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Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-05-30
Who Will Be the Man.
DENVER, COL, MAY 23, 1903.


To the ToNoPAH BONANZA In
looking over our Post, a daily even
ing paper of Denver, notice an art
icle concerning the growth of Tono-
pah, and thought, perhaps, there
might be in your midst a bachelor
or widower who might need good,
true, honest wife. | am a widow,
have been for the past seven years;
am tired of living alone; have one
boy IA years DID, am 80 years old;
stand foot; am of medium complex
ion; weight 122 pounds; fairly edu-
Gated; understand housekeeping
thoroughly from washtub to piano;
am of moderate temperature; am a
good cook; am tired of this country
and would willingly make change
am DESTROYS of an honorable &C.
quaintance of an upright, honest,
gentle appearing, all-around man.
| enclose article with photo of Judge
L. @. Ray or Day. This prompted
me to write to you to inter
cede for me through your columns.
Anyone careing to answer can adj
dress Mrs. Allie Russell, General
Delivery, p. O., Denver, Col.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-05-30

The United State international
monetary commission, which consis is
of Hugh H. Hanna, Chas. A. Conant
and j. W. jerks, is going to Europe
''to learn whether there is any way in
which the great powers of the world
can come together in some plan to
steady the rates of exchange be-
tween gold and silver-using coun-
tries" After spending some time in
London, the commission will visit
Berlin, Paris, St. Petersburg,
Vienna and other capitals.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-05-30

The Grand Lodge of the A. O. u.
W. of the Nevada Jurisdiction elected
the following officers at their meet
ing in Carson: ]. Miller, of Austin,
M. W.; E. P. A. Pyne, of Virginia,
Foreman; John Brady, of Gold Hill,
Guide; J. G. Gignoux, of Dayton,
Recorder; Mr.. McRae, of Reno, Re-
ceiver; L. M. Gle, NJ. Cecil, ]. E.
Gignoux, representatives to Supreme
Lodge.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-05-30

Traffic Manager Bird of the Gould
system has served notice on Mr..
Kruttschnitt, manager of the South
ern Pacific, that il the Gould roads
are not given equal privileges with
the Union Pacific he would build a
direct line from California. This is
the nature of an ultimatum and
means business. The old Gould sur
veys extend east and west across the
northern portion of Nye county.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-05-30

And still another strike has been
made in Tonopah. Even now, before
tenth has been told, the new camp
has startled the world with the num-
Der of its mines which have struck
ore. Another year will see Tonopah
one of the greatest mining camps
the world has ever known. Reno
Telegram.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-05-30

Bert L. Hood, the attorney, left
on No. 3 for Tonopah. Work in the
legal line of special nature takes
him there, but Mr.. Hood informed
the Silver State that in all proba-
bility he would locate permanently
in the growing town of Tonopah. At
any rate h will remain several
months. Silver State.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-05-30

The Raycraft brothers are said to
have sold the Mammoth mine near
Carriers station for 10000
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-05-30

w. d. Michigan has the best com
pliment of men for all classes OF
painting, papering and decorating
also signwriters that any city could
wish n
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-05-30

Landers & Co, mining brokers.
Room 8 Tonopah Lumber Co.'S. Bldg.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-22
The Home of The Advertiser.

