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Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-01-21

Advertise In The BONANZA.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-01-21

ToNoPAtI MIDWAY MlNISG "a.
W J. Douglass. Sscretary.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-01-21

A visit to the Nevada Club means
that you will be a steady patron.
Your friends will be there to greet
you. If
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-02
Death S
Hand
Was
Stayed
THREE ARE DEAD
MANY HURT IN
BIG FIRE
(By Associated Press.l

~ SONAeSo 1881
New York, Apr. 2.-During a fire
in 5-story tenement building at A
Hester street early this morning 3
persons were killed, 15 were injured
(some seriously and the lives OF
nearly hundred persons were en-
dangered.
Berel Veinstein, his wife and ba-
by were suffocated in their apart
ments.
That more lives were not lost was
largely due to the prompt action of
three policemen, who, seeing the
flames in hall, rushed through the
building and aroused the sleeping
people. By that time the stairs were
a mass of flames and in the mad
attempt to escape scores of scantily
clad men, women and children
wedged themselves in solid masses
on the fire escapes, platforms and
ladders. In some instances the com
bined efforts of half dozen firemen
were required to drag the women or
children from the tightly packed
platforms.
Finally the panic stricken people
began jumping from the windows,
and number of them were serious
ly hurt in this way.
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-02
GOVERNOR BUCHTEI
AFTER MIR. SELIG
Attorney General Ordered to Take Steps Against Gunnisop
Saloonists- -Rumored that Similar Steps may
be Taken in Grand Junction

Governor Bucbtcl and District At
torney Selig of this judicial district
are liable to clash. The governor
does not believe that District Attor-
ney Selig is doing his duty in regard
to certain saloon cases and gambling
cases, and his excellency proposes to
have somebody else do Selig's duty
for him.
Yesterday evening Governor Buch-
tel requested Attorney General Dick
son to proceed as soon as possible to
Gunnison and to file suit against
certain saloon keepers and managers
of gambling joints and to prosecute
them to the fullest extent of the law
in the courts of Gunnison county.
Srhis action of the governor is the
result of an order which he made
some time ago to the effect that
wherever u district attorney failed
to do his duty he would see that
the violations of the law were given
attention. Governor Buchtel made
a request that any persons having
evidence that would tend to show
that the district attorney had failed
to do his duty should submit the
same To the attorney general and
the governor would order that OIL
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cal TO prosecute the party.
Since then evidence has been sni-
m1tted from several counties i'm the
state, and the governor has now DE-
cided to start the prosecution. They
Will be conducted county by county
according to the rotation in which
the evidence reached the governor.
There is legal question involvo1
as to the right of the state officials
to take charge of local prosecutions,
but the attorney general is confideu
that he has such rights. His action
will simply be to follow out the gen.
eral plan of the republican party TO
maintain law ana order in the state.
1t is claimed that there are many
violations of the law to be charged
up to saloons and gambling places an
Ginnison county, but that District
Attorney Selig has not moved agaiasA
the alleged offenders very rapidly.
There is n report to the effect thaA
the governor may be called npon
to interest himself in the proseeu-
tion of saloonists in Grand Junction
and urged to have the attorney eon-
eaal visit this city for the purposo Of
investigating certain cases worked
up by the Good Citizenship Leaeus.
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-02

ulOn.
III the change of venue is granted
and the trial is assigned for Grand
Junction, all of the expenses will be
borne by San Miguel county.
The trial is certain to be one of
the hardest contested and one of the
most bitterly fought ever held in the
state, and is very likely to be marked
with many sensational features.
Steve Adams will be defended by
brilliant legal talent and it rs UNDER
stood that several attorneys of more
than state reputation will assist i'm
the prosecution. 1t is believed that
the Western Federation of Miners
will make every effort to have Steve
Adams freed.
General Bulkely Wells, who mar
rowly escaped death last week as a
result of the blowing up of por-
ton of his home by an assassin, will
be one Of the leading witnesses
against Adams.
Adams is now confined in the San
Miguel county jail at Telluride, hav.
ing BEEN brought to Colorado from
Idaho several months ago.
CONTINUED on page 81
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Brav e
Men
Saved
Train i
ASPEN MINES START
UP---40O AT
WORK
Especial to The sAntinel.)

