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Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-09-07
MEETS HORRIBLE DEATH.

G. II. Baker, who was working in a
shaft about four feet deep at his
camp in Stampede Gap, Lincoln
county, last Monday, met a horrible
death. 1t seems he had just finished
drilling a hole and had gone to pre-
pare his powder for blasting. The
powder and caps were kept under a
tree some distance from the place
where he was working. From the
way the body was mangled he must
have been opening a box of caps, and
as he was an inveterate smoker, must
have had a lighted pipe in his mouth,
and some fire from the pipe fell into
the caps, causing the explosion. In
addition to the caps II is thought
about twenty pounds of powder ex-
ploded. The body was found about
fifty feet from where the explosion
occurred and horribly mangled. The
left leg was blown off, both hands
and the front Of the face torn away
Circumstances would indicate that
the deceased was in a sitting posture
at the time of the explosion.
From papers found among his Ell
fects it is learned that he was repre-
senting some parties in Seattle
Wash, being under contract to pros
pect for them at a salary of 1925 pc
month. He had told parties that h
had a mother living in Australia
Other papers found gave his address
as London, England.-Searchligh
News.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-09-07
RICH PRIZE FOR
Whist PLAYERS

IL reminded me of the old days
on the Comstock, said Captain Cox
who returned night before last from
Goldfeld. where he had been n OF
the leaders in the institution OF a
new lodge Of Royal Arch Masons' 'he
first lodge of the character TO be es-
tablished In Nevada in fifteen years
after the lodge had been borr
and christened, there was a httle
whist party. Oh. it was nothing
elaborate, but the first prize was
rather slightly. IL was a huge GU
glass bowl, with twelve glasses II
probably cost $3.50. 1t was Just 2
little souvenir, that was all. But inc
lady that won 1t was somewhat over
come; in fact she broke down an'
went she was so glad. There wa
some pretty keen whist PLAYED ther'
when il was discovered that the mrs
prize was as attractive as it was
Reno Gazette.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-09-07
Mean .,... s1.5 57.7 69.G

Atmospheric Pressure - Mean,
1888; highest 3O.07, August 10;
lowest. 29.64, August %.
Temperature-Highast, 90, Aug
ust 16; lowest, Al, August 10; great
est daily range, 80, August 9; least
daily range, 10, August 81.
Mean for this month in 1906, III,
1907, 10; mean for this month for
two years 20; absolute maximum for
this month for two years, 90, abso-
Lutte minimum for this month for two
years. Al: average deficiency of this
month as compared with mean of
two years, is; accumulated def
cheney since August ]. Sc; average
daily deficiency since August /, LIS.
Precipitation-Tota this month,
trace: greatest precipitation in TWEEN
ty-four hours. trace, August 1, 2, II
81. total precipitation this month in
1906, 1.55: 1907, trace; average OF
this month for two years, 0.7S; tota'
from September /, 1906, to date
6.46; average from September l
1906. to date. O.54; deficiency from
September /, 1906, to date, as com
pared with average Of corresponding
period, 0.24.
Misunderstanding direction, Sc
total movement, 636S miles; average
hourly velocity, Sc; maximum veloc
ity, Cfor five minutes, SO miles pc
honr. from SIC on August 81.
Weather-Number Of days cleal
II: partly cloudy, -; cloudy, |.
Miscellaneous Phenomena-Thur
derstorms, 2.17.
j.. c, PERCY,
Official in Charge.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-09-07
HEAVY THUNDER
STORM LAST night
BOLT OF LIGHTNING PUTS THE
POWER COMPANY OUT OF
BUSINESS

A thunderbolt struck Mt. Brough-
er somewhere near the apex at 1915
o'clock last night. There was a deaf
ening crash of thunder, a fierce wind
swept up and down the mountain,
rocking houses like trees, and every
light in the town was extinguished.
The lightning had connected with
N of the poles of the electric COM
pany, burnt out the fuses and made
its way into the s~ubstation and put
the station out of business. The
shock was experienced at the same
time in Goldfeld and the lights were
out of commission there for ten min
utes.
1t was fully an hour before the
lights again flashed, and the town
was dark as the night that Jim But
Ter first slept here, save for the
flashes of lightning that lighted up
the whole country for miles around.
Behind Mt. Brougher the flashes
doomed up like the northern lights In
the arctic, and the wind came whist.
ing up Brougher avenue with cyclon.
ic force. The storm lasted about al
hour and then died away as sud
denly al it had come, giving place
to one of the most beautiful night
of the desert.
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H%SCO7TY" BARELY
ESCAPES DEATH
nrVTs ATTEMPT TO GIVE
DEATH VALLEY MINER
A BATH.
wednesday's Daily.)

