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ESTABLISHED IN 1868. ELY, WHITE PINE COUNTY, NEVADA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1907. THIRTY-NINTH YEAR
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10 AN END
Gold Engagements and
Relief of Trust Com
panies Responsible.
IMPROVEMENT MARKED
Looks As If Affairs Were Perma
nently Righted—Attitude of
France Has Been of Great Aid.
NEW YORK. Nov. 7.—Gold en
gagements were further Increased to
day and the stock market rose buoy
antly In recognition of this and the
cessation of runs on the trust com
panies.
The announcement by Mr. King,
president of the Union Trust com
pany, early in the morning, that an
agreement had at last been reached
by which the Trust Company of Amer
ica and the Lincoln Trust company
were to deposit their stock in the
hands of a committee of the trust
company presidents and in considera
tion of this were to receive all the
support required, finally cleared ihe
air in regard to the trust company
situation.
Grave apprehension existed before
the termination of the conference at
Mr. Morgan’s house at 6 o’clock this
morning that an agreement in regard
to the two trust companies would not
be reached and that they might he
subjected to a run too strong for their
impaired resources. Now that this
danger is removed it is believed that
the situation will gradually simmer
down, with the continuous arrival of
gold, until the stringency is convert
ed into the plethora of reserve money
in banks which usually follows a
crisis.
Additional gold engagements were
announced today of $1,000,000 on ac
count of Lazard Freres and $500,000
for Montreal. This brings up the to
tal gold engagements for America on
tlie recent movement to $37,500,000,
which would afford the amount re
quired for legal reserve against de
posits of $150,000,000. Tlie gold
which arrived yesterday was depos
ited today, and that by the Lusitania
will soon be in the vaults of the
hanks.
While there is still some apprehen
sion regarding the possible effort of
the Bank of England to cheek the
outflow of gold from London by rais
ing the discount rate tomorrow,
there is a strong feeling among con
servative financiers here that the di
rectors of the Bank of England will
be very reluctant to fix a rate of dis
count which has not been touched
since 1873. It might have been
found necessary to overcome this re
luctance if the Bank of France had
not so generously dipped into its im
mense reserves, under the enlight
ened policy of Governor Yallaine, by
the purchase of sterling bills to the
amount of 3,000,000 pounds sterling,
to relieve the London market.
NOTHING IN REPORT.
Oregon Short Line Continues Control
of Trackage in Nevada.
The report that the Southern Pa
cific has assumed control of the rail
road division from Sparks ti Ogden
and that the reign of the Oregon
Short Line in Nevada ha1 30;ne to
an end. is most emnhatien'ly denied
in official circles by men who ought
to know. No official notice of the
purported change has been received at
the Sparks offices, nor have the men
working under the Short Line man
agement been instructed to forward
their reports to the head offices of
the Southern Pacific at Sr.n Fran
cisco, in place of the head offices of
the Oregon Short Line at Salt Lake.
An operator at Ogden whom it is said
• was gossiping with other operators
about the Union Pacific resuming
control of the division from Ogden,
Utah, to Green Water, Wyo„ and su
perseding the Oregon Short Line, is
blamed for sending out unsubstanti
ated messages about the Southern Pa
cific taking control.
• MRS. BRADLEY’S MAI L
•
• GIVES DAMAGING EVIDENCE
• WASHINGTON. Nov. 7.-—
• Much excitement was created
• among the attorneys for the de
• fense in the Anna Bradley case
• today hy the statement that for
• several months the warden of
• the jail has been extracting from
• the mail passing between Mrs.
• Bradley and friends letters that
• are said to be of an incriminat
• ing character. These are in the
• hands of the prosecuting attor
• ney, and will be used in evi
• donee. It was admitted at the
• office of District Attorney Balter
• today that the letters were mere.
• These letters are said to lie es
• pecially valuable as reflecting
• Mrs. Bradley's state of mind on
• her trip from Salt Lake City to
• Washington and immediately
• after the crime.
•
GRITTY TEN-YEAR-OLD ROY.
Rides Thirty Miles With Broken llip
Joint Before Letting It Be Known.
