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The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-07-11

Preliminary steps Taken and COM
mittccs Appointed nj VIM
ncmucca.

WINNEMuCCA, July ia wei
attended meeting was held AT lhe
court house last evening for the pur-
pose of making arrangements for a
reception to Senator George D NlNon'
20 take place about July = wneh ne
IS expected to be here and MAKE 'he
presentation of the opera house 10
the people of Winnemneea.
]. Sheehan was chosen ehaiI''ian
and c. W. Muller, secretary OF the
meeting, and after discussion OF 'he
plans for the reception the iollo"-
ing committees were appointed
Finance NJ Rose, c. W. Mu'-
Ter and w. A. Brown.
Music and Entertainment--h, ~
Gilbert. ID. |. LaPont, J. c. HaydNeh'
George Southwark, George EVAN
Mrs. W. l.. Samuels. Mrs. c. w; Mui-
Ter. Mrs. w. S. Porter, Mrs. n. A.
Gilbert. Miss Minnie Wolf, MISS NOT
ma Warren. Miss May Staunton.
Refreshments Mrs W q, Case'
Mrs. ]. Lavoy. Mrs. c. w Muller
Mrs. f. G. Hoenstine. Mrs e. VOL
Mrs. T. A. Brandon. Mrs. G. \. shai-
lenherger. Mrs. J. Sheehan, Mrs W.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-07-11
COPPER IS LOOKING
STEADILY BETTER. THE
STOCKS HOLD WELL

Profit taking To considerable extent
mas failed TO shake prices to materi-
ally lower levels during the last few
days. On the other hand there has
been a steady bnoyaney and strength
that is at the least very encourag-
ing to hope for better things during
next week. Intense heat has been
had to contend with this week, fact
that makes the strength and activity
of the market seem even better than
The face indicates. The coppers are
benefiting from reports of improved
demand for the metal and strengthen
ing price both in this country and In
Europe. Their outlook is very en-
couraging for advance of important
character before the end of the
month. In such advance the low cost
producers must lead the way Clos
ing quotations in New York yester-
daY were.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-07-11
TELEGRAPH BRIEFS.

Their automobile smashed by a
train at a grade crossing at Dorset.
O.. S. H. Sweet and w j. Gridley. of
New York. were seriously injured.
4 $4,000 silver service was recent
ly presented by the state of North
Carolina TO the cruiser of that name,
the ceremony taking place at Cape
Lookout.
Cornelius p. Shea. former head of
the International Transfers union,
recently arrested for using the mails
to defraud. was yesterday exonerated
in federal court at Boston.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-07-11
TAXING or PROFITS
Speculative Liquidation Only Feature
of Market-Rise "f Copper in
London Has Bullish Effect.

NEW YORK, July i9-lt was
plainly TO be seen that speculative
liquidation was in progress in today s
stock market TO secure profits ac-
erued on the considerable advance
which has occurred In prices since
last week The effect Of this in IT.
self was depressing 10 prices. There
xere points of strength which had a
sustaining effect on the general list.
nut they we're not IN such prominent
issues as yesterday, and were less
spectacular in the demonstration, and
% had less sentimental influence.
The outside buying orders attract
ID by Yesterdays strong showing
we're taken advantage Of TO supply
stocks in profit taking sales, and this
Kind of selling reeurred pretty reg
llarly at all favorable opportunities.
The seeming change in the temper of
the speculation was not based on any
new developments affecting general
conditions. unless il we're sugges-
ton current at one time that pre-
conceived notions of the action to be
taken bv the Democratic convention
AZ Denver might lac upset.
ne IfttilbDdiA ifhu'Hit va Nh'
United States steel stocks after yes
ferday's brilliant display of strength
vas a marked restraining influence
on any upward tendency elsewhere.
The view of the leading trade au-
ihorities in their weekly reviews over
he progress of betterment In the In
dusiry was in rather striking contrast
Nth the matter on that subject
which was passed about the floor OF
the stock exchange by word OF
mouth. while the steel stocks we're
soaring. and this contrast had some
chilling effect There was obvious
profit taking going ON In Union Pa
life. with the powerful sentimental
Eject on the whole which this STOCK
has come to have.
Another rise In the London price
II copper helped the copper STOCKS
A center of strength was IN the
southwestern granger group, lhduc-
I'd by reports OF the brilliant spring
wheat prospect. This revived old ru-
mors of an intended extra dlsburse-
ment on Northern Pacific stocks Inc
lay's proft taking was conducted
cautiously and without serious IN
roads on prices at any time. WHAT
.ser declines were involved We're
made M before the end OF tne DAY
With the growing strength oi the sus-
aiming stocks in the dealings
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-07-11
HAMILTON GONG AHEAD.
summer Activity in the Camp Is Max.
ing Things Look Good-Niueh
l. Going On.

