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TONOPAH NEVADA, THURSDAY MORNING. OCTOBER in. 1907.
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are Rushing Into the
Camp and Wildest
Kinds of Stories are Afloat
as to Values-Leasers are
Sacking Rich Ore.
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Silver Bow is in the throes of
another strike, this time said to
be on the high grade order. The
wildest kind of stories are afloat
regarding the' value of the dis-
covery, and rumon has it that
they will go from $20,000 to
$30,000 a ton.
Scott Hlckey; a deputy sheriff,
drove in from Silver Bow last night,
and stated that there was shipping
ore in the leases on the Silver Bow
Bell. He says that there are sacks
piled up ready for shipment which
will go as high as $1000 a sack.
For the' past two days a stream of
people has been flowing along the
Goldfleld road on, the way ; to .the
strike, while as yet there has been
nothing doing in Tonopah. W, L.
McGonagill, general manager of the
Silver Bow Bell, said yesterday that
he had only heard rumors of the
rich finds, and that he was going to
Silver Bow immediately to determine
what there was in them.
Postmaster Cook of Silver Bow
came into Tonopah day before yes
terday with his usual monthly ship
ment from his lease on the Clifford
property. To those with whom he
met he imparted the information that
there was considerable doing in the
district, and that it was beginning to
look like old times again, from the
Influx of people.
Silver Bow, at one time, had as
many as four hundred people in the
camp, and had started a newspaper
thefre. The district was a milling
proposition, but there was some very
fine float found there, and there were
some very high values found at a fair
depth. Then came the Manhattan
boom, and the men of Silver Bow
went over the divide in a night. Some
of them have drifted back to Silver
Bow, but not the great majority. The
. camp was deserted before it was a
full fledged one. . ,
About two months ago the Catlln
group was bought ' by Bert Smith,
Charles D. Porter, and their asso
ciates, and they went right to work
developing the property. - They found
some very high grade ore, .and the
leasers on the McGonagill property,
which adjoins the Catlln, went to
work with renewed energy, and the
big strike has been the result.
"W. S. Johnson, who has interests
in Silver Bow, heard of the new dis
covery on Tuesday. v Adjoining the
Catlln group on one side, he and his
associates have the Hidden Treasure,
close to which is the property of
Wlngfleld and Nixon. On the other
side of the Catlln, lies the McGona
gill, or Silver Bow Bell mine, next
to which are the Blue Horse;., then
the MidaB, Midas No. 2, 'the Camp
Bird and the Gem, all of the latter
four being owned by Johnson and
his associates, .
"I have found considerable rich
float on the Hidden Treasure," said
Mr. Johnson," last night, "and of
course it did not fall from the skies.
There is a ledge there somewhere.
All these properties lie on the same
rang of mountains, and Sliver Bow Is
a most ideal camp. There is a living
stream of water running through the
camp,, and there Is timber ; in abun
dance for all purposes.
"We have found lots of ore that
will go $28 a ton, splendid ,mtll!ng
stuff, but what are you going to do
with it out there? A mill or two In
Silver Bow would start things, and
you would soon see one of the big-
. eest camps in the State. There- is
plenty of high grade ore there, ".too.
On one trip I picked up a sample off
th3 dump of the Catlln, and brought
It in here. Tt lay around the office
for a while, and Anally I got into a
controversy with a gentleman as to
the value of it. 1 made the propo
sition to him that he get it assayed
and that if it went under $25 a ton,
that I would pay for the assays, and
that if it went above, he was to pay
for it. He had three assays made
and the lowest went $440, and the
highest $449.
"That was a sample picked from
the dump at random. There is, to
my mind, a great future for Silver
Bow, and the people of this town
should not allow Goldfleld to take it
away from them. There are good
roads to the camp, but they should be
improved. Here is one man, Cook,
who has a lease out there, and
making all kinds of money, working
it, and hauling in his ore himself.
