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THE WILDERNESS CAMPAIGN
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necessary to abandon the guns and
caissons. So great was the confusion
that Gen. Kautz, who had but few
men with him, ran into a body of the
enemy taking off a wagon belonging to
the 1st n. Y. Cav. Kautz Immediately
charged the Confederates with his men,
and recovered the wagon, which he
found was carrying off Col Haskell, 9TH
S. c. Cav, who was badly wounded.
This regiment was within few rods,
but Kautz managed to avoid it, and got
back to the Newmarket road, where he
rallied his command on the infantry.
kautZ reports his loss as eight guns
and caissons. s men killed, 81 men
wounded and 202 missing
The force which had been doing
such damage to Eautz was in turn driv-
en- back to Richmond by the Tenth
Corps, with loss of three brigade COM
manders and about 200 E2en. Fort Har-
rison was immediately made one of our
permanent defenses, with its armament
The National tribune., 1910-12-29
THURSDAY

Parke. These officers were instructed
that the movement might take a still
morS potent and farreaching character.
If they encountered no opposition, they
We're to push On and capture even the
South Side Railroad, the last of. those
entering Petersburg from the south and
east. This would compel Lees evacua-
ton Sf Petersburg ana bring about that
for " nich the Army of the Potomac
had been fighting for so many months
to get the Confederates out into the
open for fight to the finish
The Fights at Poplar Spring Church
and Peebie's Farm.
The army was so reduced in strength
at that time that after the four divi
sions moved out it left the defense of
the lines to a force composed of the
least possible number of men that safe
ty demanded. Grant had planned to
withdraw everything within his fortified
inclosure, with the bulk of his army
making a farreaching sweep to the left,
as Sherman had at Atlanta, and gain
such position as would compel Lee TO
come out OF his works for fight on
ground which Grant should choose.
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(To be continued.)
PAY for the Old Widows.

Mrs. T. Morton, Santa Monica, Cal.
makes plea for the old widows who
are struggling to maintain themselves
in their age and decrepitude. She i.
one of them. and has had weary tir.
struggling along.
The National tribune., 1910-12-29
Pensions.

E. J. Barras u. S. N, Somerville, N.
j., thinks that The National Tribune
bill should be put in preference to the
National Encampment bill.
Willis Dobson, 50th and SD Ind,
Clinton, Ind, enlisted at Seymour at
the age of II, and was discharged Sept.
10, 1865, by reason of close of the war.
He was the first man in his regiment
TO veteraniZe. He wants to say that
no pension bill can do justice to the
men of his class, who entered the army
as boys and served faithfully thru the
war. So many of them are now broken
down in health and in destitute cir
cumstances. These are not due to ex-
travagance on their part, hut because
they were so young at enlistment and
became physically unfit for work.
Bradley Post, Wood River, Neb., cor
daily indorses The National Tribune
pension bill, and also expresses the
hope that all these noble war widows
will receive at least $40 a month
James w. Shearer. West Point, Neb.
says that there are some comrades
there who are past 10 years old and
can hardly get along on their SIS q
month, especially in Winter. The rat
ing should be raised for them, and it
will cost the Government but little.
Mrs. o. C. Davis, Kendall, n. Y.
thinks that if the veterans widows
would show a little more interest there
might be some chance for the passage
of bill to bring relief to SO many
widows left alone and uncared for In
their old age.
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E. ]. Barras, U. S. N, Somerville, N.
J., thinks that The National Tribune
bill should be put in preference to the
National Encampment bill
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turned toward the Confederate works
on the right and left. and renamed Fort
Burnham, in honor of the gallant COM
mander who fell in the successful as
sault made upon it by the troops of the
Eighteenth Corps
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-02-08
PINCHO1 IS
Still HARPING ON
CONSERVATION
By Associated Press

