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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1911-11-30
GUST JOHNSON
Z CAVE Many REASONS
Man Convicted Of Murder Of John
Cash Tells Judge Why Sentence
Should Not Have Been Passed Upon
Him.

Before passing sentence upon Gust
Johnson for the murder Of John
Cash, Judge Leighton asked Johnson
If there was any reason why sent.
ence should not be passed upon him.
Johnson in quite a lengthy statement,
said that there many points that his
counsel failed to bring out in the
trial, and that two Of his most I'm.
portant witnesses failed to put in
their appearance. He stated that he
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1911-11-30

Montrail County Farm Lands for Sale
Two quarter sections AL wheat land
at a bargain. 100 acres to ex-
change for stock or city property
A SNAPS 90 per acre buys 100
best creek bottom land II sold at
once. Small amount Of cash will
handle this. Address A. H. Adam
son, owner, box 36s, Whiteflsh,
Mont. t1s
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1911-11-30
FARMERS STILL THREsHiNe.
Hundreds Of Loads Of Grain Comma
Into MInot From All Directions
Threshers Sticking to Their Work.

The North Dakota farmers are per-
sistent fellows, for notwithstanding
the cold weather we have been hav-
ing, they are still threshing IN many
localities. No one has any idea that
all Of the grain will be threshed this
winter, but the farmers Will stick 70
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1911-11-30

FOR SALE-Seventeen full blood
Rhode Island Red cockerels best
Of stock. David Burns, Surrey
n. D. II 80 IA
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-02-17

other sections. The mining camps do not ask
one penny OF the legislature, only that they be
allowed to run and operate simply as thinning
camps. BE allowed to sustain a reputation that
has made for the success of the entire state of
Nevada.
Should the legislature be sincere in its cru
SADIE against gambling. why not allow the people
an opportunity to declare themselves on the sub
Ject. Put the matter up to the voting public
and IN the event that it is the sense of the polls
that gambling shall be no more all well and
good. On the other hand, should the people de-
eide that the old days were better let us once
more hear the rattle of the chips across the
green cloth, and revert to the conditions that
nave oft been depicted on poem and song. The
conditions that have made for Nevada a name
around the entire world. Twenty years from
now 1t may be well to adopt puritanical IDEAS.
but at the present time this state is too Young
TOO undeVeloped for any such a move
A measure now before the legislature would
allow the people the referendum and the recall
Adopt the bill Mr. Solons and then submit the
gambling question The public is the effected
party and should have the privilege Of deciding
question Of such vast Importance to the entire
state.
From the revenue lost from gaming licenses
an increase OF 80 per cent in taxes must follow
IN many counties in the state The high tax
rates drives capital from our doors and if is
invested in other states
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-02-17
R. R. Commission and Graft.

The railroad commission of Nevada has per-
formed good service, it is still performing good
service, and will undoubtedly continue to do so,
provided it is left it now stands. However,
the senate committee to which the proposed pub
lie utility bill has been referred. would saddle
upon the railroad commission the work of regu
latlng the sale OF gas and electricity and o.
naming the price to be charged. The measure, as
introduced by Fullmer, would place the power
OF fixing rates and regulating quality in The
hands of the city councils, boards of county com
mlsSionerS or governing bodies of unincorporatcd
towns. The Bonanza wishes to 90 on record as
being in favor Of the regulation of all pubic
service corporations They need regulation aud
need il badly. The Bonanza is also in favor ii
such regulation being in the hands of the LEGAL
commissioners, the men most competent to judge
the needs Of the different localities The men
who are personally acquainted with any over
charges that are being made. And the Bonanza
will freely admit that overcharges are now being
made.
However, the railroad commission is no body
in whom to invest the power Of regulating these
matters That commission has sufficient to at
tend to and give the state the best results 1t
IS now and always has been an non-political
body. 1t maintained non political by the
democratic administration. And while the Be-
nanZa Is republican newspaper nevertheless it
insists on giving to the late democratic admin
lstration all possible praise for its handling Of
the fallfoad commission. Not so with the present
Legislature BY giving to the commission the
power to regulate the public service corporations
the Legislature will at the same time institute a
new political body. A body that will be amen
able to graft. body that will shortly be-
come the tool of the public service corporations
that it was formed to control Nevada will take
her place alongside Of California during the past
fifty years and be overrdden by the Southern
Pacific political machine and machines that make
OF governments the tools of their masters
Before it is too late it will be we'll for the
members Of the legislature to seriously consider
the grievous wrong they are about TO perperate
upon a body Of men who are deserving of their
strongest support With the contemplated action
taken, the railroad commission will be made in
strumental by public service corporations to elect
the next governor of the state the next senate
and the next assembly.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-02-17
Let the People Decide.

