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The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-02-23
FIIrtatlous Islands.

French grammar Is right, for once,
when 1t designates islands as feminine
many Of them appear and disappear
like a face behind a fan. and have
to be wooed fervently before they are
won.
Charcot's recent landing on the
''lost" island Of Rockall, east Of the
Hebrides. recalls other elusive islands,
says the Scientific American. jan
Aeyen modestly wells herself In mist,
and Is seen but once In 80 years. while
an islet In the Behring straits sur
rounds herself with water so hot that
fishermen say approach Is impossible.
Derwentwater has a bathing nymph Of
IN island that floats for six weeks,
then coyly submerges. Lenge, the ex.
plorer. made his home on similar
one at the mouth Of the Amazon, un-
I'll the island capsized In an attempt
10 get rid Of her guest.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-02-23

Gross earnings Of the federal
reserye banks for 1921 the report
continued, amounted to $122,865,-
900 compared with $1S1,297,000 in
1920. Member bank borrowings,
according to the report showed a
continuous decline from $685.
100000 at the end of 1920 to about
$1,144, 100000 at the end of 1921,
due to a reduction of over $780,
100000 in the volume Of federal
reserves notes in circulation.
On December %, the report con-
tinued, the federal reserve banks
held a gold reserve of $3.50, 000,-
600.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-02-23
MOONSHININC AND CATTLE
RUSTLING COMBINATIONS

Moonshining and cattle rustling
go hand in hand, according to Ne
vada stockmen, says the Gardner
vile Record Courier.
1t is said that thrifty moonshiners
throughout the state have combined
their illicit distilling activities with
the selling of stolen beef, reducing
the overhead upon the liquor manu-
featuring and perhaps making neat
profit on the "side line."
Many stills are located in the
mountain ranges throughout the
state, it is said, and the operators
market their product in nearby
towns by means of light auto trucks.
When getting ready for a trip to
market many of them, it is asserted,
kill a number of beeves on the
range and take the meat with them.
In at least one case cited the
meat is placed in a cold storage
warehouse by the rustlers. It is
afterward taken out by others, thus
evading the law, as it is difficult to
establish ownership Of the beef.
Stockmen feel that stricter regu-
lations regarding the sale of slaugh-
tered beef would tend to break up
this practice through fear that in
vestigation would disclose the ac-
tivities of the moonshiners.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-02-23
BUSINESS IS GOOD
IN UNITED STATES

Business throughout the country,
progressing through well defined
circles, is nearing the point of the
upward swing Of the economic pen
dulum, according to the annual re-
port Of the federal reserve board
transmitted to congress.
"There are those" the report
said, "who believe that the begin
ming of revival is not far distant.
When it does definitely set in it
will be followed in due course by a
new era of prosperity"
Business, in one of its ''long
swings" form prosperity, the report
said, has followed its usual rotation.
This rotation is described as
follows:
Business activity and increased
protection; excessive expansion
and speculation, followed hitherto
by panic and forced liquidation, a
long period Of slow liquidation, bust
ness depression and stagnation and
then revival.
"In the light of recent expert
ence," the report warned, 1--WE
should remember, when we again
enter a period Of full prosperity,
that reaction will follow sooner
or later, and if the flow of the in
coming tide can be controlled SO
that the crest may not be reached
too rapidly or raise too high the
subsequent reaction will be less
severe and the next period of in
dustrial and commercial activity
and general prosperity will be
marked by saner methods, greater
achievements along constructive
lines and by longer duration than
any which we have had before"
The earning assets of all federal
reserve banks, the report said,
amounted on December %, 1921, to
1885, 851 900 compared with 3d.
263, 027,000 on December 81, 1920,
reduction Of SO per cent, which
was accompanied by a steady in
crease in gold reserve and an al
most continuous decrease in fed
eral reserve notes in circulation.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-02-23
DEPLOREs FLARlNG SKY SIGN
London Newspaper Complains Of Dax-
cling Electric Advertisements a.
Spelling city's Beauty.

