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The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-04-17
FIRST AER0PHOTOGRAPHS OF
SUBMITS OF HIGH SIERRAS

Captain McCray of the adjutant-
generals Office has received two pho
tographs taken by the Mather Field
aviators on their recent flight to and
from this city, says the Carson News.
The photograph taken on the return
trip to California, from an altitude of
$4,000 feet, is one of beauty, and was
taken almost over the summit this
side of Lake Tahoe. The shores on
the south side of the lake are clear,
while looking down from the height
a bank of clouds far below is shown.
The SUBMITS of the Sierras appear
fiattened out. and the heavy SHOWS of
winter are shown.
The other picture was taken on the
way from California to Carson. This
picture shows a small portion Of the
lake, but is not as distinct in detail,
owing to the sunlight. The captain
will have the best picture enlarged
and he can safely say that it is the
first picture of the SUBMITS of The
Sierras.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-04-17

An airplane land at Carson City ia
. project nov being agitated.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-04-17
NEVADA MINING MAN FATALLY
SHOT WHILE PACKING Gun

The following regarding the death
of W. F. ("Pony") Moore. a former
resident of Go~odsprings, is taken
from the Kemmerer (Wyo.) Camera
of March 10:
Last week the report reached here
and gained considerable currency
that w. f. ("Pony") Moore had COM
mitted suicide at Cokeville. This APP
pears upon later advice to have been
entirely erroneous, the mans death
having been accidental.
Moore. who had formerly resided
in Cokeville, had spent the past few
years in Nevada. He had been on a
visit to a brother in Boise, stopping
off in Cokeville to visit several old
friends. He had purchased an inter-
est in a pool hall in Evanston and
was en- route to that place to locate.
Moore went up to his room after
lunch in the Haggerty hotel to pack
up preparatory to leaving for Evans
ton. A few minutes later he came
hurriedly down stairs to the lobby
and startled the guests by exclaiming
that he had shot himself. and imme-
diately collapsed. Upon examination
it was found that the bullet from a
38-caliber revolver had entered the
left breast, passing through the body
and coming out below the shoulder
blade.
Moore fingered more than three
hours before passing away and, be-
ing fully conscious. was able to ex-
plain that in packing his revolver it
was accidentally discharged"
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-04-17
SHOOTING SCRAPE
ALMOST FATALITY

The Eureka Sentinel says: A row
that started last Friday afternoon IN
the district attorneys office in the
court house between Thomas Dixon,
Jack Burns and Lyman Fulton, came
near terminating seriously for Full
tor After a wordy war in the office,
in which the word liar and even
stronger fighting words were passed
between them, and the district attor-
ney had told them if they did not stop
their quarreling he would have them
all arrested, it was decided to go out
side and settle the matter.
Burns led the way out of the office
into the court house corridor, fol-
lowed by Dixon. with Fulton last.
Burns and Dixon continued quarrel
ing on their way to tn front entrance
and when they were near the door
Fulton called out to B1rns not to go
outside as Dixon had a gun. Fulton
says that Dixon then pulled his gun
and, holding it with both hands, fired
at him from a distance of about ten
feet. The gun was of A calibre and
the shot struck Fulton in the leshy
part of the left cheek, causing a
wound about two inches in length and
a quarter of an inch deep. If the
shot had struck a quarter of an inch
further in it probably would have
been fatal.
The trouble is said to have arisen
over a quantity of mine rail that
Burns and Fulton hauled away from
Dixon's Mt. Hope mines last January
and brought to Eureka at the in
stance and order of Ben Griggsby,
who sold the rails to Julius Huebner.
Sheriff Mackey had been informed
of the seriousness of the row and had
just entered the corridor of the court
house when Dixon fired. He imme-
diately arrested him and a charge of
assault with intent to kill was filed
against Dixon. Justice of the Peace
Lucy later released him on a bond
of $4,000, to appear Saturday morning
for examination.
The preliminary examination is
now Saturday being held in the JUS
tice court, and as there were over
half a dozen present in the corridor
at the time of the shooting. and the
testimony is being taken down in long
hand, it is probable the examination
will not be completed before this
evening.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-04-17
NEVADA Neutrality-suspicious.
GOOD FOR PLENTY OF WATER

