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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-03-15

IT WOULD seem to be the part of wis
dom in casting about for man as Sen
ator Spooner's successor to settle on
some one who, If found satisfactory,
could be retained in the public service
for several terms. Neither senator nor
a congressman is able to accomplish
much during his fret term, and when
that first term is to be the only term,
and short one at that, it would mean a
useless expenditure Of both time and
money. Wisconsln's interests are of too
much Importance to be banded about
to satisfy the ambitions Of an individual.
The question to decide is, what action
will result in the best service for the
state:" The state of Wisconsin will suf
fer considerable loss Of prestige at the
national capital by reason OF Senator
Spooner's retirement, at best, and unless
the legislature sets about the task OF Sc
lecting the best available man as his
successor in thoroughly conscientious
way, it will prove recreant to it's obliga-
tions to the people. Fond du Lac Com
monwealth.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-03-15
NEW YORK, March 6, 1907

There is dearth of news and interest
in the local domestic merket this week.
No transactions of much importance are
reported, although business in small
quantities is going on all the time. The
buying movement in Wisconsin and
Pennsylvania seems to be accompanied
by a recession in. prices, but in Ohio
heavy purchases of thinner are reported
as high as IA cents being paid.
Sumatra.- market is playing a
waiting pane, and every one is anxious
to hear the results of next Fridays in
scription az Amsterdam.
Havana.-Reports from Cuba regard
ing the growing crop are very satisfac-
tory, previous conditions being taken
into consideration. Since the rains
about month ago the plants have
thrived wonderfully, the excellent prog
ress being due to the facts that the
drouth caused the plants to take deep
root, and that the ground had been well
prepared Leaf.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-03-15
THE Commissioner of Internal Re,

The Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue has finally settled the important
and long pending question concerning
the requirements of the Bureau with re-
gard to the keeping of government rec
ords at tobacco warehouses. The de.
cision is an important victory for the
National Cigar Leaf Tobacco Associa
tion, which has conducted the negotia-
tions with the Bureau, the Commission
er holding that it is not necessary that
Book SO should be kept at each ware
house at which tobacco is packed and
stored. Packers operating several ware
houses may designate the one at which
they prefer to keep their records and
will then bs relieved from keeping Book
50 elsewhere, provided one record is
maintained in each collection district IN
which they may pack and store leaf to
hacpo
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-03-15
L3uCaSCe !.
LANCASTER, PA, March 6, 1907


The stripping of the new crop IN Ian
caster county has practically been fin
ished. and much of it has been delivered
at the buyers warehouses. Probably
seven or eight thousand cases of the en-
tire crop, estimated at $1,000 cases, re-
main uncontrolled for, the holders being
the growers who expected to grind the
packers for more than the fifteen and
sixteen cents through that they we're
paying. The same growers now see their
mistake as the packers are not paying
over thirteen and fourteen cents. All
would be glad to sell if they could get
what was offered early in the season.
The packers expect to gather in all OF
the unsold crops in the near future at
thirteen and fourteen cents.
A large quantity of the early delivered
tobacco has been undergoing forced
sweating process for couple OF weeks,
and by April goodly quantity Of the
new crop will be on the market. Every
thing points to the new crop being every
whit as fine as that of 1905, as it shows
remarkably free from imperfections. 1t
was the one tobacco crop for years that
the growers allowed to ripen thoroughly
brfore cutting.
AS there are not above 5000 cases OF
old goods {19O5 crop left in the local
warehouses, there cannot be a great deal
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-03-15
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET.

EDGRRToN, WIs., March 10, 1907.
The movement of taking over the un-
sold portions of last seasons crop pro-
crosses. As spring approaches there is
a disposition among growers to make
some concessions regarding price and
earlier quotations, rather than prepare
to case their holdings. So a moderate
amount of trading is being done in lift
ing the remnants of the crop is yet under
way The bulk of the sales range from
10 to Is cents, with an occasional lot
at even lower prices.
Deliveries are still quite plentiful at
receiving points with docking and de-
ductions about as before. A few pack
ers are this week taking the last of their
purchases, which means that their ware
houses will soon close down for the sea-
son. About three-quarters of the normal
force are yet employed at the packing
centers but the end of the month will
see many of the houses through.
The market for old stock partakes of
the general dullness that pervades the
eastern centers and transactions are few.
The shipments out Of storage reach
about 400 cases aside from Is car loads
Of bundle leaf. Twenty car loads have
been received in this market from out
side points for handling during the week.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-03-15

than it would have beer had the tobacco
not cost so much.
The reasons given by other dealers in
terviewed do not differ much from those
above set forth. In the aggregate you
have the buyers side of the story. Our
columns are open for any discussion Of it.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-03-15

doing in the market. yet there was some
selling the past week, mostly at seven
teen and eighteen cents marked weight,
though little went above those figures
a cent or two.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-03-07
WAREHOUSE
SPUR READY
One Of the Branch Tracks From
Nevada Northern Completed
Second Under Way

