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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-07-11
Eleven Thousand Miles of Wire
Monopolixed by the Operator.
Every Beat of the Arteries Of Conn
mercs Suspended While He Ma
nipulates the Keys-An Impress
sive Performance.

How We Set Our Watches by
Star" is told by w. S. HARDWOOD in st.
Nicholas, who says:
at is three minutes to nine o'clock
at night. The official in charge OF
great observatory, the Goodsell OBJ
servatory, Mortified, Mimi, is pre-
pairing to send out the time to the
people living in his section of Amer
lea. For so seconds he rattles away
on elegraph-instrument at his
desk, spelling out the word time,
time, time;" then he waits an in
slant. Then ne turns to his tele-
graph-key again. Eleven thousands
of miles of wire are open to him; he
is ruler of them all. Every tele-
graph-instrument in ell the vast ter
ritory of which the Goodsell observa-
tory is the center is silent; every
operator has taken his hand from his
key; throughout the whole length of
these thousands of miles there is q
strange silence.
1.-THE seconds are slowly ticking
away. Above the head of the OBJ
server there is a great observatory
clock. At precisely two minutes to
nine, after the telegraphers all along
the miles of wire have been notified
and have withdrawn their hands from
the keys, the wires are switched into
a connection with the very clock it.
self, and all along the eleven thou
sands of miles there is no sound but
the tick, tick, tick of the observatory
clock. Every beat of the great
arteries of commerce is stopped;
every throb of the news of oil lands
going out night by night over these
wires from the great heart of the
world ceases; even the sad messages
of death and suffering, as we'll as the
CAV ones that tell of little babies
born and young folks married and
reunions of friends promised-all
these must wait while the great
clock on the wall makes itself under
stood in the language Of time and
eternity over these many thousands
of miles.
Something strangely solemn is in
ones thoughts as he stands beside
! the observer amid the silent seconds
while the clock ticks on. Whoever Is
listening at the wire along ITS
course, waiting to set his watch
whether he be railroad employe OF
some man in a large jewelers. estab'
lishment where the people go to get
their timepieces regulated, knows the
system, and knows that there is a
sudden pause just before the exact
stroke of nine o'clock--a broken beat
in the ticking. Then all carefully
note their timepieces as the clock il
the observatory ticks the nine-o'clocl
second. Thus they can tell to the
second whether their watches are
fast or show or precisely right.
ATTACHED to the clock is simple
device-a wheel with teeth in ito
Gated behind the secondhand, which
breaks the current at each even sec
ond. Thus the clock is ticking thu
time over the whole stretch of wire
covering the thousands OF miles o
territory in the field of this partlcu
lar observatory"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-07-11
SURVEY NO. 1887 B.
CRESCENT MILL SITE.

Beginning at corner No. l. A pine post
A feet long, ms. square, set Is ins.in the
ground, scribed IL 1897 b; WHENCE corner
No 1, survey 1887 A, Crescent Lode, bears
S SO deg, Is min, + 80 $50 feet; the quarter
section corner on the west boundary of
sec of T s, r 3S e, bears 8s deg II
min E 2026 feet. spring bears n. Gu deg
W, 1853 feet; thence n deg, O8 min, Il 200
feet road to Fish Lake valley, course 30
deg " and S. 10 deg E 200 feet to cor. No.
2; pine post AZ feet long, inches sqnare
set - inches in the ground with mound OF
earth and stone, scribed 81 1897 b; Thence
N IS deg, w 900 feet to corner Nos, a pine
post AZ feet long, 4 inches square, set IA
inches in the ground. with mound of earth
and stone, scribed 81 1897 B; thence S deg
Os min w 100 feet road course & and W;
200 feet to corner No. A. a cedar past AZ 1T
long, inches square, set inches in the
ground, to bed rock, with mound OF stone,
scribed Al S7 b; thence rs deg, 900 1T
to corner No. L. the ploce OF beginning.
Area Crescent mill site, 05S acres.
Variation at all corners, 1G deg o. min e.
The location of the mine and mill site are
recorded in the office of the District Min
ing Recorder in Book I'D" pages 96, 81
and 100. of the District Mining records of
the Silver Peak and Red Mountain Mining
District, Esmeralda county, State OF Ne
yada and in the Office of the County Re-
corder in Book SC" of mining locations,
pages 222 to 225, Esmeralda county, State
of Nevada. The said mining claim and
the said mill site are bounded on all sides
by unoccupied and Incorporated govern
ment land.
Any and all persons claiming adversely
any portion of said Crescent mining
claim and mill site, or surface ground, are
required to file their adverse claims with
the Register of the U. S. Land Office at
Carson City. Ormsby county, State OF Ne
vada during the sixty (60) days period of
publication hereof, or they will BIO barred
by virtue of the provisions of the statute.
o. II. GALLUP, Register.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-07-11
The County Commissioners.