With the summer season. activity
In Hamilton district is going ahead
ar full swing. Shipping is being
done by some properties, while others
are preparing TO take that step. This
is the report of Allen G. Bragg. who
Is in Ely. having come over for the
purpose of attending the meeting of
the Republican county central COM
mittee.
At the Alta Zoanni, the property
of Mr. Bragg and Roy W. Sehenek
also OF this city, a good strike was re-
Gently made. In a shallow hole
started for shaft a vein Is to 20
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-07-11
MARkEISMINING, AND METALS
FIRE AT TONOPAH
NEARLY CAUSES DEATH.

IoNoPAH, July 10.-The
residence of Key Pittman,
well known mine owner of Ton
opah, burned to the ground last
night and in the fire Mrs. Pitt
man and her cook nearly lost
their lives. They both escaped
with painful burns.
The cook was preparing
breakfast, when she spilled ,
some grease into the fire and ,
II flared up, igniting her cloth /,
ing and some dish cloths hang /,
ing on the wall. The cook ,
started to run out of the house ,
with her clothing burning, but /,
Mrs. Pittman saw her and !,
throwing her to the floor threw /,
herself onto her body and tried i,
10 beat out the flames. While I
doing this Mrs. Pittman's cloth j,
ing caught on fire and both I
We're in danger of burning to |
death when air. Pittman enter I
ed the house and smothered the I
burning clothing of the two /,
women with q rug.
While he was doing this, I
however. the fire gained such I
headway in the kitchen that the ,
IRE company was powerless to I
extinguish it.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-07-11
HALEY SAYS WILL COLLECT
TAXES ON BULLION

RENO. July 10.-State Bull I
lion Tax Collector J. F. Haley I
will leave today for Carson City I
to take his Official oath and to I
assume the duties of his office. I
He states that he will leave ear I
ly this week for tour of the I
entire state and that before he I
returns to Reno he will visit ev- I
cry town, city and mining camp I
in the entire state. He declares ,
that he intends TO see that all I
producing mines pay TO the I
state treasury the full amount I
of bullion tax demanded by the ,
law and that he will see that ,
many saloons in the state, now I
said to be eyading the payment I
of state revenue licenses. pay I
the licenses or quit doing bust I
ness. I
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-07-11

The coppers held their own today.
Nevada Consolidated was very active
and Cumberland Ely strong. Trad
ing was brisk. Gironx was about the
same. Ely Consolidated was dull
trader. Newhonse was active and
vas traded in quite freely. The metal
market is showing some strength and
prices on metals are slowly working
I'D TO higher levels.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-07-11

l.. Samuels, Miss Norman Warren.
Miss Mary Bonnifield.
Committee on Purchasing Dishes
Mrs. F. G. Hoenstine, Mrs. J. Lavoy,
Mrs. w. L. Samuels. Mrs. w. F.
Pearce. Mrs. J. l.. MCGOWAN, Mrs
Lester Smith.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-03-08
Underground