One of the branch tracks from the
Nevada Northern railway at Ely City
was about completed yesterday and
the second is under way. These are
for the purpose of affording conven-
fences for the business men who put
up warehouses, and for lumber yards
and manufacturing plants which han
die large quantities of freight and
desire to unload from the freight
cars upon their own premises.
The warehouse district is east of
Fourteenth street in Ely City. One of
the branch tracks passes through the
alley between B and c streets, and
the other through the alley between
C and d streets.
The Graham Mercantile company
has $50 feet frontage on one of these
tracks. The company's ground runs
back 100 feet. A large warehouse is
to be constructed on this site.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-03-07
OLE ELLIOTT PAYS HIGH
RENT IN GOLDFIELD

Reno, March 4.-Walter Weber,
who is putting up building in Gold
field, has rented the ground floor to
Ole Elliott. of the Northern hotel in
Ely, for $4S,000 for one year.
when we got the building we'll
under way said Mr. Weber yester-
day, "Ole Elliott came to us and
made us the offer of $4,000 per
month for the room, and said he d
furnish it himself. and offered TO give
us check for $4,000. the first
years rent, or, as an alternative, Of
fered us half interest in what he
made there for year, for the use of
the building alone.
We chose to take the rent offered
although we had intended to occupy
that room for our own business. AS
it is we will move on to the floor
above.
Every room in the building is al
ready under yearly lease
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-03-07
Real Estate Transactions

e. b. Stephenson has sold to J. H.
Carbon lots and I, block X, for
$4S4.
Deeds in the recent Lyons avenue
deal were recorded yesterday. Mrs.
Belle BARLEY transferred to Robert
C. Nye and Harry S. Wales lots / 4
and | ) In block 35, and the buyers
transferred the ground to ID. c. Ec-
cles and J. II. Carbon of the Eccles
Lumber company. These are the lots
which were offered to Mr.. Eccles for
$500 some time ago and which were
finally sold to him for $1,000 each.
The Ely Townsite Company sold
to II. l.. Fuller and Henry Baker lot
., in block 50, in Ely City.
The Ely Townsite company sold
to Ernest Tivendell lot in block 10
in Ely City.
Hermansen & Sherrerd have pur-
chased lot in Murray street, be-
tween the Parker and White homes,
from A. b. Witcher of the First Ma
tional bank.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-03-07
DOUBLE ELY'S
LIGHT SERVICE
By Friday New Engine Of Light anl
Power Company viii Be
in Running Order

Work has progressed SO rapidly
on the installation of the new en-
gine and boiler at the plant OF thS
Ely Light and Power company tnas
it will be ready for use about FRI
day. This new machinery will just
double the capacity of the plant and
will enable residents of Ely to use
twice as much light as at present.
The new boiler room at the CON-
panys plant In the lower part Of
town is of stone, covered with sheet
iron. M
The work Of putting in the new
machinery has been in charge Of
manager Weller, Mr.. Grogswell, and
an expert from Fairbanks, Morse &
Co.
With the capacity of the plant as
doubled the company will be prepar-
ed to furnish day power as well as
light at night.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-03-07
MORMON COLONY
In WHITE PINE
Deal Closed For $4,000 Acres Of
Farming Land Thirty-TwO
Miles From Ely
SPEclAL To THE NEWS

Salt Lake, March Through a
deal just closed the Mormon church
has secured control of $4,000 acres
of land in White Pine county, Ne
vada, which will be used as place
of settlement by members of the
church The land lies about 80
miles from Ely and is said to be es-
pecialy adapted for the raising of
grains.
The purchase is in keeping with
the policy of the church to arrange
for land for its members. Already
large colonies have been built up in
a number OF the surrounding states
as well as in Mexico and Canada. 1t
Is to these colonies that men are al
lowed to go and make their home,
paying tell church for the land which
they have secured as soon as they
can.
The land was bought from the
Sutherland estate by Thomas Judd.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-03-07
TRAINS THIS YEAR
ON WESTERN PACIFIC
Announcement That Cars Will Be
Operation On the Line
By August lst I
SPECIAL To THE NEWS

