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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-02-02
'SM|LEAGE'
TO Be PLACED
ON SALE
STATE LEADER HAS FIXED
QUOTA OF GOLDFIELD
AT $3.50

A letter to Clyde P. Johnson from
N. E. Wilson, chairman of the Me-
vada military entertainment coun-
ell. gives additional information re-
garding the projected sale of
'smileage" stamps here under the
direction of Johnson as chairman
of a military entertainment council
fere.
The campaign for the sale of
stamp books is to last from Jan. %
to Feb. 4 and the minimum amount
to be raised here has been set at
$3.50, the price of the books being
81 and IS.
The military entertainment
ell is a special commission appoint
ed as a branch of the war depart
ment commission on training camp
activities to provide programs for
entertainment of leisure hours of
soldiers, at present operating only
in army cantonments in the United
States.
The government made a%ppropria-
ton for the construction of 16
Liberty theaters in the canton
ments, but made no appropriation
for entertainment, the normal cost
of which would be prohibitive, but
With companies giving service to
these theaters at cost and expenses.
prices will range from 10 to Is
cents for admission and even at
these prices the pay of soldiers
would not permit many to attend.
1t is for these reasons hat "smil-
cage" books will be sold to be given
to soldiers by friends, relatives and
former employers.
1t is now planned by the local
chairman to enlist the services of
local men and m in the sale of
the books and in every possible
manner give publicity to the enter
prise and it's purpose.
During the curse of the inten-
sive campaign for the sale OF books
reports will be made daily to Reno
headquarters and financial reports
will be made to national headquar-
tiers at Washington.
The purpose for which this
money will be raised is recognized
in the armies of all nations as one
of the most important problems to
be met in environments and the
chairman of the state council in his
letter says that in fixing the quota
Of Goldfield at $3.50 he endeavor-
ed not to make it too high and
suggests that possibly your town
can increase the allowance"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-02-02
AVIATION CORPS IN
NEED OF RECRUITS
UNCLE SAM WANTS MEN TO
HELP DEFEAT
ENEMIES

That Americas air fleet Is about
to have exciting adventures is evil
denced by the announcement that
the aviation corps is in urgent need
of 1914 chauffeurs and motor-truck
drivers, 1862 auto and gas en-
CINE men, 1860 machinists, 22O
blacksmith forgers, 22O wheel
wrights, 5O4 cabinetmakers, 46O
sheet-metal workers and others to
a total of 1000 for service in
France behind the lines. They will
belong to the motor mechanics
regiment" the first of it's sort in
American history.
Only men outside the draft ages
are acceptable under this call, and
they must be al least Is and not
over 40. There are also wanted
for the same regiment 200 cooks,
100 canvas workers, so house and
sign painters, 20 harness makers
and 80 acetylene welders. The U.
s. public service reserve of the de-
partment of labor, which has un-
dertaken to get these 1000 men for
the aviation corps, states that the
men specified are urged to enlist at
any recruiting station, and that they
should not leave jobs in shipyards
or war industries for this service,
attractive as it is. The regiment
will have a short period of training
at Fort Hancock. Ca, before going
to France.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-02-02
MANGANESE SHIPPED
FROM SOUTHERN NINE

The Manganese Association is
row shipping a carload of high
grade manganese every day and Is
gradually increasing the tonnage
hauled. In a short time they will
be able to increase the tonnage
hauled to two cars each day.
The troublesome road conditions
are being gradually overcome a
gang of men being kept at work
improving the new road. There are
now on the haul, two trucks and 10
teams of four, six and eight horses
each. Next week two additional
trucks will be put on.
The entire product shipped is
now being taken by the American
Seaboard Steel company at Temple,
Pa. A very satisfactory feature of
the enterprise is the fact that the
quality of the product is constant
" improving and does not pay my
panalty for an excess of silica or
any other d%eleterious substance
Las Vegas Age.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-02-02
POSTAGE STAMP
SAVING BEGINS
PROCEEDS FROM DYE WILL GO
TO BELGIAN RE-
RELIEF