The following Nevada summary ap-
pears in the last issue of the United
States Weather and Crop Bulletin:
Nevada-Reno: Snowfall moderate,
water content normal. Much blowing
done; alfalfa and wheat sown in the
lower valleys, and work is starting at
higher elevations. Asparagus cutting
begun. Cattle and sheep are in good
condition; losses normal. Grass is
starting and a good stock season IS
anticipated.
Seeding of wheat and barley well
advanced. Some alfalfa being sown.
Peaches and apricots blooming in the
lower valleys. Alfalfa, wheat. fruit
and garden truck doing well in ex-
IRENE southern portion. Range con
ditions good. Landing nearing COM
pletion. with excellent results. All
streams are high; outlook good for
plenty of water.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-04-17

than the fear of executive power which induces us to acquiesce-fear, FEAR.
and nothing else. In the little part which have acted in public life it has
been my purpose to maintain the people of the United States what the Con-
sttution designed to make them people; one in interest, in charac-
ter, n IN in political feeling. If re depart from that we break it all up
Il think 1 see a course adopted which is likely o turn the Constitution
of the land into a deformed monster, into a curse rather than a blessing;
and | think that this power will go III, or that there is danger that it will
go on until this Union shall fall to pieces l resist it, today and always!
Whoever falters, or whoever fees, 1 continue to contest
But it is said, 1t is the will of the President If we do lot now take what
he offers, we MAJ fare worse. He is immovabte. decentralization
down! Anow of n reason why his will. his purpose, declared to be final
should control us, any more than or purpose, from equally conscientious
motives. and under as high responsibilities, should control him.
I'VE think be is firm, and will not be moved should be sorry, sir, very
sorry indeed, that W e should entertain more respect for the frmness of the
individual at the head of the government than W e entertain for our own firm
ness He stands out against US. Do We fear to stand out against him? For
one. I do not 1t appears to me to be a savsh doctrine. For one, 1 am
/ do that because 1 think it right, and because I have n dstrust Of the
people. l am willing to put it to their sovereign decision and arbitration.
Il hold this to be a question vital, permanent, elementary, in the future
prosperity of the country and the maintenance of the Constitution; and l
am willing to trust that question to the people l prefer that it should go
to them. because, if what take to be a great constitutional principle, or
the people themselves; it shall neve be my act
"But no, we uemble before executive power The truth cannot be crushed
We remble before executive power! If we do not take this, the Kings anger
may kinde, and he will give us what is worse!"
Uniting n a signed protest against the driving tactics OF President Wilson
in the matter of a League of Nations, forty Senator's of the United States, IN
been called, by some. the Second Declaration of independence:
Resolved by the Senate of the United States in discharge of its consttu-
tonal duty OF advice in regard to treaties, That it is the sense of the Senate
that while it is their sincere desire that the nations of the world should unite
to promote peace and general disarmament, the constitution of the League of
Nations in the form o proposed to the peace conference should N OF be
accepted by the United States; and be it
Resolved. further, That it is the sense of the Senate that the negotiations
on the part of the United States should Immediately be directed to the utmost
expedition Of the urgent business of negotiating peace terms with Germany
satisfactory to TIN United States and the nations with which the United States
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-04-17
THE STAR REQUESTS
PUBLIC To CENSURE
THE SILVER STATE