o,KLAND, Sept. 3-Walter Scott,
,stter known as Death Valley
..o,tv" was the victim last night of
!, unusual adventure, Captured by
crowd of alleged college students
- we're hazing several unlueky
'.ashmen by tossing them into the
...hern arm of Lake Merritt,
~.Coottvo was forced to pay a ran
an Of $40, he says, to escape shar-
~ the fate of the luckless students.
sou minutes later he was rescued
,,om the students by Sergeant of Po-
j.. Brown and Policeman Caveny,
"A 10 prove his gratitude for his res-
.no by the officers, he gave the SER
,..nt a handsome rife, which he de-
eares is valued at 5000.
4 report was sent to the police sta
tou early in the evening that a crowd
j men we're attempting to drown
,hree others in the lake, and Ser
,eapt Brown hurried to the scene,
intent on preventing the triple MUIR
Bsr On reaching the place the Of
scor found a crowd of young men
vbo explained that they were stu
aonts at the University of California,
and that they had been doing moth
ing worse than hazlng some fresh
men.
In the midst of the crowd was
ascotty," who two days ago had his
arm broken in an automobile acct
dent. On seeing the bandage around
the arm Of the Death valley miner
Sergeant Brown questioned the lat.
Ter and found that he "a not one d
he students and that he wished t.
get away from his companions.
Brown invited the man to get into
the police automobile and started fo-
town, and then 1t was that he learn
ed that his guest was none othe
than the redoubtable "Scotty," VIII
told him that he had been compelle,
TO bug immunity from hazing. TIL.
miner insisted that Brown accom-
pany him to his home. where he pre-
sented the sergeant with a beautiful
rife Of the Mauser pattern. as a to
ken of his esteem.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-09-07
DRILLING WILL
BE A FEATURE
lFrom Wednegday,s DaIlyl

Nlphi W euHeHuaY > bullSB
One OF the features of the Nevada
State Fair, which is to be held at
Reno, from September 18th to the
slst, will be a drilling contest, and
II is anticipated that a good sized
purse will be hung mp. There has
been some correspondence on the
subject between some Of the miners
here and at Goldfeld, with Al North
q Reno, who is now working with
me committee on program.
A drilling contest would make
very attractive feature of the fair
lot 1t is an exhibition which few PEG
PIE outside of a mining camp, have
seem and the visitors at the fail
you'd not help being interested.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-09-07
MURDER NEAR DIXIE.

Sheriff Lamb received a telegram
this morning from Sheriff Shirley of
Churchill county notifying him to
look out for a man named Joe Wais-
helm, who is wanted for murder, the
crime having been committed yes
terday at Dixie. No particulars of
the killing were given. The murder
err is descpibed as about 35 years
old, medium height, weight about
175 pounds, brown mustache.
Dixie is a new mining camp stu
ated in Churchill county about thirty
miles southeast of Lovelock.-Hum-
boldt Star.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-09-07
AsKEn TO PASS ON TIGHTS.

A vaudeville actress OF New YORK
City. who evidently wants Uncle Sam
to help advertise her, wrote a letter
to the bureau of immigration as fol-
lows:
II am about to put on a new act
and want to wear red, white and
blue tights. The shirt and lowers
win be of red and white, and the
trunk of blue with white stars. Has
there ever been any legislation
against such a Uniform
Chief Terence V. Powderly replied
that tights were outside the sphere
of his official influence.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-09-07
SERVICES.

