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Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-09
THE NEW RAIL WAY LAW

Governor Sparks is to be commended for his prompt action in
signing the railway commission bill thus making it a law. Every
pressure brought to bear upon him to use the veto power, but with
out avail. the chief executive considering the interests Of the people as
his paramount duty.
We believe that the measure is an excellent one. The talk of the
unconsituttonaity of the measure was for effect. The cry that it would
put n end to railway construction a myth. The railway interests were
given every opportunity to present whatever they considered a argument
before the various committees in the Legislature, where it was given the
utmost attention.
Now that it has become a law we know that its provisions will be en-
forced without fear and that railway building will not be interfered
with in the least.
This invitation is sent out by the editor of the Wonder Mining
News; we need wives here in Wonder. Come on, girls; locate your
claims The pickings are really easy" Wonder if a gold brick goes
with the proposition?
The best result. for want ads are to be obtained by advertising in
the Daily Bonanza. We have the largest circulation of any pub-
hshed In Tonopah. Our books are open to advertisers.
Perhaps the Judge in San Francisco in ordering the coroner to
search for Ruef is under the impression that the heretofore alert Abe is
.nE a dead one"
1t is said that American girls go abroad so often for husbands be-
cause they want to be "bossed"-after the European style. That's
funny! We thought the girls who marry abroad we're getting their FIRST
experience.
Now that Evelyn Thaw has finished her testimony 1t is believed that
she told all she knew and some things more that she didn't know.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-09
NEVADA Miner
REPORTED MISSING
GUEST AT HOTEL GOES FOR AN
AUTO RIDE AND FAILS
TO RETURN.

OAKLAND, March THE mys-
FERROUS disappearance of l.. H. Jen-
kins, a wealthy miner of Rhyolite,
New, has been reported to the po-
lice by Robert Woods of the Pleasan-
ton Hotel. Jenkins unexplained alb
sence from his apartment led Woods
to become anxious as 10 the young
mans whereabouts and he has an
pealed to the authorities for assist
ance in locating the miner, who had
$500 with him when last seen.
The circumstances surrounding
jenkins disappearance has led the
police to investigate the matter. Last
Wednesday afternoon about 2 O'Clock
jenkins left the Pleasanton in an
automobile, saying that he was to
take a party of women driving, living
at 466 Third street. Since that time
the young man has not been seen or
heard from. jenkins is 22 a OF
age, six feet one inch in height. light
c~omplexioned and smooth shaven.
He wore a colored checked suit. a
light gray oyercoat and a light slouch
hat.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-09
Want MAIL route
TO DUCKWATER
PROMINENT MINING AND BUSI-
NESS MEN PRESENT THEIR
DESIRES BY PETITION.

A petition has been In circulation
the past few days that was signed
very literally by all the most promi-
nent mining and business men of
Tonopah asking the Postmaster Gem
eral to establish a mail route from
Tonopah to Duckwater, a distance of
140 miles. Among the signers are
j. W. Brock, F.. A. Keith, Malcolm
Macdonald, +. j. Collins, A. c. Stod-
dard. J. A. b. Jordan, A. T. John
son, II. II. Clark and A. H. Elftman.
The route will cover 40 miles and
takes in the following mining towns.
Silver Glance, Hannapah. Bellehelen.
Clifford, Golden Arrow, Silver Bow,
Eden, Reveille, Typo. Phoenix and
Hot Creek.
From a paragraph in the petition
We quote: Your petitioners further
represent that it now takes seven
days for mail to travel from Tono-
pah to Hot Creek and that a direct
route, as above requested. is not ur-
gently needed for the important bust
ness of the mining operations now
being conducted in said districts, but
would greatly facilitate the opening
up and development of the promising
territory of which they are centers,
and which are now seriously ham
pered by lack of mail and Transport
tation facilities between them and
T%onopah, their natural mining and
business center and railroad outlet"
The petition vas Endorsed by the
Board of Trade.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-09
WITHIN THE LIMITS OF SAFETY

