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The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-03-27
HAS GARGANTUAN APPETITE

BERKELEY, CAL, March 18.-Sam
Lemuel Ashe, freshman, fraternity
man and athelete of the University
of California, has offered to take on
all corners in either a waffle or a hot
cake eating match. Ashe holds the
record at the Berkeley institution of
higher learning for both of the
breakfast commodities. In a recent
exhibition he ate twenty-seven and a
half waffles and drank eleven cups
Of coffee as a lubricant at one sit
ting. His record for hot cakes Is
thirty-six.
Ashe offers to compete with any
worthy opponent, either with or with
out coffee, provided that the waffles
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-03-27
The Humboldt
DORIS CooNEY and oRxANDE BELL, Editors
Published Weekly by the Humboldt County High School

fourth of June, so the graduation ex-
ercises will take place Thursday
night, June 8. A play was finally de-
cided upon. The class will elect an
editing staff for the senior annual,
so Stanley Brown was chosen editor;
Irminna Stevenson, associate editor;
Alice Stauffer, business manager. 1t
was also decided to have the editor
appoint an assistant editor from each
class.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-03-27
w

The boys in the mechanical draw
ing class are doing some very practi-
cal work. The drawing is as closely
related to the machine shop as 1t is
possible to make it, and in this re-
spect it approaches the actual work
ing conditions found in the larger
manufacturing plants.
All the tools, both for the shop ano
the students, and the pieces of equip
ment to be used in the shop or Other
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-03-27
DAFFY DIS

Mabel, giving her special report in
civics-"They swept the streets and
put them in the carts engaged for
that purpose"
Miss Higgins-"James, what is a
fraction"
James-"A fraction is that part OF
mathematics that has or contains a
numerator and denomination"
Professor Tin American literature
class)-"What is the earliest prose
fction?"
Student-"The Bible"
Student translating "Haec in Gal
liam importantus"-"Hike into Gaul,
it's important"
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-03-27
FALLON'S BASKETBALL TEAM
LOST STATE CHAMPIONSHIP

Fallon's sterling girls basketball
team lost the state championship in
the interscholastic tournament In
Reno by just one point, when pitted
in the finals against Lovelock's high
school girls team. The score of the
crucial game vas 25 to "a. To show
how largely luck figures in such
events, Gladys Maxwell, star for
ward of the Fallon team threw a
basket just as the whistle blew
marking the conclusion of play.
Partisans of the local team asservate
that Fallon's loss of the champion
ship was the result of a dirty deal,
our girls having been forced to play
two games on the last day OF the
tournament, going into the last and
hardest contest exhausted from the
morning contest with the Gardner
vile team, which they won handily.
At the conclusion of the first half
of play with the Lovelock Misses the
Fallon girls were leading by twelve
points, but tired, and finally lost as
a result of what must seem a very
unfair schedule.
The above article was taken from
n of the Fallon papers after the
state tournament in Reno, where the
Winnemucca girls won the cham
pionship.
That it is most unfair in every par
ticular is very evident. In the first
place. Fallon's team never reached
the finals, in fact they never reached
the semi-finals. They were defeated
by Lovelock in the first round, by a
team which Winnemucca had already
defeated twice, the last time by a
score of 29-4.
Fallon's team, while a good one,
nev had a chance for the champion
ship and would have ranked no better
than fourth or fifth If the teams had
been ranked according to merit by
unprejudiced judges. Fallon's two
games were played on the first day of
the tournament and not on the last
as he paper has put it.
Winnemucca played two games the
last day of the tournament against
two teams, either of them stronger
than Lovelock, the hardest team Fall
Ion had to play. We are not COM
planning, we think that the schedule |
-vz- A. e4---x 49, - -
arranged, so come on, Fallon, and
acknowledge that you were not
beaten by M point for the cham
sports and admit you were beaten a
mile before you ever started.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-03-27
SHOP