Salt Lake, March 6.-Trains will
be running on that part of the track
completed on the Western Pacific
railroad by August |. This state
ment was given out at the local Of
fees of the company. Almost 600
men are at work laying track and
the work has progressed to a point
40 miles west of this city and clear
to the Nevada line.
Rain has delayed the work con-
siderably and much trouble is eX-
pected in laying rails over soft and
muddy ground, yet with these diff
culties an average of three quarters
of mile of track is laid every day.
j. NJ. Ferguson, assistant engineer, is
in charge of the work and is pushing
it with al lpossible speed.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-03-07
RAILROAD SUES
ROADSIDE INN
Nevada Northern Complains That
Abernathy'S Place Is On
Right Of Way

Suit was commenced yesterday by
the Nevada Northern railroad against
J. c. Alternately, proprietor of the
RRoadside saloon at the upepr end of
town, in the mouth of the Robinson
canyon. The railroad company al
leges that Abernathy is unlawfully
occupying ground belonging to the
corporation. In the complaint 1t is
stated that the company on August
%, entered upon lawful possession of
the ground where the saloon stands
and that on November | 3 Abernathy
took possession of the land, and has
since held it.
The company asks for 5000 dam
ages and rental for the property ag-
gregating 5000.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-03-07
OFFERS TO BUY
MCKINLEY STOCK
Elysta.Ely Company Makes Offer
70 Stockholders in Old
Corporation

There are indications that the Nc
Kinley group of mining claims, west
ef Ely, which have not been actively
Morked for long time, will now be
developed. The entanglements which
have tied up operations have appa-
realty been Strengthened out.
Harvey B. Lutz, NJ. C. Barber and
k&stin Lynch, the committee ap-
astnted to adjust matters. have is-
sued circular to stockholders in
the; Mckinley Mining and Smelling
Company, stating that under the
kArms of an agreement between Ida
q Mckinley, Mary s. Barber, Fred
At0rck and others, 100000 shares of
ASck in the Mckinley Consolidated
Mines Company, now the Willard
Ely Copper company. at the par
value of 81 share have been set
aside for the $500 stockholders in
he Mckinley M. and S. Co.
u II distributing the stock, which
Vii amount to $4,000 shares of
the 400, 900 shares, the committee
charges stockholders cents on each
shsre to cover the expenses of its
work. which total $2,700.
This circular was issued in De-
eemher and the stockholders were
AReted the opportunity to sell
their shares, up to February 1st last,
at, 40 cents per share to James j.
McEvilly of 32 Liberty street. New
fork.
II the shareholders do not sell to
Mr. McEvilly. they are to receive
ahares in the Willard-Ely company
from the Morton Trust company OF
New York City between July 1,
AeOf. and January l, 1908.
There is NO doubt of the value OF
tAe Mckinley group of mines. and
sAder experienced management they
should become great producers.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-03-07
Personal MENTION

E. J. Watts is here from Salt Lake.
William Benford of Ogden is visit
ing camp.
w. S. Sexton of Denver arrived ON
last nights train.
Frank M. Root has rented his new
house up Murray TO Roy Schenck.
Mrs. Schenck and child arrived in
Ely On last nights train.
Assistant General Manager Baylis
of the Ely Townsite company leaves
for a trip to McGill this morning.
WANTED Position as stenogra-
pher and book keeper. Address H,
care News.
WANTED Gasoline hoisting en-
gineer. Call at this office.
e. C. Hair of Johnstown, n. Y,
is in Ely.
Mrs. Alex Goodman care in from
Salt Lake last night.
w llllGln AleNdllueT Is mere lloln
Montana with the intention of open
ing a iewelry setore. He was here
before but could not get a suitable
location. His stock of goods is on
the way.
Harry Randall and Ed Morrow
came in from the smelter last night.
H. Jacobs, formerly of Ely came
back to camp last night as the rep
resentative of Harris & Co.
R. II. Frank got in from Mizpah
last night.
Arthur H. Whitley is back from
Mizpah with the map of the new
townsite of his company.
Judge Brown came in last night
from Elko. He will sit in Ely fol
two days and will hear both probate
| and calendar cases.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-03-07
Lovey Dying at Reno

