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Evening star., 1923-08-18
MAIL CLERK HELD
ON THEFT CHARGE
Morris Wasserman Accused
of Opening Letters Con-
tanning Money.

Morris Wasserman. a clerk in the
city post office, was arrested at )
o'clock this morning while at his
work and charged by postal inspec-
tors with opening letters containing
money.
Wasserman was taken before United
States Commissioner Needham c.
Turnage by Postal Inspectors W. J.
Satterf1eld and s. w. Purdum, where
he was charged with a violation Of
Penal Code 195, the embezzlement of
letters containing money.
The clerk. who was regarded by
officials of the post office as one of
the best on the force. having been
with the local office for five years
was held under bond of 1000 for the
grand jury.
Postmaster Mooney, with the CO.
operation of the postal inspection
force. is determined to break up any
inc:pient crime wave" Within the
past few months several others have
been apprehended opening letters, it
is understood.
The clerk arrested early today,
shortly after he had begun his daily
task of sorting letters. was reported
pockets. He is said to have attempt
ed to pull" an old game. perha ps
the oldest resorted TO by those who
rob the mails.
Officials say he had in his rack a
newspaper, above his letters. In
sorting his letters he would wait
until he found one that seemed to
have money in 1t.
Then he would throw the letter
between the folds of the paper. After
awhile, when he got several letters
in the folds of the newspaper. he
would casually pick up the paper and
Saunter away to restroom.
inspectors Can Watch.
Inspectors work on system. too,
and usually narrow their suspicion
down to a few men. They watch
these through openings in galleries
that run around the workroomS and
layatories.
When the man with the newspaper
full of letters had rifled them of their
money content. and had thrown the
torn letters away. inspectors descend
ed upon him, and found the marked
money in his possession.
One employe, it is understood. was
found tampering with letters which
had been addressed to his wife. from
whom he is said to be estranged. He
would open the letters that were ad-
dressed to her, then carefully reseal
them.
Marked money placed in such letters
was scrupulously returned to the en-
velopes, and never taken by the en-
was not robbery of the mails, it con-
stitutes violation of postal laws and
regulations for an employe to open
letters.
Evening star., 1923-08-18
SLIGHT EARTHQUAKE
SHOCK FELT IN SICILY
Population Camps Out of Doors
in Alarm After First
Tremor.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MESSINA, Sicily, August 1s.-Slight
earth shocks were felt early today
but caused no damage of any impor-
tance. The population, which has
been camping i'm the open air
since the slight disturbance on Thurs
day afternoon, was considerably
alarmed. ----
Evening star., 1923-08-18
MOVIE LIGHTS INJURE
EYES OF INFANT ACTOR
Son of Buster Keaton, Year Old,
Victim of "Klieg Eyes," Film
With Father Stopped.
BY the Associated Press.

Los ANGELES, August 1S.-Joseph
Talmade Keaton, year-old son of Bus
ter Keaton. motion picture comedian.
and already a film actor himself, has
developed "klieg eyes" the result of
working in strong artificial light.
Physicians say his trouble is not seri-
Gus, but work on the picture in which
he was supporting his father has been
stopped
Evening star., 1923-08-18
WEATHER.

Fair tonight and Sunday; moderate
temperature. Temperature for TWEEN
ty-four hours ended at . pm. today
Highest, IL, at noon today; lowest,
10, at ) am. today.
Full report on page I.
Evening star., 1923-08-18
s'FrOn, Press to Home
Within the Hour"

The Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi-
ticn is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
Evening star., 1923-08-18

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The Lamar register., 1923-05-02
socializing the Supreme Court

1t has been decided by the radical
elements that sponsor the new Pro
gressive political organization that
something must be done to the Unit
ed States Supreme Court. 1t needs
fixing.
The radicals would limit the pow
ers of the highest tribunal, and say
by an amendment to the Constitution
that on some matters like socialistic
and labor legislation, the court shall
keep its hands off.
The Grads" would get control Of the
Judiciary committee of the House and
Senate and draft an amendment that
shall require more than a mere ma
Jority to decide any case, subject Ia
recall or the referendum.
The La Toilette group would 90 far,
ther and enact a law that Congress
can override decision Of the highest
Supreme Court of the land, and 9th.
ers would enact law to compel al
Unanimous decision.
But worst of all the RAIDS propose
that If the Supreme Court holds a Law
unconstitutional, Congress can simply
re-enact that law and thus set aside
the decision of the highest tribunal by
political majority.
The Lamar register., 1923-05-02

to shoot your neighbor's bees if they
suck honey from your flowers, and l
reckon the supreme court would hold
that the same applies to hens. No
body in town ever hits anything they
shoot at, so don't worry about the
hens but keep your wife and children
home.
Don't eat the egg when you git it,
but keep it fur a souvenir and when
your friends call, show it to 'em. Town
hens usually average one egg per sum
mer and this kin be kept year in
sodium silicate. Formula sent on ap-
plication.-THOS. JEFFERSON PUT
NAM, Specialist in Rural Devilment.
The Lamar register., 1923-05-02
WILL INVESTIGATE OLD CITY
American Areheolosists TO Dei.e Into
Site Of Ancient Punie Strong
hold OF Carthage.

