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The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-05-03
Going Into Hotel Business

b +. Miller, at II time engaged in
the stage business bel Q Eureka and
several of the Southern mining camps.
is building an IS room hotel at Nixon.
formerly Oreana. the 5. p. supply point
for the mining camp of Rochester.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-05-03
Palisade's Hotel Accommodation

Elko Independent: The Independent
man was at Palisade Monday. and in Jon
nection wishes to say that the hotel at
that place under the management of Will
liam Eberts is second to none. The
dining room is as good as the best cafe
to be found in the State. It is model OF
perfection and Palisade is to be on
graduated on having such an mp to the
minute hotel.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-05-03
The new TAX Law
and PROPERTY OWNERS

The new Nevada tax law brings up many
new conditions which the property owner
must face. Every owner must make out 9
sworn statement of the property he possesses,
giving the description in detail. If he re
fuses to swear to the statement he may be fined
from $50 to $500, and II he swears falsely, hs
is guilty Of perjury. SO there he is. Because
Of the strictness of the new law, by which tn,
Legislature proposes to raise more money fol
the State, we publish the Act in full. The
law, taken from the advance copy of the 191:
statutes, follows:
Smyrna times., 1913-02-05
DEMAND BETTER WEATHER.
Government Bureau Is Flooded With
Letters of Protest.


Washington. - Unseasonably warm
and wet weather in all parts of the
country has caused a food of CORE
spOndence to pour in on Professor Will.
lis l. Moore. chief Of the weather hr-
reau.
A young woman in a small town in
Virginia wrote to inquire what the
weather would be on two certain days
in April, expressing the hope that both
would be bright and cheerful. She
naively closed her letter with the state
ment that she was to be married on
the second day.
A youth in New York city wrote for
special forecast as to when there
would be ice in the vicinity Of his city.
He said he had received a new pair of
skates as a Christmas present and
wanted to try them.
Boys with Christmas sleds still un-
tried, impoverished coal dealers, plumb
ers idle through the lack Of burst pipes
and nervous ice dealers who foresee a
famine next summer, all are impor
tuning the head of the weather bureau
Professor Moore has his own troubles.
however, for he pointed out that in
auguration day is coming
Smyrna times., 1913-02-05
KAISER'S MUSTACHE
TO POINT EARTHWARD
Army Aroused at Report That
Ends viii Come Down.

Berlin.-There is great uneasiness in
army circles over the kaiser-or, to be
exact, over the kaiser's mustache.
The heaven kissing ends Of the war
lords moustache have been a fetch to
his fighting men, and the happiness Of
the officers. especially the young Off.
GERS. has been in direct proportion to
his success in duplicating the kaisers
tilt Now comes the disquieting re-
port that the emperor is contemplating
a change in the style Of his hirsute
adornment
The kaiser has consented to have a
new likeness of himself made for the
Prussian silver coinage. Ever since he
mounted the throne, twenty-five years
ago, he has been represented with the
familiar sharply upturned mustache
The new design will be kept a secret
until the appearance Of the coin on the
occasion Of his majesty's silver jubilee
next June
The kaiser's youngest son. Prince
Joachim. who is a student at Heidel
berg university. where his professors
have been unable to report favorably
upon his progress. received a chasten-
ing telegram from his father and was
forbidden to join in his majesty's birth
day celebration
Smyrna times., 1913-02-05
SPIES BALK THE UNITED
STATES CONSUL IN PERU
WAS SENT TO INVESTIGATE THE
RUBBER DISTRICT ATROCITIES

Practical Slavery Exists, According to
Stuart J. Fuller, Acting For Govern
nent In Isolated Resion-No Organ
lied III Treatment, but Agents Are
Worst Type of Adventures.
Washington.-That a system of es
pionage upon the part of agents of the
Peruvian rubber companies rendered
practically futile the Investigations
made by Stuart ]. Fuller, United
States consul, in the Putumayo rubber
districts of Peru last summer will be
disclosed when his report to the state
department is transmitted to congress.
Before he even entered the Putu.
mayo region Mr.. Fuller found himself
burdened with the company Of repre-
sentatives of the rubber companies
which hold the concessions for gath.
ering the rubber of that region, but as
he was travelling on one Of the com
pany's steamships he could make no
objections to their presence.
Moreover, when the rubber fields
were reached Mr.. Fuller discovered
that every conversation he attempted
Smyrna times., 1913-02-05
Rapidly Aged.

