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ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES AND ALL THE NEWS OF THE WORLDS GREATEST COPPER CAMP HAKE THE DAILY AND THE WEEKLY NEWS THE BEST NEWSPAPER PUBLICATION IN EASTERN NEVADA, INDI8PENSIBLB IP YOU WOULD KEEP ABREAST WITH WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE WORLD. THE DAILY NEWS ENJOYS THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER PRINTED IN THE ELY DISTRICT, BOTH AT HOME AND ABROAD. IT ALSO ENJOYS THE LARGEST CONFIDENCE GIVEN IPBiF A NEWSPAPER in THE DISTRICT, FOR THE REASON THAT IT IS KNOWN TO BE CONSERVATIVE AND CORRECT IN ITS STATEMENTS AND FAIR TO EVERY INTEREST IN TERRITORY IT COVERS, —--------—---— 15TABLISHED IN 1868. EAST ELY, WHITE PINE COUNTY, NEVADA, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1910. VOL. XLI NO. 149. Leave For Chic<go—Phila delphia Urchanged Call For StateVote Made WASHINGTON, March 16.—To undertake the adjustment of the con troversy between tie western rail roads and their enfinemen and fire men, Chairman Kiapp of the Inter state Commerce commission and I)r. Charles P. Neill. commlssloijer of Labor, mediators under the Erdman act, left for Chleigo today. Both mediator expressed the hope of a successful cutcome of the settle ment plans wh*h will be advanced. Confidence tlat the conference now In progress between the New York Central Railroad officials and the rep resentatives *f its conductors and trainmen will result in an agreement without the necessity for calling of a strike, was expressed by both the union leaders and the railroad offi cials today. PHILADELPHIA, March 16.— The general strike situation has un dergone little change In the last 24 hours. The United Business Men’s association is still striving to find a way to end the labor troubles and the labor leaders are looking about for a plan to bring the strikers and the officials of the Rapid Transit company together. Carrying out the action taken by the State Federation of Labor at the convention at Newcastle last week, State President E. E. Genenwllt has sent out a call for a vote on a state wide strike. CINCINNATI, March 16—Only by advancing wages can the coal mines operators of the country avoid a strike of the union miners after April 1st, according to developments before tne special convention of the United Mine Workers of North Amer ica here today. Session lasted only 45 minutes, but In that time the leaders of the men Intimated plainly that more money must be paid to the hundred thous and workmen involved. Otherwise no new wage agreement w ill be sign ed. ECCLEM UNDER RIG ROND. Lumberman Kc<) Hired In Furnish Half a Million in Frauds Case. PORTLAND, Ore., March 15. David Ernes, who reached this city last night on a delayed train, this mortting secured the necessary bonds men in the sum of 1500,000 demand ed by the federal government. He tiled the bonds late this afternoon. His bondsmen also served as sure ties for Messrs. Burton, Geddes and Hmurthwalte, who are included in the same Indictment. The sureties follow: E. B. Mc Daniels, one of the prominent phy sicians of Portland and a former resi dent of Baker county; VV. K. Grace, one of the directors of the Portland Trust company of Oregon; Phil Metst han, Donald McKay, president of the North Pacific Lumber com pany; M. G. Dickinson, proprietor of the Oregon hotel; Dr. Henry Waldo of Coe. PRATT’S BUSINESS IS HELPING TROLLEY MEN WHEN THEY STRIKE. Organizing street railway employees into unions and helping them to fight for higher wages is the business of Clarence O. 1’ratt, who has had charge of the big strike in Philadelphia. Pratt is considered one of the country's ablest labor leaders. He is an Ohio man by birth and residence, but bis vocation; takes hint to all sections of the country. Pratt has taken nu active part in ! managing a score of strikes. BOND BUYERS HESITATING ON UNFAVORABLE REPORTS Council Calls For Haste**Sewer Con* nection Demand**Other City Business Ely council last night gave notice | to Chicago capitalists that they must Immediately make gocd their bid for the $25,000 general improvement bonds, or the securities will be sold elsewhere. The council decided some weeks ago to accept the proposition of the Chicago capitalists. Since then additional information as to the se curities and the town has been ask ed. The Chicago people heard that the Ely-Goldlleld franchise had been voted down and that the town would accordingly not get the new road; also they heard other detrimental things upon which they wanted more light before putting up monef. Mayor McDonald reported that health committee notices had been ordered Informing property owners that they must immediately connect their premises with the sewerage sys tem; that cesspools must be abol ished, and that premises must be kept in a thoroughly sanitary condi tion. City Attorney Jurlch was Instruct ed to prepare a written opinion upon the procedure to be followed by the treasurer in levying sewer assess ment against lots which have been divided up and are owned by more than one person. City Engineer Col well was instructed to Immediately fill up the gulleys made in the road near the storage yards of the Ely Lumber & Coal Co., where an acci dent occurred Saturday. He was also Instructed to have a watering trough for horses placed near the city hall and to get estimates on the cost of a drinking foundation In the central part of town. The tapping fee for connection of the county courthouse and hospital with the sewerage sys tem was fixed at $250. Councilman Tels was authorized to have an elec trie lamp placed In front of the post office. The city marshall repo.