The Board of County Commission
ers met Monday. Present, Messrs.
Laiolo and Morgan
Reports of the various county Off
GERS were filed.
The Board proceeded to count the
money in the treasury aud found the
same correct, according to the Audi
tors balance sheet.
Ia the matter of surveying the
county line, to determine whether
Tonopah is ia Nye or Esmeralda, a
letter was received from O. H. FIT
mann, Superintendent of the Coast
and Geodetic Survey at Washington,
D. c., in which that official says:
" The line may be determined by
transferring the latitude and longi-
tude of Lore Mountain, which is ~
miles west and 1.5 miles north by
triangulatlen. The position of Lone
Mountain was accurately fixed dur
ing the tinental triangula-
ton. The Coast and Geodetic Sur
vey is prepared to furnish an OBJ
server familiar with the methods of
geodesy and such instruments as may
be needed without charge, if the
county will furnish the men, animals
and supplies necessary after the OBJ
server reaches the ground. The
work will take two or three weeks,
depending on the distance and topo-
graphical difficulties.
The Clerk was instructed to notify
Mr.. Fittman that the county will
make necessary local preparations
and requesting him to send the OBJ
server.
Commissioner Laiole was author
lied to provide the necessary teams,
men and supplies to assist the OBJ
server in the work.
The Clerk was also instructed to
notify the Commissioners of Nye
county that our surveyors will soon
be in the field.
Ben Rosenthal, on behalf of S. r..
WATSON, offered $40 for the old school
house at Columbus. Laid over until
value OF the structure is ascertained.
Ordered that the Clerk publish a
notice calling for bids for County
Physician,
]. S. Comes was appointed Justice
of the Peace of Ida valley and his
bond approved.
The following Registry Agents
were appointed /:
Aurora-C. Joachumsen.
Sweetwater-Geo. A. Curran.
Pine Grove-W. N. Aiken.
East Walker-C. G. Buckley.
Hawthorne-A. J. Mccarthy.
Soda-M. R. Averill.
Douglass-A.~ w. Curtis.
Candelaria-J. J. Callahan.
Fish Lake.. w. Leidy.
Silver Peaks. r. WATSON.
Lida-J. S. Comes.
Palmetto Mcconnell
Luning-Wm. Higgins.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-07-11

A Reno attorney has begun three
damage suits against the Southern
Pacific Company. The plaintiffs are
San Francisco insurance men who
are alleged to have had first-class
tickets for the city, but were refused
passage on the regular passenger
train with the information that the
train was full.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-07-11
Letter List.

Letters for the following-named
persons are unclaimed in the Haw
thorne postoflice.
j. Cruz
Minnie Endor
N. II. Harvey
G. f. Moses
MIR. Ravenelle
w. Arthur Sherman
T.. Swift.
r. Nj. KING, Postmaster.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-07-11

1t is hereby ordered that the above and
foregoing notice be published in the
Walker FAKE Bulletin, a newspaper print
ed and published at the town Of Haw-
thorne, county of Esmeralda, and State
of Nevada, for abe full period Of ten (l0)
weeks. o. ii. GALLUP. Register
Dete of first publication. November
10, 1901.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-07-11
SAMPLES.