Client ito matrimonial agent)-You
showed me this iady's photo last year
and told me she was twenty-five, but
after making inquiries find she is
over thirty. Matrimonial Agent-Well,
you see. her father died lately and that
aged her very much.
Smyrna times., 1913-02-05
KILLS HUSBAND IN A DUEL
Moscow Couple, Both Fencing Pro
fessors, Fight With Rapiers.

MoscOw.-Mme. Nadia PutOkin killed
her husband in a rapier duel, to which
she had formally challenged him.
The PutOkins were both professors Of
fencing, and their rooms were crowded
every day with fashionable people
One of these was an army officer, who
aroused the jealousy of NJ. Putokin
This led the officer to issue q challenge
but Nine. Putokin, declaring that her
honor had been insulted, sent seconds
to her husband and insisted that he
should fight her first.
In the actual duel Nadia made Wig
Orous attack. The husband contented
himself with parrying her thrusts. bat
in the third bout his wife's rapier
pierced his heart and killed him in
stantly.
Smyrna times., 1913-02-05
SHE SLEEPS in A COFFIN.
Philadelphia Woman Finds Her New
Bed Very Restful.

Philadelphia. - Can't you sleep at
night? Are you troubled with insom-f
MIA? Then take a tip from Mrs. VIII
lard Parker Of 317 South Twelfth street
and sleep in a coffin
q invented t.a coffin idea myself"
declared , Parker. For years
had been troubled with insomnia.
What could be nearer to perfect sleep
than reposing in a coffin? l argued.
/ had always been taught that death
is merely a lasting sleep. So | bought
the coffin"
Does it workT" Mrs. Parker was
asked.
Perfectly" she assured. with a
smile
Mrs. Parker keeps the coffin in the
yard back Of her holne. A rough box
goes with the grewsome bed, and an
observer might think that burial was
contemplated to look at the big box.
II find sleeping out Of doors is very
beneficial" explained Mrs Parker, $50
had the coffin carried out into the
yard often sleep for an hour or two
In the daytime when l feel weary"
Smyrna times., 1913-02-05
piaaer unearths ssz. 500.

Nowata, Okla.-George Hardsook, a.
iaborer, unearthed $37. 800 In gold while
digging a trench near the village of
Oglesby. Hardsook's possession Of the
wealth, however, will probably be Of
short duration. state law requiring
that such finds be surrendered to the
owner Of the land
Smyrna times., 1913-02-05
PENSIONS TO POOR MOTHERS.
Washington to Pay SIS a Month For
First Child and S. Each For Others.

First Child and S. Each For Others.
Tacoma. - Washington will be the
first state to pay pensions to mothers
The judiciary committee Of the lower
house has acted favorably on the bill
and a majority of house and senate
favOrs its adoption.
The bill provides payment of $15 a
month for the support of the first child
and So monthly for each additional
child of destitute mothers.
The house judiciary committee has
reported favOrably bill providing for
the payment by the state or county Of
S150 day for destitute wives of in
mates of penal institutions for the
work Of prisoners in prison or in road
gangs. This law will cause a larger
use of prisoners on state road work.
Smyrna times., 1913-02-05
SHE lO5. He 80; WILL WED.
Bridegroom to Be Wants Her Guardian
Removed First.