While the world Is waiting with
bated breath for the complete reyela
ton promised by Lord JHrnaryun's
discovery In the sands Of Egypt, II
learns of the Intention of number
of American supporters Of archeO-
logical excavation to eNpend sub
stantial annual sum for ten years on
the Investigation Of the ancient Punic
city of Carthage. Half historical and
half mythical TyriHn Carthage
which must not be confused with the
later and fourishlng Roman city OF
the African fathers, Of the ponHtists
and OF Belisnrius-stands as no city
OF sweetness and light. but rather as a
type of the commercial and, for all
the splendOrs which poetry and art
have woven about Its fabric. Of the
commonplace and the bHnausic Archie
ology, however, may correct this i'm
pression, though, when the spade has
performed Its task, 1t may be ques-
toned whether, after all, Carthage as
seen through the eyes Of Virgil. Tur-
ner and Flaubert does not yet present
the more enhancing spectacle Despite
Schleimann, the Scean gate is still
nearer to us in Homer than in the
ground plan of Hissarilk, and Aga
memnon's palace is still rather to be
sought In the pages of Aeschylus than
on the modern site OF eHcavated My
cenae. But We would not underrate
the spadework Of scholars. or Its re-
suits. What was Crete. with Laby-
rinth and MinOtaur but myth q
short time ago? What is 1t now II
not Plato's Atlantis regained?- New
York Tribune
The Lamar register., 1923-05-02
Minimum Wage Hypocrisy.

Minimum wage laws were Ostens-
IDLY designed to insure the payment of
adequate wages to the least skilled
and efficient workers. Labor leaders
and social reformers have preferred to
define them as ''affording needed pro-
lection to defenseless and downtrod-
den humanity" says the Textile World.
The actual effect of minimum wags
laws in this country, whether manda-
tory or not, has been to rob of their
jobs large numbers of workers who
were unskilled, inefficient, old or in
poor health, while tending to raise the
general level of wages paid to skilled
and ablebodied workers. The minimum
wage has usually been so high that
manufacturers and storekeepers have
had no alternative but to discharge
the inefficient and descrepit who might
otherwise have been provided with
easy work at lower, but fair, pay. This
legalized and enforced inhumanity has
made more Jobs for the skilled work
ers, and with fewer applicants for a
given job higher wages have been a
natural sequence.
Dilettante social workers may be eN-
cused for not knowing of this result
of such legislation, but professional
reformers and labor leaders have no
such excuse. Theirs is the rankest
kind of hypocrisy in exploiting min
imum wage legislation for "the pro-
lection of humanity" when they must
know it to be the cause of much un-
necessary suffering and unemploy-
ment, and that its only benefit to Ia
Dor has been in raising the general
average of wages paid to skilled work,
ers.
! II is for these reasons that the de.
cision of the Supreme Court Of the
United States, declaring the District
of Columbia minimum wage law to be
Unconstitutional, should be hailed witt
satisfaction by conscientious reform
ers, as well as by employers, and
Ishould encourage employers in those
states where minimum wage laws are
not mandatory to welcome the publ.
cation of their names as violators OF
this hyprocritical type of legislation
The Lamar register., 1923-05-02
BAKER AND DUMMY DENNIS
Smart Dummy Tells Tales on BOSS"
Clever Magician Springs Surprise
at Chautauqua.

1t is one thing to be q magician
and pull rabbits out of boys collars
and all that. But when you are
ventriloquist and your Dummy talks
back at you when you are in the audi
ence-sassy too--that makes the audi
ence roast you.
Well, that is what happened last
Summer to Al Baker. AL carries
towseled headed chap with him he calls
Dummy Dennis. Baker leaves him up
on the stage alone sometimes. That
is when Dennis spills large quantity
of beans. Baker was kidding Dennis:
and then before he could be stopped,
Dennis told 4 lot of stuff. Before Bak-
er could get back to the stage Dennis
had unwound considerable gab-con-
siderable.
OF course Dennis got what was COM
ing to him but if he pulls that again
he will get worse. Knowing Dennis
as we do anything is likely to happen.
All we can say is that we hope it
doesn't happen when you are there
it's a riot.
A Baker does not carry a trainload
of anything except alarm clocks and
few hundred thousand flags and
Dummy Dennis.
Baker loves kids. After his show
he likes to meet bunch. He will
take the time TO teach them a few
tricks.
Baker is a wonderful magician and
he is good ventriloquist too, even
if Dennis does try to bust up that
part of the show. Probably every
boy in town will be there so come
early-and keep your eye on Dennis.
The Lamar register., 1923-05-02