CARSON CITY, Nov. 7.—Melvin
Phillips, the 10-year-old son of John
S. Phillips, of this city, holds the
medal for grit in this vicinity. With
a broken hip-joint he rode from
Mountain House, a station on the
stage road from Bridgeport to Car
son, a distance of about thirty miles,
and made no complaint of his injury,
until, when several hours after his
arrival at Carson, his relatives no
ticed that his leg was getting stiff,
and had him examined by a surgeon.
It will lie several weeks before the
lad can regain the use of tholimb.
He sustained the injury while
climbing upon the stage, just after it
got into motion leaving Mountain
House on the trip from Bridgeport.
His foot slipped on the brake, and
he fell before the rear wheel, which
passed over his groin and then over
the right arm above the elbow. How
that limb escaped a fracture is mys
tery. There were seven passengers
and 800 pounds of freight on the ve
hicle when it passed over the lad’s
body.
QUICKER CLAIM ADJUSTMENTS
Rock Island-Frisco System Adopts
New Ruling.
SALT LAKE, Nov. 7.—Shippers in
Salt Lake and the entire intermoun
tain country will lie elated to learn
that the Rock Island-Frisco system
will in future pay all freight claims
upon, demand. All claims for short
age, breakage or damage, when prop
erlj- iJiGicd, •..ill iw r.aid by draft by
the local office.
It has been the rule to refer (he
claims to the freight department. The
usual outcome of such procedure was
a delay of from six weeks to two
years. This is to cease. .1. G. Doo
little, general agent of the Rock Isl
and-Frisco system in Salt Lake has
been given authority to adjust nil
claims on his own initiative.
WELLS FARGO IN ELY.
New Office Opens This Morning in illy
Depot Building—Telegraph Of
fice Next.
Beginning this morning, Ely City
will have the advantage of a Wells
Fargo express office. Quarters have
been made in the depot for the new
accommodation.
Last night ail the necessary blanks
and other paraphernalia for the of
fice came in and at once disposed
of in manner which will enable open
ing for business at regular office
hours today. The office is in the
money order class and will transact
all manner of business which may lie
presented. With establishment of a
telegraph office, Ely City will have a
full complement of conveniences for
the use of the public.
RETURNS FROM GOLDFIELD.
Situation Very Good There, Says Mr.
Rickard—Tells Them About Ely.
Tex Rickard was among arrivals on
last night's train from Goldfield,
where he was for several days with
regard to his important mining in
terests in that district. Mr. Rickard
stated last night that conditions in
Goldfield were very good and the out
look satisfactory. Coldfield papers
which arrived in the city yesterday
contained interviews with him in
which he found opportunity to put
in some good words for Robinson dis
trict, which at this time is standing
out strong among the copper camps
las about the only one in the country
i which has not cut development and
| general activity to the hone.
CHECKS ON THE !
BANK OF ELY, [incorporated] .
===== and the -
FIRST NAT. BANK OF ELY
will be accepted by the
ELY WATER CO.
at their face value,
100 CENTS ON THE DOLLAR
in payment of all accounts.
THE WESTS !
San Francisco Man Tells
East of Tremendous;
Activity Here.
CURE FOR PESSIMISM
Brokers and Investors Advised to
See Country-Railroad Bonds
Excellent Investment.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—That
railroad securities offer line oppor
tunity for investment in spite of the
recent flurry in financial centers is
the opinion of Franklin K. I.ane, a
member of the Interstate Commerce
commission, who returned recently
from an extensive trip through the
middle and the far western states.
Commissioner Lane asserted today
that the industrial condition of the
United States was never on more
solid ground.
“If the stockbrokers of New York
wish to restore confidence let them
take their patrons on a grand tour
of the United States and see what is
going on there, he said. "Then the
money will pour out of safety de
posit vaults and the railroads will he
enabled to make betterments and ex
tensions that are imperatively need
ed. Go west, Mr. Broker, go west.
“This flurry is like an attack of
nightmare following a big dinner.
The railroads of the United States
are worth more today than they ever
have been because they have more
traffic to carry. Their embarrass
ment from a traffic standpoint is an
embarrassment of riches. I under
take to say that there isn’t a western
road that ran today handle the traffic
that is offered to it. The crops are
so great and the movement of general
merchandise so unprecedented in vol
ume that there is not a single rail
road west of Chicago that has loco
motives or cars enough to supply its
needs. My remedy for doubt as to
the value of American railroads is a
simple one—that the investors go
west and inform themselves.”
