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WEATHER Fair Tonight and Thursday U AIL Y BONANZA Today's Sil?er! Quotation, 521-8 UTVJUFAii 0 VOL. X. NO. 91 TONOPAH. NEVADA, WEDNESDAY EVENING. AUGUST 9, 1911. PRICE 10 CENTS. COUNSEL IN LORIIilER CASE HAVE CLASH HI WHO DIED IN HOSPITAL .EMPLOYED TO DYNAMITE SAFE WASHINGTON', Aug. 9. What promised for a few minutes to be a personal encounter between Attor ney Hanecy, representing Senator Lorimer, and Attorney John J. Healy, counsel for the Lorimer sen ate committee, marked the close yesterday of the long cross-examina-ticn of H. J. C. Beekemeyer, for mer Illinois state representative, who says he received $1000 after voting for Lorimer for senator. The clash between counsel occur red when Mr. Healy accused Hanecy with having the "purpose of confus ing the record and those who will read it.'' He was speaking of Mr. Hanecy's questions regarding testi mony Beekemeyer gave "Friday con cerning his statement two years ago to officials in. Cook county that he knew nothing of interest to the grand jury, relative to corruption in the legislature. "If the gentleman means what he says, I desire to brand it in the manner it deserves to be branded," shouted Mr. Hanecy, jumping to his feet and facing the eomm!ttee"s at torney. Mr. Healy declared he could not tell whether Mr. Hanecy was asking about Beckemeyer's testi mony Saturday or about the truth contained in the statement two years ago. Beekemeyer said he could not understand either. As a result, the chairman, Mr. Dillingham, conduct ed th? examination on the point himself. Repeatedly, Mr. Hanecy required the witness to admit that he lied when he declared before he con jfessed to the Cook county grand jitry to receiving money that he "4iad not received money and knew nothing about corruption. Finally Beekemeyer appealed to the committee to be excused from answering six questions. Chairman Dillingham ruled that after the wit ness had testified three or four or five times that he lied, it was not necessary fcr counsel to require the witness to characterize the kind of lies he told. The chairman ex pressed "Impatience" that the hear ing should be drawn out by such in sistence. Throughout Beekemeyer remained firm in declaring that he asked to be given the privilege of making a "clean breast" of the whole matter before the grand jury because he did not want an indictment to he .brought against him at the time his wife was in a hospital. NEW MACHINERY FOR BUCKEYE EAGLE MINE Arson Job Is Planned By Cashier to Cover Up Shortage One Accomplice Dies of Burns Received While Trying to Start the Blaze. STEEL GALLOWS FRAME TO UK ERECTED OX THE RICK EY K PROPERTY. NEW FIRM 18 NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS NATIONAL REALTY AXI) INVEST MENT COMPANY HAS OPENED FOR BUSINESS. The National Realty and Invest ment company has opened its doors for business at warehouse No. 1 on lower Main street. This firm lias entered on a general commis sion business and will handle every thing. Mining machinery, electrical supplies of all kinds, household sup plies; in fact, everything needed In business and the home are now on hand. On another page of this pa per appears a large display ad an nouncing the opening and enumer ating some of the lines now open to purchase. Storage will be taken weight and space. The phone mer is No. 1. The Buckeye Eagle Mining com pany, owning six claims laying east of the Belmont Extension and con necting the Buckeye Tonopah with the Belmont Extension, has a double compartment shaft down 100 feet, with a gallows frame erected, and has been steadily working with a horse hoist. This week a new elec tric hoisU" arrived for the mine and was hauled out Sunday. The equip ment consists of a Leyner hoist, made in Denver, capable of sinking 1500 feet, a 52 horse-power G. E motcr, three electric transformers of (50 horse-power, 750 feet of 3-4 inch steel cable, two ore buckets tw cars and all necessary switches wire, fuses, etc. This property is controlled by the Buckeye Belmont Mines company ;ind the power line was built be tween the Belmont Extension and the Buckeye Tonopah mines, so as to pass within 50 feet of the Eagl shaft, that the transformers may ht connected from the line without de lay and without additional power line construction. The Buckeye Tcnopah shaft has been under repairs, and 1 2 feet of new timbers have been replaced in the shaft, which has been wi'd eued out at the top. making a, sta Hon just under the collar for switchboard that will control the big high duty electric triplex pump at the station. This switch board and the underground pumps will be entirely independent of all the top power lines and machinery, and the pump has