A box has been placed in the post
office for the collection of cancelled
postage stamps.
Since large quantities of dye that
before the war came from Germany
have been removed from the market
by the blockade, the kind of dye
used in the making of postage
stamps has become scarce and conse-
quently high-priced.
The committee for Belgian relief
operating in the United States in
a%ugurated the saving of postage
stamps, the proceeds from the sale
of dyes extrated from them to go
to the relief of Belgian children in
the war zone, and the work has been
brought to public notice here
through the director of agents of the
New York Life Insurance company,
who asked the company's agent here,
Howard Marine, to take up the
work. Marine placed the box in the
post office.
Many people have been saving the
stamps in Goldfield and shipping
them to San Francisco. The stamps
collected in the box will be sent from
here to the Reno Rotary club, to be
forwarded to the committee for Bel
gian relief. School children in par
t~icular, have been asked to save the
stamps and deposit them in the box.
The work has been proceeding In
a number of towns in this state for
some time and in some of them
great numbers of stamps have al
ready been shipped. To date the pa
triotic league of Sparks has forward
ed $4,000 stamps, and has 10000
on hand at the present TIME.
A comparatively small number OF
stamps will furnish to keep
a Belgian child for one month.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-02-02

This, with $l3l.1o previously
acknowledged, makes a total of
$15O.O3 that has been contributed
to date
So far as is known no return
cards have yet been received here
from soldiers in France, acknow-
Lodging the receipt of tobacco.
An explanation of the reason for
this recently appeared in the Elko
Free Press, which started a tobacco
fund for the purchase of tobacco
through the American Tobacco COM
pany about the same time the Tri-
bune did.
No cards having been received in
ElkO the management of the Free
Press wrote to the tobacco COM
pany and in answer received a let
ter saying the company had for
some time been endeavoring to
speed the delivery of toOacco, which
reaches the soldiers through the
lie Gross.
The letter said in part: THE first
shipment of kits was made in Aug
ust and, while transportation to the
other side is not much delayed,
when the goods reach Bordeaux OF
any port in France congestion on
the railroads is SO great that the
time they arrive in Paris is uncer-
tain and 1t is not safe to figure on
goods being delivered in Paris In
less than two or three months. Then
there is considerable delay OCCASION
ed by the necessity for re-shipment
from Paris to our troops"
The letter stated that many OF
the kits had been delivered fol
Christmas.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-02-02
SHIPS GOLD
BY EXPRESS

j. II. Goodman of McGill last week
brought $50 pounds of ore from a
recent strike made in the property
of the Willow Creek Gold Mining
company, which was worth several
dollars a pound in gold. The ore
was shipped to San Francisco by ex-
press, Mr.. Goodman placing a value
on the shipment of $500.
The new strike was made on the
16O-foot tunnel level, the pay streak
being four feet in width, about eight
inches of which shows very rich gold
values, worth several dollars per
pound. Assays from the remainder
of the vein give values running from
5000 to $500 per ton.
When Mr.. Goodman left the mines
last week the vein had been drifted
on for a distance of seven feet, the
values holding good for that dis
lance. but of course the d~eevlop-
ment was not sufficient to guaran-
tee permanent values of the vein.
Mr.. Goodman is of the opinion, how
ever, that he has at last struck the
vein from which the gold values
have been disseminated Throughout
the property, and if this proves to
be the case, a very large and rich
mine will soon be opened up.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-02-02
CLIFF JEWELLERS
ARE IN TROUBLE
BITTER COLD IN NEW YORK
AND NO COAL FOR
WEEK

If anyone says west" to the real
dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker, and
particularly If a state such as Ne
vada is mentioned, the New Yorker
Immediately conjures a picture, of
savages, Indian tepees and much
shooting of a variety een in the
movies. Nevada Is, in his estima-
ton, beyond the pale of civilization
and coming here would involve too
many hardships for him.
But now listen to what is hap
pening in the wilds of New York.
A local man recently received a let
ter from relatives there saying:
1--WE are having the most severe
winter that l have known in New
York, bitter cold and We have had
Mt steam heat in a weeks time.
We all have bad colds from the
lack of heat. We have lived in the
kitchen with an oil heater to give
US a little comfort" In closing the
letter says: II am about to camp in
my room, which tonight is an ice
house from lack of coal and 1t is
frightful after having well heated
rooms"
However, the lack of coal evil
IDENTIFY has made this New Yorker
have a soft spot for the west, for
the letter says: Il was in Chicago
this summer and now | wish | had
the cash and could go farther west
than that"
1t is indeed tough to have to
exist in the effete east these days
with the state of Nevada in the
same country and only a few days
ride away.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-02-02
MASON PASS
HAS