Los Angeles. Cal-Mrs. Marcelina
Elisalda, l05 years old and said to be
wealthy. concurred In an application
for a marriage license for herself and
Pleasantino Leon. aged eighty. The
license was issued.
Leon said he would attempt to have
a recent court order appointing Mrs
Caldula Lugo. a granddaughter, the
aged woman's legal guardian, set aside
Mrs. Lugo will contest the action.
Smyrna times., 1913-02-05

PERUVIAN NATIVE MAKING RUBBER IBIS.
CUTS"
to hold with the Indians was listened
to by men in the pay of the rubber
companies Seeing the company men
present, the Indians refused to talk
Consequently Mr.. Fuller was unable
to obtain the evidence he sought.
Furthermore; not only Mr. Fullers
report but also other documents being
held at the state department for trans
mission to congress, will show that the
Indians, regardless Of any atrocities.
are being worked by the agents under
a system differing very little from
slavery. Mr.. Fuller's report will show
that the rubber of the Putumayo is be-
ing gathered in regions where few
white men can survive and where
none but Indians can successfully gath
er the rubber; that the risks to life in
the jungle are so great that the worst
kind Of Adventures have become prac
tically the only kind of men the com
panies can get to act as supervisors:
that impelled by the great risks they
ness from the restraining influences OF
civilization. these agents have been
accustomed to go to almost any lengths
to gain greater sums in commissions
on the value of the rubber gathered.
Mr. Fuller was last year appointed
consul at Iquitos, Peru, for the special
purpose of investigating the conditions
in the Putumayo. Iquitos is the great
inland port of Peru, 2,7OO miles up the
Amazon river, and it is one Of the chief
outlets for rubber from the upper
Amazon. Though only few hundred
miles from Lima, the capital of Peru.
it is in effect, by virtue Of the Andes
ranges, thousands of miles from the
seat of the Peruvian government.
On Aug. 6 Consul Fuller left Iquitos
for the PutumayO, accompanied by G
B. Mitchell. British consul at Iquitos
The investigators got practically no
information. as company men followed
them throughout their entire Journey
They found only two Barbadian ne
groes left in the Putumayo and were
consequently Obliged to depend on the
natives for information This course
Of information was effectually shut of
by the espionage maintained by the
men. Whenever the consuls spoke to
the Indians through an interpreter. of
course. they found that company
man was always at their elbow to
listen. The men were all we'll known
to the Indians. who. overawed by their
taskmasters. were afraid to speak
frankly to the consuls.
The conclusion was reached that.
while there very probably was not at
the moment any serious organized III
treatment of the Indians, the compa-
MES had made it impossible for inves.
tigators to learn whether atrocities
were being practiced or not Upon
their return to Iquitos both men drew
up and signed joint statement set.
ting forth how the companys agents
had made practically fruitless their In
vestigations.
Smyrna times., 1913-02-05
No Self Seeker.

Indulgent Uncle-The trouble with
you, Horace, is that you have not
struck your proper vocation. You
haven't found yourself yet. Scape-
grace Nephew-Huhl You want me
TO be a self seeker. do you. uncle7-
Chicago Tribune.
Smyrna times., 1913-02-05

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Gilpin observer., 1913-05-29
WASHINGTON.

Members OF the Madero family and
erce in Washington to plan an upris-
ing in Mexico against the present rul-
cr. General Huerta.
The so-called patent monopoly"
which threatened to prevent cut rates
by retailers on all patented articles on
the market was destroyed by decision
of the Supreme Court of the United
States.
President Wilson sent to the Senate
the following nominations: Appraiser
OF merchandise in the district of Port
land, Ore, George e. Welter. Collect
or of internal revenue for the district
of Montana, William c. Whaley.
President Wilson stirred congress
sicnal circles with an emphatic state
nent denouncing the industrious"
and 'insiJious" lobby in Washington,
attempting to create public sentiment
against certain features of the. Under
wood tariff bill.
Denver Is compelled neither to pur-
chase the plant of the Denver Union
Water Company nor to renew the fran
chise issued to that company in 1890
Tor a term OF twenty years. under a
decision handed down by the United
States Supreme Court
More than 10000 farmers on reclaim
alton projects of the West will be af-
fected by the Supreme Courts decis-
ion that they must pay to the govern
ment the cost of maintaining and OPP
Grating the various reclamation pro-
iects pending their completion.
Gilpin observer., 1913-05-29
CONGRESSIONAL.

