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The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1909-01-02
GOES OVER TO ROSEBUD
ON OFFICIAL BUSINESS

Sheriff Lamb is at Rosebud TO-DAY
where he is selling the personal effee ;
of the Placeritos Mines company,
under a Judgment of the district court
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1909-01-02
DO YOU HOLD
THE LUCKY NUMBER?

30,972 is the lucky number at tho
Morris Hoffman Company's for tn,
$50 White sewing machine. Holder
must present ticket by January l5ti,
1909. Jan.2-l2.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1909-01-02
THE GOLDEN EAGLE
MILL RESUMES

E. P. Sites, a stationery engineer
from Chafey, passed through town ON
the Goth, on his way to the Golden
Eagle mine. 1t was the intention OF
Superintendent Powell to start the
mill on the Both ult.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1909-01-02

MIR. and Mrs. +. ID. Hubbard and
family have returned from spending
the holidays at Starr ranch.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1909-01-02

Rooney, the man who is charged
with the murder, has the reputation of
being bad man. On October 27, Con-
stable Simmons went to his house n
Chafey, with a search warrant, to look
after some missing property. AS 1t
was in the night. Rooney claimed that
the officer lacked authority of law an
made him leave the premises. For this
offense he was arrested the next day
and bound over to the grand jury in
bonds of $2500. He was brought to
Winnemucca and lodged in the county
JAIL where he remained for about 4
week before giving the bond.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1909-01-02
SOL HENDRA MURDERED
in COLD BLOOD AT CHAFEY
-Four Alleged Accessories Now in County JAIL.
Man Charged with Committing Crime Es-
capes and Now Pursued by Posses

CHAFEY, New, Dee. 29.-Sol Hen
dra, of this place, kas instantly killed
with Winchester this afternoon about
lao o'clock, while doing assessment
work for Thomas Hendra and A. NJ.
Williams on what is known as the
Tululu mine. The killing was done by
man by the name of Joseph Rooney,
mining camp agitator of the worst
sort Hendra and Williams were doing
assessment work on the mine for the
year of 1908, and have been put to
considerable expense trying to keep
out of trouble with this man Rooney
and his associates, and were presen.
when the killing took place. Rooney
fred from behind point of rocks
about $50 yards from where the men
were at work. But one shot was fired.
There had been some talk of heated
nature between Williams and Clark,
who was a partner of Rooney's in the
claim jumping, and Clark had made
threats by saying to Williams:
"By Cd, | know ycu now and will
fix you later on
The killing was deliberate and
premeditated murder and was done in
a most dastardly manner, at signal
from Bernard Clark (the raising of a
HANDY which was noticed by James j.
Williams, S. G. Updike and Thomas
Hendra.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1909-01-02

Miss G. T. Lying came over from
Golconda yesterday to attend tAs
Warren-Stevens wedding.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1909-01-02
HAVE NOT RETURNED
YET FROM JUNIPER RANCH

Having received word that his bro
ther Frank was down with pneumonia,
Ed Stauffer left last Wednesday ~
auto, accompanied by Dr.. Samusls, for
the Juniper ranch. They har not ~
turned as we 60 to press.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1909-01-02

Sol Hendra, the murdered man, was
about 36 years of age and had lived in
Dun Glen canyon, where the town az
Chafey is situated, the greater part of
his life He was an industrious, law
abiding citizen. He elaves to mourn
his loss wife and three children, a
mother, two sisters and two brothers,
all of whom, with one exception, are
residents of Chafey.
1t is reported that brother, James
Hendra, of Chafey, has offered reward
of $1,000 for the murderer or murder
ers, dead or alive. The report, how
ever. lacks verifcation.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1909-01-02
Early Wednesday morning two vii

