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Newspaper
Tonopah Daily Bonanza
Location
Tonopah, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1908
Page
2
Management warns patrons that the Bonanza will deem any payor who buys the newspaper from carriers as prohibited. Regular carriers lack authority to sell papers, and purchasing through them is forbidden.
Word arrived that a brother of W W Sheets a mining founder is missing on the desert near Spanish Springs He had been in the city days before returning to Spanish Springs Wednesday A search party started from Manhattan and another from the area with hopes he wandered off in the heat amid the extreme conditions in that vicinity
Arthur Erbs and L L Mushett arrived from Goldfield yesterday. HM A Amphtott left for Tex to oversee a lease. Gus Marshall and family returned to Tonopah from a lengthy trip. Bol Levy came down from Reno. Attor ney J J Morris will host him at Morris home during stay. F A Whitmire from Goldfield attends camp events and was a Princeton All-American guard. Malcolm Macdonald returned from Reno after Mackay statue unveiling. Ben F Edwards, a mining figure, arrived from the coast and inspected Wet End and Anil with evident satisfaction.
The Taylor-Daniels stock company presents Charles Town’s My Uncle From Japan a high class farce on married life. A young man travels from Japan to America as a representative of his uncle to test a potential wife. He falls for a different woman than the one his uncle chose, causing comic confusion and romantic twists as the uncle’s schemes unravel.
Attorney Dr Truman representing Ed Hughes argues the indictment should be quashed because the grand jury of seventeen failed to hear all members' evidence. Foreman W C Stone says deliberations with full membership may not have occurred in Nevada. Judge Langan, as in two prior cases, may sustain the grand jury, with potential county cost of about $60,000 if work is missed.
A June 11 report from New York and Chicago notes Col. Wm Greene head of Greene Consolidated Copper charged with fraud in a suit by Mary Kuebler. Transfers of profits alleged to defraud minority stockholders. Also reported: a 25 member committee led by Francis Kinckley seeks clemency for Herman Bulk case tied to Bohemian fortune teller.
Test the key and will be open day and night for this date. Same old service and same old goods. 1G Crimley. Certificates of location for sale at this office.
Public auction to the highest bidder on June 18th 1908 at 10 o clock A M. One rebuilt hot horsepower gasoline engine unclaimed at Coaldale station to be sold at the company house. We reserve the right to reject bids. For binding or informing call the solicitor at 404. Also promotion for four year port and sherry wines offered at 2.00 per gallon.
A New York market report notes price movement remains sluggish with limited changes in bond and stock values. The day shows a marginal uptick in some sectors but overall activity is restrained and observers await clearer directional signals.
W P O Meara returns from Bilgor Peak Valley reporting excitement over oil fields eight miles east of Blair Nevada. Land has been located and a new townsite expected as investors ship relocation posts. Earlier reports credit explorer Minchin and Miller with sparking interest, while federal survey teams noted oil coal fossils and asphalt in the district. The Blair area development plans aim to rapidly expand oil production within Nevada with keen public interest.
Jenny Rourke, superintendent of Greenwater and Death Valley Copper Co, says the big shaft is in ore at about 1000 feet. Assays run from 0 to 6 percent copper. Management plans to start communicating from the 1000 level to reach the sulphide zone. Miners and prospectors head to Greenwater to locate ground on the Furnace Creek property.
Reno judge W H A Pike states he is not a candidate for the Democratic Congressional nomination. He claims constitutional limits bar judges from seeking such office during their term and will drop the bid for two years unless another remedy is found.
Our purpose it and our purpose to handle any business entrusted to us in such a late and liberal manner as to make the customer's relation with this bank satisfactory and profitable. Aside from the excellent facilities afforded this bank has the advantage of a large Capital and surplus. Nevada First National Bank of Tonopah UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY.
News from Reno reports Florence McNeil of the Normal school won the President's scholarship. A Tonopah High School graduate, she delayed entering her collegiate course for a month after the term began, making the honor all the more commendable.
News of the death of Miss Jose bhine A. Roberts, longtime employee in the surveyor-general's office at Carson, and assistant secretary to Governor Sparks, who died in Oakland at age twenty eight. Her mother and sister survive, and the funeral will be in Carson on Saturday.
A shipment of bullion about 12 000 ounces or 100 pounds troy, valued around 59 000, was sent Saturday by Montgomery Shoshone Consolidated. The ore was turned over to Wells Fargo Express for delivery to Valejo Junction Ca. Development at the level 700 feet includes a cross cut planned to reveal more ledges and the alphide ore.
June 1 Wash W D Van Houten forced Rev B Lawrence Benedict to Green Lake M EB church with a revolver. He kept Benedict singing and praying for three hours amid unbalanced religious mania.
Judge Orr announced that starting now divorces would not be granted for detrition and eruvity with witnesses in the alleged raeifiee. The note appears in a Reno Nev courts report from the Hive 11 Te jirevee ag ency divorces section.
Receiver Wilde is expected to declare a 10 percent dividend for depositors within days. He has closed the Manhattan and Blaty branches and finished examining the Tons Path branch. Resources will be gathered into the parent bank at Carson City and balances struck there. A dividend plan is seen as good news to depositors.
The Cultive Club met at the residence of Mrs J P O'Brien yesterday afternoon Mrs S R Moore gave readings from Browning Certificates of location for sale at 'ola office Meotick to stockholders Booth Mining Company of Goldfield holds annual meeting June 1 1908 Tonopah to elect board of directors and conduct other business J W Stewart secretary Postponement meeting moved to June 15 1908 J W Stewart clerk Dated June 1 1908
Through Pullman service offered in western regions with dining car in both sections beyond Mina. Through Tutet service on all Coal and Kusth-hound trains in both directions via Goldfield. General Superintendent Rohanlin and General Passenger Agent W.D. Forster announce Tonopah railroad operations.
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