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The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-12-29

GOVERNOR WINTHROP AN AMERICAN
scHooLHoUSE IN PORTO RICO.
island development was along the
coasts. The interior, being without
roads except one military highway.
had no means of transportation save
the pack mule and the back of man.
The very best of roads were required
too. Any other kind would be washed
out by the heavy rains. The new gov
eminent has kept constantly at work.
constructing hundreds of miles of ex-
cellent macadam. so that now prac-
tically all the interior of the island Is
opened TO transportation. Large and
rich coffee, sugar and tobacco districts
have been developed by these roads.
Even before the road came the school
house The Porto Rican child could
follow a goat path to school. Uncle
Sam made all the schools free, estab-
lished about 800 new ones, built sew
eral hundred model schoolhouses and
sent hundreds Of American teachers,
both men and women, to teach the
young idea how TO shoot as Uncle
Sam prefers. English was taught in
these schools, end thousands Of young
natives have become very fair Amer
icanos." They have learned much of
our laws and institutions. At first
many of the older Porto Ricans were
suspicious of us, and some of them de-
manded independence, but gradually
they came to understand that the Yam
kee is a benevolent assimilator and
was disciplining them for their own
good.
When President Roosevelt visited the
island in November he was greeted
with great and gorgeous welcomes all
the way from San Juan to Ponce and
back again. The people crowded about
him, clamoring to be made American
citizens, and the president assured
them that he was doing and would do
all In his power to make them citizens.
In eight years Porto Rico and its ma
rves had been transformed. made
over. built up into acceptable raw ma
terial for citizenship. The present gov
ernor of the island Is Beekman Win
throp.
Porto Rico now has more than mill
lion people. About three-fifths of them
are whites. The rest are mulattoes
and full blood negroes, though Of the
latter class there are not more than
$4,000. Illiteracy has been greatly re-
duced. Disease has been combated
by cleanliness with surprisingly bene-
fetal results. The new Porto Rico has
advanced further in eight years than
the old Porto Rico advanced in four
centuries
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-12-29

ut is scandal to retain laws which
sound well. but which make fraud the
key without which the great natural re-
sources must remain closed"
So writes President Roosevelt in his
special message to Congress on the land
laws.
These are words which should be re-
membered for their wider meaning. but
in their special application to the land
laws. should make congressional ears
tiDgle and congressional cheeks flush.
Over and over again for years past,
land Office commissioners have urged
reform, Secretaries of the Interior have
repeated the advice with emphasis. and
presidential messages have implored
Congress to act National associations
of citizens interested. both from COM
mercial and from public-spirited con-
siderations, in the reform of the laws
have added their influence. But all to
no end. Congress has done next to
nothing at all.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-12-29
ROBBERY WAS WELL PLANNED
Wells-Fargo Treasure Box Containing
$4,000 Stolen at Reno

Reno, Nevada, Dec. 22.-Detective
Thacker. of the Wells Fargo service, ar.
rived here to-day to take charge of the
Investigation into tie robbery of an ex.
press box on the Tonopah train here
Thursday night in which a aum esti-
mated at over $50, 900 was taken.
Other officers are working on the case
and one of them is said to have declared
that within few days he would land
the guilty party or parties in Jail.
Much interest is felt in the affair.
There is reason to believe that the
robbery was planned well ahead and
carried out by men who knew their bust
ness and who had the nerve to stay
with it.
AS the Tonopah local pulled into
town Thursday night the electric lights
were suddenly extinguished. While
everyone's attention. including that Of
the Wells-Fargo messenger, was taken
up for the moment by the darkness, a
man is said to have leaped into the car
and grabbed the treasure box. which
was hurried to wagon in waiting and
driven rapidly off.
In the darkness there was no way of
noting the direction taken or just what
had happened. At first the messenger
thought that sack of ore had been
stolen, but investigation soon convinced
him that the treasure chest with $780,
900 or more had been made away with.
He at once reported the matter. but
since then no one connected with the
Wells Fargo Company has been inclin-
ed to discuss the affair, and for this
reason nothing definite can be stated
now as to what the corporations agents
know as to the robbery.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-12-29
PUBLISHED SATURDAYS.


