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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-01-21
Death Of Mrs. Boyce

Mrs. George a. Boyce, u native of
Tuscarora, died at her home in Missouri
fiat at IL o'clock last night She was
taken with conyulsions about 4 o'clock
Sunday morning aud death resulted
from them
Mrs. Boyce was born at Tuscarora
abnit 33 years ago and was the daugh
ter # Mr.. ana Mrs. Charles Hycr. She
leavts to mourn her loss II husband and
four 'Iys ranging from e. to years of
age.
Mr.. Boycc has not yet decided whcth
or the b'rial will bc here or at Tusca.
rora. IN heavy fall of snow has made
1t almost impossible 10 take the re
mainr to Tuaarora Until it il decid
cd where the hrial will be. no arrange.
mcnts for the ft,cral will be made.
The lNDEPEND,NT extends the sym
pathc Of this comm uity to the bereay.
ed family May Go, guard and pro
tect the mothorless bot
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-01-21
ELkO, NEVADA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21 1910
Elko and the Jarbidge District


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remaining three mile, can r.,i,I,. J.,
trtv-r-ca hy pack horses unr;I .,or,
time as would warrant IN. cx,.r,ii,ur,
Of bu!IGiug road which b.c,nsa of tho
nature Of the country Womb r,.t c,n.
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in letters recently receiver ny a"'c'"i
prominent E'N" merchants party
"''i known her" wrote thht Twin Fails
W'lIH get aheid "i rs ana get all the
trade ih"t usually comes with the rush
10 ne" mining camp ana unless tlko
woke "p ANA started AT once TO boost
4iH +4sitii iiRFuliH Atrt&W Il hiibirriii hiibirriiiF iiF""ih
Get together men. Put your
shoulder, to the wheel. Don't let Elko
take back seat to Twin Falls or any
other town. If W. stand still we are
going backward and Elko cannot afford
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-01-21
Fatal Wreck at Lemay

Early this morning passenger train
No. O. castboun1. cOllidcd head on with
q westbOund fright train Mt Lemay
siding, about 60 miles west of Ogden.
he engineer aud fireman of one train
were killed outright and the engineer
and fireman Of the other were fatally
injured. 4 brakeman and several
passengers were seriously injured,
From the best information, we were
able to get It appears that the freight
train had taken the siding some time
before No. was due and the engine
was uncouplcd and run to u water tank
on the main line after water. After
filling the boiler, the engine was run
back 10 the train. but the switch wa,
left open. Shortly after No 9 came
along at full speed, took the switch and
struck the freight engine with tromcnd
ous force.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-01-21

\ valuation OF $500 per mile on the
main lines and 800 per mile on other
lines was placed on the Pullman Com
pany. Last year this company was
assessed Sl,435 IL this county. This
year their assessment Will figure up
about rs follows:
1883 miles Central Paitic...$ %, ,7l6
74.i miles Nevada Northern ..... Pix
Total .............. 43, 5g6
This is an increase of $50, lGl over last
years assessment. If the Pullman
company rams its cars on the Western
Pacific and it is assessed at the same
rate per mile, the above total will be
increased S32, $50 and the increase over
last years assessment will be 1914
The board placed a valuation of $500
per mile for 100 miles upon the Wells
Fargo express company. Last year this
company pail axes up,n Sl)i in thi
county. This year :iro company's
assessment at $500 mile on the Central
Pacific and Nevada Northern in this
county. 2l10S miles. will b. Sbj, ,3oi an
increase of S55.2)). quite healthy
gain.
The board raised the valuation of
the Nevada Northern from $1,000 per
mile to $4,000. As there are IA miles
of this road in Elko county, the addition
$1,000 per mile adds $7i,4OO TO its
assessment roll. Altogether the changes
made by the state board in the assess
mont of corporation property will add
in the neighborhood of S2.O00.00O to
Elko county's taxable property. A
very good showing for the board of
assessors.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-02-04
CLAUDE w. ARNOLD PLAYS
Old GAME or 'POSSUM

