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White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-01-09
pROSPECTOR FOUND DEAD
In BED AT TONOPAH

A we'll known p~rospector, Charles
T.. Grant. was found lying dead in his
bed in his cabin above the Brann
house on Bryan avenue. He had last
been seen Sunday evening and the
appearance of the body indicates that
his death had occurred that night.
Monday evening James Shelton and
Lou Conley called at his cabin to see
him on a matter of business; but got
no reply to their raps. Tuesday
morning Mr.. Shelton went again and
could not gain admission. He no.
ticed something rather suspicious In
that the key was in the lock on the
outside and the screen door fasten-
ed.
He summoned Chief of Police Ev-
ans and the latter smashed in the
door. Mr.. Grant was fully covered
with bedding, but he had removed
one shoe and sock. He had evidently
been taken ill while disrobing, as
shown by the vomit on the floor be-
side the bed. There were no evil
dences of foul play and death was
doubtless the result of natural caus-
es.
The deceased was a resident OF
Tonopah for a number of years. He
followed prospecting. His age was
about SO years. A s~ister-in-law, Mrs.
Allie Grant, and a brother and sister
live at Homestead. Penn.
The deceased was a man OF most
excellent habits, temperate and right
living. He had been a Mason for
many years. He was a member of
the blue lodge at Cripple Greek, Col,
also the chapter, commandery and
mystic shrine. 1t developed later
that his death was probably
due to ptomaine poisoning. He was
in excellent health when he returned
Friday from the Payroll mine with
DR.. Masterson and Judge Forman, on
which property he was employed
Tonopah Bonanza.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-01-09
MURDER AND SUICIDE AT
ELKO INDIAN VILLAGE

The Indian village north of town
was the scene of a murder and sui
eide New Years eve. Half a dozen
young bucks engaged in what they
called a hand game, and during its
progress considerable liquor was con-
sumed. According to one who was
there nearly all Of them were half
drunk, says the Elko Independent
The game is played with small
sticks which are passed from one to
the other, while they go through
motions with their shoulders and
bodies very much like the rag. 1t is
generally played with three or four
on each side.
According to report there had been
bad blood between Casey Austin and
Joe Muncey over a game about a
year ago. when Casey took five dol
lars out of a pot which Muncey
claimed. Friday night Muncey took
one dollar out of the pot. saying it
was part of what Casey owed him.
Casey objected and a rough house
ensued which wound up with Mum
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-01-09

eey being tied and taken to his tepee.
His hands we're tied behind him and
1t was thought he was cur for the
night, but he managed to free him.
self and get hold of a 1920 rifle.
With this he returned to the house
lof Roy Jim where the game had been
resumed and he proceeded to pump
lead through the wall. He fired
three shots through n side of the
building and then he went to the
other side and fired through three
shots more. One of the shots struck
IColonel Pronto in the stomach and
he dropped to the floor mortally
wounded. The others scrambled for
the door. There were about ten in
the building and it is a miracle that
more we're not hit.
One of the Indians ran to town for
the officers. Deputy Sheriffs Cotant
and McMullen and Nightwatchman
Peck started for the scene in Charley
Cranes auto. Peck was left on the
trail to intercept Muncey If he tried
to reach town. The others proceed
ed to the Indian village and just as
they we're ready to stop they were
greeted by a couple of rifle shots.
The first shattered the windshield
and Crane hurriedlv ex~tinguished his
lights. The second went wild. The
officers then returned to town decid-
ing to wait until daylight when they
would have an ever break.
Soon after the officers returned
Muncey returned to his tepee, fired
a couple of shots through 1T from
the outside, then entered. Soon after
another shot was heard and then all
was quiet. The following morning
he was found dead. He had evident
~ laid down, and with a string at
tached to the trigger of the gun, sent
"a ball into his brain. He was found
lying on his back with the gun be-
tween his legs.
Pronto was taken to the county
hospital Saturday morning and that
night he died.
Joe Muncey, who did the killing,
did a good job ending his own ex-
istance. He was afflicted with a
loathsome disease, evidences of which
showed on his hands and face. We
were told by an Indian that he re-
Gently said that he was going to kill
another Indian and then commit sui
eide. He evidently had in mind Cas-
ey Austin. as there was bad blood be-
tween them. Pronto was about TWEEN
ty-three years old and Muncey was
TWENTY-FIVE.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-01-09
FORD INTERESTED IN
NEVADA COLONIZATION