I Meantime the frauds, accumulated
till they came to light in those wretched
conditions which have sent many men
on the Pacific coast to the penitentiary
and which have recently led to indict-
ments in the Rocky Mountain region.
What is TO be done? Simply act. The
way is so clear that Congress can have
very little difficulty in deciding what
action to take. If it will only decide to
act at all. The President has explained
the measures he has been compelled to
take to prevent further frauds. and asks
an appropriation to provide the special
agents necessary for the work. This
should be granted.
As for the coal. oil and gas lands, the
country is behind the President in be-
lieving that they should henceforth be
leased, not sold, and that, while full
opportunities for development are given.
the Nations own interest in the de-
posits should be preserved.-Chicago
Record Herald.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-12-29
StOn All Land Entries

The Secretary of the Interior has di'
rected the Commissioner of the General
Land Office to issue no patents to lands
under any form of entry until such en-
try shall be investigated and examined
by a special agent of the General Land
Office. This order. If not modified
will tie up practically all transfers Of
land from the Government to the public
as it is physically impossible for the
force Of special agents now employed te
examine the doubtful percentage Of en-
tries. Heretofore investigations have
been made only OF entries in which con
tests have been entered or where fraud
was suspected or charged.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-12-29
Some Good Mining Law

relocation on lands actually covered a
the time by another valid and subsist
ing location is void; and this is not only
against the prior location, but all tn,
world, because the law allows no sucf
thing to be done.
4. That when forfeiture has beer
occasioned the claim or mine upon
which such failure occurred shall be
open to relocation in the same manner
as If no location had ever been made
provided that the original locators
their heirs or assigns. or legal repre-.
sentatives. have not resumed work up.
on the claims after failure and before
such location.
8. That location to be good must
be good when made, and that each
claimant must stand on his own loca.
ton and can take only what it will
give him under the law. These propo-
sitions are readily deductible from
Sections 23l9. 1920. 1922 and 2342, Re.
vised Statutes, United States, and arr
supported by decisions from both
Federal and State Courts, and text
writers.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-12-29

RN all probability the present session
ii of congress will confer American
n citizenship upon the inhabitants
worth while to glance az this island
and see what Uncle Sam has done for
1t in his eight years of guardianship
Porto Rico became absolutely Ameri-
can territory at the close of the war
with Spain. 1t behooved the United
In bringing cosmos out of chaos In that
island. Porto Rico was to be a test
Success or failure there meant much.
This fact was properly appreciated by
the administration at Washington, and
that administration put its best foot
foremost right at the~outset-
Porto Rico in 1898 was sorry af-
fair. For 400 years Spain had mis-
ruled the island. The people were for
the most part only semlciyilized. This
little island, only a hundred miles long
and scarcely forty miles wide, had
population of nearly a million people.
Only about 10 per cent of them could
Ttdu VI NTilt. he rest were ueuSely
ignorant. They were also an exceed
ingly filthy lot. Modern sanitation had
not touched the easternmoat Pearl of
the Antilles. In the cities the people
were housed together like rabbits In a
warren or pigs in a sty. In some in
stances three or four families lived In
one room. and some of the families
took boarders. Hundreds Of districts
had no schools whatever. and such
Spanish schools as did exist were
chiefly for the rich or the well to do.
Porto Rico was dark spot on our map.
The Unred States began work at
once. The first thing necessary was to
clean up the island towns and teach
the inhabitants that filth meant dis
ease and If they would live long they
must keep clean. The next thing was
to build roads. Practically all Of the
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-12-29

In a contest by adverse claimants
over the discovery and location. IN q
case recently decided by the Supreme
Court of Utah, says the Mining World.
the following propositions and points OF
law were decided:
1. That . discovery Of vein or lode
on unoccupied and unappropriated
mineral lands Of the United States is a
nrereousite to valid location Of min
ing claim.
Q. That location based upon dis
coyery within the limits Of an existing
and valid location is void.
8. That what has been located once
pnder the law shall not be relocated
until the first location has expired
until the rights OF the former owner or
locator have come to an end. aud until
In law he has forfeited or abandoned
his claim and left the property open
for another to take mp. Until such
ndonment Of forfeiture the ground
is not subject to relocation. for it is
essential that at the time Of the loca-
ton the ground located should be a
part of the public domain. Hence. a
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-12-29
LINOTYPES WILL Be CHEAPER
Patents On Single Letter Ma
chimes Expire in United
States in Sept. Next
From the San Francisco Bulletin

