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Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1901-11-16

In legitimate mining % per cent
dividend is not considered STARTLING
and the mining iaterests of the West
are Wiling to pay that interest for
tiie use OF money, for, by the aid of
capital, they open up tremendous ore
bodies that lead to still greater for
tunes, The employment of SO 600
IN mining is the equivalent of $40 900
IN almost any other branch of indus
Try because, with the exception Cf
mining, per cent. is considered II o
maximum of interest. while in ninino
we know Of eases where 100 per cent.
per annum Is paid safely and leyiti-
mately There are many like oppor-
tuntles still open. but investors must
understand that they should be well
advised as t. which to buy. The
curse OF Eastern mining has been the
general run of So-called "[nyrstors'
'ulueN' or the local bankers who |
never saw mine, yet claim to pass
Judgment or mining securities. 1t is
safe to say that 99 per ceLt. of the
Eastern. brokers and so-caIled "ad-
vlSory 9 correspondents know as
mncn regarding legitimate mining as
the miner who stops the ore in the
Western properties knows about the
cardinal principles of electricity
lhlN class of men have been the means
ct DESTROYING budding faith, and have
often caused tremendou, loss to in
veNtors, who, after acquiring secur-
ties III nine that would have made
them rich, were shaken ont of their
b'nanzas through timidity caused by
the clrcula ton of adh erSe reports en-
from IA source that bad only
rs personal ends t. serve.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1901-11-16

Mr.. Ed. Lachman, formerly one of
the best known young men in Rene,
now mining man in Torres CState of
Sonora) Mexico, wrote the following
statement which will explain itself:
While wheeling down. steep
grade near Virginia City, had IA fall
which severely sprained the muscles
and tendons about my right hip and
so bruised my knee that it was swoi-
len, discolored and painful to the
touch. That evening | procured a
bottle of Trib and applied it. The
next day | could walk and ride easily.
and after using Trib twice day for
four consecutive days | was com
pietely cured never before knew
the value of a good inhnent. | shall
not be without bottle of Trib here /
alter. Use my name if you see fit. /
Tflb is a good article, the knowledge
OF which am wiling to aid in spread .
ing EDMUND d. LACHMAN
Advertise your business in the
BONANZA.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1901-11-16

The Mining and Scientific Pres.
thetfading mining paper Of the Coast
has IA well written and illus strated
edition Of Tonopah aud its wonderful
rich mines. The article in great
many respects is mpdest in telling of
the riches of To1opuh. If the whole
truth was told Of the rich deposits of
thl' district the public would disbe-
lleVe the facts. saving such values
could not exist. The write up is a
truthful one, every line of it. ard
thoSt fortunate enough to receive the
edition can rest assured that the
article is genuine from start to fin
lsh ana Is not Il pal writing The
proprietors of the Mining and Scien-
tlhc Press, ever alert for responsible
lnlnlng news. sent their correspond
ent, Major G W. Ingalls,, to Tono-
pan to furnish their paper with an
article containing facts, aud that he
has done so is acquiesced in BY ever,
miner in Tonopah.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1901-11-16

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Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1901-11-16
Dissolution Notice.
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THE FIRM HERETOFORE EXISTING IN
L urr tue n.lIe ..nd style Of Dunn 4 N.yII,
ness. hIdckNmlths uOIng huStncs, in thr t,-,,I
OF ionop.1. Nevada. Is t,, DAY dis olyrJ IL,
mutual c'I"n'. Hum g Dunn has purrnn .ni
ms entire Interest Of G. NJ Mogidnc s Ia m,
col'"n ann Il d7c the firm " DuIny NJ,
EinnrS are ptylbla to Hugh q bum. IN. aI
hIl an" f~nl t." aid firm win b. ytil by
Hugh &, Dunn. ~
,HuSh g. liunn viii crnlinu" In conduct rnr
DlackSm nun bus ne s, and 't'k :. continuance, uf
the patronage. "
Dated Ills 18th day of October A. d EnI
HUGH &. DITNN
& NJ MEGINNESS
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1901-11-16

