry, but If
we have none of own there great many
who ought to be made glad and may be found
with but little trouble.
merry Christmas to you all And 1 would
add Tiny Tins words God bless us. every one I"
Dolly Wayne in Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-12-19

constantly at work in what was called the spin
ning-houSe." This industrial of the eStab-
lishment remains to this day, and visitors at
Mount Vernon are taken by the guides to see the
very room in which the spinning-wheels were
operated.
Of course there was high festival not only for
the master and his guests but also for my peo-
pie" as Washington was accustomed to call the
negroes on his estate. He would never have
thought of speaking of them as slaves. There
at that period about one hundred negroes on
the place, and at the Yuletide season they en-
jOYed exceptional privileges Good things Tor
their consumption were distributed with mig
gard hand by the mistress of. the house, treat
much appreciated being drink known as 'methig-
ler,' composed of fermented honey, spices, and
water. Another beverage brewed by Mrs Wash
ingtOn was a sort of peach brandy sweetened with
honey.
Those were days when a capable housewife was
supposed to know how to compound variety of
beverages. Beer brewed at Mount Vernon
under Mrs. WashingtonS supervision, and
cider as well, the latter being a drink of which
her husband was very fond He always had it on
the table at dinner, and would take it freely in
place of the wines which were more to the taste
of his guests.
By ten O'Clock in the evening the festivities of
Christmas day at Mount Vernon were over. Even
had the fashion Of the time been otherwise, Mrs
Washington would scarcely have tolerated late
hours. She always insisted on putting her hus-
band TO bed early, and he meekly Obeyed. Wheth-
er it be true or not as some chroniclers have
serted that Mr.. Washington henpecked it is
certain that he considered it judiciOus TO submit
in most things to his wifes wishes.
The frame for this picture of a Christmas at
Mount Vernon before the Revolution is ready
made; for thanks to the efforts of patriotic wOm-
en-, the old mansion stands today almost exactly
as it was when Washington lived there. There
is much of the old furniture. and a great
deal of the old china and glassware. The house
is q veritable fragment of American history, and,
though more than a century and quarter has
gone by since the merry Yuletide festival here
described the imagination readily repeOples the
old place with its thrOng of guests eating, drink
ing, dancing, and making love, and hears the joy
Gus laughter of the rOmping young folks, while
through the crowd moves the stately figure of the
host who, offering his hand to the prettiest girl
in the room, proceeds to lead her through the
graceful and decOrous steps Of minuet
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-12-19

This rich and graceful cape-coatee,
with its muff to match, is one OF those
much-admfred, twO-in-one garments
that are characteristic of this seasons
styles. Its designer chose Hudson seal
and followed two converging paths to
its success, combining the free, easy
lines Of a cape with something Of the
snugness of a coat. His ingenuity was
rewarded in a wrap more graceful
than either Of its inspirations. It is
much more coy than a cape or scarf,
easily made equal to q coat for COM
fort. But on mild days or in the warm
er climates 1t is worn open at the front
and hanging about the shoulders, as
casually as either a cape or scarf
When the wearer of this pretty gar
ment adjusts it as protection against
the cold, the ingenuity Of the furrier
who made It reveals itself. The mar
row scarf, attached to the neck, and
passing through straps Of fur at the
waist line, Is slipped from under these
straps and wrapped about the throat,
and the front OF the wrap fastened up
to meet 1t, thereupon 1t is a warm
coatee. The muff is melOn-shaped,
with slashed frills at the ends and ev-
cry woman knows that it may actually
keep the hands warm, or merely serve
as a luxurious and elegant accessory
Of dress. Both the wrap and nun
are distinctly up-to-date-
Hudson seal Is a favOrite with de-
signers, but these artists in furs have
distinguished themselves In other pelts.
Squirrel, dyed and natural. broadtail.
ringtail, mole and kolinsky are divid-
ing honors with seal in coats, coates,
capes and in those combination wraps
that have so captivated wen dressed