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ESTABLISHED IN 1868. EAST ELY, WHITE PINE COUNTY, NEVADA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1910 VOL XLI NO. 104.
Examination Into Meat
Trust Starts in Chicago
-Meat Strike is Gaining
CHICAGO. Jan. 24.—Work of pre
paring the case of the government
against big meat parking concerns of
this city, to ascertain whether ur no
they have operated to control the
prices of fresh meats, was begun In
earnest in the United States District
court today, before Judge K. M
Landis.
Early today, Deputy United States
marshals were started out with more
than a score of subpoenaes and writs
to bring before the srand Jury em
ployes and books of the concerns in
volved Tonight they reported prac
tically all of these papers served.
The grand Jury will tomorrow hear
some of those who were called today.
Others will be brought in as way Is
wads for their testimony, it is ex
pected that a great many more will
he called than have yet been served.
Insterest In the grand Jury sessions
is very large.
MEAT STRIKE SPREADING.
Decrease In Price Not Yet Attained,
However, Except in Milwaukee.
CHICAOO, Jan. 24.—While the
movement to combat the high price
of food continued its spread today,
there is little Indication of a de
crease In the price of meat. Mil
waukee which reported a big de
crease In the prices quoted by two
butchers yesterday, today showed a
general reduction tn many places.
None of the other cities reported any
reduction, however.
The most notable acquisition to
the ranks of the anti-meat cause
came from LouiBvIUe, when twenty
one lodges of a fraternal organlza
tloa adopted resolutions that all
■embers refrain from eating meat
■ore than once a day during Febru
ary.
The Woman's Trade Union league
and the Building Trades Council of
8t. Louis announced today that they
would take action against the high
price of meat this week
Indianapolis, St. Paul and Toledo
reported that attempts to launch a
crusade against prevailing high
prices In those cities had failed.
From 8t. Paul came the report that
Labor Commissioner McEwan had
declared that the inhabitants of Min
| nesota were too prosperous to feel
the effects of the high prices.
Apropos of the movement, the Or
ange Judd Farmer says 1909 was the
most prosperous year ever known in
the livestock Industry, according to
the annual census review of farmer
stock.
"The total value of all classes of
livestock in the country on January
1, 1910, was 14,880,068,000." says
that paper.
"The Increase during 1909 w»b the
greatest ever recorded In 12 months,
amounting to $560,000,000.
"There is an Increase In Ihe num
bers of all classes of animals except
beef, cattle and hogs showing an
increase In numbers and a heavy
advance In average values per bead
at the some time.
"Cattle, other than milch cows, to
tal 48,780,000 head, worth on an
average $20.76 each. The number
of sheep Is increasing rapidly and
now stands 64,726,000, worth $4.07
each. Hogs showed a marked de
crease in number, reaching only 44.
996,000, but the price per head,
$9.16, is the highest on record.
"With the exception of beef cat
tle, every class of animals showed
the highest average price ever re
corded.”
NO APPROPRIATION
for immigration
WASHINGTON, .Tan. 24.—
The $125,000 for the Imml
graton Commission was
stricken out of the urgent de
ficiency bill In the House to
day on a point of order by
Representative Macon of
Arkansas, leaving the com
mission witaout appropria
tion.
JUDGE nOUGET TO TRY PANAMA CASE.
The trial of the Panama canal llhetcase, which Involves statements pub
lished in the New York World regarding the purchase of the canal proparty,
la scheduled to be heard by Judge Charlet M. Hough of the United States clr
suit court for the south or* district of New York. The alleged libelous state
ments were published during the last presidential campaign and roused the
Ire of Mr. Boosevelt to such an extant tbit he demanded the prosecution of
the publishers of the World. Henry A. Wise, United States district attorney,
will be is charge of the prosecution. Joht D. Lindsay and Do Lancey NteoH
will defend the publishers.
PARIS. Jan. 24.—A fourth of
France, It is estimated, is under
water today. Snow and rain are
adding to the floods, which are un
precedented in the history of the
present generation.
