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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-04-04

aminer be true, and believe it is.
That the law has been violated
during all that time, since last Sum-
mer, there can be no question if the
Bank Examiner has stated the truth,
and it ill becomes you, as Assist
ant Attorney General of Nevada, to
stand up here as an apologist for it's
violation-you whose duty it is to
uphold the law, and whose duty it
may yet become to take action in a
different direction.
If the. statements of the Bank
Examiner be untrue, those who now
stand accused by such sworn state
ments of neglect of duty were
guilty of no such neglect, ample
opportunity will be given by this
Court for their exculpation.
1t is but poor consoltion to those
who have lost their money--yes, in
some instances, money deposited
but two days before the bank
closed, to say to those whose duty
it was to give them warning had
failed to do so-but with the best
intentions.
Here Court adjourned until Tues
day at 10 a. m.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-04-04

Our statutes provide that the
Court shall appoint a suitable per-
son receiver, and the sound discre-
ton of the Court should be called
into play in determining who is a
suitable person.
Judge Breen wired the offer of
the Receivership to the Henderson
Banking Company last Friday and,
after considering the matter thor
oughly, John Henderson, president
of the bank, declined the appoint
ment and wired Judge Breen.Sun-
day afternoon TO that effect.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-04-04
OSCAR ]. SMITH INTERVIEWED

Saturdays Reno Gazette con-
tains the following interview with
Oscar j. Smith, regarding the
failure of the Eureka County Bank.
The Gazettesays that Mr.. Smith has
aged perceptibly since the crash
came and has assumed a more
serious aspect than his wont, but is
philosophic through it all:
my brother, my wife and I were
in apparently prosperous circum-
stances before the crash came, but
we played out our hands to the last
card, or, as billiard de voice would
say, to the end of the string.
We did not really know that the
crash would come until the night
before the suspension of the
Rhyolite institution. Itwould have
been better for our depositors and
for ourselves if we had wound up
our banking business months ago.
but we had investments that were
liable to prove of great value at any
moment.
That is all there is to the story
and we have all three placed what
fortune we posses back of the insti-
'tutions. Mrs. Smith will posses
absolutely nothing more than the
equity in her house and will have
my law library, the tool of nv
trade; Bert will emerge equally
stripped of his possessions.
l am confident that the Rhvolite
bank will pay every cent of its in
debtedness and am assured that the
Eureka institution will do equally
as well. My brother and I will 4 !
only surrender all our present as
sets, but we will labor for the bal
ance Of our days to the end that no
man can say we ever took advantage
Continued on page S.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-04-04
him and said substantially:

iAiiA odlu SUBSTANTIALLY.
Mr.. Attorney General, you are
testifying to facts which have moth
ing to do with this hearing and,
worse still, you are testifying with
out being under oath. The state
examiner has testified here that the
insolvency of the Eureka County
Bank was known to him since last
summer, and that he reported its
insolvency to the State Board; that,
again, upon his examination into the
condition of the bank on the 18th or
goth of last month, and finding it
still insolvent, he again reported the
result of his investigation to the
State Board. Yet, during all of
this time, no action was taken by
the board any more than by the
bank or its officers, from president
to cashier, to notify depositors and
others doing business with this de-
funct institution, to warn them of
its deplorable financial condition
and save the people from depositing
their money where it was sure to be
lost-to save them from being
further plundered-if the testimony
given here today by the Bank Ex-
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-04-04

