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The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-01-11

that politicians use fertilizer to get
votes and supply houses use the
same material to secure orders, and
while their fiowery promises say a
whole lot they mean nothing. He's
going to find out that supply houses
will soak him right up to the hilt and
after he's put his name on the
dotted line he'll be given to under
stand that money talks and the fire
was his misfortune and the other
fellows luck. He's going to find
out that politicians and friends.
when it comes time to back up their
promises, are going to get a cramp
in their check-writing hands, which
cramp will recur every time the
subject is mentioned. He's going to
find out that friends, for whom he
may have gone the limit, are going
to declare all obligations off, for
the time being, and wait for the
next time they can use him and his
paper, without cost. And finally he's
going to find out that the system in
this world is to kick fellow if you
think he's down and scrape before
him if you think he's up.
By this we do not mean to paint
too black picture to other aspiring
young men, but our unfortunate
habit of dealing with conditions as
they are, rather than as theorists
would have US see them, leads to
the chronicling of truth.
In looking back over the whole
experience, we find in it much of
value. 1t has had the effect of de-
termining those who were only fair
weather friends and has cemented
lasting friendships with those who
stick through thick and thin, fair
weather or foul, and has proven
that, while men generally are made
hard-hearted by world contact, there
are those-and the number is plen-
tiful-who are moved to acts of
friendship far beyond any normal
point of expectancy. At the same
time it has taught that people are
prone easily to forget-forget either
direct promises or implied obliga-
tions.
One good result of most fires,
printing office or otherwise, is that
in the end they result in replace
ment of something better. For
instance, Winnemucca's new hotel.
Both the Journal and The Silver
State needed new time-saving ma
chinery that while saving time will
result in superior product, and the
fires have forced the buying of that
machinery where perhaps no other
agency could have accomplished the
result. While such buying may in
volve matters considerably and
cause a few gray hairs, as with
most other troubles of life the diff
ficulty is temporary and must in
the end turn out right.
The lesson to be gained is to
always stand on our own feet, in
dependent of others in as great a
degree as possible, but to not adopt
the seeming policy of others to the
extent of following in their example
of broken promises and selfish dol
lar-grabbing. AS our respected
father once said: "The lessons of
life come hard, but if you learn
them for sure the knowledge comes
through hard knocks"
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-01-11
TEN YEARS AGO

January the old board of coun-
ty commissioners, with Chairman
Haviland and Commisser Stoker in
attendance, approved the minutes of
the December meeting and ad-
journed sine die. The new board.
with Commissioner C. E. Haviland,
Byrnes and Cooper, Immediately or
ganized, Haviland being the hold
over was elected chairman. W. L.
Wilkinson was reappointed superin-
tendent of the county hospital and
H. l.. Bonnifield as game warden.
DR.. ]. P. Mangan was appointed
county physician.
Officers of the Chamber of Com
merce have instructed Secretary
German to send out notices of a
special meeting to determine
whether the town of Winnemucca
shall be Incorporated.
The spreme court has handed
down a decision confirming the de-
cision of the lower court in the
murder case against Nimrod Uric.
The crime for which Uric must suf-
fer the death penalty, unless the
state board of pardons intervenes
(Which it later did) was one of the
worst ever committed in the state.
On the night of January 6, 1911.
two masked robbers held up the
saloon of Jean Quilici at INLAY.
killing both him and his wife. The
next morning Sheriff Lamb and an
Indian trailer trailed the murderers
to an abandoned house and placed
Uric under arrest. On the way to
town they met Frank TRAINER and
ne also was placed under arrest.
Uric turned states evidence and
charged TANNER with the offense.
Uric was tried and found guilty of
first degree murder and was later
sentenced by Judge Quicker to be
hanged. TRAINER was tried in
Washoe county, found guilty ant
sentenced to life Imprisonment.
A. Ruckteschler is reported seri.
ously i'll with pneumonia.
virgil Pasquale has leased the
station at Andorno.
w. S. Bonnifeld Jr., United
States commissioner, is confined TO
his home by an attack of appendi-
citis, diagnosed by DR.. Hall.
w. =. Moore returned yesterday
from Rochester, where he went to
secure Photographic scenes in the
camp.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-01-11
They Craved Attention

