The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-11-22

positions are offered to me paying
salaries four or five times what l
am receiving now"
Samuel M. Vauclain, president of
the Baldwin locomotive Works,
has contract with a physician to
keep him in physically perfect con-
dition for ten years. A fiat sum is
paid every year. Every two weeks
Mr.. Vauclain takes a physical exam
ination. If he falls sick, deductions
are made from the annual retainer.
Ninety per cent of the silver fox
pelts sold now are from ranch-bred
animals.
A bamboo organ in the Catholic
church of Los Pinas, near Manila,
Philippine Islands, was built about
1918 by Spanish priest, who used
more than 900 lengths of bamboo
in the construction. Every part is
of bamboo and the organ is still
used every week by the Belgian
priest in charge.
Lord Beaverbrook has bought the
Pail Mall Gazette which was found
ed in 1865. 1t was based on the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of q
journal written by gentleman
for gentlemen" and was noted for
its high literary quality.
A French yachtsman, in an engin-
less thirty-five-foot sloop and un-
aided by a crew, sailed from Glib
raltar to New York City 100 days
from the date he set sail.
A cross said to be the highest in
the world is that on the spire of
the new Chicago Temple. Tower
ing $50 feet above the ground, the
cross, twelve feet high and six feet
wide, appears but few inches in
dimensions. Great flood lights will
illuminate it by night while the re-
Election of the sun upon the gold
leaf-covered arms will make it visi-
BILE for miles in the daytime.
Senator Overman, of North Caro-
lima, is one of the few Senators who
occasionally takes a pinch of snuff
from the historic snuffboxes in the
Senate Chamber, which are kept
filled during the sessions of Cong
ress.
At the Y. M. C. A. National Con-
vention, Mark M. Jones, economist,
said that of every dollar given to
the institution, sixty cents went
for actual "Y" work, twenty-one
cents for expenses in collecting the
dollar, and eighteen cents for dupli-
cation and overlapping.
Alaska, with an area one-third
greater than the Atlantic states,
has no more white residents than
there are office workers lin any
one of several skyscraper build
ings of New York City.
The men working the Spanish
prisoners" confidence game have
been run down and arrested by the
police of Barcelona, Spain. The
police found carefully kept files of
names and addresses of persons
from whom money might be OBJ
tanned. Employees of the BARGE
Iona telegraph office were appre-
hended among others.
Leodegardus Barthelme, of Win
neshiek county, Iowa, has won the
highest prize awarded for the Ton
Litter Futurity contest. Barth-
elme's litter of pigs weighed 9,199
pounds in $50 days, and scores him
ahead of any litter that has been
raised up to this time in the United
States.
Former President Harding's make
up rule has been presented to C. F.
Hard, manager of the Front Porch
Campaign. The little steel rule was
in Warren Harding's pocket when
he was nominated in Chicago, and
it was with him when he died at
San Francisco.
A military map and plan, used by
the British at the battle of Bunker
Hill, has been sold at auction in
London for $3.50. The map, eight
inches square, bears the signature
of Major-General Sir Henry Clinton.
Another attempt will be made to
scale Mt. Everest, the worlds high
est mountain, in 1924. Brigadier-
General Honorable C. Bruce has
been chosen to lead the fresh attack.
A nine-room house, estimated to
weigh seventy-five tons, was re-
Gently towed four city blocks in Los
Angeles by five-ton truck carrying
eight tons of pig-iron ballast to
give traction.
After chopping with axes for
more than two hours, workmen sue
ceeded in rescuing a man from
block of asphalt where he had been
imbedded all night, at Canton, Ohio.
He had fallen over a small embank-
ment into pool of warm asphalt
while walking near an asphalt plant
the night before his discovery. In
the meantime the asphalt hardened.
He apparently suffered no serious
effects.
The forging of Uruguayan natur-
alization certificates, to enable Euro
peans to enter the United States as
Uruguayans, has been disclosed. The
Uruguayan law requires residence
of five years before citizenship
papers are granted an immigrant.
Certificates were obtained in great
numbers by false declarations of
witnesses who apparently were
members of a strong organization
which has ramifcations in Argentina
and Brazil.