Feigning unconsciOusness, Claude
w Arnold. the convicted murderer OF
Alfred Ribial was found lying on the
floor of the corridor in the county
Jail. Wednesday evening by Sheriff
Taylor. An examination quickly con-
vinced the officers that there was
nothing wrong with the man. but to
make sure a physician was called. AZ
ter an examination he pronounced it
a clear case of playing sick.
To make his play good. Arnold re-
mained in his cot up till noon yester-
day but since that time he has appar-
emily been in as good physical condi-
tion as ever. Today he has been
talking with his brother and other
friends who have called to see him
His attorneys have decided not to
appeal his case to the supreme court
and Sheriff Taylor and Deputy Sheriff
Bert Wilson will leave tonight for Sa-
lem to deliver the murderer to the
warden of the pententiary where he
IS to spend the remainder Of his days.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-02-04

than a foot has fallen since the sui
eide. The body was entirely covered
but the outline of his form was plain
ly visible, as were his tracks He
was lying on his face and as his head
was not uncovered by the first discov-
erers of the tragedy, the blood was
not seen until the coroner arrived
yesterday to take charge of the re-
mains.
Boyd was about 65 years of age
and unmarried. He had spent the
greater part of his life in the Grand
Ronde valley and a brother arrived
in Meacham last evening from Union
to take the remains back to that place
for burial. He had been living in q
lonely hut on the mountain top while
cutting wood for w. B. Ross, the
well-known Meacham rancher, and II
is supposed that his lonely life Is re-
sponslble for the mental derange-
ment which resulted in his ending his
own life. Friends had noticed. sew
eral days before. that he was acting
queerly, but no one paid any particu-
lar attention to him.
The tragedy is believed to have
been enacted about ten days or two
weeks ago.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-02-04

her out OF the fund OF the estate and
if illness or anything similar should
cause her expenses to be more than
$500 per year the difference is to be
made up by the executor from the
funds OF the estate.
Thomas Edward Erhart is to re-
ceive $500 when he becomes 81 years
of age and Thomas jefferson Kirk is
to receive $1,000 when ne becomes
OF age
After five years, each OF the fol-
lowing named heirs are to receive
$1,000 annually: Alice Ackles, Annie
McCannon, Alma Koontz, Nina and
jeanette Jack, daughters OF Mrs. Kate
Jack, who was a daughter OF the de-
ceased.
1t is specified that the $1,000 in
surance which he carried is to be DR.
vided equally among his heirs as soon
as collected but that the remainder
of his estate is to be kept together
and under the control of his executors
for 20 years, at the expiration Of which
time II is to be divided equally among
his children or their heirs.
Edward Koontz and Marion Jack
are named as executors.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-02-04
DEMAND PROTECTION
FOR PACIFIC COAST
HAYS AND HUMPHREYS
EXPLAIN SITUATION HERE
Representing Western Delegation,
Address House Committee on Naval
Affairs-Want Submarine Craft to
Project HarbOrs

Washington Feb. f-Congressmen
Hayes of California and Humphreys
of Washington. testified before the
house committee on naval affairs to-
day that the Pacific coast is practi-
cally without protection in the event
0f war They urged the construction
OF ten submarines to be authorized for
the Pacific coast this year. The two
congressman appeared as a special
committee representing the whole Pa
cific coas, membership. Almost
every portion of the western coast of
the United States, they declare, will
be practically at the'mercy of a hostile
force. The current in the Golden
Gate entrance at San Francisco har-
Dor, they explained. was so strong as
to make it almost impossible to un-
derlay the gate with mines. They
suggested, in view of this fact, that
the only way the harbor might be as
sured protection would be by the
constant presence in its waters of
submarine craft. Adequate protec-
tion for Puget sound was also de-
manded. Because of the dense fog
often prevailing there, Humphreys de
clared foreign warships might slip
through the entrance to the sound
unseen.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-02-04
KIRK ESTATE IS To REMAIN
INTACT FOR TWENTY YEARS