sAiIan L. Eovey. for a number o.
Sehrs cartoonist for the Salt Lake
herald, and who. by reason of his
al&vef work has gained national
Abnfation, is dying at Reno, of ty-
RApid pneumonia, according to a
special to the Salt Lake Tribune
trOm Reno.
Mr. Lovey and his brother artist
and business associate, AL Dutton,
left Ely last Monday night for Reno
Lnvey was taken by an attack OF
ehiBs and headache on the train. and
8 physician was taken abroad on the
way to Reno. At that place two
other physicians we're called into
consultation and pronounced his
case acute typhoid pneumonia. Lo.
ye5 became unconscious on the train
aad had not regained consciousness
Tuesday night after his arrival in
Reno.
2sLovey and Dutton were making q
teur OF Nevada preparing a volume
OF sketches pertaining to the prom
insnt mining men and investors Of
the state. He Is we'll known here
Hgrticularly by the large number oi
FermerSalt Lakers who are now 10
Gated in Ely. Gle is member o.
Salt Lake lodge No. IS, Benevolen
and Protective Order of Elks.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-03-07
RICHARDS ENTHUSIASTIC
TALK OF ELY'S WONDERS
SPECIAL To THE NEWS

Reno, March An an interview
with a Gazette reporter, G. L. (Tex)
Rickard said:
You can't say enough about Ely
There is absolutely no manner of ex-
pressing the wonderful riches of that
great camp. People in this part of
the state do not realize what Ely is
going to be, but in few years, when
Ely has become the greatest camp in
the state. they will know
Already there are about 1000
men at work. The semlter that the
Guggenheims are building will be by
long odds the greatest smelter in the
world. 1t will lcover 40 acres of
ground and will be equipped to han
die thousands of tons.
THE weather has been bad and
considerable work has been delayed,
but even so there is a large payroll,
and the city is growing with enor-
nous strides. We have just leased
a lot on which to build a building for
our brokerage company and although
the lot is not on the main street we
are paying $50 month for the lot
alone. / was offered $500 month
for the lease of piece of ground
that | have in the business center.
Many fine buildings are projected,
but it is almost Impossible to get
material over the line.
Don't gasp when / tel lyou that
competent experts have prospected
the CumberlandEly and have report
ed that they know of 100000
tons of ore that are in sight that will
net about $40 to the ton. That will
| make a total of $4,000 1000, 900, and
1t is only a part of it. The Nevada
Consolidated and other properties
are in the same class.
'Glut the market with copper?
Well, hardly. The great companies
that deal in the refined product are
willing to contract years ahead for
any amount at "a cents pound. The
production does not keep pace with
the demand, no amtter how many
new mines are opened up.
Keep your eye on Ely. She is
going to have 10000 people in two
years. There is almost no limit to
its growth. She is going to be the
greatest mining camp the world has
ever known
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-03-07
SPECIAL To THE NEws

New York, March 6.-The tes-
timony of Mrs. Evelyn Thaw con-
cerning the revelries of Architect
White, while she was on the stand
fighting to save the life of her hus-
band, has stirred anew the interest
in the sad story of Susie Johnson
the pie girl"
1t is nearly 19 years since the story
of the pie girl was first printed. The
now celebrated dinner was the sen
sation of the time, although the story
did not come out until long after the
date of the dinner, May 20, 1895,
The hunt of Susie Johnson's parents
for their missing girl, who was sup
posed to be a prisoner in the studios
and the girls temperance, her mar
riage and her tragic death after her
husband had cast her off when he
discovered that she had heen the
plaything of great artist, We're SEN
sations in their day. None of the
sordid subsequent events had the
glamor, color and novelty of the din
ner..
Susie Johnson is dead, Stanford
White is dead. But most of the at
tendants at that dinner are alive and
&c holding positions of honor or al
lie head of their craft. The dinner
II that time refererd to as the So 800
champagne dinner, was given by
Banker Henry G. Poor
Very distinguished company, in
deed, into which was suddenly intro
duced the shrinking little girl from
the Ninth avenue and Thirty-second
street neighborhood. Sixteen she
was then, of good American parents
daughter of well to do mechanic
and mother who had brought hei
up in the way she should conduct
herself-lessons that apparently left
her small mind in the presence OF
brilliant men and a great display.
Her girlhood was like that oi
thousands of other New York girls
until she came to her sixteenth year
and began looking around for some
means of employment. In an un
lucky moment she met a girl friend
who had been posing as an artist s
model 1t was then she learned thai
for apparently easy work she could
earn SIS or $40 week and have
her evenings and spend money foi
amusement. When she spoke to hel
parents about it they vehemently re-
ised to pose only head and shoulders
ised to pose only haed and shoulders
they gave in.
1t is an easy transition from heat
poses to figure posing. Susie John
son was of medium height, plump
pretty, brown haired, blue eyed, anC
had great even white teeth. Th'
story of her going the rounds o
the studios is not unlike Evelyn Mes
bits own experiences. Susie becam
a fairly well known figure in the stu
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-03-07
STRAUB SELLS TO
PIE. COPPER co.
DispOSeS of DumOnt and lndepend.
ence MineS...Other Mining
Transactions Recorded

