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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-05-19
Discussed by Washington Scien-
fists.


Students Of physics in washington
have become deeply interested in the
experiments with the gyroscope. and
they believe that its use in locomotion
is quite feasible. One Of them in dis
cussing the gyroscope, said:
while ii may seem that the laws
or gravitation are being grossly vio-
lated in the action of the gyroscope.
in reality they are not. The rotation
of the wheel generates a certain
amount of centrifugal force, which
acts in opposition 10 the force OF
gravity 10 a certain extent; sufficient
TO bring the axis 10 a horizontal po-
sition.
The theories and experiments OF this
English scientist are quite plausible,
and I do not see any reason why the
gyroscope should not become sue
cessful factor in solving the monorail
question However. 7 should like to
see it I'm action and thoroughly under
stand Its working before I take ride
on monorail train that is kept erect
with a gyroscope.
Its use will greatly reduce the fric-
ton that much power is now wasted
in overcoming. and II will therefore
permit Of greater speed. on the other
hand II will add another element in
the possibilities Of accidents One can
readily imagine. what would happen
should the gyroscope suddenly stop it's
work while a train was running at a
high rate OF speed"
In his demonstration before the
Royal Society. MIR Brennan exhibited
car on a single rail with no apparent
thing to balance II. II san about the
hall at a high rate OF speed. turned
sharp corners. climbed steep inclines.
and travelled across a cable in lieu OF
a bridge. The members of the society
were astounded. The vehicle was run
first without any load and then with
one The load was not evenly dis
tributed. but was first on one side and
then on the other. Overlooking one
side Of the car had no apparent effect
~ ~
Claims of the Inventor.
During the exhibition Mr.. Brennan
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Multi millionaire
Lives Simple Life
Continued from Fourth Psge)

about the middle OF next month. with
her daughter and thfy will. as usual
go 10 the summer home OF madame
father, the splendid mansion built in
the mountains OF northern Chihua-
hua. most OF which state not owned
by General Terrazas y owned by the
Mexican Ambassador.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-05-19
What the GyrOscOpe Really Is.

The gyroscOp9 itself is nothing new:
in fact II is fully 100 years old and
was discovered by French scientist
lie WIS demonstrating for his own
satisfaction the forces that keep the
earth horizontal in its revolutions
around the sun. He came 10 the con-
clusion that the earth's rapid rotary
movement was responsible for the
phenomenon and that a rule that would
apply to the great round world in rs
flight through space. would apply 20
anything smaller.
So he constructed hosp with a bar
through it's diameter. In the center
Of this bar was q wheel at right an
giles with the hoop. To one point Of
the hoop he attached an ordinary
cord This was his gyroscope When
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British scientist will and has public
his assertion Other scientists the world looked
arS kePticsy with They suddenly
to the realization the seemingly impossible be
plished
1t ridiculous that sixty feet long by
absolutely nothing 20 balance it. There something about
the Then imagine of
locomotive all ordinary The
weight that side of the firmly
horizontal position.
fly wheels exhausted and
directions all and then bulge
the vehicle a position
Next imagine large touring automobile whing along Pennsyl
that When that
corrugated with
will suffice
gavitaion will be naIgE and the world will
principle of the simple little the
OF children e of il all
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cess. IN his explanation. Mr.. Brennan
said:
The characteristic feature Of this
system OF transportation is that each
vehicle is capable OF maintaining itE
balance upon an ordinary rail laid
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Scientists say that It is quite within
the range OF probability that the con
trivance viii be successfully used on
automobiles, and that the motor We
hieles Of the future will travel on one
wheel with as much safety TO the oo-
cupants as they now do on four.
The gyroscope Is also being expert
mented with al the present time for
use on steamships 20 overcome the
rolling and pitching motion. II Is now
believed that the tins is coming when
people may travel on water and ex-
peTience no more motion than II they
were riding in a phaeton on an asphalt
pavement
The same little continuance Is likely
10 be an important factor In the con-
struetion OF airships when those We
hicles become An assured fact. They
will bS used. scientists say, Just as
they are in torpedoes: 10 keep the ship
from DETECTING up or down, right or
left.
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ENLARGING THE MENAGERIE.