In view of the fact that the public within recent memory has had
cause TO ponder over a series of disastrous railroad wrecks. some Of
which are attributed to excessive speed, it has been considered in order
TO ask whether there will not be a demand for a general passenger sched-
ule within the limits of safety" First, it is most difficult to construe
the meaning of within the limits of safety" The fast trains ire well
patronized; they are filling a legitimate demand; and they are not the
sole victims of disaster If there is any reluctance at the moment
among the travelling public to eschew the fastest trains, 1t is safe to
say that this feeling will not abide long. 1t is against the trend of
the national life. 1t is almost impossible for us to check our pace.
The desire to get from place to place in the shortest possible time is
instructive within us; it is part of our business methods. What we
can do, however. is to demand that extraordinary precautions be OBJ
served in connection with our rapid transportation and that n O posi-
Bile contingency be overlooked, but as for abohshing fast trains it isn't
likely that the public will withdraw its patronage from them 81 long
as they are operated.
The travelling public of Nevada. however, are safe. as on the ques-
tion of speed the railways arr within the limits of safety"
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-09
GOVERNOR WILL
give BARBECUE

CARSON CITY, March Gov
ernor Sparks win give the legislators
and attaches and state officers a bar
becue at his ranch neal Reno next
Saturday. The event has been held
at every session of the Legislature
since John Sparks has been Cover
nor. and It has been called one Of
the greatest successes OF the season.
The invitation reads:
Il have chartered a special train
to carry you to my home, the Alamoa
Stock Farm, on Saturday. March .,
to attend a barbecue given in your
honor. Written invitations will be
distributed later. Respectively.
JOHN SPARKS,
Governor"
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-09
PROJECT RAILWAY
TO YERINGTON
RESOURCES OF COPPER CAMP
FORCES SOUTHERN PACIFIC
TO BUILD

NEW YORK, March Expert
examination of the of Yer
ington having convinced the manage
ment of the Southern Pacific railway
that the revenues are sufficient to
Justify it in the construction of a
branch line, the company has placed
engineers In the field and a survey
is being made, this to be followed as
soon as possible by active construc-
ton. The proposed branch will start
at Wabuska, on the main line of the
Southern Pacific, and extend thirteen
miles to Nevada's new camp of cop
per. Shipments, of course, will be
confined to the high grade ore. the
second-class ore to be milled. Of
the permanence of Yerington's re-
sources there is perhaps no better
evidence than the decision of the
Southern Pacific to extend it's system
into that camp. 1t will undoubtedly
result in a larger amount of develop
ment the present season, and that
the camp is to become one of the
most productive in Nevada there is
every promise. A letter from Yer
ington says that active development
is now going on at the property of
the Nevada Copper company, the
control OF which was recently ac-
CURED by Eugene Meyer of New
York and associates.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-09
NEW WORD FOR OLD FAULT.

Congressman Gaines of Tennessee has coined the word "pencl-
aneous' as descriptive of the inspiration which has attributed to him
something he says he never said. The awful charge he brings is moth
ing less than that the Congressional Record has been tempered with.
That dread repository of wisdom and eloquence which has long held a
place in our yeneraton a a monument of inerracy rs now arraigned,
says the Globe-Democrat, by a craftsmanship which has awakened to find
itself famous in a way it does not relish. We have long known of
a habit OF statesmen to have the Congressional Record corrected in a
way to revise remarks made by them in the heat of debate, and
which o n cooler inspection, they have n o desire to leave standing as
monuments of their folly. But this is the first time, we believe, that
a member of Congress has charged anybody with a deliberate and ma
lcious Interpolation in the making of the Congressional Record; an
nterlneatfon made with pencil and expressing a thought, or a want
of thought. never expressed by the man to whom the remark is at
tributed.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-09
ANOTHER RAILWAY
HEADED THIS WAY
NJ. l.. REQUA AT HEAD OF OR.
GANIZATION TO CON-
TRUCT ROAD.