Aspen, Colo, Apr. 2.-Renewed
life was taken on today in Aspen
mining circles.
The Smuggler and the Durant
mines, two of the largest properties
Here, were started up full force this
morning and will be continued at
work to their fullest capacity.
-Four hundred men are affected.
The miners have agreed to accept
a temporary reduction i'm wages equal
to about % cents per day, but the
company promises to restore the old
scale as soon as the condition of the
metal market improves.
Both properties are large zinc pro-
ducers, and for a time there was talk
of closing them permanently.
The business men combined with
the miners in securing the resump-
ton and no difficulty is anticipated
in getting men to go to work at the
reduced scale.
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-02

Judge John II. Shumate of the
Garfield county district court, wena
to Glenwood Springs yesterday from
Aspen for the purpose of hearing
any applications that might be made
by the democratic city committee reI-
ative to the omission of the names
of the democratic candidates on the
official ballot in the coming city cleo
tion. Contrary to expectation, no
such application was made, howev-
er, and 1T is now thought that the
committee will confine its campaigp
efforts to instructing voters as to
the manner of writing the names on
the ballots. The official ballot viii
be supplied with space providing for
democratic candidates and the word
Democrat" printed in the proper
column, but without the names OF
the candidates nominated to the var
ious positions by the democratic
committee.
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-02
MAY TRY ADAMS
!, in THIS CITY
Noted Prisoner Charged With the Murder Of Arthur Collins
May Get Change Of Venue From Telluride
"A Great aI--Feeing is High

There is a strong probability that
Steve Adams, the noted prisoner,
charged with the murder Of Arthur
Il. Collins, the manager of the Snug
gIer-UniOn mine Mt Telluride, who
was most foully assassinated sever
nj year.s ago while sitting i'm his
home surrounded by his children,
will be tried in Grand Junction this
summer or fall.
1t is reported from Telluride to-
day that an attorney for Steve Ad-
ans is working quietly to get a suf-
ficient number of signatures to Sc
cure change of venue for Adams.
1t is claimed that the prisoner cam
not get fair trial at Telluride ow-
ing to the bitter feeling that pre-
walls there, and Judge ShacI<leford
-vill be asked to transfer the trial
1m San Miguel county to some
Sfher county in the district; and, IL
the change Of venue is granted, IL is
very probable that the change will
b, made to Mesa county, and the
great trial, which will occupy several
weeks and for which probably sew
ernl scores OF witnesses will be sum-
moned, will occur In Grand juno
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ITS WORK
IS NOW
DONE
(By Associated Press.)

Indianapolis, Ind, Apr. 2.-Intfi-
ana republicans in state convention
today adopted its platform, elected
four delegates at large to the ma
tional convention and two national
electors at large, instructed 80 OF
the Indiana delegates to the nation
al convention to vote and work per-
sistently for Charles Warren Fair
banks for the presidency and nomi-
mated state ticket.
The platform endorsed Roose-
velt's administration, opposes cor
poration contributions to campaign
funds, favors a modification of the
financial system of the country with
out mentioning any particular meas-
ure. urges the progressive progress
of labor legislation and urges a re-
vision of the tariff by a special ses-
sion of congress to be called early IN
November. A bureau OF mines and
mining is urged and waterways inn
provement recommended. AmonA
the important states issues is a plank
favoring local option law with the
county as a unit. The tariff plank
was written by Vice President Faiy-
banks.
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-02
WILL BOLT
BEFORE
VOTE s, !;
(By Associated Press.)