-ted collection of $200 for two .-etail liquor licenses, $110 in fines aid $20 in miscellaneous licenses. Bits of G. SHIP SINKS WITH LOSS OF LIVES OF MANY EMIGRANTS Survivors in Frenzied Terror Run to the Hills on Reaching Shore lilSIiON, Marcli III.—A Portugucsc hark loaded with emigrants IhiuiiiI for America, lias been wrecked in a storm olt Pico Island and 40 lives lost. The bodies of -H persons have been washed ashore. Twenty-three of the passengers and crew survived. When they reached the land they ran terror- stricken Into the hills. A. McDonad and Sain nassham for $3 and $10 respectively, for work on the streets, were allowed. LANGFOIID THE FAVORITE. I,OS ANGELES, March 16.—Sam Langford and Jim Flynn will fight In the Jeffries pavilion at Vernon to morrow afternoon. The bout is scheduled for 45 rounds. Langford is the favorite in the betting. PRESIDENT IN CHICAGO FOR THE DAY TAFT OFF OY SWING ARWt’.VD THE CIRCLE WASHINGTON. March 16.— President Taft left here at 9:10 this morning for Chicago, where he is due at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. From Chicago the President will "swing around the circle to Rochester, Albany, New York, New Haven and Providence. He will not be In Washington again until March 23rd. The President’s visit to Chicago Is primarily for the purpose of attend ing the St. Patrick’s day banquet of the Irish fellowship club in that city. Also he will be a guest of that or ganization at luncheon. From the moment of his prrlval, however, until he leaves Chicago at nearly mid night tomorrow, he has continuous engagements. The President will ride with a mil itary escort from one of the subur ban stations to his hotel. Later he will visit the newspapermen's club and the tratllc club, and attend a con servation meeting in the afternoon at the Auditorium. He will be tendered a reception at the Hamilton club and will wind up the day at the Fellow ship banquet. I A. Montgomery Ward, a wealthy 1 Chicago merchant, was seriously hurt I In an automobile accident at Pasa ldena, Calf. Attorney General Presents Case Forcefully—Argu- j ments Are Now Closed WASHINGTON, March 16.—The dosing arguments in the great con test over the dissolution of the Stand ard Oil company were made this af ternoon before the Supreme Court of j the United States. According to arrangements as made Monday, the arguments closed j at 4 o'clock. Attorney General Wick- j ersham made the closing speech in behalf of the government. Many be-1 lieve the decision of the court will not be announced before the first of May. j Time after time the court mani- j tested its keen interest In the case by subjecting counsel to a series of queries. They were anxious to know about the common ownership claimed I by the Standard Oil counsel, and to get the various interpretations or the | meaning that should be given the! word “monopoly, as used In the Sherman anti-trust act. The day brought out a sharp con flict of purposes between the govern ment and the Standard Oil. Mr. Kel logg, on behalf of the government, dwelt upon the activities of the cor poration to prove an Intent to monopolise. On the other hand, the Standard Oil counsel contended that such matters were not before the court for review. Mr. Wickersham charged that the Standard Oil, since its pipe lines had been common carriers, had “estab lished stations at outlandish places, where nobody ever had a refinery.” | Their rates were prohibitive, coun | sel said, and that was the reason ap i plications to use the pipe lines had not been made by independents. Railroad rates, as a means of un fair competition, were next consider ed. He spoke of the number of Standard Oil officials in many rail roads. Front the railroad question he returned to what he called the un fair methods of competition. As an example, he told of the Standard sell ing oil at a loss in Los Angeles, where there was competition, and at a profit in Portland and Seattle, where there was no competition. “They may say that is only com petition, but we say it is competition that is dangerous in the hands of a corporation spreading all over this country.” Alleged bogus independent com panies organized by the Standard were likewise classed as dangerous to competition. He then turned to a discusison of the purely legal phases of the controversy. He argued that the Northern Securities decision ap plied squarely to the case. In touch ing on the claim of common owner ship, he said that at times when it was convenient, the defendants dwelt upon corporate entity, but in the present instance they were anxious to go beyond the corporations to the in dividual. He argued that the action oi the corporation was before the court. Justice White and Justice Lurton questioned him on how he Interpret ed the two sections of the Sherman anti-trust law in question. He an swered that much depended on the degree of control possessed In each case by the corporations. SHY $3,000 ON NOBLE MATCH. So Avers French Lawyer, Suing Ambassador to Italy. PITTSBURG, March 16.—John G. A. Lelshman, United States Ambas sador to Italy, has been sued by Maitre O. E. Hodington, a counselor of Paris, for the balance alleged to be due the Parisian for services ren dered preliminary to securing a title for his daughter, Martha Lelshman, who became Countess lie Gontaut niron three years ago. The French man says the ambassador has paid him In part, but he still wants |5, 000, {ind a writ of foreign attachment has been isused against the Union Trust company, Mr. Leishman's Pittsburg bank. Maitre Hodington sets forth that he weut to great trouble In making a settlement of a portion of the Pltts burger’s fortune on the French Count before the latter married the Pitts burg beauty, and that he wants his pay. THE MARKETS. NEW YORK, March 16.