RENO, March 7.-That a new rail
road Is to be built, that surveys have
been made for same, that three DIFF
ferent routes are unuer consideration
by the protector and that the com
pleted line will afford the Tonopah-
Manhattan oldfeld mining district
an eastern otulet for shipments, via
Ely and its shelters, by way of
either the Rhyolite Valley, Fish Val
ley, or the Smoky and Toquina noun
tain pass, is the statement made by
men high in railroad circles, who are
in a position to know.
NJ. l.. Requa, a San Francisco CAPT
talist and railroad builder of prom
%inence, who is promoting the road,
has already constructed one of the
big lines of this section, the Nevada
Northern, and his name connected
with the present project augurs It's
achievement.
One proposed route for the new
line leaves the Tonopah & GoldheId
branch of the Southern Pacific at
Tonopah. thence at a northwest angle
through the Smoky and Toquina
mountain pass at Manhattan, thence
north to Austin. veering west to Ely,
via Eureka.
An available route. and one which
would afford the easiest grading,
would shut out Austin, going north
in a direct line through Fish Spring
Valley to Eureka, thence west,
rounding the upper end OF White
Pine mountain and into Ely, connect
ing with the main line at Cobra over
the Nevada & Northern.
The route most likely to meet with
final acceptance by the promoters,
however. is the rather indirect one
through the two gateways of Re
veille Valley, thence north turning
Grant mountain at right angles, and
winding along the west side of Egan
range to Ely.
Should the Smoky and Toquina
pass be chosen. it will give the low
er mining district three outlets to
the main line; the Tonopah & Gold
field route to Reno, the Nevada Cen
trail through Eureka, and the Nevada
& Northern by way of Ely.
Rumor has it that the choice Of
the Reveille Valley concerns the
Clarke road. the Salt Lake. Los An
geles & San Pedro line. which Ia
within striking distance Of Ely, at
Caliente, and that there may be q
war for the territory, which will af-
ford an enormous volume of freight
business.
Superintendent Manson OF the
Southern Pacific. speaking Of the pro
iect, said q understand that a
line is proposed and that it VIII con-
meet the lower mining district with
Ely transportation of ore to the
shelters at that place being the
prime object of the promoters. so
far as know the Southern Pacific
road is in nc way interested in the
new line. except that the Nevada Ceu-
trail and the Nevada Northern al
ready have connection with our sys-
tenn"
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-09
BANK BUILDING
NEARLY COMPLETED

The contractors have finished put
ting in the large plate glass windows
in the new State Bank and Trust
Company's building. The p~lastering
is all that remains to be done now
SO that the building Will soon be
ready for occupancy. Most of the
upper rooms have been let for Offices
as the building is situated on one of
the best business sites in Tonopah.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-09
sALToS SEA STORM.

Ell PASo, Texas, March An
other storm has broken over the
Salton Sea and railroad wires bring
the news that the Southern Pacific
tracks are under water and waves
washing against passing trains.
Trains are from eight to twenty-four
hours late.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-09
IMPROVEMENTS
At The DEPOT

During the past month Superin-
tendent j. f. Hedden has caused
numerous improvements to be made
in and around the depot. The wait
ing room have been thoroughly
overhauled and new seats put in for
the comfort of the travelling public.
A boulevard walk has been put down
along the tracks and steps leading
from the walk to the street have
been constructed.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-09

not only the privilege, but the duty, of the journalist to hold up a
truthful mirror to society. He must treat of crime and criminals exA
posing the one and denouncng the other But, while the right of the
press in this regard is literally conceded, it is plain that the right
should be 81 ayailed of that deicacy shall not be offended. There are
matters the details of which should never be dwet upon. There are other
matters the details of which may be presented that they shall lose moth
ing Of their force by being shorn of their grossness. 1t is neither de-
sirable nor necessary to illustrate this principle by practical examples.
The soundness of the principle will commend itself to all intelligent per-
sons.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-09

Write p. 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. n
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-09

Write ID. 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..
Doubieday's market letter. tt
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-09
SKULL OF HUGuENoT FOUNDER