Early Wednesday morning two wit
nesses of the shooting, Clark,
the man whom the above dis
patch claims signalled Roone.y
to shoot, and Coke, came in
and gave themselves up to the sheriff,
asking for protection. There are peo-
pie in Chafey who claim they are i'm
plicated in the affair, but as yet no
charge has been placed against them.
Yesterday District Attorney Ducker,
accompanied by a deputy sheriff, Wis
tied Chafey and went over the scene
of the tragedy with A. M Williams and
son James. They were accompanied by
a civil engineer, who made diagram
of the ground, finding that the shot
was fired from a point of rocks $50
yards from where Hendra stood, instead
of $50 yards, as stated in the dispatch.
Two men who were in custody at
Chafey, named johnson and Pat
Mullally, charged with being acces-
sories to the crime, were brought back
and placed in the county Jail. Their
cases were continued at Chafey, AMI
as soon as some one comes over and
files complaints against them here, they
will be given preliminary hearing be-
fore Judge Robins.
Posses are securing the country for
Rooney and man named Fuller, but
so far as known they have not yet
been apprehended.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-10
RAILWAY EARNINGS AND TRANS
PORTATION CHARGES.

A comprehensive essay has been
published by Mr.. c. G. Mccain on the
necessity of adjusting railway rates to
meet the new industrial conditions in
this country. 1t is entitled "The Dim
inished Purchasing Power of Railway
Earnings" and its purpose is to show
that the increased cost of railways, OF
the addition to and improvement of
transportation facilities, makes no
corresponding increase of income for
the railroads. The argument is based
upon the theory that the money which
the railways now receive for their
services. something like $1,000, 100000
year. is relatively less valuable than
it used to be, and that at least to the
extent of the depreciation the railways
should be permitted to increase their
transportation charges. 1t is contend
ed the wages of railway labor and the
prices of all kinds of railway material
and also all of the commodities car
ried by the railroads, have rapidly in
creased, and assumed therefrom that
the value of money has decreased
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-10
A Doubly Heroic Woman.

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Kate Shell
ley, she of Moingona bridge fame,
has lived a doubly heroic life. That
fact Is brought to the worlds atten-
ton by the announcement of the death
OF her mother, who has been a suffer
er from rheumatism All America
heard of the thrillingly heroic act of
Kate Shelley when she saved train
and scores of lives from destruction
on that dark and stormy night when
a flood had carried away the bridge
and made possible territ lie disaster
Kate Shelley was accounted heroine
after that thrilling adventure She
was real heroine. At tle peril of
her own life, she saved tie lives of
scores of others. But Kate Shelley
did just as heroic thing, though not
so spectacular, when she remained at
home, spurning offers of marriage and
the opportunity to create home of
her own, for the sake of caring for
her mother. There was quiet hero
ism in that devotion to duty which
is greater than the heroism of any
spectacular triumph-no matter how
great the latter may be.
Kate Shelley is doubly heroic
woman. And the world has many like
her insofar as their quiet service for
their loved ones is concerned They
would be heroic in double capacity
we're they given the opportunity. Like
Kate Shelley they are MADE Of heroic
stuff
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-10
Won a certainty-Lost a Mystery.

st. Louis Republic: We have won
the real pole-a vast expanse of snow,
purple under the sunlight, white as
death under the wheeling Arctics and
the cold moon through the long
months Of the winter night We have
won one landscape, but we have lost
many. The polar cataract, plunging
with awful thunders into the abyss, as
pictured in the lurid tale of Poe; the
dream of the concentric spheres"
the vision of a terrestrial paradise, a
land Of strange valleys whose green
grasses and blue gentians grew clean
10 the ultramarine margins of the ice.
the lift Of mighty mountains under the
boreal sky, with the smoke-plumes Of
volcanoes greater than Erebus and
Terror waving above their SUBMITS;
the mystery of a sea that remained uE
frozen while waters far to the souti
were locked fathoms deep in ice; the
faces and speech Of hyperboreans
with whom in eternal youth. were
Andree and his companions. All these
we had but yesterday, yet they are
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-10
Alexandria,s Defense.