The London Observer ventures to
register good-natured protest against
"the terrible affection of the jazz
luminaries' that shout their adver-
tisements from every corner Of the
London streets when darkness comes
The cumulative effect Of these flashing
electric signs is as distressing as a
"vorticist verslibrist" with a mega
phone.
The Regent street corner of Picca-
dilly circus - the habitat Of the worst
Offenders. It Is ablaze with flaming
braziers, 30 that 1t looks like house
on fire. "The galaxy Of frenzied let
tering gives you the blinks. Leicester
square has q green river Of tears flow
ing about a safety razor advertise
ment."
In Switzerland. the Observer COM
ments, they do things differently-or
did, before the war. In Zurich the citi-
sens sit by their swift-fowing Limmat
and watch the simmer Of water under
the stars or moon, while the venerable
outlines of the old minister loom dark
against the sky. Paris, indeed. has lost
her old-time hegemony as the city Of
light. That primacy has now passed
to New York. with London close sec
ond.
"Some. perhaps, would rather be left
to dream Of that other Georgian Lon
don, haunted by watchmen with dis
taffs and lanthorns, or the Elizabethan
one, peopled by gallants with run,
doublet. jerkin. and smoking torches.
The soap, baby food and whisky they
prefer to encounter IN newspapers.
where the mere sight Of 1t does not oc-
casion q kind Of visual delirium ire
mens."-The Living Age.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-02-23

The new frontier which has been
drawn up In Upper Silesia will affect
the place names Of a number Of cit
les more or less familiar to the Amer
lean public OF the larger cities, Rati-
Dor (Raciborz In Polish), Gleiwitz. (Gli-
wice) and Beuthen (Bytom) will re-
tain their present German names. On
the Polish side the place names Of
towns which, while they have all
along been known to the Poles by
their original Polish names, have for
the last two centuries officially borne
German names, will now revert to the
Polish FORMS Thus Konigshutte again
Is Huta Krolewska. kattowitz again
becomes Katowice, Pless Is changed
back to PsEcyyna. Tarnowitz will
again be Tarnowskie Cory. and once
more Lublinitx will be known as Lub-
liniec. The place name Of Rybnik will
remain unchanged, the Polish and Ger
man forms being Identical.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-02-23
RENO HAS LAW TO PREVENT
DESTROYING THE EVIDENCE

A complaint charging B. Godfrey
with Constructing, maintaining and
permitting to be constructed and
maintained on the premises Of his
place of business a trap for dispos-
ing Of evidence of possession Of in
toxicating liquors" was filed and
Godfrey was arrested, according to
the Reno Journal.
This is the first case to be tried
under a new Reno ordinance which
forbids construction Of such traps.
1t grew out of a raid on the Doug
las club by the federal dry squad.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-02-23
Burglars Don't Seek the Light

Darkness is their stock IN trade They work by stealth
wheard and mseen-h their movements coaked IN secrecy.
It's honest folks that see the light They are the only ones
who can risk it.
It's the way in business. The merchant who IS not
sure Of his goods does not dare to advertise Advertising
would hasten the end of his business career-put him to
test that he could not meet
The merchant who advertses deliberately invites your IN
specion He tells you about his product and then lets
stand its merits. You can depend on him. He
knows his product is good
That's why pays to read the advertisements
THE SILVER STATE. Ii is through advertising that you
able to keep touch with the good things that progress
sve business houses spending their money to introduce
and keep before you
Advertisements interesting instructive and profitable.
They throw powerful light the very things that concern
you most. READ THEM
DIRECT RESULTS FROM ADS IN
TIE SILVER STATE
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-02-23
ALL DEATHS ALIKE
!. Says CHINESE BOY
New Phases Developed in Lethal
Gas killings for Murder in This
State, First to Be Tried
Out April 16 to "a

