The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-04-16
GOLDHELD STIRRED
BY RECENT AFFAIRS OF
SENSATIONAL KIND

G0LDFIELD, April i5.-soeiety
circles have had several thrills dur
ing the week. and everybody's tongue
particular cases. one of which was
entirely unexpected. This was the
assault by J. F. Douglass, manager
of the Goldfield hotel, the camps
swell hosiery. on a guest. X. M.
Rogers, who is well known in mining
circles. The trouble came up over
Rogers criticism of the method
adopted in presenting his bill, and
led to remarks by Mr.. Douglass re-
fleeing against the character of Mrs
Rogers. The mining man struck the
hotel manager and the latter knock
ed his guest onto the tiled floor of
the lobby. and in the presence of a
hundred persons so severely pummel-
ed him that the services of physi-
clan We're necessary. The outcome
is three suits for damages, aggregat-
ing $3.50, 900. The friends and busi-
ness partners of Douglass were pres
ent when the AFFAIR took place, and
not only refrained from interfering,
but, according TO the story of wit
nesses. interfered with deputy sher-
if when he attempted to stop the fra
cas-.
Douglass was one OF the first men
to reach Goldfield, when the diseov-
cry of gold was made known to the
world, and has been noted for his
ton. He was elected district attor-
ney when the camp was rotten with
graft, which was aided and abetted
by gang of politicians who threat
ened dire vengeance on anyone in
terfering. Douglass dared. and broke
up the notorious graft. Later, and
while still acting in his official ca
pacity. deputy sheriff undertook TO
take him TO task for his efforts to
convict the officers friend of crime.
The deputy was armed at the time.
Douglass stopped not for that, but
gave him "A severe threshing in the
court house yard at Hawthorne.
When aroused he is ferocious and
admits that he loses all control of
himself. He says he is sorry that
he went To such an extreme in pun
ishing Rogers. but contends that he
had a right TO battle with him. Rog-
ers is in no mood to accept the olive
branch thus gingerly extended, and
demands that the courts salve his
wounded feelings.
The other event was the retire
ment If Henry Weber. club man and
prominent mine operator. from the
management of the Dickey Wonder
and Golconda Mining companies une
der charges of ENLIGHTENMENT of the
funds of the two companies, and the
transfer to the companies named of
valuable real estate on Columbia
street 10 satisfy claims of $3.50.
The charges against Weber were
made at meeting of the directors at
which he presided, and were put in
the form of a resolution to the di-
rectors and carried, Weber alone
voting no. The property was as
signed to r. c. Thayer, Weber's at
torney. and d. II. Kehoe, attorney
for the board. and they have jointly
the lots for sale, stating
in the advertisement that the prop
erty is TO be sold ito cover a short
age in the treasury of the companies
caused 10y said Henry Weber"
Weber has had meteoric career
in Goldfield. He was newspaper
man in Denver when gold was dis
covered here, came to Nevada with
a meagre capital, got in right on a
lease, bought the Atlanta and other
and during the Wonder ex-
element organized several companies
to operate in that camp. He made
frequent trips to the east and was
well known on Broadway, New York,
where he was frequently fined for
driving his big automobile, the Vul-
ture, at pace exceeding the speed
limit For a time he was reckoned
a millionaire. He was one of the
of the MonteZuma club,
which has entertained every celebrity
who ever poked his nose into the
camp, and had many warm personal
friends in spite of, or mayhap be-
cause of. an eccentric disposition. He
was arrested but few days ago on
the charge of embezzlement and gave
bonds in the sum of 81 1000, leaving
town Immediately thereafter, pre-
sumably TO attend a meeting of the
stockholders of one of his companies
in Arizona.