The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-08
LAWYER AND CLIENT
FOUGHT IN CUBA
A PECULIAR COINCIDENCE IN
WHICH ATTORNEY REEVES
AND QUARLES FIGURE.
PRISONER KNEW LAWYER At SAN JUAN
Tells News Representative of Some
of His EXperiences-KnOws
President Roosevelt.
PRISONER KNEW LAWYER At SAN JUAN

Incarcerated in the county Jail of
White Pine county is one Joseph r.
Quarles (colored), awaiting his
trial on the charge of shooting at his
wife. Although now r:isbner IN
the dingy cracker-box jai: here in
Ely, this man has passed through
experiences that would make many
all interesting chapter OF twentieth
century history. He counts amt ng
these he knows no lass a parsonage
than President Roosevelt, Attorney
Richardson of Haywood trial fame,
United States Senator w Il Borah
of Idaho and numerous other promi-
nent men of this country
The local chapter of his career Is
peculiar one, and yet coincidence
of considerable interest. That it
should start on the firing line of
San Juan hill and end in the copper
camp of Ely only tends to prove that
often-heard adage that the old
world is small affair after all.
Quarles was in the Jail the other
day when Attorney Reeves happened
to step in with a couple of officers.
The colored prisoner saw Mr.. Reeves
and after gazing at him a few sec
onds suddenly said:
Aren't you from the Seventy-first
New York;"
No" replied Reeves; why do
you ask?"
prisoner.
II was with the Texas volunteers, ;"
said Reeves.
You're the old - from Texas
said the prisoner. Il knew | had
seen you before, and remember you
as you passed along the firing line. ;"
And so the lawyer and the pris-
oner exchanged stories, and then and
there Reeves took charge of the de-
fendant's case. A representative of
The News met the colored soldier in
the Jail yesterday afternoon. A cou-
pie of officers stood guard at the door
as the prisoner was permitted to step
out of the dingy little cell, in which
he and three or four others were en-
gagged in playing game of cards.
He took a seat on box, and for a
few minutes lived over again those
stirring scenes at San Juan and Ell
Caney. He witnessed again the rain
of bullets from the Spanish forces,
and saw Colonel Roosevelt as he
urged the men on. He saw the
Seyenty-frst New York fall back, and
saw his own company come to the
rescue, finally driving the enemy out
of the trenches. Then the march
over the country to Ell Caney, and
the battle that commenced at 3
o'clock the next day. These scenes
and many more no doubt passed
through his mind as he talked over
few incidents of the Spanish Amer
ican war, and especially the Cuban
campaign.
1T is stated" said the newspaper
man, that you knew Mr.. Reeves in
Cuba
"Yes, | did," he replied. ut was
on July 1st, and at the firing line on
San Juan hill. One of the company S
officers IL was a member of Il COM
pany of the Twenty-Fifth United
States infantry saw Reeves as he
was riding along the line. He had a
cigar in his mouth, and the officer
said:
Look at that fellow with the
cigar in his mouth. l didn't forget
him, and | remembered him the
other day when / saw him here. |
thought he was crazy because he had
a cigar in his mouth during the thick
of the fight.
Colonel Wood was brigade COM
mander and Roosevelt was colonel,
but was actual commander. | know
him quite we'll, but none of us
thought then that he was going to be
president.
Il had an idea Reeves was from
New York, but l remember now
when the Seventy-first retreated, and
he jumped in front of the line wav-
ing his hat and shouting, Come on ii
you want to follow a ." from
Texas And they followed him up
over the hill and smack through the
! trenches"
Didn't the colored troops save the
day?" asked the scribe.
I'm not going to throw any bou'
quets," he said, and Mr.. Reeves car
tell you about that.
The attorney stated that the col
ored soldiers did save the day as the
! lTwenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth were