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onopah Daily Bonanza WEATHER Warmer; Fair A Saturday. Thla ppr la lt. frrvat rw a rm. a I Ifcaak Ike Ma rr a4 PrssvtlMkt II I lllmil' VOL. II NO. 124 TONOPAH, NEVADA, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 14. 1907. PRICE 10 CENTS rm FilE AFTER MRS ARRESTING AGITATORS FOR FO tMESTING. ANTI-FRENCH FEELING. LALLA, Marina, Algeria, Sept. 13. With the object ol repressing at once all incipient outbreaks in West ern Morocco in the vicinity of the Al gerian frontier, the French authori ties at Adjotlcs have arrested former and present sheiks of Oudja, and two other ringleaders in the agitation to foment anti-French feeling. Four Moors arrived here today in chains and will be handed over to the Im perial Moorish calds for conveyance to Tangier. NEGRESS RECEIVES STOLEN MONEY -, By Associated Press. .VEW ORLEANS, Sept. 13. Vir ginia Reed, a negro woman, who, ac cording to Charles E. Letten, a ds faulting bank clerk, received about $90,000 out of the $100,000 or more that he stole from the State, today attempted to commit suicide by jump ing into the Bayou St. John. She was fished out just in time to save her from drowning. WRIT SAVES NEGRO FROM HANGING WASHINGTON, Sept. 13. The War JajWrtment was advised today that a ,iTit of error granted by Chief Justice Fuller in the case of Adol phus Coulson, a West Indian negro, sentenced to death for poisoning his wife in the canal zone, was served on the Isthmian judicial authorities on September 4th. The case involves the right of trial by jury in the canal zone. Coulson was to have been tinged today. EVIDENCE WAS NOT SANTA ROSA, Sept. 13. Edward L. Morrison of San Francisco, who was charged with having shot and killed Edward Passaclacqua at Healdsburg, two weeks ago, was dis charged after ah examination today. He was dismissed for insufficient evi dence. The shooting was the out come of a card game. Passaclacqua was a merchant of Healdsburg. Explosion in Mine Injures Forty Men A By Associated Press.) ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., Sept. 13. Forty men were injured, twenty seriously, in an explosion yesterday in the mouth of the Third Entry mine No. 10. It is owned by the Union Pacific Coal ' Company. A number were terribly burned. It is not expected that any will die. H was caused by the lamp of the miners Betting fire to the coal dust that was stirred up by the runaway coal cars in their flight down the grade after jumping the track. The stope was badly damaged, great timbers being shattered and bulk heads blown out. At the time of the -.x plosion several ' hundred men were In the mine. ' METEOR FALLS IN NEW MEXICO ' EL PASO, Tex., Sept. 13. A met eor struck the earth near Santa Rosa, New Mexico, yesterday afternoon. The thunderous roar as It buried It- t self in the earth was followed by vi V ations equal to an earthquake. ,.. 'People rushed into the streets bad TAKING BACH OLD OPERATORS By Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Sept 13. There was a decisive break In the local tele graphers strike today when eight of the former striking operators, in cluding the vice president of the local telegraphers' union, returned to work with the Postal Telegraph and Cable Company. Superintendent Collins also said tonight that the Postal com pany had within the last day or two been able to open for the first time several of its most Important branch offices In the Cleveland division. Of ficials of the Western Union Tele graph Company stated that they had taken back several operators who had been on strike. WEALTHY WOMAN POSED AS PAUPER SAN FRANCISCO. April 13. The death of Mrs. Jane Elder, an Ingle side refugee, discloses the fact that far from being a pauper she was the owner of real estate, 14,098 shares of stock and coin to the amount of $44.60. Mrs. Elder entered the Ingleside camp at the time of its opening, pleading destitution, and remained upon that plea, declaring to the camp commander repeatedly that she had no property, and no relatives. Be coming ill, she was sent on Wednes day last to the Ingleside hospital, and on that day she again told Command er Wollenberg of her destitution and that she had no property to leave to any one. Mrs. Elder died on Sunday, Sep tember 8th, and a few days later her trunk, which had been in her room all of .the time, was opened. The commander, convinced of the wo man's sincerity, did not expect to find enough to bury her, and the dis covery of papers denoting the posses sion of much property was a decided surprise. The papers showed that Mrs. Elder owned real estate in Point Richmond, San Bruno, San Diego, Te hama county, Kern county and in Washington, and also the shares of stock referred to, which included in vestments iii various mining and oil companies, the par value of the whole reaching the figure of $200, 000. Besides, it came to light that be fore the fire the' woman had owned a slxteen-room house in the S00 block on Mission street, from which she ob tained a small insurance. The camp is strictly conducted for the old and indigent, and when it is found that any inmate has an income or relative able to support him he is dismissed fro mthe camp. Mrs. Elder's effects have all been turned over to the public adminis trator by the camp commander. She was 72 years of age. BASEBALL SCORES. . SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13. The following are the scores for today's games: San Francisco 3, Los An geles 2; Oakland 10, Portland 5. ly frightened. Even locomotives standing in the yards were moved by