Passed Works bill granting an addi-
tional judge in southern California
district.
Passed resolution giving naval COM
mittee power to investigate armor
plate contracts.
Senator Nelson introduced bill pro-
posing a system of asset-secured cur
rency for national banks
Senator Overman introduced a reso
luton to abrogate former President
Taft's order putting fourth-class post
masters under civil service.
Senator Smith, South Carolina. de-
manded an investigation and action
against persons who sold cotton to
cotton pool members who were indict,
ed in 1909.
ANY girl can marry any man If she
holds his image IN her mind" declared
Miss Julia X Sommer. lecturer in sci
cntific theosophy, to class of women
at Chicago.
The Senate banking and currency
committee began its investigation or
what is the matter with the nation S
currency system and how its defects
should be remedied, when list OF
questions to be sent to bankers and H.
nancial experts was approved and pre-
pared for immediate distribution.
Gilpin observer., 1913-05-29
SPORT.
STANDING OF WESTERN LEAGUE.

Patsy Brannigan of Pittsburg had
shade the better of Matty McCue of
Racine in fast ten-round bout at Mil
waukee.
The members of the English polo
team have made a favorable impress
Sion on the experts who have wit
ressed the practice games on the Pip
ing Rock Club grounds at New York.
Rudolfo, four-year-old colt, we'll
ridden by Jockey Lotus, win the
Kentucky handicap, the richest Ameri-
can turf event, at Douglas park at
Louisville and set new track reed
of 2:05 As for the mile and a quarter.
One worlds collegiate record, was
| tied, six conference records were
broken and three conference records
were tied at Boulder, Colo, in the
Rocky Mountain faculty conference
track and field meet.
Miss Mary F. Glass of Vincennes,
Ind. broke the worlds record in the
rroad jump at the annual field day
e, ents of the National Park seminary
at Washington, making 81 feet t0a
inches, and beating the previous rec
ord held by Bryn Mawr College girl
b. IL inches.
Miss Mary Frances Glass, a student
at National Park Seminary at Forest
Glen, Md, just outside the District of
Columbia, established worlds rec
ord when, during the seminary field
meet, she won three firsts aud one
second in. the events in which she en-
tered. A local record was made when
Miss Leila Budd threw baseball LAG
ieet. 6 inches.
Gilpin observer., 1913-05-29
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
w WESTERN.

With 200 delegates in attendance,
The Independent Order of B'nai b rith
opened it's sixty-first annual conven-
ton at Kansas City.
Dayton, O., has set new pace in
civic achievement by raising $4,000
300 in three days for the purpose of
making the city safe from future
floods.
Miss September Morn" has met her
Waterloo. Art dealers all over Chi
cago removed her likeness from store
windows and with her went all her
sc antily-draped sisters.
Relief measures and preparations
for investigating and placing the
blame for the Long Beach pier disas
ter in which thirty-seven lives were
lost and about 200 persons were in
jured, occupied the time of city Off
cials of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
The ashes of the late Joaquin Mil
Ter, Poet of the Sierras,' were scat
cred among the flames of a funeral
pyre that had been built by the poets
own hands. The ceremony was held
al the Miller home, The Heights, stu
ated in the picturesque hills near Oak
lard, Calf.
The suit of Mrs. Ellen Dalton Plum,
mer to recover title to property at
Arcadia valued at $2,6O0,OOO part of
the estate of the late E. ]. c'Lucky')
Baldwin, was decided in favor of the
famous turfmans heirs by Judge
Charles Wellbcrn of the Superior
Court at Los Angeles.
Thirty-siX persons were killed and
200 injured. some of them seriously,
when the Long Beach auditorium col
lapsed, carrying the crowd that was
waiting for the doors to open for the
Empire Day" celebration down to
death and disaster. Fully 800 persons
went down in the crash and fell forty
feet to the sand. Most of the dead
and injured were women.
Gilpin observer., 1913-05-29
GEN ERAL.