The Mason Copper property in Ma
son Pass is steadily improving. c.
w. Walker has recently sold his in
terest in the claim to A. Petrovich.
Pohe and Petrovich have leased to
George and Charles Kapich, who
are opening up the ledge as rapidly
as possible. This property adjoins
the West End group and the Pat
Gallagher property. A new bunk
house has been built and the work
is being rushed by a good-sized
crew.
Their open cut is about 20 feet
wide and 80 feet long from which
they are drifting. The ledge opened
about four feet deep, but is now
about IL feet and is looking better
all the time. There are three car
loads on the dump now, waiting for
the wagons to haul it to the switch
and about 10 more cars in sight.
The Mason Valley smelter is accept
ing the ore which runs from four
to eight per cen copper, averaging
around 5k or 6 per cent. The Pat
Gallagher leasers have a a of
high grade ready for shipment. -
Yerington Times.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-02-02
Esser Case Goes Higher

Attorneys representing John Es-
SER, charged with the larceny of
livestock at Beatty, have applied to
the supreme court for a writ to re-
strain the district court of Nye coun-
ty from proceeding further with the
trial of Esser. The defendant In
was arrested with Joe May, who has
been tried and acquitted. 1t is said
that identical testimony will be in
troduced against Esser and that he
should be released.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-02-02
DECEMBER BROKE
WEATHER RECORDS

The weather bureau report for
December says:
This was the warmest and one
of the driest Decembers during the
past 29 years, over which period
statewide records extend, The at
mospheric pressure and percentage
of sunshine were unusually high.
and the wind movement was low.
The temperature averaged 3.6 de-
grees higher than any other record
for December, and 1t was nearly 8
degrees above the normal. There
were no pronounced warm or cool
periods, but the excuses above the
normal were greater during the last
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-02-02
ALIEN ENEMIES
WILL REGISTER
ONLY GERMANS ARE INCLUDED
IN DEFINITION OF
TERM

Starting on the morning of Feb.
4 and continuing through Feb. 8,
"all natives, citizens, denizens or
subjects of the German empire or
of the imperial German govern
ment, being males of the age of IA
years and upward, who are within
the United States and not actually
n~aturalized as American citizens"
will be required to register as "alien
enemies" at the post office.
The term enemy alien" as de-
fined by statute includes all natives,
citizens, denizens or subjects of a
foreign nation with which war has
been declared, being males of the
age of IA years and upward, who
shall be within the United States
and not actually na%turalized as
American citizens.
Within the present statutory de-
finition Austrians r not classed
as alien enemies and are not requir-
ed to register.
Females are not alien enemies
within the present statutory defini-
ton.
A male native, citizens, denizen
or subject of a foreign nation OIL
| government against which war has
been declared is an alien enemy
even though he has declared his
intention to become a citizen of the
United States by taking out first
papers or naturalization, or has beer
partly or completely n~aturalized In
any country other than the United
States.
According to regulations prescrib'
I'd by the attorney general of the
United States, naturalization o.
enemy aliens cannot be completed
during the period of the war; un
less possibly where application fol
second or final papers of naturaliza'
ton was made or accepted prior tc
the declaration of war" Courts
differ on this point.
The post office will be open from
8 a. m. to 6 p. m. for registration
Each registrant is required tt
furnish four unmounted photo
graphs of himself, not larger thar
three by three inches in size, or
thin paper and with a light back
ground. Finger prints will be taken
Any alien enemy who is unavoid
ably absent from his place of resi-
dence on the registration day fix
ed for such place must, in order tt
relieve himself from penalties pres
cribed, present himself in the dis
trict in which he temporarily is ant
register in the regular be
fore the registration officer of thai
district.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-02-02

half of the month.
There were only seven stations
which did not record a maximum
temperature of 60 degrees or more.
and 70 degrees or higher was
reached at seven stations. All min
imum temperatures were above
zero, except at Quinn River ranch,
where l degree below zero was re-
corded.
There has been only n other
December in the past 29 years when
the average precipitation was so
low, and that was in 1908, when
the same amount, Ola inch, was
recorded. Other DEFENDERS with
low precipitation were in 1900 and
1908, when the average was 0.19
inch, and in 1912. when it was 0.23
inch. This is the fifth consecutive
month with the precipitation below
normal, the deficiencies being small
in August, September, and Novem-
Der, and large in October and De-
cember."
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-02-02
Winnemucca Bank Elects