st. Louis, Mo-, Apr. 2.-The pop
ulist national convention, which was
called for 10 am. today, was some
what behind that hour in commen-
cling proceedings. The chief cause
of the delay was the renewed efforts
of the Bryan men to secure an agree
ment for an adjournment until af-
ter the republican and democratic
conventions had been held. They
backed up their demands for an ad-
journment by claims that some of
the delegates had been improperly
chosen and that the entire call for
the convention was Illegal. They
cited the case of the PENNSYLVANIA
delegation which has 70 votes.
The Watson men stood firm and
refused to listen to any proposition
for an adjournment.
The determination of the Nebras-
ka, Minnesota and Michigan delega-
tions to bolt the convention if the
program of making nominations is
carried out was unaltered today. B.
A. Walrath, secretary of the Ne
braska state central committee, said
today: 1--WE do not propose to be
trampled upon and are going to fight
for our rights. We claim to repre-
sent more simon pure populists than
ally OlueT Sldle. we Will QOL D6 q
party to any nominations, and If
they are made and if an adjourn
ment is not taken, we will leave the
convention"
James H. Ferris of Joliet. H., the
chairman of the national committee,
called the convention to order. In
his address he said that the meas
ures long ago advocated by the pop
ulist party had now been adopted by
the leading parties of the country.
He said that the late financial panic
was caused by "a general sdistrust of
we'll known rascals." He said that
there can never be permanent conf
dence without public ownership of
public utilities. He declared himself
personally to be in favor of "the
most complete, strongest, most wide
spread, dead open and shut plank
against the manufacture, transporta-
>tion and sale of alcohol or any other
poison for eating or drinking pur-
poses" He closed with prediction
of the rise of a great party from the
convention of today.
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-02
JOE CANS STOPPED
ENCLISHMAN QUICKLY
(By Associated Press. J

Philadelphia, Pa, Apr. Joe
Cans, colored champion lightweight
pugilist, stopped Spike Robson, the
English featherweight champion, in
the third round of what was sched-
uled as a Ground bout before the
National Athletic Club last night.
Cans was nearly 10 pounds heav-
ier than his opponent, and his long
reach gave him a decided advantage.
Robson was dropped for the count
in the third round and moment lat
er he was again floored. The referee
then stopped the bout.
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-02
One Of the Worst Horrors the History Of Western Raroadng
Narrowly Avered on Colorado Midland Bridge Had
Burned Away Over 100 Foot Gorge, East Bound
No. lO4 Saved by Goodness Of Engineers

What would have proven one of
the worst horrors in the history of
Colorado railroading was narrowly
averted yesterday afternoon at a late
hour on the Colorado Midland rail-
road.
A contemplation of the nature of
the awful disaster so narrowly avert
ed is enough to make the blood run
cold. AS it was, frightful wreck
was caused; but, in view of the re-
markable escape of the train crew
and passengers, the loss to the rail-
road company as a result of property
ruin is forgotten.
1t seems that the hand of provi-
dence must have been extended tc
prevent Colorado Midland passenger
| train No. 104. which left Grand Juno
tion at an early hour yesterday
morning, from plunging into a deer
chasm and causing scores of lives to
be crushed out.
AS Is generally known, there are
many trestles and bridges on the
Midland in and around Buena Vista
Some time during yesterday after
noon high bridge near Yale Siding,
not far from Buena Vista, spanning
gorge which reaches down 100
feet and more to a mountain stream,
caught fire and was practically de-
stroyed without the railroad Off
cials at any point knowing that the
fire had occurred.
Some men working on a mountain
side saw smoke rising in great vol
umes, and. on going to investigate,
found the bridge in flames and its
destruction assured. The men de-
termined to remain and warn any
approaching train of the terrible
danger. Just few minutes after
their arrival, Colorado Midland fast
train No. A came down the grade
at a rapid speed. The men stopped
the train by tagging it.
Then the men set about to stop
east bound train No. 4, passenger
from Grand Junction. and the train
was almost due at the bridge. They
could see the smoke from the on
coming passenger, but the men could
not get far enough out from the
bridge in time to flag the passenger
train and on it swept toward the
burning bridge.
There were two engines pulling
No. 104. Both engineers were on
the watch, and Engineer Thomas
Mockbee at the throttle of the for
ward engine saw that the bridge was
on fire, and at about the same time
Engineer Frank Smith of the sec
ond engine saw that the bridge was
burning. Quick as thought both en-.
gineers opened the air valves and
put on the brakes. Then the two big
engines We're within a few yards of
the awful chasm.
The train shuddered at the quick
touch of the emergency brakes and
slowed up with jolt, but the dis
tance was too small to bring the en-
giDes to stop.
The two engineers and their fire
men, retaining their nerve and cool
ness. stayed with their engines until
they saw that the engines were GER
tain to go over the precipice into
the creek below; and then they
jumped for their lives after doing
everything in their power to stay
the forward moving or the train.
Both of the engines broke away
from the train and plunged head
long down the precipice, and the bag
gage car ran out over the edge of
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-02

