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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-02-02
we trust that the delegation from Idaho
county will be first and foremost in this
work.
PROTECT PUBLIC LANDS.
Order Sent By Secretary Of Interior
REGARDING Fencing.

The order sent out by the secretary
of the Interior to the several land offices
over the country, concerning the fenc-
ing of public lands, reads as follows
Sir: Referring to the circular OF in
structions to special agents of your
office, approved by me on January ~,
1904, relative to their duties under the
act of February 25, 1885, (23 Stat. ,321)
entitled IAN act to prevent unlawful
occupancy of the public lands, you are
advised that said circular is hereby
amended and modified as follows:
Strike out from said circular para
graphs and 6, and insert in lieu there
of the following:
1t shall be the duty of the special
agent on receipt of any charge or com
plant or upon information being ac-
quired by him from any source, that an
unlawful inclosure is being maintained
by any person or persons, association,
or corporations, to at once proceed to
secure sufficient data, including de-
scription of the lands inclosed, with
reasonable certainty, not necessarily by
metes and bounds, nor by governmental
subdivisions of surveyed land, but only
so that the inclosure may be identified
and the person or persons guilty of the
violation, as nearly as may be, and by
description if the name can not, on reas-
enable inquiry, be ascertained, and to
at once submit such case, with the data
thus obtained, to the United States at
torney for prosecution.
1t shall be the duty of the special
agent, and he shall be so instructed, to
be alert and vigilant to detect the exist
ence of unlawful Enclosures in his dis
trict and to proceed in accordance there
with as hereinbefore directed, and that
he is not to construe his duties as re-
quiring that, before proceeding in the
matter of an unlawful inclosure there
must first be filed with him forma
complaint by some person or persons
acquainted with the facts, but it shall
be his duty, as hereinabove stated, t.
take the initiative himself.
In this connection you are further in
structed, by direction of the president
to at once notify all of the specia
agents and receivers and registers O
local land Offices throughout the Unite'
States, and to give the widest pubicit,
thereto that the provisions of said &C
of February rs, 1885, for the summar
destruction of Enclosures and obstruc
lions existing in violation of said &C
will be rigidly enforced on and afte
April l, 1907.
Respectfully,
: E. A. HITCHCOCK,
Secretary of the Interior.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-02-02
Respectfully,
E. A. HITCHCOCK,
Secretary of the Interior.
PULSE OF THE PRESS.

Of course it is purely in the interests
of the people that government funds
are used to send an army of forest re-
serve pensioners to attend every gath
ering of men in the country, is an ex-
preston from the Capital News. The
News says the bureau is so fearful that
the people, not being able to handle
their heritage of public lands, may not
be able to understand how solicitous the
chiefs and understrappers of that de-
partment are for the general good, that
large amount of money must be ex-
pended in sending numbers of them
around to "make them wise"
Commenting on an editorial from the
Washington Post on American Fopulism,
the Pocatello Tribune says the doctrines
and dreams of these tobacco-chewing
whittlers of dry goods boxes are en-
blazoned on every platform of the re-
publican and democratic parties today
indeed through the activity of our indie
fatigable president, many of them are
perpetuated on the statute books of the
republic. There is scarcely reform or
a doctrine achieved by successful
party or dropped in the artless inno-
cence of self-conscious originality from
the lips of the modern spellbinder that
is not embalmed in the brief archives of
American Populism.
| Speaking Of Senator Guggenheim and
his resignation from directorate of the
several corporations to which he be-
longed, the Wallace Times is inclined
to believe that Simon's ambition is not
attracted by the honor or the salary the
position holds. The Times thinks it is
reasora able to suppose that holding the
interest he does in the smelter trust,
that in view of the fact that he with
his brothers control the trust, that Sen
ator Guggenheim will go to the senate
and there work for and vote for the
passage of antitrust legislation.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-02-02
LAW AND RESPONSIBILITY.

