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VOL. II NO. 181
TONOPAH NEVADA. SATURDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 10, 1907.
PRICE 10 CENTS
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. JPAXEL.
(Associated Press.)
' SAN FRANCISCO, Oct; 18. In
Side information of crap games,
"black jack," chuck-a-luck and bridge
whist, coupled with charges of im
morality and perjury flung into the
teeth of a qualified juror by Prosecu
tor Francis J.Heuey, enlivened the
closing hours of today's session of
the bribery trial and Incidentally
provoked from Attorney A. A. Moore
of the defense a speech remarkable
for its off-hand fluency and satirical
force. ';. '
The prosecution desired to be rid,
without exercising one of its five per
emptory challenges, of Harry H.
Berg, the first pf the twelve jurors
accepted, subject to arbitrary dis
missal, and with this object in view
re-opened his examination. He is a1
Fillmore street cigar dealer, and yes
terday he testified that gambling was
not carried on in a room in the rear
of his stand. This statement did not
tally with what Detective William J.
'Burns knew of the place and this
afternoon Heney forced fron Berg
admissions that until a short time be
fore the recent appointment of Chief
of Police Blggy, many gambling
games were . regularly conducted
there; alBo that he himself had
"gambled at bridge whist" in a room
no longer ago than last night. After
a long and bitter fight put up by
Ford's lawyers, Heney succeeded in
vhaving Berg removed from the panel,
as an unfit and immoral person, a
perjurer and one obviously opposed
to the enforcement of the law. Twenty-two
veniremen were examined to
day. Eight passed qualification tests
and completed ' the probationary
panel. ' , .
Adjournment was taken until Mon
day morning, when peremptory chal
lenges will be exercised.
GREAT FALL IN
PRICES OF STOCKS
(Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Oct. 18. The fall in
prices in some of the stocks today
equaled that in some of the panic
periods of the past. The market was
at one time in a condition bordering
on demoralization. The conditions
at no time, howeyer, stepped into an
actual panic, although there was a
ruthlass slaughter of values that bore
close resemblance thereto. At no
time, however, was the whole list em
braced In the slump. There were
points of comparative resistance
thrbughout, but these grew less as
the day progressed and spread
throughout the market. Another fe'i
ture of the market, compared with
the slumping periods of the past, Is
the comparatively small volume of
trading-, the dealing for the day ris
ing but little over a million shares,
compared with two million to over
three million shares In similar
periods in the past market. This is
the result bf the retirement from
Wall street for many months past of
some of the big semi-professional
speculative plungers, where manlpu
lator tactics made up much of the
total of great days in the past. The
total sales, par value, amounted 10
$2,414,000. United States 4's de
clined per cent on call.
TWENTY SAILORS
ARE DROWNED
LONDON, Oct. 18. The Danish
steamer Alfjred Erlandsen was wreck-
ea on tne rocKs or uastie point near
Stabb's Head, Scotland, during a gale
last night. Twenty of her crey, were
drowned. v ' .
UASKItAI.Ii SCORES.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 18. The
following are the scores for today's
games: Portland 11, San Francisco
!; Oakland 9, Los Angeles 4.
HIGH ASSAYS
AT MANHATTAN
GRAB SAMPLE SHOWS VALUES
. TO THE TUNE OF
$1381.93.
(Special to the Bonanza.)
MANHATTAN, Oct. 18. A grab
sample taken from twenty-five sacks
of ore taken from lease No. 3 on the
Union No. 9, assayed $1381.95. This
is the result of the work of Super
intendent O'Brien of the Dexter Com
pany, of which Union No. 9 is a sub
sidiary company.
This rich ore was taken from an
eight-inch seam of a three-foot, ledge
uncovered by the leasers, Davis,
Stanley, Putnam and Shea, who suc
ceeded to Douglass and Kendall." It
is said that outside the rich streak,
the rest of the vein will run $35 to
the ton. Douglass and Kendall, who
formerly operated the lease, shipped
this year two carloads of ore, which
went $223 a ton; and they have be
sides on the dump between 800 and
900 tons which will go from $35 to
$60 a ton.
