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Newspaper
Elko Independent
Location
Elko, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1915
Page
3
Washington decision clarifies water sufficiency for desert land filings. The court explains that one cubic foot per second, roughly 450 gallons per minute, generally irrigates about 100 acres, leaving 160 acres claimed insufficient unless soil or conditions offset the ratio.
In the senate assignment for the 64th Congress First Session Francis G Neville was named to the Conservation of Natural Resources Indian Depredations Interstate Commerce as Chairman on the Library Revolutionary Claims and Senator Key Pittman received Coast and Insular Survey Expenditures Department of Justice Indian Affairs Irrigation and Reclamation Mines and Mining Territories as Chairman.
Yesterday near Wadsworth Fireman 5 6 Jackson hauled a huge river fish thought to be the largest in years. The creature weighed 22% pounds at Derby then 2144 pounds at the Palace Market, with several locals posing for photos beside the "Old Man of the River."
Three thousand pounds of nitroglycerine were exploded today destroying the Fayville Powder Works and its nitroglycerine plant. Workmen saw fumes and escaped before the explosion, part of a national plot to disrupt munitions production and shipment to belligerents in Europe.
Miss Agnes Howe, principal at the state normal school in San Jose, spoke to Nevada district institutes and praised Nevada's education spending. She noted Elko’s $125,000 bond plan for a new high school and dormitories, and cited Nevada's high per capita educational investment and strong school attendance figures from 1914.
Miss Hunn led a festive Xmas program on Friday December 17 with a candle lit tree, popcorn decorations, and gifts. C Churchfield Rachel Elliott Willie Frank Alfred Kinney and Chester Churchfield performed a shadow play, songs, recitations and a Santa act. The event impressed the community and Miss Hunn will spend part of the holiday in Elko.
Poet Robert W. Service tells how a street woman became a Madonna in a painting. He depicts hiding her unclean heart and painting a halo after a critic declared her Mary the mother of God. The work, titled Mary, hangs in the Church of St. Hilaire for public viewing.
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