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Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1912-01-12
LET GOVERNMENT FIX PRICES
BELIEVES COMMISSION SHOULD
TELL. CAPITAL HOW MUCH
PROFIT 1T SHALL TAKE.
DISAGREES WITH Mr.. TAFT
MILLIONAIRE BELIEVES THAT
CORPORATIONS SHOULD BE
DISSOLVED.

Washington, Jan. 12.--'l am fanil
iar with the views of ex-Pres;uoi
/ ras stvsr ~ H. trust question I'D
| am inclined to agree with him." said
Andrew Carnegie before the steel
trust investigating committee today.
Representative Gardner of Massa-
chusetts had contrasted those views
with ideas expressed by President
Taft in his recent message on the
trust question.
I'm the solution Of the Industrial
problem, . said Mr.. Gardner, "there are
two leading thoughts before us.
President Taft in his recent message
expressed the view that dissolution
of large units should go on. The other
line of thought as expressed by for
mer President Roosevelt, is that under
the existing Sherman law we should
look to recognition of large units con-
trolled by the government. In which
class are you, .Mr. Carnegie
Il have agreed with Mr.. Roosevelt's
views. think for the present that
you should allow large organizations
to continue and to see how we get
along ard that Won -shprid mass laws
regulating these organizations. Then
you should be patient and see what
further legislation may be necessary. I
do not think the Sherman law is dras-
tic enough. Give us clear, unmis-
taxable law and I believe we will steer
clearly"
do you believe dissolution of the
United States Steel corporation would
lessen the price of steel?"
Il don't believe it would. 1t de-
pends, of course, on what the court
might do"
Suppose congress does not take
the step that you adviser"
MY opinion is that congress will
see the necessity for more govern
ment control"
Mr.. Carnegie said government
commission should have power to reg
ulate prices from month, to month. al
lowing capital reasonable profit, thus
effecting ian ideal condition between
capital and labor, and producer and
consumer"
| He said Mr.. Schwab was correct in
saying that while they could make pig
iron cheaper in Birmingham, there
were no available ores in that district
not already controlled by present man
ufacturers. Representative Gardner
said the steel corporations cancella-
tion of the Hill lease of the Great
Northern would be the basis for one
new company
"It is my opinion that the United
States Steel corporation is giving up
those ores for no other reason than
that it has concluded it is an unprofit-
able investment" said Mr.. Carnegie.
The committee today served a sub
poena on J. H. Reed of Pittsburg, Mr..
Carnegie's counsel and president of
the Steel Corporations union and Pitts
burg, Bessemer and Lake Erie rail
roads. Mr.. Reed was Secretary of
State Knox's partner as counsel for
the Carnegie company in 1S90-19OO
when the company is declared to have
been party to illegal pools.
Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1912-01-12
GOVERNOR AGAINST PARDON

Denver, Colo, Jan. Whether
Sherman W. Morris, alias Frank sher-
cliffe, will be freed from the peniten-
tiary at Canon City, where he is serv-
ing a term for murder. depends upon
the action of the governor. When the
pardon board met today. two members
favored granting the pardon, while
one member stood cut against the pro
posed action. GovoInor Shafroth is
opposed to releasing shercliffe. or
Morris. and it is generally believed he
win decline to issue the pardon.
Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1912-01-12
Gas Workers Called Out

New York, Jan. 12.-Although union
leaders voted early today to call out
on strike Immediately $4,000 workers
employed by the Consolidated Gas
company in New York and vicinity,
it was said at the company's plants
today that the effect Of the strike had
not been felt.
Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1912-01-12
Cold in Missouri.

st. Louis, Jan. II Temperatures of
zero or below prevailed in eastern Mis-
souri, and southern Illinois last night
and today. AT Hannibal, Mo-, the
thermometer registered IA degrees be
low zero and at Cairo, Ill.,, the mer-
curry. stood at zero.
Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1912-01-12
TEXTILE OPERATIVES
GO UPON A STRIKE
LAWRENCE, MASS, WAS SCENE
OF VIOLENT DEEDS AS RE-
SUIT TODAY

Lawrence, Mass, Jan. 12.-The gem
eraI unrest among the $4,000 textile
operatives of this city developed into
disturbances at the Washington and
Wood mills of the American Woolen
company today. Striking operatives
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-02-08
BOARD ADJOURNED
TUESDAY EVENING