1t appears to be the thought of some
of the members of the present legisla-
ture that Idaho is in need of little
legislation to protect the fool and his
money from wildcat speculations in
mining stocks. The subject occupied
great deal of the time Of the house last
week. The bill proposed aims particu-
larly at newspapers, it being the inten-
ton to make it serious offence for the
publisher who boosts mining PROPOSE
ton when he knows that the same does
not possess merit.
In view of the fact that the session is
now nearly half over, and there are so
many matters of Importance to the
state, it seems the Lawmakers could
employ their time to better advantage
than to give it to the consideration of
fancied wrong. The Mining News be-
lieves the author of the bill is barking
up the wrong tree" That there are
many wrongs in connection with the
promotion of mining companies cannot
be denied, but the newspapers take no
hand in them. So far as this paper has
been able to see, all the mentions given
mining companies by the press come
from some one interested in the COM
panies and the information given by the
party who is interviewed is usually
placed in quotation marks. Publishers
adopt the custom of quoting mining pro-
moters generally because they want to
give the news, and are not in a position
to give expert Judgment as to the legit-
macy of the proposition. And then,
too, many mining companies that on
the start appear to be wildcatters, and
are so classed by experts, turn out to be
sound and paying concerns. Such sur
prises in mining are due to the fact that,
all things being equal, one man cannot
"see in the ground" any farther than
another, and there is no one road to
success.
A law that would protect the fool and
his money would be placed in the cate
CORY of the curfew ordinance, the cum
pulsory educational law. In some towns
the inclination for law to supercede pa
rental authority has gone so far as tx
propose the creation of department
of public spankers, where the waywarc
youth can receive proper correction.
No-a little reforming may be needed
along the line of promoting the mining
industry, but the remedy, to be effec
tive, must go farther back than the
newspapers, whose greatest and only
sin is their publishing the news as it il
given them.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-02-02

read: Their Only Crime Was Loyalty
to the Working Men," Another: "Shall
Our Brothers Be Murdered?" Another
''Second Anniversary of St. Petersburg
Massacre. Short anarchistic speeches
were made in the open air at the close
of the parade, in which nearly all of the
public officers were denounced, includ-
ing the president, the supreme court of
the United States, the supreme court of
the state of Idaho, the governor of the
state of Idaho, and those prosecuting
the case.
Commenting on the outrage, the Lew
iston Tribune says:
Here is certainly discouraging stu
alton for those entrusted with the en-
forcement of law as well as for those
whose own rights and safety are de-
rived from the enforcement of law. If
the courts and authorities can be intimi-
dated by such demonstrations and ex
pressions what can the end be except
anarchy, desolation, chaos? Is it any
wonder now that thoughtful men long
ago foresaw where the supreme contest
lay, and determined to set aside all
minor and transient considerations in
order to encourage and support the con-
stituted authorities in dealing with the
calamatous tendencies manifested in
these proceedings at Goldfeld and else
where? The origin Of this situation lies
far back of where we are now and has
grown from small beginnings, success
fully carried out and condoned, to the
present open and boastful defiance of
law and challenge of government. The
terms of the defiance are, in effect, that
the Western Federation of Miners is a
privileged organization, whom the offic-
ers of the law can touch only at per-
sonal peril. Scores of little grass-grown
mounds pointing straight to Steunen-
berg's newly-made tomb, are mute tes-
timony to the power and the plan of this
threat, and equal testimony to the fail
ure and folly and shame of the state.
And what have these weak and mis-
guided men reaped from the dragon S
teeth they have sown and are sowing?
So far only blood, crime and sorrow.
They have sent their victims to the
grave, but what has it profited them?
They are outlawed from their former
strongholds, some are fugitives with a
price on their heads, others are in prison
and in the shadow of the gallows. What
new doom are they counting for them
selves in attempting to overthrow al
the combined forces of the civilized
world? What mockery on christian
era that such alteration could exist anC
that such conditions could have origi
mated, grown and fourished in an en-
i lighteneds commonwealth, where there
are schools in every hamlet, such oppor
tunities and endowments as no people
ever had before or will have again, sucl
reason to be proud of being a citizen o.
this country and sharer in its great
ness and honor, and yet where men or
ganize and conspire to attack all this, tt
replace it with more horrors like thos'
the state is seeking to prevent, to ARA,
themselves under the puny and odiou
red flag against the mightiest, proudes
banner ever yet raised by mems hands
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-02-02

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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-04-06
Detwiler In Hiding
on the Coast
Toledo Dispatch Says
He Is Close to
This City

