The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1902-12-27

unprincipled Irishmen live than he. The rich
strikes in the mines Of that day, the Com
stocks and others, and the great fortunes
made in a short time. filed the public invest
ors with the idea that a big fortune might be
made with a little money. In some way VIM.
Whalen secured an introduction to Mr.. Bill
| linps. and finally induced him (Mr. Billings)
to come to Alpha station. That gentleman
became so much interested in the promising
outlook as painted by Whalen that he paid
| Whalen's debs in various parts of the coun.
try that amounted to many thousands of dol
lars, and returned to Chicago to tell his
| friends of the rich developments to be ex-
pected from the mines near Alpha.
What a terrible awakening it must have
been to him q short time afterwards to have
found himself sued by Whalen and his asso-
cistes, and a jury who usually believe the poor
man to be the honest but down.trodden one
and give the verdict against the rich one.
Such a verdict was rendered that left Mr.
Billings in their debt for several hundred
thousand dollars. Fortunately for MIR. Bill
lings the Court set aside that verdict, and
granted a new trial, when a verdict was given
to Mr.. Billings for the money he had already
paid to clear Whalen of debt, and that judg-
ment rested with the Billings estate uncol-
lected for nearly twenty years until last
| Spring, when Whalen's "a, Col shares of the
Whalen Company's stock were seized by the
management of the Billings estate and sold to
satisfy said judgment
Some time before VIM. Whalen had been
able to secure about eight thousand two hun
bred shares of said Whalen stock from its
owner, Mrs. Goodman, and had the officers OF
said Whalen Company transfer the same to
one Rolling b. Beldon, who il is said married
the sister of the present Mrs. p. b. Whalen.
| When all plans had been carefully made an
other claim jump was in order, as your paper
of December 6 shows. In his lordly way he
asks an intelligent public to believe that
measurements had been made by certain men
named therein and that only q certain amount
of money had been expended. Perhaps if he
had better and more honest advisers they
would tell him that the mining laws do not
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done, but require a statement to show that
there has been one hundred dollars worth Of
work lone on each claim, or eleven hundred
dollars on the group OF elyen claims embraced
in the Whalen Consolidated Copper Mining
Company. In this case more than fourteen
hundred dollars were paid out by the bank
after each miner before offering his voucher
for payment had sworn to the number of days.
work performed by him upon each claim OF
the group of the Whalen Consolidated Cop
per Mining Company. That evidence was in
the Clerks office properly filed before Janu-
airy l, 1902. The company being still in the
hands of the court in Chicago) receiver, where
Whalen had asked that it might be placed,
and no one here personally TO look after its
interest, he supposing no one interested would
see his public notice published last week, told
the men sent to do the assessment work that
he would kill the first man that put a pick in
the ground on that property. Their picks are
there in the ground, and VIM. Whalen's plans
for again robbing the stockholders Of his old
company are laid bare to the public.
So certain did he think the theft complete
that on the 10th day of November he, the
said VIM. Whalen, decided his so-caIled seven
mining claims to Mrs. p. b. Whalen, and she
the same P. b. Whalen This wife). only, how.
ever, signing herself p. Ii. Whalen, decided
the same to the Nevada Copper and Gold
Mining Company. Next we find here the
articles Of incorporation of said company
signed by VIM. Whalen, George s. Brown and
Phillip S. Foster, and their sixth article Of
incorporation names as trustees for the first
six months VIM. Whalen, p. b. Whalen this
wife not mentionedl John Rusk, Ravlins
Belden supposed to be his wife's brother-in-
law) and George s. Brown. Tn residence Of
neither trustee is mentioned, but Whalen
claims that it is the newly-elected Judge
Brown of Elko. 1t remains to be seen
whether he has been as truthful in that asser-
ton as many others he has made to the public.
To catch the eye Of the public he has dis
carded the old names of the Prince of Wales,
Copper Glance, Amazon, Copper Bolt, Cop
per King, Jefferson, Blne Jay, Copper Nut,
Daisy. Blackbird and st. Dennis, and has
taken in their place the names Of the new
battle ships and men-of-war, as follows:
"The Alabama" "The New Maine,' ''The
Texas" 1.-THE Illinois, and last but not least
"The Theodore Roosevelt" How highly
honored our President must feel to have his
name associated in a company with that Of
the Copper King, Wm. Whalen, Of Alpha,
Eureka county, Nevada.