John Harrington, Of T0nopah, has
returned from Reno, where he spent
his Christmas vacation with his
family. His reason for departure
from his work in Tonopah was un-
usual. On Christmas Eve he was
handed a telegram by a Western
Union messenger which read leone
home at once" He left for his
home. On his arrival he asked what
was wrong. Nothing" said his
daughter, who had sent the tele-
gram. eve knew that was the only
way we could get you here for din
ner today"
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-01-11
Fallon Acreage Increases-

= Au0n acreage An$fc1BcS-
Additional land cleared and lev
eled under the Newlands project dur
ing the year 1922 amounted to
1890 acres, bringing the total i'm
proved acreage to 44,963, accord
ing to the 1922 census compiled by
the local reclamation Office.
The total invested in land and
improvements amounts to $685.
600, an increase of $279,939. The
present value Of farms under the
project, with improvements but ex-
Guiding stock and equipment is
$8,615,S50. The inventory of stock
and equipment amounts to $1,423,-
208, a decrease of $187,693. The
grand total of all farm property,
live stock, improvements and equip
ment is thus shown to be $10,351,-
083, according to the report. The
acreage rendered unfit for cultiva-
ton on account of seepage is 4098.
-Fallon Eagle.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-01-11
Cat Dies; Town Without Light

A big, handsome bobcat climbed
one Of the power company's poles
short distance on the Elko side
of Empire, stepped out on the cross
arm in such manner as to come in
contact with two high-powered wires
and Carson was without electric
light and power six hours as a re-
suit.
Carsonites who were on the street
at the time of the cats electrucu-
ton observed great, green flash in
the direction of Empire simultan-
eously with the going out of the
lights.-Carson News.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-01-11
.SONAL OPINION OF THE EDITOR
Agree or not you see fit, but think for yourself
and grant to others the same privilege

The files Of The Silver State tell
some interesting stories, and many
times some stories that are better
left imprinted. In fact, some Of
our prominent citizens of today are
shown to have been somewhat diff
ferent in the olden days and it is
to prevent embarrassment to them
that much of the good stuff" is
left out. 1t is hardly fair to dig
too far into the past, for who is
there who at one time or another
has not done things they would give
a great deal il they could efface
from their record?
But occasionally the files bring to
light some facts that belle current
understandings of matters. For
instance, in the column this week
devoted to years gone by, as re-
lated by the files, is a partial ac-
count of the Nimrod Uric murders
and subsequent happenings, and the
murders are termed the worst ever
committed in this state.
Only week ago it developed that
one of the last acts of Ex-Governor
Boyle and ex-Attorney General
Fowler, aided by Supreme Judge
Sanders, acting as members of the
pardons board, was Communication
of the life sentence of Nimrod Uric,
a murderer sentenced to be hanged
for the brutal murder of an Italian
and his wife at Inlay, the Outlets,
70 hax -,
cold-blooded and brutal manner
during hold-up of Outlets saloon.
1t is also said that the murders
were entirely unnecessary to the
robbers end and were committed
merely for the love of killing. There
were, apparently, no circumstances
that would lead to the belief that
the murders were committed in
stress of excitement or in the be-
lief that the lives of the murderers
were threatened by their victims.
1t was purely one of the most cold
blooded murders on record.
In explaining the last-minute
pardon of Nimrod Uric newspapers
reported that the state officials
acted because of the belief that
Uric did not do the killing-that he
was an 18-year-old boy led by an
older man, with no intention of be-
coming a murderer nor of partici-
pating in a murder. The account
also said that Urie's life sentence
had been cummuted to 25 years, but
with prison credits for good be-
havior Uric would be freed in about
three years.
The murders were committed in
this county on January 6, 1911, and
if Uric is released in 1926 he will
have served total of Is years,
including the time he was being
tried. That's pretty good to have
ten years knocked off for good be-
havior, but misleading so far as the
public is concerned.
1t was Republican board of
pardons that committed Urie's sem
tence to death, changing it to life
imprisonment, which act was greeted
by storm of protest here. We
mention this merely to show this
comment is not actuated by political
prejudice.
But the pardon board that ar
ranged for the freedom of Uric
few days ago, acting at last
moment when the members of the
board knew they would not have to
face the wrath of an offended pub
lie, carried sentimentalism a little
too far. Sitting on the board with
them were Chief Justice Quicker and
Justice Coleman, both of whom
voted against the freeing of Uric.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-01-11
Lethal Gas Law Upheld