Several Of the patterns that the
boys made recently. sent to the Reno
foundry, have been cast in iron and
returned. These castings are now
being machined in the lathes and
shaper. They are all to be used in
the shop as part of its equipment.
There are forty-five degree and nine
ty degree angle plates, for use in the
lathe and drill press, cast iron sur
face and riveting plates, heavy duty
bar holders for the lathes, etc. Some
of the boys are making machinist's
tools for themselves. such as several
sizes of tap ~wrenches, center punches,
drift punches, etc. Neal Springer and
Don Rose are getting ready for a
track meet, and are making 12-foot
vaulting and high jumping stands.
Considerable interest has been shown
in the various branches of the field
athletics lately. Almost daily the
fellows have been exhibiting their
prowess in Javalin throwing, shot
putting, broad jumping, etc. Most of
the shop boys are In favor Of fixing
up a regular all-round athletic field
in the real of the high school build
ing. A little flash of enthusiasm in
our national game was also sc
Let's encourage the growth and popu-
larity of these sports all we can.
Charles Garteiz is fixing up the ten
mis- net posts and making sockets to
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-03-27
HOME ECONOMICS

The Sewing l and II classes have
finished their Easter bonnets and the
hats were put in the Eagle Drug
Store window Friday for display.
There are about twenty different
styles, of all shapes and hues. Some
Of the students not in the sewing
class also made hats.
The household science class is
working on transparent hat frames.
This is being done to give the class
knowledge of how to do wire work.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-03-27
PERSONALS

Marguerite Otis has been absent
from school this week, on account of
having the measles.
Maxine Moore has quit school in
the afternoon, attending only In the
morning.
The civics class had special re-
ports pertaining to that subject on
Thursday and Friday.
James Otis has quit school.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-03-27

are of standard make, W. inches
in diameter and half an inch thick.
He will eat them with or without but
ter. but claims that he must have
syrup.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-03-27
TURKEYS FOR EASTER

Live turkeys are on hand and Will
be killed to order for Easter. Order
now to avoid disappointment.
Adv. WINNEMUCCA MAhhEI.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-03-27
SENIOR MEETING

The seniors held another meeting
Tuesday to decide what should be
done for entertainment the last three
days of school. School closes the
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-03-27

When you think OF good printing
think of The Silver State and be right.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-10-21

For all the toll the desert takes of
a man it gives com%pensations, deep
breaths, deep sleep, and the com
munion of the stars. 1t upon
one with new force in the pauses of
the night that the Chaldeans were a
desert-bred people. 1t is hard to es-
cape the sense of mystery as the stars
move in the wide, clear heavens to
risings and settings u~nobscured. They
look large and near and palpitant, as
If they moved on some stately serv-
ice, not needful to declare. Wheel
ing to their appointed stations in the
sky, they make the poor w~orld-fret of
no account. OF no account YOU who
lie out there watching, nor the lean
coyote that stands off in the scrub from
you and howls and howls.-Mary
Austin, in 1.-THE Land Of Little Rain"
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-10-21
VERA CRUZ WORTH VISITING
Mexican City Has a Number of At
fractions That Invite the
Wandering Tourist.

Vera Cruz is a city Of contrasts. It's
wildly painted houses of red, blue and
yellow. built close to the narrow
streets, have grated windows and
heavy, forbidding doors, which give
little evidence Of the charming inte-
riors with their patios, palm-shaded,
filed with exotic flowers and cooled
by fountains.
Modern street cars look out Of place
in the same streets with burros laden
With merchandise, fruits and vege-
tables. and caballerOs in their broad
sombreros, WILDLY colored blankets,
enormous spurs and silver-moumted
saddles. Even the tropical climate is
in sharp contrast with the snow
| capped. extinct volcano, Orizaba, which
! towers almost 10000 feet into the cold
air above. Although this peak is near
ly fifty miles away from the city. it
can be plainly seen from there and
makes q beautiful picture standing
white against the sky or catching all
| the col0rs Of the sunrise.
AlOL!lpF ltIill OL ullcltSt Is tiG dil
cient fortress Of San Juan d'Ulloa,
which is built on an island, connected
to the mainland at the northern end
by a long sea wall. It has a fair ex-
terror, being painted q pure and radi-
ant white, but hidden beneath this in
nocent mantle are dark and noisome
dungeons where many political pris-
oners of Mexico have been kept for
years.
Turning hastily from this unpleas-
! ant scene, gentle reader, let us retrace
our steps to the center of the city,
which is marked by the plaza. This
is q large and beautiful square filled
with palms and flowers, and watched
over henignly by the ancient and
stately cathedral. Every evening dur
ing the band concert it is the quaint
custom of the youths of Vera Cruz tc
promenade around the square on the
outside of the walk in n direction
While the young girls, carefully watch
oil nver nv their dlennaS. walk in the
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-10-21
Attempts of Government Heads
and Mine Leaders to Reach
an Agreement Fail.
MILLION Men affected
Expectation of Coal from Great Britain
Halted-Other European Nations
to Feel Fuel Pinch With
England.