The Seine continued to rise today
and is still rising tonight. The sit
uation in this city is growing worse
hourly.
CHAKONS, Jan. 24._The dyke at
Raoae broke this evening, inundating
ten villages. The streets of Chalons
are under water and two persons
have been drowned. Hundreds of
persons on the roofs of their nearly
submerged homes are crying for
help. Boats are being used by rescu
ing parties.
BKRNE. Switzerland, Jan. 24.—
Immense damage has been done by
floods In Switzerland. A dozen aval
anches are reported to have occur
red In the Alps. Several chalets
were engulfed.
CHICAGO. Jan. 24.—Sidney Flow
er, recently the publisher of a mag
azine at Goldfield, Nevada, was ar
rested here today by the Federal au
thorities on Instructions setting
forth that he had been Indicted In
Nevada, charged with fraudulent
use of the malls.
Flower being unable to furnish
$5,000 bail was locked up. He is
said to have been known as Par
meter Kent in Goldfield.
Amltting that he tired at someone
who snowballed him, Harrow Roth
man, apparently a lunatic, has been
arrested at New York charged with
the murder of Robert LomaB, a boy
coaster, last week.
10O KILLED IN
KKLIOIOIN FIGHTING
ST. PETERSBURG, Jan.
24.—More than a hundred
persona have been killed and
many wounded as the result
of religious conflicts which
have been waging In Old
Bokhara between the Sun
nites and the Shtaha for two
days. The Sunnites demand
the replacement of officials
at the request of the Boko
hara authorities. Russian
troops and machine guns
have oeen sent from Samark
and to the scene of lighting.
TEST FIGHT
TO BE HELD
IN OGDEN
OGDEN. Jan. 24.—That the ap
proaching "boxing contest” between
Johnny Thompson and Peter Silli
van, who it is announced has been
matched to tight in Ogden on Febru
ary lith, will in reality be a finish
fight with a view to testing the state
laws in order to determine the stand
ing before the proposed Jeffries—
Johnson match is pulled off is the
latest talk of local sportdom and
there is reason to believe that the
facts substantiate this gossip.
While R. A. Grant is ostensibly
the promoter, it is said that Tex
Rlrkard, J. E. I.angford and asso
ciates who have charge of the heavy
weight world's championship con
test, are in reality back of the
Thompson-Sullivan match with the
understanding that the law will he
tested.
In view of statements made by the
governor and the position taken by
other authorities, it Is reasonable to
suppose that the promoters would
make an effort to “feel the official
pulse before going further with the
big contest.
L1RKRALS MARK
UltTHKli GAINS
LONDON, Jan. 24—The
Liberals materially Increased
their score through today's
returns from Saturday's elec
tion for members of parlia
ment. They retain the 15
seats previously held, out of a
total of 17 contests. Of the
other two seats one wen to
the Unionsts and the other to
the Nationalists.
Thirty-one Dead-Two
Missing and 46 Injured,
is the Canadian Report
TORONTO. Jan. 24.—Thirty-one
dead, two missing and forty-six in
jured, is the totai toll of the Cana
dian Pacific's Spanish river wreck.
Both of the coaches which were
submerged in the river have been
raised from its bottom and the dead
removed.
The identified dead are:
JOSEPH H EMAIL, Matheson,
Ont.
8. A. Ol MAN, Chisolm, Minn.
NICHOLAS NICHOLANKO, Chis
holm, Minn
MRS. C. HOC l>K, Sauit Ste. Marie,
Mich.
M. HPINKOOOVM.
MIME WICkUlKO.
LARKDOF HAPPI.
JOSEPH MAKOTT, addresses un
known.
JOS. KOSUACK, North Bsy, Ont.
GEORGE MelLHENNY, North I
Bsy, Ont.
GEORGE MelLHENNY, North
Bay, Ont.
