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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1920-05-20

FOR SALE-Two fresh cows; also
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1920-05-20
SATURDAY,

THE 22nd DAY OF MAY, 1920,
at the hour of ten o'clock A. NJ, at the
front door of the Court House in the
town of Oakland, Garrett County, Nd,
offer and sell at public auction to the
highest bidder the following described
pieces and parcels of land, situate, ~
ing and being in Garrett County afore-
said. to-wit:
No. 8. Part of tract of land called
"LOCHIEL," situate in Election
District No. II, Garrett County,
Maryland, which is fully describ-
ed by courses and distances In
deed from Jonas E. Wampler and
wife to w. Oliver McLane, ct al,
bearing date the 9th day Of
March, 1911, and recorded in Lii
Der No. 81, folio 593. Garrett
County records; said part con-
tanning "a acres, more or less.
ALSO part VI Luz No' VI IhS
subdivision of the tract known as
"LOCHIEL," situate as aforesaid,
which is particularly described
by courses and distances in deed
from John O. Wilhelm ct al, to
William o. McLane ct al, bear
ing date the 18th day of March,
1913. and recorded in Liber No.
GA, folio 555, etc., Garrett County
records, both of these parts be-
ing a portion of the land that was
conveyed to James P. Kenney,
Patrick 7. Mccain and Aloysius
1. Kenney by Oliver McLane ct al,
by deed dated May 14th, 1918,
and recorded in Liber No. "a,
folio 1872, Garrett County records.
One or both of said two parts will
be sold to satisfy and pay the
State and County taxes due and
in arrear on them and on other
tracts of land for the year
1919, as assessed on the Assess
ment Books of Garrett County in
the names of James P. Kenney,
P. T. McGann and A. l. Kenney.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1920-05-20

No. Is. All that piece or parcel of
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1920-05-20

Iotal.-.----- -------.-..-.... S5662l0 Gs
"Of the total loans and discounts shown
above, the amount on which interest and
discount was charged at rates in excess
OF those permitted by law (Sec. 5lg7, Rev.
stat exclusive Of notes upon which total
charge not to exceed SO cents was made)
was $1050O0. The number of such loans
was /.
State of MARYLAND, County of Garrett.
|, r. E. SLIGER, Cashier of the above
named bank. do solemnly swear that the
above statement is true to the best of
my knowledge and belief.
r. E. SLIGER, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this llth day of May. 1920.
CECIL SMITH, Notary Public.
Correct-Attest:
d. M. DIXON,
E. H. SINCELL,
W. H. SMoUsE,
Directors.
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-10-09

the Washoe range. Great mines of the future-Belcher, Crown Point, Yellow Jacket, Imperial Kentuck, Empire and others that yeilded inn mense sums a few years later-lay hidden in the solid quartz and vein matter that began hardly ten feet be- meath the surface.
 Old Virginia had taken up a spring in the ravine, but all the miners used 1t without rental. The dirt picked out from their respective claims was carried down to the waters edge and washed there, Old-style rockers being used. Pretty soon they had to pound the earth up with pick handle, it grew so hard as they dug deeper into the hill. It contained plenty of the same "blue stuff that had worried the miners in Gold Canyon, but they were becoming used to it by this time, and, besides, the claims were paying better than anything else in the mountains
 Interest Shifts to New Locality
 The real point of interest had shift ed to the head of Six-mile Canyon. Two Irish miners-Peter O'Riley and Patrick Mclaughlin, long among the best known of the Landowners, and old-time comrades-had been unfor- tunate in their recent ventures. Comstock said afterwards that he was paying them wages at this time, and that they were working on his claims, but in fact they had determined to go to the Walker River mountains to some new placers of whose richness many stories were told, and would
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-10-09
About the middle

