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The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-01-20
N 'OERM|TT LADIES
TO TAKE INITIATIVE
Especial Correspondence)

McDERMITT, January ia Leap
Year dance will be given by the
ladies of McDermitt and vicinity at
Baber's hall an Saturday, January
"a. Regulations to be enforced will
be posted in several public places.
Supper will be served at the Orevada
hotel and good time is assured to
everyone. Everybody come.
F. r. Sprauge, accompanied by Mrs.
Spargue and b. F. Palmer, returned
to Jordan Valley Saturday. Mrs
Sprague will visit Mrs. Palmer of Jor-
dan Valley and also expects to visit
Boise, Caldwell and other Idaho
cities
Arthur Lyon, who has been en-
ployed at the Utah Construction Com
pany's ranch, came home on Friday
and left Saturday for Boise, Idaho,
where he will enter high school, be-
ginning his Sophmore year.
The Saturday night dance at the
OTeVdua notel nad It's usual large at
tendance and a good time.
F. A. Swayne. former superinten-
dent of the Indian school here. left
Friday, accompanied by his family,
for the Duck Valley Indian reserva-
ton, where he has been appointed as
superintendent. The many friends of
the family regret their departure and
join in wishing them success in their
new home.
Alonzo d. Creel, supervisor, has ar
rived to take charge of the Fort Nc
Dermitt Indian school until a new
superintendent can be appointed
j. ID. Minor returned to Winnie
mucca Friday.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-01-20
TRAPPER OFFERED $500 FOR
WINTERS CATCH OF FURS

The price of furs is soaring. ac-
cording to the Elko Free Press, and
the humble little muskrat, that for
merry brought from ten to twenty
five cents. is now worth five dollars
and all other furs in comparison. Just
TO show what trappers are making, a
man recently came to Elko from Ruby
valley with several hundred muskrat
SKINS. and he was offered $500 for
MS winters catch. without an ex-
animation. A recent quotation from
an eastern fur house, offers 500 for
beaver pelt, and $50 for otter.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-01-20
WOOL MEN AGAINST
FALSE PROPAGANDA

An Associated Press Salt Lake dis
patch says that the passage of a res
olution urging the department of COM
merce to investigate misrepresenta-
lion in the sale of clothing and tc
prosecute the offenders in a vigor-
Gus manner was urged by president
r. J. Hagenbarth before the 300 dele
gates in an address of welcome OPEN
ing the sessions of the fifty-fifth an
3gal three-day convention of the Ma
ssonal Wool Growers Association at
Salt Lake City.
Wool growers should lend all in
fiuence and energy to suppress the
robbery of the public by those manu-
facturers and dealers who foist on
them all wool goods which are wooden
in name only" said president Hagen
barth.
Acting Governor Harden Bennion
welcomed the delegates on behalf of
the state, and this was responded to
by DR.. J. NJ Wilson of Douglas, wyo.
The message of president Hagen
barth was read after the word of well
come
Secretary-treasurer, S. w. Mcclure
in the reading of his annual report,
said approximately $4,000 has been
srent by the association during 1919
and that there was a cash surplus of
nearly $4,000 on hand
The resignation of Dr. Mcclure as
secretary of the association was of
ficially announced at the opening ses-
sion by president Hagenbarth. His
successor will be selected the last day
of the convention.
Speakers at the opening session
were: l.. l.. Heller of Chicago. as
s1stant secretary of the association.
on the subject .'Wetting Our Appe-
tite For Lamb" Will c. Barnes, Uni
ted States forest service, Washington.
ID. C., on Our National Forests" and
Cato Sells. commissioner of Indian
affairs, on Wool Growing on Indian
Reservations
: Following the day session, the dele
gates attended a string of boxing
events to be staged under the aus
pices of the Salt Lake post of the
American Legion.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-01-20
LUNING ANSWERING THE CALL
OF HIGH PRICE OF SILVER

Luning situated on the Nina
branch of the Southern Pacific, in
Mineral county, is destined to profit
from the revival in silver mining.
Operations have been started and will
be conducted on a substantial basis
on the property of the Luning Con-
solidated Silver Mines Company of
Nevada, embracing twenty-three
claims. formerly owned by the r. B.
Todd Mining Company and the Lun-
ing Gold Mines Company. and which
have produced quantities of shipping
ore in operations extending at inter-
vais over period of twenty years
The property has been surveyed for
patent Reno Gazette.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-01-20
FORMER RENO ATTORNEY DIES
AT SAN FRANCISCO HOME

