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THE WHITE PINE NEWS Published by the WHITE PINE NEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY. A. VA MEAN Editor TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One year (by carrier).$10.00 One month (by carrier).... 1.00 Single copies.05 Weekly Mining Review. 3.00 Advertising rates made known on application. 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. _ P 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. c OUR AIM and AMBITION A progressive Bank in a progressive town in the great and progressive west C, We are getting there. Your business in this section will be ap preciated. .*. BANK of ELY (INCORPORATED) BEAUTIFUL DISPLAY AMERICAN CUT GLASS ^ The tinest line ever shown in Ely. The very latest designs. LEWIS, The Busy Druggist NEW STORE OX AUI.TMAX. First National Bank CAPITAL FULLY PAID. $50,000. II. P. Clark.President A. D. Myers.Vice-Pres. 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. • COR. MURRY AND HIGH STS. ELY ICE MEG. CO. Re-distilled Water Ice Watch for Wagon Phone 9tz OLSON’S When Driving From Ely to Kim berly, don’t forget to qnench your thirst with a fresh glass of Becker Beer at OLsSON’5 Lane City, Nevada THE MODEL MEAT MARKET Lane City When you miners want good, fresh meats demand that you are supplied by the Model Meat Mar ket. We Handle Only the Best and Freshest, and sell both by retail and wholesale. C. D. SOCWELL LANE CITY, NEVADA ... i Salt LakeTransferCo. Teams anti Saddle Horses always on hand. The best of service. .’. / .\ | 3rd St.. Between Aultman and High 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 FOR AND MEAT MARKET ni TQf with a full line of Fine Groceries ^ and Choice Meats. 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