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Xh* eureka sentinel PUBLISH ID UUT MONDAY BY BJ. Jl. . subscription *AT«8. $5 00 OM«opT,eMJ«...... , „ On* copy. «ii month*.. * . M B1 Cerrkr. ptr momtb.. Entered at the Postofflc* at Eureka aa Second Glaas Matter. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 18. 1909. Nevada State News John MilUr, a pioneer rancher oi Elko County, passed away suddenly at Lamoille Valley on Tuesday. He was 67 yean of age. The Nevada Board of Pardon* in ltr/^.i aeeeion Wednesday commuted the dvet** sentence of John Dolan, the . Eta County murderer, to life imprison Tbe rsflmts of the Nevada Univer k j *i»y have taken step* to demand an in J vesttguticabf thd charges printed in jfjPjl tbo GUsaon Appeal regarding that in J. B. Coe, the miner who w«* ar rotted for hunlaring the postettoe at TOrlUhn, Lander County, ha* been held to appear before the United Btate* Grand Jury. Goldfield, Nevada, has been selected for bolding the 1908 session of the American Mining Congress, the direct ors having made formul announcement to that efface. The Gaaette say* that special Inter nal Revenue officers are in Reno ex nmining the goods in grocery stores tc see if they ware put op aooording tc the Pore Food law. The Canon City assay offioe ranks third in the. United States for the amount of money deposited daring the past year. The amount was 11,071, 060.64. Seattle ranks first and Helene second. • Joe Donahne, a pioneer newspaper man of Cripple Creek and Goldfield, and well known as one of the ablest mining writen in the Weat, is dead in Goldfield of pnenmonia, after an illness of one week. Governor Diokerson has reappointed H. F. Bartlne as head of the Nevada Railroad Commission. The appoint ment ia for three years. Bartlne ha* acted aa Chairman of the Commission for the past two years. The Southern Paoiflo Company has a force of men building a hotel at the depot at Carlin. Its completion is looked forward to with keen pleasure by the railroad boys. They expect to have it open for holiness April 1. The new ioe house of the Southern Paoiflo at Carlin is about completed, and to# is being (hipped in from Trnckee and Boos to fill it, as the ict pond jnst east Of the town was not completed in time to enable the oom pany to gather ioe this Winter. The boom at the new oamp of Pio neer, between Goldfield and Rhyolite, in Nye County, is greater than that of Rawhide, considering the difficulty in reaohing the oamp. Lots that oonld have been purchased two weeks ago for 8100 are now selling for $1000, end there ere so many people in the oamj that many are unable to secure sleeping aooomodntions. The report of Surveyor-General Deady baa bees submitted. It shows that Nevada has 71,787,000 aoret of laud, of which over 90,000,000 la agri cultural. The report ia filled with all aorta of information at to land in Ne vada, the Federal and State lawa Id relation to location, and other valuable data that aaakee It ona of tha beat re ports aver put out of the land office. Bat for her eteel ooreet stays Edith Huffaker, wife of Dr. Huffaker of Oar son, would have been killed by a mad dened bull. Mre. Huffaker was walk ing along a ooantry road near the city a day or oo ago with Mrs. Gardner and a little girl, when the bull rushed at bar and toeaed her over a six-foot fence into a ditoh. Tha horns of the bull struck Mrs. Hnfftakar iu the aide, but failed to penetrate, the steel ooreet stay* protecting her. George Venerable, an aged resident of - Oarsooy who some .years ago left Canon City with more than 980,000 in hia possession and went to San Fran cisco, declaring to his Nevada frieudi that he intended to be the king of the San Frauoisoo stock exohange, waa on Toaaday found dead in a cloak room of the Briggs Hotel at Oar son. It is be lieved that he died of heart disease. Oo, his body waa found a silver divin ing rod, about 9*0 iu gold and some •took certificates. At a mate meeting of the farmer* of the Hamboldt Valley, held at Lovelock. for the porpoee of building a large reeerroir for the conservation of the watari of the Hamboldt for Irrigation daring the dry season, when the Horn boldf rlvar is very low. Nearly every farmer imthar-portion of the State has agreed to