The cassowary is a bird
That's hard 10 capture, very
Folk hunting for her plumes have made
The caSsowary wary.
Kansas City Times
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Astonishing Possibilities for
Lightning Travel Claimed for
a Single Rail Locomotive
That Cannot UPSET. English
mans Invention on the PTin-
CiDIe Of the CUTosCoDe AS
toundS Scientists.

ILL chlds evolution modern methods Of travel?
Will the trains of decade speed single
NV rail land and single wire crossing the wild
a speed an hour?
accomplish
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But once a cassowary strolled
Too near an alligator;
And with one wriggle. map and gulp
The alligator ate her.
CHICAGO Tribune
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TIE alligator, feeling fine,
Then called on the ant-eater.
Ana saying 'See-Saw game for mine,
Mace that ant-eater teeter
Microscope Saturday
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-05-19

The wild sea-lion you may spend
A many days in spyin',
Then sudden come round bend
May sec sea-lion lynn.
The dromedary roamed about.
or toiled 10 fetch and carry
Until some Yankee fitted out
A dromedary dairy.
indianapolis New
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-11-21
OUR MONEY CRISIS

There is just as much money in the
country as ever there was. There is
just as much property as ever. The
land and mines are as productive as
ever. Upon the whole, there were
never SO many people before who
were free from debt. Seldom has
there been so little speculation on
the part of men actively engaged in
commerce and industry. For nearly
three years Wall Street has been
complaining that the people were not
buying securities, either on margin or
in any other way. The real trouble
seems to be confined to the strictly
speculative classes. Their paper
losses have indeed been enormous.
The shrinkage in the price of securi-
ties dealt on the New York Stock Ex-
change during the last two years is
now computed at $4,000, 1000.
And yet the properties which those
securities represent have as much real
value as ever they had. Those who
own the securities free from debt
have lost nothing at all except that
they could not now borrow on them
nearly as much as formerly and could
not sell them for so much. Speculat-
i've interests have stood up wonder
fully under this strain, but the time
seems to have now come when those
who are carrying on narrow margins
must go to the wall. This cannot
effect legitimate business in any way
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-11-21
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Sealed bids will be received at the
office of the county clerk of White
Pine county, Nevada, at Ely, Neva-
da, up to eleven O'Clock a. m. on the
End day of December, 1907, for the
construction of court house and
Jail, according to plans and specifi-
cations prepared by Chas. M. Finch,
and now on file at the Office of the
aforesaid county clerk. Each bid
must be accompanied by certified
check payable to said county clerk
in the sum of at least ten per cent
of the amount of the bid, and model
showing construction and locking de-
vices of the cell work, and samples
of material to be used in said cell
work
Plans and specifications may be OBJ
tanned from the aforesaid county
clerk upon depositing the sum of ten
dollars, which sum will be returned
upon return of plans and specifica-
lions.
The contract price is to be paid
from the proceeds of the bonds au-
thorized by the act of the legislature,
approved March 2Sth, 1907, and the
awarding of the contract is contin-
gent upon the sale of said bonds.
The board reserves the right to
reject any or all bids.
By order of the Board of County
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-11-21

Pine county, to which record refer
ence is hereby made for all the par
ticulars shown thereby, which said
public roads, highways, streets and
avenues are shown and designated as
follows, to-wit:
Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh,
Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth,
Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth,
Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets,
Park Avenue, and Avenues B, G, d,
e, F, G, II, /, X, l., M and N.
Said right of way is desired from
the northerly end of each and all of
said streets to the southerly end
thereof, and from the westerly end
of each and all of said avenues to
the easterly end thereof, also
throughout the entire length of any
or all Of said alleys, and upon and
across all intersections of streets and
avenues and alleys.
The width of ground desired is
such as may be necessary or proper
for single or double track, or part
ly single and partly double track,
and also for all poles, wires, appli-
ances, turnouts and sidetracks neces-
sary to the full and proper opera
ton of such single or double track.
Said application is dated Novem-
Der 5, 1907, and together with Pc
tition of taxpayers in support thereof
is now on file in my office.
At said time and place all persons
interested in the granting or refusing
to grant such authority, franchise
and right of way will have the right
to be heard in person or by attorney.
Witness my hand and the official
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-11-21
STIMLER

