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Newspaper
Tonopah Daily Bonanza
Location
Tonopah, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1908
Page
1
The president's annual message to Congress will be read on Tuesday at the start of the sixtieth Congress. The Senate will adjourn Monday to honor Senator Allison and after new members are sworn in. The House plans a similar adjournment. Tuesday will focus on reading the message.
In Salt Lake City a jury finds Union Pacific railroad, Union Pacific Coal Co, Oregon Short Line, Everett Buckingham and J M Moore guilty of conspiring to restrain interstate commerce. Moore and Buckingham allegedly cut Wyoming coal supply to Salt Lake dealer David J Sharp to crush his below market ads. Sentencing postponed pending appeal.
At a conference in Asruncrow, Montana, on the destruction of forests by fumes from copper smelting, representatives of copper companies will be heard in Washington before any action. The meeting was led by the president with Attorney General Bonaparte and others present as protesters cite damage to vegetation, forests, reserves, and water in the area.
Pine Bluff Arkansas reports the river danger to the city greatly decreased tonight with the Jefferson County Courthouse and a nearby hotel now believed safe after the rising waters.
The coroner's jury ruled W. H. True died by his own action out of despondency after a life insurance policy for four thousand dollars expired minutes before his suicide. In Boston a football game is noted as fatal to an officer from Asheville, while a separate item mentions silver market quotes and injury reports from a Thanksgiving game.
A Montana Tonopah Mining Co vice president refutes rumors that Tonopah silver and gold mines will close due to low silver prices. He notes improved reduction processes keep costs low and profits possible, urges brokers to avoid unfounded rumors harming markets.
Special from Reno reports George H. Taylor returned from Tonopah and admitted appearing before the grand jury regarding Bertha S. Smith's $47,779.75 account deposited at State Bank and Trust of Tonopah before the 1907 failure. The sum was charged back on Taylor's request after Cushman demurred.
Wilson announces foot and mouth disease in Michigan New York Pennsylvania and Maryland is under control. About 1000 diseased cattle have been destroyed as part of the effort to curb the outbreak and protect cattle industries.
Coal operators mine owners engineers and officials gathered for the mining congress in Pittsburg to dedicate a federal laboratory and testing station. Demonstrations in an artificial mine show explosions of bituminous coal dust and black powder with experts using Draeger apparatus to survive hostile gases.
A riot in Port au Prince after President Nord Alexis left the palace on a French training ship left twelve dead and many wounded. Citizens took up arms to help patrol the city while General Simon is expected to be elected president as his army nears the capital. About 150 looters have been arrested and stolen goods moved to the police station.
San Francisco reports the twelfth juror was chosen for the trial of Attorney Frank Murphy accused of attempting to bribe John M Kelly, a Ruef Park associate. The grand jury indictment was read, prosecution to open tomorrow. A. S. Blake, convicted bribeoffer, to testify for the prosecution after confessing involvement.
Timothy R. Palmer, newly resigned president of Minnesota Mutual Insurance, shot himself at home after a year of ill health. In Port Byron Illinois burglars blew a bank vault open early today and fled on a handcar. the crime went unnoticed until the bank opened.
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