HERE are thousands of people who
have desired to see what the bot
tom of an oil well looked like after
a hundred-quart glycerine torpedo
had been exploded in it. But no
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shootino IN auono the TONS A dazed wood
becker anftere do tSron e ' Ike limbs. hot GIN
ders filed the air: vouno trees bowed and
fell. Tho great glowing wall of fire swept
an further Fnoe3a covered his face to shut
ont the SITTING smoke
ooh I'm SO thankful ] thought of this
clearinpl'' he aid .I'm safe nowlo
And over, &c s he said y ,hare naro mighty
so1nd. 4 great tree ON The edee Of the clear
inc hurnt thraugb tba base hy The Gre fall
II feIj mt tbe olesr sns Some If the
In .nso N l,ea'insl ~ ~, ~
The ground n;nnne hin, there Perhans he
fa;nted al hrapa Ih he d;d ID, ,,at Lnow Int when
he came To himself there was over him a
nc eale 70 n',,,s5 .neas was oFe[ I'LL l,,'n ID
~ I'm Sa,,a baaa, ,sa;nh4 of be tbo,,ght
e;tber the tree-t1a,nk " or some large branch
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observed. HE must be down near the
ground, / guess. He isn't ON any of the trees,
so far as | can discover"
We crept around behind trees, bushes and
hillocks, hoping by careful management, to
get within gunshot of the place. But sud
denly there was a prodigious uproar IN the
winged camp. All the crows appeared to be
in motion at once, every one squaillng at the
top of his voice.
What could the matter be? Was it possible
that they had seen us? They were not at
lacking the owl, for he was still sitting a
calm spectator of the scene.
Changing our position little, we got a
full view of what was going on.
Hundreds of crows were wheeling about IN
the air, close over our pigeon-blind, and div
ing almost down to it.
Some white object was fluttering just above
the fiat roof of rails, but it disappeared In a
few moments, as if pulled under by some one
beneath.
Then all at once the flock, cawing in ter
same time the big owl, launching himself
upon the air, also scared away, but this time
unpursued.
jaunty hat appeared from under the blind
.Cecila-Ceclia Olcott," called Ed, here
we arei Waltz
Running to the spot where she stood, we
were astonished to see her holding in her
arms a struggling, ,fntteiing, pure white crow!
eve got himi" she said. when | saw
that great flock coming, ! lodged under the
blind and the white one, with a dozen 9th
ers, lighted on the top Of i. / canght him by
it was a good while before / could get him
down between the rails Oh, what nice
pet he will make! Poor thing, how fright
ened he is!'
And SO pretty, light-hearted Cecilia had
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7 Fl z

somewhat. He hurried toward it again and
ran back.
2 But the flames were before him. A tree
had fallen across the track. There was
binding smoke beyond, with an occasional
glimpse of flashing flames Trees were going
down now and then. He could hear the
craclsle and snap of the burning underbrush
and dry branches and treetops of other sea-
sons Which way should he run?
Over on the other side he saw flames: How
long had this fire been travelling that it had
gained such strength!
The whoie forest seemed abiaze. Was
no wonder All the hills were dry as finder
these hot summer months. The small space
of sky he could see was black with drifting
smoke.
''Oh, l must get out some way or other!'
cried the boy. What fool was to leave
the ridgel Maybe the fire wouldn't have
But all before him, in the direction in
which he believed the ridge lay, was smoke
and fame
He ran this way and that Which way
closing him in. Had it closed around Lester
before this?
don't believe there's been as big one for
years."
Swift behind him came the flames, as,
choked by smoke, he ran. He stumbled
through briers and over PROSTATE branches;
he was scratched and bruised. He had
dropped his ak He could not be burdened
wait anything like that now. It seemed to
him he had lost the points of the compass.
There was little clearing somewhere, if he
only knew which way to go? Therel Was
not that it through the trees?
The flames came on swiftly behind him,
beside him. they were almost scorching him.
There was a fash of fire before his eyes. He
fought his way, stumbling, gasping.
Painting, he staggered into the clearing at
last 1t was very small one. A few trees
had been cut down and taken away. There
was some brush. It caught fire, and Eugene
trampled it down and fought it with his
coat.
The little rubbish that there was in the
clearing rapidly burned out, and the boy
stood there. watchin the sheets of fire that
swept around the circle, shifting the trees,
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cnlate. II was large trunk, and it took
good while to burn; but it was burning
Its Observation-Disclosures
The words whirled themselves over and
over in Eugenes brain. -,
It'll hold me here-it'll hold me here!
he screamed.
He lay half stupefed. How long would, It
be? How long had he lain there already
What was that noise that went through his
head, sounding like a. horn? How long had
he been hearing it? Did he hear 1t, or was
it merely imagination?
Cenfssealy, ct last, the idea came to HIM
that the horn was real. There was, louder
blast. There were sounds of men hailooing.
There was moments silence.
They're the millmen!" cried Eugene l;
Here, hereunder this tre rec Help heip'
His voice died away. A faintness seized
him. There was a crackling-a sound OF
steps The boy called once more, feebly
The next thing he knew there were men
the tree. Lester had hold of him., dragging
him out. and crying in shaky voice:
"You aren't killed, are you, Eugene! Oh,
Gene, ] thought you were! We've hunted
everywhere
One of the millmen helped Lester. take, his
cousin to a sheltered place, while. the others
went on to fight the fire. 1t would never do
to let it reach the fumes.
It took all that night and the next day TO
stoD the progress of the flames. By that
time Lester and Eugene were at home, and
could look from the lighthouse toward Crook
ed Mountain.
"The smokes growing less." said Lester,
putting down his glass. II think that fires
about the last one you'll ever want to go
through with, Gene"
Eugene sat beside the door, looking pale
and exhausted. His hair was good deal
scorched and libby, who had been greatly
interested in his adventure, and who now
stood holding her three kittens and looking
at Eugene critically, opened her mouth~4to
express her opinion of his appearance. :,
hYou aren't pretty she said, candldiy;
"but if me and my chopper AK had been there,
we'd have helped you, too, Gene. Wouldn't
we, Mina?"
But Nina only looked at her scorched cou-
sin and smiled.
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BRIGHT BITS ABOUT BOYS