At the age of 106, Mrs. Ann Ponder
Of Baltimore said she was tired of life
and hoped death would come before
her next birthday.
brother with her to the grave, Mrs.
Jane Fortesque, known as the wealth.
est woman in southern New Jersey,
has left the bulk of her estate of ST..
Cl0,0O0 to her secretary, Almond T.
Nichols.
For what is supposed to be the first
time in, the history of the Supreme
Court in New. York state, woman
opened court at Watertown. Miss
Bertha Mcdonnell, deputy county
clerk of Jefferson county, had the
nonor.
Mary Perry, forty seven years old,
IA OCCASIONAL fiat woman exhibiting
al a Chicago amusement park, sud.
denly became i'll from blood roisonin :
cnd was taken to the county hospital
after a series of obstacles had been
ONtItoHit. tDht NNibhNh wv
Former President William H. Taft,
in his concluding lecture at Yale, on
Some Questions of Modern Govern.
ment," declared the United States was
"ludicrously unprepared for war and
criticized Congress for failure to pro
vide for an adequate army and navy.
Jacob Dunn and Seeley Davenport,
the Wharton, N. j., woodchoppers.
who sent threatening letters to Presi.
dent Wilson before he assumed Of
iice, were sentenced to Trenton state
prison; Dunn for five years and Dav.
export for two.
War is on between Albert L. Din.
zee, a well-to-do farmer, of Lloyd, VI.
ster county N. Y, and band OF
''white-caps" who have threatened
him with various forms of punish.
ment because he has seen fit to call
at the home Of Poughkeepsie
] widow.
Gilpin observer., 1913-05-29
FOREIGN.

The Pope received in audience 800
Americans. The pontiff appeared IN
excellent health.
Emperor Yoshihito is better, but the
Empress Sadako has fallen Ill from a
cold contracted during her long vigil
at her husbands bedside.
Princess Victoria Luise of Prussia,
only daughter of the German Emperor,
was married to Prince Ernest August
c, Cumberland with the rites of the
Lutheran chcurch at Berlin.
A storm of indignation is sweeping
over Italy over Turkish violations ~
the treaty of Laus Anne. Confirma-
tion has been officially received of the
earlier report that the Turks took part
with the Arabs in the battle OF Sidi-
Garba.
Losing their foot-hold on the precip,
itous side of the Gran Gambin in the
Italian Alps, the intrepid German
mountain climbers, Setz and Salem,
were hurled 1000 feet below and ter
ribly mutilated. scarcely a bone be-
ing unfractured when their dead
bodies were recovered
Prominent Japanese at dinner at
Toxic urged calm and patient efforts
for friendly solution of the difficulty
between Japan and the United States.
especially suppressing inflammatory
and misleading utterances. 1t was ad-
mitted that the United States was con-
fronted with difficult problem.
That Mexican rebels have made
great gains in the last few weeks ad-
mits of no doubt, and both Zapata
and Carranza have declared their in
tention of taking the capital at the
opportune moment. Zapata has placed
an army of possibly 5000 well armed
men at the gates Of Cuernavaca.
Gilpin observer., 1913-05-29
SIGN PEACE PACT AT ONCE.
Attitude of Greece and Servia Arouses
Ire of Sir Edward Grey.