The county COMMISSIONS wound up
the work of the session Tuesday even
ing and adjourned. Tuesday after
noon the following business was trans
acted:
DIR. W. F.. Boylan was appointed
county physician and deputy health
officer at National.
b. klucney was awarded the board
ing of the county prisoners for the en-
suing three months.
A letter was received from the firm
of Burns q Mcdonnell stating that
they would lie prepared to submit
their report of their examination, ap-
praisement, etc, of the proposed water
and light system for Winnemucca in
about two weeks and that if the
board desired representative would
be sent to explain the report if the
board would allow the expenses of
such representative. The proposition
was accepted by the board.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-02-08
PLACE s. P. LANDS
ON THE MARKET

C. f. Wantland, general sales agent,
and II. M. Mccartney, travelling land
agent for the Southern Pacific, were
in town yesterday in connection with
the placing on the market of rs sec
tions of railroad lands, lying in the
vicinity of Winnemucca.
The lands mentioned will be sold at
from $3.50 to $500 per acre, to be
paid for in ten equal annual install
ments, and there has already been
sufficient inquiry regarding the lands
to insure the sale of the entire tract
at an early date.
The Southern Pacific officials are en-
thusiastic over the possibilities of Ne
vada in general and Humboldt county
in particular, stating that present in
dications surely point to Winnemucca
as the coming town of the state
Whenever matters of this kind come
up, tn eneed of a commrcial club is
keenly felt. An organization of that
character, working in conjunction with
various proposed colonization projects,
could accomplish a great deal for the
town and county that cannot be reach
ed by individual effort.
Mr. Wantland left for the eastern
part of the state yesterday afternoon,
but Mr.. Mccartney will for the next
several days remain at the Lafayette
hotel, where he will be pleased to meet
citizens and business men and discuss
the project in hand.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-02-08
EQUAL SUFFRAGISTS AD-
DRESS UNIVERSITY ASSEMBLY

Miss Anne Martin, OF the Nevada
Equal Franchise society, who has writ
ten and worked for women suffrage in
England, addressed the university as
sembly on Friday, February 2. Her
lecture, listened to with interest by
the audience of professors, students
and townspeople, emphasized and ex-
planned the moral and political neces
sity of militant action on the part of
Mrs. Parkhurst 8 followers, in the face
of the callous attitude of British par
laments toward constitutional agita-
tion for over fifty years.
Rev. Chas. Aked, of San Francisco,
formerly John d. Rockefeller's pastor
in New York, will address the univer-
sity assembly next Tuesday morning
on Lincoln, and the people of
Reno on Tuesday evening ON woman
suffrage, under the auspices of the
Nevada Equal Franchise society.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-02-08
GOVERNOR ODDIE MAY
CALL A SPECIAL SESSION

Governor Oddie states that it is
likely that he will call a special session
of the Nevada legislature to convene
early in March for the purpose of ex.
Treating the state from its present
financial difficulty and provide for the
payment of debts that have accumu-
lated and the expenses that viii be in
Cured between now and the next
regular session of the legislature. The
session will last about three days and
its expense will be only about $1,000.
1t is proposed to provide bond is
sue of sufficient magnitude, probably
100000, which would cover all the
accumulated debts and provide for the
future. The school fund would then
purchase the bonds and get the bene-
fit of the interest, as there is ample
money in the school fund for the pur-
pose.
The governor is studying the report
of thestate Controller in regard to the
matter before deciding definitely on
what plan will be suggested.
Governor Oddie stated that it is pos
sible that he will include in his call
for the special session the divorce laws
of Nevada The principal suggestion
will be that the time of residence
necessary before a divorce action be
fled be changed from six months to
one year.
The governor considers the present
laws on divorce a disgrace to the
state and very detrimental to it's in
terests. His recent trip through the
east, he saws, convinced him that the
laws are too loose and should be made
more strict.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-02-08
Repor of Committee on County Affairs