The annual meeting Of stockhold-
ers and directors Of the Winnemuc-
"a State Bank and Trust company
resulted in the election Of the Col
lowing officers: M. Reinhart, pres
ident; Ed Reinhart, vice-presideut;
Oscar Reinhart, cashier. The dtrcc-
tors elected were NJ. Reinhart, Frank
Garteiz, Ed Stock, Ed Reinhart anc
:. b: Fayant.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-02-02
Farmers Meet

Between 80 and 40 farmers are
attending the farmers week at the
state university and listening to lee
lures on dairying and ways and
means of making dairy herds pro-
fitable with the present high cost
of feed.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-02-02
BOARD CLASSH|ES
MORE REGISTRAMTS
TWENTY APPEALED CASES ARE
SENT TO DISTRICT
BOARD

The local exemption board hal
classified the following registrants
GLASS I.
Walter Francis Richardson
Samuel Westhrope
Arthur Francis Heffernan
Bat Valnassos
James Charles Mcnamara
Joel Capatanie
Joe Valanessoe
CLASS TWO
Claire Aiken
John Bococh
CLASS iii.
Jesse Graffell
Leo Walsh
John Henry Martin
James Clyde Canaan
William Francis Fitzgerald
GLASS Nv
J.. w. Lanyon
Earl William Hart
James Francis Ford
Henry Patrick Kervin
CLASS v.
Mark Dobro
Edwin James Duggin
Larry Kelly
Henry Rosengren
Nick Knezevich
Robert Augustus Given
Juan CULLEN
James Richard Jones
Lazar Lucich
Bernard Longhorne Cope
Frank Signori
Carl Ungarar
Richard H. Sheehy
The board has been notified o
the enlistment in the aviation corps
of Richard III. Sheehy of Hornsil
There are a number of registranti
who are registered at Othe.
places and who have been expecting
to be examined by the local board
but recent instructions state tina
such registrants must appear fol
examination before the medical ad
visory board at Tonopah and tina
they may not be examined by tn
local hoard.
The missionaries of 20 regis
will be sent to the" distric
exemption board tomorrow. Seven
teen will be cases in which defer
red classification is asked on in
dustrial grounds and in which tn
district board has original jurisdic
ton. The others are appeals from
classification as fixed by the loca
board, either by the registrant o.
District Attorney Foley.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-02-02
Tonopah schools Fumigated

Owing to a Ease of diptheria re-
sulting fatally for a Tonopah school
child, the schools were closed a few
days ago and the buildings thor
oughly fumigated.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-02-02
ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL
HAS new QUARTERS

Mother M. Agnes, superior of st.
Mary's hospital, is here from Co
lusa, Cal, and is having the st.
Mary's hospital equipment removed
from the Consolidated building on
Columbia street to the old Miners
Union hospital on South Bellevue,
where the sisters will conduct st.
Mary's hospital as usual. All pa
tients will be received irrespective
of creed or nationality. The hospi-
tai will be open for patients on Feb.
10 and DIR. j. l.. Mccarthy will be
the surgeon in charge.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-02-02
NEW CONTRIBUTORS
TO TOBACCO FUND
REASON is GIVEN FOR NON.
RECEIPT OF RETURN
CARDS

Since last published the following
additional contributions have been
received for the Tribune tobacco
fund for the soldiers in France:
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-02-02

EDWARD S. VAN DYCK. a direc-
tor of the Silver Pick Consolidated
Mines company, registered al the
Goldfield last evening.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-02-02

G. M. BEETLES registered at the
Goldfield this morning.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-02-02
WILSON'S 1917

