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THE WHITE PINE NEWS
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Entered as second-class matter
January 31. 1907, at the postifSce
at Ely, Ntvada. under the act of con
gress of March 3, 1S79.
I (ear Major, we are not responsi
ble for your shortcomings in the mat
ter of inability to read plain Eng
lish. Try a night school course, or
possibly a correspondence school.
The legislature of Florida has
raised the age of consent for girls
from 10 years to IS years It has
gone further and passed a law for
bidding the employment of children
under 13 years of age. This latter
move takes 5,000 children from out
of shops and factories and puts them
in school. Good for way-hack little
Florida. She's a-coming.
Our evening contemporary is ur
able to deal fairly even in quoting
us. It would have its readers i-elieve
that the News has attacked the ei
tire community of Ely. Egofisti
Major, egotism. The little gang tf
kickers we have been after, and cf
which your journal appears to !*•
the nursing bottle, represent a very
small minority of the good people of
Ely. We have made i r opinion in
that regard very e’ear in the. Ia3t
several days and hope no: to
called upon to reBr to the r,atter
again.
The Heinze's could do thing's tn
Montana, ut the atmospheric condi
tion in Wall street has been their
undoing. There they went up against
the real thing. With them three
other financial pirates and woolly
financial plungers, Chas. W. Morse.
E. R. Thomas and O. F. Thomas,
went to the grave yard. Each of
them had reached dizzy heigts at the
head of a bank. The banks and de
positors were saved, but at the ex
pense of throwing the pirates over
hoard.
Steptoe valley is one of the most
extensive of the world. It has length
of more than 1,500 miles, through
which it is said railroad can lie built
with grade of one-half per cent. The
day will come when dry farming
methods will bring a great part of
this splendid valley under cultiva
tion. The products of its rich soil
will sustain the mining districts of
the state beside sending abroad in
the country a large surplus which
will bring back gold for our greater
prosperity. Much of this great val
ley will be tributary to Ely. Big are
the things whicu we have to look
forward to here, not only as a great
mining and smelting center but as a
trade pxoints for a vast agricultural
region as well.
The dry farming congress which
will be held in Salt Lake City this
winter should be productive of a
great deal of good for Nevada. Mil
lions of acres in the state are open
to profitable cultivation under dry
farming methods. On a recent trip
over the lines of the Salt Lake rail
road and of the Tonopah & Tidewater
railroads in the southern part of the
state, the writer found the system
being worked successfully in a small
way as a beginning, at several places
in the desert. One man, Mr. Rasor of
Rasor station on the Tidewater, has
homesteaded 16*0 acres on which he
is experimenting successfully with
the growth of California eucalyptus
trees, with the view of marketing
them at maturity for railroad ties.
Cut off close to the ground the eu
calyptus sprouts and grows up again.
Along the Nevada Northern there are
hundreds of thousands of acres of
valley land better adapted to such
purpose and to general dry farming
than the lands along the Tidewater.
Built for traffic of the mining indus
try, the Nevada Northern will some
day find its business from agricul
tural development a big item of in
come in country It traverses.
IS THERE A HARK PLOT HERE?
The diarrhoea of words with which
our evening contemporary sets up an
alleged defense of itB position in op
position to the Nevada Northern rail
road counts for nothing with those
who think, who use their intelli
gence to the end of forming fair
judgment.
The facts as set forth in the Ne-1
vada Northern answer to the com
plaint of Mr. M' loy and others re
main intact. The}' demonstrate
plainly to all who deal fairly that
the railroad cannot do as the peti
tioners liefore the railroad commis
sion would have them do without
placing itself in position as an ever
present menace to the life and limb
of people who are constantly obliged
to move from one side of the town
to the other, nor without bringing up
a large amount of litigation through
condemnation proceedings. which
would not only make for much le
gal expense on both sides but also
greatly damage the realty values of
Ely.
Can it be that in their urgency in
this matter, the organized kickers,
who falsely allege themselves to be
representative of the people of Ely,
have a deep and dark plot under
their vests? Are they ribbing up
in conjunction with shysters
litigation on legs, arms and lives and
on realty actions for damages at the
expense of the Ely public? In no
such deal would we for a minute pre
sume that our evening contemporary
would knowingly have part. But it
does look to us as if it were beine
I plaved for a sucker.
NOT MICH OF A SHOWER.
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What is called a financial panic in
these times is the merest trifie com
! pared with the real thing such as
came to pass in 1857. At that time
the currency was issued by state and
! private banks and carried no govern
ment guaranty whatever. In those
days a citizen scanned the news to
see if the bank notes in his pocket
were good or not. Wildcat currency
was plentiful, its discount varying
J from day to day, so that the business
3 man had to calculate how much his
« daily receipts would be shaved by the
brokers. Not a tenth part of the
paper money was at par. and the en
tire issue of a bank was frequently a
, total I0S3. Fifty years ago the credit
| of the United States was by no means
gilt edged, judged by the heavy in
terest rate it was required to pay.
The government was not in a posi
tion to be of much help in the crisis.
The people struggled through the
genera] crash as best they could.
In 1857 many banks closed and
j their depositors lost practically all.
