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Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-08
National Geological Society Are Planning for
a Brilliant Reception to the Two North
Pole Exp lorers.

coming winter at which the star fig
ures will be Cook and Peary, the
two discoverers of the North Pole,
and Lieutenant Shackleton, the
British explorer who penetrated the
farthest south in seeking the South
Pole.
Acting Superintendent Frank Per-
kins of the coast geodetic survey,
declared today that the dual discov-
cry of the pole strengthens the
claim of each explorer. The ques-
tion now resolves itself into one of
priority, and Peary and Cook doubt
less will fight that out between
themselves.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-08
Yesterdays Games.
X. OF p. LODGE TO
HOLD HOUSE WARMING

Tomorrow night Mizpah Lodge
No. %. Knights of Pythias, will
hold a house warming in their new
castle hall over the postoffice. A
large number of invitations have
been extended by the members and
general good time will ensue.
The new quarters have been fitted
up in a handsome and comfortable
manner and are far superior to the
old hall, The affair will be more
for the purpose OF extending gen.
eral welcome TO the visiting mem
hers
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-08
BANKER KILLS HIMSELF
(RY Associated Press.l

IRNWOOD, Mich. Sept. For
mer President Herman jain of the
First National bank of Irnwood,
committed suicide this afternoon hy
shooting himself through the heart
The bank failed in June and the
president and other officials were
to have been tried in the federal
court next week on criminal charges.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-08

Nv NANAA NtNHEs
Judge M. r. Averill. Of the fifth
judicial district court. yesterday ren-
dered a decision In the case Of Rus
sell versus Maltesto. In favor OF
the plaintiff. The case was virtu-
ally settled out Of court
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-08
Stock Market Takes Furry When Rumors
Of Railroad Mans Death Becomes Cur
rent---Brokers Believe that Every Precau-
ton Against Raid Has Been Taken by
Associates of Hartman.
(By Associated Press. ,

ARDEN, N. Y. Sept. AFTER night of uncertainty
determined shortly after midnight that H. Hartman is
such critical condition the earlier indicated
Harmans physician told nlen that
Shortly after 10 o'clock
ored that the railway had but this
Lyle public the above information
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Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-08

For neat printing try the Bo'
nanza Job department.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-08
(By Associated Press.l

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.-Peary
today officially notified the National
Geographical society. that he had
reached the North Pole. The board
of managers of the society, through
it's president, Willis Moore, an
swered, extending the congratula-
tions of the society. The board also
gave out a message in which it stat
ed that the society had decided to
take no action regarding honors to
Arctic explorers until after detailed
observations and records were sub
mitted and passed upon by compe-
tent authorities. The society is now
planning a brilliant banquet for the
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-08

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Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-08
SLAIN BY SPURNED FIANCE
(By Associated Press.

CRISFIELD, Md, Sept. IA
posse has been searching for three
days without success for Isaac J..
Waters, who killed Miss Mamie
Gunby, his fiance, the daughter of
a farmer, at camp meeting near
here last Sunday, the date set for
their wedding.
Miss Gunby married Joseph Roley
five years ago, but secured a divorce
year ago, restoring her maiden
name. On Sunday Roley appeared
at the camp meeting grounds and
pleaded for a reconciliation Waters
was drawn into the discussion AMI
it finally ended by Miss Gunby tell
ing Waters that the proposed we'd
ding must not be solemnized.
Later when Miss Gunby was walk
ing about the grounds waters fire l
with a shotgun. He then reloaded
the weapon, fired another load into
the body of the young woman, and
after holding his pursuers at bay
for a few minutes, escaped.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-08
BASEBALL
in The EAST
and west
NATIONAL LEAGUE.

I'll Yesterdays Games.
AT st. Louis
Cincinnati-St. Louis, postponed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-20
Only the rich ride in taxicabs.
eElsAA GIRL TO GO.