Frank Straub has sold the Du-
mont and the Independence mining
claims to the Pittsburg-Ely Copper
company.
NJ. d. McKane, of Providence
Utah. and Homer Hart of Black
horse, have sold to H. e. Hatch,
trustee, of Logan, Utah, the Denver
group of eight claims at Blackhorse.
Mr.. Hatch later transferred the prop
erty to the Blackhorse-PhoeniX Min
ing company.
Joseph J. Cannon has purchased
the Senator and the Carolina Lady
mines at Cherry Creek from Joseph
s. Hyde, and has transferred the
property to the Biscuit Mining COM
pany of Cherry Creek.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-03-07
SAD FATE WHICH OVERLOOK
THE CELEBRATED "PIE GIRL "

dios.
Then came the turning point in her
career. She was invited to play a
small part in the entertaining at a
novel dinner. 1t was the occasion of
Mr.. Cowden's tenth wedding anniver-
sary Mrs. Cowdin was in Europe.
Mr.. Breese had offered his studio.
There were 80 guests and the dinner
cost SO, 500, or nearly $110 a person.
The men were beginning to light
their cigars when there came knock
at the door and in response to an in
vitation to enter the door swung
open and six walters walked in car
rying on their shoulders an immense
pie. With much ceremony it was de-
posted on the table.
The guests were given brief in
teryal to view the pie--a round pas
try, huge and covered with a delec-
table appearing crust. The head
waiter cut the crust with silver
knife and then, suddenly
From the center Of the pie popped
the head of Susie Johnsonl The crust
fell back and "a canaries flew twit-
tering about the room, while the lit
tie model stood up, covered only by
the accentuating simmer of black
gauze, Perched in her hair was a
black bird.
As the orchestra struck up the
strains of -Four and twenty black
birds baked in a pie, Susie was lift
ed from the pastry amid thnnders of
applause.
II was the original touch that gave
color to the evening. and the cheers
were as much for the pretty little
blackbird as for the man who CON
cocted the novelty. Evelyn Thaw
says Stanford White was the man.
The girls reputation Was made
from that night. Engagements to
pose We're constant The day was no
! longer enough She told her mother
I SHc lldu Dttu dShttl " DOSt DS 2lPC-
trio light for an artist who had writ
ten her TO come on the night of Sep
tember > 1895. The girl returned
early the next morning. She said
she had stayed at a dinner with two
other girls. She did not say they
were not models.
Two days later she disappeared
and her parents heard no more OF
her. They went to the police and to
the press. saying that their daughter
was held somewhere in some studio
building. One man they seemed to
have in mind, but the name was moi
revealed.
The case dropped out of sight and
was forgotten until Susie Johnson
marriage again made the pie girls
story common gossip. The man who
had married her cast her off and she
died miserably and was buried in tn,
Potter's field. But she had made
night pleasant for Stanford White
friends.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-03-07
TRAINMEN KILLED
in BINGHAM WRECK
Lose Control Of Ore Train, Going
Down Grade From Mines, With
Fatal Results
SPECIAL To The NEws

Bingham. Utah, March 1.-Two
men were killed in wreck OBJ the
Copper Belt railroad in Bingham this
morning. The dead are Engineer j.
c. Lynch and fireman Wyatt Two
brakemen were so badly injured it
Is feared they may die. The con-
ductor was also seriously hurt.
An ore train while going down a
grade got beyond control and ran
into an embankment. The engine
and some of the cars were overturn-
ed The accident occurred near the
Ohio Copper company's mines.