Charles r. Levers, formerly a
prominent lawyer of Reno, and for
several years connected with the law
department of the Southern Pacific
Company, with offices in San Fran
cisco. died at one o'clock yesterday
morning in San Francisco from an
attack of pneumonia. He had been
Ill but few days and relatives in
Keno did not know of his illness un-
I'll they were advised by his brother,
robert Levers. who Immediately de-
parted for the Coast.-IReno Gazette.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-01-20
WOODLAND SUICIDE LEAyEVS
LOyELOCK FRIEND LETTER

Leon Bartinaga, a shepherd who
apparently had a sweetheart in Love-
lock, committed suicide yesterday at
remote station on the Conway
ranch. near Woodland, Cal, by slash
ing his throat with a razor. A strange
feature OF the case is that Barin-
aga's predecessor. Antoine Conde. was
also found dead only a week pre-
vlously, his body being discovered
hoating in slough.
When the coroner inspected the
effects of Barinaga. he found a note
addressed TO Miss Flora Olaeta. box
245, Lovelock, Nev.-[Reno Gazette
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-01-20
400 COUNTED IN CENSUS OF
CITY; PEOPLE HARD TO FIND

That she is having considerable diff
fculty in securing information for
the census is the statement of Mrs.
Georgia Rutherford. enumerator. To
date she has counted about 140O
names and is now working in the first
ward, the other two wards having
been completed. Mrs. Rutherford ex-
poets to complete her work by the
end of this week, although allowed
until the end of this month to finish
the work.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-01-20
QUINN RIVER BANK HELD
ANNUAL ELECTION JANUARY IL

AT meeting of the stockholders of
the Quinn River Valley bank, held
at McDermitt on January Is, the usu-
al dividend was declared and the old
board of directors reelected. Fol-
lowing is list of officers of the in
stitution, chosen to serve for 1920:
F, j. Palmer, president; j. d. Minor.
yice-president and G. C. Crawford,
cashier.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-01-20
WORK ON HOTEL HUMBOLDT
TO COMMENCE ON MARCH

Actual construction work will be
started on the Hotel Humboldt on
March |, according to a statement by
J. Sheehan, vice-president of the
First National Bank of Winnemucca
VINO returned from trip to the Coast.
The plans are now in the hands of
Archetict F. J. DeLongchamps, and
completion VII be rushed as much
as possible.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-01-20
HUMBOLDT Co. GETS
BOOSTED FOR 0PALS

I'm Humboldt county, Nevada, in
the heart of the great natural won
derland of the West" writes H. p.
Whitlock, curator of the department
cum of natural history, there have
quite recently been brought to light
some wonderful fossil remains of
trees. There are remarkable not
merely because they are trees which
have been turned to stone, but be-
cause the stone is the much sought
after opal, which has of late years
taken a high place among the popu-
lar gems.
"To reconstruct the process by
which this miracle of nature has come
about, we must go back many thou
sands of years to the time when these
trees clothed the mountain sides or
shaded the valleys over which
roamed the mastodon and the sabre
tooth tiger-a landscape far different
from that we see today from the train
window or the rackhorse trail. We
must conceive this country over
whelemed by some widespread dis
aster, POSSIBLY one of the earth
quakes which must have been fire.
quent in such a volcanic regiOn),
which reduced the growing forests to
a swamp, and buried the tree trunks
under many feet of water-soaked de-
bris. 1t was then, when the trees had
become mere water-logged snags, that
the process which converted them in
to opal began. For the water which
penetrated to their inmost pores was
not the innocent fluid we are accus-
toned to dip from wayside pond. but
a more or less heavily charged solu-
tion of silica. probably heated by vol
canic action.
Such mineral water, gradually,
as the woody substance of the trees
yielded to decay, replaced this sub
stance particle for particle with hy-
wonderful fidelity the cellular struc-
ture of the wood. Much of the opal
into which the wood has been trans
formed is of the variety called Semi
opal; but some of the colIoidal silica
has been deposited as precious opal.
and exhibits all the beautiful and
o1a acrip Of hot
"A fine and highly representative
series of these Nevada wood-opal re-
placements has been put on view in
the Morgan hall of minerals, in the
American museum of natural history.
Here all the steps in the process of
this remarkable transformation of
one unfamiliar with the varity of
color exhibited by precious opal, the
highly attractive exhibit comes as
positive revelation. Here one may
see clear, glass-like fragments of for
mer trees, which send out rich ultra
marine glow like veritable pool of
light. Other pieces fash with bril-
liant red, orange, blue and green,
shifting and varying with every
change of position. Broad sheets of
color and harlequinade-like shadings
contrast magnificiently A unique
specimen is of dark. smoky body col
or, which, when it catches the light
at the right angle, reflects back a
dull glow of red and orange, almost
as if there still burned in it some of
the fires of the extinct volcanoes
which were probably the first factors
in its metaphorosis."
The opal forest is in the northern
part of Humboldt county, near DEMO.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-01-20
SEVERAL FILINGS MADE

