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The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1923-11-30
LITTELTON MAY
Be TRIED HERE

There is more than a possibility
that Frederick Littelton, deposed u.
s. naturalization officer, recently ac-
quilted in San Francisco upon the
charge of fraudulently issuing natur-
alization papers, will be brought tc
Nevada to stand trial in the federal
court upon the charge of having ac-
cepted bribes, says the Journal.
Robert Wright, special naturaliza-
tion officer, was an arrival in Reno
few days ago from San Francisco
and Immediately went to work in the
office of County clerk Beemer.
While Mr.. Wright refused to either
affirm or deny that he was in Reno
in the interests of the government in
the charges pending against Littelton
it is known that he is hunting up
records in cases where Littelton is
supposed to have accepted bribes.
1t was learned from an authorative
source that the government is con-
templating further prosecution OF
Littelton, both in San Francisco and
in Carson City, and it is probable
that the present grand jury in Carson
will be presented matters pertaining
to the case.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1923-11-30
GOOD HEADWAY
ON ROAD WORK
Power Shovel Placed
in Use in Work of
Grading

Tieslau Brothers, highway con-
tractors, are making good headway
on the Double Springs project mid
way between Gardnerville and Well
ington. Some thirty-eight head of
horses are being used in grading
work, while a gasoline shorel is
employed to make fills across the
numerous gullies beyond Carriers
station as well as cutting down
small elevations on the route.
The new highway calls for the in
stallation of numerous culyerts,
many of them having already been
put in place.
Thus far the contractors have
been favored with exceptional good
weather for out door work and II
winter storms withhold a few more
weeks 1t is believed that consider
able of the new highway will be
surfaced with crushed rock and
gravel.
The road now being built has, for
years, been one of the most dreaded
stretches on the Wellington road and
the completion of the new highway
willbe an improvement that will be
of great benefit to the travelling
public.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1923-11-30
WERE NOT
POPULAR IN 1901 As NOW

There is some difference in the
attitude coward automobile today
and the attitude in 1901" says James
f. Peekham, Nevada pioneer and a
resident of Reno, reports the
Gazette. Recently | noticed where
the state highway depf ~tment had is
sued an order TO keep stock off the
highways and the special danger on
the Reno-Carson highway is men
toned in the order" he continued.
Now in 1901 when | was in the
legislature a bill was introduced
which provided than any owner or
driver of an automobile on the state
highways who saw team or horse
drawn wagon approaching, must
drive to one side of the road, stop
his engine and not start until the
team was safely past
II was under the impression that
this bill passed but now | can find
no record of H. At any rate, there
was considerable feeling expressed
against people who would drive q
noisy vehicle along a highway fright
ening teams"
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1923-11-30
VALLEY HAY
TO BE GRADED

IN order to establish hay grad
ing and inspection system in the hay
growing centers of the state. San
ford commissioner and head of the
grading service established by the
last state legislature, is visiting
Lovelock. Yerington and other towns
in Pershing, Lyon and Douglas
counties.
Ranchers of the region are said to
be heartily in favor of the inspect
ion system, and the appointment of
an inspector, similar to the one EN-
ployed for the grading and inspection
Of Nevada potatoes, is practically
assured
Frederick w. Wilson, professor OF
animal husbandry at the University
of Nevada, accompanied Commission
er Dinsmore on part of his tour and
assisted in explaining the grading
system to the hay growers.
Although quarantine against the
shipment of hay from several Ne
yada counties is enforced by Cali
fornia, growers in central and parts
of western Nevada have found a
good market with Kansas City deal
ers. The Nevada hay enjoys the dis
tinction Of being one of the best
grades in the market, about 60 pei
cen, of the product rating as choice
and the other 40 per cent. the grade
known as U. S. No. Journal.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1923-11-30
new fire CHIEF
NOW In CHARGE

A volunteer fire department has
been organized at Minden, VIM
Wennhold being elected chief of the
new organization. A few days age
the members were give instructions
in the operation of the chemical en-.
CINE and other apparatus owned by
the department.
During the past summer property
holders of Minden erected a sub
stantial brick building for housing
the fire equipment and have also
co-operated in the organization oi
fire department.
Fire hydrants have been placed II
all parts of the town and through
the installation of three powerful
electric pumps and storage tanks
high pressure can be maintained
in the pipe lines almost indefinitely
This, coupled with the chemical en-
gine, gives Minden adequate fire
protection.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1923-11-30
NEW FOOD VALUE
IN ALFALFA HAY