The funeral services OF IhomaS
K estle. who died Saturday evening
at he Miners Hospital, were hela
Yesterday afternoon from the Pres
byterian church. The deceased was
a native of Cornwall, England ana
had been i'm Tonopah for about siN
months.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-09-07
Attorney COOKE
GOES TO CARSON
nrrom Thursday.s paily.O

AEN~NA
Attorney H. r. Cooke left last
hight for Carson to argue before the
Supreme Court the case OF Costello
and Newhall versus NJ. X. Scott and
the Wonder Townsite Company.
Thomas Costello and Miss Newhall,
1t is claimed. grubstaked Scott, who
located the claims and townsite in
bis own name. and gave his partners
the overlook. The latter got busy
upon hearing of this, tied up $4,000
In the Fallon bank, for the sale of
the property, which had been rushed
through, and began suit. The plain
tins won in the lower court in
Churchill county. and the defendants
took an appeal.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-09-07

II comes put up in a collapsibie
tube with a nozzle. easy TO apply 70
the soreness and inatimmatioh' 10.
any form of Piles; It soothes ana
hoals relieves the pain, itching ana
burning. Man Zan PIE henleuS'
price 50 cts. Guarantee, 500 ~
Tonopah Drug co.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-09-07

Write d. G. Doubleday. Merchants
Exchange, building, San Francisco,
for market letter and sheets showing
actual market prices in all Nevada
stocks, free. You should read Mr..
Doubleday's market letter. tt
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-09-07
sQUELcHED AT THE DANCE.

Miss Ellabelle Mae Doolittle, the
LeesVille poetess, effectively squelch-
"a a young man at a dance the other
uight. Miss Doolittle, when the Tad
nrst became fashionable, was oper-
a'ed on for appendicitis, and the
Young man knew this. In a waltz
sue mad with him, he said
Miss Doolittle. It seems to ms you
uanee better since you had your APP
pendix cut out"
IS that 500" replied the great
p%oetess.
Yes he said.
Well came from Miss Ellabellt
mae, why don't you have yours cu'
out?"
wasn't that a hot one.-Denyel
Post
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-09-07
ONE WOMAN AND ANOTHER.

As plump as a partridge.
AS round as a ball,
A figure artistic,
Not too large or small,
She's a compliment to her Maker
But a woman who knew
How some women do
Said to me
Cant you e
THAT she is a nature faker?'
p. 81 couldn't.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-09-07
METEOROLOGICAL SUMMARY.

The following is the meteorological
report of the Tonopah station for the
month of August, 1907:
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The Bonanza is nov prepared TO
do binding. ruling and blank book
work Of every description In its
complete and up t. date bindery.
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certificates OF location at this
Office.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-04-04
What Boys Learned 800 Years Ago.

Schoolboys in old England took to
Latin and Greek at an early age. At
ST. Saviour's Grammar school, South
wark, in 1911 a pupil of seven years
and three months was admitted as an
ordinary occurrence, who signed his
form of admission, stating himself to
be reading and learning in the Acct
dence and entering into Propria quae
Maribus, etc., and also Tully his sec
ond epistle, among those gathered by
Sternius, and COrderius' dialogues.
ETC." The hours Of study were long
too An old record says that from
March till September 'the child is to
come at in the morning and be at
school till II. Again at 1 and tarry
till g. The rest of the year he is to be-
gin in the morning at and leave at
in the afternoon. The master will not
give leave to play but once a week. .
The master was to be skilled in the
Latin and able to teach grammar, or.
atory, poetry and Greek, as also the
principles of Hebrew. He is to be of 2
wise. sociable and loving disposition
not hasty or furious, nor of ill example
He shall discern the nature of every
child, if such may be discerned."
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Marsh Cup Water Plant.

The plant that / found in the Hud-
son bay region which is most worthy
of notice grows in the messy mus
kegs, in places where there is little
or no grass. 1t is remarkable for two
reasons-the beauty of it's flower and
it's water containing properties. The
leaves, which grow fat upon the
ground, are broad and green. The bell
Of the flower seems adapted as a nat
ural reservoir for water, Of which.
from a large one, there can easily be
obtained as much as an Egyptian cof-
fee cup will hold. But the beauty of
it was that in the early autumn, when
the nights were frosty, but the heat
still excessive by day, the water it
contained was always iced. for these
charming flower bells are evidently
constructed to resist frost, and as they
close in toward the top they protect
from the rays Of the sun the lump Of
clear ice formed within the calyx at
night. The result of this was that
often when toiling along at midday.
hot and weary, through a stagnant
swamp all | had to do to Stake my
thirst was to pluck a few of these
miraculous flowers to obtain so many
small cups full of delicious water
each with a little lump of ice floating
ON the op.-Blackwood's Magazine.
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ODD WAYS or POETS.
Tennyson, ArtisticaIIy Fastidious, Was
Personal SIoven.