The state supreme court upheld
the constitutionality of the law pro-
viding for the use of lethal gas in
the execution of persons sentenced
to death.
Three men are awaiting the death
penalty in Nevada. No plans have
been made yet for construction of a
chamber. The condemned men are
Hughie Sing and Gee Jon, Chinese
who were convicted of murder in a
Tong war, and Thomas Russell, con-
victed at Elko of the murder of an
Indian girl.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-01-11

Judge Quicker, it so happens. is the
same judge who sentenced Uric to
death after a jury of twelve men, in
possession of all the facts, had de-
creed that he should die. Judge
Quicker dissented, and that act alone
should have been sufficient to have
carried more weight with the board
than any possible appeal of the
murdered himself, for Judge Quicker,
who presided at the original trial,
surely must have in his possession
more facts than would be hunted
out by other members of the board.
Statistics have been quoted show
ing that the average murderer in
Nevada serves only seven years in
the penitentiary and then is freed.
Perhaps that statement is not based
on fact and, then again, maybe it
is. Rumors have also ben frequent
of unusual freedom granted to
Urie-that in acting as chauffeur
of prison automobile he has been
permitted to take trips to California
unaccompanied by prison guards.
Perhaps that is untrue, and, again,
perhaps it isn't.
At any rate, Uric was the man
sentenced to death by a jury for
the murders. TRAINER, his pardner,
was sentenced only to life i'm
prisonment, and this upsets another
printed story put forward in de-
Tense of the latest Communication of
Urie's sentence, showing that in
the judgments of the juries Uric
was the more guilty man.
We believe that the privilege of
pardon is at times abused by few
men entirely out Of touch with the
matters they act upon, and we be-
lieve that the pardon of Uric is an
unjustifable crime against the peo-
pie. Just why he has been favored
inmate of the prison and why his re-
lease has been accomplished in the
manner that it has been, has not by
any means been made clear, and
we believe that the act of the par
dons board should meet with public
condemnation. If officials continue
in their practice of releasing MUIR
derers after short sentences they
will in the end be merely extending
invitations for more murders. The
whole things smells bad.
Bigger and Better Than Ever"
seems to be popular promise of
publishers who suffer the misfortune
of losing their printing plants by
fra t1-x,f h. IL
adopted by The Silver State and
now Ex-Governor Boyle, publisher of
the Nevada State Journal, who suf-
fered a fire loss last week, adopts
the same phrase in announcing plans
for rehabilitation.
If the Governor will lend an ear
we'll put him wise to the next steps,
for we've been through them and
know the mental processes subse-
quent to loss by fire. The Cover
nor's paper tells of the wonderful
kilograms of sympathy received and
so on. So did we. A man who
suffers a fire loss is entitled to
sympathy, and we extend the fullest
measure to our stricken illustrious
brother. But here's the rest of it.
The Governor probably received
kilograms from supply houses offer
ing him anything he wants on any
terms he wants to pay for it, and
from politicians promising even
more. We did. But perhaps the
Governors experience has showed
him up against human nature as
it really is and he is not the trust
ing young man the writer was.
If not, he's going to find out
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-01-11
MURDER is MURDER

The time has come to read the
law as a whole, not merely the part
that Inscriptions men imagine is
a protection against discovery of
their secret and criminal designs
and practices. There is more to
law than refuge for mudrerers and
potential murderers with guns in
hand. There is that law which leads
through prison doors to a felon's
death.-Reno Journal.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-01-11
IN YEARS GONE BY
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
(From The Silver State Files)