TOLEDO, Ohio, April S.
1t was learned tonight by a
representative of The Call,
from a relative of A. K. Det-
wiler, that Detwiler is close
to San Francisco and is in
daily communication with
his friends and San Fran
cisco attorneys who are TAX
ing care of his interests. He
says that Detwiler is inno-
cent and that he will put ur
the most strenuous fight San
Francisco has seen for some
time.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-04-06
W Watch Jury Box
for Ringer
Prosecutors of Ruef
Keep Wary Eye
on Defense

Variety promises TO he the spice of
soon as the present trial on a charge
of exfortiop Ia finished, the boss Will
be placed before the bnr to be tried
on the charge of bribipg members of
the Board of Supervisors. These later
indictments are thought by the prose-
the liberty of EIisor Biggy's charge
than are the extortion accusations.
The Supervisors who confessed their
sins before the Grand Jury will have
to repeat their shameful recital before
the court. word for ward, under penalty
of being indicted for perjury. While
the testimony taken before the Grand
Jury may not be used against the ac-
cused curly boss, the men who gave it
will have to punctiliously, confirm their
tales of bribery or go to jail.
Yesterday was a blank day in court
proceedings. the Temple Israel, where
Judge Dunne's court is located, being
used for religious ceremonies. On Mon
day. however, the court will convene
again and then the task of impaneling
a jury will be proceeded with. Henry
Ach, cynically proud of his achieve
ments as a hinderer OF justice, says
that the jury cannot be impaneled until
Christmas The attorneys for the state
say that the jury will be gathered in
shorter time, probably within two
weeks, and then testimony will be
heard The taking of testimony in the
extortion case should not take as long
as the work of forming the jury.
The District Attorneys office is
guarding in every way against Ruefs
scheme to put a ringer into the jury
box. Several vcniremen already ex-
amined have fallen under the suspicion
of the alert Langdon and Special
Prosecutor Hiram W. Johnson. They
have been weeded out on statutory
grounds. so far, and it has not been
found necessary to indulge in the lin
tied luxury of a peremptory challenge.
AS each man against whom suspicion
was directed would fall out of the
basket. the face of Ruef would fall a
few degrees. His chagrin was palpa-
|
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-04-06
REASON Of GAR
TOTTERSA AND He
WILL AbO|CATE
London Paper Claims It
Has High Authority
for Statement
REGENT IS SELECTED
Grand Duke Michael Said to
Be Choice for Tenn
porary Ruler
WARM DENIALS MADE
Russian Officials in Great
Britain Say Story Is
Unfounded

LONDON, April 5.-The Daily
Mirror claims to be in a position
to announce upon the highest
authority" that the Emperor of
Russia proposes to abdicate
within month and that Grand
Duke Michael will be appointed
Regent during the infancy of the
Czarevitch. For the past three or
four weeks, the paper says, events
in this direction have been pro-
ceeding with lightning-likc rapid
ity in St. Petersburg, but the
secret has been well kept.
Lately" declares the paper,
the Empcror's mind has given
way even more completely and he
has shown himself incapable of
performing the smallest duties of
MS rank.
The lower house OF Parliament is to
be abolished and there will be formed
a military dictatorship with the object
OF stamping out revolution and putting
an end to anarchy in Russia The pa
per declares further that a marriage
has been arranged between Grand Duke
Michael and Princess Victoria OF
Schleswig Helstein and that the visit to
London of the Dowager Empress of
Russia was chiefly for the purpose Of
negotiating this marriage.
Count Benckendorff. the Russian EN-
bassador to Great Britain, in an inter
view regarding the story published in
the Daily Mirror. expressed surprise and
said that he had heard nothing off,
cially or otherwise to confirm these
statements.
He did not believe them. On the other
hand he discredited the story entirely.
Baron Sternberg, the Russian Consul
General here when questioned regard
ing the story. said that it was "all
rubbish
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-04-06
Ruef Wary About
a Confession
Boss Is Not Ready to
Give Burns Open
Statement