. The new find was made by Jim
Shea, the man who made the original
discovery on Union No. 9 two years
ago, which created such a furore and
brought to the surface on the leasas
from $200,000 to $225,000, Includ
ing milling and shipping ore. Shea
and his partners have leases 1, 2, 3,
and 4 on Union No. 9.
The Curtis Dry Washer Company
has been operating a placer lease on
Union No. 9 for some time, and are
taking out from $50 to $60 a day
with but one machine There is a
great deal of pay dirt on this claim,
and the Curtis company does not
expect to complete their work until
sometime next year.
Edward Hirschler, principal owner
and manager of the Granny mine, left
here today for San Francisco, after
a stay of several days. He has place!
in charge of the property, Scott Tur
ner, a mining engineer of San Fran
cisco, who Is said to be a man of
technical and practical knowledge in
miniug and of large experience.
The Granny is accredited to be one
of the best mines in the camp. It
has a shaft down three hundred feet,
at the bottom of which several string
sra have been cut, which are rich In
free gold and sulphides. A crosscut
is to be run frpm this level north and
south which will cut several ledges
which, at the surface, show high val
ues. As they are cut, drifting will
be started, and the ore blocked out
as fast as possible. By the first of
the year, it is expected that stoping
will have been begun. - In Inclined
shaft No. 2, drifting is still going on
on the vein, and the ore carries very
good values.
FARMERS' NATIONAL
' (Associated Press.)
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 18.
About one thousand delegates and
visitors to the Farmers National Con
gress were present when the congress
was called to order at 9:30 a. m. 'n
the convention hall. After complet
ing the program which was omitted
yesterday, H. D. Watson of Kearney,
Neb., delivered an address on "Dry
Farming," and was followed by Pres
ident John M. Stahl, who . delivered
his annual address. This afternoon
Congressman Edgar C. Ellis of Kan
sas City delivered an address on "In
land Waterways Transportation,"
and Win. Vickery, personal represen
tative of the postmaster general, ex
plained the government's position on
parcels post and recent orders.
THE METAL MARKET.
(By Associated Press).
NEW YORK, Oct. 18. Lead,
$4.55 ' to $4.75; Lake copper,
$12.o0 to $12.75; bar silver,
60c.
, . HEAVY,. HANK FAILURE.
(Associated Press.)
; HAMBURG, Oct. 18. The failure
of Haller V. Soehle & Company,
banking' house of this city, was an
nounced today. The liabilities aro
estimated at from $3,000,000 to $7,
.600,000:: .' ,
Former Senator William M. Stew
art, who has been in the city for sev
eral days, was a passenger on yes
terday . morning's train for Gold
field. , , .
PRESIDENT CROCKER
NAMES COMTTEEH
Men Selected Will Handle Af
fairs of Tonopah-Manhat-tan
Committee-Sacks of
Rich Ore from the Thanksgiving.
President Nathan Crocker of
the Tonopah Manhattau Promo-
tion- Committee, yesterday ap-
pointed the executive and fin-
ance committees, who wilfhave
In hand the exploitation of Man-
hattan, for this city. The ex-
ecutlve committee is as follows:
Hugh H. Brown, chairman;
T. L. Oddie and F. Y. Williams.
The finance committee: R.
C. Moore, chairman; R. P. Dun-
lap and W. W. Booth.
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By Associated Press.
MANILA, Oct. 18. A plot to kill Secretary Taft by a bomb
was revealed to the jpolice today by a priest of a Manila Jesuit .
college. It had been planned, he said, to kill the secretary while
he was attending a reception at the college, but that the plans
had miscarried and another attempt would bp made.
Police and detective . were instantly put on the case and it is
said that they have Important Information n regarding the origin
of the plot. . The secretary is closely guarded night and day and
every possible precaution is being, taken to prevent the carrying
out of the plot.
Taft wasspresent this morning at an entertainment in his
honor at Fort William McKInley. In the afternoon, he review-
ed the troops composing the garrison at Manila. Later he was en-
tertained at dinner by Brigadier General Pershing. At 7 o'clock
this evening, he was present at a reception given by the Ameri-
can Club.