Mr. Lane was one of the? most ag
gressive members of the Interstate
Commerce commission in the investi
gation of the operations of the Har
riman lines. It was his questioning
at the hearing in New York tnat first
brought out that the Union Pacific
had been convened into a stock job
bing concern. Mr. Lane wrote the
commission's report on the Harriman
case and was severe in his denuncia
tion of Mr. Harriman’s juggling of
railroad property. Notwithstanding
this he holds that railroad securities
are stable and sound and that they
really should bo as attractive 10 in
vestors as ever.
“There is one great system that has
increased its traffic 50 per cent in the
last, two years,” said Mr. Lane.
“There are several that have in
creased their traffic 30 per cent in
the same period. Think of what, this
means. It is not the result of specu
lation or of booming. It does not
come from manipulation or from
tapping new and virgin territory.
The mines and the forests, the grain
fields and the factories have pro
duced this tonnage. New people have
to be fed, clothed and housed. New
towns have developed and old ones
have grown larger. Demand is cre
ated upon all the manufacturing cen
ters for their products. The cities
supply the farms, and the farms sup
ply the cities, and the one avenue ol
communication is the railroad. All
this is permanent. Every year the
railroad will profit by the natural
growth of the communities that it
serves, of the expanding territory that
is brought under cultivation, and the
new industries that are developed.
“Fifteen years ago a member of
this commission publicly declared
that two lines of railroad to the Pa
cific would be sufficient for many
years to come for the txisiness of
that great section of the country.
Today six transcontinental railroads
are not able to move the traffic which
is tendered. Since January, 1900,
there have been 3,500 miles of new
road built in Oklahoma and Indian
Territory and more than a thousand
each in Louisiana, Arkansas, North
Dakota, New Mexico, Georgia and
Minnesota, not touching the older
eastern states or Texas, which has
led all the states in new building.”
“The great railroad problem is not
one of rates, but of service,” con
tinued Mr. Lane. “This commission
received five times as many com
plaints of inability to get cars or
slowness of movement of loaded cars,
as of rates charged, and this not
withstanding the fact that we have
no jurisdiction over operation. So
there you are—a growing country
connected with every part by an in
terdependent interlocking railroad
system based on an interdependent
interlocking economic system. And
with every new thousand in the pop
ulation, and every new acre tilled,
and every- new horse power devel
oped, and every new mine opened,
the railroad grows in value. I am an
optimist as to railroad values, be
cause I know the country we are liv
ing in and the forces that are at work
to make its railroads still more im
portant factors in our development.
Your professional hear is not an
American.”
Hon. H. A. Comins is in Preston for
a few days. Senator Comins has in
terests all over White Pine, looking
after which keeps him one of the
l busiest of men.
STANZA TWO.
I
I
Does Not Appear to be Scarcity in
District Says Merchant-Import
ant Sale of Rail to McEllin Mine.
' Our sales are for cash and it. gives
an opportunity to judge pretty well
as to the extent to which the circu
lation of coin in the district has been
affected by the recent liiianeial situa
tion,” said Assignee I). W. Ellis of
the Meloy Mercantile yesterday.
"You have been around here near
ly every day and know that we have
been having crowds. Well, our sales
have corresponded with the crowds.
Though there has been a good deal
of talk around about scarcity of cash
there has been little In evidence here
to demonstrate anything of the kind.
Money has seemed to be pretty free.
We have been doing a big business.”
The value of advertising in the
News was paid a tribute by Mr. Ellis
in the course of his talk. Yesterday
morning locals which he is running
in the paper were worded to attract
the attention of mining interests,
which had not participated in pur
chases from the Meloy company stock
to much extent to that time. Yester
day this advertising, however,
brought in customers for mining sup
plies. Among the sales resultant was
one of 20,000 pounds of T rails for
the McEllin mines, a purchase that
tells of the steady continuance of de
velopment at those properties, where
it is understood very encouraging re
sults are being had from, the devel
opment under way.
( AM. OFF STRIKE.
Telegraphers of New York and Chi
cago Want to Return to Work.
NEW YORK, Nov. 7.—At a meet
ing of the local branch of the Teleg
raphers’ union today it was decided
to “suspend” the strike of the em
ployes of the telegraph companies,
which has been on since August 9.