Abe Ruef is gradually weakening
mass of discriminating evidence that has
been amassed against him and the
pressure that has been brought TO bear
to force him to talk without promise
of Immunity I'm return for his confess
sions- To all who approach him openly
ON the subject the fallen boss continues
to deny his guilt In the most strenuous
terms and treats his present predica-
ment with well-assumed air of JOcu-
Iarity. The fact remains. however, that
solitary confinement and the insisfence
of Detective Burns Is telling on him.
Ruef has already confessed to Burns,
but his confessions have not consisted
the prosecution desires. and 1t still re-
mains for him to tell anything which
would incriminate himself or any of his
former allies to an extent which might
lead to indictment or conviction. Ruefs 5
statements to Burns have been made
WITH the utmost SemDlance OF cdnOOr,
but the crafty methods which he knows
so well how to employ have marked
every utteranee. He has talked freely
to Burns but he has talked only Of
those things which he knows cannot
be used against him in a criminal pros
ecution. and never once has he allowed
himself to be trapped. He has gone
dangerously near the line. but he has
not yet stepped over it..
For the past four or five days. Burns
has been with Ruef almost constantly
Every night he visits the boss in his
Fillmore street prison and is closeted
with him on each. occasion fora consid-
erabIe time. He rides to and from the
Courthouse with Ruef in the automobile
in which Elisor Biggy takes his pris-
oner to the chamber where his trial is
progressing. Burns does not urge Ruef
to talk, but he gives him the oppor-
tunity. Ruef has come to like Burns
personally. and the latter's unobtrusive
method of signifying his willingness to
become the receptacle for Ruefs Sc
crets has had the effect which no guam
tity of harsher methods could have
produced.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-04-06
Graves and Phillips May
Be With the ToIedan
Detwiler's Confidential Man in Tele-
phone Company Affairs Can
not Be Found

A. ]. Graves of Los Angeles, Det-
wiler's confidential man in the affairs
of the Home Telephone Company. and
T. w. Phillips of the Adam-Phillips
Company of the same city, are be-
lieved by the graft prosecution to be
with the missing Toledo capitalist in
his hiding place, or at least to be in
direct communication with him. All
efforts to locate Graves and Phillips
have been in vain, as have been the
efforts to discover Detwiler's where
abouts. 1t is believed that when the
Investigation took serious turn
against the Home Telephone Company
and resulted in the Indictment OF Det-
wiler on thirteen bribery counts Graves
and Phillips set off post haste TO join
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-04-06
HEARST SUES TIMES
FOR HALF 4 MILLION
Action Is the Result of
Hartman Conspiracy
Story
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL

NEW YORK, April 5.-william Ran
dolph Hearst today sued the New York
Times Company for 100000 damages
because. of allegations printed ir the
New York Times last Thursday.
The paper printed what purported to
be a statement emanating from the
White House, declaring that John D..
Rockefeller, Edward H. Hartman and
W. r. Hearst had joined in a con-
spiracy to ruin the President politically
and gain the Democratic nomination
for the Presidency for Hearst.
Today the Times printed a statemer t
that in 1905 Hearst had made a deal
with Benjamin B. Odell that Hearst
should have himself nominated for the
Mayoralty against Mcclellan and Their
withdraw in favor of a. Republican.
thus bringing about the defeat of Nc
Clellan.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-04-06

VERA CRUZ. Mexico. April SIN a
collision between two freight trains on
the Mexican Central Railway Gold Vera
Cruz road between Ripconada and
Tamarind stations yesterday seven men
were killed and traffic was blocked
eleven hours. Several persons were
injured The dead include the engineers
Of both locomotives. who We're Amerl-
cans. The others killed were Mexican
trainmen. ----------------
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-04-06
GRAND JURY To
CLOSE HELLO"
INQUIRY SOON
Two More Sessions and
Eight True Bills Yet
to Come
ANOTHER FOR GLASS
Some New Names Will Be
Added to Roll of
Dishonor
POLITICAL INTRIGUE
Further Investigation to Be
Made Into This
Subject
POLITICAL INTRIGUE