the precipice for a distance of sew
eral feet, then the couplings snapped
and the car held its balance on that
awful gorge wall, the other cars be-
ing filled with passengers came to a
standstill and an appalling sacrifice
of life had been prevented by a
frightfully narrow margin.
The engineers and firemen who
jumped landed safely and not a pas
senger on the train was hurt in the
least.
Had it not been for the bravery
and GOODNESS of the engineers and
firemen the entire train would have
swept over the brink. Only the
prompt action of the cir brakes saved
the. train.
The baggage car was quite badly
scorched by the flames that were
eating away the last supports of the
burning bridge.
There were approximately 100
people on board the train. and, as
the passengers scrambled out of the
coaches and realized how near they
had been to death, they were terror
stricken for the time being.
The bridge is located about 4 miles
east of Buena Vista and is one of
Engines No. 20 and 22 were pull
ing the train, and Conductor Fred
Madison was in charge. AS soon as
the announcement of the accident
was received in Leadville, a wreck
ing crew with two extra engines, No.
8 and So, were sent to the scene
of the accident.
The passengers on the wrecked
Midland passenger were transferred
to No. 105 on the east side of the
chasm, and the passengers on No.
105 were sent across to train No.
104, the two trains then assuming
each others schedules.
Arrangements were then made for
the operation of the Midland trains
over the Rio Grande tracks between
Wild Horse and Colorado Springs.
No. 104 was scheduled to pass No.
105 at Newett, only few miles east
of the scene of the wreck.
1t is expected that it will require
about four or five days to replace
the bridge.
The west approach to the chasm
is on an ascending grade, or the en-
tire train would have plunged into
the ravine. 1t was only the exact
ness with which the air brakes
worked that prevented the forward
engine from pulling the passenger
coaches along with it over the preci-
pice, trainmen say.
No. 105 came into Grand Junction
many hours late this morning, and
No. 1O3, due at noon today did not
get in until late this afternoon.
There were several Grand juno
ton people on board the train which
had such frightfully narrow escape
The two engines which plunged
into the chasm were smashed almost
to pieces, consequently the property
loss to the railroad company as a re-
suit of the wreclSing of the engines
and the burning of the bridge will
be heavy.
There We're two Pullmans on the
train.
The wood choppers who first dis
covered the fire at the bridge and |
who saved the freight train from
going over the wall of the gorge and |
who attempted to save the passen- |
ger train deserve rich reward.
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-02
TWO CARS COLLIDE
One MAN IS KILLED
(By Associated Press.)

Los Angeles, Cal, Apr. 2.-Two
cars on the Los Angeles & Pacific
road collided headon at Rosemary
station in dense fog early this
morning, killing one man and ser.
iously injuring half dozen othern,
while twenty more sustained minor
injuries.
Nearly all of the injured were en-
ployed at the oil fields.
The 1og prevented either motor
man from seeing the other car up-
til too late to stop
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-02
ADMIRAL EVANS
REACHESiHOT SPRINGS
(By Associated Press. }

Paso, Robles Hot Springs, CAL,
Apr. Rear Admiral Evans. ac-
companied by his son. Frank Taylor
Evans. and Past Assistant Surgeon
F. e. Mcdonald. arrived here early
this morning.
The rear admiral has been as
signed to comfortable quarters at a
hotel.
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-02

The Home Nursery Company has
already placed orders for three cars
of No. 1 stock for spring delivery,
1909. One to two thousand Elberta,
Carman, Arp Beauty. Extra fine
stock. Call at once. Home Nursery
Company.
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-02
JOHN D. STARTS
SCHOOL OF FARMERS
Especial to The sentInel.)

Chicago, Apr. 2.-In order to sup
ply the demand for educated farm
ers in the middle west, John d. Rock
efeller's University of Chicago will
this month inaugurare a school for
the practical application of the sci
ence of agriculture, known as The
Guild, supported by ten
of Chicago's leading business men.
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-02
THE METAL MARKET
lRy Associated p

(By Associated PrAss.)
New York, Apr. 2.-The lead mar
ket today was quiet at $50 to 400.
Lake copper quiet at 13 to 13 n
Silver, sos.
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-02

Yesterday articles of Incorporation
were filed in Denver by the Town of
Grand Valley, in Garfield county.
The daily sentinel., 1908-04-02
The Market.

