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Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-10-27
TEMPERATURE REPORT

Highest temperature yesterday. 65
lowest this morning, A,
Highest Temperatures year ago
50. lowest. as
women OF the future, who should be
born to freedom-not to return te
power the party which is standing II
the way Of their freedom. Help wiz
political liberty for all American
women by voting against Mr. Wilson
and the Democratic candidates fol
congress.
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to three per cent, which would make
the deposit one of rare value. The
ledge also carries gold and silver
but the tungsten is beautiful con,
centrating ore that runs on the plates
as easily as gold. This has been
demonstrated by panning where the
values peel right of, like taking
clothes OF the bed as one locator
said.
There are several INCLINE shafts on
the group. but the main workings
have been opened up through shaft
sunk on Gun Metal claim No. on
that part of the property known as
the McKay-Ableman group. This
shaft lis down quite depth. Three
springs on the property have a
capacity sufficient to run concen-
traitor OF 100 tons capacity. Samples
taken across eight feet OF ore gave
In one instance $50 per cent OF
tungsten acid. BY those who are
competent to judge, the property Ia
said to be the biggest deposit OF
tungsten ore In the United States, II
not in the world. Actively operated
by the Atkins-Kroll company, 1t viii
make Mineral county the center Of
the tungsten business in the United
States.
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JURY TO TRY WILSON

After a new venire of jurors had
been drawn, Judge Stoddard at Reno
has succeeded in obtaining a jury
to try Fred Wilson. charged with the
murder of Japanese restaurant
keeper three years ago, and the trial
is proceeding. Previous attempts to
secure jury from the old venire
failed. the jurors being disqualified
for various reasons. Some stated
they were opposed to capital punish.
ment and others expressed prejudice
against Japanese.
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FLOOD OF GOLD FOR
THE UNITED STATES
NEARLY HALF A BILLION ia
(: TOTAL SINCE FIRST or
THE YEAR
I by A ssociated Press

Thy AsNOciated Press.)
NEW YORK, Oct. 27.-Gold amount
ing to $15,Ooo,ooo from Canada was
deposited today in the assay office Of
Morgan & Co., acting as fiscal and
commercial agents for the British
government. This makes total Of
$45O.O0O.OO0 received this year.
chiefly via Canada, practically all for
account of the British and allied
interests.
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CUTTING STATION

The West Tonopah Mining com
pany is cutting station on the bottom
level, preparatory to running a cross.
cut as soon as the new pumps are
installed.
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The foregoing article WAS shown to
local owners Of properties at Mckay
City before 1t was republshed. They
state that 1t is correct with the ex-
ception that only four. claims and q
fraction have been actually trans
ferred. There are still many claims
under consideration, not only by the
Atkins-Krol1 people, but by other
prospective purchasers.
The sun., 1916-09-12

Where some children get too little
care others may get too much. for the
domestic as well as other virtues can
be carried to excess. There Is this
fall exceptional opportunity and ex-
%ceptional incentive for persons bear
ing the responsibilities and anxieties
Of parenthood not only to learn that
there Is a happy medium but 10
achieve 1t.
Let courage and caution go hand
in hand. and the promptings Of fear
be regulated by reason Let the chill.
dren be neither exposed unnecessarily
nor deprived Of their normal health
making activities. Let JACK and his
sister JILL go early to bed and rise
with the sun, avoid crowded amusc.
ment places, eat the simplest foods
carefully prepared. with special ut
tention to the condition Of milk and
Of fruits-safe when coOked-keep of
the cars and In the open air, play
hard, sleep long and battle frequently.
They are safer In the schoolrOOm than
in the street or penned in the house.
II the defensive programme were
more difficult II might be more effec-
tually undertaken.
The sun., 1916-09-12
FORT GEORGE PEBBLES.
Perhaps the Remains OF q Formation
Otherwise Disappeared.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: For
several years l have found at the west
erly foot OF Fort George hill many
o6litic pebbles. These belong In what
biologists call the drift. Not having
been able to learn the source OF these
pebbles, I would like to learn whether
any geoloeist can tell the place Of their
origin. They. were brought from the
north by the Ice sheet that o%verspread
the Western Hemisphere and were de-
posted where l found them. They are
not of o6litic Clinton formation. SO far
as l can learn that Is the only O0litic
formation north of Manhattan that has
been discovered. 1t may be these pebbles
are all that remain OF an o8littc forma-
ton up state that has disa appeared. In
the same locality where these pebbles
occur l have found man corals, Grim
oids, tentaculites and shell fossils, Most
Of them are so small that a good mag
niier Is necessary to see them. In fact.
an ordinary hand glass fails to disclose
most OF them.
The o6litic specimens number prob
ably a hundred. and vary greatly in
size. shape and color. Their transport
tation to the region of Fort George was
doubtless contemporaneous with thai ~
the fossils mentioned. ! found several
o0litic pebbles as far south as 174th
street, near Fort Washington avenue.
EDMUND II. DODGE.
New YORK, September Q.
The sun., 1916-09-12
Incompetent Playwrights.