it is better to sell the whole milk This
question resolves itself into the ques-
ton of the actual feeding value of the
skim milk. By taking the average of
the prices paid for cream and whole
milk in 1922 we arrive at the differ
product when sold as whole milk and
when it is SKINNED and sold as cream
and the skim milk fed or sold. The
average for Colorado direct shippers
was 81 &c per pound of butterfat The
average price paid by the local buy
ers of whole milk during 1929 was
49.5 per pound of butterfat. The
difference between this price for cream
and this price for whole milk minus
the cost of handling would place the
value of the skim milk at Ga cents per
100 pounds. The feeding value of the
skim milk as compared with grain at
its present price is from 35c to 4Oc
per 100 pounds.
1t is interesting to note that while
the average Denver market on cream
in 1922 was 31.3c the average for the
four big Eastern markets was 40.3c
for the same period and at the same
time the average of the local whole
milk market was several cents higher
than the Eastern market. This shows
the extent to which the Western con-
densed milk market modifies the CON
troll of Eastern quotations on the
prices paid for whole milk here.
MAX GRANDY, Tester.
The Lamar register., 1923-05-02
FARMER PUTNAM'S PHILOSOPHY

Spring bein' here, off and on, l want
that lives in town. Nearly all town
people gifts the spring chicken fever,
which will work off in time, but kin
only be permanently cured by goin' in
to the chicken business on small
scale. Some don'ts that is suitable to
the occasion is as follows:
Don't buy baby chicks fur town use.
Start with old hens. You kin easy
pick up about two dozen by goin' from
farm to farm with your flivver. In
this way you git a good variety in
breed and color and nuthin' looks so
nice on u backlot as flock of speck-
led beauties.
Don't git colors that clash. Match
'em up with your flower beds. If you
like poppies git white leghorns or any
of the lighter colored breeds; if your
garden runs more to sweet peas and
verbenas git buff colored hens.
Don't ask too many questions when
you buy your hens. Culling is reg
ular habit on the farm now and you
kin git lots of hens that's served their
usefulness and is ready to retire from
the farm to the easy life of town. If
you buy pullets they'll scratch your
garden. Old hens are good layers and
will lay around all day.
Don't ask fur guarantee with the
hens you -. If you ask the farmer
"do these hens lay eggs?" the best
he kin answer and be honest is, eyes
when they've got any," and thus you
spoil the element of surprise, which is
one of the most attractive things about
raisin' chickens in town.
Don't run to the chicken house oil
the piano box, whichever it may bt
where you keep your hen or hens
every time you hear cackle. Cack
ling is a laying habit that is seldom
broke off when they quit laying, anc
it then becomes a lying habit.
Don't be surprised if your neigh
bors shoot at your hens when they gil
over the fence into their garden. A
recent court decision sez it's all right
The Lamar register., 1923-05-02
United States

Customs per capita average
1920, 21 and % ...
The Lamar register., 1923-05-02
His Opinion.

Il was reading in the paper last
night" remarked Gabe Giggery, that
over there in Rooshy you can beg Il
divorce as easy as buying sack of
peanuts. and then get married In five
minutes. If you want to-"
well I'll tell you" replied Gap
Johnson Of Rumpus Ridge. Judging
from the pictures I've seed of them
there Rooshian ladies, If / got a di-
vorce from one of 'em | shore wouldn't
want to marry anOther'n for sev'ral
days"-Kansas City Star.
The Lamar register., 1923-05-02
Busine... Not Political Expedieney.