70 Alexandria Sun: The summary GUST
ing from this place of the Brown-Dart
outfit, by mob justice, was given a
greatly exaggerated write-up In some
of tae metropolitan newspapers. The
affair gave some of the little dinky
dailies in the interior of Iowa, an OPP
portunity to work off some of their
surplus hot air, in sermons preached
from the text: Let him who is
without guilt cast the first stone"
Last winter the Iowa legislature,
backed by the press of the state, en-
acted a law giving Iowa towns an open
door whereby they might expel their
scarlet" women. About the time
the law was under discussion in the
legislative chambers, these same pa
pers were handing out great deal OF
bombast about clean towns" with
out saying word about clemency
for the "soled doves" When the
act became a law, the authorities
found a loop-hole whereby they need
expel only the worst and most de-
Sraueu characters, 1OlSllng them up
on the neighboring towns of adjoin-
ing states. This clean up" was ac-
complished by means of the police
club, and no one is better acquainted
with the measures employed in po-
lice clean up" than are the members
of the editorial profession, and yet
the brethren were silent upon the
subject of charity at the most op.
perfume time in their lives If they de-
sired to start statewide wave Of
reformation. We would respectfully
recommend for the consideration Of
our neighbors on the north the pre-
cept that charity begins at home
and the saying about those WAC live
in glass houses, etc.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-10
CIVIL SERVICE IN MARRIAGE.

DR. Wiley, the pure food expert,
chief chemist of the agricultural de-
partment, has come forward with the
proposal that every woman be requir-
ed to furnish evidence of her ability 20
cook and be made to declare her will
ingness to put her knowledge into
practice before marriage license is
granted to her. The Washington Post,
hailing this thought as a step toward
the amelioratioa of domestic infelic-
ity and the reclamation of the dyspep-
tic" finds that 1t suggests still further
possibilities why not put wives I'M
der civil seryice?" asks the Post.
why not require every woman who
proposes entering the marriage state
to take an examination, get rating,
and be assigned place on the official
list of the eligible2" Some of the note.
worthy advantages are thus enumerat-
ed by that paper:
In the first place, the man desiring
a helpmate would be relieved of the
necessity of hunting her out for him
self, of attempting to ascertain her
cdDdDIlllleS, anu OIL ldItT waxing 10 the
fact that he had been deceived He
would merely go to the civil service
commission, call for the Henrietta at
the head of the list, and Rave her sent
around to his fiat. The tedium of
four-year courtship would be done
away with; the ice cream and excur-
sion money would be saved for furni-
ture, and the awakening to the fact
that mother, and not Henrietta had
made the pies he had priced would be
avoided. The bashful man would be
put on a basis equal to that of Johnny
Wise, and the really competent men
would get married as often as the
ne'er-do-wells."
But how about the woman's point OF
view? Would the scheme lessen or in
crease her chances for matrimony?
This, the Council Bluffs Nonpareil de-
clares. is the vital point. The Nonpa-
rel goes on to say:
Experience with the civil service
method in general has shown that one
may get on the eligible list end vet
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-10
THE PASSING OF HARTMAN.

Notwithstanding that the death OF
Mr.. E. H. Hartman was foreseen and
has been discounted to some extent,
it will affect the stock market as tie
death Of no other man possibly could
at this time. Ever since his return
to this country from his trip abroad
in search of heath prices of stocks
have gone up and down as the reports
from his home were favorable or 9TH
erwise. This was not only because
his railroad combinations and inter-
ests were vaster than those Of any
other man, extending from ocean to
ocean, but also because their success
depended so largely upon the manipu-
lating ability of their originator. His
death is therefore an event of the
greatest and most far-reaching impor-
lance in the world of transportation
and finance.
The great achievement of Harri-
mans career as f1nancier and rail-
road manager was the rehabilitation
OF the Union and Southern Pacific
railways. Other flnanciers had failed
signally to put these properties on a
paying basis, but Hartman following
the reorganization of the Union Pa
cific in 1897 began a systematic plan
to place the properties in the best
possible condition for their mainte-
nance at high standard of efficiency.
To the task he had undertaken he
gave unfiagging industry and the best
efforts of well equipped mind. En-
couraged by his success he entered
upon career of railway combination
and consolidation without a parallel
In history At the zenith of his
achievements as an organizer and
manager he is suddenly summoned
from his stewardship en- earth.
Mr. Hartman leaves no successor
James ]. Hill. his great rival along
certain lines, still survives. but the
two men were essentially different in
temperament and methods. Mr.. Hill
is constructive; Mr.. Hartman was an
organizer. Both were in control Of
large railway properties, but thew had
but little else in common. Mr.. Harri-
man leaves his interests in the hands
OF trusted lieutenants charged with
carrying out his plans. With what
success they can do this remains To
be seen.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-10
LIGHT AS a BUSINESS MAKER