1.-THE house of Creeping Death" is
scheduled to have its first try-out
some time between April 16 and
April 20, says the Reno Gazette.
That is the time fixed for the ex-
ecutions of Hughie Sing and Gee
Jon, murderers, under Nevada's new
state law providing for the killing
by lethal gas of persons sentenced
to death.
Unless the United States supreme
court wills otherwise, these two
Chiness tong members will be led
from murderer's row-where death
watch already has been set over
them-to become 'test subjects"
for the worlds first lethal gas
executions.
In the meantime the prisoners
wait with fatalistic calm, wholly
unaware of the national attention
they are attracting.
In the meantime, too, a bitter
legal battle has opened in Nevada
to stop the use of the lethal gas
cage as a means of capital punish
ment. Attorneys will carry the
fight to the highest courts.
But since the Nevada legislature
has voted the lethal gas cage the
last word in "humane execution, !"
Gov. Emmett D. Boyle and state
prison directors are continuing
with plans for its construction and
for the deaths of the "test cases."
As for Hughie Sing, nineteen
years old and Gee Jon, twenty
nine years old, they merely know
that they are doomed to die. They
have no conception Of the scientific
device, born of the war, that may
carry them to momentary fame as
well as to death. They were con-
victed of tong murder.
Hughie Sing, who attended Ameri-
can schools but could not forget
lessons in tong vengeance learned
outside the classroom, talks freely.
Gee Jon, known the length of the
Pacific coast as killer" says
nothing.
Hughie is more interested in the
course of the courts than in means
Of death il courts fail.
"1f / must die, one way is about
as bad as another to me-" he says.
He can't comprehend what le-
that gas execution is.
~ know / have been sentenced
to death, that's ALL" he says. az
do not want to die, but what am l
to do?"
The lethal gas execution, popular
when legalized by the legislature,
has stirred up a public tempest
since the day the "test cases" for
it were sentenced.
Thousands of protest letters are
pouring in on state officials, charg-
ing that lethal gas killing is Gin
human" is ''cruel and unusual
punishment" and is "the last word
in refined torture"
No plans have as yet been drawn
for the "house Of creeping death"
that will kill Hughie and Gee.
This is the theory of it, as Gov.
Boyle explained:
A small concrete death house, !
about 5x7x8, will be built in one
corner of the prison yard. Through
one wall a pipe leads to a large gas
tank.
This pipe would be operated
either by jet or a plug, which
would be manipulated by one of
three wires. Three to be selected
by lot, would pull the individual
wires, so none would know which
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-02-23
pla Nova seotlan lndustrx.

The Iron and steel industry Of Nova
Scotia centers about Cape Breton 10
land and the county Of Pictou, where
coal deposits are available and the
necessary ores most easily imported.
Apart from this area the principal In
dustrial points are Halifax, Dart
mouth, Truro, Amherst and New Glas.
1ow.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-02-23

Taxes Power Of Psdaoooue.
Jud Tunkins says the hardest part
Of the average boys musical educa-
ton Is to teach him to say "violin"
Instead Of fiddle"
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-02-23

The Tonopah Divide company con-
tinues to mine normal tonnage of
ore, which is treated in Tonopah.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-02-23
COULDN'T BUY STOCK

George Hussman returned home
few days ago from the Fallon
country, where he went on stock
buying trip, says the Gardnerville
Record Courier. He found that
sheepmen there were holding their
weathers at an extremely high price
in the face of a declining market
and did not make any purchases.
The Fallon people, according to Mr..
Hussman, have explicit faith in the
oil fields and he also reports that
drilling operations, which have been
at a standstill for the past few
weeks because Of weather condi-
tions, is about to be resumed by
several companies.
had turned on the gas.
On the opposite side of the death
house would be an outlet pipe to
carry off the gas after the
execution.
From the center wall six wit
nesses would be able to watch the
victim die, small easement window
being provided for that purpose.
The law says that this number of
witnesses may attend the execu-
ton. Entrance to the death house
would be gained through a small,
Theoretically sealed door.
Prison officials hold that within
few seconds after the condemned
man entered the death house, he
would be under the influence of
the gas.
Chief objection to the lethal
gas killings, and the center of the
storm now gathering, lies in the
wording of the law which says that
"some time during the week of
sentence the execution shall take
place."
Thus, the DIRECTORS hold, a man
could live for days of terrible tor
ture, never knowing at what
moment the deadly gas would be
turned on.
State and prison officials insist
that they have no intention of ad-
ministering the gas in this fashion I;
that the condemned prisoner will
be notified Of the time of his death
and that the execution will be i'm
mediate.
A test will prove whether or not
lethal case is humane, they say.
And SO, unless the supreme court
interferes, Hughie Sing, the high
school lad, who learned more of
tong vengeance than of mathema-
tics, and Gee Jon, the calculating
killer" of San Francisco's China
town, will be the subjects of that
test.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-19
Gompers Takes Slap at Mill Conditions
 In Southern States