NEW YORK, March while
making excavations in New Rochelle
workmen unearthed the skull of a
man believed to be Bartholomew Lis
penard, one of the Huguenot found
ers of New Rochelle, who fed from
La Rochelle, in France. after the
revocation of the edict of Nantes.
The bones, which had been buried
$50 years, were encased in solid
stone.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-09

E. H.. Francis. for the past two
years agent for the Southern Pacific
at Sparks, has resigned his position
with that company. He has gone
into the mining business.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-09

Mrs. H. w. Rast of Austin gave
birth to three babies-all boys-at
Sacramento a few days ago. One of
the infants died soon after birth, but
the mother and other two children
are doing well.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-09

Con Cadogan, a well known rail-
road mar of Sparks, committed sui
eide Monday morning of last week by
shooting himself in the head with a
% revolver. Dependency was the
cause of the deed.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-09

A shaft viii be sunk on the st.
Paul claim of the Fairview Reliance
group. The st. Paul adjolns the
Dromedary Hump and Boulder No.
3 properties, and It Is expected to
encounter the lead from which ship
ping ore is being taken on tnesa
properties.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-09
THE DUTY OF DECENCY

1t is well known that many of our newspapers revel in the details
Of crime. These details are not only revolving to refined minds. but
they have a vicious effect o N minds that have never known the advan-
tages Of refinement We declare the broad general principle that every
journal should keep its columns $ clean that it may be safely adj
mftted to any household, We would not limit the fair opportunities
of newspapers as complete records Of intelligence. We bold hat n Il.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-09

The knights of Korassan are MAX
ing plans for a grand Interstate cele-
bration to be held in Reno some time
in June. 1t will be in the nature of
a street carnival. Rates will be Sc
cured on all roads and visitors from
all over the state will attend.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-09

Five thousand dollars is the
amount considered in the proposed
construction of a fraternity home
which the T. II. P. o. society OF the
University of Nevada contemplate
establishing on University hill. The
building is to be built upon original
plans, and will contain a dining
room, library and combination par
lors. and Its completion is looked for
by May /.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-09

S. F. Paul, one Of the early pio-
neers of White Pine County, having
been engaged in the mercantile bust
ness at Hamilton as early as 1868,
died in San Francisco at the age of
about 20 years. The remains we're
taken to Ely for interment.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-09

Henry Hoffman, a tinsmith of
Reno, choked to death Thursday
night. He was eating his dinner at
the Swiss-American hotel when he
became choked on a piece of meat he
was eating. He left the table and
started for his room in the hotel. but
when he reached the second floor of
the building fell and died before
anything could be done for him.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-09

The new tramway has just been
completed at the Buffers plant near
Virginia City and put in operation.
The tramway will deliver eleven tons
of ore at the mill every hour. Sew
eral ears of Tonopah ore have arrived
and work will begin on 1t at once.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-09
SHORT ITEMS
OF STATE NEWS

Charles Kucks, who was convicted
of killing Edward Farrell in Reno,
has been sentenced to serve fifteen
months in the state prison.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-09

Certificates Of location for sale at
this Office.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-09

Our editorial comment has been that this Thaw eae is a Tender
Tn tragedy. Evelyn Nesbit was a peach of the Tenderlon.
T.. A gilded peach with tiger stripings and claws Stan
ford White was a great man with a weakness OF the Tenderloin side
There are Others. In defense of American genus,
District Attorney jerome is showing that Stanford White. while doubt
less immoral wa not a monster, but a man who sinned. The
broad issue is that. to ave the life of a bruany rich fool who COM
mHted stupid murder, a melodramatc story has been concocted, greater
than any work of Behsco. in which this Tenderloin peach is playing
She star role with a skill and courage challenging admiration.
But it is a lie, and the lie in national defamation to save a numbering
ass. We have wicked men in New York. We have
immoral geniuses. But Stanford White was not an Oscar
Wilde. And between the escape OF the numbering fool who en-
Joyed rotten Pttsburg millions and the great man who had a weak
ness for Tenderloin peaches, District Attorney Jerome has chosen the
duty of exposing a conspiracy against the dead concocted by costly hired
genius and at once peculiarly planned. peculiarly insidious and pecu-
narfy rotten and peculiarly ruthIess-deeeiving millions
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-15
ATTACKS THE PRESIDENT
A SCATHING Philippe
The Rev. Frederick Strickland, Of
Portland, Ind, in Sermon Declared
Roosevelt was Usurping all Func-
tons of Government.
Publishers PreSs.J