A most serious charge against the
American drama of to-day Is made
by WILLIAM A. BRADY. He sadly as-
serts that 1t Is suffering from infantile
paralysis. This pessimistic accusa>
ton Is the outcome of Mr.. BRADY's
professional connection with count.
less plays that are unworthy Of pro-
duction and a few that reach the
boards. They n the work. both
those which are rejected and those
which IRE played, Of young men or
women whose experience OF life Is
slender. or Of elderly writer's who
have grown up mentally.
II Mr.. BRADY's contention is we'll
founded there seems TO be n short
cut to the solution OF the difficulty.
Whenever any young person comes
under suspicion Of being engaged upon
the writing of a play let the law step
In at once. The culprit should be
held for observation, and II seriously
Afflicted with the playwriting germ
should be placed under treatment,
Compulsory attendance at a really
good school for teaching the elements
Of the dramatic art might be wise IN
certain selected cnses.
Possibly there Is nc line Of human
endeavOr that demands such thorough
acquaintance with the peculiarities Of
human nature, its heights and depths,
Its ms and outs, as the task ~essayed
by the playwright. 1t should not be
attempted by those who are unfit for
1t mentally, physically, morally ~
through lack Of experience Of life.
But infantile paralysis, Of the kind
referred to BY Mr.. BRADY, Is q diff,
The sun., 1916-09-12
A Suffrage Query.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: In
an OF the suffrage convention
at Atlantic City Mrs. Gait is reported
as saying The nine States the suf-
fragis,s have gained would be supple
mented by five others IL the returns had
not been falsely counted. The exam.
pies we nave seen OF the way election
laws are treated make us lose the las,
yestige OF respect. my sisters. for the
makers Of laws"
VIII Mrs. Gait name definitely tho
States she refers to and how she got
her Information as to fraud?
The rest of us have only the follow.
ing figures to go by as to tho mos,
recent suffrage defeats: Adverse major.
ity In South Dakota, 1874; in New
Jersey. 5l,l0s; In New York, l94,sS4
in Pennsylvania. $3.50; In Massachu.
sets. l33.Os7.
Does Mrs. Gait mean that these States
won against suffrage by fraud? II so
II Is time We all knew the details.
. c. II. r. PUTNAM.
ST. HuBERTs, September II.
The sun., 1916-09-12
Too Appalling for Belief.

The most appalling assertion that
has been made since the war began
IL the statement Of the Fund for
Starving Children that 100000 in
nocent Poles have persisted from star
walton, disease and neglect. 1t adds
that "the latest authentic reports from
Poland are that all children under
seven years Of age have ceased to
exist As an instance, 1t Is related
that in the district Of Gorlice. In Cd
licia, a million and q half Of the
civilian population starved to death
In the months when battles ragged
about them.
Desperate as Poland's plight has
been, caught between the millstones,
It seems incredible that the tragedy
can have done away with 900
persons. II that were true the leg
ends Of the days Of GENGHIs Khan
and TAMERLANE would be outdone,
with hunger and disease taking the
place Of the sword. Only the record
Of the plaques sweep through Europe
In the fourteenth century could be
cited as a larger horror.
The sun., 1916-09-12

links Is being questioned by the voters of
his town.
ITS dreadful how they poster mo as I
go up and down;
rye allus loved my neighbors In a Presi-
dental year.
But they don't seem we'll disposed to me.
They're really actin queer.
THE Lusitania's on their minds. the sus-
sex and the rest;
! can't explain these things to them though
! should try my hest:
What Woodrow done In Mexico and with
the railroad muss
10 cansin' some ! love tho best TO make
an awful fuss.
''They dare to say he plays for votes who
ever may get hit.
And what they say behind my back amt
nice a little bit:
They hold me part responsible fer every
thing he's done
In tryin' to get old villa with a small I'M
loaded gun.
"And now they say our enemies wherever
they may be.
In foreign lands Just anywhere or on the
tossin' sea.
Are plannin' to get millions when the pork
Is goin' round
I sometimes fear that Woodrow Is not allus
safe and sound"
, LORNA.
The sun., 1916-09-12
when the Children Go Back q
School.

