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The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-12-10
WIRELESS To
MAKE CLAIM
Of DEFENSE
is AT VARIANCE WITH HIS FIRST
STATEMENTS TO OFFICERS
MUDD, HIS VICTIM, STILL In
SHADOW OF DEATH.

Self defense is to be the plea of
G. H. B. Wheless, who did his best
to murder Lee Mudd, and presum-
ably others about card table in the
Court Exchange at an early hour yes
terday morning According to the
testimony of the only witnesses to
the shooting, the crime was entirely
unprovoked. Mudd was unarmed
and a smile was on his lips when
the rain of buuets started in his di-
rection. This is the testimony of
three witnesses.
Immediately after the shooting,
when the realization of what he had
done began to dawn upon the would
be murderer, he told the sheriff s
officers that he was sorry for his ac-
tion, and that it had been due to a
violent outburst of temper. He added
in seeming burst of penitence that
he hoped his victim would not die.
Yesterday, with the dream of a
dangling moose before him, he sent
for a lawyer, and subsequently
that he thought that Mudd was going
TO SQOOC ulIu, tudI lie IuOuSuC Muuu
had risen in his cnair and that he
thought that Mudd had gun.
All these thoughts do not jibe with
the testimony of the three men and
that of the man who was shot. All
say that the act of Wheless was de-
liberate and entirely without provo
cation. Wheless himself says that
he had had no quarrel with the man
he shot. The witnesses say that
Mudd, Wheless, Ben Logan, the bar
tender, and another man had been
playing freezeout for dollar a
'stack," and that Wheless lost few
dollars. Wheless arose from his seat
and went to the bar, engaging Dan
Smilanick, the proprietor in CONVEX
sation. Then he swung around and,
approaching the table, began to
abuse Mudd, calling him a crook.
Mudd laughed at him, and without
further ado, Wheless drew his re-
volver and fired six shots at Mudd,
only one of which took effect.
Wheless came here from Ogden
about three months ago, and with his
wife has been living at Central Ely.
He is carpenter by trade. He was
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-12-10

twice visited by woman, supposed
ly his wife, at the Jail yesterday.
Mudd, the victim of the shooting,
is at the Steptoe hospital, where he
is being given every possible care.
Yesterday morning he was. examined
and such attention given his wound
as needed by Drs. e. l.. R. Wallace,
Adams and Lew Wallace. DR..
Adams was first at the side of the
wounded man yesterday morning and
remained with him steadily for some
hours. The bullet entered the man s
right side, passed.. it is thought, be-
low the pit of the stomach, struck a
rib and glanced downward, passing
out of the body between the first and
second floating ribs. The rib struck
was broken. The doctors will not
be able to tell for 48 hours whether
the man will recover. 1t is the pres
ent belief that none of the vital
organs were struck by the bullet.
Four of the ineffective bullets
fired by Wheless have been recovered
by Sheriff Butler. The fifth is still
unaccounted for Two of the bullets
were found in the table and two in
the wall behind the table.
Mudd had little to say yesterday.
He is man of apparently about
40 years of age and is of fine ap-
pearance. His self control and gen.
tlemanly conduct have been COM
mented upon at the hospital and by
the attending physicians as marking
him as a man of more than ordinary
character. About himself he has
been non-commital further than to
say that his profession is that of
gambling. Concerning Wheless, he
has said he had no acquaintance
with the man further than that at
the card table.
Wheless has been>employed in the
carpenter shop of the Nevada North
ern at East Ely since here and among
his fellows bears good reputation.
They expressed the belief yesterday
that he must have been crazed with
liquor when he committed the deed
of yesterday morning, but the facts
in the case do not bear this out, he
being sober at the time of the trou-
BILE and having had very little to
drink during the night. The act looks
to those most familiar with it more
like the bravado of bad one.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-12-10
FASTING MADE HER WELL.
Young Woman Who Starved Forty
five Days Overcomes Ailment.

FLINT. Mich, Dec. 9.-Miss Jen-
ME Marshall, of New York, who
came to Flint several months ago for
her health, has just consluded a
45-day period of diet of lemon juice,
orange juice and water.
Miss Marshall suffered from the
result of an operation for appendi-
citis which took place three years
ago. An Inflammation in her right
side resisted all treatment by ply
sicians, and as last resort a fast
was ordered by her medical advis-
ors. The fast began October 8, and
ended Thanksgiving Day, when a
small amount of solid food was given
her. She is now rapidly improving
and her physicians say the fast treat
ment for the after effects of appendi-
citis has been successful.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-12-10
TOWN SEVEN FEET IN WATER.
Floods Cut Off All Northwest of
Washington State.