Washington. March 1s.-samuei Gompers. president of the American Federation of Labor, in attacking to- day operators of cotton mills in New England, takes what appears to be a gratuitous slap at the operators of the south.
 He says; Tt seems that the only reason given by New England mill owners for attempting to reduce wages and lengthen hours of their employees. Is to place them in. the same miserable conditions as the southern mill hands. They say they can't compete with southern mills .un- less New England standards are drag ged down to the southern level.
 Dragging New England down to the southern standard, will be resist ed to the last ditch by striking opera tives. FurtheFmore, it is known fact that the same financial interests which control southern mills control New England mills. and to be per mitted to play one against the other, Is an inhuman thing unworthy of our boasted christianity and civilization ?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-19
TROUBLESAWA|T
 HARDING ON HIS
 RETURN ID DESK
Showdown Between Execu- tive and Congress Must Soon Come, Is Opinion
 of Robert Small
By ROBERT T. SMALL Special Correspondent of Tho Age-Herald Copyright, 1922. by Tho Age-HeraldD


 Washington, March 1S.-President Harding returns to Washington to- morrow to meet a number of situa- tions which require adroit handling. Congress has been pulling farther and farther away from the admins tration program and it would seem that showdown soon must come be- tween the executive and legislative branches of the government. Mem bers of the cabinet, in charge of the executive departments, feel that Congress is attempting more and more to encroach upon executive functions through its control of the purse strings of the nation. Con- gress' is attempting to provide that money appropriated to the executive branch shall be spent only under certain restrictions laid down in the appropriation laws. Naturally there is resentment in the executive de- partments, and the President called upon to intervene.
 Cabinet members are finding their advice to Congress being set aside
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-19
FARM BUREAU MEETS
Anniston Organization Indorses Pro.
 posed Cotton Association

Anniston, March ls.-tSpecial)- An enthusiastic meeting of the Cal houn county farm bureau was held at the courthouse here on Saturday morning. enthusiastic indorsement for the organization of the Alabama Farm Bureau Cotton association being given after the outline of the eo-op- erative marketing plan for cotton had been given by County Agent c. K. sneliings and H. G. Briggs. Auburn expert.
 The plan, which is patterned after the Texas and California methods, is being financed by the. war finance exploration. and farmers of the states of Texas. California, Arkansas and Mississippi have already been greatly helped by the modern method of pool ing cotton and securing the profits which have heretofore gone to the middlemA1,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-19
TENNESSEE RIVER
 IS NOW PRECEDING

Decatur. March 1s.-(SpeciaL)-- )-- High waters, which have overflowed lowlands in many sections along the banks. of the Tennessee, are begin ming to recede. For the. first time in many years the waters of the Ten nessee reached high point on River view avenue, in Albany, but.the road is clearing now.
 The lowlands across from here. in the vicinity. of Swan and Beaver lakes. Limestone. county. have been under water several weeks, but the creeks are gradually getting back in to their banks and with the appa- rent cheek. of the downpours, it is believed that traffic over all roads in and out of here will be. normal within few days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-19
Gives Complexion
 Real Beauty
Stuart's Calcium Waters Have Won. derful Action to Rid Face of Pimples, Rash, Blotehes
 and Such Blemishes

| If your face is badly spotted with
 pimples or blackheads and if you
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-19
COMMISSIONERS. TO
 ADDRESS CIVIC FORUM .
 ON AUDITORIUM SITES