The roll OF the wheel and the turn of the
box are rapidly becoming but memory in the
state OF Nevada, and as consequence the pie
tureSque attractveness of mining camp for
the eastern tenderfoot is now thing of the
past The result is that eastern capital and east
ern investors are stunning country that they
once sought to enter at any cost As a conse-
quence considerable of the mining properties are
rapidly falling into a state of innocuous desue-
tude bringing as further result depreciation in
the value of all property in the mining sections
of the state and necessarily an increase of so
per cent to the taxpayer who is willing to remain
IN a mining camp, or who is compelled to re-
main by reason that there he has his all
The Bonanza is not endeavoring to make a
defense for open gambling, but must insist that
the quietus came at least twenty wears before
1t was due Open gambling is, for the present
at least, dead Nevertheless gambling still flour
ishes all over the state-under cover-the fol-
lower of the Goddess of Fortune may still lose
his money, of course, provided he is personally
known by the conductor of the game. but the
county reaps no reward in the oden DAYS
AS a result many of the counties are being
placed on a script basis and from present indi-
cations. 1t will be but matter of time before
they are compelled to repudiate their script
In the face of such conditions in the mining
section of the state the Reno delegation in the
Legislature propose to introduce bill asking for
$4,000 appropriation for the purpose of boom
ing the divorce center" Furthermore that
bill, according to all reports, has every chance
of an early passage Why should Reno for
the propaganda of much greater evil than
gambling, j. e-divorce. receive $4,000 for
. boom" purposes while other sections are com
PEELED to issue script? Far be it from the Bo-
nanZa to deny to the metropolis of the state one
penny that would further the best interests of
the entire state, for the one city or coun-
ty. But, like treatment should be accorded the
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-02-17

All kinds of ruling and binding
at the Bonanza.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-02-17
Divorce Advertising a Crime,

1t is gratifying to note that some member of
the present legislature has the nerve to oppose
the pet hobby of the Reno populace. bin
now beng IN the hands of the printer that will
make OF the advertising of divorce a crime With
the adoption of such a measure and II l. -
ne hoped that the governing body will enact tbo
Dill INTO law, number of the shysters alreaav
dlscredlted by the legitimate members of thc
legal profession, will be forced to the wall Dc.
nled the opportunity of advising the matrimonial
tired that they can sell the needed relief for the
paitfy sum OF $l5-then, when the victim is in
'"ttr power el charging any figure they may please
they will have no leg on which TO stand
Keno IS to be congratulated provided this most
commendable law is adopted She will be well
rd OF the side-lights of noble profession
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-02-17
PERSONAL MENTION


c. T. Stanley of Goldfeld is reg
istered at the Mizpah
w. E, Gore of San Francisco is
registered at the Mizpah.
Messrs. Whiteman and Higher re-
turned from Goldfield on today's
train.
Congressman-elect L. e. Roberts
returned to Carson City on this
mornings train.
Mrs. Meder was a passenger on
the morning train on visit to Car
son City.
District Attorney Sanders left
Tonopah today for a visit in Reno
and Carson City.
o. N Pryce, representative of the
International Correspondence School
OF Scranton, Pa, is a guest at the
Mizpah.
Sheriff Ed Malley left this morn
ing for Manhattan to take charge
OF prisoner and attend to other
business connected with his office
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-02-17
Why Ignore Mining?

