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White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-16
STOCK EXCHANGE REFORM.

1t is unfortunate that so many
have come to look upon Wall street
and State street as merely eenters
where men and women gamble in
stocks, says the Boston Financial
News. This narrow and entirely
idea of our financial
eenters has grown up through years
of abuse of the real character of
stock exchange dealings and the
business that resolves itself around
them. The real Wall street and
the real State street are places
where financial interests are group
ed together and where enterprises
large and small are financed. II
is obvious that without a ready
market for securities it would have
been practically impossible to have
built our vast railway and industrial
plants in so short a space of time.
Securities are purchased very largely
because of ability to dispose of
them when necessary. and without
stock exchanges the market for
them would be extremely limited
and sellers exposed 10 danger OF
inability to sell, while the value OF
securities as bank collateral would
be seriously impaired.
That the stock exchanges of the
country perform a useful and neces-
sary function will be admitted by
every fair-minded student of the
question. and il is a source for re-
greet that newspapers and magazines
have helped so much in misrep-
resenting their real functions, as
well as the character of a larger
part, by far, of the dealings car
ried on within their walls. II can
be taken for granted. however. that
Wall street and State street are not
gambling bells and that the stock
exchanges are necessary and useful,
without attempting to claim that the
boards of governors of our ex-
changes have done all that could
have been done for the protection of
the public.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-16

nearly resembles in severity the op-
Grafton used in India 10 ward off the
bubonic plague.
The navy's record, fine as it IS
in this respect, is fairly matched by
that of the regular army during its
recent mobilization on the Mexican
border, says the New York Ameri-
can. Always in former years typhoid
was the great foe of every army
encampment. Who does not recall
the hundreds of cases in single
regiments of volunteers during the
mobilization of troops at the time
of the Spanish war? But there was
scarcely a ease of typhoid in all the
big army which was SEN to Texas by
President Taft.
American doctors have put the
mosquitoes deadly partner, yellow
fever, completely out of business.
The Panama Canal zone is now al
most as free of thi splague as San
Francisco itself. But if the army
and navy of Uncle Sam have be-
come immune from typhoid as a re-
suit of vaccination, are they not an
object lesson for the rest of man
kind? This disease is responsible
every year for thousands of deaths
in the United States and a vast
amount of suffering besides, while
the financial loss reaches many
millions.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-16
CORNERS AND SPECULATION.

The ultimate effect of the decision
of the United States supreme court
that II is Illegal to operate a eorhei
in any article of interstate commerce
is hound to be an increased pupilc
sentiment against all forms OF speeu-
lative trading carried to its loSleai
conclusion. They are based entirely
nnon margin operations. They have
no other foundation than the deallhs
in CONSERVATIVES of material things
/ without there being necessarily any
thing material to represent, as IS
shown when more wheat or cotton
is bought or sold than the visible
sunnlv. The man who sells has none
70 sell and the man who buys wants
none. All that either is DESTROYS oil
doing is 10 raise or lower the price.
Every speculative transaction on a
stock exchange or in a wheat PIT mas
in it the germ of the corner. Enough
of them put together make the cor
ner. A corner is just as bad when
engineered by one man-an Armour
say-as when manipulated by a mum
har of men In a so-called "conspir-
aey." Every man or company when
buys on margin to support the
get and every one selling TO bear
1t is performing all the essential acts
of a corner, and in a greater or less
degree producing its evils. 1t Is go
ing to be a difficult thing for the
courts to draw a line between the IL
legal corner and legitimate trading
by speculative plungers in wheat. cot
ton and stocks.
Ultimately this difficulty is bound
10 increase general hostility 10 all
speculative trading and ali manipn-
lation of prices by exchange opera
tions. How far it will be constitu-
tional or desirable TO so in the mat
ter of limiting and regulating ex-
change dealings of a speculative ma
ture is one of the problems to be
threshed out in the future. This
court decision against the legality OF
corners will tend to hasten the time
when discussion of the matter will be
come acute.-st. Louis Globe-Demo-
erat.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-16
WHAT NOW IN THE BALKANS?