Now the leasers on Silver Bow Bell
have struck it. If someone gets busy
and puts in a mill there, no matter
how small it is to start, you wllliflnj
another Tonopah there. It is almost
impossible to tell the ore from the
Catlln and the Montana Tonopah
apart. There certainly going to be
a big camp at Silver. Bow."
WIDE DECLINES
IN DAY'S SELLING
HOItllEIt KILLED.
By Associated .Press.
RIGA, Russia, Oct. 9. A party of
armed robbers attempted to get pos
session of a large amount of money
on a train of the Dorpath-Walse rail
road. In the battle a gendarme, two
passengers and one robber were kill
ed and several others were wounded.
The attempt failed.
NEW YORK, Oct. 9. There were
evident signs of a renewal of liquid'
ation of securities today, the current
setting with special clearness
through the low-priced stocks, those
selling below forty being most af
fected. The majority of stocks of
this classification sold today 'at the
lowest prices of the year and made
wide declines in the course of the
day's dealings. Stocks of this trade
were favorites in Holland and those
that are most so, were most affected
in today's liquidation. The sellin
orders were said by the commission
houses to come direct by cable from
Amsterdam, and were so concentrat
ed and conspicuous as to give rise, to
reports that financial embarrassment
in Amsterdam was forcing llqulda
tlon. Other, low-priced stocks, both
among railroads and Industrials," es
pecially among non-dividend payers,
came into movement today. Amster
dam selling was attributed to diffi
culties peculiar to that market and
was not associated with the condi
tions of properties the stocks of
which were being sold. On .the do
mestic side, however, of Industrial
and financial conditions were an in
fluence, and prompted liquidation
supplementary to that for foreign. an
count. Growing misgivings are caus
ed by the persistence of rumors of
falling off In orders from various
classes of equipment and of reduction
of- labor forces In several- Industrie,
Bonds were heavy. The total sales
valued $1,734,000. United States
bonds were unchanged on call.
DENVER, Oct. 9. E. T. Osborne,
bookkeeper for the Green Canon
Coal Company, was shot and Instant-
killed last night by E. L. Pierce,
a claim accountant for the Denver
Rio Grande railroad. They hai
quarreled, Osborne applied an epi
thet to Pierce and the latter demand
ed that Osborne apologize. This he
refused to do and a fight began.
Pierce fired two shots at Osborne,
both of which took effect In the
heart. Both men were recent arriv
als in this city, Osborne coming from
Parsons, Kansas, and Pierce from
Whitevllle, N. C. Pierce fled afte
the killing and has not been cap
tured.
. THE METAL MARKET.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 9.
Lead, $4.60 to $4.75; Lake cop
per, 14 to 14; bar silver,
64 7-8. .
STEAMSHIP LINES
ARE IN DRAGNET
NEW YORK, Oct. 9. It Is stated
that the shipping trade is somewhat
concerned at the turn taken by the
Federal inquiry Into Standard Oil op
erations, which may lead to a general
Investigation of the relations between
the steamship lines with corporations
engaged in heavy export business.
Transcripts of ledgers of the Stand
ard Oil trust and several subsidiary
companies were placed in evidence to,
day for the purpose of showing the
Standard Oil's illegal monopoly.
The assistant auditor, who is now
on the stand, was unable to explain
wny tne stocks of several corpora
tions, which appear as assets on. the
balance sheet of the Standard Oil
company or Kansas for 1899, were
written, or why the subsequent bal
ance did not show what became of
them.
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By Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Oct. 9. The National league team defeated the De
troit pennant winners of the American league in the second game
of the series for the world's championship this afternoon. The
score was 3 to 1. Slow pitching and several slight accidents
caused the contest to lag for over two hours. The delay was
trying to the patience of the big crowd, which again filled al
most every inch of seating room. The locals discarded the new
gray Uniforms in which they appeared yesterday, wearing their
clean white home uniforms. The change seemed to put them
more at ease and also apparently benefitted the Detroit ' players,
for both teams played more steadily than on' the opening day.