pre-eminence.. About the middle
 of January" he says, q saw some queer-looking stiff in a gopher hole.
 l ran my hand in and took out a handful of dirt, and saw silver and gold in 1t Big John Bishop and Old
 Virginia were with me. When I found 1t they were sitting on the side ot the hill couple of hundred wards from me, l took up five clams'
 The day after the discovery all the JohnstoWners come over to the Ettle mound and passed their opinions upon the new diggings. The place was so small that most of them thouoht but little of the camp. However, it had to be named, of course, and that was always difficult task. The for tunate or grotesque names of camps have come by accident; when the miner attempt deliberately to give title to the place, his imagination generally fails him. It was so in this case. Canyon-town, Gold-town. and finally Gold Hill were the principal suggestions, and the latter adopted because, according to the naive ex- planation of Big French John, "it de- cidedly not Gold Canyon"
 In a few weeks the miners on Gold Hill ran into "pay dirt" that was sur prisingly rich for the district. They actually took out from. fifteen to twenty-five dollars a day to the man. They were working in the detritus of the south end of the Comstock, Ma lures own concentration. of many feet of outcropings, worn down and mixed with wash from the peaks of
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-10-09

have started at once, but had no mon ey. It was necessary to dig it out of the ground, so they agreed to try one more claim in Six-mile Canyon. and then leave for Walker River as soon as they had a hundred dollars flor grub stake"
 The only piece of unoccupied ground that seemed at all promising was on the hillside above all the other claims in the canyon, near a spring know as "Old Man Caldwell's" where some one had made a short sluice
 box for mining, but had evidently thought the spot unprofitable. They used rockers for fortnight upon their claims carrying the dirt to the spring, but the ground was hard, and paid them less than two dollars each for long days work. Remember ing the ineXplicable location of the Gold Hill .diggings on the top of mound, and guided in some degree by the color of the soil, they started a trench up the hill, in hard blue clay and yellowish gravel.
 The spring wasted down the slope, and they thought it would be good plan to dig a pit in the clay so as to reservoir a few barrels of water. They began this early in June, and here, at depth of four feet, they came upon a deposit of the same sort of heavy soil that had been found at Gold Hill. It was even darker, and sparkled with minute flakes of gold. Running swiftly to the mining trench fifty feet distance, one of them brought pan and test |
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-10-09

ed the find. The bottom of the ves- sel seemed fairly covered with prec- ious metal as soon as the gravel, clay and "black stuff were stirred up and allowed to slide over the edge.
 North End of COmstOck Vein
 This was the top of the world famous Ophir, the north end of the Comstock. The main masses of the mighty Assure vein extended in par alled line of fragmentary projections from the black mound of the Ophir south to the black mound of Gold HlIl.At some remote period, ages before, the great lode had risen hun dreds of feet higher, uncounted cen- turles of chemical and physical &C., ton had worn and broken it until thousands of tons of the hardest of quartz was soft as the fine sand. This is what miners mean by "de- composed quartz" it can be banned out or washed in rocker, Long Tom. or sluice box.
 O'Riley and Mclaughlin. shouted with delight; they had found another group of rich placers, alloyed, to be sure, with the same base metal that made their gold so hard to sell to the bankers, but still as good as the best in that district. No more notions of Walker River; they began mining in desperate haste, first sticking up a claim notice of fifty feet apiece. By sunset they had two or three hundred dollars in hand and black streak of what all the miners considered "bo- gus stuff" begand to extend down the
 (continued on Page p
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-10-09