tai of any corporation tranSacting
banking business under this Act is
impaired, or that such corporation
is conducting its business in an I'M
safe or unauthorized manner, or is
endangering the interests of its de-
positors, or upon the failure of
suchcorporation to make any of
the reports or statements re-
quired by the provisions of this
Act or to comply with the
provisions Of this Act in all re-
spects, the State Banking Board
shall communicate the facts to the
Attorney General. who shall there
upon cause an application to be
made to the District Court of the
county where such corporation
maintains its bank and is conduct
ing its business, or to any Judge of
said Court, for the appointment of a
suitable person as a receiver to,
take charge of the business, assets
and property of every kind of said
corporation and to wind up its aft
fairs; provided, however, that if
the Judge or Judges of the District
Court of the county where such APP
plication should be made be absent
therefrom at the time such applica-
ton is to be made, any Judge of
the Supreme Court may appoint
such receiver, but all proceedings
in relation to such receivership
thereafter shall be had before the
District Court, or Judge Thereof,
which might have appointed such
receiver in the first instance, and
the petition and the order appoint
ng such receiver shall be forthwith
transmitted to the Clerk of such
Distrit Court. 1t shall be suffi cient
to authorize the appointment of
receiver if any of the facts herein
enumerated as ground for the ap-
plication for receiver be made to
appear. Nothing in this Act shall
affect any proceeding now pending
in settling up the affairs of any
bank now in custody of the present
Bank Commissioners or the Bank
Examiner, or any receivership now
pending, but all such settlements
and proceedings shall be continued
and completed in accordance with
the present law, and all rights that
may have accrued under and by vir-
tue of any law now existing are
, hereby preserved.
Now, then, how is it that with
the report of the bank examiner be-
fore them the members of the State
Board failed for so long a time in
their duty and thus facilitated the
plundeing of the public by this so
called bank. The penal provisions
of the law | have just read were
evidently intended by the Legislat-
ure to protect the public, depositors
and business men, not from the bank
management of. honorable men, but
from the rapacity Of men who have
three of the qualifications for sue
cessful road agents, to one for con-
sentative banking.
| consider the appointment of
receiver under these circumstances
a matter of vihtal Importance to
the people Of this community, and
whilst l believe that the utmost
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-04-04
this the Attorney Generals Office
will render assistance in the hope
that justice will triumph"
ATTACHMENT LEVIED

Suit was commenced in the Dis
trict Court in Eureka on March B
at the instance of the State Banking
Board by the Eureka County Bank
against the Eureka Live Stock Com
pany of South Dakota to recover
the sum of $28, 1888. The nature
of plaintiffs claim is as follows:
Upon three promissory notes ex-
ecutcd and delivered by defendant
to one Minnie D. Smith, each note
dated May l, 1908, and each pay
able on demand to Minnie D. Smith
or order; one note for the sum of
$4,000 at the rate of 8 per cent
interest per annum; one note for
$4,000 at 8 per cent interest; one
note for $4,000 at 8 per cent inter-
est. These notes were transferred
to plaintiff by Minnie D. Smith to
secure her promissory note to plain
tiff dated May l 1908, for the sum
of $4,000 at 8 per cent interest.
This last note is made payable
through the Nixon National Bank
of Reno.
The STATE BANKING BOARD
The State Banking Board of Ne
vada consists of the foil owing men,
bers.
Governor D. S. Dickerson, Car
son City, chairman; j. w. Adams,
Carson City; A. B. Witcher, Ely;
Samuel w. Bedford, East Ely; Chas.
S. Sprague, Goldfeld; M. NJ Van
Fleet, Carson City, Secretary and
Bank Examiner; T. J. Salter, Car
son City, Clerk and Assistant to
Bank Examiner.
The statement of assets and liabli-
tiles and interesting matter regard
ing the same will be found on page
2 of our regular issue. ~
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-04-04