a capacity cf raising 100 saltans of water from a depth of 1300 feet every minute. Over th shaft a steel gallows frame will b erected 60 feet high. The formation in the bottom the time of t lie fire last work wa heavily mineralized and was chang ing the indication being that th contact between the later andesite and earlier andesite was close, and was sufficient to warrant permanen changes of this character, - which wculd have been made in a few weeks anyway, if the fire had not occurred. Another meeting of the hoard of directors will be held in the o"f. fices of the Belmont Extension Min ing company in a few weeks, and after that, work will he pushed in that shaft also. Meanwhile, motcr connections and preliminary steps will all be completed and work will be rushed without stopping night and day. Several applications for leases have been made but no action will be taken until after the board meeting. The stock of the Buckeye Bel mont Mines company, which con trols all three, will be listed short ly after the meeting, as all papers for listing have been prepared, but the company does not wish to list the stock until all three are running steadily. The men behind this en terprise do not want to list the mine without the merit, as they are making mines not markets. NEW YORK. Aug. 9. Following the death of Frank Walsh yester day in a Jersey City hospital, the police declared that Samuel Brown, cashier of the Long Look Milling company had confessed that he had employed Walsh to blow open the safe in bis office and destroy two edgeis. which, he said, would show that he was about $2500 short in his accounts. Walsh's eyes were blown out and his body was charred from tha ef fects cf overloading the safe with nitre-glycerine. The police have arrested Brown and P. J. Tiiiiinins, who, th"y say, Brown mentioned as h-iviug svg- gested the employment of Walsh to dynamite the safe when Brown found that the combination had been changed alter his shortage was suspected. at TARIFF BILLS IN HANDS OF THE BIG LEADERS Unquestioned Deadlock Between LaFollette and Underwood Exists Adjournment of Congress Without Taking Action on the Measures Likely. NEW YORK, Aug. 9. As a re sult of the alleged attempt last eve ning to destroy the records of tht Long Dock Mills and Elevator com pany, in Jersey City, for the pur pose of concealing a shortage .ot $2500 in the accounts of Samuei Biown. the cashier. Brown and P. .). Tiniiuons. an expert accountant, are in jail there under ciiargos ti arson, conspiracy and manslaughter. The police hold a confession, bear ing Brown's signature, telling of his plans for the crime and naming Timmons as an accomplice. Frank Walsh, k'hown as ' Lightning," the burglar, who was hired to do the job, died yesterday .of. limns re ceived in trying to carry out the scheme. Brown was arrested when he re ported lor work yesterday. His em ployers told the police that experts had been examining the accounts during the previous week and had set y( f terday for examining the books. Brown, after little resistance to the detectives' questioning, told tliem that he had been short since Jamiiuy 1, and that Timmons had worked on the hooks for three months trying to cover up his tracks. The police did not tell Brown upon arresting him, that Walsh had died. Instead they tried to batter down his defense, and failing, one of them finally said: "Walsh died at 5 o'clock this morning." Brown gripped his chair. His breath came hard and his eyes started. ".My God!" he gasped; "I can't have a man's death on my soul." Then lie told his story. Timmons was arrested near his homy In Newark. Intermittently tlie ietectives have been with him all ;he afternoon and morning, seek ing to elicit a confession, but their efforts so far have been unsuccess ful. The sale was found intact, al though the police, at first glance, bought its doors had been blown ,m the hinges. There was evi dence to show that gasoline bad been med liberally, but no evidence of an -explosion. The books, how ever, were only charred about the edges, although soaked with the oil. When Walsh was found by the firemen, . with his eyes blown out -nd his clothing all but burned fro in his body, he said that he had gf.ne into tho office, the door be In open, to sleep. He was smoking a s Igarette, he said, fell asleep and he supposed the cigarette set the place on fire. At the hospital be was told that he would die of his burns. "Now," queried a detective, who was with him, "won't you tell ns how it happened?" Walsh shook his head and then straightened on his cot. It was his last act. WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. Senator La Follette and Chairman Under wood, of the house ways and means committee, who