y
We, your committee on county af-
fairs, beg leave to report the we have
carefully examined the report of Mr..
r. w. Lewis. who has recently expert
ed the books of Humboldt county, and
recommend that the same be filed.
We have visited and consulted with
the various officers and find that the
clerk s and county treasurer's offices
are sadly in need of additional vault
and office room. We recommend that
the county commissioners take steps
TO have the old jail utilized in con
nection with the room now occupied
by the district attorney as a new of
fee and vault for the county recorder
and make such other changes as are
deemed necessary.
We also recommend that the prac-
tiee OF using the court room for church
purposes and other public functions be
discontinued and the courthouse used
only for county affairs.
We also recommend that all county
officers cooperate with the board of
county commissioners in an effort to
increase the county revenue and cut
down the constantly increasing ex-
pense.
Respectfully submitted,
j. SHEEHAN, Chairman.
S. r. YOUNG,
c. G. SMITH,
w. A. BROWN,
r. BATTLES.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-02-08
THE APPLE WOULD
TEMPT MR.. ADAM

A tree bearing coreless and seedless
apples has been accidntally discovered
in Nevada The tree from which the
seedless apples grew is seven years
old, but has been nibbled back each
year by cattle. This year it bore
25 perfect specimens, all seedless and
coreless. A popularity is that the
withered stems and pistils may still be
seen. Whether the freak apple, like the
seedless orange, may be induced to
further propagation has been consider
ately brought to the attention of
Luther Burbank Record
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-02-08
HOTEL LAFAYETTE ARRIVALS

H. c. Douglas, San Francisco.
w. A. Chattser, Chicago.
Mrs Dora Corney, Dayton, New.
). Nj. Tobin, Reno.
A. H. Raymond, Stockton
c. 4 Kimball, Chicago.
JAS. B. Jones, Reno.
V. s. Baker, Reno.
John S. Case, Lovelock.
VIM. f. Marie, Boston.
G. II. Maitland, San Francisco.
Frank Boskowitz, San Francisco.
Robt. l.. Frier, San Francisco.
Lee Cochrane, San Francisco.
Frank McHugh, Seven Troughs.
Mrs Fanny Moon, Fallon.
Geo. L. Ballentine, Elko.
r. Barry, Paradise
f. J. Thacker, Mill City.
c. E. Kincaid, Bagdad.
G.. II. Adams, San Francisco
Chas. G. Reeder, Spokane.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-02-08
GOLCONDA CATTLE COMPANY'S
CIVIL CASES SET FOR MARCH 8

United States District Attorney Sam
Platt appeared in the Federal Court
in Carson, Monday, before Judge Far
rington and had the civil cases of the
government against the Golconda Cat
tie company, of which Congressman
William Kent is president, set for
March 3. The civil eases in which
the government is asking for dam
ages for alleged unlawful fencing of
government land, will be tried first
and later the criminal cases against
the company will be tried.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-02-08
Report Of Committee ON County
Buildings.

We, Your committee appointed to in
speet the county buildings, find condi-
tions as follows
We visited the county hospital and
found conditions in and about the
place in excellent shape. We recon-
mend that the commissioners see that
the courthouse be kept in more clean.
ly condition We particularly notice
the condition of the floors of the hall
and grand jury room.
Respectfully submitted,
A. f. TROUSDALE, Chairman,
f. M. BUCKINGHAM,
G. GONZALES,
II. b. MCDONALD.
w. w. CARPENTER.
A. REINHART.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-02-08
TONIGHT'S SERVICE IN
BAPTIST CHAPEL CAR

The meetings have closed in the
chapel car, but tonight, at 80 o. clock,
a preaching service will be held by
Rev. Floy T. Barkman, pastor of the
Baptist church. Everybody is welcome
the last service held in the chapel car.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-02-08
PRISONERS SENT
TO PEN|TENT|ARY

In the District Court this afternoon
prisoners who had pleaded guilty were
sentenced as follows:
Martin Flores, burglary, l to Is
years.
R. A. Miller, passing false check, 2
years.
Bert II. Tyndall, forgery, 2 years.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-02-08
THROWN FROM HORSE AND SUI
FERS DISLOCATED SHOULDER

Tuesday evening Mike Madigan was
brought in to the county hospital from
Lays ranch, suffering with dislocat-
ed shoulder sustained by being thrown
from horse He was attended to by
County Physician Swezy and it is ex-
pected that he will return home dur
ing the week.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-02-08
GAME WARDEN MAKES OF
FICIAL TRIP TO GOLCONDA

Yesterday Game Warden Bonnifeld
made trip to Golconda to investigate
rumors of illegal quail shooting that
had come to him from that place. No
arrests were made.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-02-08
NOTICE.