1 The last year of the real placer
 mining in Nevada was 1858, and long
 before it's close the very air grew ] full of change and growth. Dull of
 comprehension, ignorant of their po-
 sition upon the verge of an unsur- 1 passed mining excitement, the seven- ty-five or eighty men now working
 in the very tops of the ravines east
 and south of Mount Davidson were
 nevertheless beginning to feel the
 thrill and presence of the spirit of | discovery. For the first time in
 years there was talk of prospecting
 parties throughout the district to look up better claims.
 Johnstown was again the center of
 activities in the winter of 1S58-59, for the weather was unusually cold, freezing the water in the gulches, so that the miners had a season of en- forced idleness. They spent it in dis cussing the situation, which certain ly contained elements of pathos and sarcasm. Nearly all of the John stown miners of 1858 were men who had been in the region for six or sev- en years. The only change in their occupations had come about as the character of the "diggings" changed. At first they had mined on the "bars" then on the flats then on the sides of ravines, ascending towards higher
 ridges. The ordinary auriferous gravel became of darker color; the soil of the hills was heavier and heavier clay, though still containing gold. The ground was difficult to handle, full of what they called "sand of iron" and a substance they called | lead, and a "heavy blue stuff" that carried off the quicksilver. Some times a miner, after working all day long, from sunrise to dark, with his back aching from the labor of clean ing his sluice box every few minutes from the "accursed base metal" that clogged every rifle, threw it down ] with fierce maledictions, to the bot tom of the ravine.
 The Story Begins
 Our story follows the fortunes of a little group of Gold Canyon miners John Bishop, known as Big French John," Aleck Henderson, Jack Yont and "Old Virginia" One day, about the 2Oth of January, while they were on the ridge immediately east of the canyon in which the town of Gold Hill was afterward situated, "Old Virginia" pointed to small, low and said, "Boys, I believe that some good diggings are waiting for us there."
 "Let us go and try it," one of them 
 "Some other time, boys; it's deep gulch and late in the day"
 "other time" came on a Saturday, January 18th, when four men went to the mound agreed upon. Bishop who had shovel, pushed it full of earth with his foot. "Old Virginia" found a gopher hole, and took a pan ful from the loose earth brought up from foot or two underneath. They went down to spring and, washing it out, found gold They immediately staked out four placer claims of fifty feet each, the limit allowed by the mining law in that district. "Old who was held to be the dis coverer, took the first choice.
 According to nearly every account of the real discoverers, Comstock on- ly ''came in afterward," but his own claims entire priority and
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-10-09

Recent inauguration of modern
 dredging by the Gold Canyon Dredg-
 ing Company, in Gold Canyon, Neva-
 da, which was elaborately chronicled
 in the Nevada Mining Press of the
 10th instant, supplied the basis for
 much reminiscent material relating to
 the discovery and naming of the
 worlds most famous silver-gold mines
 In the last issue of the Mining Review
 the story of the finding and marking
 of Comstock's grave was related.
 The following recital taken from the
 article referred to above, is so full of
 history relating to the subject and
 sets forth so realistically the events surrounding the first discoveries and
 operations of the pioneer prospectors
 and miners that, while it may seem like fiction to the present day reader its perusal will prove entertaining and educational:
 Charles Howard Shinn in "The Story of the Mine," gives the follow. ing account of placering at Gold Can yon, then part of the great empire of the State of Deseret, and known as Western Utah, and of the subse- quent discovery of the Comstock:
 The real beginning of placer min ing was early in 1850, when a Mor- mon emigrant train on the way to California camped in Carson Valley to recruit their animals, and several of the party made prospecting tour along the tributaries. Near the site of the present town of Dayton, at the mouth of Gold Canyon, they found gold, though not in large quantities. ] The details of this discovery are in teresting. On May 18th William Prouse "took tin milk pan, went down to the creek, and washed out a little of the surface dirt" If there had been any prospectors in the par ty the riches of Gold Canyon would have been discovered in a short time from this clew, but the Mormans only saw the ashen-hued, barren land which they were anxious to leave; they went on, but found the great Snowy Range, as they called the Sier- ras, still impossible, and so they turned back to their former camp. John Orr and Nicholas Kelly now named the ravine Gold Canyon, and they spent three weeks looking for the precious metal. On June 1st Orr thrust a butcher knife into srevice at the edge of small cas- cade" and pried out a nugget worth perhaps ten dollars. A few days lat CT the whole company packed up and crossed the Sierras.
 Whether Prouse and Orr told oth- CTS or not, the news of the discovery somehow crept abroad. In August some immigrant camping in the val ley saw a train of Mexicans with mules and wooden bowls, provisions and miners tools, crossing the hills to Gold Canyon. Two American boys among the immigrants followed the Mexicans and found that Don Ignacio Paredes was the chief, and that the party was originally from Sonora, Mexico, but had recently come from California. Provisions were so costly however, (flour being $1.50 pound), that several small groups of miners who tried to work the Gold Canyon placers abandoned the region in 1850. Nevertheless this discovery led in time to the discovery of the Comstock lode, for Gold Canyon heads far up the side of Mount Davidson, and the metal it contained came from the wash and overflow of the great ifs '
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-10-09
Romance 0t the COmst0ck;;
 HOW Famous Lode GOtName
Discovery of the COmstOck

modern ! sure vein.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-01
MANuFACTURING PLANT
OF FATAL BOOZE FOUND