Analysis of a fine green dust sent
to the Nevada pure food and drug
laboratory has resulted in the dis
covery of a valuable by-product to
the adfalfa meal industry now under
way at Fallon, says the Reno Journ-
al
The powder-like substance is a
sample taken from the dust collect
ors of the alfalfa meal plant A
chemical investigation conducted by
Commissioner S. C. Dinsmore and
his assist ant, Wayne B. Adams,
shows that the alfalfa dust is rich
in fats AMI proteins, indicating that
1t will make valuable animal food.
While the ordinary alfalfa meal
contains approximately 35 per cent
of crude fiber and IL per cent of
fats, an analyzation of the alfalfa
dust showed 1t to have but 13 to Is
per cent of crude fiber and high fat
content of about five and one half
per cent. The crude fiber, male by
grinding the stems of the alfalfa
plant with leaves, is of cellulose
and contains little food value.
Samples were sent to the state
laboratory in order to ascertain the
food content before efforts are made
to find a market for the product.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1923-11-30
LUTHERAN CHURCH NOTES

Saturday, Dee. mo confirmation
class, but the Sunday School meets
at 2 D. m. for rehersal on the Christ
mas program. An excellent program
is in preparation, but we will have
to have the hearty cooperation OF
all the scholars of the school in
order to make IL successful. Parents
will please send their children for
practice regularly, every time.
Sunday, Dec. 1.-The first Sunday
in Advent. beginning a new church
year. English worship at 1890 a
m., German at p. m. Subject
"Our Hosanna." Holy communion
will be celebrated in the morning
service, announcement for which
will kindly be made Friday after
noon and evening. This does not
mean that this will be a service for
communicates only, so begin the new
ecclesiastical year properly, Win
worship of the Advent King.
Wednesday, Dec. 5.-Meeting oi
the church board See the treasurer
before this date.
Thursday, Dec. 6.-Meeting of the
Missionary Ladies' Aid
To all who worship with us, seek
ing truth and the way to eterna
life. Trinity Church extends
cordial welcome.
PAUL II. FELTEN, Pastor.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1923-11-30
SPECIAL CAR
FOR PRISONERS
Bootleg Special Leaves
Reno for Federal
Prison

Tuesday night U. s. Marshal ]. H
Fulmer. Deputy Marshal G.. l.. Plum
mer and number of guards left
Reno in charge of twenty fedora
prisoneds, nineteen of whom will BIZ
placed in the government prison al
Leavonworth, Kansas. The twenty
ieth prisoner, Jospeh Keller, will bs
taken to New York, where he will
face charges arising from his con
nection with bankruptcy matters II
federal court In one of the New Yorl
districts.
A Pullman car especially equip
pen was used to transport the prison
ers. A porter and a cook was as
signed to the bootleg special.
Guards selected by Marshal Full
mer were Sheriff Joe Stern of Orms
by county. Joe Nenzel, Joe Kirkley
Frank Wheeler l.. G. Clark, Joe
Hopes and G. B. Spradling.
The prisoners making up the car.
loah were:
William Murphy, IS months; TON
NdiheT, 10 uOuluS, r. W. l<iuCOiil
26 months; G. F. Park, "a months
d. E. Clark, "a months; Paul Col
Inns. II months; Joe Gonsales. II
months, Joe Yama. 3 years; Chun
Lung. Is months. Jim Sing. years
jung Wing. years; Eugene Murphy
13 months, Emil Schmidt, Is months
Yee Hee, years; Tim Jim. years
Quon 500, years, two counts, sen
tences to run uncurrently; Dick Wal
22 months; Charlie Hong, years.
George Butler was sentenceh to
serve 16 months in Leavenworth fol
violation of the Mann act, but he
made his escape few moments af
ter he and thirty-odd prisoners start.
ed from the railroad station to the
jail at Reno, and so far he has beer
able to avoid capture. says the Car
son News.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1923-11-30
SICK NEVADANS
SECURE WHISKY