A meeting of the stockmen using
the Santa Rosa national forest will be
held in Paradise, Nevada on February
20, 1912. As many questions will be
discussed that are Of interest to each
and every person ranging cattle and
sheep on the forest, it is essential that
all persons be represented.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-02-08
ATTENDED MEETING OF
NEVADA PRESS ASSOCIATE ~

f. l.. Rebm, editor of the National
Miner, returned this morning from
Reno, wnere he attended the meeting
Of the Nevada Press association.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-02-08
RETURN FROM INSPECTING
HORSES AT BUFFALO RANCH

d. f. Abel and Ben Loinaz returned
Tuesday afternoon from the Buffalo
ranch, where they are feeding large
number of horses.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-02-08
WINNEMUCCA COUPLE
MARRIED LAS EVENING

Last evening Miss Florence Wagner
was united in marriage to Mr.. Paul
Oertel by Judge j. I. Dunn.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-02-08

Rev. l.. II. Barkman and wife are
spending few days in Los Angeles.
They will resume their work in an
other city with the chapel car in a
ew days.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-02-08

in business but few months before
il was able to demonstrate its g eat
value But the best example of co-ope-
ration among growers deserves another
chapter for its treatment. (To be eol-
tinued.)
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-02-08
OF GRAND
JURY COMMITTEES

Report of Committee on Roads and
Bridges.
We, your committee on county roads
and bridges, beg leave to say that we
desire to report at some future date.
Respectfully submitted
w. G. RUDDELL, Chairman.
G. G. SMITH,
GERHARD MILLER,
w. X. MOLER,
w. f. PEARCE,
D. w. CATHCART,
w. o. BABER, SR.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-02-08

Kent O. Keyes, of Salt Lake City,
representing the New York Central
lines. was IN town yesterday.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-05-03

Cleveland women signed the
bail bond, and Little Joe got Bis
first glimpse Of the great outside
world.
Also Little Joe got his father,
for when the jail door swung
open Simon Dworkin was there
to take his wife and baby boy into
his arms, having bravely forget
ten and forgiven.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-05-03
Iaeob Horwitz signed BIS own


death warrant,
! DworItin left his wife, taking
the children, Rose was soon to
become a mother again.
q could not help but do what
did," Rose says. 81 was mad
when saw his stories were going
to-break up my little home-Were
going to make my children faith
erless and uncared for. And then,
too, the thought that little Joe
would never even see his papa
that he would go away and leave
me, because I was "a bad woman
just made me want to cripple
forever that man who had Grip
pied my life from the very begin
ming"
81 did not mean to kill him-I
only meant to- hurt him so he
would never say untrue things
about me again. So he would let
me bring up my little family in
peace"
She came to Cleveland, bought
an automatic pistol, and as Hor-
witt emerged from a building he
was erecting, she shot him dead
through the head.
From a Jail cell Mrs. Dworkin
went to the hospital to bring into
being Little Joe. With Little Joe
in her arms, Rugged tightly to
her breast, she went back TO her
cell.
Little Joe and-h mother didn't
get along we'll in their sunless
cell. Both grew pale and sickly. |
Cleveland women, and the Cleve- |
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-05-03
He Never Did It.

What's the matter with you,
Willie?"
"Boo=heo! Teacher walloped
me for something ] never didp
Him that's unjust! What was
it you never did,"
& "The sum teacher set me. Boo
hoeE
Imperial Valley press., 1912-05-04
The Land of Before and After

pany-whiCh can in no way affect the
uninterrupted supply of irrigation wa
ter-is settled, the district will be able
to acquire control over the entire If
rigation system. When that step has
been taken. the highest estimated cost
Of a water right per acre will be be-
tween fifteen and twenty dollars. Even
with the maximum figure. the lmpe-
rial valley will have the cheapest wa
ter rights of any irrigated district iii
the West, government or private.
In 1900 there were seven counties
in Calit0rnia's southern part Among
them they Toasted of 217,000 irrigated
acres. In 1910 there were eight coun-
ties Imperial had been added to the
family. and the baby county alone had
225.O00 irrigated acres. In 1900 this
land was offered by the government Ill
value was around 800 an acre. When
body of land comprising a quarter
million acres increases in value ten
thousand per cent, more or less. in a
decade. somebody is bound TO prof,
thereby. In Imperial county poor men.
many of them desperately poor, were
the winners. They made their stake
out of faith-and works. Only a few
of the early arrivals brought little
Imperial Valley press., 1912-05-04