From the Philadelphia Bulletin. The Geisha girls of old Japan-the old est vaudeville specialties in the wide world. who antedate Mir. Keith and the knock-abouts by thousand years-are booked for extinction. AristocratIc opln- ion in the land of cherry blossoms and chrysanthemums and batueshlps de luxd is beginning to regard them askance and the time is in sight when they will be one with the dodo bird and the merry widow
 This Is among the most significant items of information given by the Rev. J. l.. Dearing, D. D.. of Yokohama, gen eral missionary in charge of the Baptist organization in Japan. The present reigning family has now practically stated itself as opposed to the continuance of the geisha as one of the prominent and picturesque clements in the social life of the nation. The gorgeously dressed girls, who may be secured to dance and sing and recite and pour tea and light pipes at an entertainment on the payment of so much money-who with their sami- sen and their purpled eyes have been glorifed by literary and dramatic lights. must go.
 And this is well, Dr. Dearing thinks. because there is much in the life of the geisha that Is not picturesoue-much that does not appear on the surface and that sis, at bottom, very pitable and unfortu- nate. It is not the fault of the geisha, but of the customs under which she lives.
 The time is near, therefore. when in- stead of being taken in infancy and trained to posture and sing and dance and play their thousand-year-old songs upon the samisen, these girls will be taught to cook and use the typewriter and do shorthand and other useful things. Such is the lively progress upward and forward of Nippon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-20
Hinhasi

In 1879 the high price was due to a failure of the European crop. In 1881 our own crop was short. wheat cor ner put up the price in 1888, aided by a crop shortage. The high price of 1898 was due in part to European har- vest failures and in part to the war with Spain.
 The experts disagree as to the situa. tion. The government reported on March farm reserve of 142,000, 900 bushels. This reserve has not been accounted for. The crop of 1908 was larger than the crop of 1907 by 30.00o.- 900 bushels. Exports from the crop of 1908 have been about 100000 less than they were from the crcp of 1907 and yet the Patten corner is main- tained
 It is also true that the prospects of a great winter wheat crop this year are not extremely favorable. It is also true that there is disquieting scarcity of wheat the world round Population is increasing more rapidly than is the production of wheat. There is a fear that the worlds wheat bin will become empty.
 After all, should not our southern farmers get ready to blow deeper next fall with view to the growing of enough wheat for home use? If they blow deep and wide enough they could grow a surplus and get fine price for it
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-20
Wonderful Animal.

T have never seen another horse like my milk-white show animal, Chester field and I never expect to see anoth- er,' said Miss Rose Royal, who Is at the Majestic theatre this week. "This horse is not only perfectly white. with not a colored hair on his body, but he has wonderful mind, if I might call it that. He seems to know instinetively what I want done, how I want it done and he has the disposition to do it right
 'It is said of the great pacer, Dan Patch, that he has sense enough to win his own races and the sweetest dispo- sition of any horse on the track. Those combinations are what have made him the fastest horse in the world. My horse has the same intelligence and disposi- tion. When I say he is almost human I do not exaggerate a particle and I am sure the people of Birmingham will agree with me when they see Chesterfield in his act.
 "When he goes to the heaven of horses I don't know what I will do, for I really don't believe I can find his mate in the world, He comes from the purest Arabian strain and he is so gentle that any child can go around him at will Birmingham people have the opportunity of seeing a really great horse and after all a horse as great as this one is as big an attraction as a great man."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-20

against a position which had been con sistently held by it for 100 years. Con- gress, in re-enacting a similar law, would be doing no more than to bring the court, as somewhat differently con- stituted, into a reconsideration of the question; and, under all the circum- stances, may not reconsideration be fairly demanded? The court showed little respect for itself in reversing its own position; and it can hardly be maintained that less respect is shown by an act of Congress having the ef- feet of bringing about a reconsidera- tion of that extraordinary decision of 1895"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-20
PROHIBITION IN ALABAMA.