Justice Nixon of Golconda is in
town.
H. L. Marker arrived yesterday
from Lovelock.
Commissioner Morey of Paradise
Valley and Commissioner Westfall
of Lovelock arrived yesterday.
Ewart Organ came up from Mill
City to attend the dance.
Thos. Shone Jr. left for San
Francisco to visit relatives.
The sale of 81 lots in Golconda
were reported yesterday. Looks
like real estate boom is setting in.
The anthony property in Star
Canyon, near Mill City. has been
leased by the owners, Messrs. Will
liam and Peter Woolcock and Jos.
Phillips, to a Chicago company for
one year. The figure is said to have
been $4,000 and royalties.
Twenty-seven marriage licenses
were issued during 1897 including
those to Clarence B. Hansen and
Maud E. Sturgeon of Winnemucca,
March 16; Nathan A. Gillian and
and Laura Holt of Paradise, March
16; Henry G. Gillian and Lizzie E.
DeFau of Winnemucca, August %;
Joseph Jurey and Mabel Parsons of
Kennedy, September IS; Otto Rel
and Katharine Knauss of Winnie
mucca, December 20.
J. H. Harvey of Paradise has
made substantial improvements to
his place in the shape of a fine
buggy shed and harness room.
AS is the custom of this office
every year, bills are being sent out
to all indebted to The Silver State.
Nov we know that some people are
merely old fashioned, and that's
the reason they pay only once a
year. Maybe supply houses would
wait year in those days, but they
won't do it now.)
A Carson man has taken a con-
tract to supply the state prison with
fresh meat at five cents pound.
A number of young men in Win
nemucca, just on the point of rails
ing a moustache, are anxious for
someone to start a dancing school
here.
Humboldt county makes good
showing in the number of pupils
attending the state university, being
exceeded only by Washoe county.
The depot platform was alive with
friends to see students off and the
students had a car all to themselves.
Clifford Robins of this place, James
and Hugh Darrah of Willow Point,
and Harry Harvey of Paradise, were
among the students, as was also
Fred Abel of Toll House.
r. L. Richie came down from
Golconda.
1t is said that E. Reinhart Com
pany has purchased the general
merchandise stock of L. Dutetre at
Golconda and will erect a hand
some store.
Victor B-was being dressed to
attend Sunday school for the first
time. The mother impressed him
that his teacher would likely ask
him who made him and that he
should answer God" Sure enough,
about the first question asked was
"Now Victor, who made your" Vic
tor hesitated a moment and then re-
piled. II can't just remember the
fellows name, but it wasn't Dad"
The number of cattle being fed in
Paradise Valley is not so large as
in previous years. From reliable
sources we are enabled to give
figures showing the number of cat
tie being fed on different ranches
John Reed, 600; William Stock,
$50; Recanzone G. Forgnone, 200;
E. j. Lye, 100; Ed Stock, 100;
Eugene Silve, rs; w. E. Townsend,
rs; w. d. Morey, 60.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-01-11
Close Restricted District

The restricted districts" of Reno
were closed last night by order of
the property owners, according to
reports to the chief of police today.
Chief Kirkley stated that number
of the former habitutes of the dis
trict departed on trains today, or
were preparing to leave tonight.
The anti-vice ordinance, which was
endorsed by the citizens committee
last week and the correlated health
ordinance, will be introduced at
the next meeting of the city council.
Reno Gazette.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-01-11
Cut Up Large Holdings-

George W. Chester, operator of a
large farm in western Nevada, and
owner of the largest farm in Churc-
hill county, advocates the cutting up
of large estates and the letting of
small tracts to individuals. In this
manner, expenses of operating on
an extremely large scale are mini
mixed, and the land is intensively
cultivated.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-01-11
Just Having Fun

John Simpson and Felix Mazade
of Goldfield, are in the county Jail
as the result of their New Years
celebration. They were not drunk,
neither were they disorderly. The
only complaint against them was
that they had exploded two sticks
of dynamite on the corner of Main
and Crook streets, to welcome the
new year. The blast scattered
rocks over a large area. Luckily
no one was hurt.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-01-11
Another Paper Hanger

Four checks bearing forged sigma
lures were cashed by Fallon mer-
chants when presented for payment
Saturday night by William Sanford,
farm laborer employed during re-
cent months ON ranches near here.
Sanford took advantage of the holi-
day season and was gone before
the forgeries were discovered Tues
day evening.-Fallon Eagle.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-01-11
CURRENT EVENTS AS REPORTED BY
EXCHANGES FROM ALL PARTS
OF THE STATE

disease, at Reno, died in that in
stitution January 2. He was aged
40 years and a native of Georgia.
At the time of his commitment a
portion of his new found wealth was
tied up by litigation and Lowell
Daniels, the attorney, was appointed
guardian.-Tonopah Bonanza.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-01-11
Girls Win, Bow. Defeated