ley, who seemed to dread the ordeal even
more than the younger offender, kept in the
bad boy" said his mother, severely. What
do you mean by pushing your little sister I,
ley engagingly, ladies first, you know
Young folks are quick to pattern after their
elders, bad habits as well as good. A little
Rochester boy was sent on an errand by his
mother to the grocery store, and when he
came back he was contentedly eating bs-
mana; Where did you get your banana!'
asked his mother Bought it." he replied,
quietly. But l gave you no money to buy
one,, she objected, ".oh. well, he, said,
have two, and / would drop in and pay for
them next week." That was beginning the
credit system at an early age
At an evening school in Providence, r. L.,
there was a class of newsboys and bootblacks
on the front seat, restless little fellows. each
one trying to see how much he could annoy
the teacher, without being expelled. Finally
the teacher put the class through the cate
chism of United States history. the first
question being. who discovered American"
lost his patience and exclaimed, ssWell, when
one of you boys gets to the point when he
needs TO have some one vote for him as gov
ernor or mayor, he will be ashamed to think
At this the worst boy in the class raised his
Ben, what is it," II know who discovered
America-it was Christopher Columbus"
"Why didn't you tell, theny?' asked the
TEACHER sharply Bscaa aet sad 70 B ta
all / know" The teacher managed to keep
his face straight while he dismissed that
class, but there were symptoms OF smile all
the rest of the evening.
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A piece of solid steel will float on water, It
it be small enough and slightly creased. A
common sewingneedle, especially if it be
new one, when placed gently on the surface
of water, floats.
Ganot explains this phenomenon by say
ing that the needle being covered with the
oily layer. is not wetted.
There is a capillary repulsion between the
oil and the water, and depression is pro-
duced in the water which keeps the needle
up in spite of its weight. If the needle be
well washed in solution of potash. and thor
oughly dried, it will not float. :,
The human eye, does not see things, neither The
does what we call sight penetrate space. Inc
eve is simply like a telescope for receiving
rays of light. 1t is the brain only that sees.
Ia this sense, the fingers do not feel, the ear
does not hear, the tongue does not taste, nor
does the nose smell.
Hence light does not exist outside the hui
man body, nor does sound, nor touch, nor
feeling, nor taste, nor smell, but their causes
do In each and every case they are sensa-
tions existing in the brain only.
Snow is not white, neither is it Opaque. 1t
is composed of small, six-rayed crystals,
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a busy was he working and laying out his
ass that he did notice anything differ
8 in his surroundings for two or three
hen. looking up among the trees. he saw
~ the sky was overcast.
Why, it's getting cloudy" he observed,
frightening up to rest his shoulders mo-
ut. 1T won't rain much this time OF the
II. though. Maybe it's fog"
He worked on a while, busily
@Seems to me Testers gone long time,
3 said, at last. why, how dark the sky
lie gazed up in< establishment an instant.
zen a faint Whit of familiar odor came
Tough the trees.
its a fire. Why, that's smoke!' he
Jed.
He caught up his ak and stood moment
3esolute.
What should he do? Maybe he ought to
Id the fire and try to fight it. Which way
hs it? Did it amount to anything!
Ia strange Whit of smoke came through
,e forest. Eugene, listening, thought that
the distance he could even hear faint
'acklings.
Harki Was not that sound the distant
RASH of tree falling somewhere!
He grasped his ak and hurried down the
,eep trail Part way down he stopped. he
as sure he could hear now the cracking
ae roar of flames that had been too yictori-
US so far to be stopped by anything he
,uld do.
Was that what had kept Lester2 Where
as the boy?
It seemed to Eugene that the trail led di-
sctly toward the fire. He ran in that direc-
on for time.
Lester! Lester!n he cried, at the top
{ his voice. .Iesteri"
A volume of smoke rolled through the
'oods,. Eugene began e.; to be alarmed Tor
TITS a bigger fire than ] thought. he
wned. to himself. maybe I'd better have
tayed on that ridge. Which ways that
"a"
In his eagerness to find out about the fire
nd his cousin he had run from the trail
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tt PECULIAR PARADOXES