BlTIHlUSuam NeWS.
 The new home of The Montgomery Ad- vertiser Is one of the finest and best ap- pointed newspaper offices in the country. The writer had occasion to visit and in- spect 1t a few days ago and was charm ed with the perfectness of every detail connected with the establishment.
 The Advertiser has three-story brick building, The ground floor Is used for the business offices and press room. the latter being in the rear. The business offices are fitted up with elegant fixtures and handsome furniture with private office for the head of each departmen, and his name on the door. Just below the press room In the cellar is the mail- ing room and as rapidly as the papers are printed they go down a chute into the mailing room, which Is very spacious. Just back of the press room is the paper storage room
 On the second floor are the editorial offices with a room for the head of each department. All these offices are equip ped with roller top desks and every con venlence, including speaking tubes and office telephones. The library occupies a large room Here are to be found the files of The Advertiser for half a cen- tury back together with many valuable reference works. The files are chronolog- ically arranged on large shelves and any file can be reached without the slightest trouble or delay
 On the third floor are the composing rooms, stefeotyplng department and tele- graph office. The latter is situated far from the noise and turmoil of the street and cannot be reached without a permit from the business office.
 The Advertisers equipment is complete in every detail and will be further en- larged by the addition of another type- setting machine. The building is beauti- fully carpeted and papered throughout and handsome signs adorn it's front. It Is an ideal home for a great newspaper and is visited daily by admiring friends who desire to inspect it,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-22
THURSDAY, JANUARY as, 1903.
DouBLE GOLDEN sYMBoI.

The American Newspaper Directory uses eer- tain signs to denote the relative standing and merit of the whole field of newspaperdom which comes under its notice. and one of these signs Is the mystic symbol ~l dsnoting golden" which stands for high quality. anu Is thus explained:
 '.Advertisers value this paper more for the class and quality of its circulation than for tn. mere number of copies printed"
 such papers are credited with a single sym boI; but there is higher grade. according to this standard authority, which have BOTH QUALITY AND QUANTITY. and require the DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL VI to deseriDs adequately their standing.
 The Advertiser has been accorded this double golden symbol [ -SJ and is the oal, paper 50 distinguished in thIs section of the 'south.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-22
With Calmer Mind.
Salma Iani,ar.,

Selma, January 20. 1903
 I read recent article signed "Syphax" In The Advertiser and I agree with it's author that Mir. Adams's address was "a remarkable evidence of a reaction against false history" However, the reaction is not extensive yet. I would rather state 1t this way: that 1t is evidence that some very intelligent and prominent people of the North are beginning to make what college men would call a scientific study of our history. That Is to say that they are divesting themselves of prejudice and looking into the past with a microscope, The most notable recent contribution to help along this thing Is Woodrow Will sons History of the American People" in five volumes, just published MT. Will son is Southern man, but he occupies the conspicuous place of President of Princeton College and his book will be generally read by college men of the North. and they arc the ones We wish to reach. Heretofore they have been a cow ardly set and have been afraid to correct historical misrepresentations which they must have known, or should have known to be false.
 I think the wedge has at last been driven into the timber. In fact I thini; that any historian of the North who cares for his future reputation will be very careful how he writes up the last fifty years of American history. for he sees that such men as Mir. Adams are investi~ gating without prejudice and will be pie to expose his errors and make him ridic ulOus. F, T. V.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-22
Letters to the Editor.
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Teaching Agriculture.
JacAson, Ala, Jan. II, 191c

JachSon, Ala, Jan. IT, l9J5. Editor The Advertiser.
 Ihe papers make t1Overnor Jelks, in his recent message to the Legislature, say
 1uey (tne dIstrict agricuIturai scnooisD are not teacning agrlcuIture practlcaiIy or theoretically. DO tar as the tlrst District Agrlcuitural School at Jackson IS concerned, tnls IS an error This scnuol teaches agricuiture both practically and tneOreCicany.
 Prof. H. o. Sargent, a postgraduate of the Alabama FoiytechnIc institute, and an enthusiastic agricuitur4st, mas charge of the agricultural department of this school. He has established a school garden, containing thtrty-eignt plots, on which are now growing fifteen different kinds of plants also variety of flowers. The classes, in addition to school room instruction, are taken into the garden and given instruction concerning the plants and flowers and methods of grow ing the same.
 Here Is a list of some of the questions used in our recent term examination in the classes in agriculture:
 1. Make 6 list of the different plants growing tn the school garden. and tell their uses 9 Name the different Varie- ties of soil. Give the peculiar properties of each. What generally determines the amount of rain in any locality? What are plants? What are the two essential parts of a seed? What Is the effect of selecting the best specimens of Seed for planting? ,. Name the elementary sub- stance essential to the growth of plants What feed do plants obtain largely from the atmosphere? How do plants purify the atmosphere? Do plants obtain nitro gen from the atmosphere? If so how? f. Name the constituents of milk What is the percent of volatile fats? Of non- volatile fats? Give Rabcock's milk test. How can you prevent the fermentation of milk? How should milk be carried to market? Discuss the quality of milk for consumption. How does 1t compare with other foods?
 Here is a list of some of the text books used in our agricultural department:
 Winslow's Principles of Agriculture" Wings Milk and Its Products" Goff's Principles of Plant Culture" Morrow and Hunts Soils and Crops of the Farm" etc
 make this statement that we may be set right before the public We are not averse to just criticism, but of course do not like to be set in false light. Our Chief Executive has been misinformed in part as rrsD rds some of the work of our schools. rust The Advertiser will kind ly give this communication publication. Very truly, Douglas Allen. President First District Agricultural
 School. Jackson, Ala,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-22
A WORD TO THE WISH.