have undertaken to reconcile the differences between the senate and' the house on the wool and the farmers' free list bills for the full conference committee, are in an unquestioned deadlock, with the possibility of remaining so, and thus forcing an adjournment of the session without final action on either of these measuies. The tie-up is due to the uncom promising opposition of Mr. La Fol lette to the house bill. He has told Mr. Underwood that a reduction of rates below those fixed by the bill as It passed the senate is an im- posslbilitly, and In reply the chair- man of the ways and means com mittee, who had great difficulty in getting an agreement in the house to the rates fixed in. his bill, has sain mat tlie liouse never will ac cept the senate figures. air. i.a t oilette s contention is tnat tlie senate rates constitute a reduction of, about three-fourths of the difference- between the rates of than 35 per cent raw wool and the corresponding rates on woolens fixed by the senate bill. The difficultits pertain entirely to the wool bills. An agreement on the free list could he had any time. The deadlock has given rise to all kinds of suggestions and surmises. Accepting the tangle as inextricable, some senators and representatives have suggested a movement for final adjournment regardless of the con ference and the senate is being sounded on that proposition. Most of the regular republicans are will ing to agree to this, as are some of the democrats. Included in the lat ter list are those southern senators who would like to see further .con sideration of the cotton bill post poned until next session. They are willing to accept almost any legitl ni ite reason for delay and would welcome any exigency that would carry cotton over. The cotton bill is unquestionably playing a part in tlie conference, but nil the facts have not come to the surface. The insurgent republicans and some of the democrats who are the Payne-Aldrich law and those strongly in favor of the cotton leg- RUMORED TRAIN SCHEDULE IS TO BE CHANGED It has been rumored but not giv en cut officially, that the local train schedule is to be changed. Tlie change will only affect No. 24, which arrives at present at 3 p. m. Under the new schedule this train will be due here at 6 a. m. "SLIM" GILMORE WANTS TO FIGHT of the house bill; that it is impos sible to go lower and hold any thing like the progressive republi cans and that it is better for the democrats to take a half loaf than to get nothing In the way of tariff bread. Mr. Underwood did not accept the senate figures but is quietly can vassing the bouse to ascertain what increase over the house rates may be possible. He has told some of his friends that the house might be peisuaded to "meet the senate half way," but the progressive lead er merely smiled in response to sug gestions of this character. He told Mr. Underwood that the difference was with his party friends, rather than with himself, and they sus tained him in the statement. The progressive republicans con sidered it Important that they stand as a body and have found it im possible to obtain anything like a unanimous consent to a rate of less PROF." BRAUN "THE NEW CHURCH CARPET" TONIGHT KKATIRE PICTURE WILL TAKEN FROM RICHARD IIAl IXG DAVIS. UK :i. HEXDS A CHALLENGE TO MEET THE LOCAL ATHLETIC DIREC TOR IX THIS CITY. (station appreciate the impossibility of holding a quorum of congress In Washington after final action on the wool bill. They take the posi tion that the cnly safeguard for the cotton bill is to keep wool back until after the cotton bill Is reported and a day fixed for a vote. The power to so hold the meas ure rests with the conferees, but they do not admit that they are act ing, from,, this motive. Senator La Follette told some of bis senatorial associates on the con ference committee yesterday that the outlook for an agreement was somewhat brighter. He also said that while the full conference com mittee might he called together any day, a week might elapse before a meeting would be desired by the sub-committee. Mr. Underwood last night said he "believed the free list bill would be sent to the president." . SNAKE WAS SEVEX FEET LONG AT LAST RKPORT JOLLY FTS1IIXO PART YRKTURXS Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Booth and Mr. and Mrs. Newton Crumley re turned today by auto from a camp ing trip on. the Reese river. The party made the trip from the Keough ranch, 75 miles, to Tonopah, In five hours. Excellent hunting and fishing helped to pass a most delightful vacation. Tbe Oallv people. RnnMita rearhea th ARE TRYING FOR SUNDAY EVENING BAND CONCERT The band boys are now out with a list to secure subscriptions for a Sunday night concert to he h on Main