According to the prosecution in
the graft cases, the Grand Jury
has under consideration eight
more indictments in connection
with the telephone cases. 1t is
stated that two more sessions will
be required to complete the inves-
tigation into the affairs of the Pa
ciic States and the Home COM
panies. Of the eight indictments.
FIVE will be returned against men
involved in the operations of the
Home company and three against
those involved in the Pacific
States deal. This does not mean
that eight more men will be in
dicted. for some of the pending
indictments, it is believed. are
directed at men against whom
true bills have been previously
returned.
While the investigation into the
affairs of the Home Telephone
Company gave unusual promi-
nence to the names of J. S. Tor
rance, A. B. Cass, A. ]. Graves
and T. w. Phillips, there is reason
to believe that the full extent of
the operations of Abram K. Det-
wiler has not been revealed.
OF the indictments pending in
the case of the Pacific States Tele-
phone Company, one, at least, will
be directed at Louis Glass,
against whom nine true bills have
already been returned. Who will
draw to the other indictments has
not been disclosed.
The Grand Jury did not meet
yesterday, but will resume its sit
tings this afternoon, when it will
continue its inquiry into telephone
matters. The political maneuvers
of the two corporations will be
subjected to further inquiry.
The high officials of both COM
panies have been called as wit
nesses, with the exception of
Louis Glass and Abram K. Det-
wiler, both under Indictment. and
A. ]. Graves and t. w. Phillips OF
the Home company.
Up to the middle Of the week
the investigation into the affairs
OF the Home Telephone Company
had not reached satisfactory
stage, but with the testimony of
Nicholas Prendergast and Frank
w. Wachtet many doubtful
points were cleared up. Prender-
gast and Wachter were trusted
employees OF Detwiler. When they
took the witness stand they told
without reserve all they knew OF
the affairs of the corporation.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-04-06
CITIZENS LINE STEAMER
BURNED ON THE HUDSON
City of Troy Is Destroyed,
but the Passengers
Are Saved

DoBBS FERRY. N. Y, April 5.--The
steamer City of Troy of the Citizens
Line was burned to the waters edge
here tonight The sixty-f1ve passen-
gers were landed safely. The steamer
was destroyed with its cargo of freight
and thirteen horses.
The City of Troy left New York at s
p. M, bound up the Hudson River for
Albany and Troy The fire was dis
covered about o'clock. when the boat
was eight miles below Dobbs Ferry. q
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-04-06
INDEX OF THE
SAN FRANCISCO CALLS
NEWS TODAY
TELEPHONE TEMPORARY So
SATURDAY. APRIL 6, 1907.
WEATHER CONDITIONS
NEWS TO-DAY

YESTERDAY-Rain; maximum temperature.
S. minimum temperature so.
FORECAST FOR TODAY-Showers: fresh
southerly winds Pare IL
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The process Of kicking the fusion corpse. P. s
The Roosevelt disturbance is like counting
out" game. Page 8
The case of the people vs. Hamlet is still
at bsr- Page 9
The San Francisco Gre is expected to cover a
multitude Of sins. Page s
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1907-05-02
Reliable Mining News.

We desire to call the attention OF
the readers of the NEvApAN to a very
important matter, and that is regard
ing mining news. AS has been an
nounced many times heretofore, this
paper would be pleased to receive
from any source mining news that
can be verified, but unreliable infor-
nation or boom schemes will find no
place in these columns. Better no
news at al than hot air spells that are
entirely outside the bounds Of truth
and reason, and do incalculable harm
to any mining section in which they
are made. The NEvADAN, in common
with all well-wishers of this district
and State, is willing at all times to
put its shoulder to the wheel and
boost any worthy enterprise along.
So send in your reliable mining news
and assist us in the good work.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1907-05-02
Received q Painful injury.

Abe Wise met with a very painful
injury Tuesday afternoon. He was
returning from the Italian ranch
across the river with a load OF hay.
In crossing a SMALL ditch the wagon
was brought to II sudden stop, throw
ing Mr.. Wise from the top OF his load
to the ground. 10 falling he came in
contact with a pitchfork which was
also Jared loose from its fastening in
the hay, dropping to the ground, one
of the tines of the fork penetrating
and running up his lett arm for four
or five inches, inflicting n very pain
ful wound. He lost no time in pull
ing the tine from his arm and man.
aged to get back OF to The road and
drove to town aud Immediately sought
medical attention.
His arm is very sore and swollen
and causing him much pain. Unless
complications set in, he will be alright
ia the course OF a couple OF weeks.