Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-12-11

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butter
Say, how do you spell ore shoot,
meaning a chimney of ore?" l ask
ed him.
Now, let me see; I used to run
a restaurant back in Kansas City;
the grub was cooked in the base
ment and hoisted up through a sys-
TEN of chutes.
Kinder shoot the chutes sys-
TEN" l volunteered.
Exactly, and if | remember cor
rectly, we spelled it choot.'
! You have poor memory" /
said, under my breath. His spell
ing was almost on par with that
of the chief of policies.
was going up the steps of the
First National bank when | spied J.
E. Peck coming down the street,
and l tackled him.
Why, that's dead easy; just like
coping a nice high fly"
| saw that his mind was on base
ball and did not expect much.
Now chute is spelled in various
ways. If We were to adopt the
new method of spelling as advocated
by Andrew Carnegie and ExPresi-
dent Roosevelt, such words would
not be so confusing" he said.
But how do you spell it?" |
asked anXiously.
"Oh, yes, as l was going to say,
the railway company has built a
number of ore chutes and
they spell it chute l must prefer,
however, to see it spelled shute.
That ended the conversation. You
can draw your own conclusion as
to Peck's knowledge of mining.
At about 10 o'clock | strolled in
to the Office of the telephone COM
pany, where | found Percy Oaks
Ismearing big gobS of ink over the
clean white sheets of ledger and
at the same time trying to hum
one of these "Florodora" ditties
which 1 thought l recognized as In
the Shade of the Palm"
Morning, Mr.. Oaks
Morning, Kid, how's the Waugh
running these days?" he asked, Of
fering me a Phillip Morris"
! The Waugh is on a strike today
IN trying to find out how to spell
a word" | replied.
Spelling is ducksoup for me;
let's have it,"
How do you spell the word
shoot, meaning a body of ore?"
Chute" he said, rather posi-
lively.
That's the way Peck spelled it
and you are both wrong. 1t is
spelled shoot" l said
Where did you get that stuff?
: Shoot means to fire a pistol or
try to shoot turkey at 400 yards,
or it means a small flower or bud. =
was just about to agree the
point with a view of getting small
bet out of Percy, when l noticed
Pete Booth, who had been busy
studying a map of the city's fire
! hydrants nervously turn around in
his chair and cast one of those
Il wish you would cease that
racket" glances in our direction, sc
| took the hint and strolled out.
AS l was going down BrOughel
avenue | saw Jake Goodfriend ant
his diamond stud coming in my di
rection Remembering Jake's eX
PLANTATION of the initiative, referen
dunn and recall, l crossed over tt
the opposite side; l did not wan
to embarrass him.
AS l turned the corner by thu
First National bank I met tn
Three Big B's"-Brady, Blackburn
and misunderstanding on TIL
steps of the bank.
Now when it comes to figuring
mine costs Brady is the real Nc
Coy" l tried to figure a contrae
with him one time, and in workin
= out one of the various problems, h
took ought from ought and lief
one. The one, of course, was i
favor of the company and the singl
in my favor. Needless to say
didn't get the contract. Hence,
thought he'd know how to spell
little.
Blackburn used to figure lat
. tudes and departures and draw or
maps back in the Greek and
knew he'd know little about spell
ing also.