Piute harvest hands in Mason Val
ley are paid $1.75 per day.
Mrs. Minnie Balzar returned from
visit to Bishop Saturday.
Mrs. S. A. Knapp and son return
ed from Tonopah Saturday.
Congressman Newlands is expect
ed to arrive in Reno this week.
The Orphans Home at Carson was
destroyed by fire on the Fourth.
The Journal notes the arrival in
Reno of two live" newspaper men.
Bill Blackm ore has sold his interest
In the Pioneer saloon to Oats In
gals.
Richard Kirman has been appoint
ed cashier of the Bank of Nevada at
Reno.
W. G. HUMPHREYS of Grow Spring
was shaking hands with old friends
Sunday.
Maxey Sweeney, a well known
sporting character, died in Reno last
Wednesday.
Emma, Elsie, Walter and Harry
Bowler are visiting Mrs. E. Saylor
at Tonopah.
The Bonanza says Elsie Shields
new store in Tonopah is nearly ready
for business.
Mrs. Ida Osborne has been ap-
pointed Matron of the hospital in
place of Mrs. Nunes.
Senators Stewart and Jones will
stump Nevada during the coming
campaign says the Reno Journal.
Chas. Wagner, senior, WHO has
been sojourning at Byron Springs,
Cal, returned home Wednesday.
Virginia City is already preparing
to hold big carnival next FourCh of
July, and $4,000 ARE already sub
scribed.
Last Friday John Sparks gave
George S. Wedekind check for
$780, 900 in payment for the latter's
mine near Reno.
Frank S. Cagwin has been appoint
ed as school trustee by Superintend-
ent Green. A better selection could
not have been made.
W. ]. Douglass and wife and James
McQuillen, who have been visiting
Carson, Reno, and Lake Tahoe, re-
turned home yesterday.
The Pine Grove and Mason valley
stage routes changed hands on the
first of July. George Knoirim now
handles the lines. = Times.
S. R. WATSON and son arrived from
Reno Sunday. Mr.. WATSON has been
awarded the mail contract between
Candelaria and Silver Peak.
The Nevada Hotel at Candelaria is
one of the best hotels in the state
Treatment is courteous and accom-
modatiens 6rst-class All stages for
Tonopah and the south leave this
hotel.
Charles Starr, a graduate of Co
lumbia College, arrived Wednesday
In company with Mr.. A.. F. White
General Manager of the Massven M
& M. Co.. he will inspect the mines
at Silver Peak. er3 81
Fl. G. Blanchard, who holds up all
travellers on the Bodie road at Sun
shine, was in town a few days last
week. His efforts to establish u good
templars' lodge here were fruitless
but his prayer meeting in the brew
cry was largely attended.
Silver-Demecratic primaries fol
delegates to the State Convention
will be held July 10Th. Convention
meets in Reno August Goth. Thu
Republican State primaries will b.
held August 9th, and the Convention
will meet in Reno September 18th.
The engagement is announced o
Miss Annie Odlie and Fred. j. Sic
bert, the marriage to take place il
September. The bride is sister o
General Manager I, L.. Oddie of tn
Tonopah mines, and Mr.. Siebert i
Superin tendent for the same com
pany,
w, J. Henley was admitted to tn
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-07-11
NOTICE
To Whom 1t May Concern.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT
my wife, Margaret Chiatovich, having left
my bed and board. l will not be RESPONSE
BILE for any debts contracted by her
JOHN CHIATOVICH
Silver Peak, Nevada. April Is, 1909,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-12-03
International Arbitration

