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Carson City ' Daily
Appeal
TO MAKE KNOWN THE RESOURCES OF NEVADA
Vol. LIV.
25 Cents Per Week
CARSON CITY, NEVADA, TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1917
Five cents per copy
No. 175
mm
Will Regulate
Traffic In Fish
Hy I'nited Press
SACRAMENTO, July 31. Governor
Stephens today reappointed Colonel
Harris Weinstock as state market direc
tor, simultaneously re-enacting the
CONFLICTING STATEMENTS
OF ACCIDENT AT NAVY YARD
Police Say That Several Men Are
Dead and Missing Marine Officer
States None Was Killed and Only
a Few Hurt, None Seriously
By ITnileil Press
NEW YORK, July 31. A gang plank
at the Prooklyn navy yard over which
workmen engaged on the new hattlc
ship New Mexico passed in going to
lunch, collapsed today, and early police
reports said that several were drowned
Record Price Is
Offered for Oil
SAN FRANCISCO, July 31. A high
price record for California oil was set
this morning. Howard Payne, receiver,
auctioned to the General Petroleum
company the production of 45,000 har-
Young nan Raised In This City Tells
of the Good the Army Is Doing Him
Eugene I. Pierini, the author of the
annexed letter, which was wr;tten from
Fort McDowell to Secretary of State
George Brodigan, spent his y.uth and
grew almost to manhood in this citv.
He left here a few years ago and went
to San l'rancisco, where he hi'ilt up a
good husiness, hut when the call came,
he put everything behind him ami joined
the colors patriotism came first. His
letter to Mr. Brodigan, which is inter
esting throughout, follows:
"Fort McDowell, July 26, 1017.
"Dear Friend: Just a few lines to
let you know I am enlisted and ready
to do my bit for I'nele Sam.
"I enlisted the 20th of June and it is
the best thing I've ever done. The
spirit of the war is right in a man. It
is in every man that -is here. We are
all so anxious to be on our way, and
give to Uncle Sam the best we have it:
us.
"I passed my examinations with fly
ing colors and was listed as corporal.
"Uncle Sam feeds us fine and every
thing is so clean.
"We have three inoculations of ty
phoid germs, ten days apart, and are
also vacinated on our enlistment. So .we
are being taken care of O. K.
"The soldier's life of today is being
prepared for any emergency or hard
ship that presents itself in the future.
The training and drilling is wonderful
in developing a man, be he scrawny or
fat. Believe me, it is some life.
"There is one thing besides world's
democracy that this war will accotn-
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marketing hill and enlarging the market
director's powers through the fish hill,
which empowers the director to regulate
the huying ami selling of fish. It he
comes effective this date.
and missing. The navy yard command
ant, however, denied the police state
ment ami said none was drowned. Ad
miral Usckcr's aide announced that
"none was drowned and none seriouslv
hurt. The police have nothing to do
with the navy yard; their information
is not official."
rels monthly from the Spreckles and
Annex companies in the Midway dis
trict at a premium of 30 to 36 cents per
harrel. The premium will he added to
the market price as the oil is delivered.
plish, and that is, the betterment of the
human race, both physically and men
tally, for future generations. The armv
teaches men to live clean and be prompt '
and take proper care of themselves. j
"In the last gem-rations the living
conditions were gradually degrading'
and it was, in some cases, not safe for !
some men to have homes. j
"I've .seen many men turned away, '
down-hearted because they could not 1
pass, as they were physically unfit. !
"Some men here who hadn't had a
bath in years, are just as anxious for
their shower every day as the man who
has been used to them. That is one of
the many things I've noticed. !
"I suppose that a great many of my;
school chums were drafted. Just tell (
tnem tor me that it is a good cause we
are fighting for; that Uncle- Sam treats
his soldiers fine and that 1 think it is
wonderful. They will also think so af
ter they are in.
. "We are so anxious to go to the front
that wc scan the bulletin boards daily
to see when we leave.
"I am in the Tenth Engineers and
leave for Fort Leavenworth the 5th of
August, then to France. . '
"I will write you often and tell you
of the news as I travel. 1
"I am enjoying the best of health and
have gained ten pounds since I '.have
been here.
"Hoping you and yours are enjoying
the best of health. My best fishes.