Late land filings before County
Clerk J. w. Davey are as follows:
Arthur G. Vedder. desert entry: Ed
ward Tolson. homestead and desert
entry; James c. Sawyer, desert entry.
all in the Rebel Greek section; Robert
U. Swift filed in Grass Valley under
the Pittman act. and Earl A. Wood
ward filed on land near Dyke under
the Pittman act.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-01-20
FINED SIXTY DOLLARS

Found guilty on a complaint charg-
ing disturbance of the peace, Y. Ar
rascada of Golconda was yesterday
fined $50 by Judge Ritchie.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-01-20
SINGLE-HANDED TRAIN ROBBER
MAKES BIG HAUL OF $4,000

Southern Pacific train No. 10 was
held up between Oakland and West
Berkeley on Saturday night and
currency and jewelry to the amount
OF $4,000 secured by the lone ban
dit. The man is described as about
thirty years old and wearing rough
clothes and it is believed that he had
outside assistance.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-01-20
CALIFORNIAN NAMED FOR JOB
ON NEVADA COMMISSION

III. ID. Sammis, tariff expert of the
California public service and railroad
commission. has been named secre-
tary of the Nevada public service and
railroad commission. to succeed Z. H.
Walker, who resigned a month ago to
take position with the Reno Cham
ber of Commerce.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-01-20
Special Meeting to Sell Bonds

A special meeting of the council
had been held on January 10 because
it was found out that the law author
izing sale of sewerage bonds read.
that $4,000 worth must be sold, anf
bond houses refused to buy the $40 0C
worth offered until the complete lc'
ter of the law lad been lived up to
1t was merely q matter OF form L,
straighten out a legal tapgla
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-01-20
ONLY THE BEST

Buying meats at the Winnemucca
Market you are assured of strictly
fresh meat. butchered. handled and
cut right Stock bought must be in
prime condition. All these things
make a big difference.-(Advt.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-01-20
Is KILLED WHEN a
COMPRESSOR BLOWS Up

According to special dispatch to
the Reno Gazette from Tonopah, Tom
Johnson, engineer at the Midway
mine. was killed by an explosion
which blew out the head of the COM
pressor in the engine room of that
property. Johnson was fearfully
mutilated and died shortly after be-
ing removed to the hospital.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-01-20
ANNUAL BANK MEETINGS

The annual meeting of stockholders
of the Winnemucca State Bank &
Trust Company was held this morn
ing, and Directors NJ. Reinhart, E.
Reinhart, j. b, Fayapt, Ed Stock and
Frank Gartiez were reelected. The
annual meeting of directors convened
at 3 o'clock this afternoon.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-01-20
TO WRITE SUFFRAGE HISTORY

The Carson City Appeal says that
Mrs. Sallie Blackwell of Carson City,
for many years past prominent suf-
frage worker. has been selected by
the heads of the Republican party TO
write the suffrage history of Nevada.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-01-20

Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Balm of Golconda
were in town today, accompanied by
their two and one-half year old son.
The youngster sustained an injury to
one of his hands at their home re-
Gently and is under the care of DR.
Pope of this city.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-01-20
WANT WELLS BORED