When the late T. j. Kirk, farmer
and legislator. made his late will and
testament, a few years before his
death. he arranged to tie up his ex-
tensive estate and keep it intact for
90 years after his death. This fact
became known when the will was ad-
mitted to probate this morning and
the terms of the document became
public
According TO the terms of the will
the estate may remain intact for even
n longer period than 90 years for the
testor specified that II at the expira-
ton of that time his widow was still
alive and unmarried that II should he
kept together until her death.
While the exact value OF the es-
tate is not known. 1t will amount TO
between $175,000 and 100000.
BY the terms of the will the widow
is to receive 500 annually so long as
she remains his widow and is to have
the home place in the town OF Ath-
ena, with all that goes with It so long
as she lives. At her death this prop
erty is to revert to the estate but II
at any time the house should be de-
stroyed by fire il is to be rebuilt for
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-02-04

Portland, Feb. 4-Luscious or
anges, juicy grapes and trips IN spe-
cial cars whetted the appetites and
imaginations of the jury listening in
the trial Of the Binger Hermann Blue
Mountain conspiracy case today. But
the grapes and oranges have long
since been eaten and the car long
since ridden in by Hermann Only
letters and testimony, mostly dry and
uninteresting. told OF the pleasures of
other days. The letters were written
to B. F. Allen, forest superintendent
in California in 1902, thanking him
for presents Of choice fruit sent to
the commissioner in Washington.
They put in another link in the con-
tention Of Prosecutor Francis J He
ney thai Hermann knew Allen we'll,
and must have had his attention spe-
cially interested when the Holsinger
report on the Hyde-Benson frauds,
charging Allen with having been
bribed. came before him.
The car trip came In to assist in
the refreshment of Hermann's mem
ory regarding a trip he made to Fres-
no to inspect oil fields there, upon
which occasion he sat in his special
car and was taken To the fields. This
evidence was aleo cleaned 70 show
that Hermann paid particular atten-
ton To the charges made In the Hol-
singer report.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-02-04
WOOpCHOPPER FOUND DEAD
IN SNOW WAS A SUICIDE

That William Boyd, the Meacham
woodchopper went to his death by the
suicide route and not by freezing, was
the discovery made yesterday by Cor
oner Folsom. This officer returned
last evening on a freight train from
the scene of the tragedy after having
satisfied himself that the man met
death at his own hands.
When first discovered 1t was
thought that the unfortunate man
had lost his bearings in a snowstorm
and had frozen to death. When the
coroner arrived he found that the
mans throat was cut from ear to
ear. A bloody razor and butcher
knife. the latter of great dimensions,
lying by his side, told the simple
story. The maize Of tracks which
first indicated that the man was lost,
is now believed to have been made
on purpose by him In order to throw
anyone off his track who might try to
find him., ,,.
There Is about five feet of snow
on top Of, the mountain at this time
and the body OF the suicide was ly-
Ing on the crust of the first snow,
which was about four feet deep. More
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-02-04
GOHL ACCUSED OF.
WHOLESALE MURDER
ABERDEEN MAN ALLEGED
no BE MONSTER OF CRIME
Body of Man Found in Gray's Iar-
bor Weighted Down with Anchor
Police Try TO Connect Gohl-
Spirit Him Away, Fearing lynch
Ing Bee-PrisOner Accused of 40
Murders.

Aberdeen, Wash, Feb 4.-Stoutly
protesting his innocence Of the whole
sale murder which local police arc
trying to connect him with. William
CO gent of the sailors union here
today is under special guard in the
Jail AT Montesano. The spir ting away
of the prisoner from Aberdeen was
prompted by threats OF violence on
the part of angry sailors, who con-
gested the streets last night and dis
cussed the murder charge against
Gohl. The authorities feared that
longshoremen and sailors would storm
the jail and lost no time in removing
their prisoner to a place Of safety.
Gohl, who came here several years
ago from San Francisco, is directly
charged with the murder of Charles
Hattenberg, a sailor, formerly in the
employ of the accused man, whose
body was found in the waters Of
Grays Harbor weighted down with a
fifty pound anchor with ,To jagged
holes through the head In addition
To the murder OF Hattenberg. the po-
lice are trying to connect Gohl with
the death of forty persons whose bod
les have been found in the harbor here
during the past five years Gohl
maintains he is innocent of any wrong
dongs.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-02-04
WoLGAST AND NELSON COME
NEAR CLASHING IN PRIVATE,