Characteristic Turkish diplomacy
is now so plainly visible that the
most blind can see it. 1t consists
of insincerity, inyeracity and inter-
minable delays, the last being pro-
duced by the first two, with the
hope that something may or
may be stirred up in the meantime
to make conditions better. Even
now, with the Balkan commissioners
gone from the scene in complete
disgust and indignation at the con-
slant delay and %insincerity of the
Turkish commissioners, the latter
remain on the ground and protest
that the breaking off of the negotia-
tons is moi their fault. and that
they want to end the war on hui
manitarian grounds and in defence
to the wishes of the powers.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-16

The news from Mexico is of a
d%isquieting nature and unless the
revolution is checked it begins to
look as if Uncle Sam would have to
step in and give somebody a spank
ing. The conditions are becoming
unbearable and American citizens
and American interests will have TO
be protected if the hostilities be-
tween President Madero and Felix
Diaz continue much longer. The
City of Mexleo is the present seat of
hostilities where warfare of a most
violent type prevails that is turning
the beautiful old town into a ruin
and where the passions of the OPP
posing forces are getting entirely be-
yond control.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-16
DIR. FRIEDNANN'S
QUESTION OF ETHICS

1t is reported that DR.. Fried
mann, the celebrated German ply
%sician, who has invented a new
treatment for tuberculosis, demands
million dollars for the right to use
his method in this country.
This report may or may not
describe the real state of DR..
Friedmann's mind on the subject.
But there is an interesting news
item in the fact that most people
are shocked by it.. 1t is generally
thought to be soandalous that
a great physician should stand
bargaining with his hand out
stretched for pay, whilst he holds
behind his back a secret that may
free mankind from the awful blight
of the white plague.
This feeling is based upon deep
instinct of humanity. 1t is also
sanctioned by the settled tradition
of the medical profession. Yet
there is nothing more remarkable in
our contemporary social life than
the persistence of the feeling that
physicians and men of science
ought to give their discoveries TO
the world gratis, while everybody
else is free to get as much money
as he can out of every contribu-
ton he may make TO human well
fare.
Why should a man of science
any more than a man of business
care to tighten the burdens of life
for his fellow man?
The truth seems to be that the
two contradictory standards of ethics
cannot continue much longer to
exist side by side. The time is at
hand when the high professional
standard must be adopted by first
rate business men, or else the lone
money making standard will be ad-
opted by first-rate professional men.
New York American.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-16
DEFEAT TYPHOID.

A naval officer in an interview
in the East the other day stated that
since compulsory vaccination was
started in the nevy not a mar had
died of typhoid fever. Every Of
fieer and enlisted sailor who had
not had a sever ease of typhoid was
forced to undergo the vaccination.
which was not a pleasant process.
1t is far more severe than the vacci-
nation to prevent smallpox and more
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-16

Army women, by which term is
meant the wives, daughters and Sis
tiers of army officers, favor restora-
ton of the canteen. They are just
as good women as those not connect
ed with the army and know a great
deal more about the canteen ques-
ton. They may be acquitted in ad-
vance of any desire to increase
drunkenness and immortality among
the soldiers in the midst of whom
they must live, but should be credit
ed with the natural instinct of self
protection to reduce it,.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-16
MAKING WASTE PLACES FERTILE

A visitor familiar with the desert
regions of Egypt and Arabia, and
what has been done to redeem them,
has been visiting the arid districts of
southern California, Nevada, Arizona
and New Mexico, and has no doubt
that they will become highly product
i've If the right policy is adopted, says
the st. Louis Globe-Democrat. The
progress of irrigation projects, public
and private, is in itself an object les
son, though the results as yet are
but in the opening stages. There are
no desert places in this country ex-
eept where land has been exhaust
ed by bad cultivation, and the worn
management. Means to increase pro-
duction are a subject on which all
sensible parties can agree. To this
end the congresses of the last sixteen
years have contributed much, and the
labors of the agricultural department
during the same time have never been
surpassed in any government. Seere-
tary Wilson, soon to retire. should
write a history of this remarkable
era of agricultural development. He
knows more than any other man OF
how it was brought about. what has
been done, and what is most needed
now.
But il is not necessary TO deal with
this subject from the standpoint
alone of deserts to be watered and
everglades to be drained. Every one
of the forty-eight states should look
to the redemption of its waste places
and the strengthening of intensive
methods of farming.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-16
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH
MAKE BIENNIAL REPORT