"Your sincere friend,
-"GENE."
IB MB 1
BOTH BRITISH
REPORT CONSIDERABLE GAINS
First Named Out Of Their Trenches
at 3:40 This Morning and In
Rush Capture Their Objective
and Take Many Prisoners
! It v I'nited Press
LONDON, July 31. England and
France started the heginning of the
fniirth year of war with joint success
ful offensives. The British, with a few
Erench reserves helping, swept forward
in Flanders beyond the Messines ridge,
while the French gained over a mile
front along the Chemin des Dames, fol
lowing days of violent artillery duell
ing, pronounced the most powerful of
Hy I'nited Press
TOKIO, July 31. Anarchists at
Viatka station, Siberia, attempted to
wreck and burn the train carrying Elihu
Root, head of the American mission to
Russia, travelers arriving here report.
As the train entered Siberia the bridges
ahead were burned, delaying the train
thirty hours. As Root was about to
start again anarchists fired the Viatka
station and storehouses, the blaze
ill! MT HAS
HMUW GSCVE
War Council Appropriates Money
for Relief of
The Red Cross War Council has ap
propriated $300,000 to he expended in
July for relief work in the near east,
through the American committee for
Armenian anil Syrian Relief. The Red
Cross will appropriate a like amount for
each of the five remaining months of
this year if the work of the committee
is not sufficiently hampered by the Turk
ish government to make further grants
inadvisable.
The American committee is the only
organization outside of the Red Cres
cent, (controlled by the Turkish govern
ment) which is allowed to administer
relief in certain portions of the Turk
ish empire. Its field of operations in
cludes not only Asia and those portions
of Armenia and Syria that are in the
Ottoman Empire, but it also includes a
large section of Armenia now domi
nated by the Russian .army, as well as
the Russian Caucasus, Persia, Meso
potamia and portions of Egypt and
Macedonia, into which refugees, Ar
menian, Syrian and Greek have fled in
large numlers. With the exception of
the work being done by the Jewish re
lief committee, the American committee
is the only agency organized for afford
ing relief in this great area.
The making of this appropriation by
the" Red Cross is in accord with the
policy of the Red Cross to co-operate
with relief agencies in the theater of
war to the end that there shall be the
utmost aid afforded, while overlapping
of effort is as far as possible avoided.
The appropriation is made uporr appli
cation of James I. Barton, chairman
AND FRENCH
the war. General llaig announced the
opening of the Flanders hattle this
morning hy opening hisdaily report with
the simple statement : "Fighting has
started in Flanders." The British leap
ed from their trenches at 3:40 this
morning, "capturing all the first. objec
tives;" attaining "satisfactory progress"
and taking "a considerahle nuniher of
prisoners," the announcement reads.
Fierce fighting continues. The total
British advance was ahotit a mile.
spreading to the railway coaches there.
The lire destroyed three trains and
threatened Root's train. The travelers
said that after the coaches at the sta
tion began to burn the blazing cars
were shoved to windward of Root's
train, so the wind carried the flames
against the cars the Americans oc
cupied. The engineer of Root's train
kept hacking away from the flaming
coaches and thus it escaped.
Destitute Armenians
and C. V. Vickrey, secretary, respective
ly, of the American committee for
Armenian and Syrian relief, and, alter
investigation, is thoroughly approved by
the Red Cross committee on co-operation,
of which Judge Robert S. Lovett
is chairman.
The appeal to the Red Cross for aid
estimated that there are 2,000,0000 peo
ple in Western Asia whose death can
be prevented only by direct and con
tinued help from this American com
mittee. Theste people have been exiled
from their homes and are in regions
wtiere sell support is practically im
possible. From one town alone there is
a call to provide for 10,000 fatherless
children. The estimated number of
orphans in another district is given by
the American consul as 40,000. In the
entire field the number of orphaned
children is estimated to run into the
hundreds of thousands.
In the Caucausus, the American com
mittee has found it imperative to pro
vide employment for women, many of
whom have lost their husbands, their
children and all their material jiosses
sions. These women take wmiI in the
rough and make it into garments for
other destitute.
While it is true that the larger part
of the American committee's relief has
been given to Christians, this has not
been because they, were Christians, but
rather because they were residing under
Moslem rule that were first to suffer.