CHICAGO, Nov. 7.—At a meeting
or the Commercial Telegraphers’ un
ion, held here today, it was decided
to call off the strike of the operators.
About 300 men applied to the com
panies today for reinstatement.
TO ELIMINATE CRIMINALS.
Purity Congress Would Prevent Re
production Ry Drastic Means.
RATTLE CREEK, Mich., Nov. 7.—
The National Purity congress adopted
a platform today. There was warm
argument over a resolution favoring
the unsexing of criminals, which was
finally adopted, the men delegates
voting largely against and the women
favoring it.
Another resolution adopted de
mands stricter penalties upon couples
who falsely register as husband and
wife.
TARIFF CP WITH FRANCE.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—Secretary
Root today discussed the question ol
the adjustment of tariff cases between
America and France with Embassa
dor Jusserand and Secretary Cortel
you. The French embassador has £
proposition to submit to this govern
ment, but its nature could not bt
learned. Officials of the state depart
ment declare that they are not nov
in position to discuss the situation.
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• TIHMH'S OX TltAlIi •
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• OP WAHItlXO tTTKS •
• - •
• OMAHA, Nov. 7.—Col. Frank- •
• West and eight troops ot the •
• Second United States cavalry •
• from Fort Des Moines were to- •
• day ferried across the Missouri •
• river at Forest City, opopsite •
• the Cheyenne agency in South •
• Dakota, after reaching Gottys- •
• burg last night and marching •
• eighteen miles across the conn- •
• try. The command will con- •
• tin lie the march tomorrow for •
• Thunder Huttos, eighty miles •
• west. It now appears to the •
• army men that the campaign •
• against the Utes may keep the •
• soldiers busy all winter. •
LEFT FORTUNE
Body Sent to Family in California
This Morning for Burial—Death
Due to Heart Failure.
It developed yesterday that Henry
C. Radford, who was found dead on
a cot in his Tent Lodging house In
Ely Wednesday evening, was a man
of considerable wealth and of high
standing in fraternal organizations.
The fortune which he leaves to his
family, residing in Santa Paula, Cal.,
is estimated at $110,000, this being
the value put upon holdings he had
here in stocks, realty and in cash, to
a considerable amount, on deposit
with the First National bank. It is
believed that in addition to this for
tune the deceased had important
realty holdings in California, from
where he came here about eighteen
months ago.
During his time of residence here
Mr. Radford became well acquainted
throughout the district and the news
or his death came as much of a
shock. Yesterday it was brought out
tut he had been feeling badly for
several days, though he had not at
any time considered that he w-as suf
fering more than a slight indisposi
tion, which bis friends attributed
largely to worry he had allowed him
self about the outcome of general
financial conditions in the country.
The wife of the deceased was
reached yesterday at Santa Barbara,
Cal., through a telegram sent by Dis
trict Attorney C. A. Eddy, who had
known Radford for sixteen years.
Mrs. Radford replied with a telegram
instructing that the body be sent, to
her at their home in Santa Paula and
shipment will be made this morning.
Inquest was held over the body
yesterday afternoon, when Coroner
Cartwright and a jury composed of
George Jackson, Den Glen, E. O'Con
ners. Fred Davidson, .1. R. West and
Charles Goed inquired into the cause
of death. The jury found that de
ceased had a wife, three daughters
and a son living at Santa Paula, and
that death was caused from heart
trouble. Deceased was G4 years of
lage, an Odd Fellow, Mason and K
jof P., having became a member oi
| these orders in Fairplay, Colo.
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KILLED IX COLLISION.
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 7.—F. W
I Glass, a switchman in the 'Oregor
Railroad and Navigation company’!
yards, was killed today in a collisior
I between two passenger trains, causef
! by a dense fog.
ABOUT WATER
Physician Declares That Ordinary
Precautions Will Prevent Epi
demics Here This Winter.
"The advice of the News against
the use of well water In Ely,” said a
physician to a reporter yesterday,
“was most, excellent and cannot lie
too strongly urged.
"Conditions.for health here this
winter are now very good, if the
people will only exercise proper pre
cautions in taking ordinary care of
themselves and in seeing that they
do not take impurities into their sys
tems through the use of had water
we should escape the presence of epi
demics.