keck- the company by por obasiog stock. On the recommends tlon of 8tate Engineer F. R. Nicholas, ths reaervior will be built near Ham boldt House. Measure to Divide Nye County Assemblyman Charles A. Kayae of Rhyolite bee introduced a bill in the Legislature providing for the division of Nya County and the formation of the County of Bullfrog. It this bill is passed it will oat off the entire soathern portion of the ooauty, end call it Boll frog, leaving Tonopah and Manhattan large towns in the ooauty of THOSE ON THE INSIDE The Salaries Paid'Nevada'a Over worked and Underpaid State Officials and Deputies The Ely Reoord note* with pleasure that a bill will be introduced in the Legislature to raise the salaries of the State officials. There Is no question that oor State official* are not only overworked, bot aleo underpaid. From the report of the State Comp troller, jost issued, it is learned that the Governor’s salary is only $8000, with a private secretary at $4000 and a clerk at $2400; a total of $14,400. The Lieutenant Governor, who is also ex-officio adjutant-general over the polioe force, draws down the pitiable snin of only $3000 per year. The salary of Secretary of State Is $4800; the deputy secretary $4000; the clerk $4000 end the typiet $7200, a total of only $20,000 per year for salaries to maintain the secretary's office. The State Comptroller is allowed bot $4800, with a deputy at $4000, and a typist $2400. The State Treasurer draws only $4800, with a deputy at $4000, and a clerk $2400. The salary of the Attorney-General and Mineral Land Commissioner is fixed at the paltry snm of ouly $9000, to whioh can be added the typist at $2400. The Surveyor General gels $4800; hi* deputy $4000, a draughtsman $40C0, typist $2400, clerks in land office $8000 aad township plats $1000. Salary of Superintendent of Pnblic Instruction is $4000, typiet $2400, travel ing expenses and teachers' institutes $1000. Justices of th6 Supreme Court $10,000; reporter, $000; official reporter, $1000; bailiff, $1000. Bullion Tax Collector $4000; traveling expenses, $1000. Bank Examiner $5500, with traveling expenses of only $2000. State Auditor $4800, and traveling expenses of $1500. State Veterinarian, $3600 and travel ing expenses of $1000. The Superintendent of State Print ing draws only $4800 and has no assist ant depnty or typist. The salary of the Pnblicity Commis sioner is $5000, and he is limited to only $5000 for traveling expenses. Why, a man of Sam Davis’ ability ought to have at least as much again. The Railroad Commissioners are compelled to divide $20,000 in three parts, have a clerk at $3600, and are limited in their traveling expenses to only $10,000. The library clerk gets $2400; the janitor only $2600; the watchman $2, 640; the gardener $2600; janitor of li brary bnilding and engineer $2600. This does not complete the salary list, for there are the State polioe, who according to the Governor's report are in Carson drilling and studying criminal law; the superintendent of the penitentiary aud his assistants aud many others, bot it is perhaps snffioienl to give the taxpayers an idea of the meager salaries paid to State officials. They are all hard-working people. The ohanoes are that they arrive at their offloes by 10 o’clock in the morn ing and remain until 4 in the after noon, And then they all paid their 10 per oent assessment to the Democratic campaign fond, whioh proves their patriotism and love of office. By all means let their salaries be raised, at least 60 per oent. The tax payers oan stand it. The Anti-Gambling Bill The anti-gambling bill was intro dnoed into the Assembly Monday by Oeorge McIntosh of Oarlin. The bill was drawn in the offloe of Cheney, Massey and Prioe, prominent Reno attorneys, and will doubtless accom plish its purpose if enacted into law. On motion of Allen of Ohnrohill Connty, the bill was read the first time, the second time by title and referred to the Committee on Pnblio Morals. Dodge of Washoe wanted the bill re ferred to the oommittee on oleima, be cause It claimed to prohibit gambling in Nevada when it does not. His motion was defeated by a large major ity. It is said that the committee will report the bill favorably and that it will pass the