-
Paris, France. Dec. 9.-It is stated
here that the Mergenthaler Linotype
Company OF New York. through their
Paris office, are Offering their latest
style linotype machines to French pub
fishers at tremendously low prices equal
to discounts from 30 per cent to 60 per
cent below the prices charged to Ameri-
can publishers in the United States. The
reason stated for the linotype war in
France at the present time is that
il is part Of plan OF the American
Mergenthaler Company to Andeavor to
force the German. English and Cana.
dian linotype companies into terrific
rial agreement giving the American
company the entire field OF the Ameri-
can continent. This is deemed neces-
sary by the American company in view
OF the fact that their patents upon the
single letter standard linotype machines
expire in the United States in Septem-
sr next. II they don't succeed, then
ne German. English and Canadian
csaSanies will be Offering their ma
chimes in the United States next Sept
ember, when there is no doubt the
prices OF linotype machines will come
down with crash.
1t seems as If it would pay the
American publishers to either get their
linotype machines through French
sources or withhold their orders until
after next September and see what
turns mp.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-12-29

Twenty five per cent reduction has
been made by the Government in the
charges for patenting mining claims,
the order being now In effect. This
schedule of prices will remain in ef-
feet until further orders: Placer claim.
$50; lode claim, $25; millsite included
in survey with lode. sl5; lode claim
within and included in placer claim sur
vey. $l5; several lode locations in
cluded in one survey, first locations in
cluded, each $40; several placer loca-
tions included in one survey. first loca-
ton named. $50; all other locations
included. each s25; certificate of $500
improvements after approval Of survey,
.-Winnem ucca Star.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-12-29
Did Not Hapnen in Eureka

An old bachelor boughta pair OF socks
aud found attached to them paper
with these words: II am young lady
of 20, and would like to correspond
with view to matrimony." The
name and address were given. The
bachelor wrote and in a few days go'
this reply: "Mamma was married u
years ago. Evidently the merchant
of whom you bought those socks dc
not advertise. or he would have sold
them long ago. My mother handed me
your letter aud said possibly l nigh
suit. am 49,"
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-12-29
Wise Advice

A timely suggestion iu this season
when every one suffers from cold is
made by an experienced traveller. who
has found that several layers of news
papers put under a mattress will pre-.
vent the cold air from the floor reaching
the sleeper. Every mother knows hcw
hard it is to keep young child covered
at night. An inventive mother made
square bag of flannel about the size OF
a -four sack. and by cutting hole in
the closed end large enough to let the
childs head pass through, it gave free
dom for the arms without the risk OF
exposure.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-12-29
Esmeralda's County Seat Fight

A new element has entered into the
fight for the county seat of Esmeralda.
the latest aspirant being Nina. rail-
road town. which has entered the list
with the backing. it is said, Of the rail-
road. Goldfeld has been figuring on
being the only contestant against Haw'
thorne, where the county seat has long
been located. but with the entrance OF
Nina into the fight the matter is consider
ably complicated. Nina is badly handi-
capped, however. owing to the fact that
all the Assemblyman from Esmeralda.
and also the State Senator, George ID.
Pyne, are from Goldfeld, and are all
pledged to support the mining camp.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-12-29
Murder at HaZen

Because he would not empty a cuspi-
dor when commanded to do so by the
proprietor of a saloon at Hazen, John
Papy, a laborer. was beaten to death
by J. W. Carroll. The affair occurred
December II, and Papy died Saturday
afternoon. Constable Allen of Hazen
Immediately placed Carroll under ar
rest, and he was taken to the county
Jail at Fallon.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-12-29
Nevada State News