Three thousand and seyenty-eight
sick persons in Nevada were able to
buy liquor in prescriptions since the
State laws were repealed last winter
and since the new regulations have
gone into effect have used 364 gallons
of whiskey, besides a smaller guam
tity of other stimulants
Nevada shows the smallest con-
sumption of any State where the pre-
scription system IS legal. Wyoming
physiciasn issued 704S prescriptions
on which $40 gallons of whiskey and
small quantities of other alcoholic
tonics were sold by drug stores
Hard liquor is not sold in Utah or
Idaho on physicians descriptions and
officially at least, these two States
are bone dry.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1923-11-30
GERMANS MASSES
GO HUNGRY

While politicians bubble and de-
lay, the German masses starve or
live on insufficient rations, says
press dispatch. Unemployment is
growing at a rapid rate and millions
of Germans face a winter of want
and privation.
Berlin and other cities and towns
have established municipal kitchens
Limited quantities of free fuel are
provided for by card.
With the adjustment of the bread
card and the subsequent rise of
German black bread to figures which
are fantastic in comparison with the
come more acute than ever and give
political agitators their opportunity
to incite riot.
The condition of the unemployed
| Is pathetic in the extreme. By de-
gress the old people. many of them
middle class. have been forced to
go upon the street for aims.
| The fact remains that German had
an excellent crop this year. There
are more than enough potatoes for
the German public. Germany had a
bumper crop of grain. But the cur
rency crash and the let-down of
transportation and general disorgan-
ization in the governmet have made
it impossible to distribute the food
and enable the public to buy it.
Indignation is general against all
parties in the reichstag Feeling is
high against leaders who have al
lowed politics to get into such a
iangle that politicians seem to be
thinking only of the welfare of their
particular party and of their own
jobs.
Absolute neglect of domestic prob
lens in an attempt to sole interna-
tional problems is the almost uni
versal charge against the government
which Stressmann succeeded. The
parties abe all blaming each other.
The big coalition is said by political
leaders to have been an error. But
the public is in no mod to accept
excuses. 1t is hungry and cold in a
country where there is food and fuel.
And Stresemann is looked to for
help. but not with great confidence
on the part of the general public.
It has been foolel too often by po-
litical promises. The proposed gold
currency is looked at with distrust
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1923-11-30
MAY BUILD CANAL FROM
SOUTHERN NEVADA TO COAST

Los Angeles is getting busy and a
corps Of engineers are now out
stalking the jungle wastes in search
of canal route from Boulder Can
yon to the City of Angeles, through
which aqueduct large part of the
flow Of the Colorado river is to be
taken Along this route will be
great settling basins, drops where
power. will be generated and diver
sions of the water into fields that
may be made fertile by the introduce
tion of water, At least that is the
dream of the men at the head of af-
fairs having to do with the water
and power situation in Los Angeles.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1923-11-30
SATISFACTORY WORK AT
BRIDGEPORT RESERVOIR

Engineer ]. A. Beemer, of the
Walker River Irrigation District, who
was a visitor at Bridgeport last
Wednesday and Thursday, reports
very satisfactory progress being
made ON the construction of the stor-
age reservoir on the East Walker, re-
ports the Mason Valley News. He
states that the concrete work is go
ing along nicely and that, should the
present favorable weather continue
that in all likelihood the concrete
work will have been finished before
it is necessary to stop work for the
winter.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1923-11-30
MORE JOB SEEKERS
THAN JOBS IN NEVADA

There are twice as many men
seeking Jobs as there are jobs for
them, If conditions at the federal
employment office in Reno are typic-
al Of the entire Nevada employment
situation, according to the Journal
w. A. Burns. in charge Of the Reno
office, attributes the shortage of pobs
to the shutting down of lumber mills
at Verdi, Loyalton and adjacent
t owns, the inactivity of Nevada
mines at present and the fact tha
the hiring of farm labor has prec
tically ceased for the year.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1923-11-30
MANY WOULD
EVADE AUTO TAX
Traffic Officer Rounds
Up Delinquents in
Nevada

