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The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-01-07
PREVENT FISH FROM
ENTERING WRONG RIVER
Thousands of Dollars to Be
Saved by Oklahoma Mans
Invention.

Thousands of dollars annually will
be saved. it is expected, In the Pacific
Northwest fisheries industry by a de-
vice invented by Henry T. Burkey Of
Oklahoma. The invention is an cleo
trio fish stop.
Because there has been no efficient
way to prevent fish following wrong
streams, hatcheries have lost thou
sands of dollars every year. Nets
across the mouths of rivers have
proved costly and inefficient. Keep
Ing fish away from intake and irriga~
ton bitches Is a difficult problem
solved by the electric fish stop.
The invention. which establishes
electric fields of graduated voltage
across a stream, is said to be cheaper
than any device so far conceived, as
the power Is furnished by the force
Of the current turning a turbine dy-
namo.
A field of % volts is located farthest
down stream and small fish coming In
contact with the electric current are
turned back into the main current of
the river. Fields of increasing volt
age act on fish of larger size. Fish are
extremely sensitive to electric currents
and the water greatly Increases the
conductivity of the electricity.
When Burkey has completed ar
engagements with the Northwest fish,
cries he will go to Alaska at the invi-
tation of the Alaska bureau of fish,
cries to demonstrate his electric stop
in the North.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-01-07
Indian Land on Sale.

-Four hundred and forty-ive thou
sand acres of coal and $4,000 acres of
coal lands in Oklahoma, owned by the
C~hickasaw and Choctaw Indians, will
be sold at public auction. This marks
the final windup of the government
supervision over the 33 separate tribes
# Indians still residing in the state.
The affairs Of the Cherokee Indians
llready have been closed. as well as
The Creeks.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-01-07
HOE BETTER THAN GUN
Shots From a State Rangers Revoi-
yer Had No Effect Upon Bear.

Even as the pen is mightier than the
sword, so Is the grubbing hoe mightier
than the gun.
Citizens at Detroit, Ore, have DEM
o~nstrated this. A 200-pound bear
dropped in on a war garden. driven
from the woods by a forest fire.
A state ranger emptied his revolver
at the bear, but bruin didn't seem to
mind 1t at all. Then the war garden
er walloped the bear with a grubbing
hoe and the beastie keeled over,
turned up his toes and quit"
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-01-07
C0BBLED MANY YEARS
Man Has Stuck to His Last for q Lone
Time.

George Fl. Peterson, who has worked
on a cobbler's bench for half a Gen.
fury, came TO Marinette, Wis.,, in April,
1874, from Schleswig, Denmark, where
he was born. He has earned his own
living since he was eleven, and
reached America when nineteen. He
has been a Sunday school teacher Of
the Danish Lutheran church since
early manhood and is devoted to chill
dren, who are his special delight. His
shop Is frequently visited by young
people eager to watch him make old
shoes look like new. In the quarter
Of a century that he has sat upon the
same bench the leather seat has been
replaced but once.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-01-07

Col. Arthur Woods, who was for.
merly police commissioner of New
York and is now a member of Gem
eral Pershing's staff, will instruct
American and allied military police
in the value of the famous "kid 'em
along" slogan of the New York po-
lice. Colonel Woods has found In his
experience as police commissioner
that this is the best policy with which
to handle a crowd. This Is the policy
that he will use in the territory that
will be occupied by our troops.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-01-07

Tonopah - One days bullion ship
ment from two mills totaled $4,000.
Goldfeld-Activities in Tolicha dis
trict revived. prospects good for in
creased development. Mining condi-
tons in Goldheld camp undergoing
decided Improvement
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-01-07
KEEP YOUR MONEY AT HOME

Buy bakery goodies at the City
Bakery. Eat better bread. baked the
day you buy II. and help Winnemucca
grow!-[A 'vertisement.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-12-27
DRUGS FEARFUL AND AWFUL
Amazing Connections That Our Ances.
tcrs Swallowed, Believing That
They Had Medicinal Virtues.

