The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-07-28

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F. d. Quirk of this city has the
best trained Ford yet reported, and
some wonder stunts have been told
OF this famous brand of flivvers,
since first coming into popularity, re-
ports the Virginia City Chronicle.
Mr.. Quirk, in preparing for fish
ing trip this morning stopped his car
in six-mile Canyon, set the brake and
went down in the creek to dig bait
Happening to glance up he missed the
car and so rambled up the bank into
the road just in time to see it speed
ing down the steep grade around a
turn in the road. He Immediately
gave chase. but the racer had too big
start and continued zig-zag course
for about a mile down the canyon
road, negotiating three turns at 40
miles an hour in expert fashion. A
reverse curve, however. proved too
! complicated and the car went in the
ditch after SCATTERING all speed rec
ords for the distance, but still right
side up. The only damage was
bent headlight. The theory is that
the car tired of waiting and started
out on its own accord for the Carson
river, nearly making it,
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full of the wherewithal for plenty of
"gas" which to motivate the cam
paign.
But Oddie's friends the prospectors
all over the state, began to sit up and
take notice They furnished an I'M
mistakable comeback in the widely
circulated reply. I'VE buy the gaso-
linei" The candidate himself never
was allowed to furnish one quart of
the juice for his machine all through
that campaign. Every place he
stopped. someone who believed in him
filled his tank with gas" and babe
him Godspeed
That confidence in him survived
the election and in 1910 he went into
office as governor for four years, dur
ing which time he accomplished many
things he had set out to do and many
things for which the state of Nevada
had been crying.
Nevada had long been celebrated
for two things. firstly, its justly ia
nous gold and silver mines. and
secondly, its easily obtainable di-
vorce. Reno, no mean city and a
fine business town. had been handi-
capped in one way by its reputation
as mecca for transients who sought
quick disposal of marital obliga-
tions. Men and women came their
breezy way to stay for half-year
periods to get their DEGREES.
Divorce Goat Long Enough.
81 took no stand against the di-
vorce itself. as an institution said
Senator Oddie when asked lately
about this question. but | believed,
along with many others, that Nevada
had been made the goat long enough
when it came to the question of easy
divorces. | believed that the other
states should look after their own
squabbles, matrimonially and other
WISE
He challenged the divorce law, and
was instrumental in having the period
of necessary residence prolonged to
year. This had a very salutary eff
feet In decreasing the number of
transient residents at Reno. When
Governor Oddie's term expired. how
ever, the six-months' residence law
re-enacted. While many residents in
Reno do not like the six-months' law
and admired Governor Oddie for his
stand in the matter, IL cannot be de-
MED that when he later ran for the
senate and did not Gle the ivorce
law as an issue, he ohtaired ma
jority.
Morals in Nevada received gem
eral tightening When Oddie was gov
ernor. Gambling for one thing got
setback. His attacks on that evil
really cost him his next election
when running again for the same Of
flee, for he stood firmly against it on
every platform he spoke from despite
the earnest advice of strong men in
his own party. The man who opposed
him steadfastly refused to declare
himself on that question.
One of the abiding accomplishments
OF Governor Oddie's term was
the doubling of the tax assessment
roll by revision of the tax laws OF
the state, measure of which he may
be justly proud. In this the governor
stood out strongly as friend of the
small former. who generally came out
the little end of the horn at assess
ment time under the existing laws of
those days.
Taxation never had been equalized
and the big landowner of valuable
acreage had so many advantages over