After the first four and a half Innings had dragged through an
hour and thirty minutes, some sparkling fielding and sharp hit
ting and base running hastened the contest to an end. '
Miillln and Pfeister were the pitchers and Payne went behind
the bat In place of Schmidt. Otherwise the teams lined up as on
the preceding day. Schmidt's retirement was primarily due to his
inaccurate throwing, but in this respect the change brought small
improvement, 'as five stolen bases credited to the local team tes
tify. The playing Conditions were improved. ' The crowd number
ed 21,900 as against over 24,000. yesterday, while the warm sun
shine and absence of the chilly breeze of the first day, kept the
spectators and players in more comfort. The hitting of Rossman
was a feature of the contest.
Foreigners Thrown
Into Panic by fire
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j. By Associated Press. &
NEW YORK. Oct. 9. Hundreds of lives were endangered,
thousands of persous were thrown Into a panic, 125 cars were de-
stroyed and a loss of $400,000 was caused by a fire at the Four-
teenth street car barns today. The service of all cross-town lines
was hampered today by the loss of the cars. The adjoining tene-
nients poured hundreds' of frenzied foreigners Into the streets.
The police were unable to handle the crowd until several priests
attired in their robes walked through the surging masses, implor-
Ing them to calm themselves.
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INCREASED PAY
FOR TELEGRAPHERS
By Associated Press.)
TOPEKA, Oct. 9. The Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe announced to
day an increase in the wages of all
telegraph operators on the - system.
The increase went into effect October
1. The Increase came as a .surprise
to the men, the first knowledge they
had of It being a voluntary announce
ment by the company: Here Is the
list of increases: Operators on the Il
linois and Missouri divisions, $4 a
month;' on the Kansas City, Eastern,
Southern Kansas, Western Oklahoma
and Panhandle divisions, $3 a
month; on the Arkansas River, Col
orado, New Mexico and Rio Grande
divisions, $2.50 a month. '
This Is the second Increase in
wages the Santa Fe operators have
received in the last twelve months,
the Increase in that time being about
8 per cent. The road employs non--union
operators. ' .
Jack Simpkins' Body
Pound in Mountains
FATHER KILLED IN
SIGHT OF CHILDREN
By Associated Press.
. OAKLAND, Oct. 9. John Albert
Titus, a former mine owner of Happy
Camp, Siskiyou ' county, Cal., was
shot and almost instantly killed by
Robert C. Curtin" shortly after 5
o'clock this evening in the presence
of his 16-year-old daughter, VelTha,
and his two. sons. Curtin ; was ar
rested five minutes later and made
a full confession of the killing. He
said that Titus had kept company
with his wife. - He told of purchas
ing a revolver and planning a de
liberate; murder of Titus. Curtin
fired two shots, both of which took
effect, entering Titus' abdomen. Fol
lowing the shooting, . Curtin coolly
walked from the house and down the
street. He was overtaken by a citi
zen, arrested and turned over to the
police. Titus staggered through the
hallway, fell to the floor and died
Boon after being placed on the oper
ating table at the 'receiving hospital.
Titus was 37 years of age. He leaves
a widow and seven children. Curtin
la the son of Callihan Curtin, a pio-
STOCK BROKER
COMMITS SUICIDE
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 9. Max
Ettlinger, a stock broker, with offices
at 368 Bush street, in this city, com
mitted suicide Tuesday afternoon by
shooting himself with a revolver.
The last person' to have seen Ett
linger alive was W. C. Ralston,. U. S.
sub-treasurer, who called at his office
this morning. The body was found
by Mrs. Ettlinger shortly before 1
o'clock seated before a desk on which
was a statement of the morning's
sales.
A bullet bole In the skull and a
pistol near by told the tale.
The dead broker," who was well
Known on tne street, nad been a
heavy dealer lately, and Is believed to
have been despondent over losses.