London-The British coal strike,
which is foreseen as one Of the most
tremendous demonstrations of labor's
power the world has ever seen, went
into effect at the close of the days
work Saturday.
Eleventh-hour efforts to prevent the
men from going out have failed. The
government heads and the mine lead
ers conferred and when the meeting
was over executives Of the miners sent
out the strike order kilograms.
The official statement on the subject
said:
Gin view Of the governments unsat-
isfactory reply, the districts have been
notified by telegraph to cease work"
1t was predicted that the strike may
last six weeks. There is a possibility
that the railway men may join.
The government, too, is prepared for
a showdown. The first step in defense
was taken when the expectation Of
coal from Great Britain was halted.
Non-British vessels coming to British
ports will not be permitted to coal.
Inventory of Coal on Hand.
The next several days will be used
in making an inventory of the coal on
hand. When this is completed some
arrangement will be made to coal the
mailcarrying ships of foreign nations,
British Shipping will not be interfered
with by the order.
Thousands of automobile owners al
ready have offered their machines to
the government for use if rail trans.
portation fails because of lack of fuel
should the railway men join in the
strike. Coastwise ships are being
modified and hundreds Of airplanes
have been made available.
There is to be an immediate ration.
ing of food staples.
Due to the order forbidding Goa!
shipments the strike will be felt almost
as quickly in France, Spain, Holland
Belgium and the other European coun
tries as in England.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-10-21

seat Of the valve forcing a 6upounu
air pressure. A valve which is, after
testing by gasoline seepage, to all ap-
pearances o. X, will frequently fail
with this air test. After the different
parts are assembled and the motor is
ready for timing, the ignition parts are
drawn from that department and in
stalled.
Ready for Test.
"The motor is now ready for test,
and again becomes the property Of
the inspection and test department.
This is where they try to hang the
crepe on the motor repair. II the
motor is rejected a report is made by
the test block section, giving reason
for rejection and suggesting the rem
edy if possible. a report is made by
the chief of motor repair of what was
found wro-g, and the correction made.
"The reports go to the engineer of
icer, who then does the heavy growl-
ing. After q second and successful
block test the motor is tagged o. H.,
the tag showing r. 2. NJ, running
time, oil pressure and the kind Of pro,
peller used. Here again it becomes the
property Of the engine repair. If the
engine is to be placed at once in 4
plane it passes to the final assembly,
but if it's destination is unknown the
intake and exhaust ports are closed,
cylinders filed with oil, the entire
motor sprayed with q protective coat
ing of cosmoline applied rapidly and
efficiently with an ingenious air gun,
and is then ready for shipment, or for
storage, leaving the aviation repair
depot in either case a thoroughly re,
built, inspected, tested and, in the
case of a rotary, properly nussed
motor"
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-10-21
Not a Stickup.

While motoring in Tennessee on a
lonely road one night we were being
followed in a machine containing five
colored men. They kept uncomfort-
ably neal us. and after q few miles
we motioned them to pass, hoping they
would speed along, as we feared 4
possible holdup. Instead of continue
ing on. they stopped directly in front
of US, and when one big black fellow
asked us to stop our hearts We're al
most at a s%tandstill. However, we
breathed easier when he said: will
you-all be Sc kind as to let us have a
little gas? We sho' can't make it to
town, TO- we am about out,"-ES-
change.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-10-21
American Pearls.

/ There is a species of green or iri-
descent pearl found occasionally in
the abalones, or a shells, of the Cal
|~ifornia coast. Black and gray pearls
fare found in Lower California waters;
white, pink, brown and other colored
pearls in some Of the fresh water
brooks of Ohio, Tennessee, Texas,
Kentucky, and Wisconsin; purple and
black pearls are sometimes found in
tthe shells of the common clam Of Long
lIsland sound and the Atlantic coast.
THE principal pearl fisheries of the
world are Ceylon, the Persian gulf,
western Australia, Torres straits and
the Sulu archipelago.
The University Of Santo Tomas Is
20 years older than Harvard.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-10-21
ST. PAUL GIRL is ATTACKED

Threatened With Death After Attempt
to Call Help.
St. Paul-While detectives in the
Twin Cities searched in vain for the
slayer of ~17-year-old Dorothy Bowers,
who was murdered Wednesday night,
a mar answering the same description
as the degenerate who committed the
Minneapolis crime attacked and as
saulted an ~1S-year-old St. Paul girl in
a vacant lot at Albert and James
streets shortly after s p. m. The girls
assailant held a revolver against her
body, threatening to kill her if she
made a cry for help.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-10-21
~Popocatepetl Active.