The report of the Nevada state
board of health is in circulation, II
contains some interesting statistics
concerning the work of this lmpor-
tant state department. During the
past year the births have exceeded
the deaths by large figures and there
* no evidence of race suicide. From
January l. to December 81, 1912, the
total marriages reported were SAY;
total births exclusive of still births
1.2O3; total deaths exclusive OF still
births. 976; estimated, population
S1.s75. In the review of some OF
the contagious and communicable
diseases, pneumonia harvested the
greatest death rate. For the year
ending December 81. 1912. $50 cases
of this dread disease were reported
of which 102 were fatal. Concern
ing tuberculosis the report says;
pulmonary tuberculosis is in
~creasing in our mountain state,
claiming its victims by scores; %
deaths from its rayages out of 100
cases reported" OF Rocky Mountain
spotted fever there have been II
cases but no deaths. Small pox has
prevailed sporadically in almost
every county in the state. 1t has
been of mild type and out OF 20
cases reported but three resulted
fatally. Typhoid fever has been con
siderably in evidence. with 22S re-
ported cases, and "a deaths. The
public will be glad to learn that OF
acute anterior p~oliomyelites there
were but six cases and no deaths,
and only two cases of sporatriehosis.
Story county has the proud distine-
ton of reporting one case of hook
worm which was successfully com
batted by medical science. Read
ers should not confound hook worm
with the tape worm. The latter is
recognized by the doctors, but has
not yet aroused the generous i'm
pulses of the Roekefellers, as has
the hook worm. A man afflicted
with both a hook worm and a tape
worm would be sorely afflicted, as
he would be tormented with an ap-
petite he could not appease, and at
the same time be unable TO arouse
in himself enough ambition to get
out and hustle and earn money to
sustain himself and the hungry par
asite he was carrying around.
The report makes several recon-
mendations after a year and a half
of close ~oberyation." to remedy "a
number of weak spots in the law"
Among these is the extention OF the
time for which local registrars are
appointed and that registrars and
his deputies should be compensated
by fixed salaries. II is also recon-
mended that the law should be so
amended as to compel physicians.
under penalty, to report to the local
health officer. all cases of contagi-
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-16

ous. infections or communicative uls-
oosos within twelve hours after max
ing such diagnosis. LASTLY county
clerks should be required 10 sun
n,,t 10 the secretary of the state
hoard. ON or before the 10th day OF
each month, a list of marriage II
oonsos issued from their Offices dur
ing the preceding month
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-16

King Menelik of Abyssinia is
dead, according to a dispatch. His
successor, Prince Lidj Jeassu, one of
his grandsons, entered the capital
with great pomp, ii is reported.
The ghouls and bears of Wall
street can use this with great effect
to force stocks down.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-16

Turkey is beginning to realize
that she might as well be whipped
in battle as tori to pieces by diplo-
mats.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1913-01-23
Houses Swept AWAY.

Evansville. Ind. Jan. 90. Houses
floating down the Ohio river: Enter.
prise, Ind, with a population OF 900,
abandoned. and probably swept away;
jacksonville. Webster and Tompkins,
all on the Kentucky side. abandoned
and urgent calls for relief from a
dozen n~eighboring towns. make up the
flood situation here. That the crest
was reached was indicated by the river
stage. stationary now for twenty four
hours at 46.5 feet. The danger will
not be over for several days, however,
as the effect of almost a weeks steady
rain will keep the waters high for
some time,
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1913-01-23
D. S. TO FIGHT OIL LAND TITLE
GOVERNMENT CONTENDS THAT
CLAIMS ARE ILLEGAL.
Suit Involves Millions OF Dollars and
And Many Thousands Of
Acres.