London.-The growing displeasure
In diplomatic circles of the great pow
ers at the attitude of Greece and
Servia found expression in what prac-
tically amounts to an ultimatum,
which Sir Edward Grey, the British
secretary for foreign affairs, deliv-
erd to the delegates of belligerents.
The communication, which was
couched in strong phrases. made 1t
clear that enough time had been spent
In futile discussions of the peace set
tement and that the moment had ar
rived for signing the draft treaty.
Despite assertions to the contrary,
the ambassadors from the first We're
averse to any modification of the
draft, not because of the character of
the proposed changes so much as be-
cause of the delay.
Gilpin observer., 1913-05-29
The GERMAN TURNFEST
PROGRAM FOR HISTORICAL PA.
RADE AT DENVER, JUNE 26.
The Pa ade WIN Depict Many of tho
Most Interesting Epochs In History
of Teutonic People.
Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Denver.-The program for the prin-
cipal feature of the German Turnfest,
the mammoth historical parade, has
been made public by the entertain
ment committee of the local Turnve-
reins. This parade will taks place
Thusrday, June &c, and will occupy
virtually the entire day. F. w. Rett,
the Colorado sculptor, is in charge of
the affair.
The parade will depict many of the
most interesting epochs in the history
of the Teutonic people. Thousands OF
costumed actors will participate. The
features will begin with the primitive
Teutons at the time of the Roman in
vasion. The costumes, which are be-
Ing imported from Germany, will re-
semble the skins worn by the early
lnha bitants of the fatherland. Then
will come floats depicting the struggle
of the Teutons with the Roman war
riors. Step by step the history Of the
race will be shown, many elaborate
and beautiful floats alternating with
troops Of picturesquely attired march.
ers.
Finally will come floats showing the
coming of the Germans to America.
The Teutonic soldiers who took part
in the war of the American revolution
will be personated by hundreds OF
men marching in Colonial costumes
Gradually the parade will change to
show the Teutons coming West among
the pioneers This will be one of the
most interesting sections of the pa
geant.
A herd of buffalo, it is said, will BIS
driven through the streets, followed
by number of Indians, with all their
camp trappings. Then will come the
pioneers, and finally the cowboys
Other floats will represent the part
that Germans have played in the de
velopment of the West, and particn
larly of Colorado. At the finish, there
will be several floats commemoratine
the great work accomplished by Faith
er jain, the organizer of the German
Turner socities throughout the World.
There will be many bands Of music.
Gilpin observer., 1913-05-29
Chicago Grain and Provision Priee.

Chicago.-Wheat-C No. Q red,
$1.07H @1.0S1a; No. 3 red, 96c@$1.02;
No. hard, 93A @95c; No. hard, 81
@93hc; No. Northern, 93095c: No.
2 Northern, 92093c; No. Northern,
9OG92c; No. 2 spring. 91@92c; No. 8
spring. SSh @91c: No. spring, 500
sSc; velvet chaff. 90@95c; durum, 80
@96c.
Corn-No. 2 white. 61@61hc; No. 2
yellow, 5SA @60c; No. 3, 59@59Nc;
No. white. COZ @60Ac; No. 8 yellow,
5S% @59%c; No. 4, 5S1a @59c; No. 4
white, 59A@60c; No. yellow. 5sN0
59c.
Oats-No. 2 white, 41Nc; No. 3
white, 39@40c; No. 4 white, 371a0
39c; standard, AN @41%c.
Rye-No. 2. 63@63kc.
Barley-50m6Sc.
Timothy-$2.s503.66.
Pork-$2O.15.
Lard-31l.17h011.20.
Ribs-$11.75@12.37h.
Gilpin observer., 1913-05-29
Saves Her Father from Angry Bull.

Boulder.-With only an irrigating
shovel as a weapon, Doris, fourteen
year-old daughter of Henry Behrman.
saved her fathers life when he had
ben knocked down and was being
gored by an angry bull in the corral
city. The girl pounded the infnriated
animal over the head and resisted it's
charges until her father was able to
crawl from the inclosure, then she
made her own escape and carried her
injured parent to the house, where he
will be confined to his bed for several
weeks.