The wreck was on a 200-foot steel
bridge, with overhead girders, and
a 30-foot embankment sloping down
to thf Spanish river underneath. The
engine, combination mail and bag
gage car and express car had pass
ed safely over the bridge when the
forward trucks of the second class
coach jumped the track. The car
struck an immense steel girder with
such terrific force as to snap the gir
der in two and split the car as with
a cleaver. The rear of the second
class coach swerved to one side, pull
ing the colonist car, first class coach
and diner off the bridge into the riv
er and tipping over the Pullman be
side the track.
Few survivors are in condition to
give acucrate details of the accident.
B. J. Pearce, a commercial traveler
of Toronto, who with Brakeman Mor
rison is thought to be the only sur
vivor from the first class coach, gave
a graphic acocunt of his experience.
Mr. Pearce, finding himself strug
gling in water, reached the fan light
in the end of the car, broke tbe glass
and screen, worked through with his
face badly cut and scratched. Run
ning along the top of the first class
car, he found a space of six feet sep
arating it from the diner. Risking
his life on the floating Ice, he almost
reached the diner when he lost his
footing and was plunged into the
icy water. But a projecting pipe
from the roof of the diner was within
his reach and. climbing up by means
of the pipe, he ran along the top of
the diner to the shore.
The telegraph wires were all torn
down and it was evident relief could
not be summoned by wire. It was
live miles to the village of Nairn and
the drenched survivor ran the dis
tance to deliver a report of the wreck
at the Canadian Pacific depot at
Nairn.
Meanwhile Conductor Thomas
Reynolds rescued eight pasesngers
from the sunken dining car. When
the wreck occurred, Reynalds with
W. J. Hell and David Brodie, had
just sat down to dinner. Bell and
Brodie were facing the engine and
Reynolds sat opposite them, riding
backwards. The diner w’as the last
car to enter the water and did not
sink at once, but settled slowly while
the passengers climbed up on the
tables to keep their heads above
water.
With several passengers in water
up to their chins, the situation
was desperate. Conductor Reynolds
made a dive for a window, broke the
glass and succeeded In rising to the
surface of the river outside the car.
With one arm on the roof of the car
and the other on the ice, he rested
a moment.
Gaining the roof of tne car, ne
broke a fan light with his fist and
rescued little Alfonso Rousel of
Sault Ste Marie. Several others were
taken out through a hole broken m
the roof of the car. It is said Mrs.
Choude, aunt of the little boy who
was rescued, was almost saved, with
the others, but sliped back into the
water and was drowned.
Owners of all the granite quarries
in Vermont yesterday called orf the
lockout which has prevailed since
November 18 but the striking
quarrymen refused to return to w
THE MARKETS.
NEW YORK, Jan. 24.—
Lead quiet. *4.67% @72%.
Copper quiet, 13% @%. Sil
ver 52%.
CHICAGO, Jan. *4.—Jan
uary wheat dosed at $1.11.
THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
The Citizens' National Bank of
Evansville, ill., which has $1,202,
000 outstanding in loans, has closed
its doors.
Friends of Governor Hughes, of
New York, announce that he will
under no circumstances accept a re
nomination.
Their earnings reduced by the new
state law limiting them to 50 hours
a week, hundreds of operatives in
mills in Massachusetts refused to
work yesterday.
After undergoing a serious opera
tion and while still under the influ
ence of an anaesthetic, Mrs. C. E.
Wall fell out of a high window of a
St. Louis hospital and was fatally
hurt.
m
. . .
NEW YORK. Jan. 24.—By the
ruling of Judge Hough In the Unit-1
ed States Circuit court today. F.
Augustus Heftize must be brought |
to trial on March 3rd next on two
indictments still pending against
him for alleged misapplication of
bank funds.
Pleas of not guilty were entered
I by Arthur P. Heinze, Stanford Rob
! inson and others connected with the
! United Copper Co., indicted for con
; spiracy to obstruct the investigation
! of the Heinze charges. Their coun
sel moved for the quashing of this
indictment. Decision was reserved.
! The decision by Judge Hough on
: Saturday, quashing the Indictment
against F. Augustus Heinze. gave re
newed hope to friends and counsel
I of Chas. W. Morse, the banker, now
serving a term of 15 years in the
I federal prison at Atlanta.
