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rm onopah Daily THE METAL MARKET SILVER 51 7-8 ftp r- VOL VII. NO. 98 TONOPAH. NEVADA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17, 1910. X0' jCE 10 CENTS. TAFT DEMANDS - LEGISLATION FROM SlrtATORS Informs the Leaders That They are Moving Too Slowly THE WEATHER FAIR THURSDAY Bonanza. Insists That Party Pledges be Redeemed and is Extremely Impatient on the Pres ent Rate of Progress. Party Leaders Announce That They Will Stand by the President Until Legislation Promised is Accomplished By Associated Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. In an effort to carry out his campaign promises President Taft said to some of the senate leaders whom he called to the white house today: "Why don't you push the measures to redeem the party pledges, while the house is dealing withtthe appro priation bills. You are moving too slowly." It is said he exhib ited an extreme impatience with tho degree of progress thus far made toward the enactment of the admin istration bills. By way of p. result the senators were able to announce tonight the following: Almost a hopeless tangle with Root and Smoot's amendments to the ensnar ed postal savings bank bill which will receive attention at a confer ence tomorrow in the rooms of the finance committee of which Aldrlch is chairman. When whipped into shape the postal bill Is to displace the Alaskan legislative council bill as unfinished business.!1 The latter is to be laid aside as involving A RECORD RUN. By Associated Press . KANSAS CITY. Mo.. Fcl.l. A train of sixteen cars of oranges from Colton, Cal., which reached Kansas City last night, made a record freight run, covering the distance in 22 hours and 20 min utes ahead of schedule time. The record for the distance is .six days. The train, which ran oyer the Southern Pacific, Texas Pacific and Missouri, Kansas and Texas, made the trip in five days, one hour and forty minutes. SEVERE STORM s tir?e MIDDLE WEST By Associated Press x CHICAGO, Feb. . 16. A severe storm, amounting in some places to a blizzard, bringing to other lo calities a heavy snowfall, driven by a wind of almost a hurricane force, swept over west,, northwest and southwest today and tonight !a moving rapidly eastward. Twelve Inches of snow is reported at Terre Haute. The temperature at Den ver dropped 58 degrees in 24 hours, ending today. Other Colorado cities report the storm unroofed buildings PORKERS STILL SOARING. )' By Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Feb. 16. A new hog record was established at the local market here today when heavy hogs brought the top price of $8.90 per hundred pounds. One carload of hogs from Kansas Bold at this price. Several carloads sold at $8.85. The shortage of hog ship ments is given as the cause for the high prices which have steadily risen since the boycott on' meats some time ago caused a marked drop in meat prices. BRUTAL ATTACK. By Associated Press HAGERSTOWX, Md., Feb. 16. Robbed and beaten by three mask ed men, his head thrust into a blazing furnace, from which It was withdrawn only because the door was too large to admit his should ers, nnd then placed on the fly wheel Is the treatment from which John O. Nelbert Is in a serious con dition tonight. It is believed ho will recover. Ills assailants, after robbing him, endeavored to hide their ciime by killing him. problems that cannot be' solved a, the present session. The anti-injunction bill will be considered by the Judiciary committee Mondav. Statehood legislation Is already re ported for the ' committee on terri tories and will, probably receive at tention as soon as the postal sav ings bank bill is out of the way. When the senate adjourned toda? the postal savings bank bill was Jn such a tangle that no one was will ing to prophesy the outcome. Iu truth the adjournment was brought about chiefly because the senat3 was not ready to face the situation with reference to this bill .as there is nothing - else that could be con sidered. Conference of a wldcf scope will be held tomorrow when all the senators who Introduced conflicting amendments to the postal bill, and the republican leaders who have announced a determination to "see the president through" on the program, will be present." Al drich considers the problem exceed ingly difficult. FOOT RACING IS TO BE REVIVE!) IN NEW YORK ; . . ...v , gy Associated Press NEW YORK, Feb. 16. Profes sional foot racing will be revlvei at Madison Square Garden tonight when seven crack long distance men will toe the mark for a fifteen mile struggle. The starters will be Hands Holmer, Quebec; Fred Mead ows, Guelph, Ontario; Paul Accoa, Grenfela, Sask, James Crowley, Ire land; Gustav L. Jungstrom, Swed en; Percy Sallen, Toronto, and Charles Muller, New York. and blew in a number of windows. Sixty-three degrees drop in the tem perature is reported in Wyoming. Livestock in Oklahoma suffered se verely from the storm. JOPLIN, Mo.,- Feb. 16. A storm swept over the Missouri and Kan sas mining district today, causing a general shut-down of all mining plants and a complete demoraliza tion of traffic. The domestic, gas supply is failing, and it is feared that suffering will result. Bt'RNS MONEY; STOPS TRAIN. Bv 'Associated Press LAKE CITY, Iowa, Feb. 16. While on his way, home late last night from a party at a farmhouse along the railroad track, Stewart Dunbar, a stock raiser, fell through the cattle guard in