may be present in Court, if they de-
sire to be present.
AS the county is deeply interested
l should like very much to have at
least majority of the County Com
missioners in this town before I de-
termine who shall be receiver.
l understand that Commissioner
Fraser will be here in a few days,
and upon his arrival shall certain,
ly suggest the appointment of addi-
tional counsel to assist the District
Attorney in an examination into the
situation that now confronts us, and
l say again that it will only be a
few days before appoint a receiver.
Here the Deputy Attorney Gene
raj arose and addressed the Court
in regard to the State Board and
others for not closing the doors of
the bank, or otherwise notifying the
public of its insolvency, and spoke
substantially as follows:
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERALS STATE.
MENT
1T may be meet for me to make
a statement at this time. l do not
wish to condone or mitigate any
wrong. One thing is certain, and
that is that at every turn of the
roadway Mr.. Van Fleet has per-
formed his duty, but it may appear
that the State Banking Board de-
layed too long before taking action,
but in waiting and negotiating it
expected to accomplish benefits to
the depositors. If the members of
this Board worshipped the goddess
of Hope, it was in the firm belief
that something valuable would be
obtained that would prevent sorrow
and ruin to the people of Eureka
and financial distress to the people
of Nevada,
"Mr. German at all times was
willing to cooperate with the State
Banking Board in its efforts to pre-
vent loss to the depositors, and
during the month of negotiating
it was the hope that the bank would
be placed on sound financial basis
and the depositors saved from any
loss"
Mr.. Fowler in an interview given
to a representative of this paper
said:
THE all important thing at the
present time is the protection of the
interests of the depositors. 1t is
easy to look back and see what
might have been done, but it is al
ways difficult for finite minds to
penetrate the future. The neces-
sary action at this time is to con-
serve the assets of this bank, and to
do this conservative handling of the
situation is required. The APP
pointment of a receiver rests en-
tirely with the court and it is a
sacred and serious responsibility. 1
hope that the best man possible will
be selected, but as to whom should
be appointed l have no suggestions
to make. No matter what person
may be chosen he will need the
friendship of Mr.. German and Mr..
Clarke, or otherwise the assets will
dwindle from lack of knowledge of
Thorn Without fbo o,,;,koxoo -
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Upon the Deputy Attorney General
having gotten well into the course
pursued by the officers, or some of
them, of the bank, as we'll as the
course and action of the State Bank
ing Board, Judge Breen interrupted
Arizona republican., 1910-07-28
OLD FRIENDS MEET
 AT BREAKFAST TABLE
Another Incident Showing How Small
 the World Is.

Two young gentlemen sitting at opposite tables in the dining room of the Hotel Adams Annex yesterday morning eyed each other curiously for about ten minutes, each acting as though he thought he ought to, but wasn't quite sure. At the end of this period of doubt both got up, and meeting midway between the tables l. D. Magnes of New York exclaimed Well. I'll be blowed," or something of that general import, and Secretary Harry Welch of the board of trade made use of similar expression of solemn philosophy. Then they shook hands and talked it over.
 MT Magnes is a New York business man who is making a tour of Arizona on private business and will leave this morning for Tucson. It happens that when MT. Welch was with the California promotion committee in New York the two were quite chum- my. but since MT. Welch left New York Mir Magnes had lost sight of him and had no more thought of find ing him in Arizona than he would in Africa had his travels led him in that direction As a result of the meeting Mir. Magnes made the board of trade his headquarters yesterday and was shown as much of the town as he could see during his short stay. He told a reporter for The Republican that he was very much pleased with Phoenix. and added in all seriousness that he liked the summer climate, as compared to the swehering heat of the metropolis. He peeled off his coat and collar and after getting down to Arizona costume said there is no doubt that while it is hot here it is much less so in point of comfort than many places greatly advertised for summer resorts.
 Incidentally, and without solicita- ton, Mir Magnes said Phoenix ought to be congratulated on having secured the services of MT. Welch as secre- tary of the board of trade. He then recited somewhat of MT. Welch's suc- cess as a publicity agent in New York for the state of California. He said New Workers made a note of the way Mir Welch stood with the prominent Californians who stroll down that way and that whatever he unueTIOOh He Hldut SucCeSS ol. Speaking more particularly, he re- ferred to the advertising secured for the Portola celebration in the New York papers, and of the big banquet given by the CalifOrnians in the Wal orf-Astoria, which was arranged by Mir Welch and which was, in Mir. Magnes opinion, one of the most mo- table dinners ever given in that notable hotel He said Mir. Welch had a way of getting California adver- Using into the New York papers when the home people could not find en- trance to their columns. He don't know how it was done. but it was done, and if Mir. Welch can't put Phoenix properly before the world he wouldn't know where to find a man who could.
Arizona republican., 1910-07-28
THE SALE OF CLOTHES
 AT RUNOUS PRICES
The Thieves Found Customer at the
 Wrong House.