House. The real fight on the measure is expected in the Senate. The new law provides for the abolish ment of all percentage and banking gambling, bat does not apply to card games played at home or outside if no percentage is takeu ont by some one for the privilege of playing. Miners Receive Dividend Virginia Chronicle, February 9: The first dividend to miners from proceeds of the ore taken from the Ophir and Oon. Virginia mines for the past three months was distributed yesterday. It amounts in all to $1,956.56, and was distributed according to the wage earning capacity of the different men employed for the companies. The idea of the management is that when men are working on shares and know that they are to get a part of whatever the mine produces they will be more diligent in their daily duties and use every endeavor to do the best for the mine. This applies as well to the others employed for the companies, as it tends to give all a personal interest in the business. Some of the miners drew down a handsome dividend, the highest paid any one miner was over $50. Subscribe for the SunrutsL' NEVADA'S LIVELY MINING CAMP Early Day Reminiscence of the Noted Camp of Pioche William P. Goodman, who was a news-dealt r in Pioche daring the early *•70'#, haa been writing to the Pioche Record from Manchester, N. H., about hi* early day experience*. In bi* letter he included a clipping from a Man cheater paper which quoted a mining operator well acquainted with Pioche'* early history, aa follow*: ••Pioche, Nevada, was the liveliest mining camp the West ever saw. I have been in many of the great boom camps of Nevada dnring the past few years; in Tcnopab, Goldfield, Rawhide and others when they were iu their palmiest boom days, but uoue of them equaled the early Pioche boom. Mod got $20 a day guarding with rifles the I the different mining properties ovei which there was or might be disputes Men were killed each night, and we tbougbc nothing of being told that another man had just been slaughtered for breakfast. One night there were five men killed. "I remember visiting & saloon Id which considerable gambling was going ou. At one table the four players did not use chips, nothing but $20 gold pieces, and it seemed to me that there were so many of them tbat the table would break down at any moment. This game was a $20 ante affair, with no limit, and aome of the jack pots represented a great stake iu themselves. Camps have come after Pioche, but noue have been so thoroughly wild and reckless as Pioche. Now that the great resources are being brought to light down that way, the camp is going to see another era of greatness, bnt it will be more earnest one, oue not quite so picturesqne and intense as the Pioche of old.” REX E. BEACH. The Young Author ol “The Barrier* and Other Popular Stories. One of the books of fiction now moot In demand at the libraries Is "The Bar rier,” by Bex E. Beach, a comparative ly young author who. after having pass ed through many exciting experience* In a little known quarter of the globe where life flows at full tide, now shows an ability to write stories of unusual vigor nnil freshness. His first novel, "The Spoilers.” took everybody by surprise. He Is one of those authors who write In that apparently easy, off hand way which Is only possible to the most original. Not long ago at a dln r-:-r-“T---T====jl AN TTNCONVTENTIONAlt POBTBAIT OFBKX E. BEACH. ner given by colonel uarvey or war per’s to Mark Twain on the occasion of hla seventieth birthday My. Beach made a speech which appealed to all his bearers as something altogether new In the way of after dinner ad dresses and proved him to be a hu morist of a very high order. Indeed Richard Watson Glider when asked In an Interview a short time afterward whether there was a successor to Mark Twain in sight replied, "I no ticed at Colonel Harvey's dinner the other night that there wu3 a successor to Mark Twain standing plainly ‘In light’ of hie distinguished master, and I noticed that bis distinguished mas ter was Immensely amused by the art of his successor" REBUKE. rpHE world is old and the world la cold, -** And never a day is fair. I said. Out of the heavens the sunlight rolled. The green leaves rustled above my head. And