Unreasonable enemies of the pres
ent reasonable tariff schedule of the
United States are using the furry in
sugar as an argument for tariff re-
vision. Any one who has studied the
facts or will study them, knows that
the present sugar has not been influ-
enced by the tariff.
The following facts on the customs
revenues Of the United States compar-
ed with Great Britain and Ireland are
very illuminative.
The Lamar register., 1923-05-02
DIR. KALMEN c. SAPERO

The well-known Denver Specialist
on the Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat,
will again visit Lamar one day, Sat
urday, May 18th, at the Ben-Mar hotel.
Consultation, also examination for
glasses, free. Call early. (47-49)
The Lamar register., 1923-05-02
BRING YOUR SCHOOL CHILDREN

To the Ben-Mar Hotel, where Dr. X.
c. SaperO, the well-known Eye, Ear
Nose and Throat specialist will ex-
amine their eyes and yours, free, Sat
urday, May 18th. Come early. 47-49
The Lamar register., 1923-05-02
Great Britain

Population 1921 ...-.. 47,3O7, Col
Customs per capita average
1920, 21 and % ...-.-.-............-.. Sl3.87
This will be a startling revelation
to enemies Of the American tariff who
cite England as free trade country.
The figures show how little our own
tariff affects the outgo from the aver
age American pocket book. The di-
rect expenditures for the individual is
nothing compared to the loss or low
ering of wages that would result II
American industries were subjected to
unregulated foreign competition which
could dump goods on the American
market that had been manufactured
with cheaper labor working longer
hours than that in American indus
tries.
Let the tariff question be settled on
the facts Of the case and not as a mat
ter of political evpediency
The Lamar register., 1923-05-02

-Housekeeper. Phone 15l
or 43S-J.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-07-26

John H Lynch, of Pa1Oucket, r. L. toth his Invention,
the rertpacor ohich he has ready for trials at Mieold
Long Island He says the machine acH rise rercol like
hecopter THO propeers driven By horsepower motors
force air against the hich is Soechat ike that of
prairie schooner s-.>
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-11-29
WANT BATES RELEASED
FROM McNEILS ISLAND

A petition for the pardon of e.
S. Bates was circulated in Carson
City and a few names were added
to those of Reno and Sparks people.
Bates and his young son were SEN
fenced to serve terms at McNeil's
Island following their conviction on
the charge of having resisted and
shot Percy Nash when the latter
was acting as a U. S. prohibition
enforcement officer. In many in
stances persons approached could
not conscientiously sign the petition
because of the paragraph which
put the signers on record as be-
lieving that Bates has been punished
sufficiently for his violation of the
law and assault on a United States
officer.
Nash and Brown caught Bates
and son in the act of making de-
livery, on the highway, of a guam
tity of liquor, and placed them
under arrest. Brown took charge
of the truckload of liquor and Mash
started for Reno with the two
prisoners handcuffed together in the
back seat of his car. While or
the road Nash was shot by one OF
the pair, and the moonshiners made
their escape. They gave themselves
up in a couple of days.-Carson
News.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-11-29
SEARCHLICHT POSTMASTER
INDICTED BY u. S. JURY

L. A. Main, for many years past
a prominent citizen of Searchlight
and for several years postmaster
there, was last week indicted by the
U. S. Grand Jury, sitting at Carson
City, on two charges of embezzle-
ment and one of forgery. He was
arrested at Los Angeles, where he
has been living since he left Search
light some two months ago and up
on hearing by the U. S. commission
err, was held for extradition to
Nevada for trial in the United
States Court.
The matters which resulted in
Mr.. Mains indictment grew out of
probate proceedings in the estate
of VIM. Bagley, deceased. Bagley
died in 1918, and left, it is alleged,
an estate consisting of $500 in pos
tai savings certificates and $1,000
in liberty bonds and treasury saw
ings certificates. These, it is charg-
ed, were left by Bagley prior to his
death in a sealed envelope in the
safe of Harry Russell. Searchlight
business man. 1t is alleged that the
envelope and contents were deliver
ed at date after Bagley's death to
Postmaster MAIN; that the sigma
lures of the dead man were forged
and the securities cashed and the
money embezzled.
Mr.. MAIN has always borne a
good reputation and has many
friends who are loath to believe
him guilty of any official misdoing.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-11-29
In Bankruptcy. No. 331
eANkRoPI,S PETITION FOR