Two young men of the name Of Va IenZuela, employed at the Boston store. went home for dinner yesterday and found their father in a happy frame of mind. He had just bought a suit of clothes at a bargain. In all his life he had never had such a bargain. He had bought the suit from two MeXi- cans for 8. He brought his raiment out and said that there were no such bargains at the Boston store
 As soon as his sons saw the clothes they said that while there were no such bargains at the Boston store, there were suits there just like this, but they were sold for s32.50. They identified that as one of the suits and took it back to the store with them.
 A search was then begun for the men who were demoralizing the clothing trade by cutting prices so ruinously- A telephone message was sent to Con stable Murphy. who obtained a decrip- tion of the peddlers and in an hour or two he had them in custody. They re- fused to give their names, but a fur ther investigation of their methods will be conducted by Justice Johnstone this morning.
Arizona republican., 1910-07-28
TEMPoRA MUTANTUR.
l am growing old,

fancy I am growing old, My hair is gray and scanter. My blood is just a trifle cold; Tempora mutanturi Times were so very different when I was a gay enchanter; Young men in those days were young
 men
 Tempora mutanturi The girls would joke and flirt with
 me,
 Indulge in harmless banter, But now young women are too free Tempora mutantur, Their dress is changed, and for the
 worse,
 And though I'm not a ranter. Those hats and pins I'd like to curse Tempora mutantur! Maybe this change is for the best (Heighoi Pass the decanter) old fogy? Yes. I know the rest Tempora mutantur! La Touche Hancock, in the New
 York Sun.
Arizona republican., 1910-07-28

PHoENIx. ARIZONA. JULY 2s, 1910
Arizona republican., 1910-07-28
,....;.. for the Imperial Ranehers.

Justice for the Imperial Hancners'
 MT. Allen Kelly, the editor or the 1,Dnerial Press, prints in his paper an interesting story or the
 conference which he and Coiohei Holabird. representing the ranchers of the Imperial valley, had wi'h President Taft They found the nresident most attentive to their representations of the gravity or the situation which confronts the im- perial valley, although they probably were unable to tell him anything new as to the general aspect, Tor IL was MT. Taft's strong special message to congress which led to the ap- propriation of a million dollars from
Arizona republican., 1910-07-28
STRAWBERRY DREAM.

One quart cream one cup sugar and one-half pint strawberry juice Whip the cream, add the sugar and fruit juice. put into moulds and freeze for three hours.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-10-24
Republican Party in Bad Plight
A Disgrace to the Country


it Represents.
From Washington Cor, 10th, Charlotte OBJ
server
Anyone who will keep his ear
close to the ground in Washing
ton may easily see that the Re-
publican party--national and
otherwise--was never in a worse
plight. Split into many factions
in many States where desperate
efforts are being made to patch
ny party differences and pour
literally Of the oil of content
ment, the Democrats have it in
their power to wrest the govern
ment machinery from the G. O.
P.
What has brought about such
a condition, you will ask. Get
any well.informed Republican off
by himself and ask him, man to
man, if his party does not need
going to the repair shop, and it's
a safe bet that he will agree
with you that the whole Republi-
can outfit is a disgrace to the
country it represents and, as at
present constituted, ought to go
out of business. Ask him further
on the quiet the cause of so many
differences among the G. 0. P.
people and he will no doubt tell
you the truth, that present nigh
cost of living affects the Republi-
can HOUSEHOLD just as much as it
does that of the Democratic one
and tina: instead of the big i'm
porters and manufacturers being
able to bring about an era of I'M
limited prosperity because of the
enactment of the last tariff law
that they, the trust people, have
waxed fat while the wage Garner
and laborer has seen his dollar
buy less and less day by day.
The honest Republican will ad-
NIT this unless he belongs to the
plutocratic trust crowd, then he
will say nothing or give you
line of talk like that heard dur
ing the t; r # fight.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-10-24
New Ridgeway Magazine

The Ridgway Company pub
fishers OF EVERYBODY'S, this
month enters the field with
second magazine. Its name.
ADVENTURE, is a good index of
its contents, for from first to last
it is devoted to stories of action
and adventure of all kinds. in all
kinds of places and among all
kinds of people. All those who
like stories with back-bones and
red-blood in them and like them
told b. people who know how
will probably take up ADVEN-
TURE with a good deal of in.
teres'.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-10-24
W iii You Endorse a Party That
Increases the Price of Your
Clothes and Bed Covering?
Baltimore Sun.