the Vibrations of the earth. The comet descended through a cloud of sparks and haze. ' FIRST SNOW OF SEASON. By Associated Press. CHICAGO, Sept. 13. A dispatch to the Tribune from Fort Wayne, In diana, says the first snowstorm of the season occurred there yesterday The flurries lasted for five or ten minutes. TW 0 In San Francisco From Board of Health Issues State ment Declaring There is no Cause for Marm-No Inten tion at Present to Quaran tine City. (Associated Press.) f SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13. Chang Mon, president of the Chinese Six Companies, the wealthiest Chinese organization on the Pacific Coast, was found dead today at 742 Sacramento street, Chinatown. His death was due to the plague. A Greek laborer, who was taken ill in Green street, near the water front, also died today. . ? ' ; The board of health has appointed scores of special deputies to enforce the cleaning of the city and to remove all collections of refuse and possible retreats for the dread '.germs. The following official announcement was made today concern- ing the local plague situation to the people of San Francisco: "Rumors of an alarming nature having reached the board of health in regard to the so-called bubonic plague, the president of the board, by its authority, hereby declares that there exists at present in San Francisco nothing that need cause any alarm, much less a quarantining of the city, and that there is at present no intention to make such a quarantine. So far there have been detected but twenty-four cases of the disease since the 27th day of May last. "Every precaution is being taken by the Federal authorities in co-operation with the State and city boards of health, to stamp out such of the disease as is here. It is well to bear in mind that bubonic plague seldom becomes epidemic except in the tropics. (Signed) W. OPPULS, President San Francisco Board of Health. We concur: j RUPERT BLUE, Passed Assistant Surgeon U. S. Pub- He Health and Marine Hobpltar Service. EDWARD R. TAYLOR, Mayor of San Francisco. MARTIN REGENSBURGER, President State Board of Health. Nay Serve in THE P0RD CTSE By Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13. Five jurors have finally been selected and sworn, and four more chosen, subject to arbi- trary dismissal, was the net re- suit of the second day's trial of Tlrey L. Ford, chief counsel of the United Railroads, for the bribery of Supervisor Lonergan. Among the nine men in the box are two who served on the jury which convicted Vice President Couis Glass of the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Com- pany, of bribing the same su- pervisor under circumstances similar to those set forth in the Ford indictment, Nells Morten- sen, who has been finally accept- ed and sworn, and Joseph P. Queen, against whom the de- fense will undoubtedly exercise one of its five remaining per- emptory challenges. , The chief interest today centered in a determined fight by the defense to disqualify talesmen who were members of the jury which convicted Glass in the trial of the telephone official. Lonergan and other super visors testified that . they accepted bribes from the United Railroads, among these being the very bribe on which the trial of General Ford is founded. The defense assumed the position that the Glass jurors, by ren dering a verdict of conviction, affirm ed their belief in the truthfulness of tha testimony, hence are disqualified under the law of "implied bias" from trying Ford. A forceful argument in this behalf was made by Earl Rogers. Assistant District Attorneys Heney and O'Gara opposed with spirit and won a ruling.- Th'ey represented that MM the case against Glass was so strong circumstantially that conviction would have been justified without Lonergan's testimony, and further, that the declaration of Talesman Queen in the present trial that he had not formed any opinion as to whether Lonergan was bribed by the United Railroads removed him from the law's disqualification. Adjourn ment was then taken until Monday. Night sessions of the trial will be held next week. ECCENTRIC CONVICT DECLARED INSANE By Associated Press. ; WASHINGTON, Sept. 13. A. Gou radin, the eccentric millionaire con vict of Chicago, who attracted bo much attention some time ago by the method he employed to be admitted to the Federal penitentiary at Joliet, 111.,' was delivered today by the At lanta authorities, where he was transferred last June, to the govern ment hospital for the insane here. A preliminary examination was made of Gouradln by Dr. White, superin tendent of the government hospital for the insane. ''The examination dis closed the fact that he had a delu sion that his time' had expired. He was convicted of using the mails for lottery purposes. ADMIRAL LYON TRANSFERRED. By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Sept. 13. An or der issued at the Navy Department today detached Admiral H. W. Lyon from duty as commandant of the navy yard at Mare Island, Cal., Oc tober 12th, next. He will proceed to his home for further orders. FRANCE WILL NOT USE GUILLOTINE By Associated Press. PARIS, Sept. 13. The question of whether the guillotine would reap pear in France, wnlch has been daily agitating the French people, was de cided this afternoon when President Fallieres commuted to life Imprison ment the sentence of death passed on Solleillant, whose atrocious mur der of a little girl excited the horror of France and brought forth many petitions for the infliction of the death penalty. A bill to abolish cap ital punishment is part of the