AS civilization grows, warfare be-
comes less and less the normal con-
dition of foreign relations. The last
century has seen marked diminutiOn
of wars between civilized powers;
wars with uncivilized powers are
largely mere matters of International
police duty, essential for the welfare
of the world. Wherever possible, az
bitration or some similar method
should be employed in lieu of war to
settle difficulties between civilized ma
tions, although as yet the world has
not progressed sufficiently to render it
possible, or necessarily desirable, to
invoke arbitration in every case. The
formation of the international tribunal
which sits at The Hague is an event
of good omen from which great con-
sequences for the welfare Of all man
kind may flow. 1t is far better, where
possible, to invoke such a permanent
tribunal than to create special arbitra-
tors for a given purpose.
1t is matter of sincere congratula-
tion to our country that the United
TO use the good Offices of The Hague
court. This was done last summer
with most satisfactory results in the
case of claim at issue between us
and our sister republic. 1t Is earnest
ly to be hoped that this first case will
serve as precedent for others, in
which not only the United States but
foreign nations may take advantage
of the machinery already in existence
at The Hague.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-12-03
Pacific Gable Agreement

During the fan of 1901 a commune
cation was addressed to the secretary
of state, asking whether permission
would be granted by the president to
corporation to lay cable from a
point on the California coast TO the
Philippine Islands by way of Hawaii
A statement of conditions or terms
upon which such corporation would
undertake to lay and operate a cable
was volunteered.
Inasmuch as the congress was short~
ly to convene, and Pacific-cable legisla-
ton had been the subject OF consider
alton by the congress for several years
1t seemed To me wise to defer action
upon the application until the congress
had first an opportunity to act. The
congress adjourned without taking any
action, leaving the matter in exactly
the same condition in which il stood
when the congress convened.
Meanwhile 1t appears that the Com
mercial Pacific Gable company had
promptly proceeded with preparations
for laying its cable. Ii also made APP
piication to the president for access
to and use of soundings taken by the
L. S. S. Nero, for the purpose of dis
covering a practicable route for
trans-Paciic cable, the company urg-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-12-03

standpoint solely OF our business
needs. 1t is, perhaps, too much to
hope that partisanship may be entre-
ly excluded from consideration of the
subject, but at least 1t can be made
secondary to the business interests of
the country-that Is, to the interests
OF our people as a whole. Unquestion-
ably these business interests will best
be served if together with fixity of
principle as regards the tariff we COM
bine a system which will permit us
from time to tine 10 make the neces-
sary reappication Of the principle to
the shifting national needs. We must
take scrupulous care that the reappli-
cation shall be made In such a way
that It will not amount to a dislocation
of our system, the mere threat OF
which mot to speak of the perform-
ance) would produce paralysis in the
business energies of the community.
The first consideration in making these
changes would, of course, be to pre-
serve the principle which underies
our whole tariff system--that is, the
principle of putting American business
interests at least OH full equality
with interests abroad. and of always
allowing a sufficient rate of duty to
more than cover the difference be-
tween the labor cost here and abroad.
The well-being of the wage-worker,
like the well-being of the tiller of the
soil, should be treated as an essential
in shaping our whole economic policy.
There must never be any change
which will jeopardize the standard of
comfort. the standard of wages of
the American wage-worker.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-12-03
Isthmian Canal Situation

Tile congress has wisely provided
that we shall build at once an isthmian
canal, if possible at Panama. The
encouragement reports that we can
undoubtedly acquire good title from
the French Panama canal company.
Negotiations are now pending with
Colombia to secure her assent to our
building the canal. This canal will
he one of the greatest engineering
feats of the twentieth century; a great
er engineering feat than has yet been
accomplished during the history of
mankind. The work should be carried
out as a continuing policy without re-
gard to change of administration; and
it should be begun under circumstances
which will make 1t a matter of pride
for all administrations to continue the
policy.
The canal will be of great benefit to
America, and of Importance to all the
world. 1t will be of advantage to us
industrially and also as improving our
military position. 1t will be of adj
vantage to the countries of tropical
America. 1t is earnestly to be hoped
that all of these countries will do as
some of them have already done with
signal success, and will invite to their
shores commerce and improve their
material conditions by recognizing that
stability and order are the prerequis-
ties of successful development. No
independent nation in America need
have the slightest fear of aggression
from the United States. It behooves
each one to maintain order within
its own borders and to discharge its
just obligations to foreigners. When
this is done, they can rest assured
that, be they strong OF weak, they
have nothing to dread from outside
interference. More and more the in
creasing interdependence and COM
plexity of international political
and economic relations render it in
cumbent on all civilized and orderly
powers to insist on the proper polic-
ing of the world.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-12-03
Improve the Currency