Wilson of Nye county has introduced in the
assembly bill to create bureau of industry
agriculture and irrigation. substitute bill is
also before the legislature, differing only in the
method of regulating the bureau Surveyor
General Charles Il. Deadly and c. A. Norcross
private secretary to Governor Oddie, have ap-
Peared before the assembly and made speeches
in favor of the substitute measure, fathered bv
Denton of Lincoln county. In neither of the
addresses was suggestion made that mining
should be included in the title of the bureau.
Aside possibly, from Divorce mining has done
more to spread the name of Nevada throughout
the world than any single item of the industry of
the state Much more so than agriculture
Therefore, why is it not fitting and proper
that mining should share place in this pro-
posed bureau? She is entitled to it. And tbe
original bill, coming from Wilson of Nve conn
ty, man representing strictly mining com
munlty, it is surprising that he should not have
thought of the work that places the bread and
butter IN the mouths of those men who sent him
to Carson City to work in their interests #
might be well for the committee that draws
inns industry measure to incorporate the word
mining" in its title before returning if 70 thr
rank and file with its Recommendation.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-02-17

-, The recall is being worked overtime in
Washington at the present writing. Seattle has
recently rid herself of an undesirable mavor
ana ana now Tacoma is in the lmelight with pre-
l 81 mary WORK towards the subsequent recalling
OF four of her commissioners Another faa+;ns'
mas already attempted the recall of the mavor
OF Tacoma, and should the two propositions be-
successful, the entire city government will bo
looking for job. The specific charges bronobt
are ncompetency, failure to enforce the law and
general e neglect Of duty. Looks like there might
handling cities w :" u
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-02-17
SNOW FALLS IN HILLS
SURROUNDING HAYWARD

HAYWARD, Cal, Feb. IT
snow fell in the hills back of Castro
valley yesterday morning, and the
unusual occurrence caused the
school children to hasten into the
NILS as soon as their lessons were
over for the day. They were Joined
later by their elders, and many
SNOWFALL battle and much gayety en-
sued, The cold air of the after
noon kept the snow from melting.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-02-17
SALES.
Forenoon.
Afternoon
NEBRASKA PROFESSOR
COMMITS SUICIDE

LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. IF. J.
Philips professor of forestry at the
state university. committed suicide
at his home early yesterday by
nhaling gas. He left three letters.
one of which was addressed to his
wife instrueting her how to notify
the proper officers when the body
was discovered. The other letters
were addressed to the chief of DO
lice and coroner.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-02-17
EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

Archdeacon Hazlett will hold SER
vices in the Episcopal church next
Sunday, February 10, as follows.
Holy communion and sermon at II
d. H. Evening prayer and sermon
at 1880 p. m. A special musical
program will be rendered and a
very cordial invitation is extended
TO the public to attend both the
services.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-02-17
Waugh: Girls, It's Awful.

Salter of Ormsby will never be returnad 70
the assembly If the equal suffrage bill should
become law. Why? For the reason that tbn
horned man has introduced bill that will com
pei our fair sisters, when applying for mar
rage license, to Tess up just how old she is. To
zen zen whether or not she has been married be-
lJ I Aha Just think OF it, how often, and to
whom? Aside from these few features which
effect the genler sex, the bill is one that is most
meritOrOnS " l"oNU
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-02-17

Russia, not satisfied with the result Of tho
recent unpleasantness with Japan in which tho
former received well-deserved trouncino il
now nc making ugly faces at the peaceful Chinese
~ an u ultlmatum issued by the Russian govern
ment China is asked to make immodio+ ii
ance on pain of the immediate cossa+;on Pc rs
friendly relations. Better beware lest the w;lv
celestial becomes real mad and starts sometbinf,
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-02-17
OUTLAW BROTHERS
HAVE FATAL DUEL

w EBB CITY, Mo-, Feb. 1.-Two
brothers, the only survivors of the
Famous Cherokee Bill" gang of
outlaws, which once fourished in
oklahoma, met here in a finish
hight at midnight and Bill Stidhum
Killed his brother Ike in a quarrel
involving the relations of Bits son
with likes.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-02-17

according to Geographic advices from the
seat of the trouble-an almost bIoodloas .i0
u develops that almost all the wounded both
federals and insurrectos have been shot in tho
back This news recalls certain Colonel Rooso-
welt episode at the battle of Santiago during tho
Spanlsh-Amercan war, in which the Snan;ords
were likewise wounded 10
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-02-17
STOCK MARKET

The following quotations were
furnished the Bonanza by H. E.
Epstine, broker:
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-02-17

There is something timely about tbo mona
ganda Tor the fast cure advanced by Upton Sin.
clalr and others--now that food products are
soaring in price "ie
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-10-09
.EVEN WORSE THAN
SIBERIAN PRISONS
KINGS co. JAIL IN BROOK YN
MOST DIsGRAcEFUL INsTl.
TUITION OF KIND IN
N. Y. STATE.