San Francisco Feb with tears
streaming down his checks. Ad VOL
gast tore off his coat last night in the
office of Sid Hester the fight pro
moter, where an effort was being
made to settle terms of the Wolgast-
Nelson fight and offered to fight Bat
Ting Nelson then and there before the
little crowd of newspaper men, fight
promoters, managers and local sports
He stood in front of Nelson, hurl-
ing his defiance, but Nelson never rose
from his chair. When Wolgast had
finished his TRADE, Nelson offered to
wager $4,000 against $2500 of VOL
CASTS money, he and Wolgast to lock
themselves in any room in the build
ing with the agreement that the one
who unlocked the door first should
collect the bet. Those present inter-
fered and the two fighters were kept
apart
Wolgast's ire had been aroused by
taunting remarks made by Nelson.
The articles of agreement for the
Washington's birthday match were
not signed last night because Nelson
and Tom Jones. Wolgast's manager,
could not agree on the matter of a
side bet. Nelson said that 1t should
be $4,000 at even money, while Jones
would listen to nothing else but put
ting himself on the short end of a
$4,000 to $4,000. The fighters and
their managers will meet with Hester
next Monday night when the side bet
proposition will be settled and ref
cree selected
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-02-04
Woman Kills Herself.

Seattle, Feb. 4.-Although Mrs.
Frances Sominsky the wife of a mine
foreman and the mother of six chill
dren, died from taking carholic acid
Tuesday night, the coroner did not
learn of the woman's death until he
saw the death certificate late yester-
day. He Immediately started an in
vestigation and found that the wo-
man had taken the poison in a fit of
insanity. No action will be taken
against the attending physician for
falling to report the suicide to the
coroner.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-02-04
Crashes Into Fence.

The biplanc was not three feet from
the ground when the end of the run
way was reached and although the
game little Frenchman tried desperat-
ely to swerve his machine. he was
unable TO do so. and it crashed into
the fence. through it into the ditch.
r. bounded and came down in mass
Of tangled wreckage in the middle of
the race track, Paulhan was fairly
catapulted from his seat but he lit
in the soft snow and slush and es-
capped INJURY.
He scrambled to his feet in an in
stant. made dive for his engine.
which was still whirring madly and
shut it off. Then mounting the bank
of the ditch. he waved his hand in
the direction of the big tent, where
his frantic wife was standing looked
disgustedly at his wrecked machine
for n moment, then trudged across
the field, leaving the wreck to his as
sistants and the police. An ambulance
and two nurses We're there almost as
soon as Pauham had scrambled to his
feet but he did not need them.
\ dozen or more persons were
Knocked down by the machine when
II tore through the fence, but no one
was seriously injured.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-02-04

out the district stricken by the floods
are generally improved today and the
work of ministering to the homeless
and hungry is greatly facilitated. The
July column of the bastlle was closed
to the public this afternoon, as many
great stones oof the wall sealing the
tombs under the monument were
found to have been loosened by the
action of the water and the authori-
ties ordered the public be pared until
they can be replaced
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-02-04
OREGON MAN PAYS FUNERAL
EXPENSES AND KILLS SELF

san Jose, Cal. Feb. AFTER leav-
ing enough money with a local under
taking establishment to defray the eX-
penses of his funeral n man supposed
to he c ]. Hall of Cottage Grove,
oregon, purchased a revolver yester-
day afternoon and committed suicide
near Oak Hill cemetery. In his hand
was found paper napkin on which
was written his name. with instruc-
tious that the undertaken with whom
he had made arrangements should be
notified.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-02-04
Hewitt Won't Tall.

Cincinnati, Feb. 4.-P. A. Hewitt,
whom Charles L. Warriner today tes-
titled was auditor of the Big Four
railroad during the latter's defalca-
uons, declined to discuss WARMERS
statement that the shortage might
easily have been discovered
1t was learned last night that Mr..
Hewitt's connection with the railway
ended on February 1. 1t is said that
he is to become auditor of the New
York Central clearing house at Buff
falO
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-02-04
Famous Aviator Hits Fence
While Rising and Machine
is Mass of WreCkage.
NERVY LITTLE F'RENCHMAN
ESCAPES WITHOUT INJURY
Daring Skyman Makes Exhibition
Flight at Denver which Nearly Re-
suits trously-Cramped by
Lack of Space in Which TO Rise
AeropIane Crashes Into Fence and
Falls a Wrccl-Paulhan Quickly
ENtricates Himself.

