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WHITE PINE NEWS
ESTABLISHED IN 1868. EAST ELY, WHITE PINE COUNTY, NEVADA, SUNDAY, JANUARY 16. 1910._ VOL XLI NO. 97.
Smash of the Cotton Pool Makes a Sensation
DENVER IS
WITHOUT
HEWS
Papers Suspend Rather
Than Yield to Demands
of Pressmens’ Union
DENVER, Jan. 15.—Probably for
the first time In Its history, Denver
breakfasted today without its usual
morning papers. The cause was a
difficulty between the publishers and
the local organization of the Inter
national Pressmen's union, which
reached a climax yesterday.
Announcement of the pressmen's
■trike was made in a statement Is
sued jointly today by the publishers
of the Times, Post, News and Repub
lican, and at the same time notice is
given that all four of the papers have
suspended publication.
According to the publishers’ state
ment, the strikers demanded an in
crease of wages amounting to 47
per cent and a cash sum of $ 18,000.
The pressmen contend that the 4 7
per cent increase should have gone
Into effect on March 1st last, when
the demand was made, and the $18,
000 demanded Is called back pay.
The publishers declare that they
held this increase to be excessive
and announced that they would take
advantage of the arbitration clause
In the old scale.
The demand of the pressmen In
cludes a seven hour day, an Increase
from $3, to $4, and $5 per day for
pressmen and helpers to $4, $5 and
$6, and back pay on the basis of a
■even hour day from March 1, 1909,
when the demands were first pre
sented.
BRANDS BOSSY AS CRIMINAL.
Holstein Milkers Declared in Con
tempt of Law on Fats.
NEW YORK. Jan. 15.—The real
criminal which should bear the res
ponsibility for milk below the stan
dard of the sanitary code was named
today at a public hearing before
Commissioners of Accounts. It is
the Holstein cow.
Loton Horton, superintendent of a
company that supplies Bellevue hos
pital with its milk, testified today:
“It's the criminal cow that’s res
ponsible. The average Holstein cow
doeR not do her duty by the sanitary
code. Many a Holstein gives as low
as 3.4 and 3.2 per cent of butter fat.
Yet many a dealer Is accused of adul
teration when Ms milk contains as
much as 3.;> and 3.6 per cent, of
butter fat. Not 10 per cent of these
dealers are responsible. It's up to
the cow.”
Her throat cut with a razor, Mrs.
Annie Mockett was found dead In
her home at Yonkers, N. Y., and the
police are looking for her husband,
from whom she separated last July.
Two cases of smallpox have ap
peared in a parish prison near New
Orleans.
MANY MILLIONS WIPED
OUT IN PAPER PROFITS
NAVY ATHLKTK’H HKAI) HAD.
Forces Retirement of Licutnant
Commander Reeves, After Test.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 15.—
Lieutenant Commander Joseph M.
Reeves, ordinance officer of the At
lantic fleet, was today ordered before
a retiring board by the navy depart
ment. During a recent physical test
he developed heart trouble after a
walk of 40 miles.
Lieutenant Commander Reeves
was a star football player at the
naval academy in 1892. During the
Spanish-American war he was on the
Oregon, and was advanced on ac
count of extraordinary service on the
ship.
GLADYS EMERY AOKI, WHO TIRED OF HER JAPANESE HUSBAND
Gladys Emery, daughter of Dr John Emery, archdeacon of San Francisco,
was not long In tiring of her Japanese husband, whom she married last March.
Not long ago she wrote to her tutber telling him that Aokl was neglecting her
and their baby woefully and begged to be allowed to return home. Dr. Emery
at once went to her assistance. The marriage of the educated American girl
to a Japanese servant caused comment all over the world nnd resulted In the
bride being ostracized by all her former friends Even the Japanese newspa
pers printed long accounts of It and commented upon the episode.
MOIfK CRETAN TROCHEE.
I Turks Object t4» Rrrent Manner of
I*ro<-e< 1 urc—aV4* Tro4>ps Ready.
BERLIN, Jan. 15.—A dispatch to
the Cologne Gazette from Constan
tinople says that the Turkish govern
ment is holding 12,000 troops In
readiness to be sent to Crete.
The Porte recently addressed a
note to the powers protesting against
an alleged new violation of the sov
ereign rights of the Sultan through
the Cretan executive eommltte tak
ing the oath of allegiance to King
George and the adoption of a resolu
tion by CretBn assembly to Introduce
the code of laws.
SUICIDE IS IDENTIFIED AS A
CRITIC OF MUCH PROMINENCE
Aged Father of Eastman Makes the
Sad Finding of Son's Identity
CHICAGO, Jan. 15.—Identification of a man found dead in
the Greslow hotel at Biloxi, Miss., Tuesday, was made here to
day by Col. E. A. Eastman, city statistician, as that of his son,
Barrett Eastman, for years known as a caricaturist and dra
matic critic.