The Journal has been given the
names of three locators who hold
a total of 62 claims in that neighbo
hood and on not one of these claims
has there been fifteen feet of work
done during the past year.
George Leidy has sold IA 2O-horse
power steam engine to Golden & Sin
clair, 1t will<be put upon their lease.
C. F Holland, a prominent Lyon
county citizen, is here.
The Conservative, 1901-10-24
HISTORICAL-A CELEBRATED GRIM
INAL CASE.
Editor Conservatives:


deem the "Hargus Case" which
excited at the time great deal of in
terest of sufficient Importance to oc
cupy place in your forthcoming his
tory. In all the criminal cases tried
in this country, there cannot be found
one under like conditions, and hence,
it seems to me, it should be resuscitated
from the buried past and given
place among the events that mark
the early settlement of Nebraska I
am more than half inclined to write
up my recollections of this remarkable
case for The Conservative-but at the
outset find myself embarrassed for
the want of dates which are import
ant in all historical sketches.
His Lawyer.
have not a printed or written scrap
to refresh my memory, and as the sole
attorney for Hargus before the dis
trict and supreme courts, l am not
even able to give the dates when these
courts were held. Therefore, all that
1 write must be from recollections
after the lapse of forty three years. I
do not distinctly remember all the
causes which prompted Hargus to kill
Lacy, but believe it grew out of all
interference by Lacy with the claim
of Hargus to piece of land adjoin-
ir c1y 1n
interference was known by the early
settlers as "claim jumping" think
the testimony was that Hargus, with
double barreled shotgun, found Lacy
OH the Jumped" eighty, building a
fence and about to join it to his fence,
whereupon Hargus said to him: 81
told you not to join your fence to
mine," and at once discharged one
barrel, wounding Lacy, who then
started OH run towards his house,
when Hargus discharged with fatal
effect, the other barrel This occurred
before 1 came to Nebraska City in
April, 1856 The grand jury indicted
Simpson Hargus for manslaughter,
and the trial was then pending, in
1857, with Allen Bradford, formerly
district judge in Iowa, and Hiram
P. Bennett as his attorneys. For
some reason which seemed entirely
satisfactory to these gentlemen, they
retired from the case and I was en-
ployed as sole counsel. William Nc
Lellan was prosecuting attorney for
the county and was ably assisted in
the trial by Oliver P. Mason, whose
great legal ability and forensic talent
after Nebraska became state, elevat-
ed him to the district bench, and
later he became chief justice of the
supreme court of the state. The trial
of Hargus under the Indictment, was
before Honorable Samuel Black and
The Conservative, 1901-10-24
grounds OH which this motion was

First. The alleged crime was COM
mitted and the Indictment found be-
fore the repeal of the criminal code,
and the repeating act does not contain
saving clause as to pending prosecu-
tions.
Second. Such repeal without saw
ing clause, operates as an uncondition.
al pardon of the defendant.
Third. The court has no power by
reason Of such appeal to render judg-
ment Oh the verdict of the jury.
If these are not the exact words, as
I write entirely from memory, they
contain the substance on which I
based my motion. With the meager
authorities at my command, I en-
deayored to convince the court that
the repeating act divested it of all au-
thority to punish, and as the legis-
lature in the law which was repealed,
had defined the crime of manslaughter
and affixed the penalty, and as
this was in full force when the act
was committed, that this law alone
was violated and the penalty therein
provided was alone incurred, and its
repeal without saving clause oper-
ated as a legislative pardon. If it is
asked, "Why was the legislature guilty
of doing an act so revolutionary in
it's consequences" the answer is, "Is
this question on which people diff
fered in opinion?' Judge Bradford was
a member of the legislature at the
time, and as he had been of counsel
for Hargus, it was said by some that
he accomplished this result for the
very purpose of shielding Hargus from
punishment. But this is simply alb
surd, and clothes Bradford with
greater influence than he had, as no
man actuated by such motives, could
induce majority of both houses of
the legislature to do that which
would rob the people of the protec-
tion afforded by just and proper laws.
1t is true that Bradford voted for
the repeating bill, but he, with many
others from the district south Of the
Platte river, was al ardent advocate
for the removal of the capital from
Omaha, and the measure having been
defeated, they doomed the war
paint and while they were not
strong enough to pass the bill to re-
move the capital, did succeed in fore
ing the repeating act through, in order
to compel the governor to call the
legislature together in extra session
to restore the criminal code, thereby
giving the friends of the removal pro-
ject time to bring public pressure to
bear upon the opponents of the meas
ure to induce them to support the re-
moval bill.
But the causes and influences which
The Conservative, 1901-10-24
Che Conservative.