WASHINGTON, Feb. S.-"Con-
servation, and the necessity for the
passage at the present session of
congress of good laws for the pro-
lection of the natural resources of
the United States,' is the keynote
of report Just made to the Ma
tional Conservation association by
Clifford Pinchot, who was recently
chosen president of the association.
Pinchot criticises the course being
taken by congress regarding the
nine bills relating to the conserva-
tion of natural resources introduced
in congress since January IS. One
of the bills has been reported from
the public lands committee and the
other eight are still in the hands
of the committee.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-02-08
United States Fire
Loss Exceeds That Of
All Other Countries

| terial is habitually used by Ameri-
can builders in Gtructural work. The
necessity also is shown for bet
ter building codes in cities and es-
pecially of a better enforcement of
the codes already enacted, if the
present enormous fire losses are to
be diminished.
After a careful investigation 1t
has been determined that the total
cost of fires in the United States
in 1907, excluding that of forest
fires and the marine losses Tin
themselves extensively but including
excess cost of fire protection due
to bad construction and excess pre-
miums over insurance paid, amounts
ed to the enormous sum of $456,-
485, 1000, a tax on the American peo-
pie exceeding the total Of all the
gold, silver, copper, and petroleum
produced in the United States in
that year. The cost of building
construction in 1907 in forty-nine
leading cities of the United States
reporting total population OF less
than 100000, amounted to
$661,076,286, and the cost of
building construction for the en-
tire country is conservatively es-
timated at $1,000, 100000. Thus it
will be seen that nearly one-half
of the value of all the new build
ings constructed within one year is
destroyed by fire. The annual fire
cost is greater than the value of
the real property and improvements
in either Maine, West Virginia.
North Carolina, North Dakota, Ala
bama, Louisiana or Montana. In
addition to this waste of wealth and
natural resources, 1,449 persons
were killed and 1854 were in
jured in fires in the United States
in 1907.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-02-08
By Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Feb. THAT
Colonel Thomas H. Swope, the mil
lionaire, whose death on October
3, has been the subject of diligent
inquiry during the past month to
determine if he died from poison
ing, took patent medicine con-
tanning tonic of iron, quinine and
strychnine up to a few days of his
death, developed at the inquest over
the body in Independence, Mo-, to-
day The testimony was given by
Miss Pearl Keller, the colonels
nurse. This was the most signifi-
cant piece of evidence brought out
in the inquest which opened today
Miss Keller cared for the colo
mel from September IL until the
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-02-08
By Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. THE
girl whose skeleton was found on
the slope of Mt. Tamalpais last
Thursday was identified tonight to
the satisfaction of the police as a
young German girl known as
Dutch" who worked in a mani
curist shop in San Francisco until
few months ago. The identified
ton was made by Mrs. Eleanor
Littlefield, the proprietress of the
establishment, who examined the
few clothes found on the bones, and
looked at the hair teeth and jew
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-02-08
Nurse Testifes at Inquest That Col.
SlUOpe Took Tonic That Con-
tanned Strychnine.

day of his death. She testified the
millionaire took a mixture in ad-
dition to the treatment given by
DR.. B. S. Hyde. During the day
Mrs. Swope, and Miss Keller were
served with subpoenas by an attor-
ney from the office of Frank Walsh,
DR.. Hyde's counsel, to appear and
give their dispositions in the libel
suits brought by Hyde against At
torney John Paxton and Drs. Frank
Hall and Edward Steward. Hyde
has filed suit for 100000 for al
legged slander against Paxton and
today service was obtained upon the
attorney at his request. A similar
suit against Paxton was dismissed
recently by Hyde in order to keep
him from giving his deposition be-
fore the inquest began.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-02-08
MEMBERS Of
PAPER ASSOCIATION
PLEAD GUILTY
BY Associated Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 7.-Twenty-six
manufacturing firms of the paper
board association who were indicted
by the federal grand jury last De-
cember as members of a combina-
tion to restrain trade, entered
plea of guilty as an association in
the United States circuit court to-
day. Fines of $4,000 each or $52,-
600 In all were imposed and all,
except in one case, paid in cash.
BY pleading guilty as corporation
the individuals who were also in
dicted with the paper board asso-
citation, succeeded in having their
indictments quashed.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-02-08
Woman RecoSSss s7rinkets as Those
Belongings Il German Manicurist|
KnOIUks .1Jutch.