Mexico City-The volcano of Popo-
catepetl was in eruption for the first
time in more than 400 years. A dense
cloud OF black smoke belched forth.
With the first sign of activity of the
ancient crater a panic started in the
nearby towns, but this was allayed
when observation failed to disclose
any lava.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-10-21
Four-Year-oId Boy Shot Mother.

When his mother tried to stop four
year-old Harold Graham, of Greenvil'e,
KY, from carrying a loaded shotgun
out of their hoGe, the child pulled
the trigger. The load hit the mother
full in the breast and killed her in"
stantly.
Jamestown-Dr. a. w. Guest, for 10
years q practicing physician in James
town. has been named to succeed Dr..
w. NJ. Hotchkiss as head of Ike state
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-10-21
WHEN AIRPL|- \ InE:
MOTOR BALKS
OverhauIing Of Engine Very In
teresting Process.
GREATEST OF CARE is TAKEN
Friendly Rivalry Between Different
Departments in Trying to Get Some
thing on the Other Serves to Pro-
mote Efficiency-Parts Are Carefully
Inspected and Tested in Each Sec
ton Before Motor Gets Final 0. X.

When an airplane motor stops some
thing always happens-if the motor is
in q plane flying at any altitude. Many
a witty story has been told by pilots
and ground mel in reply to the Ques-
ton: "What happens if the motor
stops?"
TO follow a motor through the nu-
merous branches Of the aviation re-
pair depot at Montgomery, Ala, and
attempt to grasp what is done to it in
an actual overhaul is a very interest
ing process.
The overhaul of an airplane motor
is described as follows, in a statement
authorized by Maj. Gen. Charles L.
Mencher, director of the air service,
himself an expert mechanic:
~OverhauIing "a Motor.
Upon its arrival on the field the
motor is checked and is Immediately
given a work order to guide it on its
way, and make possible a careful rec
ord of it's repair and cost. 1t is first
taken to the dismantling room, care
lully oAC I plSNSS aIlN M
ito the wash rack and washed with
Kerosene and gasoline. All carbon is
removed and the pistons are carefully
polished to remove all r%oughness, that
carbon might not adhere so readily.
FromsSth Washrack it is transferred
to the inspection room, where it is
given q most thorough inspection.
Parts which are worn Or damaged to
such an extent that they cannot be re-
placed are Immediately salvaged.
Parts that are repairable are trans
ferred, where the necessary repairs are
made, and returned again to the in
spector. A triplicate list Of all parts
repaired and condemned is made, II
following the motor, n going to the
engineer officer, and n is kept on
record in the inspection room. After
the motor is passed by the inspectors,
the stOck-chaser checks up by the in
spection report the parts which have
been. condemned, and draws from:
stock new parts to take their places.
He also draws a complete set of gas
kets for every motor, and tries to aet
liver the motor to the motor assembly
department as nearly complete as pos
Sible.
1.-THE motor now becomes the prop
erty of the motor assembly depart
ment. 1t has gone safely through the
inspectors and all parts are supposed
to be in perfect condition. but the me-
chanic has a perfect right to reject
from his motor any part which he finds
faulty. There is friendly rivalry be-
tween the two departments, the me
chanic, as a rule, loves to hang some
thing on the inspection department.
Thus a double inspection is developed.
In this department the bearings are
reamed and scraped, all bearings test
ed by dial Indicator tests for clear
ance, valves ground and tested for
leaks. Cylinder blocks which have
been drawn from stock and valves
which have passed the factory inspec-
| tors test, after assembly are often
found leaky and do not come up to A.
r. ID. test. This test consists of filling
the intake port hole with gasoline, and
from inside the cylinder around the
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-10-21
REPUBLIC FALLS
Report Says Picking Government
Overthrow.
General Chang Tsao-Lin, Military Lea
der, Declared to Have Proclaimed
Monarchy.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in Shang-
hal that the Picking government
had been overthrow are believed
by officials here to be disposed of
by a message received at the
White House from President Hsu
Shin Chang, president Of the Chi
nese republic.
straightforward Chang Tsao-Lin,
governor Of Feng-Tien, has overthrown
the Picking government and proclaimed
a monarchy, according to a report cur
rent in this city. The rumor has not
been authenticated, and no details
have been received here, but Chinese
officials have been profoundly stirred
by it.
General Chang Tsao Lin probably
was the strongest military leader dur.
ing the recent conflict between. the
Chili-Anfu parties. He played a lead
ing part during that trouble and was
anese.
1t is the supposition here that the
coup, if it really has taken place, is an
effort to restore to the throne former
Emperor Hsuan-Tung, son of Prince
Chun.
General Ii Shun, commander of Chi
nese troops in the province of Kiaggsu
and Kiangsi, and leader of a powerful
political clique, committed suicide at
Marking by shooting himself. The
text of his will declared his action
was due to developments at Picking
and the failure of measures he had
advocated for the "%salvation of the ma
ton"
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-10-21
DANIELS ORDERS AN INQUIRY
To Investigate Wholesale Killing of
Natives in Haiti.

