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WHITE PINEHHEWS I WBBKLY MIINIINO REVIEW ESTABLISHED IN 1868 EAST ELY^ WHITE PINE COUNTY, NEVADA, SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 1919. ~ VOL. XLVIII. HO. 17 JURICK MAKES COMPLAINT AT Attorney Anthony .turich, In-liev nK that the Nevada Northern Hall vay ns a common carrier and public utility should make every effort to continue the train service which ia life only artery of communication be tweeh Ely and the outside and through which the supply of food ,tnd necessities of life must come, ti*s put the matter before the Rall ,oad Commission in the form of a sTittcn complaint of which (he fol lowing is a copy: Hon J H. Shaughneaay. Chairman, Nevada Railroad Commission. Car son City, Nevada ‘ Dear Sir The Nevada Northern iiailway company has Issued to the ublii a statement to the effect that t will not operate its main line train tomorrow. I also understand other statements have been iaaued to the (feet that alter Saturday, August 9, 'he main line train will cease operat es until further notice. "( believe that this action of the railway company in tbia respeot is ■a violation or the statutes as well is (he law ot the state and the rules isd regulations of your commission Vi a railroad is a public utility, it -omee within your Jurisdiction and I hlnk it is proper for you to issue an rder commanding the railroad to j immediately re instate the service. Tbe people of tiiia community, | numbering between eight and ten | thousand depend for the necessities if life upon this railroad and I can not concede that it can arbitrarily eaw operating. While tbe trouble i* caused by a dispute between the ompany and its eni'iloyes, ne\erthe- l iese the railroad owes a duty to the publk and regardless of what the dis pute may be, it should be compelled to render proper service. "You can consider this letter at a complaint upon my part ns a resf dent, citizen and taxpayer of this i outity Signed) VNTftONY JURICII Keiative to tnc above and as may he noted elsewhere In this Issue of ■he News, the railway company an nounces that until further notice the | <’obre-Ely passenger train will be run >a Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur days. The contingencies of the strike »* associated with union rules and "outracts with employes, place the maintenance of motive power entire ly up to the physical endurance of »ne man, the mater mechanic. Mr. E. E. Jarrett, who alone If authorized <o do <juih work on locomotives to Keep them In operation, as one man may he able to do alone. The rail road management takes the view that inasmuch as there Is a limitation to man's physical powers, it Is better to attempt an intermittent sentce mther ihnu no aorvlce at all In I hi present contest both sides <»pear to be going strictly In accord race with prescribed rules <HAN(iK IN HCTIKIHTiK OF MAIN |,I\k I’AKSKNORR TRAIN Effective August I, 1819, the main dae passenger train will be operated "» the following schedule until fur ther notice leave Ely.. 6:15 a. m. heave East R|v 6:20 a. m. >*»ve McGill . 7:10 a. m. •-ea'e Cherry Creek 8:46 a. m. heave Currie 9:65 a. m. Arrive Shatter .11:45 a. m. Arrive Cobre 12:30 p.m. f*ave Cobre . 3:00 p. m heave Shatter . 3:45 p.m. '*ave Currie . 5:30 p.m •-oave Cherry Creek 6:35 p ni. Arrive McGill . 8:10 p m. Arrive East Ely . 8:55 p. m. Arrive Ely . 9:00 p.m NEVADA NORTHERN RY CO Th0 above schedule was modified h) notice posted yesterday, to he ef fective Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sat urdays, until further notice. '• < diupton Visiting Ely. A. d. Camp ton. founder of the ampton Commercial company, l*» ."Pending u vacation In Ely. He de parted yesterday on a fishing (rip and °u,lng of several days' duration FOUND ARANDONED PACKARD CAR IN MILLS NEAR FLV Last week while travelling over the country south of Ely Meesrs Harned and Hall of East Ely found a 1917 model Packard car ataDdon ed near a pile of Junk. The car was camouflaged with brush and rubbish and was without n number. After supplying gas and oil the car was driven to Ely where the sheriff was notified, who wired to Salt Lake giv ing the number of the engine, but received a reply that no record of such a number was recorded in the list oi missing cars. The lucky tind ers were told to hold the car until the owner appeared and submitted prool to his property. As yet no one has appeared and the holders are be ginning to think they will be able