BELLINGHAM, WASH, Dec. g.
ington, flooded, has been cut off
from telegraphic communication with
the outside world. No trains are
moving except between this city and
Burlington, 20 miles south, and
service cannot be renewed inside
of a week. About SO miles of rail-
road in this part of the state has
been destroyed.
The town of Laconnor, is under
seven feet of water. Two ware
houses filled with grain collapsed.
In the country north of Lacon-
nor 1000 head of cattle were
drowned, while 100000 sacks of
oats and 5000 tons of baled hay
are lost.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-12-10
EXCHANGE
METHODS
ASSA|LED
Secretary Declares That
Abuses are Carried on
to the Decided Detri-
ment Of General Public

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-Both the
producers of cotton and the dealers
in that commodity are the victims
of the system of trading in vogue Oh
the cotton exchange of the country
This is the burden of parts
and 5 Of the report of Commissioner
of Corporations Herbert Knox Smitl
on the conduct of such exchanges
The practice of dealing in futures
as it is carried on at present, is con
demned, although the report does
not condemn the existence of the ex
change.
"The brief discussion of genera
speculation in this report" says Mr.
Smith, recognizes the possibilities
for good inherent in great centra
market like a cotton exchange, ant
the need that this good be developed
and evils eliminated by regulations il
line with economic law"
The report is especially condemna
tory of the dealings in futures
brar ding this form of speculation al
pure gambling and highly injurious
to legitimate trade. In quotation,
for future" deliveries of cotton
the market is so uncertain and S
many elements of chance enter int
the transaction that all bids are mad
at a much lower figure than thost
offered for cotton actuany in exist
ence.
The effect of these fictitious quo
tations, the report points out, tend
to mislead the cotton planter as t
the true value of his crop, honestl.
grown. In addition, it leads broker
to play both sides of the marke
to protect themselves against loss II
such trades, with the result that tn
producer is forced to pay in the end
while the farmer loses likewise.
The report while recognizing tha
the exchanges in New Orleans ant
New York are necessary, does no
mince words in criticising the New
York exchange. After declarini
that the New Orleans methods o
conducting the transactions in cottoi
followed natural lines, the repor
draws attention to the fact that
has been proved that the abnorma
depressions in the future price il
New York "were almost wholly du
to improper artificial conditions nov
maintained by the New York Cottol
Exchange. By maintaining them tho
New York exchange is responsible
for a very real injury to the pre-
ducer and merchant"
In closing the letter to Presiden
Taft which accompanied his report
Commissioner Smith again takes oc
casion to reprove the New York Elk
change. He says:
after the publication of tht
earlier parts of this report the New
Orleans and New York cotton ex
changes established special commit
tees instructed to consider the sys
TENS of their exchanges and to &C
operate therein with the Commission
er of Corporations. Conference
have been held by the Commissions
with both committees. On the par
of New Orleans this cooperation wa
very complete, resulting in certail
important improvements in the rule
of that exchange. After more thal
years investigation, the commit
tee of the New York exchange ha;
not yet made any final report O
taken any substantial action"
The Commissioner dwells on tn
activities of the various organization
Of cotton growers, all formed wit
a view of controlling both price ant
production.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-12-10
ICE CREAM BEST JAG" CURE.
Has Great Vogue as a "Bracer" in
Cincinnati Tenderloin.

CINCINNATI, Dec. 9.-Ice cream
Just plain ordinary vinilla bean
favored products pronounced the
best jag cure on earth by Charles
G.. Foertmeyer, local druggist.
DR.. Foertmeyer ought to know, as his
store is located not far from the
Joyful night" district and for
years FOUNDERS" carrying more or
less of a liquid cargo have been
accustomed to herd in his place
to be sobered up.
DR.. Foermeyer declares he has
dozens of regular customers who
use ice cream for the SOLDERING up.
He cannot explain how it acts, but
says it seems to absorb the alcohol,
fumes, effects and ALL
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-12-10
COOK ASSAILED BY MORE AFFIDAVIT MEN
DECLARE NORTH POLE DATA TO BE B0CUS|
COPENHAGEN DECLINES TO BELIEVE THE ABSURD

COPENHAGEN, Dec. 9.-Sum-
maries of affidavits of persons claim
ing to have aided Dr. Frederick A..
Cook in the preparation of his Polar
data as published in London and
New York today were read here with
amazement. Scientific circles are in
clined to be incredulous regarding
the charges and some persons, like
DR.. Carl Barrau, consider them so
improbable that they have only had
the effect of Strengthening confidence
in DR.. Cook.
The affidavits of two men, assert
that DR.. Frederick A. Cook
hired them for $4,000 with promise
of an additional bonus of $500 to eacn
of them to fabricate astronomical
observations and calculations of lati-
tude and longitude for submission to
the University of Copenhagen were
published in the New York Times
this morning.
The men who say they helped Cook
in preparing his records of jour-
ney to the North Pole are Geo. H.
Duskle, an insurance broker, and
Captain August Wedel Loose, a sea-
man. They admit that their reason
for making the information known
through their affidavits was that the
explorer only paid them $3.50 for
their work.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-12-10

CLEVELAND, Dec. 9.-Two men
lost their lives and the fate of 3 9TH
ers is unknown as the result of the
burning of the steamer Clarion near
Point Pelee in Lake Erie early to-
day.
Captain e. ]. Bell and II of his
crew took to the life boats and are
now adrift on the high sea. 1t is
feared they may starve or freeze to
death before rescued. Dix other men,
bers of the crew clung to the Clar
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-12-10

EVERYONE MIGHT HAVE ss4.os.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. g.
Every person in the United States
should have stake of 34.9S if
the money in circulation on Decem-
Der 1 were evenly divided. This is
based on the treasury's estimate that
the population of the United States
is 80,524,000 at this time.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-12-10
SCORN UNCLE SANS JOB.
Prosperous Farmers of Arkansas
Won't Keep Post Offices.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Dec. O.
Six fourth-class post Offices in Ar
kansas were today discontinued, be-
cause no one was willing to accept
the postmasterships.
F. W.. Tucker, chairman of the
Republican state committee, stated
that the people of the rural dis
tricts are so prosperous that 1t is i'm
possible to secure any one willing to
accept offices which offers such
small remuneration.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-12-10
DEMOCRATS.
ASK MONEY.
TO THE TOP
Is Undecided d---ZeIaya In
afeeIer to Britain False.
Iy Says Resignation Has
Been Demanded by U.S..

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-In the
caucus this afternoon, the Democrat
ic senators elected Senator Money,
of Mississippi, as minority leader to
succeed Senator Culberson, of Texas,
whose resignation was presented to-
day. Senator Money has not yet de-
cided whether he will accept the post
or not.
LONDON, Dec. 9.-The United
States government has demanded
formally the resignation of President
Zelaya of Nicaragua, according to a
cablegram received by a business
house here today. The message con-
tanning this information was COM
municated by Zelaya himself, who
said his resignation would probably
take effect at the end of December.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 9.-The
statement telegraphed from Nicar-
aqua to London that the United
States has demanded the resignation
of President Zelaya and that he has
indicated his purpose to retire by
the end of the present month. is de-
clared by the State department to be
without foundation.
However, officials here are await
ing developments in Nicaragua with
undisguised interest, for it is not
doubted that within the next few
days or weeks, at the farthest, a
crisis will be reached which will de-
termine the fate of the Zelaya gov
ernment
PORTE CORTEZ, Honduras, Dec.
3..-Martial law in Honduras was
proclaimed and a state of high ex-
pectancy exists. At the capital,
General Manuel Bonilla is suspected
of intriguing with Guatemala and
Salvador for the purpose of bring
ing about revolution in Honduras,
overthrowing the Davilla government
and then forming union between
Honduras, Guatemala and Salvador
for an attack on President Zelaya's
government in Nicaragua.
WASHINGTON Dec. 9.-Re-
trenchment is the keynote in the es-
Inmates of expenditures for the ex-
ecutive departments of the govern
ment for the fiscal year 1911, en-
bodied in the annual report OF
Franklin MacVeagh as Secretary OF
the Treasury, made public today.
This is in line with President Taft's
declared policy of greater economy
in administering the affairs OF the
government.
The total estimates for 1911 are
$671,2SS,O75, which are less by
$55, 5,663,091 than the appropriations
for 1910, and $94,001, ,493 less than
the estimates for 1910. The total es-
timated receipts for the current year
aggregate seas, 100000 and for 1911
about $672, 100000, leaving an OF.
binary deficit for the current year OF
s34.O75,62O and for 1911 surplus
of s48,775,449. Adding the pay
ments on account of the Panama
Canal and the public debt, the total
deficit of the present years becomes
s73,O75,620 and for $191l sur
plus of $711,925.
Secretary MacVeagh, emphasizing
the hard rigidity of rne present rev.
enue system, with it's recurrent econ
omical agitations and its long inter-
walls of fixity," says it will be nee
essary to meet these deficits to sell
either bonds or certificates of in
debtedness. "In due course, ne
adds. sit would seem that 1t must
be made practicable to both estimate
receipts. with close approximation
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-12-10

KANSAS CITY, Dec. 9.-There are
no signs of abatement of the cold
wave that three days ago swept down
on the territory embracing Kansas,
Western Missouri and Oklahoma.
The weather today and tonight con-
tinues intensely coid.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-12-10
NO BREAK IN
THE INTENSE
COLD WAVE
LARGE AREA STILL in THE GRIP
OF THE ICE KING, WITH NO
SIGN OF ABATEMENT OF MOST
UNUSUAL SEVERITY.

NORFOLK, Neb. Dec. 9.-The
government thermometer here reg
istered 18' below early today. This is
the coldest ever known this early in
the winter.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-12-10
DROWNED WITH STEAMER.

BUFFALO, Dec. 9.-The w. c.
Richardson, big steel freighter,
sunk early today at point five miles,
up the lake from Buffalo harbor. Five
members of the crew were drowned.
The steamer was laboring to harbor
in the great blizzard which has pre-
vailed on the lakes the last two days
when she was overcome.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-12-10
CALHOUN TRIAL POSTPONED
WITH PROSPECT OF ENDING

9-At request OF the district attorney
Patrick Calhoun
Judge
will be
favorable
small OF To-Day
accep a strong pointer in that direction
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-12-10

SIOUX CITY, Dec. 9.-The coldest
weather of the season was experience
ed here today, the thermometer reg
istering 18 below.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-12-10

to the actual, and to provide for
cir annual rise or fall by some fiex-
ible factors in our annual taxation" !"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-12-10

National Civic Federation conven-
ton in Washington, D. c., Jan.17.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-12-10

Police at Sheridan Wyo., were
forced to escort 500 school child
ren home during blizzard.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-12-10
LIVES LOST IN FIERCE FIRE
THAT TAXED FIGHTERS HARD

KALAMAZOO, 0-One life probably and feme
clad, into the
at
Rapids
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-12-10

ST. PAUL, Dec. 9.-The coldest
spot in the United States today was
DEVILS Lake, N. D., where the mer-
curry registered % degrees below
zero. At Winnipeg 80 below was re-
corded.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-12-10

A legislative commission reports
that $100,O00,000 in personal prop
erty escaped taxation in Chicago.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-12-10

Mrs. William Butler, Evansville,
Ind, died while witnessing surgi-
cal operation on her son.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-12-10
DISASTERS ON THE LAKES
CAUSED BY FIRE AND STORM
SEVEN LIVES LOST.-THE FATE OF l3 UNKNOWN

ion until taken off by the steamer
Hanna.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-12-10

meeting with
Society Washington he sub
Geographic Magazne
chairman
Colby
the
New-York tribune., 1909-04-15
CLUB BUTLER 4 SUICIDE.
S1caUO7ccd Rat Poison and Died IN
HOsmtaI- Police Not Told.

John Goulding. fifty years old. butler of the
Metropolitan Club. Fifth avenue and 'ioth street.
died at the Presbyterian Hospital last evening
on Tuesday No news Of the attempted suicide
reached the police until the hospital sent word
To the coroners office that the man dead
GouIding was single and lived in furnished
room at No S45 East Goth street.
DR. Davis of the Presbyterian Hospital SAYS
that a private call was sent in from the CIup
for an ambulance on Tuesday morning. He
sponded and found Goulding in a used by
the servants on the top floor of the club. The
man was stretched unconscious on a couch, and
beside him on the floor lay package OF rough
on rats" Some of the poison faxed the
mans lips
CiouIding was hurried to the hospital. and died
there last evening without making a statement.
Coroner Hamburger says he told DIR. Davis that
he had been negligent in not seeing that the
police were informed.
DR. O'Hanlon. CoroneTs physician. performed
an autopsy and found that Cioulding had died
from poison, probably arsenic. Dr. OHanion
also said he found that the mans brain indi-
Gated he had been a heavy drnker- Coroner
Hamburger said he intended making a complete
investigation of the case. examining all the
wants and any one else at the Metropolitan
CIub who might give information, and also
every one at the Presbyterian Hospital who
knew ANYTHING about the case. GOulding had
been A butler at the club for more than five
New-York tribune., 1909-04-15
SEIZE HUGE DISTILLERY.
Maryland Concern licensed of ViO-
iating RerRnue Lac.