In a n~ews-page editorial in its
issue of yesterday, the Humboldt Star
apparently is appealing to the public
to help it censure The Silver State.
In making its plant the Star advances
an ethical point new to this genera
tion-that a newspaper, or individual
should be censured for ~criticizing the
acts of public officers. That question
was settled in the negative about the
time of the signing of the Declare
ton of Independence. Perhaps this
age is to take ii up again.
Some statesmen, too, are broad
enough to say they derive profit from
criticism. The Silver State is inclined
to think Senator Pittman would say
something to that effect, if he said
anything about criticism of his acts.
Whether he enjoys criticism or not,
no politician would go SO far as to
say he would not profit by it.
The Star quotes from a Silver State
editorial of last Saturday which said,
in substance, that Senator Pittmau
had told the Winnemucca Business
Mems Association, in a letter, that
the Winnemucca Federal building had
been delayed by "the filibuster."
And then the Star says "of course,
as the facts are exactly the opposite"
Further down the column the Star
says This bill was defeated by the
republican ilibuster during the clos
ing hours of the session."
Thus the Star says just what The
Silver State said Senator Pittman
said.
In the same connection, in an en-
deavor to put Democrat politics into
the Business Mems Association. the
Star that body of an "incom-
prehensible" laxness in permitting
the Senator to be "misrepresented
without denial"
Regarding the ethical point, The
Silver State would be glad to know
just what it is accused of. Is it les
majestic?
Now, the Humboldt Star having
said just what The Silver State said,
and what it is willing to repeat, it
may be timely to suggest that the
Star print the letter which is referred
to. In law, the written instrument is
the best evidence. When il Is
10 other evidence is per-
missible.
The Silver State thinks Senator
letter to the Business
Mems Association would be interest
ng reading matter. By printing the
..etter. the Star could easily make
manifest whether its stigma of mis-
represented" is justified.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-04-17

is associated in the war against the
German government, and that the
proposal for a League of Nations to
insure the permanent peace of the
world should be then taken up for
careful and serious consideration"
The Senators today are upholding
the same Constitution which Webster
so eloquently defended, seventy years
ago, as the declaration under which a
free people were to exist, and by
which they were to be governed if
they were destined to remain free.
Domination by any individual is OBJ
noxious to American ideals. 1t is, of
course, the antithesis of freedom.
President Wilson appears deter
mined to rush this people and its
Senator'S off their feet with his de-
mands for approval of a League of
Nations, the draft of which has been
changed, according to reports, nearly
every day since our President gave
it his approval. Declining to be
rushed, Republican Senators are ex-
posed to the anathemas of a frantic
minority at Washington. Neverthe-
less. these lawmakers of today are
acting in accord with the spirit of
Webster's immortal declaration, and
they are to be commended therefor.
The Silver State acknowledges re-
ceipt of photographs Of the forty,
with their signatures attached to this
Second Declaration Of Independence.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-04-17
The Second Declaration of independence

N March %, 1913, Daniel Webster spoke in the United States
Senate as follows: Mr.. President, for a good many years / have
struggled in opposition to everything which l thought tended to
strengthen the arm of executive power. l think it is growing
more and more formidable every day. And | think by yielding to
it in this, as in other instances, we give it a strength which it
will be difficult hereafter to remit. | think that it is nothing less
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-04-17

IL you will just touch the corn or
callus with a few drops of 'Gets-It.'
What a blessed relief IL gives to
corn pains! You won't limp any
more; you can enjoy the dance
every minute. Then to see how
that corn or callus will come right
off complete. like a banana peel and
without the least pain, is just won
derfuL 'Gets-It is the biggest seller
among corn in the world
today. simply because II is so won
derfully simple and always works.
Be sure you get 'Gets-It.'"
"Gets-It." 1.-THE guaranteed. m~oney-back
corn-remover, the only sure way, costa
but a tribe ut any drug store. Mfd
BY k. Lawrence q Co.. Chicago. Ill.
Sold in Winnemucca, and recon-
mended as the worlds best corn
remedy. by Stephenson Drug Co.
and Eagle Drug Company.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-04-17
WHEN CARES ARE LIGHT
BY James A. Mackerath-

*--By James A. Mackerath-s 9 g {
/ trespassed just as a man will do
When cares are light and the skies are blue.
Through the tangled wood | took my way
You'd the smear and smirch of the. common day;
And ever about me as l went
Came the cooling of an old content.
/ saw the birch-leaves twinkling high
Like silver bees in the blue sky;
The verdant larch-wood's misty bloom,
With many a faint and feathery spire;
The pine-tree's proud and ~brooding gloom
Poised on a shaft of fire.
And here and there a glancing glade
O'er-splashed with sun and hecked with shade
And asles of twilight reaching deep
To downy darkness and old sleep;
And so to the core of solitude came
Where silence lists for her own name.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-04-17
COMSTOCK

San Francisco newspapers have
announced the death of Mrs. Alice
wilson, a pioneer of the Comstock.
she was a native of New Jersey. aged
u years, and same here in the soc.
she had lived on the Coast for the
past six years.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-04-17

The Hollinger Consolidated Gold
Mines. Ltd, has declared a dividend
OF l per cent. payable April 20 to
stock of record April II.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-04-17
''Gets Drops
Then to the Dance!
Goodnight to Corn Pains Corns
Peel Off With "Gets-It."