To Investigate Wholesale Killing of
Natives in Haiti.
misunderstanding Of the Navy
Daniels ordered a court Of inquiry to
make exhaustive Investigation into all
'indiscriminate killing" of natives in
Haiti by American marines, as charged
by General Barnett, former command
ant Of the corps, in his report.
Admiral Henry 7. Mayo, Admiral j..
H. Oliver and Brigadier General Pen
dleton we're named as members of the
court. They are authorized to send for
all persons and papers and sift every
particle of evidence so that any man
in American uniform guilty of wrong
doing in Haiti, may be brought to
trial.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-10-21
STREET ORATORS ARE UPHELD

Court Finds Law Against Speakers
Without Permit Unconstitutional.
White Plains, N. Y.-Supreme Court
Justice Keough declared unconstitu-
tional the Mount Vernon, N. Y, ordi-
nance under which Socialist speakers
have been arrested while attempting
to speak on the streets without a per-
nit.
The decision was claimed by the
American Civil Liberties union as it's
first victory in it's nationwide cam
pagn for "restoraton of free
speech"
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-10-21
Beet SUGAR Price Cut.

Denver-The Great Western Sugar
company announced a drop of i cent
a pound in the price of refined beet
sugar to jobbers. The reduction is
effective Immediately, it was said. The
new price for beet sugar is $11.S2 a
hundred.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-10-21
Big Gold Cargo Arrives.

New York-Gold from the Bank of
England, valued aat $1,000, 900 and
consigned to the Federal Reserve bank,
arrived here on the steamship Adriatic.
She also brought $s,00O.0O0 worth for
Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-10-21

Report Attempt to Blast Mayors Home
Detroit-One man was under arrest
and four others were sought by police
here following a report that an attempt
was to have been made to blow up the
home Of James Couzens, Detroit's
mayor.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-10-21
Facing Life Sentence, Suicides.

Duluth, Minn.-Andres Koski, 80
years old, under sentence of life i'm
prisonment upon conviction of the
murder of Jacob Carlson of Markah,
Mimi, was found dead in his cell at
the county Jail. He had tied a pair Of
~suspenders around his neck and fas-
tened them to an iron bar in his cell
window.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-10-21
FavolIe Sails for Home

New York-General Marie Emile
Fayolle Of France, representative of
Marshal Foch at the recent American
Legion convention, sailed for home on
La Touraine.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-10-21
TWO CONylCTs START RIOT
Hold Guards of Maryland Penitentiary
at Bay for Hours.

No Ut fFIHEy ToITU CTTTIEITITdTJ
at Bay for Hours.
Baltimore-Two prisoners, armed
with pistols, taken from overpowered
guards, attempted to stampede the con-
,victs at Maryland penitentiary into a
general riot.
The two men, David Bender, muir
derer, and James c. Evans, sentenced
for robbery, surrendered to Marshal
Of Police Carter, after they had held
the p~enitentiary guards at bay for
nearly an hour.