Lacy in his lifetime by all who
knew him, and the then hitherto un-
blemished character of Hargus, a man
of considerable wealth, engaged at
the time in building large brick hotel
i'll the city, afterwards and still known
as the Morton House, when the case
was called for trial, the court room
was filled to it's utmost capacity
with people wrought up to high
state of excitement. At the time of
Lacy's death the people became so
frenzied at an open air meeting on
the streets of the city as they listened
to the eloquent harangue of Mr..
Mason, as he portrayed the many
sterling virtues of the deceased, and
depicted with earnest words, the
wanton murder by Hargus, that they
were only restrained by cooler heads
from executing, then and there, sum-
mary punishment. Among the anti
lynchers was the editor of The Con-
servative, after whom, in gratitude,
HarguS named his hotel.
The Hearing.
But Hargus was spared for the trial
which had called so many together,
and it is but fair to say that he had a
few friends who were willing to ac-
cord him fair hearing before the
court. In all cases for felony each
party is allowed certain number of
peremptory challenges when empanel-
ling a jury. When the attorney for
the defendant exercised this right
in telling juror called to step aside,
Mr.. Mason arose and in his usual en-
phatic tone of voice said: "Does the
attorney for the defendant pre- -emptor-
lily challenge the juror" The attorney
in like emphatic tone of voice re-
piled: "He does not pre-e -emptorily
challenge the juror, but he does per-
emptorily challenge him" This di-
vergence brought down the house and
seemed to relieve the strain of sup
pressed excitement against Hargus.
After the jury was empanelled the
trial occupied but short time. The
fact of the killing was not denied. DR..
Kay, the physician and surgeon who
was called to attend Lacy and by
whom the death was established, de-
scribed with minute accuracy the mus
cles that were penetrated by the buck
shot. He was asked by the defense
but single question doctor, state
how many muscles there are in the
human body" After much apparent
chagrin, he answered that he did not
know, and left the stand evidently
mortified. The only testimony intro
duced by the defendants counsel was
his hitherto good character. The jury,
under the instructions of the court,
were not long in agreeing upon a
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-09-08
WORK AT HIGH ISLAND
Has Been nterered With by the Swarns
OF Mosquitoes.

Has Been lntertered With by the Swarms
Of Mosquitoes.
High Island Texas, September 6.-Work
at the Big -Four well was suspended on
Wednesday owing to the swarms OF mos
qultoes, which rendered an labor an i'm
possibility Operations viii be resumed at
an early date.
The Bolivar High Island Petroleum com.
pany's derrick is about complete Machin,
cry Is now in transit and viii soon be IN
place
Mr.. W. T. Grtffiths, representing the Lu.
cas- company at High Island, viii be IN Gal
weston tomorrow Tor the purpose OF ar
ranging for the transportation 70 this place
Of two complete rigs one of them will
be located on the Cade property and the
other ON thar Of AIr. George Smith.
Another plant will soon be on the way TO
be used on the Guidry survey.
company hss been formed which Is now
negotiating for the purchase OF steam or
other launch to ply semi or tri-Yeekly be
tween Galveston and this place Tor the ac-
commodatluu OF passengers ana trahspoftd-
tion OF supplies 10 the oil wells, etc.
They are very much In earnest the money
Is here and the result is only question OF
few days time.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-09-08
ACCIDENT AT DAYTON.
DriIIer Joe Lee Was Badly Hurt, but viii
Recover.

Recover.
Dayton. Texas. September T.-Soon after
beginning work this morning, Driler Joe
Lee, who is In charge Of the Guney well.
was knocked senseless and painfully though
not dangerously cut about the head aud
face by the tearing loose Of the brake
which CONTROLS the cable, this being caused
by the sudden breaking OF one of the
sprocket chains.
Or. Speer was Immediately sent for and
arrived In few minutes but before the
Injured man would allow his wounds to be
attended to, In fact. as soon as he fully
recovered consciousness he Insisted on max
Ing an examination of the well and ma
chlnery TO see II any serious damage had
been done there,
The drill in this well yesterday reached
stratum OF very hard rock at a depth
supposed 20 be about 1900 feet This may
or may not be the cap rock covering the
oil: az any rate after drilling into it
few inches Mr. Lee had Just begun 10 draw
his drN pipe preparatory 10 setting the
six-lnch casing when the accident occurred
The broken machinery was repaired IN
few hours. but Il is not likely that work
on the well will be resumed until Monday.
Mfr. w. c. Moore OF the real estate Arm
OF Cameron & Moore OF Houston was Wis
Mr.. o. R. Frame and Manager ]. F.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-09-08
viz on Should No. Sc Taxed.