Of the Armenians alone, nearly a
million were massacred or driven to
death in 1915, and the remainder of the
MffWI
Second Class Will
Be Examined Early
Hy United Press tjon the second class of 775.700 men
WASHINGTON, July 31. Provost wol,i,i j,e caliC(l fir examination. The
Marshal General Crowder today an- date will be early in August. This class
nounced that seven days after the first will be combed for men to fill the places
draft quota had completed its examina- of those exempted in the first class.
AMERICA 18 BENDING ALL
HER EHESfOR VICTORY
Secretary Baker and Department
Officials Point Out What United
States Has Accomplished Big
Burden Will Fall On This Country
(Hy I'nited Press
WASHINGTON. July 31. Officials,
including Secretary l'.aker, in discussing
America's war work, declared that dur
ing the fourth year of the war America
would he among the military leaders,
backing up the ptesident's and Secre
tary Lansing's declarations that unless
America does her part the war will end
in a miserable peace. Raker declared
that America is now doing "noble work"
and pointc-d out that an American army
Enlarged
Whiskey
ll!y I'nited Press
WASHINGTON, July 31. The sen
ate finance committee today agreed to
revenue bill amendments surtaxing cor
"The Victoria Cross" .
Tonight's Attraction
Tonight at the Grand, a pleasing
Paramount program will be the offer
ing, featuring the famous Lasky star,
I,ou Tellegen, supported by an all-star
cast, including Cleo Ridgley, who is
ca;t in a part well suited to her beauty
and ability, and Sessue Hayakawa, the
great Japanese actor. The picture is a
prominent dramatic masterpiece founded
upon the great Sepoy rebellion of 1857,
"The Victoria Cross," the Lasky com
pany has an unusually artistic film,
beautifully staged and photographed.
The picturesque atmosphere of India
is pleasing both to the eye and to the
imagination, and it has been visualized
with great realism through the use of
many elaborate sets representing both
exteriors and interiors.
Also Victor Moore, the peerless
commedian in a crackerjack comedy en
titled, "Moving."
Hot Wave Continues
( It v I'nited Press
NEW YORK, July 31. The hot wave
continues throughout the country.
Scores of prostrations and several
deaths have been reported.
race within Turkish dominions were
deported from their homes into the de
sert regions where self supiort was im
possible. Since then approximately
500,000 Greeks, who formerly resided
in prosperous villages south of the
l'lack Sea, have been deported in simi
lar manner and are now destitute and
helpless.
is in France with engineers and forest
ers; aviators are being sent there;
10,000,000 nun have been registered; the
regular army has been increased three
fold and the militia doubled, giving an
active army of over 500,000. The de
partments are workirtg iut an aircraft
program; the reserve camps are making
officers and big cantonments are under
construction. lie said these showed
that America is bending all her energies
for victor v.
Tax On
and Beer
porations 2 per cent, increasing sur
taxes on incomes over $15,000, raising
the distilled spirits tax $1 per gallon
and the beer tax 50 cents a barrel.
Much Interest Centers
In Paving Operations
Much interest centered this morning
in the first working of the '"Patch
mixer" of the Mac Donald people in th
construction of the "header curb" along
the tracks of the Virginia and Truckee
railway at the crossing of Carson street.
This gasoline driven machine per
forms in a moment what it iormcrly
took men hours to do in the prepara
tion of the cement and is so constructed
that it distributes it along the trenches
prepared for its reception.
This being the first real work per
formed in the actual laying of the
curbing or pavement a large gathering
of interested citizens was about -the
machine during most of the day, watch
ing the work as conducted by Superin
tendent Gavin and his crew and the
minute and painstaking inspection of
the mixing of the several batches as
performed by Engineer Morser for the
citv.
Tonopah Weekly Output
The Tonopah I'elmont sent to the
mill 27-14 tons, Tonopah Mining 1800
tons, Tonopah Extension 23X0 tons, Jim
Putler 800 tons. West End V87 tons.
North Star 55 tons and Cash Boy 55
tons, making the total production for
the week X)7y torn, the estimated value
being $158,882. This valuation is cal
culated on the gross milling value of
the ore. Miner.
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Mrs. W. E. Wallace left on the morn
ing motor for a short visit with her
daughter in Sparks.