Martin W. Littleton, Morse 8 law
yer, said today that the Heinze de
rision may apply equally to the raise
of Morse and if he could establish
similar facts he would move that no
valid indictment was found against
his client. Heinze was indicted on
October 12, 1909, for violation of
the National Banking law. In quash
ing the indictment, Judge Hough
said:
“The common law is that a grand
jury, which deliberating, shall lis
ten to witnesses who give testimony
and to no one else, except the author
ized law officers of the common
wealth. When this indictment was
under consideration in the grand
jury, John P. Fernsier took part in
the proceedings to the extent of ask
ing some techncal questions of other
expert witnesses thought to be allied
with the defendant.”
Most everybody in the district is
talking about the new comet, Hal
ley s comet, which was first observ
able to the naked eye here on Sun
day evening shortly before 6 o’clock.
Many saw it between that hour and
a little after 7, when it dropped be
low the western horizon. Those who
did not see the comet Sunday even
ing were out for a glimpse at it last
evening, when it was again plainly
visible, and those who missed it last
evening will be out thin evening.
The comet will be in view for some
time to come, although it is on a
burning, sizzling hot trip and doing
something like a million miles an
hour.
The night secured of the comet
here Sunday night and last night,
Waterways Commission
Has Many Views to
Tender, to the Country
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—Almost
every section of the country will
find subjects or local as well as gen
eral interest in tbe preliminary re
port of the National Waterways com
mission, submitted to congress to
day.
The preliminary report recom
mends a general plan for the conser
vation of water power, with the shap
ing of other projects In the light of
further needs of the streams.
A uniform system Is submitted of
distribution of the coat of waterway
improvements between the federal,
state and local governments, the
avoidance of multiplication of ports
and the restriction of dam construc
tion permits are also held as essen
tion.
Inauguration of only such wat
erway projects as can be completed
within a reasonable time, federal
tax on power furnished to consum
ers; reservaton by the government
of the right to alter or repeat pow
er grants are Included in the recom
mendations.
The commsslon also recommends
that before tbe granting of rights to
construct daons in any navigable
stream, the whole stream, or at least
such part as will be affected by the
proposed construction. should be
surveyed. That, if constitutional au
thority therefor exists, all grants
should authorize the secretary of
war or other officials to regulate the
charge for the power furnished con
sumers and should expressly reserve
to congress the rignt to alter, amend
or repeal.
Tbe Commission cannot see its way
clear to recommend a general power
to fix minimum rates, but the ma
jority of the Commission would rec
ommend empowering the Interstate
Commerce Comsnission to prescribe
the minimum railroad rates when the
object ot tbe railroad in reducing
tbe rates is to decrease the waterway
competition.
SCHOOLS SMB SUFFRAGETTES.
Hoard Prohibits Their Use for
Furtherance of Propaganda.
NEW YORK, Jan. 24.—The public
schools of New York are not to be
used for the furtnerance of woman
suffrage propaganda.
Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont recently of
fered $100 in prizes to high school
girls submitting the best essay on
why woman should vote. The board
of education passed a resolution,
made public today, "that no prize
contest other than athletic shall be
authorized in any high school, ex
cept under the regulations of the
board.”
The four woman members of the
board voted blandly for the resolu
tion.
probably beats the viewing possi
bilities on the toast by a few days.
It had not been sighted there yet last
night. The altitude and the wonder
fully pure, dry air of this locality
renders the view earlier as well as
much plainer than in most parts of
the country. The head of the comet
Is wonderfully bright, while the tail
reaches high In the sky and is broad
and white. A dispatch from Tope
ka, Kas., says that observations from
the observatory there determined the
tall to be ten degrees In length, but
that it s not visible there to the
naked eye. Here you can see it all,
and at the same price they pay la To
peka for only a small view.
AUKKNTKD FOB
KILLING BIRDS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—
Twenty three Japs have been
arrested on the Hawaiian Is
lands under regulations pre
venting the destruction of
birds of plumage. It
was announced today they
will be turned over to the
United States marshal at Hon
olulu for trial.