A prominent st. Louis man just re-
turned from the Pacific coast is enthu-
siastic over the possibilities of light as
him most out there was the lavish use
of electric lights. He is quoted as say
ing:
In all the cities the same thing was
noticeable. Even in far Alaska. One
found in Juneau electric lights every
where. The most unpretentious abodes
were lighted with it. In San Francis
co, Los Angeles, Portland and Seattle
the use of electricity to make the
cities attractive is astounding. They
have gone about it, too, in an artistic
way, and some of the Nominations re-
mind one of the best efforts in our
Eastern summer gardens. One hotel
in Portland has a huge electric foun.
tain adjoining its roof. The st.
Francis, in San Francisco, has its en-
tire exterior outlined in lights. In Los
Angeles they have a system of cleo
trolier lighting that is delightful. The
electroliers are in groups OF five lamps
and this style of lighting is not only
used in the business, but in the resi-
dence district"
One reason for the great use of cleo
t-icity on the Pacific coast is the
cheap rate at which it can be obtain
ed. Most of the current is produced
by water power at small cost. Al the
cities that have tried good illumina-
ton as a business maker are we'll sat
isfied with the investment. 1t tends
also to lessen crime Jack" Hardin
once said that an arc light is better
than a policeman, and experience has
confirmed the wisdom of his re-
mark.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-10

1t is announced from Des Moines
that one of the next steps in rural
library extension will be to make the
law compulsory instead of optional.
Two years ago the legislature provided
that townships in which were located
cities with Libraries could by voting a
tax or appropriation have the use of
such public Libraries. The matter is
one that is optional with the township
trustees. A correspondent in writing
about the matter says that the law
has worked very well where it has
been tried The trouble has been that
one set of township trustees have vot-
ed the tax and gotten the people start
ed to using the city library and the
next election has put in set of trus-
tees who forgot or wilfully refused to
vote the tax and the country people
were then unceremoniously cut off
from the use OF such Libraries. A COM
pulsory rural library law would rem
edy this state of affairs.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-10
Judge Smith and the sncakership

Judge Smith and the Spcakership.
Cedar Rapids Republican,: These
Iowa papers that see fit to fight Judge
Smith of the Ninth Iowa district, who,
1t is conceded. has the speakership OF
the next house within his grasp, sim
ply because he has not seen fit to line
up with their faction" are pursuing a
very narrow policy. AS we look at it,
no faction of Republicans should at.
tempt to put another faction out of the
running, At the present time the fac
ton. II we may use that word, and it
seems to be the only one that de-
scribes the situation, is enormously in
the majority. In the United States it
had all but seven or eight Of the Re-
publican votes How the division
stands in Iowa can only be guessed at
but we believe that the majority of the
Republicans Of the state are getting
tired of both factions, of all factional-
ism and that they are ready to say "a
plague on both your houses This is
the attitude of Congressman Good of
this district. He has refused to line
up with either faction. He has sought
to be simply Republican and to vote
on each question IS he sees fit with
out regard to what one or the other
faction may want.
But that any Republican newspa-
pers in Iowa should want Iowa to be
deprived of the honor of the speaker
ship simply because the one man who
seeks that high Office happens to be
somewhat regular Republican is be.
yond our comprehension We should
reach out for 1t, even If the man avail
able We're Democrat Shall partisan
ism so mislead us?
Does anyone In Iowa believe that
Judge Smith is bad" man and
would throw down the people If he
were speaker? Is that his record? Is
he not a man approved by long serv-
ice, first on the bench and then in con-
gress? Able fearless. just, doing what
he believes to be right and for the
welfare of his state in all matters ard
at all times?
We have never seen more narrow
exhibition of pitiful factionalism. It
is the spirit that is hating Iowa in its
career at Washington. Gentlemen, get
out of 1t and rise above 1t.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-10