Mining Laws
Tribune Book 4 Stationery StOI 2.
The Winslow mail., 1918-02-15

The Kaiser can keep on fooling
the German people with his talk
about "Me and gott," but in
America we only feel sorrow for
the poor misguided German sub
jects, and soldiers are springing
up everywhere with full de-
termination to put me and gott"
out of business, and give the
German people a chance to have
a word or two with a God, who
knows no king, prince or poten-
tate, but puts his gracious bless
ings on all the meek and lowly
who follow after him. The Kais-
er's gott is only his faith in
militarism.
The Winslow mail., 1918-02-15

Arizona is still reaping the
bitter fruits of the abolition of
capital punishment. Three peace
officers have been killed in cold
blood by a gang of draft evaders
whom they were seeking to ar
rest. The crime of murder is more
common than cattle stealing, and
the state is being infested with
thugs and outlaws to ply their
criminal practices with the aid
of guns.
The Winslow mail., 1918-02-15
Uncle Sam Wants Accountants

The United States Government
is in need Of several hundred ex-
pert cost accountants to fill va
cancies in the accounts section of
the finance department of the
equipment division of the Signal
Corps, War Department, and in
other branches, for duty in Wash
ington, D. c., or in the field, ac-
cording to an announcement just
issued by the United States Civil
Service Commission. The salaries
range from $2400 to $4,000 year.
Men only are desired.
The duties of appointees to the
Signal Corps will consist of the
determination of production costs
of airplanes and airplane motors,
either as supervisors in charge
at one or more of the several
plants, or as assistants; or ap-
pointees may be assigned to duty
in Washington, D. G.
Applicants will not be as
sembled for a written examina-
ton, but will be rated upon the
subjects of education and expert
ence, as shown by their applica-
tions and corroborative evidence.
The commission states that on
account of the urgent needs of
the service applications for these
positions will be received until
further notice and that papers
will be rated promptly and certi-
fications made as the needs of
the service require.
Complete information and ap-
plication blanks may be obtained
by communicating with the secre-
tary of the local board of civil
service examiners at the post
office in any of the larger cities
or with the United States Civil
Service Commission, Washing
ton, D. C.
The Winslow mail., 1918-02-15

The republican national COM
mittee is in session in st. Louis
this week trying to elect a chair
man to succeed Mr.. Wilcox, who
recently resigned. Let US hope
the wisdom of the committee will
be exercised with more care and
judgment than it used in 1916
when they selected Mr.. Wilcox.
If the republicans hope to meet
with any degree of success in
the next election the new chair
man must be a clever diplomat
as we'll as a shrewd executive,
who can harmonic all the fac
tions into a solid phalanx to meet
the enemy.
The Winslow mail., 1918-02-15

The most exciting publication
that reaches this office now is
the Congressional Record with
the speeches of the democratic
senators who are ventilating the
war situation on one side, and
those who are trying to defend
the administration on the other.
And the things these senators
say about each other leads us to
believe that in time we may get
at the truth of the records of the
different statesmen. At present
it looks very much as though
there were few if any real patri-
OTIS in the senate, but this view is
subject to change at the conclu-
sion of the debate.
The Winslow mail., 1918-02-15

The defenders of railroad lob
byists all use the old stock argu-
ment that railroad managers are
the custodians Of the property of
thousands of small investors, and
they are justified in employing
lobbyists to help them protect
these interests from adverse
legislation. To the initiated this
seems a most logical excuse, but
the lobbyist is not interested, nor
hired, to protect the investments
in railroad property, but to bring
his power and influence to bear
to steal from the public special
grants and privileges that inure
strictly to the profit of the inside
circle of railroad magnates, and
nothing is permitted to seep
through to help out the little
investor.
The Winslow mail., 1918-02-15

Is it possible Gov. Hunt, like
the regents, considers Klein Won
Smidt a tower of strength and
an ornament to the state univer-
sity? We can understand the
admiration of the regents for
Won Klein because he is a willing
tool in their hands, but what use
can the governor have for that
individual?
The Winslow mail., 1918-02-15

Congressman Carl Hayden has
introduced a bill in Congress hav-
ing for it's purpose the leasing of
the coal and mineral lands on the
Navajo reservations in Arizona
and New Mexico, on a basis of
paying royalty of not less than
ten cents a ton on all coal mined.
If this bill is passed it will prob
ably open the enormous coal
fields in the northern part of this
county, that are now lying idle
and useless.