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carried on. II one can Judge from tile
number Of ealoons as 10 what business
has the most patrons and is the most
prosperous in Goldtield, the iudgemel {
OF the writer would be that the liquor
business has by far the largest number
Of patrons and is the most prosperous.
Gambling hoses are also and
seemed to be well patronized.
A mile or so from Goldteld Ii tie
town Of Columbia. Those towns have
now grown together aud may properly
be called one The population Of the
two towns is estemated mt eleven thou
sand, This is II wonderful growth when
it is remembered that less thnu three
years ago there were no signs OF civiliza-
ton on this sun parched desert. What
traustor nation has been worked IN that
time! Eleven thousand peopl it'll all
the advantages Of modern CT, .hzatiop
now live where d~esolation reigned
supreme less than three years ago.
Goldt!eld hns electric lights and splen-
did water systems. The cost OF living is
said to be lower than in Tonopah, but
the prices seemed to the writer to be the
same. As only one day and a night was
spent in G IldtielI aud the most OF that
time was taken up with tho instit ution
OF a Rebekah lodge, this scribe did not
have a great deal Of time to gather in
formation regarding the mines and other
matters. flo was, however, fayorably
impressed with the evident prosperity Of
the people and the bright future that is
before them. Like their neighbors OF
Tonopah, the people Of Goldfeid have
an abiding faith ID the future OF their
mines and the permauency Of their city.
The effect Of the discovery Of ricn
mines at ronopah and Goldtield on the
State is nowhere better seen than OH the
railroad connecting them with the ont
side world. This was made veIy PLAN
to the writer who travelled over the oll
Carson L Colorado railroad from the
Mound House to Hawthorne from lSS.
to 1856. During those years he wa.
frequently the only passenger on tn,
train, but all thus is changed now. \
ullman, chair car and n sm pker wi |
now hardly accommodate the people wht
go in and out OF the mining camps %
southern Nevada. People from all part
OF the world go in and out OF this won
derful country every day. In addition
to the passenger traffic, heavy freight
trains run in and out, carrying prov
ions and supplies of all kinds to til,
mines and taking out tons upon tons u
gold and silver ore. One fa~iliar will
the traffic Oh the Carson * Co.orad,
twenty years ago cannot travel over tn,
road today without realizing that til,
dark days have passed away and that
bright, prosperous future has dawnet
upon Nevada.
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who we're members OF the Committee
with Dir. Whitney, state that their
memory OF what was said by the presi-
dent was in accord with Mr.. Whitney's
statement.
Now in this latest and most exciting
issue Of railroad rate legislation the
question OF veracity between the presi-
dent and former Senator Chandler is
forced upon the American people.
There Is no reason why Senator
Chandler should misrepresent what the
president told hin to do and ever, rea-
con why it would have been absurd Tor
him to negotiate with Senator'S Tillman
and Bailey for an amendment that would
be acceptable TO the majority Of the
democratic senators and uIat Attorney
General Moody should hold a conference
with them and write the amendment
unless the president had ordered this
action. Why President Roosevelt went
back on Senator Chandler and declared
that part OF his statement was Iii @un-
qualified italsehood,' is at present a
matter OF conjecture, though evidently
it was awkward TO have his statement to
Senator, Chandler made public that
Knox, Spooner and Foraker we're trying
to ipiure or defeat the railroad rate bin
sbynnRenuous constitutional arguments
aud that ne had come to n complete
disagreement with them For while
The negotiations with Senators Tillman
and Bailey we're in progress he suddenly
changed front and accepted the amend
ment that Senators Knox, Spooner and
Aldrich were striving for. We are az.
Sured that more evidence OF the presi-
dents back down will be forthcoming
when it is necessary to produce it.
The question for those democrats to
consider, who have thought so well OF
President Roosevelt rs to endorse him,
is whether they can afford to cling to a
man who is so Incorporate IN his
denunciation Of those friendly TO hm
when it suits his purpose. 1t is dis
agreeable to criticise the president, but
as he is playing politics like any or
binary politician and when caught be-
tween the upper and neither mill. stones,
squeals like a rat in a trap With Ian.
guage and expressions, that, to Say the
least, are Incompatible with his high
Office
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makes II difficult for any democrat 10
carry the State. But Mr.. Bryan = a
man who has the respect aud confidence
OF all the voters Of Nebraeks, irrcspec-
tire OF their politics. Any republican
in Nebraska will tell you that Bryan is
a clean, able. upright man VI high
ideale, and that tho only thing they
disspprove is hts politics.
1T is a fact that ten years have broad
ened MIR. Bryan wonderfully, and that
he would measure up in ability to the
standard required Ct a president there
is no doubt. supported him in 1896,
partly because he was a bimetallist, but
more because 81 party regularity; now
l would have NC hesitancy in support.
ing him because 1 feel absolutely
assured OF bis ability to ill the place,
and because l know he would choose
sate and trusted advisers.
AS between President Roosevelt and
MIR. Bryan, we're Roosevelt to be renom.
mated, l would not care TO chance u
prediction as to the result. II goes
without saying that Roosevelt is a MAJ
OF tremendous p lpulsrity. 1t is equally
true that there is a revulsion OF feeling
toward Roosevelt. ind that the farther
east you go the more pronounced this
feeling becomes.
Il would not say that the business in.
terests Of the East generally would
support Bryan in preference to Roose-
yelt"
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SUN MONS.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
L Fourth Judicial District of the Stnte OF