Lincoln County has 2sO delinquents
on the tax list.
State Controller elect Eqgers of Elko
County will appoint his wife as deputy.
An effort is being made to secure a
collection Of Nevada ores to exhibit in
Salt Lake.
There is an exodus from Colorado to
Nevada, 1l9 tickets being sold at Cripple
Greek in one day.
Two Virginia City young ladies have
made application for a course at the
Virginia School Of Mines.
l.. ]. Whistler, Goldfield stock
broker. left there suddenly last week
with large amonnt of his clients coin.
Reno papers are exposing assignation
houses in that town and telling the
public of the beastly times that are
held in them.
The business of the Reno postoffice
has increased to such an extent that it
will probably be advanced to the first
class by the first Of the year.
The Central Nevadan. a Battle Noun
tain paper. suspended publication last
week on account of the entire force
being down with the mumps.
Old Phoebe is certainly coming to the
front. A bank is to be opened there,
and at the last session of the District
Court three divorces were granted.
Owing to the poor mail service al
| Goldfield, citizens of that camp VIII
employ extra clerks at their own ex-
pense in order to improve the service.
IL is stated that Nevada will be made
separate Catholic bishopric on the
completion of the Reno cathedral, and
Rev. Father Tubman is slated for the
place.
One Parker shot and sli ghtly wound
ed a man at Greenwater in dispute
over g.. 80 debt and the shooter was
given canteen Of water and ordered
to hit the trail.
The undertakers OF the State met in
Carson last Monday and organized al
association. The coming Legislature is
| to be asked to enact law making it in
cum bent ON dealers in wooden over
coats to take out license.
| Mrs. Carrie Z. Rose, wife Of George
Rose, one of the owners of the Hum
boldt Star, of Winnemucca, died Mon
day of last week at Salt Lake, after q
lingering illness, at the home OF hei
sister, Mrs. C. s. Varian. The remains
were brought to Nevada for interment,
The Supreme Court of the United
States has declared the Wilson Quaran
tine Act to be unconstitutional. The
ruling removes all orders prevent
| ing the moving of diseased cattle
from one State to the other. 1t II
stated that this will work great in
Jury to cattle men in Nevada and the
western States.-Carson Appeal.
| A treasure box, thought to have con
tanned over $50. 900 in gold and paper
money, was stolen from truck in from
of the Wells Fargo express office a
Reno, Just after the Tonopah local ar
rived on Thursday night of last week
and as yet no trace Of it or OF thu
thieves has been found. ]. ]. Burke
the local agent for Wells Fargo q Co.
states that the box>was known as the
Tonopah box and that it contained al
the money and valuable packages
shipped from Tonopah and other south
ern points to Reno.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-12-29
Ey esight Probably DESTROYED

John Middleton. fireman ON the s.
P. Railroad. had the sight Of both eyes
probably destroyed Wednesday while on
his engine near Winnemucca. He was
STOPPING to look into the fire-box to see
what was the matter with the oil-burner
on the engine. when the oil blew into
his face, badly scorching aud probably
destroying the sight of both eyes.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-12-29
Cooks and Walters Strike

Tonopah cooks and walters are on
strike for eight hours day and new
wage schedule. The scale demanded is
s. for head cooks; 81 for the second
s3 for dishwashers and Mattresses. All
restaurants are closed pending settle
ment of the strike.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-12-29

The name tells the story-eyerybody
knows il; everybody likes il; every body
uses it'll. w. HARPER whiskey. Sold
bv The Eureka Cash Store and the Ruby
Hill Mercantile Company.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-12-29
Porto Rico
What Uncle Sam Has Done For the
Island - People May Be Citizens
Soon - New Schooihouses and
Good Roads-Eisht Years Versus
-Four Centuries - - -

IN all probability the present session
of congress will confer American
citizenship upon the inhabitants
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-01-06
GIRL WIFE IS ACCUSED.
Prominent Party Of Nevada Sues For
Divorce, Charging Desertion.
c,a,;ol tn Times -ReDupIican


Nevada, Jan. 6. -Desertion is the
cause OF action described in the sim l.
plest and shortest petition for di-
yorce that could be prepared which
was filed with the clerk of the dis
trict court yesterday by Attorney D. j.
Vinie. who asks for divorce for
Thomas H Neasham from his wife
Mildred Alderman-Neash While a
petition for divorce had been expected
from either Mr. or Mrs Neasham by
heir friends for some time. the cul-
mination of the affair is creating no
small amount of talk.
The parties to the suit are from
among the best people of the town.
The couple were married about six
wears ago. At that time Neasham was
engaged in the horse business, and had
been for some time with o. B. Alder
man. father of Mrs. Neasham The
girl. for one of her age, was a splen-
did horsewoman and took great delight
in being with Neasham while he was
about his work An attachment grew
ND between them and their marriage
resulted. For a number of years they
lived happily together apparently and
one child was born to them. TIVE or
three years ago, however. Mrs. Meas
ham went back to her parents to live
and 1t became known that they had
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-01-06