Bwana Tumbo's Accomplishment
When Bwana Tumbo reached the
scene
With guns that he could lug,
The dig-dig gave a shrek of fear
And then the dig-dig dug.
Houston Post.
But not until he knew the game
Was vengeance fully melted;
He used the Big Stick when he came
To know the cheeta cheated.
Boston Herald
The antelope he next pursued
Adown the jungle slope;
And as he ran with rage he viewed
The antelope elope.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A fleeing gnu he punctured then;
Twas easy quite to do;
And when the beast got up again
He shot the gnu anew.
Chicago Tribune.
Then wildly after other game
B. Tumbo also ran,
And now he feasts three times day
Upon canned pelican.
-Des Moines Capital.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-10
A Fine Church.

harrington Herald THE Baptist
church at Keokuk is the finest in the
CITY, said A. w, Beeson, who was
keokuk visitor on Monday. "The
acoustic properties are the finest have
ever seen without an exception. There
are assembly rooms and class rooms
for the Sunday school and all can be
thrown into one large auditorium and
enlarge the seating capacity OF the
main room. The pastors study is on
the first floor and the furnishings OF
the entire church are without doubt
the finest of any church in Keokuk."
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-10

Mrs. Peary is not woman of post
scripts. She said it al, not in the
ten words which the telegraph COM
pany permits its patrons to use, but
in nine words. In noting this the
Davenport Democrat pays her the fol-
lowing well-deserved compliment:
If she had covered dozen sheets
of letter paper in fine hand she
could hardly have said more. Mrs.
Peary has given us model not only
for brevity but for completeness. Her
first message to her husband told
everything, leaving no word in doubt.
And the words are all small and true,
that go home. Mrs Peary said: "All
we'll. Best love. God bless you.
Hurry home"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-10
Washington city, whose experience

Washington City, whose experience
with asphalt has been extensive, is
now experimenting with "Filbertine"
pavement, a substitute for asphalt,
which has the advantage OF cheap
ness. 1t is over so per cent cheaper
than asphalt, but is expected to prove
equally durable and satisfactory. 1t is
made by patent process and is black
when laid on the roadway. 1t is de-
signed to be put on top CT a macadam
pavement, in a two-inch layer. When
asphalt pavements are laid a concrete
base must first be put down; the new
pavement requires no such base, and
that is the source of the saving in
expense.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-10
have a very poor chance. of getting a
,,1ooo n INV, aor1~, do<o

have very poor chance. of getting
place at any early date.
Schemes for the amelioration of
mankind which do not take account OF
the welfare of womankind also have
not leg to stand on. Civil service
for wives is no good unless we
have 1t also for husbands-and that
would be something worth while, we
trow,"
If civil service for wives, why not for
husbands also? What is sauce for the
goose ought to be the same kind of
dressing for the gander. Why not re-
quire male candidates for matrimony
to furnish evidence of their ability to
support wife properly as condition
precedent to obtaining marriage
license? If there is to be any deal in
this matter let it be square deal.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-10

The Thirty-third general assembly
of Iowa passed law which requires
the cutting of noxious weeds on farms,
highways and railways before seeding
time. The Fairfield Ledger observes
that the railways of the state seem to
be strictly complying with the provi-
sions of the statute and their rights
of way afford striking contrast with
the lands controlled by private owners
and those under the supervision OF
township trustees. The Ledger re-
grets that the companies who are COM
plying with the law could not be pre-
vailed upon to file informations
against the individuals and officials
who are not doing so.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-10
will distribute literature at the New
York state fair next week.

The State Library Association meets
in Des Moines October IL, Is and IA
at which time it is expected that there
will be a larger attendance than ever
before. The program is now in course
of preparation and is not complete but
1t is known that Secretary Chalmers
Hadley, Of the American Library AS
ISOLATION, will be one of the speakers.
Miss Katherine Jewel Everts, of New
York, will be another and Hon. Irving
B. Richman, OF Muscatine will be an
other.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-10

Rheta Childe Dorr, the New York
social worker, has an article in one of
the magazines in which she tells of
the work of 100000 clubwomen in i'm
proving civic conditions in all parts of
the country. An illustration of this,
she says, is the work of the women's
cubs of Dallas. Texas. They buy the
oil each year and spread it over the
pools to kill the stegonmyia mosquitoes
that produce contagion and death if al
lowed to breed in stagnant water.
They have enlisted the pupils of the
high schools to help in the work.