Baltimore Sun.
How the Payne-Aldrich Tariff
law adds to the burdens of life in
the humble homes of the land in
one important item is explained
in an interview given out by Mr..
William C. Redfield, a Democrat
ic candidate for Congressin one
of the New York districts. Next
to sufficient wholesome food,
nothing is more necessary for
the comfort of the people and
their protection from disease
than warm wooden clothing in
cold weather. For lack of this,
thousands upon thousands o f
our people are taken off each
year to untimely graves, and
multitudes Of poor people SILVER
under cotton blankets at night
because, for the enrichment of
the few, the Tariff law makes
wooden blankets too expensive
for them to buy. Because of
the great tariff tax on wool and
wooden clothing the man O f
moderate means must clothe
himself and his family in shoddy
goods or in cloth that is only
partly wool, the bulk of it being
cotton.
AS Mr.. Redfeld shows, the
wool tariff, like the tariff on cot
ton goods and on many of the
other necessaries and conven-
fences of life, bears most heavily
upon the poor man and discrimi-
mates in favor of the rich. The
uniform tariff upon wool is II
cents a pound, expensive and
cheap wool alike. Wool comes
Is US from all the Wool-growing
parts Of the world smeared with
its. various degrees of grease anc
dirt. When it is washed it is
found that the cheaper wool has
lost in weight far more than the
better quality. Therefore, thu
tariff on the inferior quality i:
higher than on the better quail
", the shrinkage of one qualit.
amounting to about 10 and o
the other to SO and sometime
75per cent. If it shrinks Is pc
cent, then for the remaining 2
pounds the duty of II cents be
comes a duty of "A cents poun
while the duty on 80 pounds q
good wool becomes only 1922
cents a pound. The actual dut
paid on cheap wool is, therefore
A cents instead of II cents
pound.
But the actual money paid
duty is not all the man who bu!
suit of clothes must pay. Eat
person through whose hands tt
wool passes and who pays Il
duty will demand a profit on Il
money he pays out. That is
say, when,a m a n imports
pound of wool the tariff is a pa
of the cost and he calculates /
percentage Of profit on t
whole. The yarn spinner W
buys from the importer gets
profit on what he pays, includi
the tariff and the importe
profit; then the manufacturer
the cloth gets his profit on wi
he pays; the clothing manufa
urer gets his profit, and fins
the retail dealer gets his pr
on the money he has paid
for the clothes, including
American labor, keep out tn
pauper laborers, who are com
over here. Forty-six per cen
the population of Rhode ISL
is FOREIGN horn
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-10-24

There is said to be strong
probability that President Taft
will appoint Associate Justice Ed
ward Douglass White Chief JUS
tice of the Supreme Court Justice
White was appointed to the Su-
preme Court from Louisiana in
1894 by President Cleveland and
is Democrat. None Of the
Supreme Court appointments
will be made until Congress
meets in December.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-10-24

The more you smile and hustle
the more votes you get.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1910-01-13
Exhibit Building.

The Great Northern commenced
work last Friday on the foundation
for the exhibit building to be erected
near the depot. This room will be
used for the purpose of exhibiting ag-
ricultural and mineral products OF.
this section of the state. The Com
mercial club agreed to furnish the
exhibits if the railroad erected the
building. In addition to keeping up
the exhibits the Commercial club is
to see that some one meets the trains
and answers any questions passen-
gers may ask regarding the different
grains, grasses and minerals on dis
play. - @H.a ,a.. e..l.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1910-01-13
NO ELECTION
Held MONDAY
FRIENDLY INJUNCTION BROUGHT BY
COMMERCIAL CLUB STOPPING ELEC.
TlON--SEMD FOR STATE MAN.

At meeting of the commercial club
directors held Saturday afternoon it
was decided to bring a friendly in
junction against the city council re-
straining them from holding an elec-
tion Monday on the bond issue. Judge
Goss was sent for and Monday morn
ing the papers were served at the diff
ferent polling places. Monday after
noon another meeting of the CONNER
cial club directors was held to talk
over the bond issue and as result of
the meeting w. A. Coats, head of the
bond and mortgage division for the
State was sent for. We understand
that it is the opinion and wish of the
club to get the per cent money from
the State and it was with this and in
view that Mr.. Goats was sent for.