Albany N. Y. oct. 9.-The Kings
county Jail in Brooklyn, one OF about
dozen small prisons in New York
CITY, is the most disgraceful institu-
tion OF its kind i'm New York state. ac-
cording to report by the state prison
commission, made public today. The
report says:
There is accommodation for not
more than eight inmates. but the
building is made TO accommodate as
many as fifty persons one can i'm
agine the terrible place It must be
when IL is thus over-crowded. In the
early part of this year. nfty-three
Greeks were arrested by the federal
government and sent there for terms
OF from two 10 three months. This
squad augmented the usual popula-
ton OF the county prisoners. If one
were to read OF such things I'm a prison
I'm Siberia ne would hold up his hands
with horror To allow such a state
Of affairs to exist I'm the city OF New
York Is objectionable"
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-10-09
TAFT IS GOOD
ROAD ADVOCATE
so EXPRESSES HIMSELF AFTER
TRAVELLING JpOVER MUDDY
HIGHWAYS. VISITS
MT. RAINIER.

Tacoma, WASH, oct 9.-Despite a
narrow escape from spending the night
i'm the mountain Businesses OF Mount
Rainier because of heavy roads. Presi-
dent Taft declared today he thoroughly
enjoyed the trip to the foot OF the
glaciers. The presidential party con-
veycd by several automobiles, started
yesterday afternoon on a 72-mile trip
to the base of the glacier The first
sixty miles was made over smooth
roads. once inside Mount Rainier Ma
tlonal Park, however, the party found
the roads wet and heavy. Several au-
tomobiles became mired and could go
no further. They were finally pulled ou'
by forest rangers. The presidents
car, I'm advance managed to pass
through the worst parts of the road.
ON the return trip the presidents car
sank deep I'm muddy ruts and skidded
badly at times. despite safety chains
over the car tires. Tho president de-
clared he had been impressed with the
necessity of additional government ap-
preparations for road building i'm Ma
tional parks.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-10-09
MAY NOT REBUILD
WISCONSIN TOWN
Not Likely That Black River Falls
Will Again Become Thriv-
ing Place
MERCHANTS LOSE HEAVILY
Losses Of From $4,000 to $4,000 Nu.
nerous, and There Will Be
Many 5ankrupts.

La Crosse, Wis. Oct. 9.-The flood
from the Hatfield dam Is now sweep
ing the country just north OF La
Crosse and increasing the height OF
the Mississippi here at the rate OF an
inch an hour. The river has risen
four feet since Saturday, and today
is higher than it has been previously
In three years
Considerable damage is reported 10
farm property I'm the low lands and
there are heavy losses of stock.
That Black River Falls may not
be repuilt at all is the opinion of many
with manufacturing plants destroyed,
and there is little left to maintain the
little town.
1t is conceded today that one dis
tressing reuft OF the flood will be the
filing OF petitions I'm bankruptcy by
many merchants. Losses from $4,000
to $4,000 are numerous. Along this
line the fate OF the La Crosse Water
Power Co.'S FIVE million dollars worth
of property at Hatfield is problem
aticaL The company is now I'm the
hands Of receiver
The arrival OF two companies OF NIL
litia put an end to the looting. Food
is practically exhausted and more Is
needed.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-10-09
TRUSTS TO OBEY THE LAW.
Are Making Peace With the Govern,
ment SO Washington Hears.

Washington, oct 9.-Dennite in.
formation has been obtained here thai
when Attorney General Wickersham
returns TO the capital today, he viii
have with him agreed DEGREES" with
the Electrical trust the Du Pont Pow
der company the Southern Wholesale
Grocers' association, and probably one
with the International Harvester COM
pany and possibly one with the steel
trust.
The attorney general has not offer
ed any compromise. He made IL known
to the great business representatives
that the only terms on which he woul ]
deal with them would he on the basis
OF a compact that they would go into
a circuit court with an agreement to
proceed 10 complete reorganization
within the lines Of the law, the circuit
court to give the agreement the form
of an order so that In case of viola
ton the offending company would be
I'm eontempt of court Word In Wash
ingtOn Is tnat the attorney general
has reached final agreement with the
first three Corporations named and
probably with the Harvester company.
The Steel corporation, Il is said, de-
spite its announcement of n few days
ago, is showing symptoms of yield
ing disposition.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-10-09
MONUMENT FOR.
WOMEN OF War
NEW YORK LOYAL EGioN
STARTS CAMPAIGN FOR $780,
eco FOR NATIONAL
MEMORIAL.