Portland, Ind, Jan. 14.-Taking for
his text: Thou Shalt Not KILL" Rev.
Frederick G. Strickland delivered a
scathing denuncination of President
Roosevelt before his congregation.
The basis for the attack is section
of the message to the governor of
Idaho to the state legislature, defining
his course in the recent mining trou-
BILE. Our chief executive said the
speaker, is rapidly combining legisla-
tive, judicial and executive functions
and administering them from the
White House. These digressions might
be overlooked. but what shall We say
when a president reaches across the
continent. tries men accused of crime
by weighing the evidence himself
thousands of miles away and con-
dennis them to death. Such in effect
is his expression to Governor Gooding
of Idaho. The incident has no parallel
in American history In the name of
God l denounce this outrage on the
American people,.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-15

of New York with Miss Carrie A.
Hyatt as accompaniSt The audience
was small but it was proved beyond
fear of argument by the enthusiastic
applause that no greater or more pop
ular artist has appeared before the
Richmond public in years. Mr.. Niles
has hitherto been heard mostly in
performances of oratorio and it is
only recently that he has made this
venture into the realm of the song re-
cital. His voice is of wide range,
magnificent in quality and completely
under his commands, and the num-
bers were sung with insight and SYM
patty. Throughout it was a program
of great interest and was represented
in an interesting style.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-15
TO RESUME MEETINGS
SESSION OF IMPORTANCE
Miss Mary Peacock viii Talk to 90
mestic Science Association at the
High School Tomorrow Afternoon
at 2:3o O'clock.

After an intermission OF several
weeks the Domestic Science associa.
ton will resume its work next We'd
nesday. Efforts are being made to
have this meeting one OF unusual in.
terest and profit. Miss Mary Peacock,
who has been teacher in John Hop
kins University for FIVE years will
talk on Household Economics in
Training School for Nurses" Mrs.
M. F. Johnston will present the sub.
ject, Household Dress" Both of
these subjects are deserving of the at.
tention OF every member of the as.
sociation as well as non-members and
it is hoped that the members will be
present and bring some friend. The
meeting will be held in the high
school kitchen, Wednesday at 2:3Q
o'clock
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-15
WOMEN LIKE BASKET BALL
Economy Can Boast of Having Two
Teams Composed of Players
From the Fair Sex.

Economy, Ind, Jan. IA. (SpD-
Economy can boast of two women's
basket ball teams, one The Red" and
the other THE White Band We'd
nesday evening the two teams faced
each other to see which was the bet
ter The White Band won by the
score of IS to 10. The teams are
made up of the very best young wom-
en-. Miss Blanche Naming is captain
of the Reds; the other members be-
ing the Misses Gail Haxton. Daisy Os-
born. Ermine Veal and Edith Mason.
Miss Nola Oler is captain of the
Whites and the other members are
the Misses Lucinda Haxton, Bessie
Frazier, Pearl Edwards and Ruby
Jones.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-15
SPLENDID INSTITUTE
County Superintendent Jordan Pres
ent at CenterviIie and Gave Good
Suggestions.

Centerville. Ind. Jan. II. (SplO-
The Teachers Institute, including the
townships of Abingdon. Center, Har-
rison and Centerville. met ON last
Saturday in the high school room at
Centerville.
There was a full attendance of
teachers and several visitors County
Supt. Jordan was in attendance and
added much interest to the meeting
by his presence and timely remarks
Each of the topics assigned to the
several teachers were presented with
much ability and the discussions that
followed We're of unusual interest.
The institute was one of the very
best vet held at Centerville and will
certainly result in great good.