Interest rates are a potent factor in
business activity, and in order that
these rates may be equaliZed to meet
the varying needs of the seasons and
of widely separated communities, and
to prevent the recurrence of financial
stringencies which inJuriously affect
legitimate business, it Is necessary
that there should be an element of
elasticity in our monetary system.
Banks are the natural servants of
commerce, and upon them should be
placed, as far as practicable, the bur-
den of furnishing and maintaining a
circulation adequate to supply the
needs of our diversified industries and
of our domestic and foreign commerce;
and the issue of this should be so
regulated that sufficient supply
should be always available for the
business interests Of the country.
1t would be both unwise and un-
necessary at this time to attempt to
reconstruct our financial system,
which has been the growth of cen-
tury; but some additional legislation
is, | think, desirable. The mere out
line of any plan sufficiently compre-
hensive to meet these requirements
would transgress the appropriate
limits of this communication. 1t is
suggested, however, that all future
legislation on the subject should be
with the view of encouraging the use
of such instrumentalities as will au-
tomatically supply every legitimate
demand of productive industries and
of commerce, not only in the amount.
but i'm the character Of circulation; and
of making all kinds of money inter-
changeable, and, at the will of the
holder, convertible into the established
gold sIandard.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-12-03
Department of Commerce

1t is earnestly hoped that secretary
of commerce may be created. with Il
seat in the cabinet. The rapid multi
plication of questions affecting labor
and capital, the growth and complex
ity of the organizations through which
both labor and capital now find eX-
preston, the steady tendency toward
the employment of capital in huge
corporations, and the wonderful strides
of this country toward leadership in
the international business world justi-
fy an urgent demand for the creation
of such a position. Substantially all
the leading commercial bodies in this
country have united in requesting it's
creation. 1t is desirable that some
such measure as that which has al
ready passed the senate be enacted
into law. The creation of such a de-
partment would In itself be an ad-
vance toward dealing with and exer-
cisng supervision over the whole sub
ject of the great corporations doing an
interstate business; and with this end
in view, the congress should endow
the department with large powers,
which could be increased as experience
might show the need.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-12-03
Regulation of Trusts

In my message to the present congress
at its last session / discussed at length
the question of the regulation of those
big corporations commonly doing an in
terstate business, often with some ten
dency to monopoly, which are popularity
known as trusts. The experience of the
past year has emphasized, in my opn-
ion, the desirability of the steps then
proposed. A fundamental requisite
Of social efficiency is q high standard
OF individual energy and excellence;
but this Is in no wise incon-
sistent with power to act in
combination for aims which can
not SO we'll be achieved by the in
dividual acting alone. A funda-
mental base of civilization is the in
volatility of property; but this is in
no wise inconsistent with the right
of society to regulate the exercise of
the artificial powers which it confers
upon the owners of property, under
the name Of corporate franchises, in
such a way as to prevent the misuse
of these powers. Corporations, and
especially combinations of corpora
tions, should be managed under public
regulation, Experience has shown
that under our system of government
the necessary supervision can not be
obtained by state action. 1t must
therefore be achieved by national ar
tion. Our aim is not to do away with
corporations; on the contrary, these
big aggregations are an inevitable de-
yelopment OF modern industrialisIn,
and the effort to destroy them would
be futile unless accomplished in ways
that would work the utmost mischief
TO the entire body polite. We can do
nothing OF good in the way of regulat-
ing and supervising these corporations
until we fix clearly in our minds that
we are not attacking the corporations.
but endeavoring to do away with any
evil In them. We are not hostile to
them; we are merely determined that
they shall be so handled as 10 subserve
the public good. We draw the line
against misconduct. not against
wealth. The capitalist who, alone OF
In conjunction with his fellows, per-