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A i SMEsTER SETTLEMENTS Copper 14.105 Lead 5 QUOTATIONS (By Associated PrM) Silver London, 31d: New York (foreign), 62gc. Copper Electrolytic 14i14 Lead Spot 6 Zinc E. St. Louis 5.73 SJ5.S0 FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR EIGHT PAGES RENO, NEVADA FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1923 EIGHT PAGES NO. 160 FIRE SWEEPS GOLDFIELD AND LEAVES CAMP IN RUINS (ALL WEST OF.

COLUMBIA STREET HERE IS THE FAMOUS OLD GOLD CAMP THIRD PARTY IS SPLIT WIPED OUT BY FLAMES DOWN BARRING OF ARMS TWELVE HOUR DAY IS HERN CAMP FAMOUS OLD SOUT IS VOTED DOWN SO VIOLENCE TO END SOON GARY'S VIEW wry Explosion of Illicit Still Starts Blaze That Soon Beyond Control and Water Pressure Fails; Dynamiting Is Resorted To UNOPPOSED NINE BLOCKS OF TOWN GONE AND BUT FEW BUILDINGS REMAIN Steel Trust Head Declares Mexican, Philippines and Other Labor Needed 7L Farmer-Labor Wing Likely to Join Federated Party and Workers Stay Alone NEW YORK. July 6. (By the As sociated Press.) Entrance into the United States of a labor supply from Mexico, the Philippines, Canada and a few European countries will make possible abolishment of the Final Platform Vote Alone Goldfield Hotel, Elks Club, Postoffice, Cook Bank Are All Saved, but None of the Older Part of Camp Remains Standing -r Fire, which started from the explosion of an illicit still in a shack near the Brown Parker garage opposite the Gold-field Hotel, swept through nine blocks of Goldfield this morning and afternoon and destroyed the Older section of the famous camp. The fire was turned at Columbia street and did not cross that street to the east. The Goldfield Hotel, Elks Club, News-Tribune building, PoMtoffice, new John S.

Cook Co. bank and old Gcldfield consolidated offices were all saved. Over thirty automobiles were destroyed, many of them expensive machines. The total loss by the day's fire is estimated at half a million dollars. Many were injured and one life is reported to have been lost.

rnp twelve-hour day in the steel industry. I Elbert II. Gary, chairman of the board Will Decide Future Political Movement BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF GOLDFIELD AT l4 WAS of the United States Steel Corporation, announced today. Depends on Supply of Labor Mr. Gary's announcement followed mn is an old picture ot uoidtieid and the last few years have seen considerable is an old picture ot uoidtieid and the last few years have seen considerable changes but it gives a very good idea of the lay of the land.

The group of large buildings at the very center of the picture includes the Goldfield Hotel, Tribune building, Postoffice and Elks Club. At this writing these appear to have been saved, but all the buildings to the left of them (west) have been destroyed. At the foot of Columbia mountain, in the background, lies the town of Columbia and between the northern edot of GolfipM anri r.i,..,h; -r. CHICAGO, July (By the Associated Press). Anv weaoon mav be mo auLiun 01 i-resiaent Harding Goldfield Railroad Company.

If all the buildings to the left of the street in the middle of the picture were used in obtaining political control public yesterday, before sail-Kovtrnment by the new Federated 1 ing from Tacoma for Alaska, corres-Farmer-Labor party created here last pondence passing between him and the niprht. This was said to have been in- I American Iron and Steel Institute, in xmyj aiuw vjuiuiieiu a ti is inis aiternoon arter the tire dieated in the tabling of a resolution which directors of the institute pledg ed themselves to abolish the twelve-hour day when a sufficient labor supply was assured. Mr. Gary declared the twelve-hour day would abolished within a reasonable length of time. As the supply of labor increases, he said, the lone- by the convention which would have l-'iied any group from its platform which advocated force or violence or wnicii in any way was affiliated with jn organization that sought political satisfactioiuexcept through the ballot.

Action Supported Twice This action Iwice was supported, fii taming the substitute platform GOLDFIELD, July 6. (Special). At three o'clock the fire had practically burned itself out. The destroyed area is still a mass of smoking wreckage, but the wind is still blowing away from the more substantial business and residence areas. The shops of the Tonopah Goldfield Railroad Company are still intact and at three o'clock were considered free from further danger.

The loss will not be short of half a million dollars, partly insured. This afternoon an old shoemaker named "Pete," with a shop next to Polin's store dropped dead from excitement, this being the only death recorded, although a number of persons were slightly in UNDERWOOD URGES JAPAN IS IRRITATED! HARDING ENJOYING U. S. GIVING AID -AT DEMANDS OF IIS TRIP TO TO EUROPE SOVIET NORTH day gradually would abolished and he pointed out that the supply was now increasing. Would Increase Cost of Steel He estimated that the change would require 60,000 additional employes and would increase the cost of finished steel prdoucts by fifteen per cent.

jured and some had narrow escapes. Thirty or forty persons were asleep in the National Hotel when it caught fire and lost all their possessions, some escaping in their night clohting. TOKIO. July 6. (By' the Associated rress).

If Russia persists in her demand that Japan accept full responsibility for the Allied expedition into GOLDFIELD, July 6. (3:00 p. the President's declaration in its fa The fire had practically burned itself out at three o'clock. The only large vor. Can't Say Precisely When "I cannot say certainly when the United States Steel Corporation or any other company will get rid of the buildings left standing in the camp are age office, $2000; Frank Marino dry goods store, $5000.

THE FIRST DISPATCH GOLDFIELD, July 6., 7:45 a. m. (Special) Fire which started in a building apposite the Goldfield hotel this morning at 7:30 o'clock wiped out three buildngs and threatened the business district of the town for the Goldfield hotel. Tribune and Elks building, Goldfield Consolidated office twelve-hour day," said Mr. Gary.

"butH and the court house. ABOARD U. S. S. HENDERSON, July 6.

(By the Associated Press). I'resident Harding was beyond American boundaries today enjoying life at sea in the comfortable cabin and on the decks of the marine transport Henderson. He left Tacoma, yesterday, accompanied by Mrs. Harding and members of his Alaskan party, amid the salutes of naval craft in Tacoma and Seattle waters. Destroyers-Escort the Transport Escorting the Henderson are- two American destroyers, the Hull and the Cony, equipped with depth finders and commanded by officers who recently ir.ade charts of the Pacific shore water dej-ths The attendance of the destroyers is due merely to the extraordinary precautions of naval authorities to surround the President with every pos shattered financial conditions" was advocated by Senator Undcrwod of Alabama, former Democratic floor leader, in a statement issued upon his return from Europe.

Needn't Enter League to Do It It would not be necessary, he thought for the United States to enter the League of Nation to fulfill its war-time "pledge to aid in securing the peace of the world." He declared the internatinal court of Justice held nothing that could "either solve or direct the difficult and dangerous economic and financial problems that are paralyzing the on Everything north of Myprs Btrett, on Main street, was destroyed. All of the I can say that they will commence to act very soon and will be very diligent in their efforts." He spoke of President Harding's very earnest efforts to abolish the twelve-hour day in the iron and steel industry," saying: "I am very glad that he propses to do this in our business and other lines. The President is very consistent and of the armer-Labor caucus which Included such a section, and later by tabling a resolution recommended by the minority of the resolution committee. The Federated Farmer-Labor party adjourned as a convention early today with only routine business of the elected executive committee on its hands. This committee was meet today to choose an executive council, other officers and map out a program.

The Farmer-Labor party will reconvene today to decide its fate as a party. Final Decision 1 It refused to join in the platform as adopted by the Federated group but reserved final decision until the platform was officially brought into the convention. National officers of the Farmer-Labor party last night were of the opinion that the party would not subscribe to the Federated organization. The representatives of the "Workers' party, an acknowledged branch of the Communists, are jubilant over the outcome, pointing out that the Farmer-Labor party is "on the run" every way it goes. If it votes to reject, then the Farmer-Labor party is scrapped.

If it votes to participate then its organization is merged. May Go to Federated Party A number of state groups of the Farmer-Labor party served notice in the caucus they would go with the Federated party, regardless of the official action of the organization. It appeared to observers that the radicals had captured the convention of the Farmer-Labor party which called delegates from industrial, economic and farmers' organizations to meet with them in reaching a common ground of political unity. west side of Columbia to Mineral is several hours. gone.

The fire stopped at the railroad The Brown-Parker garage, the tracks. The hospital, in the north end Xevada hotel and the Woods-Sulll-of town, was saved. van hardware store were gutted. The One hundred and twenty-five fam- fire burned along Main street belies are homeless and two large truck tween Crook and Ramsey streets, loads of food and bedding have already Dynamite was used to check the been sent from Tonopah, and a freight flames but in blowing up frame car is now being loaded. The only buildings the result onlv tended to Siberia during the World War the present conferences between A.

A. Joffe and Toshihiko Kawakami will end in deadlock, and there will be no supplementary negotiations for re-op-enfmyef tommercIaY relations between the two countries, according to the view generally expressed In Japanese circles. Already an impasse has been reached on the questions of the massacro of Japanese at Nikolaievsk and the soviet demand that Japan evacuate Northern Saghalien, the territory serized following the Nikolaievsk affair. Tokio insists on indemnities for the killing of Japanese nationals. It is stated, however, that any differences on one point in the conversations will not result in the conferences being called off until all available avenues of approach to the desired goal the opening of formal negotiations will have been explored.

After this has been done the two governments involved will decide whether it is possible to initiate final discussions for re-opening of relations between Tokio and Moscow. (Tarn to Two) sible safety during the voyage. The store left is the original place of Bar course follows tin inland passage from Puget Sound to Alaska and touches the ward progress of business development in Europe." More Causes for War Than Before Ife found more causes for war there at present, he said, than existed in January, 1914, and predicted that unless the financial and economic conditions abroad were remedied they would bring "distress and disaster to our people at home." Mr. Underwood made no reference to Democratic politics nor the possi make extra tinder to feed the flames. A southeast wind was fanning the flames toward the First National bank building and the old John S.

Cook building diagonally, opposite each other at Main and Ramsey streets, which it was believed would stop them, being fire-proof buildings. 5 PERSONS KILLED IN THUNDERSTORM low, next to the postoffice. Thirty complete blocks were burned over, including 150 homes or buildings. Eighteen cars were burned at the railroad depot. The total loss is estimated at from Water company officials said there was no lack of water, but that there was no pressure due to the fact that too many sections of hose were being used.

For some unaccountable reason at the beginning there was a delay of twenty minutes before first water was turned on. Then the fire was bevond open waters of the Pacific only for a few miles of the trip. Speed Is Only Twelve Knots The Henderson's speed was kept at an average of twelve knots, allowing smooth running without roll and with only scarcely noticeable tremor from the forty thousand horsepower reciprocating engines. The chief executive plans entire diversion from governmental affairs throughout the voyage. He and Mrs.

Harding today inspected the ship, (Here the wires failed.) bility of his becoming a presidential candidate, which he said, before his departure for Europe, he would dis PITTSBURG, July 6. Five per cuss upon his return. meeung ine personnel Both enjoyed control and in full possession of the sons were killed during a thunder storm which broke over the city late today. A man and woman were killed by coming in contact with electric wires struck by lightning. Another in fullest measure the first uninter- Nevada hotel, a three story frame rupted rest since departing from DAN ELS DEN ES building adjoining the garage Washington.

man was struck lightning while standing on the porch of his residence and two women met death when their automobile skidded on a slippery road NOT SABOTAGE GOLDFIELD ONE OF LAST OF FAMOUS GOLD BOOM CAMPS OF THE GREAT WEST Town Originally Started in Columbia but Strikes of High Grade Ores Mile Away Swells Population Almost Overnight to Was Scene of Gans-Nelson Fight TONOPAH SENDS NEWS TONOPAH, 10:45, July 6. (Special) The wind is blowing forty miles an hour from the southeast which would carry fire from its start in the Brown Parker garage to the Goldfield hotel and down Columbia street with the best buildings in the town directly in its path. On the corner of Columbia and Crooke streets stands the Tribune office in a three story building owned by Charles S. Sprague. The upstairs is occupied by apartments.