''In my experience in mining have
never seen but one mining property
which equalled the Stimler-Jaegels
at Stimler-that was in Mexico. The
Nevada Hills, which is probably the
greatest silver-gold mine in the Unit
ed States, does not compare with it
for surface showing. Unless nature
has lied we have great NINE" says
George Vickers.
George Vickers, who organized the
Little Florence Mining Company and
found one of the richest shoots of
gold ore ever opened in the Goldfield
district, today concluded the purchase
of the Jaegels-George interest in the
Stimler-Jaegels ground, consisting OF
IA claims, in the new camp of Stimler
10 miles southwest of Silver Peak
and 25 miles west of Goldfield The
terms require the payment of 1872, 0O
for which Mr.. Vickers receives the
majority interest in the claims, Mr.
Stimler retaining a substantial in
terest
The Stimler ground consists of two
groups, the upper comprising three
claims and the lower II claims. Two
corporations are being organized
under the laws of the State of Nevada
for the development of the ground
Already orders have been given for
the shipment from Goldfield of two
Is H. P. gasoline hoists, for company
work. There are 33 leases in active
operation on the ground, and applica-
lions have been received for several
more. Besides the two shafts to be
sunk by the company, Mr.. Vickers
will probably let other leases.
81 have made very thorough ex.
animation of the Stimler-Jaegels
ground" said Mr. Vickers, "and think
so we'll of it that l have closed this
deal, on my own account. The sur.
face showing there is simply wonder
full, and the deeper the workings &c
the better it looks. Mr.. Stimler, fol-
the Nevada Consolidated Mining Com
pany, has a lease with shaft down
60 feet. He has five feet of ore that
breaks $3.50 ton. In shallow tun-
mel, which is little better than a sur
face cut, the entire face is in ore
that samples $26 per ton, the values
running three in silver to one in
gold. The formation is kindly fol
the making ore to great depth, and
the. lodges are wide and strongly
marked on the surface. l believe
that we have the making of one OF
the big bonanza mines of the world. ;
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-11-21
A FINANCIAL VIEW.

1t isn't in European human nature
to resist the opportunities for invest
ment that are afforded by the low
prices of American railroad and other
securities, and the dispatches show
that the shrewdest foreign judges
realize that prices have reached low
ebb tide. A Holland banker is quoted
in Mondays dispatches as advising
investment in American stocks and
bonds, and the same dispatch fore
shadows rise in the rate of interest
in England and on the continent to
prevent violent Withdrawals of gold
for America. Taking these two
factors together, it is not difficult to
understand why the pressure relaxed
in New York and other money CEN
tiers yesterday and the situation
cleared materially.
Another significant change for the
better was the rise in copper quota
tions, both metal and stocks, change
that effects the west Immediately for
the better. In view of the fact that
present prices on copper are close to
the cost of production, and that the
large producers have all curtailed
their output, the advance was to be
expected, though it had not been ex-
pected so soon. Copper around 13
cents is a good deal like wheat at SO
to 60 cents; it has reached about the
limit of low prices under present con-
ditions of production and is almost
as safe to hold as any material thing
that can be bought.
Just now it looks as though the
housekeeping in the New York banks
while too violent and drastic to be
pleasant, had been inaugurated soon
enough to prevent more dangerous
disturbance later on. For the first
time in their history the trust COM
panies are subjected to scrutiny as
to their big operations just as the
national banks and other clearing
house institutions are. The system
ought to have been adopted long ago,
as the event proved, but it brings as
surance now of security for deposit
ors and the general public which was
lacking before, and that means added
confidence for investors the world
over who may be interested in Ameri-
can securities.-Salt Lake Herald.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-11-21
NEVADA'S ANSWER.