re. tain the machine. OOt’NTY iU ILDINO KINK ItoAl) I'lie work on the county road south of Coining lake Is progressing rapidly The bad at retch of road between the lake and Connor’s pass w ill 1m put in line condition in a short time. This road will be about twenty feet wide and will be graveled through the center to the width of twelve feet. The road building outfit is doing fine Wfork, having already completed in less than three days what it would take men and teams to do in as many weeks HOW TOURIST HI HELPS LOCIL TRADE Thia will interest those who ask whether the tourist travel is worth anything to Ely. Hast Thursday night a Packard car, drawing a trailer, rolled in from the east, The car stopped at one of (he garages aud while one of the men was inquiring for a repair part for the trailer, the other asked 0.8. Hoag about camping ground and Mr. Hoag directed him to Citizens' park. Biol ogizing for Its unfinished condition and explaining what the people of Ely were tryiug to do. The traveler commended the spirit shown and mentioned the benefit such travel w’as to the town. At four o’clock the next afternoon he again hunted up Mr. Hoag and said he hud kept track of what he had spent thus far—less than twen ty-four hours in town. His account read: Groceries (principally at Camp ton's) . * ».79 Hardware (Campion's) . 1.05 Dry Goods (Campion's and Golden Rule). 30.90 Drugs and Jewelry (Steptoe and Bishop) . 10.90 Elite Cafe . 7.2$ Shoe shop . 90 Blacksmith and two garages 22.00 Total .$82.79 And the party did not leave town tor another seventeen lionra alter the account was rendered ISHKS8MENT WOKK I .\KM'*TIOX. _ I Congressman Evans has sent the lnfornuttlon to Nevada that the reso lution suspending ass'ssuient work for 191!) has passed the House and Is expected to pass the Senate Thft resolution provides that there : hull be no suspension to any one claimant f»r more than live claims. Will Assist Soldiers. J. I). Wallace, local representative of the New York Life Insurance com pany, has been enrolled as a volun teer to assist returned soldiers and sailors in converting their govern ment insurance. He will gladly give any assistance desired Mayor WHclier Hoturn*. Mayor A It. Witcher returned last week from California where lie has been visiting his brother. The mayor inado tho trip in his automobile le mming by way of Tonopuh. Makes Final Proof. John Henriod of Parker has made his final proof ou his homestead en try in the eastern part of the county near Parker. The papers were for warded to the Elko land office iSs. week. Hack front California. Manager Arthur Smith of the Ely S' in.iio company returned last week *rom a business trip in CalJ ! fornia STATE TAKES A HAND IN WHITE PINE COUNTY’S ALLEGED LAXITY OF PROHIBITION-LAW ENFORCEMENT The orphan' whiskey that has been held by county (officials, ex ploited as a subject of local interoet in the columns of the News for the j ust two or three issues and the sub ject of a stilt in the local courts, has resulted in a state-wide mental "Jag,’’ productive of more or less violent outbursts, particularly at Reno and 'in the environs of the Honorable Governor and the State Police. The whiskey represented 300 caacs confiscated by the county sheriff; the suit was of Peter George et al and Grover Stoll/ against Sheriff W. S3. Knalow to recover whiskey claimed b'y plaintiffs to have been taken and held illegally, etc., etc. Then enters the state with the ap IKdntment of .lames M Lockhart, as deputy attorney generaj, with In structions to get busy and do some thing to prevent the return of the whiskey to the alleged owners. As told in the News last Sunday, Deputy Attorney General I/ockhart got busy and issued a restraining order where by the return of the whiskey to the plaintiffs is prohibited. Whatever other complications may he associated in the case, the main isaue al j.resent is the implication cast on White Pine county by the chief executive, who has ordered the state police here to enforce the dry law. because, as stated in a Carson City dispatch in the Reno (lazeue, of ‘'information reaching the govern or and attorney general within the last few days to the effect that con ditions relative to the liquor traffic In \\ hite Pine county are very had, and that the officers there have failed to a« t when action was justi fied.’' Ollier stale papers have taken up the story more or less amplified, and the Inference is that this county has ‘seceeded'' from the