elry found beside the skeleton. Mrs
Littlefield was not able to tell much
of the girl except she came by boat
from the north" was young, well
formed and comely. The woman
said the girl had expressed fear OF
man in whose company she was
frequently seen, and who the girl
said had threatened her life
Dutch acted queerly in the Lit
tlefeld establishment and left sud
denly under peculiar circumstances.
The police are of the opinion the
girl came from Portland where her
jacket was bought
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-02-08
LENIENCY Shown
TO AMERICAN IN
MEXICAN COURT
By Associated Press

GUADALAIIARA, Mexico, Feb. Z.
Judge Palafox said tonight he
would carry out the recommends
tions of the prosecuting attorney
regarding the sentence of James A.
Cook, the American conductor, to
two years and ten months sentence.
The prosecuting attorney claims
Cook was guilty of criminal negli-
gence, but that the prisoner will be
given the right to proprietary lib
erty, which means that after half
of the sentence is served his re-
lease on parole will be permitted.
The judge signified his willingness
to allow Cook bail in a sum Of
$1,000 to $4,000 gold.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-02-08
BY Associated Press

WASHINGTON, Feb. THE fed
eral Incorporation bill, introduced
in congress today lis not to be
pressed for passage this season. If
the bill should pass, Taft has stat
ed his willingness to stand as spon-
sor and take the responsibility of
having recommended it. Further
than this, the president told sew
eral callers today he would not
make the Incorporation tax an ad-
ministration measure. He declared
he felt he had no right to do so,
and. that it did not rank with the
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-02-08
FORMER NEVADAN is
ARRESTED AT OAKLAND
BY Associated Press

OAKLAND Feb. 7,--Waltcr Sa-
ling, alias W. G. Niles, was arrest
ed today on an indictment returned
by the federal grand jury of Ne
vada in June 1908. He is charged
with stealing, forging and uttering
fraudulent government checks to
the amount of $500 while employed
in the reclamation service at Fal-
Ion, Nevada.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-02-08
MILLIONAIRE TOOK PATENT
MEDICINE CONTAINING POISON

duties; processes of insolvency; re-
strictions on real estate loans; linn
itations on other investments; and
the maximim deposit allowed to an
individual. The tabular summary
in regard to trust companies shows
gaps in legislation in. certain states,
but in those where trust company
law has been fully worked out,
many, if not most of the questions
dealt with under the banks are
discussed.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-02-08
CANDIDATES FOR
governor ACTIVE
in CALIFORNIA
BY Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. AT a
meeting held here today for the
purpose Of discussing the guberna-
torial candidates, the following
names were considered: Frank II.
Mott, mayor of Oakland; Charles
NJ. Belshaw, OF Contra Costa coun-
'ty; Charles III. Bentley, Attorney
Charles 5. Wheeler, Hiram w.
Johnson and Francis J. Heney. of
San Francisco; William r. Davis,
former mayor of Oakland; former
Governor George C. Pardee. No
action was taken aud the meeting
adjourned for one week,
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-02-08
BY Associated Press