All indication in the Biloxi hotel were that the man had
ended his life with poison and had sought to prevent identifica
tion by destroying all letters and papers which he carried.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—A se
vere cold wave that marks zero In
northern New York and 10 below at
Greenville, Maine, In the extreme
northern part of New England,
serves today to give the lowest rec
ords of temperature obtaining in the
country.
NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—A storm
which struck this city yesterday and
burled the streets beneath a foot of
snow, resumed with violence during
the early hours of today.
High winds piled the snow in huge
drifts, seriously obstructing trafRc
on all the railway lines.
AKMFI’LL OF FIGS KILLED HIM.
Tlielr Squeals Drowned Noise of
Train That Han Over Farmer.
B ELL E FONT AINE, O.. Jan. 15.—
The squeals of two lusty young pigs,
one carried under each arm of a
farmer, so drowned the noise of two
locomotives that the farmer, George
I Adams, was killed on the tracks of
the Big Four railroad, at Mount Vic
ltory, today. Both pigs escaped.
Believed That Market Will Read*
just Itself This Week to a Normal
Level”Longs Said to Be Safely Out
NEW' YORK, JAN. 15.—THE BIG BULL CAMPAIGN IN COTTON
DEFINITELY COLLAPSED TODAY, WITH THE MOST SPECTACULAR
DECLINE IN A WEEK OP ERRATIC RECESSIONS. REPORTS FREE
LY CIRCULATED IN THE TRADE, AFTER THE CLOSE OF THE MAR
KET HAD IT THAT THE POSITION OF THE LEADING SOUTHERN
BULLS HAS BEEN COMPLETELY UNDERMINED BY THE LIQUIDA
TION THAT HAS BEEN IN PROGRESS SINCE EARLY IN THE YEAR.
AT THE LOW POINT TODAY NEW YORK CONTRACTS SHOWED A
decline from 15.20 to $5.60 a bale
from tne closing prices, which was a
break of $6.10@6.50 a bale from the
high figure of the day, and to $13.35
to $14.25 a bale from the high point
of the season May contracts touched
$13.70.
The bull market has lasted more
than a year. At the height of the
campaign It was estimated that E.
G. Scales of Texas, the leader, had
accumulated paper profits of $10,
000,000 for the season. As a Christ
mas present, he is said to have given
$10,000 to one of his favorite brok
ers and another accepted story has it
that he had given a million In cash
to one of his brothers.
His heaviest holdings were in May
cotton, and he and his friends were
generally believed to control con- j
tracts calling for delivery of fully one
million bales in that month.
The situation had developed into
a threat of the greatest squeeze of
shorts ever recorded, but other bulls
I who ..ad followed Mr. Scales' lead
I without enlisting in his party decided
■ that the time was ripe for a bear raid.
One after another the big accounts
| began to come into the market. The
Scales party was said to have its cot
ton margined oown to 10 cents a
pound, and it was confidently assert
ed that its members never would
abandon their proposition.
Events have proven, however, that
the continued pressure was too
heavy. Today it was announced that
Mr. Scales was transferring his hold
ings to leading bear interests. Small
er operators wrere hard nipped, but it
is above their average buying price
for the season.
As soon as the news spread that
an agreement had been reached be
tween the conflicting interests the
market received aggressive support
at from 20 to 30 points up from the
low' market today.
A much better feeling prevailed
the trade tonight, and it Ib thought
that a quieter market may be ex
pected for the coming week, with
prices more generally influenced by
legitimate demand and supply.
After the official close May con
tracts changed hands at $14.10, com
pared with $13.<o, the low point of
the day. The mark at which the
bears are said to have taken over the
bull holdings is 13 V4 cents for May.
COTTON HEN SLASH PRICES.
Spinner's Conference Decides to Sell
Yarns at Cost.
CHARLOTTE, N. C., Jan. 15.—
Determined, if possible, to bring
about improved condition in the
great industry they represent, the
spinners of the south. In conference
here today launched an enthusiastic
movement to scotch the prices of
yarns at cost, curtailing immediately
In the event that the cost prices are
not procurable, pending the return
of better times in the status of the
industry throughout the country. A
minimum schedule of prices was ad
opted.
A special committee of ten appoint
ed to agree upon a plan of action,
reported that the price schedule was
the most conservative basis that the
mills could reach, as it was nothing
more than cost for goods on the
present market of raw material. The
resolution and the accompanying
schedule were adopted unanimously.
Nearly 200 spinners representing
nearly 1,500,000 spindles in addition
to scores of commission men from
Boston, New York and Philadelphia,
who came on invitation of the manu
facturers composed the conference.
CHRISTMAS ON LOCKJAW LIST.
SIKE8TON. Mo.. Jan. 15,—Tetanus
enused by wounds from toy pistols
given them for Christmas presents,
caused the death here today of two
12-year-old boys, sons of L. A. Rlc
tor and Robert Thomas.
Their playmate. Noah Randolph,
13 years old, is suffering from
tetanus, also caused by infection
from a Christmas pistol. His death
is expected.