“The Ely Water company supply
of water is good. I have made nu
merous tests of It at different sea
sons of the year and always found
it free from impurities. The well
water in Ely, however, is dangerous
and should uot. lie used at all Those
who do use it, and I do not believe
there are many at this time, are en
dangering their health with every
mouthful they fake. At the very
least, if it must lie used, it should
1)0 thoroughly boiled before taken
into the system. Care about the
water taken into the system is one
of the most important of health rules.
With pure water only in use we
should not be bothered here with
diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhoid or
other epidemics. Now and then a
case may crop out but with the regu
lations that are enforced in cases of
contagious diseases there is little dan
ger of epidemics getting started on us
if the people, as i have said, will only
help through taking ordinary precau
tions.”
HALF MILLION LOSS.
VALPARAISO, Chili, Nov. 7.—
Fire last night caused a loss esti
mated at $7)00,000. Seven firemen
w'ere Injured and the American firm
of Weasel, Duval & Co. sustained con
siderable loss.
ft CHECKS ON THE I
I BANK OF ELY, [incorporated] I
■ and the : ■
I FIRST NAT. BANK OF ELY I
I will be accepted by the fl
I Ely Light & Power Co. I
fl at their face value, fl
I 100 CENTS ON THE DOLLAR ■
fl in payment of all accounts. I
Need of Its Service is
Pressing For Care of
Local Business.
SPLENDIDISEQUIPMENT
Being Installed With View of Serv
ing Population of 50,000—Ely
Temporarily Embarassed.
Work on the splendid new power
house of the Ely Light & Power com
pany Is being crowded along with all
possible speed. The building and its
equipment are needed at the earliest
moment they can ho secured. This
is particularly true since the tem
porary closing down of the plant of
the Ely Electric company, which lias
made for increased demand on the
plant of the Eiy Light &. Power.
The latter company was besieged
again yesterday for service by Ely
people who are on the linos of the
Electric company. Applicants had to lie
turned away, however, because of the
fact that the Light. & Power com
pany had all the business it. could
possibly handle. The plant was be
ing worked to top capacity before the
closing down of the Electric company
and with the additional work taken
on for the accommodation of the pub
lic in extreme cases It was crowded
up to the limit.
With acquirement, of service of the
new power plant in Ely City, the Ely
Light & Power company will lie in
shape to handle all of the business
of the district that may come to it.
The new plant will lie one of the
largest and very best equipped in the
west. Every approved modern idea
is embraced in Its equipment. The
latter is being Installed for long ser
vice with eye to the needs of a city
of 4 0,000 or 50,000 people, which
Is certain of growth here within the
next several years.
As result of the curtailment of Its
light service, old Ely is at disadvan
tage these nights. Candles and lamps
which are being used In a number of
places fail to make for the appear
ance of life that was formerly In evi
dence on the streets.
DltAFT HILL IN ADVANCE.
After Conference With Hankers, Stays
Chicago Man on Currency
Legislation.
CHICAGO, Nov. 7.—“Let the bank
ing and currency committee of the
house of representatives and the cor
responding committee of the United
States senate gather at once, listen
to the advice of the bankers and lay
men from all parts of the country,
and draft a bill that will provide the
nation with an elastic currency,” said
James It. Forgan, president of the
First National bank yesterday.
Mr. Forgan said lie did not think
much of the plan to call an extraor
dinary session of congress as that
body is to meet in regular Besslon
four weeks from today.
“It strikes me that if these two
committees get together in Washing
ton at once and consider ways and
means of relieving the money strin
gency.” continued Mr. Forgan, “it
will be just as good as having con
gress meet in special session. A spe
cial session would hardly get under
way before the date for the regular
session would he reached. Tf the two
hanking committees meet in joint ses
sion, listen to advice and suggestions,
and prepare a sane and sensible meas
ure for congress to act upon four
weeks hence. It. would appear that a
big step in the right direction had
been taken.”
UTAH LAND SALES.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—The gen
eral land office announced today that
the net receipts from the sale of pub
lic lands In Utah, .to be credited to
the reclamation fund, were $131,
944. The surplus of foes and com
missions of $9,211.03 make a total
of $141,136.18.