Frank Gouvia returned to Jungo to-
day after spending several days here
looking up well-boring outfit. He
says there are several ranchers in
his section of the Jackson Mountain
country who are anxious TO sink
wells.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-01-20
FIRST PAPERS

Bruno Gastnaga, resident of Para
disc Valley and native of Spain.
took out his first papers today. He
had taken out first papers once before.
but they had expired.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-01-20
NEW INTERIOR FINISHINGS

The interior of the Overland hotel
is undergoing thorough renovating,
the walls and ceiling of the lobby,
office and guest rooms being newly
tinted.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-01-20

G. W. Holton. a Western Pacific
brakeman, left yesterday for Deep
Greek, on the eastern division. from
which place he will run out.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-01-20

FOR SALE-Five-room brick house:
unfurnished: bath and pantry. APP
ply Mrs. j. A. Robinson, 244 w
Second street. J2Otf
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-01-20

FOR RENT--Nicely furnished front
bedroom; use of phone. Apply
35 West Third Street. j20t3.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-25
Matrimonial Oddities.

In bygone days in India women We're
sometimes allowed to choose their own
husband. One of their old fairy tales
tells of fair princess, who, after
tournament, placed garland around
the neck of a knight who had won her
heart.
Among the Eskimos of the east coast
of Greenland a man captures the girl
he wants, but from that time on the
usual order of things is reversed. He
has to exercise the greatest vigilance
to prevent her from clipping with any
other man whom she may prefer, as
this seems to be her privilege. In the
northern New Hebrides a bride who
is unhappy seeks the earliest oppor-
tunity of running away from her hus-
band and seeking a home with some
man she likes better. If her parents
cannot induce her to return to the in
jured husband they usually send him
a pig TO soothe his wounded feelings.
National Geographic Society Bulle-
tin.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-25
LIKE SWORD OF DAMocLEs
How Many Others Have UnwittinqIy
Sat In Peril Of Which They
Were Ignorant?

It may have Glanced that some of
us have unwittingly sat under & sword
of Damocles and through good luck
rather than good management" have
escaped its fall. DamOcles himself
was happily ignoraHt Of his danger
for a brief time.
The story. with its perfectly obvious
moral, is that In the reign of Do
nysius the Elder rs the ruler of SYRIA
cuse in Greece, years before the Chris
ton era, one Damocles, a member Of
the court, wishing TO establish himself
securely with the monarch, fattered
him unduly. Being a good deal of a
man and believing that "dattery. like
cologne water, Is to be smelled of, not
swallowed" Dionysius decided to
teach the courtier a lesson.
He invited him to a wonderful ban.
quet, which Damocles enjoyed greatly
until he perceived above his head a
sword which was held by one single
hair. How soon he was able to leave
his periIous station is unrecorded, but
his feelings during the rest Of the
feast may be imagined and need not
be described.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-25
DANGER IN ELECTRIC CURRENT
Neither Fixtures Nor Appliances
Should Ever Be Touched by
Anything That Is Wet.

No electric appliances should ever
be placed where a person In q bath
tub can reach them. Such is the as
sertion of DR.. A. Zimmern In the
Presse Medicale (Paris) In comment
ing on the death of colleague. Elec-
trocution has taken place with a cur
rent OF only 10 volts under such cir
cumstances.
The reason is that the water on the
hands and body provides exceptionally
favorable conditions for conduction OF
the current. 1t is not safe to touch
even an electric light, heater or bell
when in the bath. Doctor Zimmern
cites recent cases as follows:
A woman killed by holding an cleo
tric light in one wet hand while turn
ing q water faucet with the other; a
woman killed by wiping with wet
cloth the current distributing appar-
atus for an electric heater; man
receiving a severe shock by taking
hold of a chandelier while holding an
electric light suspended by wire.
1t is very dangerous TO change an
electric bulb when the hands are wet
or the floor is wet; slight defect in
the insulation may cause a severe
shock or even death.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-25
Get susyl

: Real development lies in arousing
the potential worth that has been ly-
ing dormant in your character. The
first step is in starting something that
will challenge the whole being to ac-
tivity. Many a man does not feel
equal to the tasks of the day. But
circumstances are such that he has to
make the start. The first few strokes
of the pencil may not mean much, but
the fact that he starts something
arouses him to keener thinking, and
before long he may be doing his best
work. And each idea begets another
until the fellow is aroused to full ca-
pacity. Yes, and there are occasions
when the very stress of necessity
makes a man rise to the supermah
that lies within each of Gods creo-
lures waiting the challenge worthy
of it.-Grit.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-25
LURE THAT TEMPTED MANY
Adventures az Well az Dreamers
Sought valnIy for the Tabled
Fountain Of Youth.

