Bisbee daily review., 1908-04-05
POISON At MILlERS
TO POISON MILLIONS
The Town. However, Could
Exist Without It, Potas-
SUM Cyanide.


Millers Is one of the strangest
places in the United States-although
its inhabitants sarcastically deny that
it is within Uncle Sans domain
Though 1t holds 500 men, there art
only about forty women and a hand
full of children. In summer its hea'
is intolerable; /, in winter the cold il
almost insufferable. With its rudS
makeshift for law insuring organiza
ton and the cosmopolitan character
of its population it is woolier thar
many of the western towns CT the
old time which have been made the
subject of story and drama.
Just what this town, which depends
for it's existence on a poison is like
is shown very wildly by the follow
ing article prepared by an eastern
college man who recently took up his
abode in Millers:
People who live in Millers, New.
write lots of letters, for postage
stamps are the only cheap thing II
town. It even has picture post cards
When this paper was planned Millers
was a place that had no picture post
cards. But changes come quickly in
this Nevada Babylon. 1t now boasts
post card pictures entitled The F'irsl
Court House and Jail, Millers, New
Court House in Freight Car.
That building is such an uncon
scious satire on western life that q
steel engraving should be made from
the picture and hung in the capito
at Washington For court house anC
Jail are in the same building. and that
building is a freight car lacked up OF
piece of track beside the main line
but justice is just and not over
worked in Millers, for most of the
few undesirable citizens who come
up before Judge Mcconnell are quick
ly and cheaply dealt with by being
given until the next train COMES
day-to leave camp. Anyway, thert
is no lawyer In MiIlers, and the judge
is engineer at the powerhouse and
umpire of the local bali games.
THE name of Millers describes its
raison d. etre, though it was moi
named after its mills, but for a man
Millers' apology for existence is thai
here are the two big stamp mills thai
treat the ore brought from Tonopah
And the reason Millers is where it il
because here just under the surface
was found an abundance of water.
opah and 1900 feet below it, out OF
the desert, where it is as hot as, i
not hotter than - in summer, ant
corespondingly cold in winter, anC
where the sandstorms would make T;
camel homesick for the Soudan, anC
makes everyone else homesick for The
United States.
Millers' Three Jokes.
-
jokes-calling anything outside O
Millers the United States;' anothe
is to speak of the train as The Dali!
Excitement but the commones
pleasantly is to ask newcomers, D.
you ever expect to go back?
when The Daily Excitement goei
| through, bound out across the deser
for the United States everyone
drops his task and rushes to window
or door, shakes his fist at it, and says
Whistle, damn you. I'll ride you on
of here one of these days Just as
years ago, back east the kids useC
to collect the names of the locomo
tives, so here in Millers it IS modisf
to count the number of 'hoboes' whC
are escaping on top of cars or lying
on the trucks.
THE population of Millers consist;
of some five hundred men, a score OF
| two of women, an armful of children
a few lilies of the valley who tot
not las the 'Tonopah Bonanza has
| it,, and coyotes, scorpions, lizard;
and rattlesnakes beyond the reach o.
logarithms. A town of over five hun
| dred working men, in any other par
part OF the United States, would
mean Z population of over two thous
and souls. Here is a town turning
out from its mills, say, $4,000 {
week End with a weekly pay roll Of
$4,000, and less than six hundred
people in the place. Besides the mills
and trades people, big railroad shops
have just been finished, for Millers Is
TO be the bulPs-eye of the Tonopat
and Goldfield railroad, the road thai
| paid for itself in its first six months
of existence.
Is Town of Young Men.
Its queer to live in a town tha
has the air and the institutions o
permanency, yet where a toddling in
FAINT is pointed to with pride as the
first child born in Millers:' where, nt
one able to talk was born; wher'
scarcely anyone able to reason ex
poets to stay-except to get a littlt
stake and pull OUT and where year
old resident feels like village patri
arch. But the patriarch's white bear,
is lacking, for Millers is a town o
young men. Including the yariou
foremen and superintendent, there
scarcely a man in Millers who is thiI
ty-fve.
For its size, no more cosmopolitan
place could be found in the country
Mill men from all over America, me-
who have worked in cyanide mills i
South Africa and Australia, me-
trained in the universities OF thei
home countries in Europe, soldiers c
misfortune, scores and scores of me
who didn't know a mill by sight bt
fore they landed broke in Miller.
college men from all parts of Americ
there's university club here), banl
ing house clerks from back east
men who never did a minutes MAJ
ual labor in their lives-are now dis
ging pits, packing lime. sweepin
floors. shoulder to shoulder with ID
.Bohunks
What "Bohunk Is.''
"The term -bohunk' means ignorar
foreign laborers, includes ali race
in contradistinction to white mer
There are some Greeks and Italian
among them, but nearly ali are Sla
onians. giant in stature. good-nature
children in Intellect. They get 81 Il
an eight-hour day, which is the mi
imum wages for any kind Of work !
IMillers. and that is about fwhat the
used to get for a fortnight's labs
back in Austria. Some OF them a,
pleasure-loving Slavs, whom the eve
ready bars and roulette wheels fir
easy victims, but most OF them ser