The medicines used down to even
to our ears. AS late as the eighteenth
century dried toad was seriously con.
sldered a specific against the plagne
In an article in the New York Med
lcal Journal DR.. William Renwick
Riddell of Toronto, Canada, mentioned
a few of the remedies in vogue.
A plaster made of arsenic was an
piled to cancers. Bleeding was prac-
ticed on all occasions, even in the
time of our grandparents. But the
sovereign remedy of all was known
as mithridatium or theriaca. This was
the great antidote of Roman phar-
macy 1t originally had 40 or so in
gradients, all vegetables, but Neros
physician, Andromachus, added the
flesh of vipers. Every physician had
his own variation of the formula, and
Matteoli in the sixteenth century put
no less than 120 ingredients into 1t.
The name theriaca or theriac, I'M
der which it was commonly known,
was derived from the Greek "therion"
a wild beast, as the stuff was consld-
cred a specific against the poisonous
bites Of beasts and serpents. The
French word "therieque" was corrupt
ed into the English "treacle," and the
medicine was known In England as
"Venice treacle." 1t was the famous
Sydenham who first opposed the use
of drugs In fact when Sir Richard
Blackmore asked him for good guide
In practice, he replied: Don Quxote,"
and declared that the arrival of good
clown would do more for the health
of city than that of 20 asses laden
with drugs.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-12-27
SIBERIAN SCOUTS CALL TO US.

The chain Of boy scouts around the
world is one of the greatest guars n
tees of the civilization of the future.
From far off Krasnoyarsk in 81.
IBERIA the boy scouts there have asked
the great organization in this coun-
try for guidance in their program and
for uniforms and equipment upon
which they may model.
The letter comes to the national
headquarters of the Boy Scouts of
America at 200 Fifth avenue, New
York, through the department of state
at Washington from American Consul
j. X. Caldwell ut Vladivostok.
Vice Consul Edward b. Thomas at
krasnoyarsk says:
Il would like to give any aid posi-
BILE to the scout movement here, for II
Is developing in the boys just those
qualities of good service and good
citizenship which are so needed In
Russia at this time"
Their American brothers sent an
Immediate response for "a scout is q
brother to every other scout-all the
world around" Chief Scout Execu-
tive James e. West forwarded full
list of literature and scout equipment.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-12-27
PREMIER OUTLINES
IRISH PROPOSALS
WILL COMBAT ANY STEP AT
SECESSION, DECLARES
LLOYD GEORGE.
Two Parliaments for ireland Contem.
plated, With Full Constituent Pow
ers to Create a Single Irish
Legislature.

London.-Premier Lloyd George out
lined the governments proposals for
Ireland in a long statement In the
house of commons on December %.
Speaking with great deliberation and
emphasis, he declared:
Great Britain can not accept sep
aration. The people who think Brit
ain can be forced into it have not read
the story of the last five years"
The premier began by remarking
upon the extreme difficulty of the task
-"difficult indeed" he said, "after
such discreditable outrage as has
just been perpetrated at Dublin"
He characterized the attempt on
Viscount French, the lord lieutenant
of Ireland, as one of the most coward
ly and foolish incidents in the history
of political crime. He was glad the
chiefs of the Catholic church had has
tened to denounce it.
Reviewing the position of Irish af-
fairs he said that nobody in Ireland
wanted the act of 1916. In the exist
ing circumstances no possible scheme
for Irish home rule was universally
acceptable and parliament must as
sumo the responsibility and propose
what it thought fair and just.
A settlement would be found not in
the enactment but i'm the working of
a home rule scheme He admitted that
plenty of mistakes had been made on
both sides, there We're also follies and
crimes.
But" he added, 1--WE want that
chapter closed-not to ask who is to
blame but to set matters right"
The governments new bill provides
briefly for the creation of two legisla
lures In Ireland with full constituent
lature to discharge all powers not
specifically reserved to the imperial
parliament. A clause in the bill will
protect the rights of minorities. The
question of uniting these two Irish
legislatures into one body rests with
the Irish people, the consent of the i'm
perial parliament not being required.
1t was an intensely interested house
that listened as the premier outlined
the governments proposals which, he
said, would be embodied in bill and
presented at the next session of parlia-
ment
From the two proposed parliaments
in Ireland, one of the Catholics in the
south and the other for the Protestants
of the north and east, a council will be
selected, which, it is hoped, eventually
will bring about union of the whole
country under ii single parliament.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-12-27
COURT JAILS MINE LEADER.
District President Ordered lnearcer-
ated After Brief Hearing.