Nevada answers her critics in re-
cords of production. Last Wednes-
day week 100000 was shipped from
the mint at Carson City to San Fran
cisco, the result of a three weeks
cleanup from the Nevada mines, says
the Goldfield Chronicle. Last year
Nevada's gain in the production of
gold was greater than that of any
state in the union, the output exceed
ing that of the previous year by 3d.
915,500. In Colorado, Montana,
Washington, Idaho and Wyoming the
output fell Off Nevada and Alaska
boosted the national output to an in
crease of $6,000,000 over that of
1905.
The records of production for the
year 1907, made in the face of labor
troubles and depressed business con-
ditions, bid fair to far outstrip those
of 1906.
To Golfers Weekly, Charles M.
Schwab and the other wise oracles
of finance who have cast slurs on the
state there can be no more effective
answers than the citation of these.
Undoubtedly worthless properties
have been exploited. But has not
this been the case in every great
mining district in the world? And
who have been the busiest in ex-
plotting these properties? Have
they not been eastern men, operating
with eastern methods and grabbing
the money in the characteristic east
ern way? What Nevada knows about
fake mining methods she has learned
from the east.
When Schwab boosts 12-cent min
ing stock up to SIS and then sells it
to his SO a day employees, why, of
course, Nevada is to blame when it
drops to somewhere near its normal
level When we are busy digging
gold and breaking records of produc-
ton, and eastern fakirs get busy and
boom worthless claims, why, of
course, Nevada is to be charged with
the resulting disaster.
Let Golfers and Charles M.
Schwab point to a single notorious
instance of validating that has not
been engineered by eastern men.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-11-21
NOTICE OF HEARING.

Notice is hereby given that the
board of county commissioners OF
White Pine county, Nevada, will hear
at the court house in Ely, White Pine
county, Nevada, at 10 O'Clock a. m
on the 9Th day of December, 1907
the application of o. J. Mcconnell
for franchise and right of way fol-
railway lines and street car lines, to
be operated by any motive power
other than steam locomotives in
upon, through and along any or all
those certain public roads, highways
streets, avenues and alleys within the
boundaries, limits or confines of "Ely
City," an unincorporated city OF
town having population of over two
hundred and fifty, delineated and
shown upon those two certain maps
respectively entitled, MAP of Town
site of Ely City," and "Park Addi.
ton to Ely City Townsite," and OF
record at pages 176 to 179 and
BAG to 1853 of Book I'D" OF
miscellaneous records in the office
of the county recorder of said White
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-11-21

Sales were recorded as follows:
Blackhorse Phoenix, 1000 at .02 n
Ely Jackpot, 1000 at .05 "; Ely
Mines company, SO at $4.75, seller 80
days; Ely Nevada, 500 at .0SR !;
Giroux, rs at $3.50; Mcdonald Ely,
100 at so; Nevada Consolidated, 60
at 1925, buyer Is days; Rochelle,
200 at $1.17R; Robinson, 1000 at
.06.
Total sales, 3,7S5 shares; total
value, $1,400.
Eastern quotations as received at
the close of business on the New
York market yesterday were as fol-
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-11-21
Very Much Alike.

''See here, Pat" said his employer
didn't you tell me that when you
was out west the Indians scalped
you? and now you have your hat of
| see you have an extraordinary guam
tity of hair! You certainly told me
SO, didn't you, PATTI"
.Oi did, sor," answered Pat, ''but
OF bear in moind now that it was me
brudder, Moike. It's that much we
be aloike, that OF think Dim Moike
an Moike be me. New York
Times.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-11-21
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.

ITreasurer's Office, Ely, White Pine
County, Nevada, November 1, 1907
Please take notice that the State
County and Special Taxes for the
year 1907 are now due and payable
at my office. All taxes (save and ex-
cept amounts due on second Install
ment) remaining unpaid at O'Clock
p. m. December 2, 1907, will then be-
come delinquent and 10 per cent be
added thereto.
Parties paying in semi-annual In
stallments are required to pay on the
first installment the full amount of
poll tax due in addition to one-half
of the real and personal property tax
Checks are not preferable and may
be refused in payment of taxes.
J. +. MILES,
County Treasurer and Ex-Officio Tax
Receiver.
First publication Nov 1, 1907.
Last publication Dec. 2, 1907.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-11-21
MINING, MARKETS AND METAL

except temporarily, unless business
deposits have been used by or with
the permission of their custodians for
speculative operations. There is no
evidence that this has been done at
all, and no reason to believe that it
has been done to any extent. There
fore, when all the weak places have
been found-and we seem in a way
to find them all-the business of the
country will go on as before except
that new construction of all kinds
will languish for a time.
Some of the European, and especi-
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-11-21

seal of this county hereunto sub
scribed and affixed this fifth day of
November, A. ID. 1907.
BY order of the board:
J. f. MILES,
County Clerk, and ex-Offlcio Clerk of
the Board of County Commission
ers.
(SeaD
BY +. ID. OLDFIELD,
Deputy Clerk.
First publication November G, 1907,
Last publication December 6, 1907.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-11-21

