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Newspaper
Tonopah Daily Bonanza
Location
Tonopah, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1908
Page
4
The piece surveys rumors that railroads will push a bill to abolish the state railroad commissioners. It argues abolition would greatly benefit the railroads, since current commissioners act only as salaried obstructions. It calls for a constitutional amendment to elect a railway commission that protects public interests over personal ones.
The United States Geological Survey warns that no staff member may engage in private mining work during employment. Ads linking personnel to the survey for mining schemes mislead the public, as only a small fraction are geologists capable of assessing mining prospects.
The article surveys labor future concepts with profit sharing and worker joint ownership. It notes wage disputes settled, cites Filene profits, and argues next steps toward shareholding, with workers as partners and a voice in management, including access to shareholder meetings to align worker and employer interests.
The writer envisions an advanced labor and capital partnership that could reshape relations without revolution. He believes the first steps are already underway and urges intelligent workers and leaders to embrace this organic reform as a practical path forward. He cites Carnegie and warns socialist remedies belong to the future.
W R Cutler, a carpenter at Pittsburg Silver Peak Mining, sues for 15000 damages in Goldfield district court after an electric shock while removing sheet iron caused the amputation of a finger and partial loss of use of his left hand. Berry and Cole of Goldfield will defend. A separate note mentions Elks club rehearsals for a minstrel show on the fourteenth with local singers and manager Al G Flournoy coordinating.
San Francisco dispatch reports Tom Vick, a hanger on near billiard parlors in the Ross alley Chinese quarter, shot and fatally wounded while passing through the block long alley. At both ends plain clothes officers of the Chinatown squad were stationed. The dead Chinese is not known to belong to any Chinese tong.
The Bonanza bindery advertises turning out the best work in the city with a complete plant. It guarantees satisfaction for all office needs from lawyers to mining companies and claims one trial will prove the quality, urging patrons to support home industry.
A summary of groundwater potential in the Mojave Desert south of California. Geologist H.R. Johnson of Stanford will spend two to three months gathering field data before compiling a Washington report on underground water supplies for irrigation amid mining and railway growth.
An astronomy student in Mainz murdered his father Dr Racke a former Reichstag member and his three sisters after demands for money went unmet. In Michigan a derailment near Pleasant Lake Indiana injured about thirty aboard a Lake Shore passenger train with one feared dead due to a broken switch rather than a flange.
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