WASHINGTON, Feb. Fire,
stolen from heaven by Prometheus,
according to ancient Greek myth
ology, and as blessing brought by
him to earth in hollow reed after
Iezus had deprived mankind of it.,
levies upon Americans each year an
enormous tax calculated by the
United States government officials
at almost a million and a half
dollars day and 1,449 lives a
year. 40 u result Of an investiga-
tion just concluded by officials of
the United States Geological Survey
1t has been ascertained that cheaper
fireproof materials can be used to
advantage in construction, that
three to six times the necessary
amount of material is habitually
used in structural work in the
United States, that the building
codes are laxly enforced, that the
fire loss in the United States is
eight times as much per capita as
in any country in Europe and that
the great fire waste in the United
States is due principally to the pre-
dominance of frame buildings and
to defective construction and equip
ment.
Contrast between the small losses
by fire to government buildings and
the immense losses reported from
the country as a whole led the geo
logical survey to make an inquiry
as to fire losses in the United
States and as to their exact cost to
the people. Tests to determine the
strength and fire resistance of
building materials are still being
made by the survey, and although
these tests are designed primarily
to meet the needs of the govern
ment as the largest consumer, their
results are available to anyone for
general use
Not one person in a thousand
knows that the United States gov
ernment owns buildings that cost
more than $300,O0O,0O0 and is
spending $2O,O0O,O00 a year for
new buildings. 1t will be a sur
prise to everyone, too. to learn that
not one cent of insurance against
loss by fire is carried on these
valuable buildings. Insurance at
the ordinary rate would cost half a
million dollars year, and the gov
ernment avoids this great tax by
constructing buildings that are Sc
curely fire-proof.
To attain this degree of secur-
ity from fire for government build
ings the government has gone to
considerable expense and the re-
suits obtained fully repay the out
lay From these tests to determine
the strength and fire resistance of
building materials 1t has been de-
termined that American builders
can with safety use cheaper fire.
proof material than they do, 1t
has been learned that the differ
ence In cost between fire proof and
infammable buildings is less than
geneEally supposed and the off,
eials predict that this difference
will soon become SO small that It
viii cease 70 encourage the con-
struction of fiimsy buildings. II
has been found that three to six
times the necessary amount of MAJ
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-02-08
KING GUSTAV is
TAKING OFF WEIGHT
BY Associated Press

BY Associated Press
STOCKHOLM, Feb. liking
Gustav was operated on tonight for
appendicitis. Official reports state
the operation was successful The
king had been suffering from con-
tinual internal pains since early
Sunday evening. 1t was not until
this evening that physicians dag
nosed the case as one of appendi-
citis, requiring immediate opera
ton.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-02-08
Monetary Commission
Issues Statement on
Banking Conditions

I2 territories, and the District oil
Columbia. Thus, it is possible al
general way the leading features
of the law of each state and theil
comparative relation to the laws oil
| other states. Among the items
dealt with in regard to state banks
,are the minimum capital required
percentage of capital required tc
be paid in to begin business; when
the remainder must be paid; re-
quirements as to surplus; liability
of stockholders; number of direc-
tors and their qualifications; num-
Der of examinations by directors re-
.quired; special banking supervisor
if any, with his term of office; cases
where supervision of banks is as
signed to other officials; bank re-
ports required; publication of un-
claimed deposits official examina-
tions; minimum reserve require
ments and what proportion of ii
must be in cash; limitations on
loans, including real estate; and
provisions regarding branches.
The table relating to state banks
shows that the minimum capital re-
quirement is in many cases below
that of the national banking law,
even since that was reduced in. 1900
to $25, 900. Among the cases
where the minimum is comparative
ly low are Alabama, $4,000;
Colorado, $4,000; Florida, $15,-
900; Kansas, $4,000; Kentucky,
Sis, 900; Louisiana, 100000; Min
nesota, 100000; Mississippi, $10,-
600; Missouri, 10000; Nebraska,
$4,000; Nevada, 100000; North
Carolina, $4,000; North Dakota,
$4,000; Texas, 100000; Utah,
$4,000; Virginia, $4,000; Wis
consin, $4,000; Wyoming, $10,-
900. These are in each case the
minimum for the smallest commu-
mites. and a higher minimum is
required in some states in towns
above a certain population.
The summary in regard to state
supervision shows about half the
states to rely upon some other Of
fetal other than a superintendent
or commissioner of banking, al
though in SOME of these cases ex-
aminers are appointed. Thus, in
Alabama. the duty of supervision
falls upon the state treasurer; In
Arizona. upon the auditor of the
territory; in Delaware. upon the
insurance commissioner: in Flori-
da, upon the comptroller; in Geor-
gia, upon the state treasurer; In
Illinois. Indiana and Iowa, upon
the state auditor; In Kentucky. up
on the secretary OF state: in Ne
braska, upon the state banking
board. consisting OF the governor,
auditor. and attorney general; In
North Dakota and Oregon. upon a
similar board: In North Carolina
aud Virginia, unon the corporation
commission.
The tabular summary In regard
to savings banks deals with such
questions as whether mutual OF
stock companies are provided for:
qualifications Of directors and theis
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-02-08
Taft to Stand
Sponsor for Federal
Incorporation