the Northwest ern tracks near here, and his. foot became firmly caught. ' Hearing a train approaching Dunbar frantic ally tried to free himself in vain. and lit the first thing that came to his hand to warn the engineer of his danger. The train stopped a few feet from him. Dunbar was picked up In attainting conditio, the lust burnt edges of a $20 bill still clutched in his fingers. DROPS L1GHTK1) MATCH INTO GASOLINE BUCKET BEAUMONT, Tex. Feb. 16. Af ter annotincin that he believed h would burn the place the patron if tt local saloon dropped a lighted match into a bucket of gasoline. The- fire which followed the explo sion destroyed a block of fram buildings valued at $50,000. The man wan arrested. SCHEDULE FOR AMERICAN LEAGUE IS By Associated Press CHICAGO, Feb. 16. The Ameri can league announced Its schedule for 1910 today. One of its fea tures is that it contains only a few conflicting dates with the National league. The list, as usual contains 154 games. The season closes on October 9.' Chicago, as usual, has the great est number of conflicting dates. There are eight clashes betweei the two local clubs.; St. Louis has the only other conflicts. The Chicago club drew many of the choice dates, having July 4, Labor day, 17 Sundays and 14 Sat urdays. The season will open on, April 14, with the following games: St. Louis at Chicago, Cleveland at De troit, Philadelphia at Washington and Boston at New York. The first sectional series will open in the East on May 10 with Cleveland at Philadelphia, Chicago at Washington, Detroit . at New York and St. Louis at Boston. Byron Bancroft Johnson was re elected president, secretary ' and treasurer of the American league with a salary of $25,000 a year at the closing of the session of the annual meeting today. The agree-1 ment under, which the league ha existed since November, was re newed for twenty years. Johnson k term of office expires with the agreement. MAGNATES OE NATIONAL LEAGUE IN DEADLOCK By Associated Press NEW YORK, Feb. 16. The Na tional league magnates are still deadlocked on the schedule ques tion They convened atv2 o'clock this afternoon and were in sesslin until midnight, when they were unable to, decide either on the 168 or 154 game proposals. The sched ule debate will be resumed tomor row. DIRIGIBLE TO CROSS OCEAN. By Associated Press MADRID, Feb. 15. A special dispatch from Tenerifte says that in his attempt to cross the Atlantl-c in a dirigible balloon, Joseph Bruck er will be accompanied by Colonel Shack and A. Messner. The dirigi ble Orotavia will be used and the aeronauts will strive to reach New York by the way of Porto Rica and Cuba. SAILORS DIE IN QUARANTINE FROM SMALLPOX By Associated Press PORT TOWNSEND, Feb. 16. John Bohning, aged 22, a native of Kansas, is the second member, of the crew of the armored cruiser Washington to die of smallpox since the warship returned from Honolulu. Bohning died today -tt the Diamond Head quarantine sta tion, where three of his comrades are in a serious condition suffering from the same malady. The name of the sailor who died yesterday as the Washington reached port was not learned. The Washington Is now being fumigated. COMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATION - ASK CONGRESS TO REOUILD THE SUB-TREASURY By Associated Press SAX FRANCISCO, Feb. 16. The president and congress has been pe titioned by the board of trade, the chamber of commerce, Merchants' exchange and other organizations in this city for an immediate appro priation to rebuild the United States sub-treasury which was de troyed by fire in 1906. The sub treasury still occupies the roofed in ruins of the old building, and the petition points out that the government alone of all banks and similar institutions, has failed ro construct an adequate building since the big fire. AVIATORS MAY FLY AT CAPITA!, By Associated Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. When Courtland Field Bishop, president of the Aero Club of America, calls upon president Taft today, It is be lieved by Washington enthusiasts of aviation, that the president will say something to Mr. Bishop in favor of selecting the national capital "as the place ' for the next , international meet. A committee composed of General Nelson A. Miles, Dr. Alex ander, Thomas Nelson Page, Her bert Wadsworth and Thomas F. Walsh has been- selected to accom pany Mr. BJshop to the white house. SAM LANGFORD READY TO MEET ALLCOMERS By Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 16. Joe Woodman, manager of Sam Lang ford, announced tonight he would match Langford to meet any oppo nent. He selected the Metropoli tan Athletic club of San Francisco and the date as March 31. Lang- ford is matched to meet Jim Flynn in Los Angeles on March 17, and will leave for Los Angeles after-his bout with Nat Dewey here on Feb ruary 22. . EIGHT II CRT IN WRECK. TRINIDAD, Colo., Feb. 16. As a result of a head-on collision at 10 o'clock last night between the regu lar Colorado & Southern train No. 28, southbound, " and extra freight No. : 604, northbound, three miles north of Trinidad tonight, eight men were injured and both engines badly damaged. NO VERDICT IS REACHED CONBOY CASE By Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16. The jury trying former Police Captain Michael J. Conhoy for the- murder of Bernard Lagan, whlrh has be-i deliberating since noon today had not agreed upon a verdict up to midnight tonight. Judge Dunne at