As the paralysis plague nears the
end Of its 1915 are Of frightful-
ness and the rigors of quarantine be-
GIN to relax, with health boards re-
covering from the hysteria that has
made 30 much discomfort and con,
tributed in no small measure to the
public distress Of this memorable sea.
son, there Is need of special alertness
against the dangers of too swift re.
action on the part Of citizens who
have been panic stricken. Cooler
weather, even II 1t may not control
the mysterious cOntagion, will In
crease powers of resistance, while
with the close OF the vacation period
and the resumption of routine the
agencies Of germ dissemination are
restrained.
The school authorities are arrang.
ing for every reasonable p%recautiOn :
and parents must do their part first
by exercising Il certain courage. then
by %endeavOring to score 100 in the
home care Of their offspring. In few
even OF the best regulated families ID
even creditable approximation to per.
lection In child nurture attained: the
combination In correct proportion of
study and play. confinement and free.
dom. right feeding, regular and early
hours, cleanliness and clothing prop.
orly adapted to the infantile need.
The sun., 1916-09-12
MR.. WILSON AND THE NEW
YORK STRIKE.
The Surrender ut washington ana the
situation Here.

To THE EDITOR Of THE SuN-SI. The
most amasing thing about the situation
precipitated by Mr.. Wilson'S AFFECT sur
render to one set Of strikers, end now
forced Nbon the city Of New York by
another set. Is. II seems to me. that no
seems to know how to meet II.
Presumably tho machinery Of our gov
eminent Is sufficient to protect the pub
lie in the enjoyment Of the absolute
necessities Of life. Yet now we see the
Mayor of our city holding conferences
with the legal representatives Of the
co%nspirators who avow their purpose Of
Gripping the public service.
No n denies the right Of m man
to quit his Job II he Toes not like II.
But unless I am wofully deficient In un-
derstanding there s here a widespread
Conspiracy in restraint Of trade openly
organized by professional labor agita-
tors claiming to act on behalf Of the
workers. and undoubtedly acting by the
authorization Of some Of them. =,
What are our laws for, II not to pre-
vent this? There are plenty Of them.
and why do not the authorities enforce
them? Why wait for a breach Of the
peace for which some poor devil will be
fined or shut up for a few days? Why
not put some Of the head cOnsplrators
on trial In the criminal courts instead
Of arguing with them?
Have local officials no more back
bone than the present incumbent of the
highest office In our government?
II 1 am wrong. please tell me what
the word conspiracy means. e.
NEW YORK, September 10.
The sun., 1916-09-12

Of q great railroad strike. Every news
paper reader knew II In May. Then
was the las. minute to discount the
future as far as the railroad situation
was concerned. An honorable law avert
ing the threatened strike by way Of ar
bitration should have been advocated
then. The business men of the country
would have ~applauded such action.
A business man must discount the fu-
ture. Successful statesmen do. Only
grand stand players walt until the last
inning to score the only run. All be-
levers in true preparedness realize that
a successful tomorrow Is the result OF
a busy to-day. FERDINAND HENKE.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, September 2.
The sun., 1916-09-12
Mainly the Author Of His Own
"PrObIem

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Str: II
is very plain that Mr.. Wilson takes no
pains to discount he future. A far
seeing statesman in the executive chair
during tho last two years would not
have been burdened with 1.-The greatest
problems since Lincoln's time"
Those problems would not have been.
and most OF our International difficulties
would have been averted.
Wilson at best has the unhappy fac
ulty Of doing day after Tomorrow what
he should have done day before yester-
day.
l knew. and ! am sure the President
knew also. that the brotherhood men
were going to make exorbitant demands
on the railroads for more pay and
shorter hours. l knew that In January.
1916. When did the President know 1t?
When did Gompers tell him?
Perhaps the railroad heads told him
long ago that they would stand firm for
arbitration,
Many thousands Of people knew many
months ago that there was . possibility
The sun., 1916-09-12

Scots call It a rub O. the green"
when something undersigned RODS a
golfer Of the reward Of a we'll played
shot. giving his opponent an unearned
advantage. So 1t has come to be a
common belief that IL a name had to
be invented for It there must be more
luck when two players on the Merton
links last week, picked by every critic
Of the game as finalists, performed
exactly to theoretical form; worked
their way through a hundred and fifty
contenders to drive of together In the
deciding match. What element Of luck
there may be in golf persists in favor
ing the best players.
The sun., 1916-09-12
. Carload Of the Decayed Great.