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
L Fourth Judicial District OF the State OF
Nevada. In and for the County OF EIko.
Laura Moody, plaintiff, against H.. c. Moody,
defendant.
Action brought In the District Court of the
FourthJu Judicial District OF tho State OF Nevada,
In and for the County Of Elko. and the Com
plant filed In the oficc OF the Clerk OF said Dis.
trict Court.
The State OF Nevada sends greeting TO:
NC. Moody. defendant.
You are hereby required to appear in an
action brought against you by the above
named plalntin In the District Court OF the
Fourth Judicial District OF the State OF
New la, ID and for the County OF Elko, and 10
answer the Complaint filed therein, within ten
days, exclusive OF the day OF ~servIce) after the
service on you Of this summons If served
within this County; or II served out of this
county, but In this District, within twenty
days. otherwise within forty days-or judg.
nent by default wilt DO taken against YOU
according to the prayer Of said Complaint.
Tho action Is brought TO obtain n Judge.
ment and decree Of this Court against you by
dissolving the bonds OF matrimony between
plalntin aud you, the said defendant. aud for
general ~reliefon the grounds or failure TO pro.
vide plaintin the common ncccssarics OF life
which failure and neglect IS hot the result OF
poverty on your part which you could not avoid
by ordinary industry; the said failure to pro
vide the said common ncccsSarIes OF life to
plaintin being for more than three years las,
passed. MI Of which will more particularly
appear by reference TO the complaint herein,
reference to which is hereby made.
Aud you are hereby notihed :hat II you fail
10 appear and answer said complaint rs above
required, the said plaintiff will apply % the
Court for the relief dcmanded' therein.
Given under my hand and the seal OF tho
District Court OF the Fourth Judicial District
OF the State OF Nevada. In and foi
lsEALl the County Of Elko, this Twenty,
sixth day OF May, in tho yea,
OF our Lorl. 1905.
y. q. DAWLET. Clerk.
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Tho COnstock Mines.

In Il two-column article by Edward s.
Spring, published in last Tuesday
issue Of the San Francisco Recorder.
tho writer ID referring to the abandon
ment OF deep mining IN the Comstock
in 1886 sage:
at Las since been m open secret tim,
the shut down WAS ordered to conceal
fatal defects in the great pumping plant
at the Union shaft, which had becn con.
structed from desi !ns furnished by w.
ii. Patton. Tho plant cost 81, 0OO. COO
and when started, the first turn Of the
wheel caused the breakage OF tive giant
hobs that well nigh wrecked the shaft.
The suspension Of deep work WIS II 81.
we're blow TO tile Comstock and it in.
volved heavy losses upon Stockholders
in the principal mines. for there WIS II
terrible decline in market values"
During IL conversation a year before
his death the writer quotes Senator
Fair with making this statement, which,
in the light Of recent ore developments
in OphIr and Con. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. a1d
far eastward Of any former discoveries,
has the ring Of a prophecy on tile eve Of
fulillment)
"My son there will be mining on .be
Comstock a hundred years after you
and are gone, and it will DO profitable
mining, too. Always look Ter IA good
mine around where Il good mine has
been. Downward and eastward is the
way to work. No true cast clay wall Il,
the Comstock has ever been found
Somebody made a fatal mistake Mt the
very time we should have kept on, but
it was probably all Tor the best for you
now have tho machinery TINT viii
handle the water, ventilate tho minee
and got the ore out quickly aud chcnply,
whereas We were badly hn%ndicappcd.-
The writer further ON sRys: al hon
Getty believe that Senator Fair was
sincere in HE iutimatioD that there Ia
another great body OF ore in or near the
old bonanza ground in Virginia City
that is TO be had for the iindinR There
are many things in Con. Virginia and
Ophir on the lower levels from the 2I5O
to tho 1850 OF the former mine and tho
corresponding levels Of tho hitter, that
point that way and plninIy reveal the
existence OF a great noftheustcrly orc
channel, which is perhaps the exponent
OF tho immense ~outcroppngs on tho
Scorpion ground"
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An Ant suRre.tIon.

The Washington Post, a grent friend
OF President Roosevelt'e, says: at is
expected that the department Of justice
will prosecute the coal roads as vigor-
ously, rs the Santa Fe was prosecuted,
Precisely! Harmon and Judeon, who
had been employed as special counsel
to prosecute the Santa Fee, were dis.
missed because they renlly wanted to
prosecute it, and Paul Morton who had
been a party to the violation Of law
charged againat the Santa Fe, was put
in the cabinet and with u fine coat Of
Shitevash from the presidents brush,
was put at the head OF a l~te-insurance
company.
The Post should have nj led that the
president Will prosecute the coal trust
as vigorously and effectively as he
prosecuted the beef trust; and will
probably reprimand Charles E. Hughes
and the courts for the ~"miscatriage Of
JUSTICE" Tor the same renson that ht
reprimanded Judge Humphrey in the
dissenting opinion" expressed / n his
muck message.
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G"id i'rud action nr,h- World.

According to Engineering. during the
last five years the grcatcst gold pro-
6uCtinn has been in Australia, III which
2c.ill ,Gil ounces were raised. Tho
United States came second with ~.
1872 ounces, South Africu Thrill with
lj,iS9. iS3 ounces. Russia fourth with
ounces, Canada fifth with D.
5aS.7l7 "unccs, and Mexico sixth with
2,GGi ,9oS ounccs. But last Year Soul
Afrlcn VIA the great producer. Her
product III 1921 was 81 .G92 onnccs,
while last year IT wns 5,l0i. i73 ounccS.
aud West Australia 1855, lbs.
Tho Rand IL pretty VOL restored la
what il was before tho liocr wnr, aud
gold in the world is growing thicker
thHn hlarIbcrncs, but il in not on
bushes. Nest II the men that get 1t
have either 10 scheme or work for it.
Tho eOrrowfui thing Of il in tl,nI the
Bchcmers get moro Of It ihnn the
workers.
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Wonderful Record.


In Il long article upon the mineral
and the mining development
Of Nevada, particularly in the copper
belt in the eastern part OF the State. the
Tribune " Salt Lake saye:
a great district Of this mineral has
been discovered in and around the little
town Of Ely in White Pine county,
WHICH. by the way, is about the size Of
the State OF Massachusetts, or $500
square miles. There Ii no incentive for
sensational figures for there is in sight
$4,000. 0GO, 900 pounds OF pure copper,
sl,0D0, 100000 in silver and s40O, OOO, 600
in gold.
The district promises to rival some Of
the Alaskan folds, the money exchanges
tor property during March exceeding
those of all the rest Of Nevada six times
over. Comparatively speaking, the
gold and silver values are low TO the ton,
but the immensely Of the output makes
them average with higher values. Cop.
per, however is the king.
Ely is a typical new mining district.
Three banks have been chartered and
three railroads are heading for the terri.
tory. Que which will be finished TO the
camp within Il Few weeks and prospec-
tors and business men are arriving in
numbers daily. 1t is believed that the
biggest mining boom in the west since
the Leadville excitement in 1878 is on.
In olnp~arison with the conditions as
they existed a few years ago. this is a
wonderful record. Millions have been
made from the mineral resources Of the
State and millions will yei DO made.
The production OF the State hae doubled
in the last six years aud new camps are
%sprlnRiDg up everywhere, many Of
which will eventually become per-
manent fixtures.
The eyes OF tho financial world arc
now ceutered on Nevada, whore prior to
ten or a dozen yeRrs ago travellers and
writer's were seenIingly unable TO ad.
vance a point IN her favor. a good
idea OF this may be obtained from Mark
Twain's -Rou2hinR IT," although the
references TO the Stnte contained in this
work fall far shor, OF the efforts Of many
writer's OF the same period.
II is doubtful II there is upon record
the world over 90 complete a case Of
tfnnsio: mRtion in go ckcst a time and
unqueetioDably the end ia not yet In
sight.
The possibilities Of the country from
an agricultural standpoint need not DO
gone into at this time. Mining alone
will hold the floor for many generations
to come and tho end Of the next fifty or
seyenty.iive years will be time enough TO
begin to device schemes Tor the irriga.
lion OF such portions Of tho State as
have resisted the eucroaclIments OF the
ubiquitous gold seeker.
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RoosEvELr's STRENUOUS LIFE.

