The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-19
GATHERING THE NEWS
NOT ALL SUNSHINE
IN THIS CASE 1T WAS EASY TO
GET THE NEWS, But HARD TO
DELIVER IT.
BUT COMBINED EFFORTS SUCCESSFUL
And the Readers of the News Are
Given Full Account of
the Day.
BUT COMBINED EFFORTS SUCCESSFUL

appreciate the excellent account in
| another column of the outing at
Smelter yesterday on account of the
| many difficulties encountered in OBJ
tanning same
The return train was scheduled to
leave Smelter at 6 p. M, but owing
to the fact of there being such large
crowds on the excursion, it was de-
cided to run two trains. On account
of the fact that the baseball game,
which was the wind-up of the festivi-
ties, grew tireSome towards the end,
a sufficient number of persons con-
gregated at the depot early and the
| first train pulled out shortly after 5
O'Clock, regardless of the schedule, it
being announced that the second
train would leave Smelter at p. m.
for the return trip.
The News scribe was busy gath
ering notes down around the bunk
house and started for the depot at a
quarter to 7. To his amazement.
when about half the distance had
been covered, he saw black smoke is
suing from the funnel of the engine
and the train slowly moving out of
the depot, down the hill towards Nc
Gill Junction.
The writer's attention was attract
ed to party of woud-be passengers
on an adjacent knoll, running at full
speed. after the fast-receding train.
In desperation the leader, who later
turned out to be Mr. Barnes, freight
agent of the Nevada Northern at
Georgetown, drew a small-sized can
non from his bootleg and commenced
blazing away in an endeavor to at
tract the attention of some of the
train crew. Mr.. Zeigler, also of the
Nevada Northern, chief clerk in the
engineering department, who was a
few steps to the rear, pulled out his
pop-gun and took five cracks at the
atmosphere. He was closely followed
by Mr.. Leedom, formerly an electri-
clan in the employ of the same cor
poration. who was vainly endeavOring
to get his wireless mechanism into
operation, while about hundred
yards back Ed Austin, of the Mocha
cafe, was frantically waving about
his head something that looked like
about 800 pounds.
But it was all of no avail, the train
sailed serenely around the bend in
the road and was shortly lost to view
When the News representative caught
up with the foregoing party, he was
treated to something quite out of the
ordinary-the spectacle of several
prominent officials of the n. & N.
heaping abuse upon the road by
whom they were employed. A closer
inspection of the weapon used by
Mr.. Austin developed the fact that
he had goldfish about three inches
long attached to Il string, which he
had been frantically waving about
his head with such rapidIty, trying
to flag the engineer, that it took on
the appearance of solid body.
A council of war was held at which
it was decided to first repleniSh the
inner man, which was Immediately
put into effect and then began a CAM
paign of the burg for some sort of a
conveyance to carry us safely to home
and mother.
We were not alone in our misery.
During our ramifications we ran
across a young couple from Ely, the
gentleman being a well-known drug
gist, who had likewise witnessed the
train gaily pull out, leaving them in
the lurch. The lady seemed, and
rightly so, very much perturbed at
her predicament and requested that
her relatives be notified at once by
telephone. She was informed that
the telephone wires were down
well, then telegraph she exclaim-
ed, somewhat impatiently. 1t was
our sad duty to inform her that the
telegraph wires were also in trouble,
when she Indignantly stamped her
pretty foot and, her eyes flashing,
with moisture glistening upon the
lashes, but which she was too proud
to let fall she imperatively COM
manded that her papa should be noti-
fed Immediately that the train had
pulled out and left her and that it
was not her fault.
What could we do? What can any
man do when a pretty miss issues
command with no alternative? We
vowed to move heaven and earth for
a solution of the difficulty.
We divided our party into two
squads, one going on still hunt for
Mr.. Perkins, superintendent of the
Smelter company, the other for Mr..
Lakenan, general manager of the
Steptoe Valley Smelling and Mining
company. We rounded them both
up. Ye scribe was the first to tell his
tale of woe. He explained how neces-
sary it was to reach the News office
last night in order that all of the
great and glorious events of the day
at Smelter might he duly chronicled.
He was followed by Brother Barnes,
who argued that it would be impos-
sible to get any trains started out of
Ely this morning without his pres
ence at the terminus, but probably
the straw that broke the camel's back
was the pathetic plea of Mr.. Austin
who recited the fact that his en-
ployes would probably get out an in
junction restraining his cafe from
serving breakfast if he did not arrive
there in time to pay them their daily
wage, and Furthermore, he had
promised some 200 friends fish for
breakfast and it would probably
mean his ruination If he was unable
to deliver the goods. In any event
the combined arguments prevailed