SAY, girls. you can laugh at
tight shoes, or damp c~ogn-pulling
weather, big bumpy cofns. %calluses
on the soles of your feet, eorns be-
tween the toes. hard and soft corns.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-04-17
BOARD SEATS POPULAR

A Board of Trade membership has
been sold in Chicago for $4,000 net
to the buyer. up $125. and establishes
a nsw high record
New-York tribune., 1919-09-23
Cheers FlOut
Senate Rule;
League Flayed
Continued from page !

! close friends Of his to- day that he also
will vote for the Johnson amendment.
Friends OF the amendment had no
chance TO eXult over this. however.
for rumor followed it that Senator
Edge, OF New Jersey, was wavering.
Calls President Wrong
BY all means the most striking event
Of the day. however, was the trcmend-
Gus ovation which followed Senator
Reeds speech. Mir. Reed is an out-and-
out "irreconcilabe. He wants TO beat
the whole treaty. No amendments or
reservations will satisfy him. He re
CARDS the whole thing as "thoroughly
bad Not only was he bitter in his
sarcasm in referring to the President.
but he endeavorcd to show where the
the people.
Time after time the packed galleries
interrupted with applause. Senator
cummins, a mild rescrvationist. who
VAS presiding, warned the spectators
not to break into Mr. Reeds remarks
but added tnat this did not mean they
could not applaud little at the end.
hen Mr.. Reed concluded, the gal
lerles and the Senate itself Joined in
the greatest demonstration the Senate
has ever known In the Senator's
the Senator, who until Che last few
days was mild reservationist, lcaped
to her feet and led the cheering. Down
IN the front row of the same gallery
Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, while
retaining her seat, applauded vigor-
ously. She had listened intently to
the entire four hours speech.
On the floor Senator Kenyon helped
the enthusiasm By beating several
heavy volumes of the Congressional
Record on his desk. while solid
mass of members of The House who
had been standing in the rear of the
Senate chamber during most Of the
Missouri Senator's speech joined in
hearty applause.
The galleries needed no assistance.
however. Almost en- masse they fol-
lowed the example of Mrs Kenyon in
rising, ard then clappcd, chcered and
whlstled for all they were worth. It
was like a national convention after
the nomination speech for some favor
lte son, except that the galleries all
seemed united.
Senator Ashurst, whose telegram to
the President had already caused much
anxiety on the Democratic side, was
New-York tribune., 1919-09-23

all these mighty nations or TO reJect
them, in the latter instance by one
third vote, is the power TO force upon
us as partners some of the nations
with which we have beer recently at
war, even though they may not have
purged themselves of their offences.
Upon the other hand, it IS the
power to unwisely exclude these and
the nom offending nations and to force
all Of the outside nations to unite
themselves into an offensive and de-
fensve alliance, thus separating the
world into two great antagonistlc or
ganizations. Under such conditions
single spark struck, even IN re-
mote and barbarous country, may
start conflagration which Will blaze
throughout the world.
"The power thus lodged is manifest
iy great and important one, which
can be so EMPLOYED to the advantage of
the dominant element in the league
States friendly to that element can be
admitted upon generous terms; states
unfriendly excluded or required to give
such guarantees as TO place them un-
der control.
'The results Indicated may be re
garded as certain to follow, for it must
be remer bered taat in all international
dealings nations have continuously held
to the doctrine that it is the business
of each state to have regard to its own
interests. He who magincs that d
membership in the league will change
this century old disposition is a vision
ary indeed.
Withdrawal Right Contingent
"The assembly can deny any state
the right to withdraw from the league.
This, however, is found in the author
ity of the assembly to decide whAther
the withdrawing state has fulfned all
its 'internati onal obligationG and its
obligations under the covenant
THE power of final decision reserved
to the assembly gives to the British
Empire dangerous, if not a dom-
mating, control Of thG league, and will
enable it, in case the council should
ever be prepared to render decision
against it, to nullify the action OF the
council"
New-York tribune., 1919-09-23