During the past few days there has been persistent rumor to the effect that the representatives of the factories in Alabama were holding some negotia- lions with, representatives of the Cnila Labor Committee. with a view to the adjustment Of their differences. The Advertiser hopes that the story is true.
 We also hope that, as an honorable and happy result of these conferences, the mills will decide to withdraw their op- position to the reasonable and conserva- tive measure suggested by the Child Labor Committee.
 some of, our factories present good con- dItions. but for the representatives of the mills to refuse concessions and to oppose all legislation will simply put them in the position of trying to protect those factories in the State which are working children under F. children some times as young as and :, for l2 and 1s hours day; and which. not content with such intolerable demands. have repeatedly worked their little employees far into the night,
 It is absurd to say that law stopping this sort of thing is a law Interfering with mans business" Such prac- tices are not "buslness;" and a law framed to stop such practices is not in terference with business. It is inter. ference with wrong. And it is an interfer- ence justified by every consideration of simple humanity and of public policy.
 This question will not down. It cannot be compromised into silence or composed into oblivion. It has aroused our people. II has awakened an agitation which has behind if not merely one earnest com rnittee and many newspapers. but an ever deepening and broadening volume of public sentiment. The Governors of North Carolina. South Carolina. Virginia and Alabama have approved it. The Democratic party in State after State Of the South has approved it. It represents the collective conscience and the moral determination of our people
 Our word to the wise is this. There may be no other session of our Legisla- ture for four years. The mills have an opportunity to accept in good faith and with the appreciation of the whole State a conservative and reasonable law; or. they have before them the alternative of four long years of aggressive and ever increasing agitation The mills. If they are wise in their own interest, will kn6w which to choose.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-22
TWO FALLACIES.
A Passage from Recent Leafiet of
 Chlld Labor Committee.

The South is spending hundreds of thou sands of dollars at one end of her socia. system for the education of her people at the other end of her social system she Is shutting up thousands of her children in her factories. thus dsnying 10 her cnil- dren the very opportunities she has creat- cd for them
 We are sometimes told that these chil- dren are better of than they were where they came from" This is an easy thing to say. but the statement hides two pal pable falacies.
 Q Inc cotton rnill is bringing untold blessings to many Of our people. But the cause of these blessings Is not found in the fact that, in some or these mills, children of 6 2. s, 9, 10 and Il years are worked daily for F. l3 and II hours-tron dark to dark. That Is not the cause ol our prosperity. That Is the curse of IL
 Jet us hot be guilty of mental confu' sion. Let us not credit the good fortune of the family to the misfortune of ths child.
 @ Nor is l. fair to estimate our duty to the child by the disadvantages of its past. 4 child has right Co face it's opportunt- ties not merely in the light Of the place 1t has come from" but in the light of the place it has come to- The child which has been moved near town has q right to the Sort of childhood which the tuwu prov 'dCs--through it's schools and tS churches. %o man haS d right 70 tcB a vhild that he or she must pass the wears of tender life in the long ldbur Of the factory just because there were not fac tories O. scho~r~ ill the place where they
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-22
SHOULD BE BETTER PAID.