Out Of a basement door across the
street they came. Into a cart they
were bundled. and away they were
driven. Black Maria never carried a
stranger or more helpless crew. III.
lapidated dignity was their common
mark. Their waxen features were
battered, streaked and worm. their
clothes not such as make the man
admired. but they kept their eyes to
the front and heads unbowed. 1t
was as though tMrs.l JARLEY's Wax
Works, "the delight of the nobility
and gentry and the peculiar pet of
the Royal Family" had been resur-
rected and tmnsplanted. Or they
might have been ghosts Of efigies
from BARNUM's Of old, or n hundred
other impossible possibilities, running
back to the Terror and the tumbril
and the democratic guillotine. In
dusty dignity but with unbllnking
preparedness for any fate that might
befall they rode away.
Viewed from the editorial window,
at an ~unfavorable angle, they were
not. easily identiiable, though word
came that they were counterfeit pre-
sentiments Of American statesmen,
relics Of the glories Of a museum late
OF great esteem among visitors from
Brooklyn and other outlying parts,
brought from temporary retirement to
tnal disposition and a last resting
place. Particularly admirable was
the stif backboned posture of a sturdy
Colonial who stood beside the driver.
and the unfiinching pose and polse of
n gentleman Of later date hitched with
rude rope to n post In the corner of
the truck, and stolldly disdaining the
~premonitory pressure Of the halter
not yet stretched to fatal tension.
Gentlemen riding to their last fall.
and needless Of the jeers and hooking
laughter Of the sidewalk mob.
We could not help thinking Of the
time, now blessedly near at hand,
when out OF the political museum in
Washington shall he bundled the wax
figures whose gestures have been
manipulated by the Democratic Show
man, the while their mechanically
moving lips gave forth the fluent
words and familiar tones of the Great
VentrilOGuist.
May the exodus of March 3, 1917.
he accomplished with as much Of dig.
nifty, cOmposure and despatch as that
which we have just witnessed. May
the cleaning out Of the Chamber of
Horrors be thorough. from the most
pitiable dummy In the Capitol to the
great Chief Horror too long on ex-
hlbitiOn In the White House.
The sun., 1916-09-12

cult thing to check. The Greek and
Roman writers referred to 1t two
thousand years ago and 1t has ragged
with more or less severity in all the
highly civilized epochs of the world.
If the lawyers or the doctors, or both
combined, could find some way 10
minimize Its horrors the future of
the race would be brighter.
The stage Is q powerful and some
times elevating institution, but its in
fiuence upon the community would be
much more beneficial II playwrights
suffering from first or second child.
hood could be suppressed.
The sun., 1916-09-12
The Important Deliberations oil
Mr.. Samuel Gompers.

To even a leader of the conscience
and daring of GoMPERs the proposal
to paralyze New York must give
qualms of uneasiness and quivers of
hesitation. No one realizes better
than he does that the traction strike
is the child of WOODROW WILSON'S
folly, conceived at the instant Of the
cOwardly surrender and born in the
hours of the jubilntiOn Of the broth.
erhOOds. SO far the traction strike
has failed. except on most of the sur.
face lines, and the president Of the
American Federation of Labor is
called upon to revive it by a masslng
OF all his forces. 1t must be an I'm.
pleasant summons for him. WILSON
and his Congress were so plant, the
victory mt Washington came so easily,
that this new war which he Is asked
to make must seem crude and costly.
GOMPERs knows what the public
thinks Of the brotherhood grab; he
knows that 1t Is outraged and venge-
full and that a general strike of the
trade unions here would add to the
flames OF wrath. WILSON would suf.
fer Mt the polls and the very action
Of the national labor organization
might supplant n coward with a
brave man. The wedge driven by the
brotherhOOds would he removed.
Aside from the gratitude due to VIII
SON from GoMPERs, it is n bad look.
ing business proposition. Under these
circumstances Mr.. GoMpERs may he
glad that the rules Of the federation
call for Mt least n few days Of delay.
In these few days ne and his chiefs
may consider also n further and more
appalling possibility: Suppose that Il
general strike we're called and that
1t signally failed? The attempt to
cripple the marlborough lines failed
for the prime reason that the EN-.
plOyees did not want to strike. That
- ASoSoh "iiiNh VII. SOMfkkS surely
does not excuse and perhaps does not
understand, but 1t IS Il compelling rea.
son. After General FITZGERALD has
lost his battle. he calls upon Field
Marshal GOMrERs to risk his whole
army OF the East. ana all to save
nothing but his own face. 1t is ask.
ing a great deal Of GOMpERs. WILSON
was SO easy, Congress- was so easy !
But New York does not look easy.
Violence began yesterday with
strikers stoning cars and carrying on
the crews. This too must nno
President GoMPERs. He'knOws that
violence will only add to the antag.
Onism Of q public which has no sym.
pathy for the small strike and would
he disguised with the big strike that
Is proposed.
1t would be well for the deliberat.
Ing GOMPERs to remember that the
5,OOO,0O people of New York are not
candidates for Office.
The sun., 1916-09-12
JOHN FRANKLIN VROWEiI.
EAST ORANGE. y. j., September II.