The Elks Club forms part of the News building, beingr constructed jointly. South of the Tribune office is the Goldfield Candy Company owned by Felis, a Greek. There is a news stand in the lobby of the post-office and the postoffice occupies the space to an alley. On the Columbia street side the Elks occupy a frontage of fifty feet, three stories high. The whole building is used by them.

while they were hurrying to shelter from the downpour. i U. S. INVESTIGATES FERRY BOAT RIOT The heat was so intense the windows of the Goldfield hotel across Columbia street were broken but the fire did not enter the building. Jumping across Crook street aid whirling down to Main street, licking up shacks, on both sides and halting temporarily at the National hotel with its massive masonry side offering resistance the flames then shot through the front windows and fifteen minutes later bridged Ramsey street, entering the immense warehouse and retail store of the Palace hardware.

From that point to the shops where the fire burned out, it was nothing short of a fiery whirlwind. The Cook CAPT. AMUNDSEN NEW YORK, July 6. There was plenty of evidence of sabotage when the Vaterland, now the Leviathan, was taken over by the American government, former Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels informed the New York Times today in a telegram from La Junta. Colo Mr.

Daniels declared his first im ABANDONS FLIGHT Goldfieid, which was swept by fire today, is one of the last of the gold SAN FRANCISCO, July 6. The arrest of seven San Francisco youths who created a near-panic on an automobile ferryboat bound from San Francisco to Sausalito last Tuesday night by attacking members of the crew was referred today to the federal schools and churches were built and a sturdy little city rose from the malapai. It was made the county seat of Esmeralda county, and a fine stone court house was built. The Goldfield Hotel The Goldfield hotel, a splendid brick boom towns of the West, and has a history as stirring as that of any of bank had its plate glass front broken in and floors flooded. Records, typewriters and counting machines were NOME, ALASKA, July 6.

(By the pulse, on being questioned on the subject was to ask: "When is the propaganda endeavoring to make an its predecessors. Situated in the Low authorities here for action. According gels out of Germans guilty, of murder structure, in the midst of the sage and er Nevada desert, in the sink of the "malapai," credited with being the cra Associated Press. Capt. Roald Amundsen has definitely abandoned his proposed flight by airplane across the North Pole from Wainwright, Alaska, to Spitbzergen, according to Gunnar on U-boats and saints of the com ter of an extinct voicano, it has seen alkali wastes of the Lower Nevada desert, put on a force of natty bell hops, and held dress suit affairs, at which the desert bronzed "sour manders in charge of interned German ships to cease?" Even after two months' work in re pushed into the vault before the fire was checked from gaining a foothold.

The bank reopened this afternoon for urgent business. Relief measure were organized in Tonopah as soon as the extent of the fire was realized and a truck load of bread and provisions of all kinds was rushed to the southern camp which is left without supplies of any kind. its population swell overnight to more than twenty thousand, and then fall Adjoining Elks is O'Daniels barber shop, Frisco Bakery and the Registration Trust Company's three-story brick building with John S. Cook Co's bank as the chief tenant, and then the Wingfield mining company offices in the old Consolidated building at the corner of Ramsey street. J.

G. McMahon occupies the upper floors for a dwelling. First news was received over tha wires of the power company, which went down before details could be had. The telephone company wires are down. It is reported the fire is beyond control.