which, when examined separately, are seen
to be as transparent as water. Snow is white
only in the sense that water, when falling
over a precipice, is white. In each case the
whiteness is due to inclosed air.
Light, which makes everything else visible,
is itself invisible. To roughly illustrate this,
make tube by rolling piece of stiff brown
paper about eight inches long, blackened on
the inside, around ruler.
Close one end of the tube. Make two holes,
about one-third of an inch in diameter, two
inches from the closed end of the tube, ex-
actly opposite each other, and a third very
small hole directly underneath them.
Hold the tube near a gas flame or candle,
SO that the light shines through the two
holes and look down the tube. If the holes
are accurately cut. all win be dark. Intro
duce the fine point of small roll of white pa
per through the smaller hole, in the track of
the beam; it reflects the rays and becomes
visible.
If light itself were visible, the sky at
night beyond the shadow caused by the
earth would be one blaze of light, since
the suns rays are everywhere traversing
space.
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THE WHITE CROW

caught the albino crow for which Ed and |
had hunted SO long in vain.
It fought hard for freedom, and pecked her
soft hands so fiercey that she was glad to LET
her brother take it from her before starting
for the house.
In a few weeks, under her gentle treat
ment, it became perfectly tame, and was
the premises, with one of its wings clipped
to prevent escape.
When our own family removed from the
neighborhood, year Or two later, the white
crow was still an interesting member of the
Olcott household
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refraction brings an action below the line OF
vision into view, is made by placing coin m
an empty basin, moving the BASIN until the
coin is just out of sight, and, while in this
position, pouring water in the basin, when
the coin again comes into view.
Water can be frozen in a red-hot vessel.
If water, or any other volatile liquid, is
dropped upon red-hot metal, it assumes a
spheroidal form and rotates rapidly. The
globule does not really touch the metal, but
rests on a cushion of its own vapor.
Al popularity of this condition is that the
globuie eyaporates slowly and its tempera-
ture is always below. its boiling, point Ii
liquid suiphurous acld, which boils at four
teen degrees Fahrenheit, be placed in a red
hot vessel along with few drops of water,
both liquids assume the spheroidal state, and
the intense cold of the sulphprous acid
(which, in this condition, is below fourteen
degrees Fahrenheit) Immediately turns the
water into ice.
By a similar process, with a mixture Of
solid earbonic acid and ether. Faraday sud
eeeded in freezing mercury in red-hot cru
chile. Mercury freezes at thirty-nine degrees
below zero, Fahrenheit.
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R-N PROMINENT Western auInor mas
| a bright son of sixteen, who is IN
iNt bank and who also writes verse
E3ssf%5 occasionally which he submits to
geE&J his father for criticism. Not long
ago he handed him one which was
returned with the remark: THAT is posi-
lively bad" The boy looked at him ques
tionally. ~ GU viii have to change 1t before
it will pass" continued his father. But
can't change it if it is bad said the boy,
with twinkle in his eye; and the father sug-
gested that possibly his son knew more about
banking than he did about poetry.
The process of the youthful mind when it
gets To logical deduction is apt to be fearful
and wonderful. and not always easily follow
ed by the adult intellect. AT kindergarten
class the teacher asked her pupils to give an
example Of cylinder from some article
which they had at home. Asparagus" one
small boy responded, very promptly; and the
teacher smiled approvingly. Ny mother
had rhubarb." another said briskk, thus
catching at half the cylinder idea, and yet
improving the opportunity to boast OF some
thing which his family enjoyed. The third
how overcome by the connection of ideas on
the culinary side, lost sight Of the original
proposition altogether, and cried out, with
the air of one who is not to be beaten,
"Wel, my mothers going to make some
root beer, anyway!
Politeness always pays, and the young are
Quick to learn the lesson. A New York phys-
can has two pretty children-Dudley, aged
ten, and Rose, three years younger; The
mother has been at great pains to teach Dud-
toward little girls. She had occasion the
other day to punish both children for some
mutual unruliness, and the two culprits came
up for sentence with frightened looks. Dud-