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• NEW YORK, Jan. 15.— •
• Lead and copper nominally •
• unchanged. Silver 52 •
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• CHICAGO, Jan. 15.— •
• Wheat closed at >1.12. •
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NEVADA TELEGRAPH BRIEFS.
Arthur Thompson, an engineer on
the ill-fated Czarina, has been report
ed to his parents at Reno as among
those drowned off the Oregon coast.
Sam White, despondent because of
excesses, fired four shots at his head,
the third proving fatal and the fourth
going wild, as he walked down a
Reno street.
Crushed between a car and a cat
tle chute while making a running
switch at Wabuska, Brakeman
Charles McCarthy died in the S. P.
Sacramento hospital from his in
juries.
J. B. Johnson, a San Pedro road
section boss, shot a Mexican through
the head, probably fatally injuring
him, when attacked with a knife. The
Mexican had a bad reputation and
had driven three of Johnson's pre
decessors from the job.
THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
Dared to shoot himself, 17-year
old Morton L. Rodgers, of Cincin
nati, sent a rifle bullet into his
brain and died.
The engineer and firemen were
fatally injured when a Big Four
train was wrecked by a defective
switch at Ansonia, O.
A gasoline explosion killed Moses
Rosen bloom, a Syracuse merchant,
and probably fatally burned Wolf 1
Peerlman, a customer.
After Lizzie E. Greenshaw had
killed John M. Jennings, with whom
she lived, at Nashville, Tenn., she
hanged herself in a police station
cell.
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NOT ABLE TO
COPENHAGEN, Jan. 15.—Walter
Lonsdale is the most recent of former
associates and employes of Dr. Fred
erick A. Cook to admit a distrust of
the men whose claim to the discovery
of the North Pole was rejected by
the University of Copenhagen. Lons
dale estimates that Cook cleared
about $50,000 from the exploitation
of his Arctic reputation.
Lonsdale says he received a let
ter from Cook under uate of Decem
ber 24th and mailed from a city of
southern Spain. According to this
letter. Cook was on the sea from
December'12th to December 24th and
accordingly was not acquainted with
the decision of the examining com
mittee when the letter was written.
Since the receipt of this letter,
Lonsdale says he has heard nothing
from Cook, though he has addressed
several telegrams to him at the point
where he thought the explorer could
be reached. n
Congress Makes Big Cut
-Inaugural Day Change
Lost-Peace is Coming
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—Cutting
the estimate by nearly a million dol
lars, the committee on appropria
tions today reported to the house the
urgent deficiency appropriation bill
for the current fiscal year, carrying
altogether $o,006,816. The largest
items are 61,568,490 for the military
establishment and 61,023,569 for the
treasury.
Tne House today voted to recom
mit the resolution providing for a
change of date for the presidential
inauguration. This practically de
feats the measure.
The dove of peace succeeded in
getting reasonably near a perch to
day on the held occupied by the war
ring Republican factions of the
House when Representative Hays of
California, mediator for the insur
gents , returned to the house after
I one of his frequent cai.s upon Presi
dent Taft, the news circulated rap
I idly that a truce had been arranged
| and a more or less permanent peace
in the Republican ranks was about
to to be announced. This was con
sidered confirmed when a statement
issued from the White House and
another from the Republican whip.
Representative Dwight, announcing
I details of the armistice. The peace
; procumento proved premature, how
' ever, for Mr. ^ays, between numer
| ous conferences with his associates,
announced that no agreement had
been reached. At this juncture the
insurgents gathered in the room of
Representative Gardner of Massa
chusetts, issued another statement,
saying that "an understanding had
been reached.”
The statement which was given
out by Representative Hays follows:
"It is true that an understanding
has been reached that we shall at
tend the caucus about to be held for
the choice of the Republican mem
bers for the investigating commit
tee. The question of future confer
ences, however, is one of which there
has been no agreement. In fact, 1
had no authority from ray associates
to enter into that question. Of
course, this agreement in no way af
fects the issue as to the present sys
tem of control of the house com
mittee.
WANTS TO BE SPEAKER.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—Repre
sentative G. J. Diekma, of Michigan,
today anncunced himself as a candi
date for Speaker of the House, to
succeed Speaker Cannon when the
62nd Congress is organized.
Sing Sing will see two electrocu
tions this week, of William Morse,
who killed a Brooklyn policeman,
and of John Barbobuto, who kiled a
lan at Middletown, N. Y.
WARLIKE DECLARATION IS
RECEIVED WITH APPLAUSE
Lloyd George Says English Would
Quickly Sink German Navy
LONDON, Jan. 15.—David Lloyd George, in closing his
campaign this afternoon, referred to the' invincibility of the
British navy and declared:
“If the German fleet in a moment of madness ever attacked
Great Britain it would be at the bottom of the ocean in a very
few hours.”
The declaration was greeted with a great outburst of ap
plause, the sentiment of the throng evidently being expressed.
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