NEW YORK, Jan. Limited States
Marshal Power announces that he be-
lieyess he has discoyered the wood alco-
hol whisky misunderstanding headqHai,-
5ters efsJohn RnFTlaileln, Brooklyfi si1lder I
thlter, and Samuel Saleeby, Brooklyi.
druggist, held hare ID tsonne0tibn WIN
the distribution of poison liquor
throughout New England. The place
was a Brooklyn garage, ne said.
Rcceptacles and chemicals used In the
manufacture of liquor and perfumes,
several empty barrels which "had con-
tanned wood alcohol and some burned
sugar were found by the marshal, Chief
Deputy Marshal Dowden and Internal
Revenue Inspector Gardner, the an
,nouncement said. All these things were
seized, and persons Oh the premises
were taken to United States District At
torney Ross offices for examination.
Among other things found in the ga
rage were a three quart bottle labeled
''medicated alcohol, poison, for exter-
nal use only" another bottle labeled
"Flavoring for Scotch whisky" several
bottle of oil of juniper berries, essence
of caramel and denatured alcohol. The
raiders were told that men had been
working in the garage every night re-
Gently, from 10 pm. TO am. mixing
and hottling the whisky" which was
distributed from the place.
Late yesterday another raid was made
on n Brooklyn saloon owned by Max
Harris and IL gallons of liquors of va
rious kinds were seized. Harris was
arrested and held to nwait the action
Of the federal grand jury.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-01
Mud Islands Tail
Gone; Maybe Ship
Mystery Got 1t

What fate has befalen the tail of
Before the Mississippi river began its
unusual antics during the early fall
Mud island was the proud possessor OF
a cute little tail that extended from the
foot of Monroe avenue TO a point in The
river opposite Beale avenue.
or course the tail was an obstruction
10 navigation and government dredges
worked long and faithfully TO reduce its
length; but without apparent success.
, Whiie this work was at its height
OF the island, along with a large pnr-
ton OF the main island disappeared be-
low the swirling brown waters of the
Dig muddy. Day after day the gauge
climbed until the crest passed with the
stage at S25 feet, then It began to fall
slowly at first, then rapidly.
New Years day dawned clear and
cold. and meanwhile the stage Of the the
river had dropped nearly four feet.
Mud island had it appeared. grown
taller over night, but nowhere in sight
was the harmless looking peninsula
that pointed southwark from Monroe
avenue like giant finger, toward the
Mexico.
Whether or not some giant Of the
deep has devoured Mud islands tail
while It was b1ried beneath the sur
lace of the Mississippi will never be
known, Of course, but conservative oh
servers believe that the dykes con
structed from Robinson Crusoe island
for the purpose Of DETECTING the cur
rent have begun their work and that
during the high water the lower portion
OF the island was washed away
At any rate, no trace of the island
can be seen below Monroe avenue
while but q few short months ago il
extended several hundred feet below
that point
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-01
WILL PRESS AUTO
TH|EVERY CHARGES
Preliminary Hearings of Three
Accused Youths To Be
Held on Friday.