To the Editor Of The Post
Houston. Texas, September Tt. To tax
the output Of the oil wells is wrong in prin-
cipie; it Is class legislation and double
taxation.
. II Is contrary to the accepted and
demonstrated theories OF our great writ
ors on political economy. including that
well known authority on social economies,
Herbert Spencer.
3 Instead of the money received by the
state being a heneht TO us 1t win act as
detergent 10 the development of Texas
vast resources, created by nature during
the past countless centuries, for the use
with en- phasis upon the word "use"l Of all
mel. in that, If it becomes heralded abroad
taar Texas proposes 10 tax OH when do.
Ne'oped by the industry OF man and the
expenditure Of capital, the prospectors
~ the United States will at once conclude
tnat Y Texas places n special tax on oil
IL will, with equal Justice, tax the iroI,
output ~ the State, the coal output when
mlhen, and hnally all other products wruug
rom the grasp OF the earth by the labor
ot man Ihls being so, prosnectors will
locE 70, other fields TO develope aud capital
VIII follow the prospector.
hesId; Our state win be handicapped
al tle race Tor supremacy and be the last
one IN the galaxy Of stars "a shine for
the pleasure and proht of It's citizens
ofiNlW viii thus be forced to operate In
olher states, and don't you forget II there
ARE others who are waiting ana who by
liberal legislation will attract prospectors
ample
4, II we lose the cooperation Of the In.
aetaiigahle prospeetor and the eager cant
tanSL We, lose the increase In population
which follows In their wake: we lose thnf
enormous increase In land values and the
Increased TAX thereon which popuintion
and development bring u.s. Right here Il
the keynote To the situation Encourages
the development Of our oil fields. our iron
helds. our coal neids, our rice fields and
that act alone will enhance the value az
our lands SO much that the legitimate tax
which our present law authorizes us 10
levy upon land values viii far exceed thc
proposed ! per cent tax upon the earth's
clone our great state will be the gamer.
Tho recent discovery OF oil In the Bean.
mont field NOT only Increased the value
~ tie land In the proven territory, bur
cnnanced land values IN all Southeast
Texes, to say nothing OF the phenomenal
increase IN ths value OF city lots In Beau
The state will get It's share OF the land
tax upon these increased values. hut AZ the
'poweiG that he" fear that the local as
SCISSORS will not take cognizance OF this
advance in land values, or n they fear
lands In proportion to the increased values,
4 would be an easy matter for the State
IN the exercise OF Its legitimate powers
q protect It's own Interests by seeing that
they do
s. II the oil is taxed. then Texas oil win
cost the Texas consumer more than oil In
other States costs their people-to our dis
.. II s6il is taxed, then the tendency
will be for the assessors TO accept lower
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-09-08
OIL STOCK SALES.
Beaumont Confederated Broke Below
Twenty Yesterday.

Beaumont Confederated Broke Below
Twenty Yesterday.
About the most surprising feature on the
OIL Exchange during yesterdays call WAS
the break in Beaumont Confederated. This
stock has been selling at 20 to - ceuts
for the last few weeks, but yesterday it
got into the teens, selling at 1Sla ana then
down TO 10 cents. There was an active
Inquiry at these prices. The break was
quite surprise TO the trade, an ad.
vance has been expected aud racre were
predictions recently that Beaumont Con.
federated would sell above 80 cents.
Grace was also lower, selling at 49, cents.
against 5la cents bid few days ago, when
none was for sale below 6 cents.
Manhattan did not maintain the boom It
had Friday, the highest price bid yester
day being l3A cents
The prices bid and asked and the sales
made were as follows:
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-09-08

assessment of land and this lower assess
inert will enable the land owner to hold
asau driving away capital white on the
other hand an assessment Of aud accord
ing 10 its market value TOR two-thtrds Of
the value rs the rule Isl will make the
tax on the land sufficiently high To cause
the owner To accept q fair price from the
developer, Instead OF holding II out OF use
TO the loss Of the State aud the people
In conclusion ! will say there Is every
reason why Oil, coal iron and other prod
nets should not he specially taxed and why
the lEud values created by their discovery
sheuli be taxed and there IS not one good
reason for adopting the contrary course.
J. j. PastoriZa.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-09-08
a RECElvER APPOINTED
For the Texas Pine Land Association c
Beaumont