Indianapolis. = Alexander Howat,
president of the Kansas district No. IA
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea, is in Jail here, awaiting hearing
on a charge of contempt of court for
alleged violation of the federal court
injunction against furtherance of the
strike of coal miners.
.Howat appeared in federal court
Monday morning at the order of Unit
ed States District Judge A. 3. Ander-
son. He was under bond of $4,000,
provided in the form of a check on a
Kansas bank. Judge Anderson dis
approved of this form of bond and
Immediately after the afternoon SEES
sion of court began remanded the
mine union official to Jail until he
reached a decision as to the amount
and kind of bond which will be ac-
ceptable.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-12-27
OAK MARKS VENERATED SPOT
ed Altar to the Lord Has Been
Carefully Preserved.

1t is recorded that when Abraham
was promised the possession of the
land of Canaan and was commanded
to walk through the land" he ire
moved his tent, and came and dwet
In the plain of Mamre, which Is In
Hebron, and built there an altar t.
the Lord" This spot is still marked
by a great oak, venerated alike by
Christian. Jew and Mohammedan. 1t
is to this protection that one must
attribute its preservation In region
cleared of almost all trees by the i'm
provident Turk The species Is not
uncommon In Palestine and Major
Portal, while stationed at general head
quarters of the British army there,
sent to Kew gardens small box of
acorns which were recognized as the
fruit of Abraham's tree. Sir Joseph
Hooker visited the spot In 1850 ana
wanted to secure specimen OF the
wood for Kew, but no one would cut
Off Dough. 1t was only when the
snow, which visited Jerusalem In 1896
and which did not spare Hebron, had
broken down one of the oaks branches
he was able to secure portion OF IL
which Is to be seen to this day In one
of the Kew museums. But more
practical fame awaits the tree, for IL
Is with 1t that the Syrian forests VIII
probably be rehabiiitated in the bright
era which Is dawning now that the
Turk no longer rules the land.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-12-27
ROCKING Stones.

Rocking stones belong to class OF
freak stones. familiar to geologists'
Some of these rocking stones are mace
so by the force of the wind which cuts
the dirt or sand out from under Them
They are of harder material than inc
dirt and stones which surround theth'
So the harder remains after the sol'-
er or shifting material has been Worh
away. Other rocking stoosf ars iei'
By the melting OF glaciers.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-12-27
SCOUTS PUT DIRT TO RoUT

Inspired b" their motto, ITO do one
good turn every day." and by the de.
sire to make their city one of the
cleanest in America. members of the
Salt Lake City Boy Scouts of America
attacked the task Of cleaning up the
unsightly premises wherever found.
All of the a organized troops of the
city, with total enrolment of 1000
scouts, went to work to aid the com.
mlttee appointed by the commercial
club to direct the activities of the
cleanup and paint-up campaign"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-12-27

SCOUTS
Fl Fl
Conducted by National Council of the
Boy Scouts of America)
EAGLE RANK IS HARD WORK

"Just what does a boy have to do
to become an Eagle scout?"
To become an Eagle scout, a boy
must first reach the rank of first-class
scout. Three months is the rninimum
time required. during which period he
performs % different tests, including
rebuilding, cooking, opening bank
account, first aid and bandaging, swim
ming, tracking, hiking, map drawing,
and study of trees, animals and
stars.
Then the scout is ready to begin
study for merit badges. These are EN-
blems given for proficiency in certain
lines of study.
The test is passed before an exam
iner, who gives the boy a certificate
in evidence of the work. The scout
now goes before court of honor, COM
posed of a group of business men, who
examine his credentials, and vote to
award him the merit badge.
When the scout has received five
merit badges in this way he is desig-
mated Life scout Ten badges give
him the rank of Star scout, while Il
are required for the Eagle degree.
Many of these tests are far from
easy. In bird study for example, the
scout must know and identify not less
than so different birds. In life-saving
he must be able to rescue a boy OF
his own weight in deep water. In camp
ing he must sleep in the open for 50
nights, and be able to make fire with
out matches. There are 80 merit
badge tests.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-12-27
ROAD =,
BUILDING
ORDER ALL MATERIAL EARLY
United Action Urged to Overcome De
ficiency In Open-Top Cars
Much Work Ahead.

Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agrculture)
While the expenditures during 1918
for hard-surface highways, according
to estimates of the bureau of public
roads of the United States depart.
ment of agriculture, will set new rec
ord with a total of S13S,000000, this
figure Is small in comparison with
the computed available total for 1920
or $3.50, 100000, the spending of which
promises to be dependent chiefly on
the quality of materials the present
limited railway facilities can trans
port.
The items entering into next years
estimate are: Brought forward from
unfinished work, 1919 contracts, $685.,
100000; funds available from state
and county taxes and federal aid, $273,-
100000; one-fifth state and couEtN
bond issues not before available, $780,
100000; one-third unexpended balance
of state and county bond issues pre-
viously available, $45,000,000; available
from new bond issues to be voted Oh
in the fall of 1918 and spring Of 1920
$10O,000,000.
Unless the available open-rop cars
many of which normally lie idle in
the late winter, are utilized in that
slack season the work which con be
done will necessarily be curtailed for
lack of materials. The total for 1920
is more than four times the amount
that has been expended during any
previous year for like purposes. There
fore there must be tremendous in
crease not only in the material sup
plies and shipping facilities, but also
in the labor supply, and an enlarge
ment of contractors organizations
First of all, according to Thomas I'll
Macdonald, chief of the bureau of pub
lie roads, the attention of all state
county and city rOad-building inter
ests should be directed toward over
coming this car shortage.
1t has been customary to wait until
contractors organizations were ready
to begin work before starting the ship
ment of material. Under these condi
lions many thousands of open-toI
cars lie idle during the latter part OF
February, all Of March, and the ear
lier part of April. During the past
spring the number of open-top cars thai
were idle totaled more than 100000
This, of course, was partly unavoid'
able, owing to the late date at which
work got under way, following the
signing of the armistice. By award
ing contracts as early as possible, con.
tractors will be able to ascertain their
material requirements at different
points, and so will be in position to
slace orders dependent on rail trans
poytation q considerable time in ad.
vance.
While the placing of material If
storage, which may result from such
course, involves some expense, it will
BE small compared to the loss that will
Jesuit if contractors are not in posi-
ton to go ahead with the work because
of lack of materials. In view of the
experience of 1919 and the greatly in.
cref,,ed program for next year, 1t
seems probable, according to the Blu.
reau of public roads, that contracts
which are not awarded during the win.
ter months will have little opportunity
for being supplied with materi Is
which require transportation.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-12-27

take charge at least of one of the four
meetings each month.
be increased. A library, already start
ed, will be added to.
In observance of the tenth anniver-
sary of the boy scout movement next
February, a play will be given by the
boys.
Mr.. Morgan said not money, but
moral support, encouragement, and
presence mt weekly meetings of adult
men, particularly parents of the boys,
is desired.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-12-27
RADICAL MOB ATTACKS POLICE.
Deportation Officers at New York
Assaulted by Reds.

New York.-Led by a woman who
declared her husband bad been de-
ported to Russia on the "soviet ark"
Buford, which had 249 radicals aboard,
mob of $50 reds" on Monday at
lacked the entrance to the Ellis Island
ferry in an effort to reach fellow rad
icals still awaiting deportation. A
riot call was turned in before the
police could restore order.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-12-27
PROMOTE GOOD EARTH ROADS
For Most Soils Light Grader and One
Horse Drag Will Prove Most
Beneficial.

For most of our road soils, the use
of light grader once or twice a year
and the systematic use of light, one
horse drug to smooth and compact the
road after every rain, will do more
toward promoting good earth rOajs
than duy other method.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-12-27
A Perspective View of the Roadway.

quickly constructed of plastic mate
rial, which may be nodded or laid
in sections. The roadway consists
of spaced parallel side tracks and
a central track OF which the central
track has plane surface ind the side
tracks longitudinal wheel-receiving de
pressiOns.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-12-27
viii lest Dry Amendment.

Washington. = The supreme court
has ordered the government 70 show
cause on January 5 why original pro-
ceedings should not be instituted by
the states of Rhode Island and New
Jersey retail liquor dealers to have de-
termined the constitutionality OF the
national prohibition constitutional
amendment.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-12-27
Nalue of MolYbdenlte.