Gary Says Securities
Are Now at Bedrock
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By Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. 18. E. H. Gary, chairman of the board of .
directors of the United '"States Steel Corporation, in a recent in-'
.. teivlew takes an optimistic view of the business outlook. He
declared that a general quickening of business will follow the
sale of $7,000,000,000 worth of crops, which he expects to take
place In a few weeks if the weather remains favorable. In the
near future, he added, the public will realize that not in. ten
years has it had such a chance to pick up good securities. Con-
tinning, Mr. Gary said:
"In my opinion the forthcoming presidential election has been
discounted earlier than usual and it has been reflected in the se-
cnrities market. Just now I can do no more than repeat what
I said two months ago. The great and increasing wealth of the
country and 'the annual accumulation of. values and the increas- .
ing population are certain In the long run to" bring success to the
optimist, If he will deal within the limits of his resources keep
his head and act fairly and decently toward his competitors, his
employes and the public." ,
Standard Oil Surplus
Placed in Wall Street
! By Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct., 18. William G. Rockefeller, assistant treas-
urer of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, testified today
In the government suit for a dissolution of the oil combine, that
the Standard was a heavy lender of its surplus funds in Wall
street, for which It obtained the prevailing ratB of interest.
Rockefeller made this declaration when asked to account for loans
of $32,000,000 by the Standard Oil Company of New York in 1906
to Interests other that the Standard. Concerning $20,000,000
loans to P. S. Tralnor by the Southern Upe Line, Mr. Rockefeller
, said he had. no knowledge. After several statements concern- '
ing the business of the Standard's pipe lines had been placed in
evidence, adjournment was tak-an. The hearing was announced
to take place December 2t in order that counsel may have t'ime '
to go over the evidence developed.
The committee of investigation
will be appointed later, and then the
movement- will be well under way,
for the business of the big organiz
ation will be in the hands of the
gentlemen named by Mr.. Crocker.
This is a good start, for the men who
have been named are all representa
tive jnen of the community, and their
backing will be-commendable any
where. They are men, too, to whom
the details of promotion can be left
with safety, ' for there is no doubt
that with the suggestions that they
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(Continued on Page Four.) '
LA
WWi HAS
PLENTY OF CASH
By Associated Presx
SALT LAKE, Oct. 18. W. S. Mc
Cornlck, president of W. S. McCor
nick & Company, one of the most
prominent banking concerns in the
West, says that the embarrassment
of the State Savings Bank at Butte
will not affect F. Augustus Helnze.
Mr. McCornick says that Mr.
Heinze has a very large cash deposit
in one of the Salt Lake banks.
RAXK IS SOLVENT.
HELENA, Mont., Oct. 18. There
were no new developments In the
suspension of the State Savings Bank
at Butte today other than that State
Examiner T. E. Collins had arrived
today from Helena and taken charge.
Collins stated he would be unable
to make a report on its condition for
at least a week. There is absolutely
no excitement today and the public
seems quite content to accept the
statement of officials that the bank
is quite solvent and will shortly re
sume. STEAL OFFERINGS
TO HEATHEN GOD
RENO, Oct. 18. The Chinese
community of Reno is in an uproar
of excitement over what they claim
was a scandalous disregard for their
religious rites over their dead, shown
by the students of the University of
Nevada in taking their decorations
and meat offerings to the heathen
god from the grave of one of their
countrymen. Last Sunday Chung
Woo, a wealthy Chinese merchant of
Reno, was buried with all the pomp
due one of his position, In the ceme
tery near University Hill, and the
mourners wailed over the departed
until nearly midnight.
A crowd of boys from the univer
sity heard the unusual noise, and
waiting until the mourners had gone,
took the artistic decorations from the
grave. They disclaim having taken
the huge roast pig, saying that In
dians living at a rancheria near the
cemetery were guilty of that deed.
The prominent Chinese here have
called a meeting and will ask the
aid of the authorities in having the
students punished if they can be ap
prehended. ACCUSED MAN
TAKES POISON
(Associated Press.)
VANCOUVER, B. C, Oct. 18.
George Kincaid, head foreman of the
public works department of Yukon
territory, was arrested at Dawson re
cently, charged with stealing $40,000
fromTa registered mail sack. Yester
day' Kincaid died suddenly as a re
sult of taking poison. '
SEVEN KILLED IN
TENNESSEE WRECK
(Associated Press.)