proposed amendments to the inter
state commerce law, and postal
savings banks, and the measures de-
signed for the, conservation of the
natural resources. These latter
were promised in the platform OF
which the president was elected,
and he feels partly responsible for
their passage at this session of
congress. Taft believes there are
many things in the incorporation
bill that will commend themselves
to the Legislators. The bill now
goes to the judiciary committee for
consideration.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-02-08
armed NEGROES
Threaten Whites
WITH Death
BY Associated Press

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Feb. =
Word comes from Hale's Bar, where
the big government lock and dam
is under construction. that bloody
race war is imminent. Three hun
dred negroes armed with Swiss RI
fies are lined up outside the camp
threatening to exterminate the white
workingmsn of whom there are
about 150. An automobile with
officers has gone there.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-02-08
BY Associated Press

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE
banking laws of the states and ter
ritories of this country have been
summarized and compared in a re.
markably clear and useful digest
issued today under the auspices oi
the National Monetary commission
as another output of it's exhaustive
investigation of banking and finan-
cial operations and conditions in
this and other countries. This di-
gest, practically unique in it's scope
is the work of Samuel A. Weldon
of the New York bar, and in Its
preparation the compiler has had
the assistance of the banking Off
cials of most of the state. AL
though for practical reasons the
compilation has been sharply con-
densed, it makes volume of 75O
pages, so comprehensive in it's treat
ment of the varying laws of the
several jurisdictions that it will
prove invaluable to all students OF
banking and of bank legislation and
will no doubt be in great demand
1t has not been attempted to pre-
sent anything but the substance OF
the statutes, for the reason that
a digest dealing with their appli-
cation or Interpretation would in
volve great labor and fill an amount
of space greater than the commits
sion thought proper to give to the
subject. The digest deals with the
general corporation laws of the
states Gas distinguished from the
banking laws) only where they
were peculiarly accessible or the
bank statutes left blanks which
needed to be supplied. Provisions
of the state laws dealing with cir
culation are omitted as being OF
no practical value, in view of the
present control of circulation by the
national banks.
The statutes are systematized as
far as possible under the head OF
each state by division into three
general captions-banks, savings
banks, and trust companies-but In
some cases material which applies
to one or more classes Is presented
under one head.
While it has not been possible
where the statutes went into elabor-
ate detail, to give all their provi-
sions in regard to minor matters
such as the duties of state officials
legal processes. form of pass books
and legal proceedings for assessing
stockholders. references are given
which will enable a competent at.
torney to turn quickly to anything
desired on these subjects.
One OF the most valuable fea.
lures of the report. from the stand
point of general research. Is the
summaries OF the legislation In
each state governing the principal
subjects of banking law. In tabu'
lar form. There Is a table fol
commercial banks. one for savings
hanks. aud one for trust companies
These tables set forth In n striking
aud comprehensive way ~ items
In the banking statutes OF as states
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-02-08
SKELETON Of THE Girl FOUND
ON TAMALPA|S Is IDENTIFIED
FRANCE SUFFERING
FROM NEW FLOOD
By Associated Press

BESANCON, France, Feb. T.
A new flood is causing disquietude
here. Broad areas are being COW
cred by the river Doubs which is
rising at the rate of several in
ches an hour All the people liv-
ing along the river are fleeing.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-02-08
MEASLE EPIDEMIC
AT los ANGELES

LOS ANGELES. Feb. 7.--An ep-
idemic OF measles has broken out
among the school children OF this
city, There are now more than
5000 eases
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-02-08
POLITICS HUMNIING
IN CALIFORNIA
By Assoclated Press

STOCKTON. Feb. 7-Ex-speaker
of the assembly, r. l.. Beardslee of
this city today announced he would
be candidate for lieutenant gov
ernor at the next state election.