In that far-off, never-to-be-discov-
cred country in that region which has
shifted and changed just as mems
minds alter and expand. In that mys-
tic BimIni was thought TO be the
spring which, IL tasted by mortals.
would assure them immortal youth.
On that island dubbed a fountain
whose waters healed all manner of
sickness.
The lure of the Fountain OF Youth
seized upon not only the dreamer, but
caught the fancy OF the bold adven-
turer. Ponce de Leon, and the redoubt-
able De Soto sought to taste of its life
giving fluid. and 1t is perhaps the
mystery and wonder, coupled with de-
sire, that brought about the discovery,
not OF the fountain. but of that part
of our country known as Florida.
II was on the 9th day of March.
1913, that Ponce de Leon sighted land
which he thought was an island. On
April s. which was Easter Sunday, ne
took possession of the country IN the
name of the king of Spain and called
II, Pascua Florida in honor of the day.
He explored the country and was
obliged to battle with the Indians, and
after many adventures. which includ-
ed another voyage in 1921 to found a
colony. this intrepid navigator sue
cumbed to a wound inflicted by saw
age, and died while his vessel was
making for the island of Porto Rico.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-25
SLOW TO ACCEPT BUDDHISM
People Of Japan Loath to Embrace
Faith introduced Into the
Country by Korea.

Buddhism was introduced into Japan
by Korea in the year 5J2. 1t was first
embraced by the higher classes, parsic-
ulariy in scholarly circles, but the
lower classes still chung 10 their old
faith of Shintoism. The doctrines of
Buddhism were written in the Chinese
language and the believers offered
their prayers I'm that tongue.
AT one time Buddhism made such
strides as to become the state religion
In Japan. but the people still opposed
Ii with a determination of unfolding
their own ShintoiSm, until the states
men and priests invented an ingenious
way of explaining and interpreting the
religious principles of Buddhism.
They adopted the theory of monothe-
ism as well as polytheism by saying
that there is only one supreme power
which is personiied in the form of
various gods and goddesses. according
to the different countries and different
institutions.
The principles of Buddhism and
Shintoism were thus reconciled and.
in order to convince the popular mind
of this theory. Emperor Shomu pa
tronized a movement to erect large
bronze statue of DaibutSu or Buddha
at Nara, the statue being completed
In the year 752 after IA years of cast
ing and construction.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-25
Measuring sIudae.

An Ingenious method of measuring
the depth of sludge in deep sedimen-
tation tanks is employed at the sew
age disposal works of Fitchburg.
Mass, says q Canadian writer. The
measurements are made by means of
pitcher pump and % feet of l-inch
rubber hose, marked in 1-foot lengths.
The pump is screwed TO 3-foot plank
and attached to the hose by union
coupling. In making measurements
the plank is placed across the top of
a gas vent and the hose pushed into
the tank until 1t is near the supposed
sludge level. The hose is then low
cred an inch at time. Between each
shift sufficient pumping is done to
insure complete change of water In
hose. When the sludge level is reach
ed. the pump will raise sludge. The
length of the hose below the chimney
TOP is then noted, and as the distance
from top Of chimney to bottom OF
tank is known it is an easy matter to
estimate the depth of the sludge.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-25
This Old Earth.

In a recent lecture Sir Oliver Lodge,
the eminent English scientist who is
now visiting America, announced that
the earth would probably continue TO
exist for . ~S>JO.O00 years more. These
are, of co,a-se. round numbers. Some
scientists estimate that the earth VIII
live for ten times this age. There have
been animals of one kind and another
on this planet for fully this length IF
time. The dinosaurs are believed 10
have lived through some such period.
The age of man, which is probably only
few thousand years, seems the mer-
est trifie by comparison. When we
consider how man has developed DUE
ing recorded history, which is less than
ten thousand years, we may hope that
he will evolve to an infinitely finer type
In the future.-Boys' Life.