Washington, Jan. 20.-A suit which
will test the title of hundreds OF thou,
sands of acres of oil lands in the west.
with values running into the millions,
will be filed at Los Angeles, Cal. by
the federal government within a few
days.
Assistant Attorney General Knae-
bel has instructed United States At
torney Mccormick at Los Angeles to
begin proceedings against all the
claimants to 100 acres Of oil lands in
southern California, said to be worth
$4,000 an acre. Other suits will fol-
low. all of them testing the legality of
the extensive oil land withdrawal
made by President Taft Sept. 81, 1909.
When questions were raised as to
the presidents power to make the
withdrawal, congress gave him speci-
fc authority by the act of June %,
1910. and President Taft again with
drew the lands July 2. 1910. Between
the first and second Withdrawals, how.
ever. many claim were filed for the
lands under the mineral law. The
government holds that the first with
drawal, as we'll as the second. was le-
gal and that the title to these valu.
able tracts is lodged with the United
States.
Not only will the government ask
the court to declare valid it's title Ito
the land, but it also will seek recov.
cries for all the oil which is said to
have been withdrawn, the exact yuan
tity of which must be developed by
the suit.
The proceedings at Los Angeles, it
is understood, will be directed against
all those who have claimed or still
claim title to the land. those who have
purchased it.
The interior department has refused
to grant patents on any of tre lands
and there are said to he many conflict.
ing claims among the persons who
base their contentious upon placer
mining locations.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1913-01-23
POLICEMEN ROBBERS VICTIMS
CHICAGO OFFICIAL ROBBED OR
REVOLVER AND STAR.
Anther Foils Attempt of His Neighbor
To Hold Him
Up.

Chicago, Jan. 21.-Chicago police
men now are the victims of highway
men.
One bicycle policeman was robbed Of
his revolver and star, among other
things, but when Harry Fender tried to
rob Mounted Policeman Emil G. Nehls,
who vas on his way home in plain
clothes, he picked a tartar.
Fender stopped Nehl under a via
duct and thrust a revolver under his
nose.
Hold up your hands," he ordered.
Nehls, instead of obeying, caught
Tenders revolver arm in his left hand
and drew his own gun. When he
dragged Fender into the light he was
astonished to recognize the highway
man as a neighbor.
II did not know you in the dark,
Mr.. Nehls, or I would never have tried
to hold you up," pleaded Fender. IT
was only trying to get a little money
to pay my roo rent"
When Fender was taken to a police
station it was found that a bone in his
wrist had been broken by the police
mans powerful grip.
Mrs. Rebecca Raginsky, wife of a
grocer, was shot in the back and prob
ably fatally wounded while attempting
to aid her husband in a fight with rob-
bers. Two negroes entered the store
and, drawing %revolvers, ordered the
grocer to hold up his hands.
During the fight the combatants
struggled into the street, where one
of the combatants discharged his revol-
yer. The bullet struck the woman,
who was making an effort to aid her
husband, and inflicted a serious wound.
The bandits escaped, the one who fired
the shot leaving his overcoat, cap and
weapon behind.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1913-01-23
R IS v E NOTE.
Cession Of Adrianople Advised-Warn-
ing Against Resistance
Sounded


Constantinople, Jan. 2O.-A collect
i've note of the powers, delivered to
Turkey. points out that Turkey, by
resisting the advice OF the powers,
will risk finding her capital again
brought into the question and the war.
carried into her Asiatic provinces, dan.
gers from which she must not count
on the powers to preserve her.
Besides the note adds, Turkey event.
ually will require the moral and ma
terial support of the powers to repair
the damages of war and develop her
Asaitic provinces, and this support
will not be accorded unless Turkey
defers to the advice of the powers,
which was inspired by the general in.
terests of both Europe INT Turkey
herself.
Under these circumstances the note
says. the powers collectively renew
their advice to the Ottoman govern
ment to consent to the cession of
A~drianople. and to leave to the powers
the settlement. of the question of the
Aegean islands. In return for these
concessions the powers will employ
their good Offices to insure Mussel-
man interests in Adrianople and see
that the mosques and other religious
edifices are respected.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1913-01-23
INDIANS FIGHT A
4. SHER|FFS POSSE
PITCHED BATTLE is EXPECTED
BEFORE CAPTURE is
MADE.
PROTECTING TRIBEsMAN.
Big Rabbit, a Ute, Charged With
Shooting a Sheep Herder-
Redmen Strongly In
trenched.