commonwealth and Is the only section in the great and glorious state of Nevada where Bacchus is openly worshipped and John Barleycorn holds sway in de fiance to law and order. Ureal Corks and Bottles! The county commissioners, the I county sheriff, the district attorney and others are sorer than boils; reso lutions have been adopted, and the wires have been kept hot with tele grams pro and con, mainly to the eff«>ct that White Pine county is j>er fcetly well able to handle the liquor situation without ihe help of the governor, the state police or anyone else. Deputy Attorney General l-ock hart is well In the tenter of the limelight and having the time of hi3 life pulling the tail and whiskers of the recalcitrant public morals. The Gazette forgets for the moment Its divorce scandals, gambling dives and bllud tigers and plays up White Pine county under streamer heads, and in Friday's Issue quotes the deputy at torney general as stating that "one of the saloons of Kly has closed Its ‘booze-selling annex’ and discharged its *10-a-day man." Hundreds of good, clean drinkers of the past wet regime are viewing the spectacle with slavering chops and wondering why, if all this con viviality hud been going on, they had not gotten in on it. The governor arrived last night to discuss the strike issue and as a sup plementarj issue he will in all prob ability have an opportunity to dis cuss with county officials the booze Issue The chier executive and the state polled Hre noble in their inter pretation of that lovely character who said: "Lips that touch liquor shall nev er touch"—it any more If we can prevent it. The county commissioners have taken u hand In the matter and pass ed resolutions condemning the action of the stnte in sending state police lo the camp and placing a deputy attorney-general In charge. John Weber, chairman of the ivoard o? countv commissioners, sent a tele gram to the governor relative to the affair anjl the governor replied in telegram as follows: "Your wires of this date received Continued protests regarding viola tion prohibition act moved the super intendent of stale police, who is ex officio commissioner oi prouiuition. to perform what appears to be hts clear duty in premises. That there he no misinterpretation by men on strike or others of the state's action I have wired secretary of Central h.a bor Union and have sent copy of my wire to iiim to Kly press for publica tion We are fully advised of the influences which are attempting to mislead you in ibis matter and trust that you will assist us in doing that duty which the law so clearly im poses on us both." To F N. Sanford, president of the Central T.abor Union, the governor sent the following message: ‘T ant in receipt of telegraiue from hoard of county commissioners and 1 from certain citizens protesting against sending In two or more state police officers to Ely as agents of the superintendent of the state police on grounds that the motives of the state may be misinterpreted by men now on strike. For jour information f will state unequivocally that any state police now in F.ly or about to go there on any existing ardors will do so purely and simply as agents of the superintendent acting in his lawful capacity of commissioner of prohibi tion. Innumerable complaints from Nye and White Pine counties regard ing violations of prohibition act have determined the state to assume all of the obligations imp.-sod on it by the law on the police department. Not one of the men employed on prohibi tion work is concerning himself with any other situation than the enforce ment of the prohibition act end there are no iiolice in Ely on any work other than prohibition. Please make this matter clear to your associates in any way you choose.” The telegram received by the gov • rnor from the chairman of the board of county cc mmissioners contained a. copy of the resolution passed by the board. The resolution reads: Whereas, the attention of the Hoard of County Commissioners of White Pinp County, State of Nevada, has been called, through the public j press of the state, to the appointment of a deputy attorney-general in White Pine county, Ftato Nevada, for the purpose 01 enforcing the prohibition i law of the state, and, WhereuB, It appears that said ac tion was taken at the instance and under the instructions and orders of the Governor, the Attorney-General, Deputy Attorney-General and Super intendent of State Police, and. Whereas. The members of this board, by