The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-10-04
WORLD DIVIDE BITS
IN SMALL CHUNKS

Mount Washington, Oregon, was
scaled August 26, 1928, for the FIRST
time on record. Six boys from Bend
Oregon, after hours of arduous
work, reached the topmost pinnacle
None of the boys in the party was
more than twenty-one years OF age,
At one time a member OF the party
lost his foothold and chung desper-
ately to the face of perpendicular
cliff, with an S00-foot abyss yawn-
ing beneath him. A tube, containing
their names, the story of the climb
and small personal effects, was LETT
at the top to substanciate then
claim. They slid down the danger
Gus part of the pinnacle by means
of rope which could not be dis
engaged and still remains on the
peak.
The Abraham Lincoln University
may become a reality if the plans
of 200 business and proffessioal men
of Springfield, Illinois, carry. Effort
is to made to raise $4,000 to be-
gin organization of the school which
will be built and conducted accord
ing to the democratic ideals of the
martyred President. Within few
months a committee Will begin a
drive to raise a permanent endow-
ment of $4,000, 900.
Heat in the Alps has been SO
great that glaciers have been melt
ing and causing avalanches. Noun
tain streams have been blocked by
these avalanches with disastrous re-
suits to factories and electrical
works depending on the power OF
the water for their kinetic energy.
The straightest of the worlds
surveyed lines is that running north
ward between Alaska and Canada
from the coast to the Arctic Ocean
and constituting the boundary line
between the two countries. The line
consists of a clearing twenty feet
wide cut through all timber, OF
aluminum-bronze monuments set al
intervisible points not more than
four miles apart, and of a map in
detail of the strip of country two
miles each side of the boundary
proper. In 1867, the American and
British treaty makers laid rule on
a map and said, "This shall be the
dividing line" The line traverses
600 miles of country over great
mountain ranges, Swift rivers, quick.
sands, glaciers and bottomless NOR.
asses
Wages of plasterers who receive
S104 and more week are causing
ministers and members of other pro.
fessions to take up the trowel in
Evanston, Illinois, where work on {
new hotel is in progress. GRADUATES
of universities holding several de
grees turn down offers of professor
ships to join the plasterers. Othe
graduates who stick to their chosei
professions receive but $500
month while the plasterers receiv
between $500 and $500 monthly.
The powerful voice of Senator
elect Magnus Johnson can be hear
a long distance. When the commit
tee on rules assigned him to suit
125 in the Senate Office Buildin
they had this mind. The partition
between the rooms are very thi
and any loud expression can be hear
in rooms adjoining. The question
was solved by arranging for
buffer room" between his suite an
those adjoining-that is to say, ex
ira rooms Were AIDED to the ajoin
ing suites which may or may no
be used.
Amy A. Kaukonen, Mayor 0
Fairport, Ohio, resigned recent
after bitter fight of nineteel
months with bootleggers. She clamp
ed the lid on and beat the bootleg
gers to finish and then resigned
At a mass meeting of citizens he
administration was declared to b
the best in years, and all her prede