capital They say that w. f. Holt
OF Arizona and Missouri had S2O,0G0
He turned that money over and over
With such rapidity that it became an
ever growing blur. A couple of years
AGO Manager Paris of the Holt enter
prises in the valley-they include Il
railroad. dozen gas, ice and power
plants. town sites, farm lands. brick
blocks. hotels and other good things
buil- a spur track on the Holton Inter-
Urban to accommodate Holt's private
car Interest on 100000 is Just abor,
sufficient TO pay for the OH and ice
used on that car
In 1906 even the meadow larks sanc
in hushed. awed notes in the Imperial
valley. Blue and mauve were the
fashionable colors that year and mems
countenances seemed to presage an
impending run on the bank. for the
Imperial Valley press., 1912-05-04

tine ,ta.e of California. The two con
dilirus which contribute largely to the
success Of The industry are. first, an
'itHdanCe oL good feed: second easy
access 20 market.
The most extensively grown food
.cr ock in the county is alfalfa The
1arM climate. deep. fine grained soil
nd excellent irrigation facilities con-
IEue 10 make an almOs, ideal condition
fer the growth OF this plant. which is
~ excellent food for all classes OF live
stock. Most OF the improved land Ill
all parts cf the county is devoted to
large alfalfa fields upon which scat
erred herds Of cattle, sheep or hogs
craze. Barley, Indian corn, Kaffir corn
and Milo maize are also grown as ami
nal feeds
Imperial county is the most impor-
tant hog growing section in Califor-
MIA"
Al Imperial the population still
points with pride" to two sections of
Imperial Valley press., 1912-05-04

made part of his cotton area yield al
most two bales and half TO the acre
thus demonstrating the possibilities
of the soil under intensive cultiNation
Long staple cotton, twice as Naiuabl"
as the variety produced by the South,
will, however, ultimately replace the
short staple crop in the Imperial val
ley, after the problems OF pure accli-
mated seed and of proper handling
have been solved. Long staple cotton
at 20 or % cents a pound, grown on
rdmerOus we'll titled tracts OF ten or
fifteen acres, will pay large returns.
short staple cotton will gradually dis
appear as the rising land values max"
its cultivation less profitable
Ship us a carload of phonOeraph, :,
few bolts of silk and a company of
play-actors. and so far as eXiStenc"
is concerned. you may leave us then
with our half million settlers, cut off
your railroad communication, tear
down the telegraph wires and Whirl
on your way"
Thus in his Story of the First
Decade" eXuberantly eXclanS Edgar
f. Howe, pioneer publisher and editor
of Imperial county, after an enthusi-
dS'iC tdlaloSue ol lne valley pIou-
ucts. But why import "a few bolts
of silk" Surely the mulberry 'reos
and the worm that feeds thereon viii
thrive where the date palm and the
fecund hog dwell in amity, in the va
ley that lifted itself out of the dos
ert by its bootstraps'
This article appeared in Sunset, tn"
Pacific Monthly, to whom We are in
debted for the privilege of reproduc-
ing the same.
Photographs by Turrill a Miller ANA
II C. TibbitS
Imperial Valley press., 1912-05-04

rather than the far Vests breezy taste
Among those partaklng of the gayly
decorated lamb chops We're a score of
college men, journalists of wide repu-
tation, the author of four or five best
sellers, bankers, Bostonans, cotton
buyers and college bred pig producers.
Most of these men were footloose; ;
tlty did not have to live in the I'M
nerIai valley unless hey liked it. They
were there; they intended to stay
there. They We're land owners AMI
home builders, thus giving the lie to
the early caumnies about the valley
climate
+. +. Boyd adopted HOltville. Boyd
was liberal with his town property.
He gave it away with an open hand.
Whenever he sold ranch, the pur-
chaser received deed to a town lot
in addition. At weddings and christen-
ings Bovd was there with a lot, all