The campaign of enforcement OF
the motor vehicle license law in
augurated by this department in
July has served to make this record
year in the number of licenses is
sued and fees collected, says the Ne
yada Highway News. Up to No
vember 10th the Secretary of States
office has registered 15,542 cars and
license fee collections to that date
amounted to sl56,432.4S.
The special traffic officer assigned
to this work by the state highway
department up to November 9th had
compelled delinquent motorists to
take out licenses to the number of
552 and had collected in fees on ac-
count of the foregoing licenses the
sum of $7,24s16.
The total license collections for
1922 were s10S,944.52; therefore. to
date 1923 shows an increase over
1922 of s414s7.96 or approximately
"A per cent After deduction of the
expenses of the Secretary of States
office In connection with the is
suance of license plates and the de-
duetion of the amount required to
meet bond interest due in 1923 the
balance will be transferred to the
state highway fund for expenditures
direct on road construction and
maintenance. This will give the de-
partment a fund of approximately
$4,000 from this source based on
receipts TO date. Some increase,
however will be shown before the
end of the calendar year inasmuch
as the enforcement officers are still
in the field
It seems hard to believe that some
Of the citizens of Nevada would go
10 such extremes in avoiding the pay
ment of such a small tax as that
represented by the automobile license
fee In many cases violations have
been so fragrant that the officers have
been compelled to arrest the Offend
ers and hale them into court for
rial. Every case Of this sort has
resulted in a fine OF approximately
$50 In addition to the payment of the
regular license fee. These yiolators
will be closely watched during the
next year and inasmuch as the de-
oartment will have a complete record
If all cars licensed during the pres
mt year 1t seems probable that those
gho escape payment of the fee next
ear viii be very limited in number.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1923-11-30
NINE BEARS KILLED IN
BRIDGEPORT SECTION

During the past six weeks bear
hunting has been the real sport
around Bridgeport, the Mono county
seat. The bears had become tame
or were off their travelled territory.
for three large bruins wee killed on
the meadows where thousands of cat
tie were pasturing Six more larger
black bears were killed in the foot
hills. not over four miles from
Bridgeport 1t is thought that the
bears followed the Tioga road COM
ing from Yosemite Valley. There
hasn't been a bear killed in the
vicinity of Bridgeport for several
years past and old trappers are puz-
zled as to the cause of their presence
in such large numbers.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1923-11-30
BEET men
VISIT VALLEY! |!
Farmers Here Urged
to Engage in Sugar
Beet Culture

Mr.. Kline and Madison, represent
ing the Cooperative Sugar Beet Co.,
let Fallon, were in Carson Valley
Monday looking over the situation
here for the purpose of interesting
farmers to plant at least small
acreage to sugar beets during the
coming season.
The gentlemen stated that an acre
of ground in this section would pro-
duce on the average of 15 tens of
beets, and with sugar selling at six
cents the returns to the farmer
would be better than 5000 to the
acre.
Under the new plan the Sugar COM
pany would contract with the farmer
for the cultivation of the beets by
importing exerienced workers, thus
solving the labor question. To oper-
ate the plant at Fallon next season.
at least 5000 acres must be planted
| to beets in Western Nevada.
The small acreage solicited in Car
son Valley is mainly for the purpose
Of demonstrating to the farmers the
advantages of sugar beet culture.
The representatives of the Fallon
company declared that at elast five
| factories would be built by that con-
cern In Nevada within the next three
or four years. East factory will dis
tribute approximately s2.O00,0O0 and
unders such conditions would be of
great benefit to the state and to the
agricultural interests
II the required acreage be secured
in Carson Valley, in all probability
one of the big factories would be To-
Gated here, and in that event the
distribution of a million or so dollars
| annually would do much toward the
return of prosperity. as it has been
stated.
Mr.. Kline and Madison spent a day
or SO getting in touch with farmers
here and their future endeavor de-
pends upon the encouragement met.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1923-11-30
BIJOU TELEPHONE
Line BOUGHT BY
FARMERS CO.

The United Farmers Telephone 1:
Telegraph company, through its
manager, E. j. Phillips, recently
closed deal for the purchase of the
privately owned toll line extending
from the foot of Kingusbury grade
to Lake Tahoe. This line was built
by Young Bros. and Jack Meyn of
Bijou several years ago and its sale
to the Farmers company Is for the
purpose of bringing about better
telephone service between Gardner
vile and Lake Tahoe points.
During the past week the Farmers
company has had crew of linemen
at work overhauling the line and put
ting 1t In first class condition for
winter.
Since the line has been repaired
several long distance calls between
san Francisco and Bijou have been
made with excellent results a serv-
Ice that Is greately appreciated by
Lake Tahoe residents.
The telephone line between Tallac
and Truckee is hard to keep In work
Ing order during big storms, while
little or no difficulty has been ex-
perienced maintaining the Gardner
ville-Bijou line during the winter
months, and serves practically all of
the inhabitants at the south end of
Lake Tahoe. Arrangements are now
being made to extend the service to
other resorts near Bijou and AL
Tahoe.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1923-11-30
GASOLINE TAX RETURNS
CLOSE TO 100000