Hebron celebrated Its twenty-ffth ami
versary IN a most pleasing manner, pre-
senting in n simpl" pageant the various
phases of It's early development Its later
success will also be shown. how its brick
and tie manufacturing IL utilizing the val
liable clays Of the state, and how divcr.i-
fed farming Is being practiscd and MI
sorts Of fruits and garden vegetables not
ordinarily raised In this State arc there
produced.
New Salem's Impressive celebration of
the thirtieth anniversary OF her settlement
will be given, also how her Holstein R-ccd.
ers Association II teaching North Dakota
farmers the unfalling importance Of dairy.
Ing Industries.
In 1t all and through II all there viii
appear how the purpose OF these p!ous ana
at the same time burlnesslike founders has
been sp!endidly accomplished. how a thrift,
and God fearing people have wrested from
the wilderness places where now wealth
and good will abound and where henevo-
lent deeds are done.
When this panorama Ia seen in fun tho
conclusion is forced upon us that her. on
the prairies OF North Dakota there hayr
been erected two more monuments to Ger
man integrity. perseverance and ,dealisn.
The sun., 1916-09-12
Maine Answers . Question.

The returns indicate that the Re
uublicans and former ~Progressives Of
Maine came together In a wave that
closed over the Democratic hopes OF
september victory" A Republican
IA elected Governor by about 12,OO0
plurality l.; two Republicans are elected
10 the United States Senate; three,
possibly four, Republicans go to the
House Of Representatives.
1t was an election In which local
Issues had little part and which was
awaited eagerly by those who see In
Names decision a forecast Of Novem-
Der. The Democratic Governor and
the one Democratic Senator e
candidates for reelection and both
are avowed and accepted disciples Of
WILSON. Both are beaten.
II Such analysis Of the vote as could
Be made last night shows that the
Republican. party Of Maine, split 80
badly IN 1912 that TAFT ran third.
was reunited yesterday smoothly and
solidly. The indicated plurality Of
GAIL f. MILLIKEN over Governor
CuErIs approximates the plurality Of
the combined Roosevelt and Taft vote
over Wilson's vote. Compared with
the vote for Governor in 1914, when
Curtis was elected, the figures again
prove that in Maine at least the
Progressive has gone back home.
1t was Malne's first election Of
United States Senators by direct vote
and she had two seats to MI. Fred
HALE, Republican, has defeated the
present Democratic Senator, CHANEs
=. JOHNSON and BEET NJ. FEkNALD
u victor over Dean Stills for the place
made vacant by EDWIN c. BURLEIoH's
death. JOHNSON was supposed to be
. type of all that Is Wilsonian. al.
though he did not vote on the rdil.
road surrender bill. Whether the
Democratic Representative, McGILl-
CrDDY, has been beaten was not Ger.
tain last night. II he has been beaten
in spite Of his evident popularity 1t
will be indeed discouraging to Mr..
WILSON'S advocates.
The Democrats have been asking
what the P~rogressives were going 10
do. The answer has come.
The sun., 1916-09-12

MIR. Edison could not md a flower
or tree that JOHN BURROUGHS could not
name. We trust the Wizard of Menlo
Park was not hoaxed by the Sage OF
Slahsides. II 1t is possible to imagine
the naturalist's memory lapsing mo-
mentarily in the nomenclature OF the
wayside weeds and the forest flowers,
Of which there are more varieties than
Democratic statesmanship has phases,
1t is also possible to imagine Mr.. BUR-
RorGHs lodging embarrassment in the
mazes OF botanical Latinity where the
great inventor could not hope to check
his course.