Tonopah has tendered help in the shape of hose but the firemen here dare, not take the risk of leaving owing to the prevailing gale. pairing the damage, Mr. Daniels to tne report the youths knocked Capt. Jacob Raahauge of the ferryboat unconscious, and it was necessary for the first officer to take the boat to its slip. Fire buckets and life preservers were ust'd as missiles, and the women and children passengers huddled together, surrounded by their male escorts, to keep from bing struck, according to the report.

The youths were placed under arrest while trying to escape at Sausalito in a big touring car. Kaasan, the explorer dog team driver, who arrived here today on the schooner Sea Wolf from Kotzebue and Wainwright. FRANCE TO RATIFY the navy dejartment did not risk the lives of American soldiers on the ship until after a long trial cruise had been made. THE LOSSES The losses include: Clyde Cannan drug store, $3000; Louie Polin, $4000; doughs" looked on, wool shirted and with pants' legs thrust fnto sun baked boots. Sun Dog avenue, near Main street, became an attractive thoroughfare of homes.

An aviation field and baseball park were plotted out. Thirty miles to the north the silver camp of Tonopah set itself up as a picturesque rival for fame. Many of the "diggins" trailed away into worthless clay tailings, however. The shack towns around the mine WASHINGTON PACTS ATTORNEY ritcnett Stationery Company, $1200; Palace Hardware store, $8000; California beer hall. $1000; Floyd Cable's sec away to a few dwindling hundreds as the boom died down.

Goldiield had its first start in Columbia, known also as "Grandma," a shack-town to the immediate west, ana the head of a few fairly promising gold trailingsj. They Strike It Rich Later a group of young engineers came out of the East and established the Engineers' claim on the barren rock-ribbed hills of the malapai, the French name for "bad land." They struck it rich and the boom was on. FACTORIES CLOSE DUESSELDOUF. July 6. Two branch factories of the Krupp works Fred B.

Mechhng, manager of the PARIS, July 6. Premier Poincare now expects ratification of all the Washington treaties by parliament be fore it takes its mid-summer recess FEDERAL JUDGE power company, and scores of autos here have gone from Tonopah and are on the way. Mechling wa3 first to report that all buildings on the east side next week, it was learned today. Min shafts were deserted one by one. The boom had passed but a fair-sized little town remained, living in the hope that another boom would come.

isterial inquiries in both houses have indicated that a large majority for ond hand store, $2000; Jensen's second hand store, $1500; Frank Davison's second hand store, $1000. E. T. Mills' garage, $2000; Tonopah Goldfield main offices, Western Union Telegraph Company's office, $10,000. National hotel, a four story stone building at the corner of Main and Ramsey, Nevada hotel, opposite the Goldfield hotel, Brown-Parker garage with twenty privately-owned cars, United Cattle Packing Company, including refriger near itten have been compelled to close down because of the lack of raw materials and as a result of other restrictions ordered by the French as a penalty for the Duisburg train bombing.

SANBORN RE-ELECTED BOSTON, July 6. Rev. Mark F. Sanborn of Detroit, was re-elected president of the Baptist Young Peo of Columbia street including the foregoing were saved and that the fire is raging north towards Columbia. This would take in the Polin store at the corner of Columbia and Ramsey and "Grandma" was practically deserted and a new town was started, first a ratification is probable.

EIGHT DIE IN WRECK hybrid mushrooming of tents, clap INDIANAPOLIS. July 6. Dimitre Economoff, an attorney of Gary, Ind filed suit in circuit court here today against Judge A. B. Anderson of the lnited States district court, charging that he was illegally imprisoned for contempt of court.

He asks 100,000 the Tonopah Goldfield railroad offices on the opposite corner in a two- FOUR FIREMEN HURT IN Rl 47F WELLINGTON, New Zealand. July 6. Eight persons were killled and thirty-eight injured yesterday when an Auckland-Wellington express train story stone building. ple Union of America today, ator plant. $25,000: Schlanzer broker was derailed near Taumarunus.