— Lead $4.50 to $4.60. Copper dull 12% to 13%. Silver 51%. CHICAGO, March 16.—May wheat closed at $1.13%. THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. Sixty-one additional bodies are re ported taken from the wrecked coal mine at Cairo, 111. For an attack on a white woman, Roland Flowers, colored, was hanged in the jailyard at Tampa, Fla. The board of managers of the New York coffee exchange has made im portant amendments to the trading rules. Judge Sea, at Dallas, Texas, has Instructed the grand jury to investi gate the lynching of Alien Brooks, a negro. John H. Cullen, teller in the Union Institution for Savings, at Boston, was arrested, charged with a short age of $1200. Traveling at a 50-mile-an-bour clip, the Pennsylvania special side swiped a string of freight cars east of Wooster, Ohio, but no one was in jured. I ST. PAUL, March 16.—“The in surgent movement is something like a fantasy and the Ballinger-Pinehot hearing is of less importance in the east than in the west." Secretary Ballinger, who was here to address the Minnesota conserva tion convention today, thus expressed himself. Speaking further of the In vestigation of the Glavis charges, Mr. Ballinger said: "So far nothing has been brought to light but suspicions, innuendo and intimations. These will be dis pelled as soon as my evidence is in.” Secretary Ballinger was the prin cipal speaker at the opening of the Minnesota conservation and agricul tnural congress today. Archbishop Ireland presided at the first session. The congress will continue for three days and several noted speakers, in cluding government experts, will be heard. KHARTUM, March 16.—The Roosevelts today paid their second visit to Obdurnian, on the left bank of the N'ile, the party making the trip on the Sirdars yacht. At the Khajifs house, Roosevelt received more prom inent residents of Obdurman. ROME, March 16.—King Victor Emmanuel has decided to give a din ner in honor of former President Roosevelt on the occasion of the lat ter’s visit to this city. The guests will include Mrs. Roosevelt, Kerrnlt and Miss Ethel Roosevelt, American Ambassador Leishman, Mrs. Leish man and other members of the American embassy, and Count Guic ciardini, minister of foreign affairs. TOUCHING Veteran Senator Pays Tribute to His Associates and Also to Capital WASHINGTON. March 16.—The most remarkabe farewell ever deliv ered in the Senate chamber was heard today when at the close of the session Senator James Gordon, of Mississippi, said goodbye to the men with whom he had served for the past 60 years. Colonel Gordon spoke half an hour. When he had concluded Senator De pew arose and said he never had heard or read so Impressive a speech. The New York Senator said he was sure he voiced the sentiment of all the members of the Senate w'hen he expressed regret over the passing of the Mississippian. “No matter," he said, "how won derful a colleague succeeds him he cannot be James Gordon, of Missis sippi.” Beginning with the statement that the deadlock in Mississippi had been broken and that Earl Percy had been chosen to take his place, Col onel Gordon said he felt a' desire to express his feelings toward the Sen ate before returning to his home. He then told how, when five years old, he had been presented with a toy board which was checkered over with different objects, some of them i good and some of them bad. One of these objects was the capltol of the United States, and his mother had told nim, he said, that if he would be good and would live a cor rect life he might, some day, hope to sit in the seat of the big man who was pictured there. “She never had told me a lie and I knew that what she said was true. 1 knew that I would some day oc cupy the seat of that big man, and God helping me, I got there yester day.” He referred to the fact that for a time yesterday he had occupied, the seat of the presiding officer. “I was born a multi-millionaire,” continued Colonel Gordon, "but I never was happy until I got rid of my surplus money. I spent much of It on my slaves and the rest of my funds I spent like a gentleman and got rid of the entire encumbrance. "I have listened with Interest to their speeches here and the more I hear of them the sorrier I am for the millionaires. Why, If there is a fel low in the United States that 1 am sorry for it Is Rockefeller, because he has more money than any one [ else. That is his misfortune. He can’t go on the street with one of his grandchildren unless he is afraid that some harm might happen. Why, I know that he loves one of those children much better than he loves all the money he nas got. “1 think Mr. Rockefeller is a good man. I see his employes speak well of him and 1 am told that he never had a strike. 1 am told also that he has given much money to churches and education. Now, I don’t sup (Continued on Rage Two) CONDITION OF DANIEL CONTICES CRITICAL DAYTON, Fla., March 16.— The condition of Senator John VV. Daniel, of Virginia, who suffered a severe relapse late yesterday afternoon, Is reported as unchanged today by his phy sicians. The patient's entire left side is paralyzed. PRUSSIAN SUFFRAGE BILL IS PASSED BY THE DIET ■i ■ —i ■ ■ m——mm Discussion of Measure Cause of Socialistic Outbreaks and Woodshed HKKI.IN, March 1H.—The diet today passed without essential change the government's Prussian suffrage bill. The vote was 238 to 188. The measure' has been bitterly opposed by the Socialists, whose recent public demonstrations of protest brought them into frequent sanguinary conflicts with the police.