Washington. April 14.-As a result of an in
vestisation into charges of violation of the in
ternal revenue law. John G. Capers, COmmis-
sioner OF Internal Revenue. issued formal in
structiOns to-day TO Collector P. l. GOldsbor-
ough at Baltimore directing him 10 seize the
Carroll Springs Distillery COmpanys plant, one
Of the largest registered grain distilleries in
Maryland.
The government will take possession of nearly
eight thousand barrels of whiskey- COmmis-
sioner Capers and revenue employees have been
investigating the matter for three months and
1t is alleged found violations of the law sufh-
cient to cause the forfeiture OF the plant, its
contents and the contents of the warehouses
Commissioner Capers declined to give any of
the details but it is understood that the charges
involve discoveries of new whiskey in old bar
reIs the substitution of new whiskey for older
wriskey and the removal of it without the pay
rlent Of the 81 10 a gallon TO the govern
ment. the substitution of gin Cor whiskey in
some instances. and in some of the packages
excessive vantage and similar evidences Of
what it is asserted, worked direct fraud upon
the United States in that it deprived the govern
ment of its revenues upon the product OF the
distillery.
New-York tribune., 1909-04-15

Demanded Money, bit Got ScJcn
Bullets Through B0dy.

Andrea Ciambno. twenty-siX years old. Italian
barber who lived at Fifth avenue and Union
street Brooklyn. was shot dead I'm a pistol duel
last night when he demanded so Of Pietro Zar-
cone a butcher, thirty-seven years old of No. 23b
Fourth avenue Zarcone arrested. and at the
Bergen street police station admitted having done
the shooting. There seven bullet wounds in
Gambino's body.
The entire Italian colony aroused by the
running battle which continued for several blocks
until Gambino fell According to the police Gam
bino met the butcher. with whom he was not ac
quainted Fourth avenue and Union street about
80 D. n and demanded so. The money was re-
fused and Gambino reached toward his hip pocket
Zarcone the police say, then pulled revolver. and
the shooting began Gambino ran and Zarcone fol-
lowed, being Joined by two friends with revolvers
who also fired the fleeing Black Hand man. In
died on the sidewalk. His pursuers up. and
with the handles of their revolvers hammered at
the dead mans face and head until a crowd ap-
preached when they fed The victims wife was
attracted by the shots. and identified the dead
Italian as her husband.
Patromen Charles Sheehan and Thomas Ker-
rigan arrested Zarcone The Italian refused to
give the names of his companions Detectives
later arrested James Munzo seventeen years old
of No 236 Fourth avenue. suspicious person.
The police say it is a case of attempted extortiuu
by the Black Hand
New-York tribune., 1909-04-15
KILLED BY SUBUAY TRAIN
Minister Falls IN Front of 1t While
His Daughter Looks On.

The Rev. Hamilton William Nesbit. fifty years
old staying the Washington Inn. Amsterdam
avenue and 155th street. fell in front of subway
train in the 157th street and Broadway station
last night and died later at the Washington
Heights Hospital The train ran over his left
leg and crushed it badly that it had 70 he
amputated just below the knee. 1t was found
too that his skull had been fractured.
Mr.. Nesbt. who Methodist minister.
arrived last Friday from ClonmeI County Tip
perary. Ireland. He here to get funds for
his church. and his way to call on Will
lam Hobson. of No -54 West 160th street
His daughter. Roselle. seventeen years old.
was with him when the accident occurred Mr..
Nesbit leaned forward over the track 10 see If
train was coming and lost his balance. His
daughter tainted when the southbound train
came in sight
J. ReideI OF No. 21TO Amsterdam avenue, the
motorman, arrested.