The Carson Appeal is authority for
the statement that Henry Ford, the
auto manufacturer, has become inter-
ested in a Nevada colonization
scheme. The Appeal says:
Judge w. w. Griffin returned
from a two weeks business trip to
San Francisco and other California
points where he had gone in response
to a telegram from Henry Ford.
Judge Griffin stated he had
very satisfactory conference with
Mr.. Ford in relation to colonization
propositions in which he is inter
ested, and that Mr.. Ford and his
eastern associates will In a very
short time interest themselves very
materially In the promotion of these
projects. which are located in and
around Nevada and this section in
particular. The preliminary steps
have already been taken and Judge
! Griffin fully expects that some very
important enterprises will be launch
ed at no late date, and it goes with
out saying that plenty of capital will
be available for the undertakings, as
Mr.. Ford and his associates do not
go into anything In q halfhearted
way. All they need is to be shown
where good profitable investments
can be made.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-01-09
URYMAN TAKEN I'LL,
TRIAL Is POSTPONED

Frank Perkins, one of the jurymen
In the trial of the county commis-
sIoners, as prosecuting witness, YER
sus w. w. Booth on the charge OF
criminal libel, was taken very Ill late
Sunday afternoon with symptoms of
pneumonia. Physicians were sum-
moned by the bailiff in charge of the
Jury and 1t was found that the I'M
fortunate juryman should be remov-
ed to the hospital. The district at
torney and Milton NJ. Detch, counsel
for the defendant. held a conference
and Mr.. Detch said: "Of course, |
am in favor of having the man taken
to the hospital" This was done by
stipulation, the attorneys finding 1t
impossible to raise Judge Walsh, who
had returned to his home at Gold
field, over the telephone.
Monday morning Judge Walsh call
I'd DR.. Cunningham to the stand. The
physician testified as to the jury
mans condition and expressed the
opinion that he would be sufficient
" recovered to resume his duties
Wednesday morning. The case then
was continued.
was continued. -Tonopah oBnanza.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-01-09
NEWS OF INTEREST ROM ALL OF TIE S1A7E]

under the act in Ease they decided to
accept had been withheld. With the
notice was sent a demand for a re-
fund and all teachers desiring to re-
ject the act were instructed to return
the demand. Those who did not re-
turn the demand are deemed to have
accepted the act.
OF the AZ teachers who have re-
iected the act, Is are from Reno
schools, most of them high school in
structors.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-01-09
PROMINENT ELkO LAW
FIRM Is DISSOLVED

Cards are out announcing that Ed
win e. Game has opened law offices In
the Hesson building on Commercial
street. says the Elko Free Press.
For eight years Mr.. Game was as
ISOLATED with Charles b. Henderson
in the practice of law. under the nrm
name of Henderson & Caine. The
firm was one of the leading law firms
of Nevada. Recently they dissolved
and Mr.. Game has opened offices In
the Hesson building while Mr.. Hen
derson retains the old offices.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-01-09

have to suffer the death penalty fol
his act. Following will be found
the cages decided and the disposition
of them by the supreme court:
State of Nevada, respondent. YER
|sus J. Frank Trammer-The appel
liant TRAINER was convicted in the
district court of Humboldt county
for the murder of Marie Quilici and
the Jury fixed the penalty of death
From a denial of a motion for a new
trial and from the judgment of the
lower court imposing the death PEN
atty an appeal was taken to the SUI
preme court. Following a lengthy
review of the case with its entire
record and testimony, the supreme
court renders the following decision:
THE Judgment and order of the low
er court denying the motion for a
new trial are affirmed and the dis
trict court is directed to fix a time
and make the proper order for hav-
ing its sentence carried into effect
by the warden of the state prison
Nimrod Uric. companion TO j
Frank Trammer, whose chance fol
life was blasted by a supreme coufi
decision d~ecreeing that he shall die
for his crime, made an attempt al
suicide at the state prison last week
He drank a quantity of bicholoride OF
mercury used in developing pictures
in the Bertillon department of the
state police, and was nearly dead
when he was discovered by jim Nor
ton, another prisoner.
Dir. Donald Maclean was summoned
and. with the aid of a stomach pump
soon had the man out OF danger.
Rrooding V the prospect of spend
ing the remainder of his days as a
convict is said to have prompted tie
suicidal attempt. Uric for d time
was chauffeur for Warden Dioker-
on, but when the state police de-
partment was transferred to the pris-
on, he was given a job aiding in the
compilation of Bertillon records. Jim
Morton, the convict who was instru-
mental in saving Urie's life now is
driving the warden's car.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-01-09
FORTY-TWO TEACHERS HAVE
REJECTED PENSION ACT

