The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-06-12
INSTINCT TRAIT
IN FAMILY BLOOD OF IA OLIVER

More than ordinary interest centers
around the personality, ancestry and
career of George +. Oliver, United
States senator from Pennsylvania and
vice president of the Pittsburg-Silver
Peak Mining company, who was in
dicted a few days ago by the grand
jury of Esmeralda county IN a charge
of conspiring, with other officers, direc-
tors and employees of that company to
defraud the state and county in the
bullion tax returns. The same charges
have been made against officers and
directors of the Goldfield Florence
Mining company.
Whether Senator Oliver and his east
ern associates in the Pittsburg-Silver
Peak Mining company will be required
to come to Goldfield to answer to the
charge, or whether a test case will be
made by the trial of officers and en-
ployes of the company who are now
here and have already given bonds for
their appearance, is not yet known, but
it is possible that they will.
Senator Oliver, in addition to wear
ing the senatorial toga as a representa-
tive of the great commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, and his large interests in
the Pittsburg- Silver Mining company,
is the owner of the Pittsburg Gazette
WI. u.I ,t,;,w af nfhar Iarua
newspapers in Pennsylvania, and also
controls the immense steel business
founded by his father, "Hank Oliver,
former harne IS maker, and pushed for
ward to a foremost position by
@Hank'' the second, and brother of
the recently elected and more recently
indicted United States senator, George
7. Oliver, successor to enato Phil
ander c. Knox, who resigned to become
secretary of state in President Taft $
cabinet.
Business Instinct Prevails.
Senator divers advent into the
United States senate has been heralde |
and hailed as an extraordinary event, be-
cause a Cuisines man. has broken in
to that august body. And probably
the exultation, if exultation it be, is
well founded, for he comes from a
father who rose from a humble har-
ness-maker to a foremost position IN
the steel industry of the United States,
nal xrba ,aa1n Andrew (1rnpplp AMI
other fnanciers bow to his terms. The
business instinct seems to have
Leen well implanted into the veins OF
his children, including the son, Geo. I,
OF the father, Hank Oliver, q
recent issue OF the Saturday Evening
Post told how, when the civil war be
gan there was a harness-maker doing
business in Pittsburg named Henry
for short, Hank-Oliver. He was I
harness-maker in a small way, having
a shop and a line of customers, but be
ing in competition with many othe
leather works who had bigger shop
and more customers.
The government had a leather con
tract which was to be let at the old Al
Iegheny Arsenal, and all the harness
makers and other leather men of Pitts
burg went over to get a bit Of it, Olive
among the number. 1t was a big con
tract and big men were there. IN
contract was let and Oliver got a piece
not a very big piece, 10 be sure, but
piece. The government was in need o
the stun, wanted quick delivery an
did not haggle over the price; and IN
big harness-makers and other leathe
workers had = good thing, includin
Hank Oliver with his little bit.
The big fellows drove back to Pitts
burg and went to MonongaheIa hot'
for a upper in celebration Of the cas-
money they had in sight-ail but Oh
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