OlSCHAHGE
Bankrupt.
To the Honorable Il. S. Harrington.
Judge, Of the District Court of the
United States, District OF Nevada.
Ralph NJ. Matthews. OF Winnemucca,
IN the County Of Humboldt, and State
of Nevada in said district. respectfully
represents that on the 14th day OF May,
last vast, he was duly adjudged bank
rupt under the Acts of Congress rela.-
ing to bankruptcy; that he has duly
Of property, and has complied with all
the requirements of said acts and o
the orders of the court touching his
Wherefore he prays that he may be
deereed by the court to have a full d
charge from all debts proveable against
MS estate under said. bankrupt acts,
except such debts as are excepted by
law from such discharge.
Dated this 18th day of November.
RALPH NJ. MATTHEW'S,
|. Bankrupt
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 10th day Of November, A. ID. 1923.
tSeaD C. Z. ROBINS,
ORDER OF NOTICE THEReoN
District of Nevada, IS.
On this 2lst day of November, AID.
1923, on, reading the foregoing petition,
i is ordered by the court, that a hear
day of December. AID. 1923. before said
court, at Carson City, in said district,
at 10 O'Clock In the forenoon; and that
notice be published in The Silver State,
newspaper printed in said district
and that all known creditors and other
persons inn interest may appear at the
said time and place and show cause, II
any they have, why the prayer, of said
And IL is further ordered by the
court, that the clerk shall send by mail
to all known creditors copies Of sa4
petition and this order. addressed to
them at their places of residence as
stated.
Witness the Honorable e. S. Earring
ton, Judge of the said Court, and the
seal thereof, at Carson City, Nevada, in
said district, on the 21st day of No
vember AID. 1928.
tSeal) e. o. PATTERSON,
Clerk.
By o. e. BENHAM
Deputy.
First publication, November 49, 1923
Last publication, December 90 1928.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-11-29
FIFTY YEAR SENTENCES
ARE SECURED BY HALEY

Sentences to dope peddlers ag-
gregating just fifty years is the rec
ord established by Harry Haley,
narcotic officer formerly of Reno,
but now working out of Seattle,
Wash. This record was completed
this week when Haley, who APP
peared as the main witness against
Quon Hong, Reno Chinese, wit
messed a sentence of five years in
Leavenworth being imposed upon
the fellow.
The 50-year record was estab-
lished within seven months, or
from May 18th of the present
year. "The federal judges have
awakened to the necessity of inn
posing long prison sentences upon
those convicted of violating the
narcotic law" said Haley yesterday
day, just previous to his departure
for his headquarters in Seattle.
"Of the many cases that | have
presented in the federal court a
total of so years in little over
six months has been the penalties
imposed on those convicted. / am
sure that other federal judges will
now follow the precedent just es-
tablished by Judge harrington in
the federal court at Carson City,
and go the limit in the future in
dealing out justice to those found
guilty of peddling dope" Reno
Journal.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-11-29

In the Sixth judicial District Court of
the state OF Nevada, in and Tor the
County OF Humboldt.
husband, Plaintiffs, VS.. q. Dastugur, also
Anown as q. Dastagne, Jeremiah ).
Aiann, also known as }. j. Mann, James
T. Sloan, James Sloan, Isabella sloan,
also known as Isabel Sloan, James }.
stevenson, also known as j. j. Steven
son, A. Stevenson, isaac Coe, Lioi Carter
also known as Levi Carter, {. Slagle, also
nnown as Conrad slagle, John Jordan,
luther Fillmore, Melville &. Brown, 4. A.
Aent, George kreg, Mary ). krelg, !. II.
1 HES, Isaac West and Mrs. }. IL. can't
ner: also all other persons unknown
claiming any right title, estate, lien or
interest in the real property in the COM
alaint and In this summons adverse TO
Plaintiifs' ownership, or any cloud upon
/ Plaintiffs title thereto, Defendants.
The State OF Nevada sends greetings
to the said Defendants: You are hereby
summoned to appear within ten days after
me service upon you of this summons ii
served in said county, or within twenty
laws If served out of said county but
within said judicial district, and IN an
1ther cases within forty days Exclusive
If the day OF service) and defend the
above entitled action.
This action is brought to obtain a de-
rec OF said court quoting plaintins titl,
10 the following lands and premises:
All those certain pieces or parcels Q
and situate, lying and being IN u
| sounty OF Humboldt, State OF Nevada
| Wit: ,, -, a.. NJ,
he NEA of Section 30; the nv OF IN.
| WI and the Ny of the NEA OF Seq
ION 20; the " Of the NWh and NJ the e, \ NJ =
, ON s7 the Nwi4 and the. NwA Of the
iEA Of section 20; the Nh Of ~ the 81 SEA "A
! wv and the SWA of the SWh OF Sec
I ion %: sM of the SEA and the Sis Of
he sWA Of Section S2 and 4, the rs SEn 81, o.
O n. r. 33 r., NJ. d. b. & NJ, together
With all improvements thereon ;rS, ,n waseI
| Iitches, water and water rights tnersoi
,ances and rights thereunto belonging.
DATED this 9Th day OF september, 1yza-
N''"' Clerk of Said Court.
/ WARREN & DIGNAN,
Attorneys for PLAINTIFFS,
Winnemucca, Nevada. a. ,oao
Date of first publication, Oct 5S' 1883 1883
pate OF last publication. Nov w. 1879