Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-01-01
GOLDEN SEEKS
To PLACE Blame
elsewhere

| Tonopah has always boasted of
having the only long distance
fighter in the state, but from the
following story which appeared in
yesterday mornings Reno Journal,
Frank Golden, president of the de-
funct Nye and Ormsby county bank,
has made an awful effort to cast
the responsibilities of having caus-
ed hundreds of depositors to lose
their money, on other shoulders
He also would like to appear as a
much abused person and would
gladly accept public sympathy. Just
listen to this:
| Frank Golden returned Wednes-
day night from Tonopah, and was
about his affairs at the Hotel Gold
en- yesterday.
"Mr. Golden was asked concern
ing the reported affair in Tonopah
last Tuesday, when R. F. Gilbert
threatened him with a revolver in
the saloon of the Tonopah Liquor
company. He was willing to talk
of the affair and made the follow
| ing statement:
Gilbert, according to the state
ment which several people made
to me, had been acting strangely
about town for several days prior
| to my arrival. The opinion of the
people who told me this seemed to
be generally that Gilbert had been
drinking heavily
On the morning of the day on
| which the gunplay took place, Gill
bert had, it was said to me, been
to several banks in Tonopah and
tried to get some money on his
without success.
To the best of my recollec-
tion Gilbert's son had about $50
on deposit in the Nye and Ormsby
county bank. The one little detail
which the telegraphic accounts from
! Tonopah failed to state, which al
ters the face of the matter some
what, is that Gilbert owes the Nye
and Ormsby county bank about
$4,000.
"A few minutes before the af-
fair Gilbert and w. w. Booth, ed
| itor of the Tonopah Bonanza, were
4 talking together very confidentially,
and Gilbert was heard to say, by :
Tonopah man of whose
name l do not wish you to pub
lish just now-'That man ought to
be killed. The remark was evil
IDENTIFY meant in reference to my
, self, according to what this man
said, who overheard the colloquy
between Gilbert and Booth. And
Booth, from all appearances. SEEM
ed to be egging Gilbert on to some
thing or other.
can readily understand
Booths being in on such a thing
as that, for he has for a long time
overlooked no chance, good or 9TH
erwise, to harrass me in every way
possible. This sort of thing on
Booths part is easily explained
when l say that / have libel suit
in the courts against him now.
Since | filed that suit, Booth has
never overlooked an opportunity to
get even.' One of his methods has
been by the publication of outrage
Gus and false stories in his own
paper, and the sending out of
equally malicious stories for publi-
cation in other papers. This epi-
sode is just another of Booths de-
vices to stir up something against
me.
The story about body guard
I Vice oficer is absolutely false. I
& .,ot see a police officer for five
oa ,cutive minutes all the time l
was in Tonopah. I never had a
body guard in my life-I don't
| need one.
While l know perfectly well
what is at the bottom of the whole
affair - Booths malice - what |
mind the worst about is the worry
such things cause my family. This
| affair in Tonopah caused them a
good deal of unnecessary worry.
Between Booth and Gilbert on
the one hand, and myself on the
will bear closer inspection than the
records of either of them.
The first portion of the above
| statement is falsehood in itself
for Bob Gilbert was perfectly sober
on the day of his alteration with
Golden and furthermore had not
| been drinking for some time past.
/ Regarding the paragraph where
It Is; stated that the editor Of this
paper endeavored to influence Gill
bert to kill Golden, we will state
that for a minute or so we were
TAX rg to Gilbert in front of the
/ Brokers Exchange saloon.
Where is Frank Golden?
heard that he was in town." asked
| Gilbert
Il do not know where he is at
present, but saw him on the street
some time ago." was our answer.
well, it is a wonder to me that
/ some one doesn't kill the --