President Roosevelt ia known to enjoy
a strenuous life and there is no doubt
he is getting his fill OF it. lie ID con.
stantly in hot water with some one and
often has to crawl out Of n tight place
by declaring that his opponent hns lied
"a deliberate and unqualified liar-is
his ~favorite expression. When he re.
piled to the claim OF Judge Parker, just
before the national election, that the
corporations were furnishing campaign
funds to the republican committee,
President Roosevelt declared it WIS a
amonst o i%alsehood' md that 10 II
swere true, then Mr.. Cortelyou and my.
self are two OF the most Infamous men
in the country" The exposures in the
lie insurance Investigations and other
evidence show that Mr.. Roosevelt knew
it was tile truth when he, for personal
and partisan purposes, said it was a
4monstrous ialsehood." In optic Of the
plain evidence Mr.. Roosevelt has never
apolOgized to Judge Parker, nor has he
caused restitution 10 be made to the
fund that should have been sacred to
tho widowe md orphans oi policy hold.
ers which was plundered % cid in his
election.
Then there is the aMason" inciden
which came near to cbibroiling us with
Great Britain, Mr.. d. N. Mason, a
candidate for the Liberal party for the
British Parliament, had nm interview
with President Roosevelt and quoted
him as expressing aheariy o. sympathy
with the Liberal party. There was q
great fuss made about this Interference
With a pending political fight in a friend.
ly county, especially as the party In
powor in England at tina, time was Con
.servatiSe. The President did not issue
o formal statement that Mason was a
liar, but ordered Secretary Loeb to eay
that: The President has no recollec
ton Of mo,iing Of Mr.. Mason; nor hns
Secretary Loeb or my other person
on duty at the White House. They do
not say, ho wover. That Mr.. Mason was
not received by the PRECEDENT. They
morcly say they 10 not remember him.
Tlat was looked upon Ms crawling ont
Of a very small hole.
Tho next case Of Importance was
when Henry NJ. Whitney OF Massa.
stated tia, the president
declared to him aud some other nom
,ers Of a committee tint he favored
canadian reciprocity. Tho president
epied tie statement mud declared Mr..
had deliberately misrepfesont
. him There 10 not a shadow OF a
onbt That President Roosevelt did
himself in favor OF reciprocity
ith Canada. for Andrew q. Webster OF
i1stoD and j. NJ. Hall Of Cambridge,
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Plead rnr .so... Lift.

. M ~ .Ha
a tragic and pathetic sceno was on.
acted this morning in the office Of the
governor wban the father, mother and
two sisters Of Indian Johnnie sat around
the executive and begged for Johnnie's
life.
The family came all the way from
Utah to make their plea for clemency.
and Ind an inter prefer with them. The
law TINT nlloas them 70 ride ON trims
free OF charge helped them TO that
protion Of the expense of the jourue,,
and the kind Offices OF Indian friends
supplied them with foo6.
When they arrived this morning they
were travel weary and hungry but the
the interpreter hurried them In the
governors ohi ,e and the, sat in a circle,
Indian fashion, nrouni tie big deck in
the executive chamber while the in
tcrprctrr talked. '' t--.s
Tho father old mud AIRY. eat in nm
upholstered chair. for the first time in
his long life. As he snnk Goxn III it,
depths, he lapsed aud lnpeed, his R,Olid
face dropped nnd dropped, until he pass.
ed into sleep, while the interpreter md
the governor talked. ,..-
The mother, like mothers the world
over. sat with eyes md eurs alert. riot
for II moment did she take her eyes
from the governors face and she wat CHI
ed, every word ne said with eat like
eagcrness, trying u catch ono single
phrase Of the little English she knowa
that might convey u ray Of hope 10 her
ach u beHrt.
The interpreter talked on and on, III
the high hrwn language OF the Indian
the continent ever. The governor sat
and Listened and listened and the mother
watched aud watched until mt last the
interpreter concluded with IA flourish
and asked il his prayer for c~lcmency
might he c~onaiderrd. .r.
Il guess Johnnie, he hang" replied
tn" governor, for there is no doubt
about the Indians guilt mud rarticipa.
ton i'll Que OF the foIlast Crimes ever
committed il the state.
Il gn,ss +" too" returned the inter.
prefer.
Tho mOulicr saw Tint the h%araugue
was Owe and she shoi II lev swift words
at the interpreter, brt that worthy gave
her very little satisfaction, like all males
"f his tribe considering the q he art
broken mother little else than II u, INST
81 burden, and taking no account Of her
suffering.
As there was nothing moro to say, tho
Interpreter woke up the father, called
20 tie girls and with a flourish ~ hand,
the family lett the chamber, the sleepy
obi ~fa;icr, who feared his life was III
danger because he came following ms
guide, phllu-u riirr- and friend, who was
able IN get no ic?rirvc for Johnnie
more than thc Law extends.
The family visited the prison and cav
~Johuuic, and will probably 20 at once
back To Utah. ns they are strangers IN "A
strange land, uud the Indian loves his
home plnce the Oest.-Carson Appel.
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PRESIDENTIAL pnAorI-