the first to rush up to Senator Reed
and wiring his hand in hearty congratu,
lation. All proceedings IN the normally
dignitied and subdued Senate chamber
were suspended for fully ten minutes
during the outburst
Then MIR. Ashurst made speech to
the galleries, lccturing them on the
folly of appauding. He faced first one
gallery and then another, until he had
completed the big rectangle, this being
the first time, old employees declared,
that this was ever done. The gallery
did not give much sympathy, however,
even kissing him, evidently under the
impression that he was belittling in
some way Mr.. Reeds speech.
"NIild ReseryatiOnists" Astounded
But there was an effect of Senator
Reeds speech far more important than
any enthusiasm he aroused either
among Senators or in the galleries.
This was on the mild rcscrvationist'
group. Such Senators as McNary. Nc
Cumber. Kellogg, Nelson and others
were astounded by the letter which Mr..
Reed read guaranteeing TO Canada and
other British dominions the right to
be elected as members of the league
executive council of nine as we'll as to
sit in the league assembly.
The whole campaign against the
johnson amendment. which would give
the United States as many votes in
the league assembly as the British
Empire, has been much strengthened
among the "mild reservationist" uroup
who are for the league and do not
want any amendments or reservations
strong enough to endanger the success
OF the league idea, by the Presidents
recent speeches belittling the idea that
the SIX votes of the British Empire
in the assembly make any difference.
The letter read by Senator Reed,
which had never been printed before
IN the United States. although it was
printed III "The Montreal Star" is con
sidered to have put these Senators in
an embarrassing position. 1t has
undermined the arguments they have
made to the more vigorous reserva-
tionists and irrcconclables. 1t was
evident from their private comments
tonight that it has sappcd their de-
pendencc on other statements made
by the Pres dent.
Become "Doubt;ng Thomases"
1t has put them in the position Of
"doubting Thomases" on every point
and statement of fact the President
has made. Several of them were quite
candid and frank in their statements
to friends, although they did not desire
to be quoted about the situation.
Senator Hiram johnson, who will ar
rive here tomorrow morning to lead
the fight for his amendment, it is said,
win find the situation more favorable
by far to its passage than it has been
at any time since the Foreign Rela-
tons Committee approved IL The
amendment is not assured of passage,
but 1t now. for the first time, has
q really good chance.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-23
Wilson Believed Firm
In Position on Fiume

ON BOARD PRESIDENT WILL
SONS SPECIAL TRAIN, STOCK
TON. Cal, Sept. 22.-Although White
House officials aboard the Presidents
train declined to-day to discuss pub
lished reports of new agreement
for disposition of Fiume, they indi-
Gated that there had been no change
in the Presidents position on the
subject.
Several times during his speaking
tour Mr.. Wilson has referred in his
addresses to Italys desire to acquire
Fiume, declaring it was claim
based on strategic grounds rather
than on the principle OF nationality
Awards of territory for strategic
purposes, he said in that connection
were avoided by sthe peace confer
ence.
In line with these declarations it
was indicated to-day that if any new
proposal had been made to give
Fiume to italy it had not been re-
ceivcd favorably by the President.
Officials would not predict, however,
whether he would hold out in
definitely against such settlement
if all the other interested parties
agreed to it.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-23
Thomas Tells Democrats
Ne WI MOI Bach: Treaty

WASHINGTON, Sept. Ex-senator
Thomas, Democrat. Of Colorado, in a
letter to the Colorado Democratic State
Committee, which he placed in The
Congressional Record to-day. an
nounced unat he could not vote for
ratification of the peace treaty
in its present form because of OBJ
jections to the league of nations cove
nant. He did not state whether he
would support amendments or reserva-
tions.
Severe criticism OF the league struc-
ture was made by Senator Thomas,
who replied to letter asking for his
view of the opposition to the treaty.
II cannot under my oath Of Office
cast my vote for ratification of this
treaty in its present FORM" wrote Sen
ator Thomas. He said the treaty was
a 'victor's treaty" with imposition Of
harsh terms, and added:
DOUBTLESS Germany deserves its
punishment end much more, but the
treaty nevertheless is freighted with
a CHASTITY cargo of future wars"