From the Washington Post.
 One effect of the statewide prohi- bition law in Alabama has been to in crease drinking among the young men of the large cities-the future guard ians of our morals and welfare" said former Representative J. F. Stallings of Alabama at the Raleigh. Mir Stallings was in Congress for 10 years, first entering that body in the Fifty second Congress. He retired of his own accord, and has since been prac- ticing law in Birmingham. Mr. Stall lings represented the Montgomery dis trict in Congress. and after his retire ment from the House resumed the prac- tice of law there.
 T couldn't get time to do any work in Montgomery" said MT. Stallings because I was under. obligations to nearly every man in the city who had supported me in my political campaigns and the politicians made my office their headquarters, so I had to go to Bir- mingham.
 Yes, I am sorry to say it, but it is true that the prohibition law has not proved effective in tho cities. It has had the effect of closing up the low dives on the edges of the city where negroes and ex-convicts used to gather and carouse. but the young men-the ones it is necessary to bring up in the proper way-are imbibing more intox- icants than ever before. first ob- served this in the offices and clubs where the boys would take frequent swigs from bottle, and then made it my business to observe the young men outside. and I found that many of them who formerly drank but little were using more whisky than ever be- fore. and the worst of 1t is. the liquor is not of the best, very naturally"
 In the recent campaign MT. Stallings was the leader of the fight made for the nomination of Governor Johnson of Minnesota. Alabama was the only state which held a presidential pri- mary.
 We only had short time to make & campaign for Johnson" said Mir. Stal- lings. but we surely made a good fight. There were 57,000 yates cast for Bryan and 82,0O0 for Johnson, and if we had had a few more weeks, we should have carried the state for the Minne- sota man."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-20
Mir. Hon Encouraged.

"It begins to look as if the music festival to be held next week would be a box office success, as well as a grand musical event. said ". J. Hon. the local manager. ''It is not easy to make music festivals pay out for the simple req son that they are necessarily costly. In the first place a high class orchestra of 50 men with an eminent conductor costs about s10cO a day. The vocal artists all ways command big pay and the local expenses run up into the hundreds of dol lars.
 But Damrosch's reputation and the ex- celence of his orchestra count for much and I will be greatly disappointed if we do not have crowded houses at the fes- tival.
 eff we make a pronounced hit with the forthcoming festival it will be an easy matter for the Birmingham Festival as- sociation to hold an annual musical event"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-20
EMBARRASSING.

From the Philadelphia Record.
 Two women were put in rather em- barrassing position recently by tho greenness of a bellboy at one of the leading hotels of this city. They ap- piled at the office for a room and were put under the guiding wing of this boy, who was serving his first day, tho clerk giving him explicit directions as to just which rooms to show the ladies. The bellboy took them to the second floor and with his pass key opened what he thought was one of the rooms mentioned by the clerk. One of the ladies, a very bustling individual. pushed past and was almost instantly in the middle of the room. The other was just entering the door when pro- testing voice was heard, and, looking at the bed, whence the sound seemed to come, they beheld a man trying to entirely conceal himself beneath bed clothes which were entirely insufficient for a man of his modesty. They hur- ried out and the bellboy took them down the hall and around the corner opening another door. Again the bust ling lady was instantly in the middle or the room, and again there was pro- testing voice. Looking in the directlon of the bed they beheld the same man again trying to conceal himself be- heath the two scanty covers. sec ond apology and nasty exit followed. The room had doors in two halls and they had rounded the corner, only to oman the door in the other hall. The ladies decided they would not look at any more rooms in that hotel and beat a retreat in search of other and quieter quarters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-20
oreenviIle Editor Here.