They also lost such currency as they
held from broken banks of issue. In
finitely better is the situation now.
Not a single depositor is known to
have suffered any loss recently. Ev
eery dollar of the currency passes un
questioned at full gold value
AS TO WHERE THE BLAME BESTS
—
The Expositor has fallen to snivel
ing in this Nevada Northern business.
It tells us now that all the bicker
ing that has been had is the other
fellow's fault, that the organized
kickers didn't start it but they, poor
devils, have been hounded and per
secuted from the start. It is the
licked school boy’s attitude at home
in mother's arms after the teacher
has administered a deserved drub
bing.
To get at the facts in the case,
we have been at some pains to look
j over the files of newspaper publica
I tions in the district since the com
j ing of the railroad and the other
j large interests which have dumped
| millions in here to make for devel
opment, growth, high property values
and prosperity where there was be
fore their coming nothing out a
brave though struggling pork and
| beans prominence. In these files we
| find that the kickers have been busy
! from the beginning and that they as
sert that which is not true when
they take the stand that the other
fellow started anything other than
the lease on the life of prosperity
which commenced with his coming.
! On the other hand, the interests
which have made the district in the
last few years, by the incontrovertible
evidence of the newspaper files, have
] been busy attending to their own af
! fairs, pushing along as rapidly as pos
sible on the live and let live trail.
Let's all get onto it. There is room
and plenty for everybody In the dis
trict. The growth bound to come up
in the next few years will make the
petty attitude of the kickers toward
any particular division of the camp
of today look absurd. Pulling to
gether this growth, bound to come,
can he made faster than with pres
ence of discord, even if It Is small
and definitely branded. Eliminate it.
gentlemen, and help with progress
along fair lines. Put your shoulders
squarely In the collars, drop side is
sues and jump in for results for the
whole district, and resultant benefits
In big. liberal measure for every
body.
WATTERSON ON i>ROHIBITION.
In his address at the opening of the
Blue Grass fair, at Lexington, Ken
tucky, Henry Watterson, of the Lou
isville Courier-Journal, had the
moral courage to say what most peo
ple think of prohibition, and of the
religious and other cranks who want
to reform the world by foolish laws:
"I protest against that religion
which sands the sugar and waters its
milk before it goes to its prayers. I
protest against the morality which
poses as a saint in public to do as it
pleases in private. As the old woman
said of the old man’s swearing. ‘If
there's anything I do hybominate it's
hypocrisy.’ In my opinion. that
which threatens Kentucky is not the
gentlemanly vices of the race course
and the sideboard, but perfidy and
Phariseeism in public and private life.
"The men who made the blue grass
famous, who put the brand of glory
upon its women, its horses and its
vintage, were not ashamed to tak • a
drink nor to lay a wager. thoug : they
paid their losses and urderstoo 1
where to draw the line. They mark
ed the distinction between modera
tion and intemperance. They did not
need to be told what honor is. They
lielieved, as I believe, that there is
such a thing as pretending to more
virtue than honest mortals can hope
i to attain.
"I know very well how- I shall be
rated for saying this: how my words
will be misrepresented and misquoted
and misconstrued: I told you not to
ask me to come here: lmt being here,
I am bound to speak as I am given
the mind to think and the light to
see. and to warn our people agajnst
the intrusion of certain isms" which
describe themselves as 'Progress.'
and muster under the standards of
what they call 'God and Morality,’
; but which, fifty years ago, went by
a very differe'nt name; ‘isms' which
: take their spirit from Cotton Mather,
not from Jesus Christ; ‘isms' which,
where they cannot rule, would burn
at the stake; isms" which embrace
the sum of all fanaticism and intol
erance, proposing that, instead of the
rich, red blood of \ irginia. ice water
shall flow through the veins of the
j people; ‘Isms’ which, in one word,
would blot Kentucky out of the gal
1 axy of stars and recreate her in the
; dread image of Maine and Kansas.
"I refuse to yield to these. Hold
' ing the ministry in reverence as spir
! itual advisers, rejecting them as
emissaries of temporal power. I do
not intend, if I can help it, to be
compelled to accept a rule of modern
clericalism, which, if it could have
its bent and sway, would revive for
us the priest-ridden systems of the
middle ages. I do not care to live
in a world that is too good to be
genial; too ascetic to be honest; too
proscriptive to be happy. I do not
believe that men can be angels. The
‘blue laws' of England—dead letters
; for the most part—did more harm to
the people whilst they lasted, than
all other agencies united. I wpuld
leave them in the cold storage to
which the execration of some and
the neglect of all consigned them
long ago, not embalm and. import
them to Kentucky to poison the meat
and drink and character of the peo
ple.
‘‘I want to live yet a little longer
still to tell the truth and shame the
devil; but if obscurity and neglect
I and adversity shall overtake me, it
will be a comfort even in the valley
of the shadow of death that from
first to last I fdught, not for the
speckled gospels of the short haired
women and the long haired men of
Babylon, but for the simple manhood
and lovely womanhood of Old Ken
tucky—never New Kentucky, but al
ways and forever Old Kentucky—
your birthright and mine.”