October receipts from the state
gasoline tax of two cents a gallon
will bring the total derived from
that source so far this year close to
100000 and with two months more
re turns to be made 1t is expected
that close to 100000 will have been
collected since the law went into
effect on March goth
Up to October l the amount re-
ceived by the state was $S4 4092.33 and
for October the following returns
have been made: Standard Oil Co.,
sS06S.72; Union Oil Co., $252S.74; As
sociated Oil Co.. $1116.4S; Shell Co,
6S8.7S, l.. b. Jenkins, importer of
Reno, $313.16; G. M. Doty of Moapa.
$l73.2S; E. w. Shirk of Beatty s54.94;
Fred Remmick, of Beatty s40.76.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1923-11-30
SLOT MACHINES ARE IN
FULL OPERTION IN RENO

While other Nevada towns have al
most forgotten the form of slot ma
chimes. in which nickels, quarters
and half dollars are played, winners
receiving real money in return, Reno
is not classed in the list. and visitors
to Nevada's metropolis. say that slot
machines may be found in hotel
lobbies. cigar stores and other es-
adjustments and one has to almost
elbow his way through the crowds
that gather about the machines.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1923-11-30
STRAWBERRIES AT FALL0N
FOR THANKSGIVING

Fresh Strawberries from home
gardens are in prospect for the
THANKSGIVING dinner at few ranch
es near Fallon, for eyerbearing
strawberries are continuing to ripen
in protected spots, reports the Fallon
Eagle.
Poplar trees that have just shed
their sumer foliage are beginning to
bud here. new crop of California
poppies in beds are again blooming
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1923-11-30
Dinner Party At
II. Codecke Home

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Godecke, Jr.,
gave a dinner party at their home
last Sunday evening to a number Of
their friends. The dining room was
appropriately decorated with autumn
leaves and Thanksgiving favors were
used.
Seated at the attractive table with
the host and hostess were the Misses
Elda Fricke, Ada Fricke, Helen
Cordes, Alvina Hussman, Erna God
ecke, Arthur Cordes. VIM. Lange,
Chris Cordes, Harold Hussman and
George Cordes.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1923-11-30
Annual Stockholders Meeting

The Twelfth Annual Meeting ol
the stockholders Of The United
Farmers Telephone and Telegraph
Company, will be held in ODD Eel
lows Hall, Gardnerville, Nevada, on
Saturday, December /, 1923, at l
o'clock p. m, for the purpose OF
electing officers for the ensuing
year and the transaction OF such
other business as may properly come
before the meeting.
The United Farmers Tel. q Tel Co.
Il. ]. PHILLIPS, Secretary.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1923-11-30
RENO HUNTERS KILL
EIGHT HUNDRED RABBITS

About eight hundred rabbits were
delivered to the Salvation Army at
Reno for distribution ~nong many
families fer Thanksgiving as re-
suit of the annual rabbit drive held
by Reno hunters a few days ago.
Rabbits were not found as plenti-
full as last year. the hunters report
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1923-11-30
Otto LINK RECEIVES
SAD NEWS FROM GERMANY

Otto Link this week received
letter from Germany telling OF the
death of his mother. which occurred
early In November
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1923-11-30
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS

Notice is hereby given t ia, the
first installment of taxes is now due
and payable to the Coun'y Clerk, at
hIs office in MindIn. II no' paid on
or before Monday December 81.
1923, they will become i,l. ,quent.
II. r. JEPSEN. Clerk.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1923-11-30

The Everett orchestra will give
the second of series of social
dances at Masonic hall Saturday
night.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1923-11-30
METHODIST CHURCH SERVICES

Sunday School Sunday morning at
10 a. m.
Preaching at IL a. m
Epworth League at 1880 p. n.
All are cor daily invited.
Z. V. BRONSON, Pastor.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1923-11-30

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