The Geheral Assembly of Virginia has before itea bill to put what is known as the corpoaa ation Commission into effect as provtdsd by their new Constitution. The bill Sptpvides for chief clerk at s1.SOO peri annum and an assistant at H,Ooo. rRe Norfolk virginian-Ptlot says the compeAsation provided lis sabsurdly low" and Addas 7
 No such man can be had for sl,50O unless by accident one is stumbled upon who will, for other reasons than the salary attached. accept the placs. at that figure. Men of the sort who can hold down the job pf chief clerk to the Cor poration Commission are not going abeg- glng and they are not hunting places for s1,6Oo per annHia- ts
 We do not know the demands which will be made on this clerk, or whether a competent man Gan be secured at the salary mentioned pr not, but we do know that here in Alabama some of the most important clerkships at the capitol have for number of years been more lab surdly low than the one to which our contemporary objects.
 Take the office of Secretary of State as fair example, He is allowed one clerk who receives but $1.oO0 year. It is a position which needs to be filled by a good man. There is not only a vast deal of detail work of mere clerical nature to be done, but there Is constant de- mand for intelligence. Information and good judgment It is not practicable for the Secretary himself to be always clerk must not only do all the wolrk but must assume all the responsibility, In addition to that, 1t is not expected that the head of one of the departments should set himself down to do the work of clerk for he has much else to do.
 In department having a number of clerks it Is not difficult to find com potent men at $1.OOO or $l 200 year to i'll the subordinate positions, but where there Is out one he should be reasonably well paid. Up to a few years ago the clerk for the Secretary of State was paid s1,5o0 per annum and it was little enough. It was reduced, along with various others, when the financial condition of the State was not what it Is now. but we thought 1t a mistaken economy at the time. It is certainly so now, when the rXpenses of living are much higher and the State Is able to pay a fair salary to a good clerk. ,.
 It is no fair argument to ay that en can be found who will take tho position at the salary now paid. Many a man takes q position at a low salary. bu, that is no defence for ;he State. The question Is not how eheaply a man will work. but what his work is worth. The State of Alabama ought neither to be extravagant nor niggardly. The clerk in the office of Secretary of sta.e ought to be paid al,5OO year. and there are others whose salaries should be inccsAs- cd Let the State be fair and just to those who serve it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-22
Ought to Be Ashamed.

Dothan Journal.
 We people down here in the piney woods of Alabama, Georgia and Florida feel at times that we have good reason to complain about one thing or another but the fact is that our grievances and hardshlps are largely imaginary or over- drawn. Really We are doing we'll com pared with the condition of a great many other people. especially in the Northern States, at this time. We have plenty of wood with which to make fires, while thousands in the Northern cities are suf- fering from the intense cold and some are freezing to death for want of coal to keep themselves warm. We all have food and raiment and shelter. while thou sands at the North are hungry and thinly- clad and have no certain place to Isy their heads. We ought to be ashamed of our grumbling and complaining
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-22

between Hungary and dalicia and 1t be- gan in 1870 and. has been the cause of law suits. bloodshed and much hard feel ing during all these centuries. The mat ter has just been adjusted by one pr. Wrinkle. Swiss attorney. and in the set clement Hungary only gets twenty acres of the disputed land. This is small pay for more than five centuries of wrang- ling. but we should think that all parties to the dispute would be glad to have 1t over with.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-22
THE OTHER SIDE.