The Lovelock high school boys
basketball team defeated the Fallon
boys Saturday night by a score of
twenty-six to seventeen but the Fall
Ion girls made the event a fifty
fifty" affair by defeating the Love-
lock girls by a score Of Al to 26.
The visiting teams were entertained
with refreshments and dance after
the game.-Gazette.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-01-11
Only Two Arrested

Reno authorities declare that the
New Year celebration in the Washoe
county seat was unusually safe and
sane. There were but two names on
the police court blotter. Special
officers who patrolled the city New
Years night declared that it was
one Of the most quite New Years
that they had ever seen.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-01-11

Have The Silver State delivered
to your door every Thursday. Bv
the month only 25 cents, or $3.50
per year.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-01-11
Murderer Sent to Asylum

George Blocker, Negro, self-styled
Minister" who was sent to the
state prison for the killing of his
wife by beating her to death, has
been committed to the insane asy-
lum at Reno from the prison.-Car-
son News.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-01-11

Die. in Insane Hospital

Benjamin Thomas colored, who
made a snug little fortune, during
the divide boom and who shortly
after becoming possessed Of wealth,
became insane and was committed
to the state hospital for mental
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-01-11

Safe 10 Blown
Panaca was visited by safe blow
ers Thursday night who wrecked
the postoffice safe in the store of
A. V. Lee. The parties who did
the work were evidently amateurs,
as the charge used was so heavy
that it not only opened the safe but
blew the door to pieces and Jared
much of the goods from the shelves.
Lee estimated that between $40 and
$50 in stock was taken, while close
to $3.50 in paper money was buried
beneath the debris from the safe
and overlooked by the burglars
Phoebe Record.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-01-11
Tax Approved By Commission

Members Of the Nevada tax COM
mission gave approval to a proposal
of the Nevada Public Economy
League for a tax on gasoline. The
commission also approved the valua-
ton on land and live stock as fixed
by the state board Of equalization.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-01-11
Grey Wolf Trapped

Grey Wolf Trapped
Ernest Aschleman, Mason Val
ley rancher, trapped a splendid
specimen of the gray wolf tribe.
The animal killed hogs and calves
in the vicinity before it was lured
into trap.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-01-11
Strike in Florence

Strike in Florence
A shoot of high grade ore, two
feet wide in a vein of four feet,
has been opened on the Kinds lease
on the Florence. This find is in the
Little Florence main vein and all of
the ore is said to be rich.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-01-11
Different Here

Different Here
Women will be asked in large
numbers to serve on Ormsby county
juries this year, the number of fe-
male citizens chosen for jury duty
by the board of county commission
ers being almost as large as the list
of males.-Carson Appeal.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-01-11
Bad Bunch in Vegas

Bad Bunch in Vegas-
Las Vegas boasts-or complains,
of a group of youngsters who defy
curfew laws and delight in dice
and poker. The gang is made up
of white, black and red youths, to-
gether with few Mexican kids.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-01-11

Society and Commercial Printing
at The Silver State office.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-01-11
Bloodhound ON Way East

Three of the Nevada prison blood
hounds were shipped out by ex-
press last evening. Two trained
dogs will go to Kansas, while the
third animal is wanted in Indiana.
The hounds raised at the prison are
in demand all over the United
States.-Carson Appeal.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-01-11
Lion Kills IS Sheep


Several nights ago a mountain
lion made a raid on a band of
sheep belonging to the Adams and
McGill company and killed 35. The
sheep were being wintered at Grassy
Mountain, 20 miles northwest of
Phoebe.
Traps were set the following
night but they proved too small for
the animal, which was exceptionally
large, judging from his tracks. The
traps were sprung but they were
not strong enough to hold the lion.
The traps were anchored to a
number of sheep, which is the Gus
tomary method used. The idea is
that when the lion is caught in the
trap and tries to get out he will
drag the sheep and create a COM
motion that will arouse the herder.
But in this case the well laid plans
went amiss.-Ely Times.