the sea was a sea of gold. rpHE world is cruel. I said again. Her voice is harsh to my shrinking ear. And the nights are dreary and full of pain. Out of the darkness sweet and clear There rippled a tender strain— RIPPLED the song of a bird asleep That sang in & dream of the budding wood. Of shining fields where the reapers reap. Of a wee brown mate and a nestling brood And the grass where the berries peep. THE world is falsu though the world is fair, And never a heart Is pure, I said. And. lo. the clinging of white arms bare. The innocent gold of ray baby's head And the lisp of a childish pray er. —Ina Donna Coolbrltk. GRACE BEFORE DINNER. rpHOU. who kindly dost provide For every creature’s want. We bless thee. God of nature wide. For all thy goodness lent A XD. If It please thee, heavenly guld* May never worse be sent. But whether granted or denied. Lord, bless us with content Amenf —W/>K«.r» Ttuma. Location notices and legal blanks for sals at the gxiiTUfU. offloe. SILVER'S BRIGHTER PROSPECT Tide of Pnblie Opinion Rolling In Direction of Reopening Of the Indian Mints la its weekly review of the metal markets, the Boston Financial News has the following to say concerning silver: The statistical position of silver is improving, according to all competent authority in this conntry and in Eu rope. For several weeks the shipments of silver from Loudou to East India have been increasing. Last week’s catgo by the Peuinsalar & Oriental liner topped the record for a twelve month. The shipment was iu value £8000 above the great shipment made | t<y the steamship Mooltan of the same line, whieh, on December 18 last, took ont to Eist India silver to the value ol £730.000. From all parts of East India come reports from Europeans in busi ness and social life that the tide ot opinion in favor of ihe reopening ol the Indian mints to t ie coiuage of the silver rupee is rnnnlug strong and far The premium of the coiued silvet rupees over the bullion price thereof illustrates the tremendous power of the natives in rendering almost nugatory the work of the cabals of fluanciers in Europe who closed the Indian mints against the coinage of the rupee. The tremendous decline in the ex ports of British manufactured goods to East Iudia is held by shipping mer chants and manufacturers as altogethei too to the demonetization of silver in East India. At Bombay, Madras, Cal cotta and other commercial cities ot Ea9t India, a powerful movement i> getting under way to bring abont a great international conference of the oriental countries whose almost 800, 000,000 of people have used silvei money for ages. The object of the proposed oonferenoe is to biing about the restoration of stiver to the place it held before the Indian mints wen closed. Correspondence on this head is going on between representative com mercial Straits settlements. A very strong silver movement is sbspiug forth iu Japan, who sees whai a tremendous amouut of business shi could do in China and India under a system of tjlver coinage. Holland sees which way the silver wind is setting it the orient, and is enlarging her ca pacity to mint silver coins for the fat East. In her Indian possessions, Hol land is now permitting the payment < f taxes in silver coins instead of in guild ers, as was the case until lately. Japan has coiued more silver within six months than for a long time previously —ostensibly to the order of certain banks in China, but really for the benefit of her own merchants and bankers in Manchuria, Chihli, Shuns, and Corea. TO PROTECT MINING INTERESTS Nevada Will Pass Law Making Wildcatting a Felony, Says Captain Menardi San Francisco Chronicle, February 8: “We are going to pat a atop to tbe wild oatting business in Nevada, and we art going to sit down on it so bard and s< emphatically that people will have nr cause to mistrust a mining proposition merely because It oomes from tbe Sage brush State,” said Captain J. B. Men ard! at tbe Hotel St. Francis yesterday. •‘We are through with this wild pro motion business over there, and tbt conservative element la going to rule. The Legislature will ooneider a bill t< be presented soon, making wildcatting a felony, and undoubtedly it will pass. All of the reputable mining interests