virtue of their residence and presence in the county, feel that they are better qualified to pass judgment ou the situation in tills: county, and. Whereas, This board, and the mem- ] hers thereof, have made it their duty to keep fully informed of any viola tions of the prohibition law here and the true situation In respect thereof, and they also fully co-operate with and support tho officers In enforce ment of tho law, and, Whereas, In the opinion of the Hoard of Couuly Commissioners the action of said state officers above named is unwarranted, uncalled for and unjustified, by reason of the con ditions of the situation existing in this county, and, Whereas, The Hoard of County Commissioners are of the opinion that White Fine County has been singled out as a place wher< the pro hibition law is imt being enforced, •vhen in truth and In fart conditions in some other counties of the state, to the personal know ledge of this board, are far more 6erioua, and. Whereas, At this *.iine a general strike has been and now is in effect in this district by reason whereof three til msatul men are out of em ployment, ami have been for more • hail a week, last past, and not even one * reach of the law has taken place, although, if lhiuor was dis liosed of in this couuly, as claimed by said state officers, various dis orders would have occurred, and. Whereas, The court records of this county show that twenty-four persons have been charged with violations of the prohibition law of this state, and out of which twenty-three (23) have been convicted, a record, we venture COM MISSION KK MKYUt.S IK RHJHT ON THK JOII County Commissioner \V. K. Mov ers, wlfo went to Salt Lake »o receive the two government trucks appor tioned to White "Title county by the State Highway AssocIttion, wired C! airmail Weber Saturday night that he had secured the trucks anc had them loaded with Leigt for tbc local merchants pnd was ready to come in soon r.s he could get on* more driver. He has secured the services of Kent i'.nird, who is on Ids way home from the navy, to drive one truck and as soon as he can get an other driver he will start bis freight outfit. I'ihtH Sen ter in New Quarters Superintendent McQueen of the Forest Service has moved the quar ters of tiio department from the old location on Murry street to the rooms in the Hex theatre building un Ault man street. Itcturns from Halt Ijwke. Mrs. D. C. McDonald anil son re turned from Salt Lake City las' week, having spent several weeks in that city on a vacation DUNCAN IN ROLE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN ijast week while returning from Salt Lake City by automohile, Lind sey Duncan and Mr. Craven over took two men in a Ford car who were stranded for want of gasoline and food, eighteen miles from the near est station, having been robbed by Gypsies who stripi>ed the car while the owners were absent seen ring a repair part for the car. As related by the men they had an accident with the car and had walk ed eighteen miles and back to get the necessary part, passing the Gyp sy outfit on the way, and on their return discovered that the car had been stripped of provisions and drain ed of gas Shortly after their re turn to the i ar, Mr Duncan and Mr. Craven came along and were told the story hy the stranded men. The only thing in the refreshment line left to Mr. Duncan was about two cups of coffee In a thermos bot tle •which was offered the tired and hungry men. who downed it with a desperate relish. Mr. Duncan then assisted in making the necessary re pairs to the Ford and divided his gasoline supply which enabled the unfortunate travellers to proceed to the nearest fetation s nore supplies could be had to assert, uuequaled in any county in tho state, and, W hereas, Since .January 1, 1919. only one arrest and conviction has been made for a violation of any olh er statute of the state, and. Whereas, Such action on the part of the officers aforesaid, and state ments In the Reno press that the laws of our state are not respected, constitute au aspersion upon the law-abiding citizens of this county. Now, Therefore, Be It Resolved. By the Board of County Commission ers of W'hite Pine County, State of Nevada, that they hereby unanimous ly and uureservedly condemn tho ac tion of the Governor, the Attorney General, the Deputy Attorney Gener al and tho Superintendent of the State Police for their action in this matter, and. Be It Further Resolved, That they find the liquor situation In