TONOPAH, Jujy 6, 11:37 a. m. (Special) The Tonopah Goldfield damages board gambling halls and occasionally a more imposing edifice of grav sandstone. This was in 1904. Stock Exchange Active The Goldfield Consolidated was formed and sank a few stunningly rich shafts.

The little stock exchange on Main street swarmed throughout the day with a picturesque throng, liberally helping themselves from the stream of gold or throwing all into the stream road's agent in Tonopah has been IIU1II 111 ULriL.L.1 FIGHT FILMS SHOW NO FIGHT TO MAKE WAR ON SERPENTS notified that the main offices ane destroyed and the fire is now in the old Cook Bank building at Main and SO U. S. DOESN'T SEIZE 'EM BY DEADLY POISON GASES in an effort to stem it as it occasion OAKLAND, July S. Four firemen were injured seriously in a fire that wiped out the three-story building of the Gilchrist Furniture Company at Thirteenth and Clay streets late last night.2Early estimates placed the dam xesieraay, rederal agents armed with "John Doe" warrants kept a vigil the bureau to be among the most fatal to animals with respiratory systems ally lowered to a disheartening trickle. CHICAGO, July 6.

Motion picture films showing the scenes around Shelby preceding the Dempsey-Gibbons fight there July 4, but not showing the actual fighting between the two box ai two airplane landing fields here Labor troubles led to the sending of and will be tried first. Other gases when they learned that the films of United States troops to the camp and me ngnt were enroute here by air plane. They abandoned their -watch a sharp' correspondence between Gov. John Sparks and President Roosevelt. The Gans-Nelson Fight A prize fight, the Gans-Nelson light Ramsey streets.

The ground floor here is occupied as a general store and is owned by Barlow who recently installed a $9000 ice plant. Barlow bought "the building a year ago. This building received eighty million dollars in gold during the boom. The force of the flames may be conjectured from the fact that the railroad headquarters are a massive stone building and the old Cook bank to the west across the aJley, with. Western Union offices at alley, corner, also a stone building, art all semi fire-proof.

Impelled by the gale the flames i traveling like a prairie fire going dl- late last night when they were advised SAN ANTONIO. Tex, July 6. (By the Associated Press). Poisonous gases will be used in the destruction of Texas rattlesnakesaccording to present plans of the predatory animal bureau of the United States department of agriculture, assisted by the chemical warfare service of the Eighth army corps area. Maj.

George M. Halloran, chemical warfare officer of the corps, rail begin experiments soon to dete- which may be used in the experiments are chlorine, which asphyxiates, and mustard gas, which sears and burns. The preliminary tests will be conducted at Fort Sam Houston, under the plans. "It is planned to ascertain through the summer which gas is most deadly tnat the plane said to be carrying the films was forced down at Minneapolis because of adverse weather conditions. age at all the way from $50,000 to $150,000.

The most seriously injured of the firemen were Capt. Manuel Basso, who was struck by falling timber, and George Grazer, engineman, hit by part of a wall. Engineman Charles Grazer and Truckman Leslie Becker suffered severe abrasions and were overcome by smoke. An explosion of unknown origin is ers, were submitted to the federal authorities here today for inspection. It was said that the government auth-ritoies probably would permit the pictures to be exhibited.

The companies owning films notified the federal agents' of their presence In Chicago today. It was at first reported that films of the actual fighting between Dempsey and Gibbons were seized. weight championship contest in 1906, revived the boom somewhat, but by this time the town had been shaken down from a boom to a business basis, and the Goldfield Consolidated and other big concerns had taken the places The films of the actual fighting an the ring were reported on their way here by airplane from Minneapolis. Three planes bearing the fight pictures to the rattlesnake, and when cold weather comes and the reptiles have gone to dens and hibernating places, to experiment on them en masse," said an announcement. mine which gas Is the most effective were said to have left the Minnesota of the swarming prospectors.

in killing snakes. city tms morning. The railroad came. substantial said to hare preceded the fire. (Tura to Page Two) Phosgene generally is considered by.