street. It is thought ther will be no trouble to secure the needed sum for the concert, and if it goes through the first will be next Sunday evening. tfubarrlbe (or yonr home paper ' Our program today is one of the best shown In a long time. Stewart and Mercer, who have made such a hit in their comedy acrobatic work, close their engagement tonight. Our pictures for today are as fol lows: "The Return of the Widow Peyson's Husband," one of the best Vitagraph comedies ever shown. Mr. John Bunny, the funny man, takes the lead in this picture. "The e'w Church Carpet," an Edison drama, founded on the Richard Harding Davis story. "Her Stingy Hus band" is a story of a woman whose husband refuses her money for her sick daughter and she uses the mon ey that belongs to the church to buy a new carpet. "Frolicsome Flossie" Is a Gaiimout comedy. "Jimmie ns a Philanthropist" shows Jim lute, the boy actor, in one of his best stunts. Miss Llzette Hoskius and Mr. Enoway are pleasing our patrons with their good music. Any request fcr any special number will be ren dered by them. The sporting editor of tbe Bonan za is in receipt of a letter from "Slim" Gilmore of San Francisco, asking that be be given the privi lege of fighting "Prof." Brann. The letter Is as follows: "San Francisco, Aug. 5. "Sporting Editor Tonopah Bonanza. "Dear Sir: I am about to leave San Francisco for the east, and on my way will stop off in your town. While there I would like to box any good man weighing from 145 to I 58 pounds. "Hearing that Prcf. Braun is in your midst at tbe present time, I would like to box him on & winner take all basis. Kindly issue this challenge in your paper for me, pre ferring Prof. Braun above all other men. . "Thanking you for this great fa vor, I remain, as ever, "GEO. ("SLIM") GILMORE." P. S.: Knciosed you will find, a photograph of myself. Address all mail to 1740 Ellis street, San Fran cisco, Cat." Ed Uren and Ed Dickson took a hunting trip yesterday afternoon somewhere in the wilds east of this city and while perambulating about, Uren shot a snake. On their return to this city in the evening Uren stated the snake was five feet long and Dickson, as the "affidavit kid," said "yes." Last night the snake had grown to seven feet long and Dickson said "yes." W. S. Johnson says that they took CEMETERY COMMITTEES TO MEET Tins EYEXIXG A meeting of the cemetery com mittees of the different lodges will take place this evening at 8 o'clock nt Elks' hall. It is desired that all lodges have representatives pres ent and if you are a member of this committee, please take and be on hand. x bottle of snake bite along, not seeing any remedy anyway. reptiles, v took but the Bl'SIXESS CHAXC.E. BLACKHAND HAS PILED UP A BIG MURDER TOLL HALE MILLION' DOLLARS COL LECTED BY BLACKMAIL AXI 100 IIOMUS EXPIODEl). M. Rodulcreich, M. J. O'Flaherty and V. C. Sutherland have pur chased the Frisco Cafe. The place will hereafter be known as the Tonopah Grill. Thoroughly reno vated the grill Is now fresh and clean, and best of service is qua'r anteed. Private dining rooms for ladles. 8-9-tf CHICAGO, Aug. 9. A summary of the crimes committed by members of the so-called Black Hand society during the year 1910, made public yesterday, gives a total of 1 8 mur ders, scores of stabbings and more than 100 bomb explosions, $500 000 collected in blackmail and the In fliction of incalculable misery upon thousands. With one exception, none of the perpetrators of these numerous crimes has been convicted. TWO OK ENDAXTS TO BE ARRAIGXKH TONIGHT Most of tlie day in the district court has been taken up with the Priest mill case. Tonight Milo Baslch will be arraigned on an as Kault to kill charge, and George Stout will have to plead to a charge of selling liquor to Indians. DIVORCE OBTAINED IIY WIFE OF YOUNG J.TES THIRTY DAYS. Deputy Sheriff Cook of Round Mountain came in from the 'north ern camp today with a prisoner by the name of Johnson, who received a present of 30 days in the justice couit of that camp for petit larceny. BRISSKI EXTERTAIXMEXT. Mrs. George Brissell entertained her music pupils last evening by a party to the Butler theater, after which adjournment was taken to an Ice cream parlor, where dainty re freshments were served. All kinds of at the Ronantn. ruling and binding NEW YORK, Aug. 9. A final d cree was signed yesterday granting .Mary W. Gates absolute divorce notice, from Charles G. Gates. The decree does not mention alimony. Mrs. Gates Is allowed to remarry. Charles Gates U now in Paris at the bed Hide of his father, John W. Oaten. NEW AKRIYAU Bom. yesterday to the wife of Lanrance Word a 10-pound baby girl. Mother and child are reorted an doing well and Mr. Woods Is busy handing over the "Perfpcto9."