W'hite Pine County to be thoroughly satis factory and that the prohibition law Is being enforced honestly, conscien tiously and faithfully by all of the offeers of the county. And Be It Further Resolved, Tnui from the court records of this coun ty, it has conclusively been shown I therefrom that the enforcement of jthe prohibition luw has been more J effective in this county than In any | other county in the state, and. Be It Further Resolved, That *e I find from said court records that j White Pine county has been, sinre | .January 1, 1919. the most law-abid j ing county in the state. And Be It Further Resolved, That 1 we hereby challenge the above nam , ed state offeers to point out one coun 1 ty in the state having us good, or even equally as good, a record as W'hite i Pine county, In the enforcement of i the prohibition law, and, : Be It Further Resolved, Thnt a j copy of this resolution he sent to the above state offeers and be given to the press for publication. ALL PARTIES ARE STANDING PAT IN STRIKE JMEST Nothing new had developed in the strike situation up to last night. The men are just as firm in their deter irinatloti as they wer>_ the day they quietly walked out- and shew no In clination to discuss the matter iu passing conversation As expressed by a member of the union, the men went out for a cause they considered just and right and they were going to stick to it. it was reported today that Federal Commissioner Davies was on his way to Ely by auto, coming over the southern road through I’ioche and ; would nrrive iu the city Sunday after noon where he will meet with the delegates of the different unions to consider the situation. Uovernoi Boyle arrived last night. The gov ernor made the trip after receiving information from C. B. Lakenan o<l the Nevada Consolidated and P. H Sanford, president of the Central Labor Union of Ely, that they would be glad to have him give hla assist an re in the matter. Labor Co mm is sioner Cole will probably be present at the conference but had not or Tired In Ely last night. About sixty men were laid off at the Consolidated Copermines work ings Friday owing to the shortage of supplies. The Nevada Northern main line passenger train service was annulled Kridav. but the Cobre and Ely pas senger went out Saturday morning The management of the Nevada Northern has had notices posted to the effect that the passenger train service to Cobre will be on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays until fur ther notice. llOAItll OP Kgi'AIJ/.ATION. Friday afternoon the heard of county commissioners, sitting as a board of equalization, completed the work of examining the assessment roll for the present year All taxpayers who have had their property valuation raised on the roll have been notified to appear before the board on Monday, which is the last meeting of the hoard of equal ization. Monday will also be the last day when exemptions for patented mines on which the required amount of work has been done, will he consid ered bv the board BUSY TIMES W THE LOCAL POSTMASTERS Postmaster V. J. Rubo wired to Superintendent of Railway Mails Sal ter explaining the situation in Ely relative to the temporary annullment of trains for the mail service and re ceived a reply requesting him to ask for bids to carry the mail if the In terrupted service continues. The holding up of the mail is work, ing a hardship on the local postoflice force as th<* congested mail of two days arrives late at night and makes it necessary for the postmaster and clerks to put in about a twenty-hour day in order to get the incoming mail distributed and the outgoing mail ready for the 6:15 a. m. train At this time of the year the parcel post tor the ranching districts on the stage lines is usually heavy and the interrupted service of the trains will make It almost impossible to handle, if there was such a word •>» impo* sible to a piOBtoffice employee. \t the East Ely poptofflce. while not having the county districts to contend with, the handling of two (lavs' mail at one time involved ex tra work, and notwithstanding the train did not arrive until past 10 o’clock, the entire mail was dis tributed and lobby kept open until 11:80, for the accommodation of business men and other box holders anxious to receive a two-day accumu lation of Important letters. The Em! Ely office will follow thiB plan next Saturday night, provided the present schedule is In effect and the mail ar rives at a reasonable hour.