For the eNas Pine Land Association Of
Beaumont.
Beaumont. Texas, September T-Sltting
in chambers at Montgomery yesterday Dis
trlct Judge Hlghtower, upon application
OF tire Industrial Lumber company of Beau
mont appointed Mr.. 9. l.. Nabors Of this
city receiver Of the Texas Pine Land as
ISOLATION. Judge Hightower also granted an
order restraining the Texas Pine Land as.
scciitioR from removing any timber from
the lands OF the company, and the Houston
OH company from prospecting for oil or
minerals on any OF the said lands
The Texas Pine Land association Is one
Of the largest yellow pine timber holders
IN Texas, the headquarters OF the company
being at Sllsbee 10 Hardin county <
few years ago the company built a mill AZ
Siisbee subsequently this mill was leased
70 the Industrial Lumber company. the
Pine Land association contracting 10 fur.
nlsh logs for the mill. The litigation which
brought about the receiyership and lnjune.
lions grew out Of the contract, the Indus.
oml LaWber company alleging that IL bad
been viOiated and ahrogated to their dam
age Ia the sum Of S26i,oOO.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-09-08

Black Of the Taylor, Dayton OF company
left this morning on a business trip 10
Taylor Mr.. Black is mayor OF that city.
Hon Lud Il. Williams, who has been
spending some time In this section watch
Ing the oil developments, left today TO
attend 70 legAl business in Waco.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-09-08
TWO NEW WELLS ARE In.
Az EightInch Stream One Kindred
Feet Over the Derrick
EVIDENCES NO LACK OF PRESSURE
The Fort Worth Well Has Been Fin
ished in a Satisfactory Manner.
News of the Oil Field.
EVIDENCES NO LACK OF PRESSURE

Beaumont. Texas, September There
was a week end rush In the oil field late
this afternoon and two gushers came in
about dark.
The Moore skinner wei, owned Jointly
by the Gladys, Enterprise and I4ucky Dime
Oil companies was the first well to spout
II came 10 In splendid condition. In fact.
there are few II any wells on the bill tn
ished up In better shape than the Moore
skinner well. Ii is situated on acre p.
block IS. and came In nj the depth ot 90
feet The well IS eight inches in diameter
az the bottom. The oil came in eight
inch stream and shot 100 feet over he der
rick. showing THAT the wonderful force tnnt
expeis the oil from the earth Is MOI AT all
diminished The well was drilled by ]. j.
Stevens and the eight@inch casing Is set
foot into the oil sand.
~
The Fort Worth oil company's we'll
which spouted ftfuliy last week, was
drilled past the stratum which furnished
the spaamodlC flow and come in at dark
this evening at depth Of gT4 feet. There
was nothing uncertain about the now Of
the wei this time. IL shot a steady
stream high over the derrick and was IN
every way satisfactory. i was drilled by
G. +. Jones The Fort Worth well makes
the forty-seyenth gusher in the Held
THIS week has been almost devoid 81 in
tercstng happenings in this parucula-
neld, and had 1t not been for the Hurry
caused ~ the action Of the Gurey well at
Sour Lake there would have been almost
,a-btr.,ta 49,. -,o.,,-., - ,.,.s T. h .rr.
u"'l'Ne ~ fns natuhs u news II - 80
that tao Beaumont Consolidated wen
spouted this week. bur it gushel consider
suil sAsS Mseh. anu Tvs coming u was
Ptittis1tll uisteu.lteu. . Ill -. e,.i,,.tf.
.r IN'Le sle u uuAVtt O WeIiH ~, SpH
10y ,sLuaps uoAen-.nat suoaid' VI sGe
o.uGAEy coutst OF cen s .'lAt w. ueAs
VIZ o'iae, - me l tGe La au' nv.
WIS alI NV PlaNt.Sotiy l".D sue tx
..in t1,nrhes" pevt yyGtE After inc end
Of this month, however. she wells viii
ne5 come ie " So LEs4qen,, as sH,E nav" r,
Son that fewer new Wells are belus started
This does not mean that development rs
an, , an -,,-let 81, 1. mi s1aSs bns baan
dispos-i Of ana f6., holders of the larr r
800, ,Lfi. - tr,6,T dev' a., III, r
49, 49, az an rTjSl,
wnlld be the case II 1t were ont up into
emAll tracts ana SOLD 10 companies or IN
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-09-08
Mork IN Piedras Plntas.

San Diego, Texas, September 5.-Work
on the oil well at Piedras Piuias is nro-
crossing favorably and knowing ones say
that Indications grow better as the drill
goes down Lands In that vicinity continue
TO change hands al satisfactory nsnres
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-09-08
Wash Fabrics

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