Out of a total of Appropriately 650
teachers in the state. only AZ have re-
jected the terms of the new teachers
pension act, according to returns re-
ceiyed at the office of the superinten-
dent of Public Instruction. 1t Is
thought the great majority of the
teachers have decided to accept the
terms of the act.
Several weeks ago notices were
sem to all teachers in the state in
forming them that the assessment due
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-01-09
BABE Is BORN IN SNOWBANK

While walking in the snow near
her home at Upsan. Mrs. John Silva,
wife of a Southern-Pacific section
hand, gave birth to a son on New
Years day. The mother and child
we're discovered by Mr.. Silva, and
with the assistance of a n~eighbor he
bundled the infant up and sent the
mother and child to Reno for treat
ment.
Because of exposure it was feared
the mother might contract pneumo-
mia, but DIR. j. =. Martin, the attend
ing physician. says both child and
mother are doing nicely.-Reno Ga
zette.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-01-09
TUNGSTEN At IOC

The Phoebe Record reports that
E. d. Smiley has a 15-foot body OF
tungsten ore carrying 80 per cent
values. We are inclined to the be-
lief that the Record through error
width of the vein Or its percentage
of value.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-01-09
SUPREME COURT FINDS
TRAINER GUILTY

The supreme court handed down
Monday seven decisions, the most
important one being the Ease of J.
Frank TANNER, who was tried on
the charge of murder, convicted and
sentenced to be hung. The supreme
court has affirmed the decision of
the lower court and Trammer will
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-09-16
SECOND G!RAHD r:!D.

Girard, Ala, where 81 800. 900 worth
u bootleg" WEiSkey was recently ~.
,orte& seized was the scene of a sec
'nd E4uor raid according to The fol.
owing dispatch from Girard to the
Cincinnati Enquirer:
State military and civil authorities
oday instituted another liquor raid
ere. Soon after Sheriff LiEscy vcth
.nr@e deputies and Ga. ain Shannon,
4 the state militia. which has been
II duty here for weeks. started out
With detachment Of guardsmen
many cases Of whisky We're thrown
ito the ChattahOocnec river. A num-
!cr Of cases We're recovered.
There was nc serious disorder.
y special grand jury has been
called to meet Monday TO investigate
further titc alleged violation of the
Alabama prohibition laws.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-09-16
Alter Four Years of Discouraging
Conditions, Mrs. Bullock Gave
Up in Despair. Husband
Came to Rescue.

Catron, Ky.-ln an interesting letter
from this place, Mrs. Bette Bullock
writes as follows: 81 suffered for four
years, with womanly troubles, and during
this time, | could only sit up for little
while, and could not walk anywhere at
all. AT times, would have severe pains
In my left side,
The doctor was called In, and his treat
msnt relieved ME for a while, but | was
soon confined 10 my bed again. After
that, nothing seemed to do me any good.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-09-16
HUSBAND RESCUED
DESPAIRING WIFE

l had gotten SO weak | could NOT stand.
and | gave UP In despair.
AT last, my husband got me a bottle of
Cardui, the woman's tonic, and | conn.,
tpenced taking it. From the very f,rst
doSe' could tell 1t was helping me.
can now walk two miles without ifs
firing me, and am doing all my work."
If you are all run down from woma,rv
troubles, don't give up IN despair. Try
Cardul, the woman's tonic. 1t has helped
more than million women, in Its so
years OF continuous SUCCESS, and should
surely help you, too. Your druggist has
sold Cardui for years. He knows what
1t will do. Ask him. He will recom-
mend it. Begin taking Cardui today.
,WrtN 70: Chattanooga MeaicIae Co.. Ladies,
HoVisory Dept. Chattanooga, Tcnr >, Tor SDcciol
T.tsa. ucttoeS on your case and Gpage book "Horns
''s"Ai'ent 'et "epaen' sent In plain wrappes. j-S
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-09-16
HAY WHILE THE SUN SHINES.
Knoxville Journal