gov ernment's platform and has already been Introduced in the chamber of deputies. ANNIE BESANT WILL NOT TELL NE WVORK, Sept. 13. Mrs. An nie Besant, president of the Theo sophical society, arrived here yester day from Europe, accompanied by Mrs. Marie Bernard Russak, formerly of San Francisco. They immediately took the train for Chicago, where she is- to preside over the annual conven tion of the American section of the Theosophical society. Mrs. Besant is fat, , with thick, snow-white hair, face of masculine strength and eyes that have a power ful gaze. She told interviewers of her belief in the transmigration of souls from one body to another, said she knew she had formerly a human existence, and was, In fact, various successive persons in past ages. She was asked to tell who she had been In her former days, but she preferred not to make this disclosure. She be lieves the soul of Madame Blavatsky has been transferred to her, so she may follow in the footsteps of that founder of the Theosophical organiza tion. JOSS HOUSE MAY STOP TENDERLOIN RENO, Sept. 13. The existence of a Chinese joss house within 400 yards of the section into which it is planned to move the tenderloin dis trict of this city may cause the aban donment of the plan and the loss of several thousand dollars to ' James May and James Quinn, who are en gineering the deal for the establish ment of a night life section to take the place of the block facing the new city hall, just closed under orders of Sheriff Farrell. The Nevada law provides that n house of ill fame shall be conducted within 400 yards of a Ipace of wor ship, and the Chinese joss house is claimed to have just as much stand ing in the law as any Christian church. District Attorney Moran an nounces that he will not stand for the establishment of the tenderloin in the district adjoining Chinatown, which Quinn and May favor. Transatlantic Boats Make New Records By Associated Press. NEW YORK, Sept. 13. A now trans-Atlantic steamship rec ord has been made by a Cunard liner, the giant turbine, Lusl tania, which arrived In port today: The boat left Queenstown tor New York at 12:10 o'clock Sunday aftornoon and arrived at the Sandy Hook lightship at 8:43 o'clock today, making the trip In 5 days, 1 hour and 33 minutes. This is 5 hours and 50 minutes better that the previous Queenstown-New York record, held by the Lucia of the same line. She did not beat the average speed per hour maintained by the kaiser Wilhelm II, which made 23:58 knots per hour from New York to Plymouth, or the Deutschland, which made an average of 23:15 knots to the same port. The Lusitania's speed per hour was 22:87 knots. The new ship is decked with flags and b'inting and made her appearance off Sandy Hook this morning. Passengers lined the rails, crowd ing the different decks and waving handkerchiefs and American and British flags. Other vessels blew whistles and dipped their flags. The log of the Lusltanla ::lves the time of the passage as 5 days and 54 minutes, and the lime of arrival off Sandy Hook as 8:05 in the morning. The average speed is given at 23:1 knots per hour for the distance of 2782 miles. The trans-Atlantic steamship record from Havre to New York, held by the French liner La Provence for a year, was broken by that steamer today when it arrived in New York. It completed the 3140 miles from Havre in i days, 1 hour and 12 minutes, which is 1 hour and 32 minutes faster than the previous record. me average speed was 22:08 TRADE RIVALRY INTENSE SAN FRANCISCO AXI liOS AN OELKS SHIPPERS RIDDING FOR TRADE. LOS ANGELES, Sept 13. Rivalry between shippers of San Francisco and those of Los Angeles may result in a change of plans by the incorpor ators of a million dollar steamship company which yesterday made an announcement of its intention to op erate five vessels between the harbor of San Pedro and ports along the Mexican coast. It was stated today that a subsidy of $250,000 had been offered by San Francisco business men, who desire that a line engage in business with Mexico and sub stitute San Francisco for San Pedro harbor. It was intimated that the city furnishing the better guarantee of assistance would obtain the line. WILL REPORT ON SULPHUR PROCESS MARYSVILLE. Sept. 13. Dr. W. D. Bigelow, chief of the division of foods in bureau chemistry of the Fed eral Department of Agriculture, and Professor M. E. Juffa, University of California, who also represents the State board of health, are in this city with a corps of assistants making an investigation with regard to the sul phuring process of drying fruit. In this matter the two departments, rep resented by the gentlemen named. will work together. Specimens of dried fruit will be sent to Washing ton. The result of the Investigation will, when completed, be made known GRAND ARMY ENDS ITS SESSION SARATOGA, Sept. 13. The vet erans of the Grand Army of the Re public, who have been attending the forty-first annual encampment of that organization, concluded their busi ness today and adjourned. Commander-in-chief Burton's appointments Include the following: Jere T. Dow, Kansas City, Mo., adjutant general; Charles Burrows, Rutherford, N. J., quartermaster general; Colonel D. R. Stowltz, Buffalo, inspector gener al; L. L. Collins, Minneapolis, judge advocate; J. Henry Hanscomb, Phila delphia, assistant adjutant general and custodian of records; J. Corie Winan, Toledo, O., senior aide-decamp and chief of staff. Retiring Commander Brown was made chair man of the committees on pensions. knots per hour. IOEH Ran May Oolii .Van- )maa T. O. r ? KO fed E;