Gen. J. B. Stanley of Greenville editor of the Greenvllle Advocate, arrived in Birmingham last night and will spend to- day in Bessemer where an important meeting of officials of the Knights and Ladies of Honor Is to be held.
 ''Greenville is fourishing," said General Stanley. We are delighted with prohi- blton and while I am told that man can get what he wants in Montgomery and Birmingham, we could not ask for better results than are being obtained from prohibition in Greenville. The num- Der of arrests for drunkenness for given period compared with like period under saloons shows 10 against 19O and this is certainly enough to make the prohibit tionists ranks swell.
 "It begins to look as though we may not have that extra session of the legis- lature that has been so much discussed. The need for 1t is apparently confined to the needs of Birmingham and there is a question as to whether this need is urgent enough to justify the assem- lins of the lawmakers in the near fu- ture"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-20
HOW TO WIN AT POKER.
Wear Blue Glasses, Mark Cards With
 Phosphorus and You Can't Lose.

From the st. Louis Republic.
 It is not often an outsider can get the better of those worldly wise knights of the road-commercial travelers-but there is party of them at the Planters Hotel who are ruefully rehecting upon the ways of fate when guided by mind not over scrupulous. Incidentally, they are all anx- iously awaiting the arrival of funds, for which they have telegraphed their firms.
 These men meet frequently, and all rep resent Chicago firms. Their lines are such that they are often compelled to wait over in the same town for several days and that is what occurred in Kansas City. They were staying at the same hotel, and when they became acquainted with an inoffensive-ap appearing young guest they followed the text of the best sellers, and little thought what an influence he was to have upon their lives"
 He told them his father was a wealthy mine owner in the west, and explained that he was wearing heavy blue glasses because of his weak eyes, which brought him to Kansas City for treatment. He had plently of money, spent it a little too freely, and sometimes was a trihe tire- some with reference to his ability to draw on his father for more.
 1t was this latter fact that led his new friends to accept his suggestion that quiet little game of poker in the room of one of he members of the party would not be amlss. The affair was quickly arr ranged. and, after a few hours play the young man announced he had lost all the money he had with him. He said he would have large sum the next day and would continue the game that evening.
 Promptly on the hour the victim" appeared, wearing the blue glasses which, he said, protected his eyes from the bril- liance of the electric light He proposed that the game be changed from draw to stud poker.
 The travelling men saw no reason to ob- ject to the change. At first the young man lost steadily, but after few minutes he began to win, and in the course of an hour he had won back all that he had lost the previous night. In another hour he had most of his opponents bringing up the reserve roll.
 As the game progressed. one of the drummers got up to ring for bellboy. By accident he pressed the bolton which controlled the lights, and for an instant the room was in darkness. The lights went on again immediately but in the moment of darkness the players noticed a peculiar thing. The backs of all the cards were marked with phosphorous.
 After the lights were turned on the young man hastily excused himself, talk ing his winnings with him. He said he would return in few minutes.
 He has not been seen since.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-20
WORLDS LARGEST CHIMNEY.

From Cement Age.
 The new chimney of the Great Falls (Mont.) smelter of the Boston and Mon- tana Consolidated Copper and Silver Mining company was recently topped out. This chimney is 506 feet in height above the foundation, and is the largest, both fin size and capacity, in the world. The foundation of the chimney consists of an annular mass, the circular inner edge of which is 47 feet in diameter at the bot tom, and the octagonal outer bounday 103 feet acoss flats at the footing level, tapeing to 64 and S1 feet diametes at the top of the concrete. The foundation was constructed of 1895 slag concrete. The sand and stone were obtained from the sm1eter furnaces. In the work of con- struction 520o barrels of cement, 20o0 cu- bus yards of sand, and 4oo0 cubic yards of slag were used. The cost of materials and construction was in the neghorhood of $50 0OO
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-20
Again the Income Tax