The principal value of molyoue ,''a,
Is In the manufacture @, steel 10 VIZ,
It gives hardness and toughness ~ ~
make the steel suitable for use III r..
peller shafts, guns and boilers IT,
of the molybdenite produced In
mania Is shipped to England.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-12-27
SCOUT TROOP ENDS TROUBLES

There is troop of scouts in Ajo,
Arizona, that is planning to "head the
list"-not alphabetically, but scout
ingly.
A meeting was recently held to plan
the work for the year. d. V. Morgan
is scoutmaster e. A. Rodgers, New
Cornelia power house foreman, who is
experienced in this work, agreed to
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-12-27
CEMENT RAIL FOR HIGHWAYS
Particularly to Safety Road
Making Means.

The Scientific American, In illustrat
ing and describing a cement rail fol
highways and roads, the invention OF
]. F. O'Rourke of Ell Paso, Tex, says :
This invention relates generally tC
roads and highways for vehicular traf
fic, and more particularly to safety
road making means in the form OF
spaced parallel rails, which may be
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-12-27
Proof Of Love.

sand you say you love mel"
"Devotedly."
"With the cost Of living as high as
It is?"
Indeed do. And when the cost OF
living comes down will prove my love
by making you my wife.'-Boston
Transcript.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-12-27
p,.v A,>.,v. star Performer.

Every member Of the family wi" ',,,lI
the exception Of the growing poy W" "A
sometimes wake up In the hiuu "a
the night, but none OF the othe''
get az wide awake - baby
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-12-27
Keeping to Form.

"Can get a dog of spirit IL this
placer
"Of course not. In these dry timea
You'll have TO take Q water dog
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-12-27
How About Llfs.saxInq eerms1

One-fourth of the people born Nv.
before they are six. One In ioo Nv
to be sixty-five.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-12-27

Two armed Mexicans, mounted on
horses said to have been stolen at Pc-
land Junction, Ariz., held up S. Pete
Starnic in his store at Blue Bell mine,
three miles southeast of Prescott,
Ariz., obtained $1,000 in currency and
rode away.
Forty-Ihree members of the crew Of
the British freight steamer ManXman
have been drowned mt sea and the
M; is supposed to have gone down,
according to wireless message inter-
cepted mt Halifax.
Herbert Hoover has announced q
plan whereby the aid of Americans OF
foreign descent would be enlisted in
supplying to the needy children of cen
trail Europe food and clothing at cost
prices.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-12-09
QUICK ACTION WHEN
PNEUMONIA THREATENS
Tigntness and Soreness In
Chest Calls for Begy's
Mustarine

Don't fool with SLOW acting lln,mrpts
r"ultites, plasters, hot water bottles and
the like, when Begys Mustarine. N,
FIRST snd best Improvement on Grant.
mas old fashioned Mustard Plaster Npl
suedue the Inflammation and nut YOU
right over niKhk
Its hot stutf-is RegN's MuptarirN-
that's why IT'S the bpeediest killer al
pain In the world. "
but Il cannot hlister--you car alwsSt
depend on that, but Il viii onen IN ths
pores and end the misery. in double
quick time.
IT'S the real honest remedy fer a,
aches and pains. for congestion and in.
h~amansticn for swelAngs and sore
ness.
Use Il the minute YOU suspect thai
Influenza Is attacking you and remem.
her 10 apply II promptly II YOU want &c
conquer sore throat. tonellitis, croun,
coughs, tplelrisT or bronchitis In Just
a few hours,
Always in the yellow hox-nevcr sold
In jsrs-And money back IL not as adj
vertised, Bo sure its BeEy's Mustartne.
$, {. Wells n Co, LeRo,, y. Y.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-12-09
SIX JACKSON TRAINS
REPORTED TAKEN OFF

JACKSON. Miss, Dec. .. tspl)-ph.
continuance OF six trains on three 81
inc railroads running through jackson
are apnounced for today as a part Of
the nation wide train service curtau.
ment. These trains are.
10. a y. ~westbound local, ar.
Ho . a d Y eastbound local, ar.
No lS2 on the Natehez branch OF
the l. & NJ v, arriving here at 1850
No. l3l on the Natchez branch Of ths
NJ W leaving here at / pm.
No - Illinois Central, southbound
''SSl, a5ilVing mere at $40 pm.
local. arriving here al $40 an 49,