Tennyson, Artisticaly FastdIous, Was
PersonaI S!oven.
There is a sort of idea in the public
mind that the poet is what scientists
call a fixed genius" that every poet
Is the exact counterpart of every other
poet There is probably. 10, class of
men in the world-if class it can be
called = whose members differ more
widely in personality.
Pope. for instance, was a mser
Dryden, Sedley, Rochester and Shelley
seemed to have no use for money and
"spIashed it about in the most insane
fashion. Shakespeare was a keen man
Of business. His contemporaries, Mar
lowe and Massinger, did not leave
enough to have their bodies decently
buried.
Coming down to modern times, Ten
nyson was artistically the most deli
cate and fastidious of mem. A mis-
placed comma. an epithet which was
not the perfection of expression, gave
him nights of insomnia.
Yet he was perhaps the most utterly
careless man Of his generation regard
ing his personal appearance. Had he
not been carefully watched by his dc
voted wife. he would have been quite
content to wear q suit of clothes until
it dropped of him bit by bit in obeQi-
ence to the law of gravitatiOn.
A great admirer Of Tennyson once
described his first meeting with the
great poet.
1t occurred at roadside public
house in the Isle of Wight. The late
laureate was seated by the kitchen
fire, with a short black clay pipe he
tween his lips, burning grease spots
out of a pair of check trousers with
the point of a redhot poker.
1t was probably Tennyson's faculty
Of silence" which helped him to secure
the friendship of the greatest talker-
in both senses Of the phrase-of his
generation, Thomas Carlyle.
Carlyle had occasional fits of silence.
and he and Tennyson would sit on op-
posite sides of the hearth for six hours
at a stretch without exchanging as
many words.
At the expiration of such d period
of silent intercommunicati0n Carlyle
would knock the ashes out of his last
pipe and remark with every symptom
of the keenest intellectual satisfaction.
"Aye, Alfred. mon, we've had glori-
Gus nichtr'
Tennyson's great and friendly rival.
Browning, was as different from him
in his personal peculiarities as he was
in point of genius.
He always looked as if he had just
been turned out of a bandbox. Ten
nyson was one of the most silent of
men, Browning one of the most ebul-
lient and ioquacious. Tennyson was
pessimistic and somewhat moro~e.
Browning was always bursting with
optimism and eXpansiveness-Chic
Inter Ocean.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-04-04
WHY Paper Cuts.

Have you ever cut yourself with a
piece of paper? The edge Of piece Of
glazed paper looks much like that Of
knife under the microscope OF course
the little teeth have not the strength
Of steel, but if the edge Of the paper is
drawn swiftly over the finger without
much pressure that peculiar property of
matter called inertia comes into play,
and the tender teeth will cut the flesh
before they are broken. The same prop
erty it is which allows candle to be
shot through a one inch plank or per-
mits a bullet to pass through a pane
of glass without SCATTERING it, leaving
only a clean, round hole.-C. FL. Claudy
in ST. Nicholas.
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His Clever Ally ]:
-. By.
w. CRAWFORD SHERLOCK.