(By Associated Press.)
Chicago, Apr. MAY wheat
closed today at 93H.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-03-19
rAe aLANeuAeen or ANIMALs.
Various Cries and Calls Not the Me-
dium Of Communication.

Huxley thought that because OF the
absence Of language the brutes can
have no trains of thoughts, but only
trains OF feeling, and this is the opin.
ion Of most comparative psychologists.
am myself quite ready to admit that
the lower animals come as near to
reasoning as they come to having q
language. Their various cries and
calls--the call to the mate, of alarm.
OF pain, Of joy--do serve as the me-
dunn OF some sort Of communication,
but they do not stend for ideas or
mental concepts any more than the
various cries of a child do. They are
the result OF simple reactions to out
ward objects or to inward wants, and
do not imply any mental process what
ever. A grown person may utter a
cry Of pain or fear or pleasure with a
mind utterly blank of any ideas. Once
on a moonlight night lay in wait for
some boy poachers in my vineyard.
AS l suddenly rose up, clad in a long
black coat, and rushed for one and
seized his leg as he was fastening
over the fence, he uttered a wild, agon-
lied scream precisely as a wild ami
NAL does when suddenly seized. He
told me afterward he was simply
frightened out of his wits. For the
moment he was simply an unreasoning
animal.-John Burroughs, in Outing
Magazine.
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eotham's Limited Shake.

"If there is any one thing irritates
me-" said a Chicago man who was
spending a few days in the metropolis
1T is the habit that some OF you New
Workers have contracted OF giving one
or two fingers in place of the full
hand shake. I've had the experience
half dozen times this trip and I'm
heartily tired Of it. OF course, as a
rule, the person who so greets you has
something in his right hand-papers
or what not-when the salutation is
exchanged; but why, in the name OF
common sense. doesn't he dispose OF
the impedimenta for a brief moment
OF friendllness? We think that we
hustle out in the Windy City, and as
a matter of fact we do, but we aren't
in such an alfred hurry that We
can't take time off to give a decent
grasp"
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Impressed as Postman.

Gesticulating wildly, a determined.
faced man al Euclid and East Eighty.
ninth street the other morning ran
after Union station car with the air
of man who is anxious to overtake
what he Is after
Even the conductor recognized that
the man seemed TO want the car 10
slow up and he pulled the bell cord.
Perhaps the man wanted To catch a
train, the conductor thought. Every
once in awhile one will find a conduc.
tor with almost human traits.
In moment the man had caught up.
"D'yu1 go by the post Officer" he
yelled, IN a hoarse voice that be.
trayed his emotion.
"Sure!" shouted the conductor
Jump on"
But the man, instead OF climbing
on, handed the conductor a letter.
Just drop that in when you get TO
the post office, will yuh?" says he.
And then he turned back up the
street.
The bell rope, being a strong one,
did not quite break when the conduc.
tor gave the signal TO so ahead
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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SENATE DEMANDS
Full Details Concerning All Deals In
Treasurer's Office.

Columbus, O.-While the house OF
representatives was refusing to grant
further power or life to the special
committee appointed to investigate the
state treasury, a similar special com
mittee of the senate was extracting
some material that further reflected
upon the almost unbelievable condt
tions of affairs in the accounting sys
TEN of that department.
The said committee is directed to
Investigate and report to the senate
as to the method employed by the bu'
reau of inspection of public offices and
the cost of same to the state and the
local authorities Of the state, as well
as why such bureau has not been ap'
piled. as required by law, to the state
officers, and said committee is further
directed TO examine into all matters,
allowances, remissions and valuations
and the method employed In making
the same by the state boards having
charge the remission Of taxes, the
assessments of railways, banks. inter.
urban companies, express, telegraph
and telephone companies, and report
its findings to the senate.
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Looked Into His Own eraus.

A Washington tPa) man had the
unique experience OF looking into his
own grave a few days ago. Through
a mistake on the part OF the grave
digger a sepulcher was dug in the
lot OF man by the same name as one
who had recently died in Grafton and
was to be buried In Washington. The
man who was supposed to be num-
bered among the great majority at.
tended the funeral OF the man who re-
ally was, and on being told about the
mistake went and stood on the brink
OF his own grave and turned away
with a sbuddar