,toPELEss SLAVES ARE WHITE
nou,no Girl. Are Being Sold Today and
Have Been Sold for Years as Their
Abandoned Mothers and Grandmoth
o.. Were Sold Before Them - Mar
kct Constantly Growing.

Vancouver. B. c., Jan. 6.-The fol-
lowing is an extract from the report
made to the government regarding the
slave trade among British Columbia
Indians, by c. ]. South, superintendent
Of the Children's Aid Society: Girls
with white skirts, thick, brown hair,
and big innocent childish eyes, are be-
ing sold today and have been sold for
years in British Columbia, to the high
est bidders. The slave masters are
Cape Nudge Indians, the slaves are
white because their grandmothers were
soid before to the white men, and
when their grandmothers wandered
hack to the tribe, deserted and aban-
doned, ahey brought baby girls with
them, and in the course Of time The
male relatives of these abandoned the
creatures and sold these baby girls too.
when they grew up to young girlhood.
The dealers have created market
which is constantly growing, and the
demand has become SO great that 9TH
er markets have been sought, and 1t Is
repo,.ted the Rock Bay Indians are
embs.rking In this awful industry.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-01-06
JEWS NOT SAFE YET
Commissioners Sent to Russia to Dis
tribute the Vast Relief Fund Collect
ed, Believe Repetition Of the Awful
Outraees, Not Unlikely.

New York, Jan 6.-The national
committee for the relief of Jewish suf-
ferers in Russia, received yesterday
from the international committee in
London, a copy of the report of the
commissioners sent to Russia to dis
tribute the relief fund collected in the
United States and in Europe. The re-
port covers the commissioners work
from Nov. 22 to December 10. Up to
that date, the emissaries had been
granted for distribution $2,292,652 in
the cities of Odessa Moscow, krement-
schug, Elizabethgrad. Rostov on the
Don Romny, kieff, Homel, Poltava and
Ekaterinoslav. The Odessa district
suffered more severely than any 9TH
ers, forty-eight massacres having oc-
Cured these, In the KieH district,
outbreaks occurred in forty towns and
villages, running about 1880 families.
The commission believes a repetition
of the outrages on the Jews is not un-
likely. 1t was agreed with all local
committees, that Christians who had
come to harm in defending the Jews
should be assisted on the same basis
as the co-religionists of the commits
sionerS.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-01-06
LIVED NlNETY-FouR YEARS.
Palemon starks Dies at Iowa Fall. Of
lnfirmities of Old Age.

lnfirmities OF Old Age.
Special to Times Republican.
Iowa Falls, Jan. 6.-Palemon A..
Starks, one of the pioneer residents
Of Franklin county, died at the home
of his daughter. Mrs. j. A. Hamilton,
in this city, yesterday. Mr.. Starks
was past ninety-four years of age and
his death was due to the infirmities Of
old age. Up to the day of his death
he had been in his usual good health,
and while feeble for several years past,
was able to be up and about. He re-
tired at night as usual and never woke
up, his death coming quietly and un-
looked for by his people. Mr. Starks
lived for twenty-one years on his farm
near Geneva, in Franklin county and
for four years was a resident of Hub
bard, where he made his home with a
married daughter. For the past few
years he has lived with his daughter,
Mrs. Hamilton in this city. His wife
died thirteen years ago, and the fol-
lowing children survive him: Mrs. j.
A. Hamilton, of this city; Mrs. Fred
Carter, recently of Hubbard, Iowa, but
now living in Nebraska; Frank Starks,
of Ft. Collins, Col; Mrs. Hattie Sheets,
of Ada, Mimi, and Mrs. r. A. Soper,
of Portland, Ore. The funeral will be
held Monday and the interment will
take place in Hampton.