that time announced his intention of sending the jurors to their ho tel for the night. Attend the Social Club dance ft the Miners' Exchange hall to night. It. HOLD A SHORT SESSION . But Little Headway is Made in the Cross examination of Glavis by Ballinger's Coun sel Yesterday By Associated Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 The Ballinger-Pinchot investigating com mittee was in session three hours today and adjourned until Fridav morning. Vertrees, Ballinger's at torney continued the cross examina tion of Glavis, but made little head way. .Vertrees read Into the rec ords a number of letters and tele grams dealing with the calling in of the forest service by Glavis. In the cross examination the witness was shown that before he hal GRAND JURY WILL CONVENE AT SANTA ROSA i By Associated Press SANTA ROSA, Feb. 16. The grand jury will convene here net Wednesday to consider the evidence in the case of Dr. W. P. Burkj, who was arrested several days ao In connection with Jhe .dynamiting of the tent house of Miss Luella Smith on the grounds of the Burke Sanitarium, in which the woman and her eleven months old baby narrowly escaped serious injury and death. About fifteen or twenty wit nesses including Thomas Riley, a miner, employed at Burke's mine at Kanaka Peak until a few days ago, and who made a deposition that Burke obtained six sticks of dyna mite at the mine, have been sub poenaed. , SURVIVOR Tells Awful Tale of Hardships and By Associated Press CUIDADEL, Feb. 16. Marcel Ro da, the sole survivor of the steam er General Chanzy. which was wrecked last Thursday on a resf off the island of Minorca today told a thrilling narrative of the terrible experience of those on board the steamer. His story is as follows: "When the Chanzy left Marseilles she encountered a rough sea and a northerly .gale. The passengers were . not apprehensive, however, and all retired on the night of the ninth in good spirits. At 5 o'clock the next morning I was awakened by a crash. I dressed, hurried out of the cabin. Sailors were trying to reassure the pasengers, but the'.r words had no effect on the crowd ot men and women. The darkness added terror to the frightful scene. Enormous seas were breaking over the steamer. One sea ripped off a railing to which a score of wo men and children were clinging. INDICTMENT ARRIVES. By Associated Press LOS ANGELES, Feb. 16. A for mal indictment arrived today charg ing C. A. Sarber of this city with having obtained money by fal-e pretenses in Washington. SNOWING IN NORTH. j By Associated Press I SPOKANE. Wash.. Feb. 10.- j Snow, which has been falling steicl il.v In Coeur d'Alene and western Montana is stifling railroad traf fic. More than four feet has fal len In the last thirty-six hours. Sev eral small glides have been encoun tered and cleared. Four men were caught by a slide in the mountains east of Wallace, Idaho. Two ex tricated themselves. A force of called off the Alaska coal land cases in May, 1908, he had tele graphed the department at Wash ington that the United States at torney at Portland had urged the necessity of closing up about a thousand acres In Oregon, wherein a hearing had been held almost Im mediately and the full field service would be needed. Three days lat jr Glavis was taken off the Alaska case and assigned to the Oregon work. Glavis testified he had rj celved no orders to resume tha Alaska cases until October, 1908. TIDES OF LIFE MAKES ATTEMPT TO END EXISTENCE , By Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 16.--A few hours after giving what she believed to be a farewell party to a score of friends, Miss Agnes Les lie Elkins, aged 26, a niece of Sen ator Stephen D. Elkins , of West Virginia, , attempted . suicide by shooting In her apartments at a hotel here today. The wound was not fatal. In a letter addressed to the newspapers, which Miss El kins wrote after dismissing he; guests, she said: "I simply was tired of life and the struggle for existence was more than I could meet." Friends of the young woman say a , disappointment because rela tives objected to her choosing a, theatrical career was the true cause. of the Wrecked Steamer SUFFERING Their shrieks as they disappeared were drowned by the roar of the storm. "I saw that it was death to re main and being an excellent swim mer I allowed myself to be car ried off by the next wave. At the moment the sea swept me shore ward the air was rent by a vio lent explosion shooting over my head. I turned to look but the General Chanzy had disappeared. Eventually I lost consciousness, for I remembered no more until I came to on the rocks." Roda took refuge in a grotto at the base of a cliff where he passed a day and a night. On the morning of the eleventh he scaled the cliff and wearily drag ged himself to the nearest habita tion. The recovery of bodies continues and they are buried as soon as they are photographed for identification. twenty men Is working to uncover the two remaining men who have been buried ten hours under thri'y feet of snow. STATE HANK CASE IS NOW BEING ARGUED The case of the State Bank an.1 Trust company versus Bowes wis taken up by Judge Langans cou.-t Monday and a publication of sum mons ordered made. The case is one involving the sum of $7,000 which la a judgment against the State Bank and Trust companv which was secured In the courts at Tonopah prior to the appointment of a receiver. Arguments were heard on the case Tuesday. .