of White Pine Coun.
ty, Nevada.
Attest: ]. f. MILES,
County Clerk.
BY f. d. OLDFIELD,
Deputy Clerk.
Ely, Nevada, 25th day of October
1907.
Date of first publication. Oct. 90
Date of last publication. Dec. 2.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-11-21
Sales On Ely Exchange
Yesterday Aggregated
$l,4OO in Value.
CUMBERLAND STEADY
On Eastern Market...Nevada Con. a
TrifIe Off...Money Advances to
Stopper Still Below 10.

Ely Rochelle and Ely Mines COM
pany were the strangers that were
sold on the stock exchange yester-
day. These securities had been given
a long rest and their appearance on
the board attracted some attention
among the brokers. The total sales
of the day were well up to the av-
erage, there having been 1886 shares
disposed Of for 81 400 fiat. The quo
tations of the days call were as fol-
lows.
, 1907-02-07
NOTES FROM THE COURT HOUSE.

A new filing case was being installed
in the county clerks office this after
noon.
Court Stenographer Patterson re-
turned from Cheyenne this morning.
The Union Pacific Railroad company
today sold to P. P. Rynder, for $50, lot
s, block 3, Union Pacific second addi-
ton to the town of Rock River.
A. w. Harnden today presented
twenty-three coyote pelts for bounty.
He was at the court house himself
from the northern part of the county.
Eric Candzehler and Alex Nelson,
natives of Sweden, late yesterday aft
ernoon declared their intention of be-
coming citizens of the United States.
A certificate of the purchase of 100
acres from the state of Wyoming by
Alexander Bowie and its transfer later
to the Swan Land and Cattle company
by warranty deed, was filed for record
today. The price to the state was
81, 600 and to the Swan company was
81. The land comprises 100 acres In
section 80, township 10, range II.
, 1907-02-07
WAS A AT HOME.
Sensation About RockefeIIer's Foreign
Made Wig Lacking in Fact.

Special to The Republican.
Washington, Feb. There Is one
subject, however, on which the country
may resi- easy. The wig received from
abroad by John D. Rockefeller was not
foreign made, but is of home manufac-
ture. Some little time ago a story was
telegraphed broadcast from Cleveland
to the effect that a forelgn-made thatch
for the Rockefeller dome Of thought
had been admitted free Of duty, and
raised the cry of graft" After an
exhaustive inquiry n the unrolling
of many yards of official red tape, the
treasury department this week issued
an announcement that the collector Of
customs at Cleveland had reported the
story to be "a Simon-pure fake" Ac
cording to the announcement, the wig
that arrived from Europe evidently
was one hat Mr.. Rockefeller had for
gotten, and it was forwarded after him
With this explanation from the secre
tary of the treasury, the country and
congress will breathe easy again.
, 1907-02-07
LATE SERGEANT OF NEGRO REGI-
MENT TEsTIFIEs THAT cITI.
ZENS SHOT UP THE
TEXAS TOWN.
Says He Has Withheld No Informal
ton, Knows of No Conspiracy of
Silence, and Believes Citizens Took
Drastic Measures To Have Negro
Troops Replaced With White-Ne.
groes Not Spenders Of Money.

Washington, Feb. Jacob D. Fra
ger, former first sergeant of company
d, Twenty-ifth infantry, testified be-
fore the senate committee on military
affairs that he had nothing to do with
the shooting up" of Brownsville, and
knew of no other member Of his com.
pany being engaged in it. Nor did he
believe that any members of his COM
pany were in the ARRAY.
No Conspiracy of Silence.
He had withheld no information, and
he declared that there was no conspir-
acy of silence. He stated it as his be
lief that the citizens of Brownsville
had themselves "shot up" the town to
drive the soldiers away. Mr.. Overman
asked: do you Think citizens would
kill one Of their own number-commit
murder-to get you away?"
Wanted White Soldiers.
Frazer replied: Il don't know
whether any one was killed; they
wanted US away. Colored men would
spend very little money in the saloons,
on account of their treatment, and the
citizens of Brownsville wanted white
soldiers, who would spend their
money.