CHATTANOOGA, Tenh., Oct18.
Seven persons were killed, ten' seri
ously and over a score more or less
injured in a head-end collision of two
Sportsman's Heights trains at Harri
son avenue, near the city limits, this
morning. A confusion of signals is
believed to have been the cause of
the accident.
MIXER'S MYSTERIOUS DKATH.
(Associated Press.)
VALDEZ, Alaska, Oct. , 18. Wil
liam Page, superintendent of the
Knight Island Mining Company,
while working at Drier Bay was
killed by , an explosion of dynamite.
The origin of the explosion is not
known and it is believed that Pago
was the victim of foul play. Page
came from Butte, Montana, a sho
rt
time ago. V '.
NEVADA'S FIRST BISHOP.
RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 18. The
House of Bishops of the Protestant
Episcopal Church today elected Rev
Frederick Foulke Reese, D. D., o
Christ school, Nashville, Tenn.. a:
.bishop of the missionary district o
Wisconsin, and Rev. Henry Deane
Robinson, president of Racine. Wl
as bishop of the missionary district
of Nevada,
VERDICT
OF NOT
GUILTY
COUPLE CHARGED WITH MUR
DER OF MAGILL'S FIRST
WIFE, IXXOCEXT.
DECATUR, 111., Oct. 18.
Fred Magill and his wife were
found not guilty tonight in the
trial for the murder of MagiU's
first wife.
On May 31st last. Mrs. Pet Magill'
waB found dead in her home at Clin
ton, Illinois, and a postmorten ex
amination held six weeks after her
death showed that she had been suf
focated by chloroform. On July 5,
In Denver, Colo., Fred K. Magill, her
husband, and Miss Fay Graham, a
young v oman who had been a close
friend of "the family, were married.
Four days later, in San Diego, Cal.,
Magill and his second wife were ar
rested on the charge of murdering
the first Mrs. Magill. They -were
brought back to Clinton and secured
a change of venue to this city. In
the trial the State claimed that Ma
gill end Miss Graham, by their con
duct, had driven Mrs. Magill to sui
cide find were therefore guilty of
murder. The defense introduced let
ters Written by Mrs. Magill shortly
before her death, in which she com
plained of .unbearable headaches and
constant nagging of her husband's
relatives. Witnesses also testified
that Mrs. Magill had often talked of
committing suicide. In a letter to
her husband, written the day before
her death, Mra. Magill asked him to
marry Fay Graham in case anything
happened to her. Magill was em
ployed in a bank at Clinton, 111., the,
chief owner of which Is Vesparian
Warner, United States commissioner
of pensions. '
ARE PLAYING
WAITING GAME
CHICAGO, Oct. 18. The meeting
of the stockholders of the Illinois
Central railroad today was again
postponed, this time until 2:30
o'clock Saturday afternoon, and no
action of any kind was taken. The
delay was caused by the inability ot ,
the committee on proxies to present
Its work. - s ' ; ' ' '
BEAR KILLED
BY ROOSEVELT
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 18. The
president has killed a bear. The
news of the killing of a big black
bear by the president In a cane break
near Bear Lake, Louisiana, reached
here this morning in a telegram to
John Parker, sent by Geo. Shields,
a member of the party.
Two days ago several trails were
struck,, but only once did the dogs
come, upon the bear. Then it be
came necessary for the negro hunter
in the party to kill the bear Imme
diately in order to save the dogs.
The president started out yesterday
with, fresh dogs, and last night bag
ged one of the bruins.
FLOODS RAGING IN
SOUTHERN FRANCE
PARIS, Oct. 18. Dispatches from
the center of southern France con
firm the worst reports of the destruc
tion caused by floods. The rivers
Loire, Rhine and Siene and their
tributaries are raging torrents. The
water In some places is higher than
ever before recorded. 4
In hundreds of cities and towns
there are from two to ten feet of
water In streets, causing great dis
tress. All railroad traffic Is utterly
disorganized.. The weather Is clear
ing now and the worst appears to ba
over.