Right you are, Mr. Watterson.
The way to manage the liquor traflicj
—
m
is to license and put it under police
control. Make is share the public
burden along with other business.
There is not a so-cailed dry town,
county or state in all the country
that is not full of disreputable re
sorts where the traffic is carried on
and where those desiring drink can
get it. It pays no taxes into the treas
ury. It is responsible for no damage
it does. It is demoralizing, an edu
cator of sneaks, and a breeder of
perjurers. While humanity is made
the way it Is. men will indulge, right
or wrong, in tonics. Why not con
trol it? Why not put it on a busi
ness footing, and make it responsi
ble for the devilment it does if any?
KANSAS AMI NEVADA.
I
I
Colonel Bent Murdock of El Dora
do, Kansas, sold a drove of hogs the
| other day, from which he realized
$2,750. He went to the bank and
fished the big roll of greenbacks out
of his boot and tendered it to the
cashier of the bank, with a deposit
! slip.
“What do you want to do with
that money?’’ asked the cashier.
“I want to deposit it here." said
Colonel Murdock.
“We can't do anything for you.”
said the cashier. “Our vault is so
full that we have to jump on the
money at night to force it into the
vaults. We can't take your money.”
"Well," said Colonel Murdock, per
suasively as he drew a .44 calibre re
volver and leveled it at the cashier,
"you'd better hire a heavier man to
'tromp' on that money, and put mine
with the rest."
The cashier accepted the deposit.
That's the way it is in Nevada.
Instead of it being a little bunch of
hogs that are sold, on which a few
paltry hundreds of dollars are real- i
ized. the people of Nevada are tak
ing hundreds of thousands of dollars
out of the ground in virgin gold, in
copper, in lead and silver. The gold
and silver come ready for coinage. 1
The lead and copper are ready for
commerce—and the land is not im
poverished by constant cultivation.
The banks are full of money, and
the vaults are bigger than they make >
them in Kansas.
It's better to live in Nevada than
in Kansas, anyway.
Suppose Ely’s railroad depot
should give way to a street rail wav
passenger station, what would there
be in it but advantage? Wouldn't
fifteen or twenty, and in time more
trains a day running into the old
town carrying trade for its stores and
people for its streets be of far greater
value than the one train a day
the railroad now brings?
Get Zimmerman s bread at Xun
nelly's. tf
Ilurgains at Assignee Sale of Me
loy Mercantile Co. stock.
If you want to figure on getting
Spring Water piped into your home,
call phone 27-X. Langley, the
Plumber. tf
A warm fire in the winter keeps j
away the blues and makes you "com- j
forty” and keeps the babies good na
tured. Fill your fuel box from the I
bunkers of the Ely Lumber and Coal j
company while it is plenty.
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.
Treasurer's Office, Ely, White Pine
County, Nevada, November 1,1907.
Please take notice that the State,
County and Special Taxes for the
year 1907 are now due and payable
at my office. All taxes (save and ex
cept amounts due on second install
ment) remaining unpaid at 6 o'clock
p. m. December 2, 1907, will then be
come delinquent and 10 per cent be
added thereto.
Parties paying in semi-annual in- j
stallments are required to pay on the 1
first installment the full amount of |
I toll tax due in addition to one-half
of the real and personal property tax.
Checks are not preferable and may j
be refused In payment of taxes.
.1. F. MILES,
County Treasurer and Ex-Officio Tax
Receiver.
First publication Nov. 1, 1907.
Last publication Dec. 2, 1907.
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A. B. Witcher.Cashier
J. W. Bigganc . . . Asst. Cashier
Directors: H. A. Comins,
G. L. Kirkard. H. W. Kelley. H.
I*. Clark, A. D. Myers.
The Hayes Park Hotel
Is again under the direct manage
mi nt of Miss Ellen Hayes. It has
been thoroughly renovated from
top to bottom, repainted, repaper
ed, rccarpetod and refurnished.
The Hayes Park is one of the best
homes for people in Ely; always
quiet and elegant.
Rooms by the Night or Month
Ely Millinery Store
Ladies' and Children’s Dress
Hats, Street Hats and Tailor
Made. Hats trimmed to
order. Embroidery materials
and notions.
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OLSON’S
When Driving From Ely to Kim
berly, don’t forget to qnench your
thirst with a fresh glass of Becker
Beer at
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When you miners want good,
fresh meats demand that you are
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We Handle Only the Best and
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Teams anti Saddle
Horses always on
hand. The best
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PROMENADE
on tbe board walb of Ely
City tbis evening, and tben en=
joy a first class dinner at tbe
tStepfo® Hotel
tbe handsomest, best con=*
ducted and most reasonable
Cafe in Nevada.
I OPEN NUNNELLY S GROCERY
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ni TQf with a full line of Fine Groceries
^ and Choice Meats.
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If not, better build a house, and buy your
lumber from us. We have it. “The Big Yard.”
ELY LUMBER & COAL CO.
H. W. CULBERTSON, Manager
Telephone Main 21 East Aultman Street
I JOHN STEMPER
Purveyor to the Meat-eating Elyites
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Meat at Reasonable Prices
Aultman Street Near Third
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