Mondays forum of the Civic Asso- ciation to be held tomorrow at the usual hour, I2:se o'clock. will enjoy 1o-minute talks by City Comm1s- sioners W. L. Harrison and ". E. Dickson on their observations of other oity 'auditorihms during their recent visit to the midwest. Ten min utes will also be allotted to J. A. VanHoose to present to the forum for the first time his plan of unitin the auditorium with the stadium. play ground and other features at Smith S field.
 It is expected that the Civic forum will before adjourning the meeting. appoint a special committee on audi torium to press for early action by tho city commission in the matter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-19

myself repeatedly have cabled, that France has never dreamed of de- faulting the $3,000, 0o0, 900 borrowed from America during the war. We count upon American friendship merely for reasonable terms of pay ment. No American will protest such d request, therefore there is no es- sential difficulty on this score.
 Loucheur's Address Unfortunate
 The unfortunate development was the address of former Minister Lou cheur in which he said the exact op- posite of the above. Our ambassador in Washington, M. Jusserand, cabled that the effect of this statement in the United States was disastrous. l myself deplore it. But, on the other hand, Americans have no right to hold France responsible for NJ Lou cheur's declarations any more than We would hold America responsible for everything that Senator LaFol- lettc says. Loucheur simply is a deputy and often has been mistaken as, for instance, when he said three years ago that Germany would pay 1S,000.000,000 gold marks annually. Loucheur committed stupidity. Here Il IS regretted. Let Americans put their minds to rest about it.
 The qu'stion of American compen- sation is more delicate but it must be discussed. Germany owes the United States for it's occupational ex- penses by virtue of the arnistice pro- visions and the Gesman~American peace treaty. Nobody denies this. What is the cause of the misunder- standings? Last week the allied fi- nance ministers were discussing not Germany's debt, but the division of the first billion marks cash paid by Germany. The division of this money raised many fine legal points. What pained us was, that. without warning, without even informing the American embassy, your representative. MT. Boyden, abruptly presented a claim. \ which. taken literally, would mean that the United States suddenly had
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-19
OBSERVE ST. PATRICK'S
 DAY AT SHADY GLENN

Anniston. March 1s.-{SpeciaI,)- St. Patrick's Day was observed at the Shady Glen school house west of An niston by series of literary contests in the morning and a speech by P. W. Hodges or the state department of education just before the serving of q splendid basket dinner at the noon recess.
 The afternoon was devoted to an Interesting series of field day exer- cises, about 750 people of the thriv- ing center watching the various inter school games and events of the after noon. .a
 Prof. S. B. Gibson. county superin- tendent. and Miss Sallie Caldwell, the rural supervisor for the county, were in charge of the exercises at Shady Glen, and awarded the large number of prizes at the conclusion of the program.
 The educators attended a similar entertainment at the Williams school house on Saturday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-19

power which will not stand a con- stitutional test.
 The President upon his return to- morrow. will find the bonus question in more of a snarl than when he went away. Ignoring his own advice, Haunting his threats of veto. the House of Representatives apparently is bent upon passing any sort of bo- nus Legislation which will lift the burden from the shoulders of those who must run for reelection this fall. The House apparently is not con cerned as to whether or not the bonus measure is sound. The House will leave that to the Senate to straighten out The House refuses to listen to the advice of Secretary Mellon.
 | Treaties in Balance
 President Harding will find the treaties of the Washington confer ence still hanging in the balance in tho Senate. The margin of victory claimed by those who desire the rati- fication of the paets Is so. narrow as to give concern to the more impar- tial observers. It is recognized that any sore of siip-up in the situation has to do with how deeply in earnest are the democrats who are opposing the treaties. Some of the republicans
  ing to draw deadly parallel between the present treaties and the League of Nations with the idea of exposing a certain inconsistency on the part of some republicans. '.'
 Only the final vote on the treaties can tell their fate. No certainty can be drawn from the early estimates.
 In some respects. the most. serious situation which will confront the President tomorrow has to do with his own cabinet circle, Secretary of the Interior Fall and Secretary of Ag- riculture Wallace, together with Chief Forester Greeley, are at log gerheads to an extent which recalls to many observers the disastrous Bal finger er-Pinchot controversy of the Taft administration. The difference between the interior and agriculture departments have progressed to a stage where apparently the President must take sides in the matter, and a decision on his part easily may mean the resignation of one or the other cabinet members involved.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-19
CHILDREN ARE CLOrHEp

Gadsden. March 1S.-(Specfal.)- Envoy Gilbert of the Salvation army, made a plea to the people yesterday for clothing and food for the six iit- the children who have been bereft of both parents within the past four weeks and he states that the response has been all that he could ask. All six of the little ones, whose ages run from four months up to. 13 years, have now all been clothed and have a. place to stay and something to eat.