Copyright, 1907, by Mary McKeon.
N.x>xxoN ANNxAAAAa

"Now. Tip. something must be done.
but how I'm going to do it is more
than / know"
lin Granville stretched his great
length on the grass beneath an old oak
tree and addressed his fox terrier, who
surveyed his master with evident inter
est and understanding. There was
frown on the broad forehead Of the
Young man and a troubled look in his
big brown eyes, Tip sat on his
launches, wagging his diminutive
stump of tail vigorously, one eye
fixed intently on his masters face
while with the other he watched the
movements of a squirrel on an over
hanging branch.
"Tm in love, Tip" continued Gran
vile, Ticking the ashes from his cigar
with an impatient gesture. "You know
what that means, old fellow, since
you've been paying your addresses 10
that little spaniel of Miss Browning's.
Yet you can't understand why don t
tell the girl so and settle the whole
matter, do you? Tip, canine affairs are
different from human affairs. Men
have responsibilities, and dogs don t.
That's the whole difference in a nut
she'll"
Tin gave a short bark, as if he fully
comprehended the distinction, and
Granville went on: II have a pretty
good income, Tip, but it is not big
enough to support two establishments.
If / get married. my mother would have
to live with us, and you know from
your own experiences that she is wo-
man of decided convictions"
Tip shuddered at the remembrance
of a whipping he had received for the
slight offense of chewing up one OF
Mrs. Granvilles gloves in a moment
Of observation-disclosures and then hung
his head.
"Well, Miss Browning also has de
cided views on certain questions OF
life, and she and my mother disagree
upon almost every subject. The nat
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ural result of bringing such opposite
natures together and compelling them
to live beneath the same roof would be
trouble, Tip, serious trouble too.
would have to side with my wife
against nv mother or | would have to
side with my mother against my Wife
In either case my position would be
decidedly unpleasant. | don't expect
YOU to fully understand this, old fell
low. You were separated from your
mother when you were too young to
comprehend the meaning of tilial az
lection. But human beings are quite
different and have a certain duty to
perform in looking after their maternal
relations. Now, these are the facts III
the case, Tip, and something must be
done, but l don't know what 1t is
to be-"
The squirrel had disappeared from
view, and Tip fixed his undivided at
tention upon his master, evidently med
itating deeply over the perplexing prob
lem. The stumpy tail ceased it's pen
dulum-like motions, and his sharp ears
were pricked up in an attitude OF ear
nest attention.
''This crisis has come upon us sud-
denly, my boy" pursued Granville aft
er a few moments of silence. Things
were running along all right, and there
was no necessity for immediate action
until this big fellow from California
Wentworth's his name-came upon the
scene. He's been showing Miss Brown
ing the most decided attention. TOOK
her out three times last week in his
auto and twice to the theater. In fact,
every time | went there she was out
with this COMPOUNDED Wentworth, and
| / haven't had chance to say a word
to her since he came"
The terrier whined sympathetically,
and his master continued:
"He's twice as old as she is, Tip,
but that doesn't make any difference in
these days, when men of seventy mar
~ women of twenty. There ought to
be a law passed that would prevent
people from marrying when there is
more than five years difference in their
ages. and if ever go to congress III
introduce such measure That won
| help me now, though, and If | don
| make a move he'll win out and leave
| me at the post. There you are, lip
| I've unbosomed my secret soul to you,
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ANCIENT ARMIES.

Ten thousand horse and 100000 foot
fell on the fatal field of Issus.
The army of ArtaXerXes before the
battle of Cunaxa amounted to about
100000.
An army of Cambyses, $4,000 strong.
was buried 81 the desert sands OF Afri-
ca by a south wind.
A short time after the taking of Ba-
bylon the forces of Cyrus consisted CT
100000 foot, 10000 horse and zee
chariots armed with scythes.
Minus, the Assyrian king, about go
B. c., led against the Bactrians his
army, consisting of 100000 foot sol
diers. 100000 horse and 10000 chariots
armed with scythes.
When XerXes arrived at ThermOp-
ylae his land and sea forces amounted
to 2,641, $40, exclusive of servants. eu-
nuchs, women, suffers, ETC., in all num-
bering 5,2S3. 220. So say Herodotus.
Plutarch and IsOcrates.
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Lincoln and a Suit of Clothes.

On one occasion a judge was i'll and.
being unable to sit in a case. delegated
Lincoln to hear the matter. The ac-
count of a guardian was in question.
He had paid $2S for a suit of clothes
for his ward and justified it on the
ground that it was a necessary eX-
pense. Lincoln held against the guard
ian on the ground that it was an eX-
travagant expenditure and in passing
on the case stated that he had never in
his life owned a suit of clothes that
cost S2S.