are baok of suoh a bill, and I am as sured Already of its success. It will be similar to tbe existing California law, and will be sufficiently stringent. “Business in Nevada is not bad. There is an apparent slump, because so many fake propositions which flashed up big for a time have gone out oi existence. But tbe real mines are do ing better than ever before, and therr are new mines being opened often. Business is very good, and our pros perity is real aud permanent. I never was more enconraged by tbe prospects in Nevada.” Captain S^enan^ is looked upon as one of tbe big mining men of Nevada, and is considered tutu of influence in conservative business circles. He is a member of tbe Nevada State Publicity Commission, a director of tbe Nevada Commercial Club, and a direotor of the Reno Chamber of Commerce. He was for a long time president of the Reno Stock and Exchange Board. Traiii Service Into Elko The citizeus of Elko are rejoicing over tbe beginning of train ear vice on the Western Pacific, which ii now run ning freight trains into Elko with lum ber, cement and building supplies from Salt Lake. While no regular schedule is in operation and passenger servioe has not yet been begnn, the aotnal pall ing of trainloads of goods into Elko bas stimulated business to a remarkable degree. Rush work is the order all along the line between Elko andJWinnemuoca, and the ballasting of the section east of Elko is being accomplished with rapidity, so that passenger trains msy be put on. Half a mile oat of Elko tbe shopi are being built and a cement roundhouse is rapiply approaching completion. The bouses for the em ployes are pleasing in design, that for the division superintendent being es pecially oommodious. Made Mason At Sight The Grand Matter of Ohio Masons, Charles S. Hoskinson of Zanetrille, has tendered to William Howard Taft, President elect, the rare honor of being made a Mason at sight. Jndge Taft PRESIDENT-ELECT TAFT has accepted and will return to Cincin nati on February 18, when the Grand Master will convene a distinguished company of Masons in the Scottish Rite Cathedral and exercise the high prerogative which belongs ouly to a Grand Master of Masons. This honor is so rarely conferred that there is bat a single instance of it on record in the 100 years’ history of Masonry in Ohio, when in 1802 the Hon. Asa Bushnell of SpriugQeld, was made a Mason at sight. Iu addition to promineut Ohio Ma sons, invitations will be sent to tbe Grand Masters of all tbe other States iu the Union. NEW TO DAY. Card To The Public Eureka, Nev., February 8, 1‘JOU. Eiutok Sentiski,:— Dear Sir: It was with surprisa and indignation I fouud—within the last few days—that a aiaiiciuus report had been iu circulation for months tending t> depreciate my respousibility as s physician—namely, that i am addicted to the use of opium—a calumny I em phatioilly deny. If the party or parties circuiting such malignant ties will come forward aud acknowledge their personality I will see it there is a law in this State to punish such degenerates. I have been in receipt of many un signed scurrilous postal cards, evidently from the parties who circulated the above unmitigated lie, but considered them unworthy of notioe, as in my opiuiou such atavistic individuals bear the same relatiou to the ordinary hu man being that a sneaking coyote does to an bouest dog. Very truly yours, L. II. Francis, M. D. NOTICE On account of being called to California op business, and expecting to be absent some six weeks or two months, I havs arranged with Dr. G. M. Robsrts to take charge of my prac 'tice until my return. W. F. Buknktt, M. D. Eureka, Nevada, February 11, 1909, WATER NOTICE Notice of Application for Permission to Ap propriate the Public W aters of the State of Nevada. Applicati on No. 1278. Notice is hereby given that on the 2d day of February, 1909 in accordance with Section 25, Chapter XVIII, of the Statutes of 1907, Phillip Paroni and James Murray o Eureka, County of Eureka, and Stat* of Nevada, made application to the State Engineer of Nevada for permission to appropriate! the pub!ic wateis of the State of Nevada. Such appropriation is to be mad* from springs from the NE. ravine leading to Secret Canyon at points about 