LUSITANIA DREAKS
WORLD'S RECORD
By Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. 9. The steam
er Lusitania today broke the world's
record as to time consumed in cross
ing the Atlantic. The vessel traveled
617 nautical miles in twenty-fou
hours, an average of 24.76 knots-an
hour. During six hours the big boat
was in a heavy; fog. The steamer
broke her own record made on her
Initial trip. . , '
BASRIl.VLL SCORES.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 9. The
following are the scores for today's
games: Oakland 7, San Francisco
6; Portland 4, Los Angeles 1.
By Associated Press. '
SPOKANE,' Wash., Oct. 9. A body, said to be that of Jack
Simpkins, the missing member Of the Western Federation of Min-
ers, has been found near Pierce City, Shoshone county, Idaho, badly
decomposed, the only means of Identification being a gun, bear
ding a silver name-plate and Simpkins name. Miners who knew
Simpkins well, positively identified the gun as one owned by
Simpkins. It is thought that the man died in a snowstorm iome-
time last winter. ,.- - '
Story of Suspect in
Brown Murder Case
: ; ' By Associated Press. -
PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 9. A special from Sumpter, Oregon, ,
says that Frank Tucker, a laboring man, who was arrested at
Granite last night, in connection with the assassination of Sher-
Iff Harvey Brown, at Baker City, made a statement ' today In
which he says a man named Frank Wilson, a miner, asked him
to assist in putting Brown out of the way. He thinks Wilson has
escaped to Colorado. Tucker, according to his statement, refused
to assist in the killing of Brown. Tucker says Wilson had about
$700 In his possession and offered Tucker $100 to help him in
the plot. Tucker says he did not hear of the killing of Brown
until he had reached Granite, where he secured work. .
WIKELENH SPANS GLOHK.
(By Associated Press).
NORTH SYDNEY, N. S., October
9. With a transatlantic wireless ser
vice an assured fact, Marconi will
leave in a fortnight for Clifton Is
land, the European terminal, where
he intends to conduct experiments for
sending messages direct from Europe
to the Pacific Coast. A station will
be erected at Vancouver, which will
be one of a number encircling the
globe. .
neer dry
Francisco.
BOV DISAPPEARS.
MARYSVILLE, Oct. 9. Ben Man.
ford, aged 12 years, Bitddenly dis
apeare.d from his father's side while
in Orovllle yesterday. The sheriffs
of three counties are now searching
without avail. He disappeared as if
the earth had swallowed him. It is
goods . merchant of San ; thought he may have gone to Sacra
mento, but there Is no trace of him
RUSHING WORK ON
FORTIFICATIONS
NEW YORK,' Oct. 9. A cable to
the Sun from Manila says: Engineers
and marines have made remarkable
progress in rushing work on the for
tifications, despite heavy rains and
ooor transportation facilities. Twen
ty-four guns -have been installed on
Grande island, at the entrance to Su-
big bay, Including ten of 6.5 inch
caliber, the best navy guns which are
mounted on heights.
' Complementary forts have been
erected on the mainland. Satisfac
tory work is being done on the larger
and permanent fortifications on Cor
regldor Island, at the mouth of Ma
nila bay, and at the torpedo station.
The troops throughout ' the Islands
have been actively practicing and are
now in splendid condition. The lo
cal naval squadron engaged in man
euvers during the last week, and wlil
practice night tactics this week.
Thus all branches of the service,
though small In numbers, are being
1 made efficient.
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DYING IN JAi
By Associated Press. .
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 9. Mi
Cassie Chadwlck, who is serving t
years In the Ohio penitentiary f
wrecking the First National Bank
Oberlin, today Is ' reported ttiu
worse. ' Her pulse is weak .and s
Is partly delirious. Physicians
dine to say how long she will si
vive. She Is unable to retain not
ishment. For several days she n
seemingly been Indifferent and
signed to the fact that the end
fast "approaching. '
MITCHELL'S HEALTH.
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. .; 9.
Mitchell, president of the Unit?
Mine Workers of America, was
much Improved in health today t!
he was able to go to his office ,
national headquarters for a sh
time. Secretary Wilson said friei
of Mitchell believed he is on the n.
to complete recovery. ,