White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-05-07
RETURNS FROM LAND OF
SUNSHINE AND FLOWERS
CARSON CITY NEWS GIVES
HOME PEOPLE A GLIMPSE OF
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AS
SEEN THROUGH EDITORIAL
LENS.

ohAt AA
this Nevada is a good old state and
one that really makes one some
twenty years younger to return to
after a short absence, says Editor
George A. Montrose of the state
capital city.
We had been in the boosted and
highly lauded land of Sunshine,
fruit and flowers Down in the
land of the long hairs and the
"dynamiters." They call il Los An
geles down there and so pronounce
the word that they hope to bring the
futter of the wings of angels about
them. with the %intonation.
Well it is a pretty good section of
the country only cold. very cold In
fact. So cold that a fire Is a neces-
sity and n wonders how the or
anges can stand 1t without over
coats on but of course they are used
to 1t.
Los Angeles is a city of poor
streets, Sunday closing and homely
women. How the intelligent people
OF the city stand for il is more than
We are able to find out. We broaeh-
ed the subject to a couple of them
and they grew profane. Yes, dear
friends, right in Los Angeles.
We spoke of Sunday closing down
there. Well they do close up the
saloons OF Sunday but every Jew
store in the city was running at full
blast and this meant that all but
three Of the stores were open.
There are scores of men hat the
inhabitants termed "Cholas" work.
Ing on the streets and taking their
orders from Irish bosses. They
would dig a hole on one side of the
street and then go on the other side
to dig a hole TO put the dirt in. As
a consequence the streets were in
anything but fine condition.
But the Now We hate to
say anything about the women but
really the homliest woman that ever
spread her shape upon a bench on
one of the safety stations along dear
old Market street could be able TO
give cards and spades TO the little
damsel who walked down South Cen
ter street of Los Angeles and a
hailed as beauty p~ersonified.
Los Angeles Is a religious city. Re
ligion has got a tail hold on the city
and with a down hill un. BY the
looks of things someone will have
TO get in and break the hold Or 1t is
all off with the city. A week ago
Sunday they had a procession on the
street and about two thousand peo-
pie paraded holding their bibles in
their hands. Ii was a great sight
but some of the followers Of Otis
got to Dragging too loud about the
bibles being printed by %non-union
labor and some of the residents got
sore about it.
Talking about labor matters, Los
Angeles is having lots of fun. They
have a lot with a big hole In IL where
once the Times building stood and
where the lives of twenty-one men
were snuffed out by the work of
some arch fiend. This place is fiene-
ed in and seems to be a place where
the rubber-neck wagons of the city
make their longest stops. A person
can hear a lecture around the spot
most any old time and a half dozen
cops stand around to hear what is
said in hopes of aiding Burns in his
great detective work.
At the city prison they have
several men under arrest charged
with the blowing up of the building.
We went down to the prison and
looked in between the bars of the
big front door but didn't see any
thing but a cat asleep on the floor
and smelled something that was not
violets.
One of the papers will come out
with a big story about the accused
men telling all about the way the
lob was done and how the dynamite
was carried around in piano boxes
and trucks and automobiles and
then the other paper will come out
with a story of how Burns was be-
ing made a fool of by the suspected
men and that they would be able to
prove at the last moment that the
piano box was loaded with grape
fruit and oranges. Thus they boom
their section.
They are all boomers down there.
A man with a section of a petrified
lung will tell you about the beauti-
full climate and between coughs will
tell you of a section of land that he
wishes To sell because he cannot
stand the ease that the profits gives
him and he has to seek another sec
ton where he will have 10 work
harder. One feels the shivers run
up his back and edges away for fear
he would want to show him a plot in
the cemetery which is located in the
center of the city.
II is a beautiful cemetery n so
convenient. One could take his
lunch any Sunday and go out and
sit down on a nice fiat lettered stone
and enjoy himself. 1t is a part of
their advertising scheme to have
everything pleasant, even for the
dead ones. This probably accounts
for the size of the cemetery.
Went into a bar room n evening
by accident. Before we could get
out we noticed that they had put a
hobble skirt on a statue of Liberty
that was behind the bar and had