New York, oct "a movement to
raise 100000 to build national mon
ument in Washington to the memory
of the women of the civil war was
launched at a dinner of the New
York Commandery of the Loyal Le-
gion.
The commandery adopted a reselu-
tion requesting that the commander
in chief, at its regular meeting in Phil
adelphia, oct IS. indorse the project
and recommend il To the q state or
ganizations. A special committee TO
further the project was appointed. con-
sisting Of Major General Frederick ID.
Dent coidmanG.e of the department. of
the east; General Thomas n. Hubbard
General ]. Fred Pierson, Laioy ]. Lang
don Ward. Captain James A. Scrimser,
Captain Loyalle Farragut and First
Lieutenant Thomas Sturgis.
Copies of the resolution will be sent
to the various communicates. to the
commander in chief of the q. A. r.,
the president Of the G a. r.. Women's
Relief Corps and the Ladies of the
G. A. r., and all kindred associations,
and to individuals who will be asked
TO contribute toward the fund.
1t was announced the proposal for
such n memorial came first from
member who had pledged $4,000 upon
the condition that 100000 be raised
within year. The members name
was not made DubIic
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-10-09
AVIATOR TO MAKE
NOTABLE FLIGHT
HUGH ROBINSON TO FLY FROM
MINNEAPOLIS TO NEW Or
LEANS, STARTING ON
OCTOBER 10.

Minneapolis, Mimi. oct. Aviator
Hugh Robinson will start his trans
Mississippi flight. from Minneapolis to
New Orleans, Friday, October 13. II
is reported there is much enthusiasm
in the towns and cities along the Mis-
sissippi River. At Alton, with
the Upper Mississippi Improvement
association in session. 1t is planned to
make Robinon's reception there not
able. IL is said n movement has been
set on foot to adjourn the deep water
ways convention I'm Chicago long
enough for the delegates to go To
Rock Island Ia greet the aviator.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-10-09
GIANTS VETERANS
OF THE DIAMOND
NEW YORK NATIONAL LEAGUE
CHAMPS WE'RE BORN IN
NINE STATES. AVERAGE
AGE is 25.

New York, N. Y, oct. 9.-The four
teen star performers of New York's
baseball team were born I'm nine states.
and come of many nationalities. Each
is a veteran of the diamond
The average age of the players is "a
trihe over twenty five years. The av-
eraGe term of service with the Giants
runs few months over four years.
Two were born within the boundaries
of the Empire state. Pennsylvania,
Illinois. Ohio and California each con-
tribute two The birth places OF the
others are i'm Maryland. Wisconsin. In
diana and the District of Columbia.
Mathewson is the veteran of the
team. with ten years service to his
credit; Ames, Is second. with eight
years: Wiltse and Devlip are tied for
third. with seven years Meyers has
had two years continuous service with
the Giants.
Devere born in Murray City. Ohio.
the smallest and fastest played I'm the
big league. joined the team last year,
although he was purchased In 1908.
Doyle, captain of the leaders, was born
I'm Caseyville. Illinois. and has been
four years with the Giants. Fletcher
was born In Collinsvile, Illinois: Her
zog is n native of Baltimore Mary
land; Ames, a native of Warren. Pa;
Wiltse halls from Hamilton, n. Y;
Merkle was born i'm Watertown, Wis:
Crandall Is "A native of Wadina, india
ma; Devlin was born in Washington.
u. c.. Marquard was born In Cleve-
land, Ohio: Meyers. whose father Is n
fun blooded Indian. was born at River
side, California; Mathewson was born
at Factoryville. Pa; and Snodgrass
was born at Ventura. California.
Mathewson is the only man on the
team who was there when McGraw
took over the reins of management.