It is well enough to hear both sides of question when we can, so assto get cor rect ideas. Newspapers in the North. as a general thing. can only see one side of any matter in which negroes are in terested, and their readers are thus naturally kept in ignorance. Recently The Philadelphia Bulletin departed from this custom far enough to print the fol- lowing letter from one s. ". Blythe wood:
 10 the Editor of The Builetin-sir: l am colored man, a mechanic by trade. There is nothing in the line or a house in wood that l cannot make. can build all the stairs, windows, makes the sashes. blinds and doors. can build house from the ground and turn the keys over to the owner completed. can draw the plans, mako the blue prints, make the specifications and give estimates iet am debarred from employment on ac- count of my color. The prejudice In this city is strong against me; much stronger than In the place came from. No one wants mo because I am a colored man. Why is this? am thirty-seven years old. I drew the plans of the colored church In Tasker Street. above Twentieth My name is in the corner stone. l built the State colored college of Orangeburg, S. C., and l have built cottages in Orangeburg and for the mayor of Beau- fort, 8. C.. but still am debarred from employment in Philadelphia
 4 letter of that kind lets in some light where most Northern newspapers prefer darkness. There are thousands of color ed men In Philadelphia. and it is pre- sumabie that many of them are like the writer of this letter. They can go to the polls and vote the Republican ticket without interference or molestation. They can take part in Republican conventions and otherwise make themselves useful to the party. They, may probably occupy seats in public conyeyances and public houses alongside the white people. Pos sibly they may sometimes eat at table with their white friends.
 All this they may do, but when a eom- petent and sk;llful workman wants the privilege of building a house for the brother in white he is denied because he is a colored man. If this writer could come to Montgomery and see the number of colored mechanics of all sorts  at work he would doubtless feel surprised. He would not be accorded any social privileges, would not be invited to dine with the whites or sit with them in theatres or churches, but on the other hand he would not be denied the privi- lege and the right to work for the sup- port of himself and family because I am colored man" as this one expresses 1t.
 Some of our esteemed contemporaries and others up North shout themselves hoarse because we of the South object to negro officials and refuse to mix with them in social way, but they -aeeiy give their readers a chance to see the other side of the race issue as The bull. letin did by publishing the letter given above. That isn't their style.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-22
It is Evident.
Andalusia Gazette.

AndaIusia Gazette.
 If the President hasn't done wrong in the Indianola matter we'll be-well, if he hasn't done wrong, it is evident that he has done right. Even if he has done right we're almost willing to say that we'll be-but, Is there any use? Really, if he is right, we'll be--damaged consid- erably. That is, our reputation for sound judgment in such matters will be consid- erably damaged; for. in thought and in word, we have condemned him, most nightly and monstrously, for his course in this Inuianola matter
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-22
Would Be No Trouble.

Gadsden Times-News.
 There would be no trouble with the negro in the South If his mistaken, mis- guided and meddlesome friends in the North would let him alone. If the ne- gro is to stay in the South, he must cer- tainly stay where he belongs. Even the prejudices of the whites must be re- spected in everything that relates to the negro, and the sooner such cranks as Roosevelt learns this the better it will be for the welfare of the colored brother.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-22
COUNTING CHICKENS BEFORE
 THEY ARE MATCHED.

A right pretty little story comes from Montgomery, that the election of a Sec retary of the Senate was q fight between the Knox and BanRhead forces. looking toward the United States Senate cham Der at the first vacancy that may oc- cur. And John Knox man won out Yes and the brilliant young attorney of An niston is just as sure of seat in the Senate at the first vacancy as that hl- more Garrett now fills the place of Sec retary of the Senate. The peop.e have about settled that matter in tneir own minds.-Selma Times. No one can deny knox's briIllancy. but when it comes to a showdown" we shall not fail to hear from bankhead. 1t has never yet been a walkover in a contest with the man from Fayette.
 We do not see why our well informed Selma and Mobile contemporaries should limit the field of Senatorial possibility to Calhoun and aFyette Counties. There are other localities in this State with citi- Eens the equals in every respect of the two gentlemen above named and with just as much claim upon public favor and consideration. As matter ot fact the secretaryshlp contest was settled without any reference to anybody's doing or undolng on Senatorial lines.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-22

The poll tax provision was put in the new Constitution to protect the franchise and to help the schools and it is believed It will work satisfactorily. Every white man in the State who is subject to the tax should pay 1t promptly and help to carry out the intent and spirit of the law.