Knoxville Journal
In Des Moines there is a terrific bat
tie OF words between Mayor MacVicar
and Judge Utterback as to Who IS re-
"ponslble for the failure to SUPPRESS
bookkeeping. Meanwhile the bootleg
gers are making hay while the sun
shines
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-09-16
POSITIVE, COMPARATIVE, SUPER.
LATIVE

lOrlean tNcb.) Record
Little children tell fbs, grown uDs
eel Hos, and prohibitionists quote sta.
tlst1cs. Yes they do.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-21

Mrs. J. j. Stolfa at her home on Nc
Lish avenue Wednesday evening. The
affair was complimentary to the home
coming of Miss Ruth Stolfa and a
farewell to the Misses Florence and
Adele Glosmeyer, who will leave for
their home in St Louis on Sunday.
The house and lawn were exquisite in
a setting of ferns and Illuminated with
japanese lanterns which were used
profusely Music. dancing and card
playing were features of amusement.
A platform was erected at one side
of the lawn for those who wished to
"chase the merry hours with flying
feet" and music for that was fur
nished by Victrola A number Of
piano solos were also features of en-
tertainmcnt. More than one hundred
guests enjoyed the generous hospi-
tality of Mrs. Stolfa.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-21
Give the Baby a Chance.

Bad air, bad milk, over-crowding,
poverty, dirt, ignorance, heat-these
combine in summer to kill the city
baby 1t seems as though the brunt
of the cities sanitary sins we're TO
cused on the baby. The baby didn't
ask to come, to live in a hot, dark,
air tight tenement, to be fed on dirty,
half spoiled milk, to be pestered with
flies and mosquitoes. He is not re-
sponsible for any of these conditions
and it is his right that we have fresh
air, clean surroundings and decent
food. The United States Public
Health Service issues free of charge
to all applicants bulletin on "The
Summer Care of Inrants." 1t should
be in the hands of every mother.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-21
SUBSTANCE OF MATTER
OF FARM CREDIT LAW

Creates twelve federal banks and
| permits any number of joint-stock
land banks to make loans at reason.
able interest for long periods on farm
lands.
Provides a federal farm land board
of five members to control these
banks.
Banks are empowered to lend on
first mortgages on farm lands in
amounts of 800 to $4,000 for ap-
proved purposes. No loan may be
made for more than 80 per cent of
the value of the land and 20 per
cent of the value of the permanent
insured improvements.
National farm loan associations, To-
cal organizations, composed exclusive
ly of borrowers, are authorized.
The act prohibits the federal land
banks from charging more than s
per cent on any mortgage.
Borrowers will share in the net
profits of the bank, because they are
stockholders. 1t is contemplated that
ultimately the borrowers will be the
only stockholders.
Long term loans are provided by
authorizing mortgages for periods of
from five up to forty years.
Small annual or sem-annual pay
ments on the principal are made
required feature of all mortgages.
Joint stock land banks are author
lied. They are corporations for car
rying on the business of lending on
farm mortgage security and issuing
farm loan bonds
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-21
FREAK DISEASE - STRAWS
GROW ON GIRLS HAND

South Bend, Ind, July 20.-During
a period of less than six weeks more
than 200 wheat straws, measuring in
length from one to thirteen inches.
came from two sores in the hand of
Rosetta Irwin, 10-yearol daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs Francis Irwin, living
seven miles northwest of Bremen.
Ind.
This is the assertion of members
of the Irwin family, substantiated by
several residents of Bremen and
sheaf of straws one and one half
inches thick. The little Irwin girl
was brought to South Bend several
days ago and examined by several
physicians, including DR.. C. c. Terry,
TT. Charles Hansel, and DR.. r. C.
Shanklin. No explanation for the phe-
nomenon can be made by the medical
experts.
Six weeks ago an infection devel-
oped between the third and fourth
fingers of the Irwin girl. This caused
considerable pain. and a physician
was called The sore was lanced
twice. A few days later a straw ap-
peared, issuing through the infection
This was followed by another and
another during a period of several
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-21
FAMILY AVOIDS
SERIOUS SICKNESS
By Being Constantly Supplied With
Thedfords Black-Draught.

McDuf, Va.-'I suffered for several
years." says Mrs. ]. B. Whitaker, o.
this place, with sick headache, and
stomach trouble.
Ten years ago a friend told me to try
Thedford's ck-Draught, which did,
and found ii TO be the best family lnedi-
cine for young and old.
! keep Black-Draught On hand all the
time now, and when my children feel a
little bad, they ask me for a dose, and il
does them more good than any medicine
they ever tried.
We never have long spell Of sick
ness in our family, since we commenced
using Black-Draught."
Thedford's Black-Draught is purely
vegetable, and has been found to regu-
late weak stomachs, aid digestion, re-
lieve indigestion, collie, wind, nausea,
headache, Sick stomach, and similar
symptoms.
1t has been in constant use for more
than 70 years, and has benefited rlore
!han million people.
Your druggist sells and recommends
Black-Draught. Price only 2Jc. Get
package to-day. NC 1aa
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-21
Use Zemo for Eczema

Never mind how often you have tried
and failed. you can stop burning, itching
eczema quickly by applying a little zemO
furnished by any druggist for pc. Extra
large bottle, SlOO Healing begins the
moment zemo is applied. In short time
usually every trace of pimples, black
heads. rash. eczema. letter and similar
skin diseases will be removed.
For clearing the skin and making il
vigorously healthy, zemo is an exceptional
remedy. 1t is not greasy, sticky or
watery and il does not stain. When
Others fail it is the one dependable treat.
ment for all skin troubles.
Ismo Cleveland.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-21

years her loss of life in the terrible
war now raging
Prohibition should be the first ar
ticle in any adequate plan for pre-
paredness for peace OF war. The
liquor traffic puts more men on the
pheap than all other institutions
combined. A wave of passionate in
| dignation and harrow swept over our
/ country when the news of the Lusi-
tania massacre arrived; but we re
ceiye without a protest the fact that
every week in the year the legalized
| liquor traffic sends as many men and
women reeling out of life into a
drunkard's hell, leaving behind them
trail Of poverty, insanity and crime.
"As a producer of crime, poverty,
and mental and moral degeneracy,
the saloon has no equal A massa-
chusetts legislative committee report
ed that SO per cent. of all prisoners
in Massachusetts in 1912 were intem-
perate by habit, and that the cost
of drunkenness to the state in homes
broken through divorce, through de
serton, the cost in neglected child
hood and degraded manhood and
womanhoOd, is beyond measure.
They also reported that under our
so called model local option law the
arrests for drunkenness have increas-
ed SS per cent. in ten years. Yet we
are urged in the name of personal
liberty to continue this Gemoralizing
business.
"As a political problem, the saloon
has no rival 1t is the arch -conspira-
tor against clean citizenship. It's sole |
argument is that laws prohibiting it |
be enforced. 1t corrupts the |
civic conscience, and is the virulent |
cancer in the body polite today. 1t
must be cut out if democracy is to
survive.
"Who is responsible for this CON
iiiIOh VI dlldlIo 1 lie DItNtI, lut
the saloon keeper? No! a
thousand times no! but the voter
Who permits it, the citizen that auth
'rizes it, that stamps it with the ap-
'royal of the government, and pro
ects it by law He who votes Yes
n fails to vote No is the silent, un-
cen, but active and responsible part
Ter in this business.
"As for me, | protest against being
made a partner in this iniquitous
BUSINESS. want no share in the
Hood money that represents ruined
ives and blasted homes. They ask
that we are going to do about it, We
re going to brand the liquor traffic
or the outlaw that It is. We are !
ding to take the United States out
f partnership with the saloon" {:
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-21

which had been so bad that would have
to lie down. / also used the Sanative
Wash and it has done me great deal G.
good, and I am not troubled with weak
ness any more. - Mrs. P. l.. BRILL,
1899 Booth Street, Milwaukee, Wis.
The most successful remedy for wo-
mans ills is Lydia e. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound. 1t has stood the test
for forty years, which would be impos-
sible if it did not have genuine merit
For special advice, free, write
to Lydia T.. Pinkham Medicine
Co. (cOnfidentiaD Lynn, Mass.
Your letter will be opened, read
and answered by n woman, and
held in strict confidence.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-21
Constipation and Indigestion.

81 have used Chamberlain's Tablets
and must say they are the best | have
ever used for constipation and indi-
gestion. My wife also used them for
indigestion and they did her good"
writes Eugene S. Knight, Whining
ton. n. C. Chamberlain's Tablets are
mild and gentle in their action. Give
them a trial. You are certain to be
pleased with the agreeable laxative
effect which they produce. Obtain
able everywhere.