Denver Feb. 4.-Louis Paulhan.
the French aviator. had a narrow es-
cape from death yesterday afternoon
when his biplane hit the fence guard
ing the race track at Overland park
and came down in heap Of wreck
age. Paulhan was thrown headlong,
but beyond a severe shaking up, es-
capped unframed.
Previous to the accident, Paulhan
had successfully guided his machine
up into the rare mountain air and
had circled the overland race track
dozen times or more. He then
came to the ground and it was an
nounced that the French aviator
would attempt to fly over the business
district of Denver, three or four miles
away and return
But the runway for his machine.
not over l40 yards in length and
cramped By the race track fence and
an irrigation ditch running diagonal
~ across the grounds, proved too
short for Paulhan on his second at
tempt. The machine left the ground
but too close to the fence. along which
were clustered hundreds Of specta-
tors.
He scattered the people like chaff,
many escaping injury by falling,
struck the fence and then rebounded
and ricocheted on the bank OF the
ditch. breaking one of the starting
wheels Paulhan shut off his motor
and brought the mach ne to a stand
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-02-04
RUSSIAN CIGARETTES
GROW IN UNITED STATES

Observation-Disclosures smokers OF
Russian cigars and cigarettes will be
interested in the report of Consul Gen.
eral Snodgrass of Moscow to this gov
ernment. He says:
THE tobacco used in the manufac-
tlre of cigars in Russia is partly
grown in the country from American
seeds, but the best cigars and the
wrappers OF inferior grades are made
from tobacco imported mainly from
the United States and Cuba"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-02-04
Bailingcr's Counsel Selected.

; Washington, Feb. At was
) announced at the White House :
) today that Secretary Ballinger
will be represented at the con- :
gressional investigation into his
) department by Attorney John
Vertreen. a prominent democrat
) ic lawyer of Tennessee, and At =
torney Carl Rasch. formerly Z
district attorney in Montana
) Vertreen arrived today and was
taken to the White House to :
) see the president, by Secretary
) of War Dickenson. who is his
) personal friend. secretary Bal
llnger was then summoned, and :
the entire situation reviewed by :
the president.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-02-04
Columbia George is Homo

After having spent the last nine
years in county state and federal
prisons, Columbia George, the Indian
who was pardoned recently by Pres
ident Taft from McNeills island, is
again in Pendleton. He returned yes
terday from the sound and is look
looking on his old-time Indian friends
on the reservatiy-
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-02-04

MANAGUA IN TERROR
At ESTRADA'S APPROACH

Washington, Feb. 4.-Mana-
qua is in a state bordering on
panic today as the result of the
approach of General Estrada's
revolutionary forces upon the
city. News of the insurgent
commanders advance was re-
ceived at the state department
today in an official communica-
day according to DeO.ivares' re-
S. consul at the Nicaraguan
capital. The rebels won a de-
cisive victory at Boaca yester-
day according to DeOlivare's re
port. After two hours of fight
ing the government forces Of
president Madrlz were routed
with heavy losses.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-02-04

Astoria, Ore, Feb. 4.-That Swan
Pearson farmer, living at Knappa
was murdered Tuesday near that
place then robbed and his cody
placed on the track in front Of a
freight train by which it was ground
to pieces was established today at the
coroner's inquest. So far there is no
clue to the murderer, but it is known
that he took from the body about $50
and some private papers.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-02-04
MEN. DOGS AND SHEEP
LIE FROZEN TO DEATH

Reno. Feb. 4.-On the desert near
Donnelly mountain. two men, five
dogs and 5000 sheep lie frozen to
death in the SNOW according to a story
told here today by a French sheep
hcrder who iust arrived from that
section.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-02-04
TRAPPED IN AN ATTIC
CHILDREN ARE BURNED

Wilmington, Del, Feb 4.-Trapped
in the attic of their home between
Camden and Wyoming, the four
grandchildren of Ezekiel Hackett, a
farmer. We're burned to death short
ly after midnight. The youngest vic
tim was three and the oldest fifteen