Senator Simon Guggenheim of Colo. rado, a multi-millionaire, joins the ranks of the income tax supporters, and the prospect now is that there will not be an opponent of the tax from the west unless indeed some such or ganization man as Burrows of Michi- gan or Dick of Ohio sees defeat com ing to him anyway. No western man with hope in his heart will vote against an income tax, for the west wants an income tax fully as ardently as does the south.
 The sentiment in favor of an income tax is increasing rapidly, and the choice between tax such as Senator Bailey proposes and a graduated tax will soon become a subject of wide discussion. No question has caught the public ear so rapidly and readily as has the proposed income tax, simply because it is the best opportunity to tax wealth, not poverty.
 Tn discussing the constitutionality of the proposed law the Springfield Re- publican says: Tt is proper that the unfortunate judgment of the court should be challenged by the enactment of such measure as this, which has the united support of the democratic Senators. Not only was the court as then constituted closely divided over the onestion of constitutionality, but the majority turned the tribunal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-20
PAPER FROM COTTON STALKS.


 Statements have been made repeatedly by those conversant with the industry that If the tariff be taken off would pulp or the paper made therefrom, the paper making industry will be transferred from the United States to Canada. But the announcement from Atlanta Ga, that A company formed there will make com mercial paper from cotton stalks. gives hope that the ultimate development of the use of the cotton stalk for this pur- pose may enable the southern stats to more than supply the home demand for paper.
 Experiments have been carried on for some years to determine how to utilize the fiber in the cotton plant for paper making. It has been demonstrated that one-third of the gross weight of the cot ton stalk is pure cellulose or fiber of the best quality for making all grades of print paper, and to the 100000 tons or cotton stalks produced annually in the south the country may well turn for a permanent supply of a large portion of the paper used.
 One of the obstacles to the use of the cotton stalk has been the cost of the chemical treatment necessary to make a pulp from it suitable for papermaking. Its adaptability has been well understood, but the cost has interfered with its prac- tical or extensive use. Recently 1t has been discovered that the by-product con- tained in the chemical liquor after it has accomplished the disintegration of the cotton stalk has been treated in such a way that 1t can be made into fer tilizer which can be used upon the cotton lands, and largely restore the fertility of those lands The revenue received from the sales of this fertilizer will reduce the difference of cost between cotton stalk and wood pulp paper.
 The 100000 tons of cellulose or pulp for papermaking that can be obtained from tho cotton crop of the south would be a source of supply greater in amount than is consumed by all the paper manu- lecturers in the United states at the present time.
 The cotton stalk in the past has been of no special value to the planter or farmer producing the cotton. The planter has had to destroy the cotton stalks by burning them in order to destroy the weevil. If this vast product can be utilized, as 1t now promises to be, 1t will ada untold millions of dollars annually to that section of our country which is now producing cotton; for inevitably the great
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-20
CHINESE PYGMIES FOUND

engaged in the 1aborious work of build ing the wall centuries ago.
 '"rhe legend says that a certain people were unable to stand the abuses of the masters in the building of the wall,' add ed Dr. Geil, "and fled into the country south of the wall, and that the laborers, when they would fall exhausted from their endeavors, would be thrown into the wall structure and be buried there."
 Members of the expedition had no se- rious fights with natives, but extreme care was necessary at many times to pre- vent trouble. They met Chinese who said they had never seen white men. Along the wall six or seven main varieties of the Chinese language were spoken, and there were variations of these varieties, but the Chinese interpreters with the party were able to talk with any of the natives encountered.
 pr. Geil crossed China six years ago. He found that the empire has shown wonderful advance since then. China, he said. had been building up a wonderful standing army and might be some day in position where she could place 5000, 900 of trained men in the field on short notice. In every little town, he said, men were drilling in army work.
 The explorer said he had been in the game country in which Col. Theodore Roosevelt was to hunt. The ex-President would find himself in an altitude where there would be small danger from serious sickness, unless from the tsetse fly, Dr. Cell thought. Mosquito nettings would be needed, as the tsetse flies would be found in abundance. Dr. Cell did not think enough importance had been given to the subject of these insects in the pub lished accounts of the dangers to be en- countered by the hunter. The tsetse is the carrier of sleeping sickness germs, according to some scientists.