kerens Pumphrey Beverly Stegall
and Earl Bailey, youths, implicated in
the theft of the automobile of Joe b.
Burney, chief OF police, and its sale in
the state OF Mississippi win be given
q preliminary hearing Friday before
George II, Poole. United states com.
missioner. The three are charged with
two offenses each that of transporting
an automobile stolen In one state 10
another and of conspiracy to violate a
statute Of the United States.
PINK Callicott and Ernest McLendon
OF Mississippi, have also been arrested
in connection with the same case and
are under bond to await the action OF
the federal grand jury at Memphis next
May. They were given a preliminary
hearing in Mississippi
An effort is being made by ]. w.
humphrey. father OF Kerens Pumph-
rey, 70 have him sent TO the govern
ment reformatory at Washington rather
than have him face indictment and
probable trial In the United States
district court. Whether or not these
eHorts Will be successful remain TO be
seen. humphrey was indicted on one
occasion In tHe state courts for the
THEFT Of an automobile and was also
shot while attempting to get away with
tried for this offense.
Four negroes are also held kv the
Rpvernment as material Efsnesses
against the five white men. III being
stated that the negroes win testify thai
they. we're employed to alter the motor
numbers on automobiles stolen In Mem
phis and taken TO Mississippi TO be
disposed of,
Pumphrey Bailey and StegaN were
first arrested by the police department
In connection with the theft OF Chief
Bnrney's automobile, The government
interested Itself in the case and special
agents OF the department of Justice
took over the investigation which re :
suited in the issuance Of warrants
charging violation of the Dyer act
against Humphrey. Bailey and Stegall
The Dyer act prohibits the transporta-
ton OF stolen automobile from one
state to another.
After further Investigation the COW
ernment agents caused the issuance ~
ahother warrant against Bailey
humphrey Stegail. McLendon and cal
icott charging them with conspiracy to
violate the Dyer act. The first three
were In Jail at Memphis at the time
ana the other two were arrested M
senato6ia, Miss. and given preliminary
hearing. The preliminary hearing Of
Bailey, Pumphrey and Stegall viii be
held at o'clock Friday afternoon be-
fore Commissioner Poole4
Bailey and Pumphrey have been at
liberty on bond for their appearance he.
fore the commissioner. Stegall has not
made bond. 'V'
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-01

Don't Be Afraid
TO Answer The
Census Takers

Uncle Samuel has an awful bunlp of
cufl0sityi For the fourteenth decenniai
time he's IS starting his Agents out 70
tind out how many uepheRs and nieces
he has He wants 10 know about the
new baby and whether grandpa is still
holding on and a whole lot of other
things concerning his folks. He is a
regular old crank about his folks.
His census enumerators, who begin
work in Memphis Friday morning, VIII
ask you these questions when they
come around TO you:
Sex?
Color or race?
Age at last birthday?
Single, married, widowed or divorced? 4?
Birthplace of yourself and parents?
Occupation?
Whether attending school?
Whether able to read?
W1ether able to writer
Whethex able to SPEAK English?
Whethen home is owned or rented?
Persons OF foreign birth will be asked
questions concerning these additional
points:
Year of immigration? ST.
Whether naturaliZed?
Mother tongue or native language?
Now don hesitate to answer any of
these question, even If you happen to
be lady above the age of 16-which
Is unlikely Just tell the census per-
son Your age n everything. You need
have no fear about being frank for tho
census taker won't blab TO your next
door petghbor or anyone else. He is
sworn to secrecy by your Uncle Samuel
And another thing: His questions have
pothing to do with income taxes, or any
other taxes. nor your stock Of wood all
cohol, your household still, brewery or
other modern convenience. The ques-
tions are put merely that Uncle Sam
may find out the quantity, kind and
general condition of his vital resources
his nepheMs and nleces
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-01
DAY QUIETLY OBSERVED
IN NATIONS CAPITAL

WASHINGTON, Jan. New Years
day was quietly observed here today.
In official circles there was the usual
round OF social functions, although at
the White House there was no formal
celebration because Of the Illness OF the
president. Secretary of State Lansing
and Mrs. Lansing were the hosts at
luncheon for the diplomatic corps
and receptions were held by Secretary
OF the Navy and Mrs. Daniels, Secre-
tary Of War and Mrs. Baker, and AS
sistant Secretary of War and Mrs.
Crowell
The New Year received a noIsy well
come last night from crowds on the
streets but there were no pubic OF
formal celebrations otheg. than LILO
chHreh and home watch fafki4 sfisl
hails. Tho customary watch pdrfy af
the White House was dispensed with
because OF President Wilson'S condi
tion. Messages 10 the nation we're is-
sued by Vice President Marshall and
several members of the cabinet, in all
Of which was expressed note OF op-
timism for the coming year