6£ miles west of south from Eureka, probably in T. 19 N. K. 51 E.. by means of a dam and 1-3 of one cubic foot per second is to be conveyed t< points of use by means of a ditch and pipe, and there used fur mining, milling, domestic and irrigation purposes. Water to be returned to stream At intersection of both ravines lead ing into main canyon. Signed: FRANK R. NICHOLAS, State Engineer. First publication February 13, 1909. Last publication March 0, 1909. NOTICE OF FORFEITURE To James J. Reilly, his heirs or assign*, owning or claiming any portion of the Oddie No. 1, Oddie No. 2, and Flynn No. 2 milling claims: You sre hereby notified that the un dersigned has expended three hundred ($300) dollars in labor and improvements on the Od die No. 1, Oddie No. 2, and Flynn No. 2 mining claims, situated in Union Mining Oistrict. Eureka County, Nevada, in doing ti e necessaiy assessment work for the year 1998, in conformity with the provisions of section 2324 of*the Revised Statutes of the United States, being the amount required to hold the lame. V > »r proportion of the aa tuMunent is $100, a * if within 90 days from the service of this notice by publication you fail or refuse to contribute your proportion of such expenditure as co owner, y<»ur interest in said mines w ill become the property of tbe subscriber under said section 2324. Jomki*h Flynn. Sherman, Elko County, Nevada, February 7,1909. First publication February 13, 1909. Last publication May 15, 1909. Nursing and Sewing Wanted I will go oat Daraiag by tbe day, or take care of patieats at my borne; and will alao do aewing at home, or go oat by tbe day. MRS. J. & BUFFHAM. They Never Find a Mine i - . I, ■ — f The owner of some well located mining property close to i producing camp went to San Francisco recently to see what he coaid do in the way of interesting capital in order to explore and develops it, says the Itonnd Mountain Nngget. He put his proposition to a capitalist and gave him an honest estimate of its probable success as a mining venture. After hear ing all the details the man of money said: “Well, if things are as you say they are, it looks to me like a good fighting chance. Til send my mining engineer to report on the property.” “Mr. Blank,” said the owner of the property, “you can save yourself the time and expense of sending out your mining expert for I can tell you right now that his report will be unfavorable. Com* yourself, if you know anything about expertiug, or send some ex pert friend who is not in your employ, but I draw the line at yoor paid expert.” The financier expressed his surprise and inquired the reason for the property owner’s stand. “I’ll tell you,” said ho. "You are looking for a mine or the making of a mine and you have in your employ a mining engineer who is experting properties for you. Eventually you may find a mine. Possibly you never will. It will all depend whether yoor engineer is sufficiently well fixed to lose his position, for as soon as he finds a mine for yon his work with you is finished and he has to hunt another job.” “I hadn’t thought of it in that light before,” said the capi talist. Startling information of alleged frauds upon public lands has come into possession of Secretary Garfield through special agents. Allegation is made that approximately $11,000,000 worth of lands in States, principally west of the Mississippi river, have been ac quired fraudulently within the past two years by corporations and individuals. Secretary Garfield wiil ask an appropriation of $500 000 to pay the expense of recovering these lands, there being, it is claimed, over 32,000 distinct cases of alleged frauds demanding further investigation. Of such cases demanding investigation there are in Oregon 14(52; California and Nevada, 1409; Washington land Northern Idaho, 1325; Montana, 3005; Colorado, 8621; Ari zona, 496; Wyoming, 21,115; Utah, 1483; and Now Mexico, 1209. Ilf TO DAY | BARGAINS -,-At MAU ROS $15 Overcoats, now.$7.50 $3.50 Corduroy Pauts, now.$3.00 $3.50 Pants, now.$2.50 $1.50 Shirts, now. '.$1.25 $1.25 Shirts, now.$1.00 $4.00 Meu’s Shoes, now.$3.50 $3.50 Men’s Shoes, now.$3.00 $tl.00 Men’s High Tops, now.$4.75 FREE! FREE! FREE! 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