Cortez, Col, Jan. Undetermined
not to deliver Big Rabbit, n of their
tribesmen, to the authorities to an
swer a charge of assault, the SO Ute
Indians, who are %entrenched in the
mountains IS miles from here, defied
a sherif's posse of 100 men Sunday.
To Fight Till Death.
The Indians Saturday took up their
position in the mountains after they
had left the Ute reservation in south
western Colorado and declared that
they would fight the white men to
death rather than give up Big Rab-
bit. Il.
ed to by the county authorities in the,
hope that he might be able to induce
the Indians to return to the reserva
ton and surrender Big Rabbit.
Spears advances, however. have
been rebuffed by the Indians and he.
wired the interior department at
Washington for instructions.
AS oon as the Utes learned that Big.
Rabbit was wanted by the sheriff, who
would place him under arrest to face
the charge of having shot and wounded
Joseph Vichel, a Mexican sheep herd,
er, the Indians friends departed with,
him into the mountains. All are armed
with repeating rifles and are said to be
amply supplied with ammunition.
A Clannish Feeling.
The Indians, it is said, are actuated
by a clannish feeling of resentment
against the whites because of insults.
to which they say a camp of sheep
herders subjected them.
Two weeks ago Big Rabbit and an
other Indian attempted to camp near
the spot where a group of sheep herd
ers had pitched their tents.
The sheep herders, it is said, resent:
ed the appearance of the Indians and
ordered them away. The Indians re-
taliated and a fight ensued in which
n of the Indians was killed and one
sheep herder, Joseph Vichel, was in.
jured.
Big Rabbit carried his dead comrade
back to the reservation and the killing
aroused the anger of the Utes.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1913-01-23
Five Arson SUSPECTS Held.

Chicago, Jan. 21.-Revelations made
in an all day investigation of the ar
o. trust" by states attorneys involved
at least five persons in a fire fraud
scheme which promoted several big
fires in Chicago and other cities. The
testimony of a number of witnesses
will be presented to the grand jury.
Included in the list of suspected men
is Benjamin Fink, alias Kinkelstein,
now in custody under suspicion of be-
ing n OF the leaders of a nationwide
gang of i~ncendiaries.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1913-01-23
Won't Expose Pals.

Chicago, Jan. 20.-"This life of a
hold-up man isn't what a fellow might
think it was" observed James B.
Perry. confessed leader of a gang of
automobile bandits that has been oper.
ating in Chicago for two months, after
being questioned further by Police
Captain LAWN. and the worst of it
is that we all get caught sooner or
later" Perry %stubbornly refused to
divulge the names of his companions.
declaring he was willing to hang if it
be so decreed, but that he would not
"snitch."
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1913-01-23
Must Hurry Electoral Vote.

Washington, Jan. 21.-In order to
comply with the law it will be neces-
sary for all the states to get their
electoral returns to Washington by the
beginning of next week. The require
ment is that all the returns shall be in
the hands of the president of the SEN
ate by Monday, Jan. 81 and a warn
ing was sent out from the Office of
the president of the senate that if the
reports were not received by that
date the states failing would be in
danger of losing their votes.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1913-01-23

No Change in New York Situation.
New York, Jan. 21.-There is no
change in the strike situation, either
on the part of the manufacturers or
strikers, as the fourth week of the
garment workers strike begins. The
strikers are said to be as insistent
as ever that their union shall be rec
ognized, while Eugene S. Benjamin,
president of the New York Clothing
Trades association, remains firm
against this concession. Both sides
aver they are financially strong
enough to maintain their positions for
some time.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1913-01-23
Dou Chews Up PLEDGES.

Washington. Jan. 21.-Tige, a spot
ted bull TERROR belonging to Mrs.
Payne, daughter-in-law of Representa-
tivxe Serene Payne of New York,
caused CONSERVATION at suffrage head
quarters and almost jeopardized the
plans for the suffragist pageant and
procession to be held March 3 in Penn
sylvania avenue. When a%pprehended,
Tige had chewed up many OF the
pledges to march in the parade, which
were to be sent broadcast over the
country.