The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-10-21
ALLEGED CROOKED WORK IS UNDER
INVESTIGATION NOW BY THE SUFFERERS
Big Boom That is on in
Ely Stocks Probably
Responsible for Rep
rehenSibIe Business

Sensational reports have been cur
rent on the streets the last few days
with regard to alleged advantage be-
ing taken of the markets through wire
tapping and other methods in close
conformity, so far as results are con-
cerned.
1t is stated on good authority that
private messages have become public
property on the streets before reaching
those to whom sent and that other
evidences are not lacking to give good
ground for the belief that somewhere
on the telegraph line of the Nevada
Northern there is screw loose, the
wire presumably being tapped.
The reports which are current have
been confined to comparatively small
circle, in which there has been en-
deavor the last few days to get at the
bottom of the situation. If these eff
forts are successful, the grand jury
will have some new business to look
after, and it will be urged by more
than one broker and more than one
stock purchaser who has suffered from
the illegal and most reprehensible skin
game business which is said to be in
operation
With the single wire of the Nevada
Northern into the district and the
large areas of isolated country through
which it operates, wire tapping it is
readily to be seen might be conducted
with little risk for considerable
period. How long it has been going
on in the present instance is entirely
problematical. There have been sus-
picions for some time that things
might not be just right, but only since
the large local activity in trading dur
ing the last several days have brokers
and others vitally interested become
keen to the fact that all was not we'll
On Tuesday there were plans made
by few interested parties to give the
matter thorough investigation and
there has been a man along the tele-
graph line since that time. Local in
vestigation was also put underway
Last night it was said that progress
was being made in an unexpected di-
rection and that an important clue
had been found, the wiping out of
which would require some strenuous
explanations, from all present inca
tions Further than this no informa-
tion could be had, it being said that
matters were not yet sufficiently ripe
to permit of giving out of anything
definite without spelling the game. 1t
was admitted that detectives had been
put on the matter from Salt Lake and
are now at work.
Connected with the wire tapping re-
ports are rumors of other manners of
crooked work in the local stock game.
A News representative yesterday made
investigation of these but was unable
to run down anything definite. 1t is
believed for the most part that the re-
ports in this respect are without foun-
dation and grow simply from the more
serious rumors as to wire tapping.
That the local public will very bitterly
resent crooked business in the district
of any character with reference to
stock trading, goes without the say
ing. If it develops that present sus-
picions are correct there is unques-
tionably, and rightly, a hot time ahead
for those who may be fixed upon as
guilty Under the present conditions,
which involve a strong local market
and expectations that it will continue
indefinitely, after the long period of
quiet and depression in the larger num-
Der of the small local issues, indigna
tion by reason of interference with alb
solutely honest transactions will be
doubly strong.