11 Dec 1911
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Newspaper
Tonopah Daily Bonanza
Location
Tonopah, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1911
Page
1
Washington dispatch reports a mine disaster where 207 workers were trapped by an explosion. Three men managed to escape, with rescuers pressed to locate more survivors. The event prompts safety inquiries and ongoing search efforts.
At the Butler theater tonight a program features The Shattered Dream, The Desert Well, His Chorus Girl Wife, and Edison’s The Black Arrow. The plot follows Dick Shelton’s romance with Joanna Sedley as the Black Arrows fight Sir Daniel Brackley. Outdoor scenes and battle sequences are noted for realism and grandeur.
The Department of the Interior bans automobiles from Yosemite Valley amid thousands of petitions. Officials cite narrow mountainous roads making it dangerous to mix horses and machines. Firearms must be left outside the park and reserve.
The Jumbo Pandora mine reportedly yielded a very rich ore strike with rumors of ore values reaching 1900 dollars per ton. Observers note ongoing extraction work and recent commissions affecting the site.
In Bryceville and Knoxville area reports, 200 plus miners are believed entombed after a massive explosion at the Cross Mountain coal mine. Only three escaped. rescuers from government and local teams work to clear debris and force air into two mile long shafts. The cause is uncertain with three theories: dust or powder explosion, electrical contact, or tamping failure. A miner named Hugh Larue survived after his wife’s dream warned against going to work.
Honolulu December 11 Rear Admiral Chauncey Thomas will guide the cruiser California through the Pearl Harbor channel as dredging nears completion The California is set to be the first warship to enter the channel amid a largely finished operation
Representative Martin Dies claims both parties harbor cowardice on pension legislation and accuses colleagues of protecting seats by backing higher pensions. He cites the Sherwood pension bills totaling fifty million dollars as a key issue in the House debate.
Tang Shao Yi, Yuan Shih Kai's representative, left for Wu Chang with officials to negotiate with General Lu and provincial delegates for peace. The government hopes revolutionists will accept a limited monarchy and Tang holds plenipotentiary powers. Government says it can’t run the administration for more than a few days without action.
The lead vs Nevada notes that Nevada spends more per person on schooling than New York and Massachusetts, challenging expectations. The Boston Sunday Post recalls Uncle Sam’s annual count and cites Nevada’s surprising position in state education funding as the year’s mid count surprise.
The Santa Rosa mine, which shipped considerable tonnage of lead silver gold ore last spring, is listed again as a shipper. J J Gunn has a crew and two six horse teams haul ore to Keeler. The property is owned by Dave Holland William Douglas and Carl Brougher of Tonopah and J J Gunno of Independence.
The first half tax delinquency in Ormsby county is light with 14 delinquents to be advertised. Over half may obtain title to property as the total delinquent property amounts to just 533 dollars. Bonanza want ads will sell your property.
100K readers in Beaumont heard of Aviator Fowler flying 40 miles from Liberty to Beaumont yesterday. The brief wartime style report notes the cross county flight and the notable presence of the flyer.
In Reno Nevada on Friday night John Curys aged about 55 to 60, long out of work, drank carbolic acid in a downtown rooming house. His body was found about 7 PM the next night, unclad except for undergarments, the room’s electric globe burned out earlier that evening. The death appears peaceful despite the painful path of ingestion.
The body of Harry T. Traynor, manager of a large boarding and stable, was found in a sink hole on the tide flats with no violence marks, suggesting suffocation in the mud. He was last seen alive Wednesday night after leaving a local saloon. Lexington police chief requested information.
A divorced woman, eloped with her spouse’s best friend, mails arrive with her false teeth wrapped in a rag. A note from the deserted husband laments the escape and jokes about chewing the rag and loneliness.
An display at the brokerage office of Harry Epstine shows ore from the new Antelope Springs strike, 50 miles southeast of Tonopah, with values from 400 to 900 dollars in silver and gold. Washington Lee reports on Pacific coast plumbing trust negotiations nearing a compromise at a Department of Justice conference.
James B. McNamara and John J. McNamara, jailed as confessed dynamiters and heads of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, were transported from San Quentin to a California penitentiary. After arrival in Los Angeles, guards escorted them to a waiting car for transfer as curiosity surrounded the dramatic departure and the public record of their case.
Dew 11 Malcolm R Patterson junior who shot and wounded R T Seal at Port Orchard was jailed in Seattle in default of 20 000 bail on first degree assault charges. Patterson's father former Tennessee governor Malcolm R Patterson has hired counsel. Seal remains in Bremerton hospital.
A large force of mechanics has been hired by Southern Pacific at Sparks in recent days. All positions are filled and good machinists are being refused. Workers are no longer confined to the compound though a number do stay. No further violence is reported by the Reno Gazette.
Helena Mont Dee 11 There has not been a boiler explosion in Montana since the inauguration of the present system of inspection two years ago according to the report of the state boiler Inspector filed Saturday.
A private car from the Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad with Mr WD Forster J and several coach experts toured Coaldale and planned to inspect nearby coal mines. Development in two weeks shows higher quality and greater quantity as veins widen, with Coaldate poised to supply most of Nevada and California with home produced coal.
Cal Hrongher arrived from Oalland and left by auto with Clie Hirdler the Bel woont Development Mining treasurer for Antelope Springs Nye County latest ore discovery drawing capital attention.
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