CAL POLITICS..
The cry OF stop thief was never more
30 sationnlly raised to deceive the pub
lie than it was by President Roosevelt
in his recent message on the Standard
Oil investigation. That message was
timed to meet two ~e1igencies. The
Sugar Trust indictments we're presented
to the court in New York the same day,
and something had to be done to offset
effect OF those indictments, which
resulted from the work Of democrats.
And, again, as it has since turned out,
Mr.. Roosevelt was intending to desert
his friends and go over bag and bag
gage to the camp OF his opponents on
the railroad rate legislation Ivy accept.
ing the amendment suggested by Sena-
tor Aldrich. dictated by Senator Carter,
written out by Senator. Fulton, and
credited to Senator Allison, who knew
nothing Of it until it had been printed
in the newspapers and approved by the
president. CLEARLY the president
thought it necessary to play the cutie.
tlsh and muddy the waters, in order to
cover his ignominious retreat INTO the
railroad camp, by playing on his Cal
liope the old tune Of stop thief" and he
played it loud and long. Tho people APP
plauded OF course; for nobody knew
what game he was playing as IN &C
compartment tC tho tune. But when they
saw his purpose, the next day. and
realized that they ha | been listening to
the music Of n siren Of the Lorelei,
men began to say, 4this is all u gam Of
practical politics"
The Aldrich = Carter amendment,
falsely called the Allison amendment,
establishes the 0roadest possible court
review, including the right OF the courts
to grant preliminary iniunctioDs in Ia
vor OF the railroads. 1t makes the legis.
lation practi ;ally abOrtive, il not uncon.
stitutional. II goes farther than Knox
or Spooner, or Foraker proposed to go,
and yot these Senators wore represented
as opposing the president, by going too
Tar. And 80 the railroad rate battle
GLUE III u nhbCO, WB eNeTytninR elB0 TIC
republican politicians have ever under
taken has ended when pretending 10 at.
tack corporations. The attack on the
Standard Oil was Il hoax, n ieiut to
cover the desertion OF the president to
the camp ot the enemy. Those demo.
Gratis who have been fighting under the
presidents banner suddenly find them.
selvcs without II lender; lind, indeed.
that they have been following a decoy-
duck, n false light.
IL any man outside Of the trusts and
railroad combines can hnve u faith ip
President Rooser el,'s professions bore
after, he will DO a 1T subject for a
lunatic' asylum. The democratic con.
gressional conventions which have
endorsed President Roosevelt will do
vol to meet over again. aud cancel their
endorsements. The - is no longer any
possible excuse Tor INDUCING in cuckoo
music.
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Trip to Goid field.

G%oldtield, though only two and a hall
yeafs old. has a larger population md
moro producing mines than Tonopah.
1t is situated in ljsmeralda coun ,y
twenty. eight miles pou.h Of Touopab
and is connected with the latter by the
Tonopah.G oldheld railroad.
The city Is regularly laid out aud hns
n number Of very fine buiIdinRs. Tie
Nixon building Is a band some structure,
That would do credit TO my city. I, IL
furnished with all the modern improve.
ments and Ia by far tho beet building IN
the city. The large majority Of the
buildings on tho main street are one.
frame structures. bit OF n better
class than those Of Tonopah. All are
occupied md every branch OF busir css Ia
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