White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-10-20
VISITS ELY AFTER
LONG ABSENCE
CAPTAIN II. ID. PARKER FINDS
FEW OF FORMER ASSOCIATES
WHO WE'RE HERE TWENTY
EIGHT YEARS AGO.

writer and speaker on subjects OF
psychology and metaphysics, old
soldier and Grand Army man, and an
active member Of the newspaper fra
ternity, Capt. r. d. Parker of Chi
cago, arrived in Ely Thursday on
his first visit to the district for
twenty-eight years. He came here
from Cherry Creek, where he has
been for some time looking after
the business affairs of his brother
George Parker, who is in poor health.
Captain Parker called at the News
office Friday afternoon and recalled
the time when he worked on the
paper at Cherry Greek. That was
during the administration of the
News destinies of Editor Davis
and the paper was printed on a
Washington hand press. 1t was part
of Captain Parker's duties to help
pull the edition. He was five
years in White Pine county, from '78
until "a, leaving here for New Or
leans where he remained during the
exposition, as foreman of the custom
house. While at the exposition, he
was visited by several former friends
prominent in the affairs of Ely.
Captain Parker has been engaged
writing a civil war history, on the
subject of which he is we'll yersed,
as he enlisted at the age of thirteen
years, his first service being for
three months with Company B, of
the Chicago Zouaves. On August q,
1861, he reinlisted with the band of
the 55th Illinois, and Jan. IL, 1862,
a transferred to the Gath New
York. His final service was in Com
pany ID, of the 141st Illinois, with
which he enlisted June 20, 1864,
and he was mustered out October
10 of the same year. He was in a
number of engagements, and was
twice wounded, once al Antietam,
and once at Belmont, Mo-, where he
had an encounter with B~ushwhack-
ers. After the war he returned to
Chicago, and for a time was engag-
ed as drill master on the Chicago
police force, and took part in the ex-
citing incidents of the great Burling-
ton railroad strike in TT. He has
always maintained a keen interest
in Grand Army affairs, and organic
ed the Col. Baker Post No. 10, De-
partment of California, at Cherry
Creek, Nevada. The post is now de-
funct, and Captain Parker says that
of the former 35 members the
only ones living so far as he knows,
are ]. c. Moon of Ely and Rem.
Pierce of Cherry Creek. While in
Ely Capt. Parker visited the ceme-
terry, where he found the graves of
a number of old soldiers with whom
he had once associated. In recount
ing war times, and his recollections
of the Robinson district of nearly
thirty years ago, he stated that Edi-
tor Davis was formerly of the 18th
Mississippi, a confederate regiment
commanded by Col. Carter.
Captain Parker is a charter men,
Der of the National Editorial Asso-
citation, and most of the time since
the war has been engaged in news
paper work with the National Press
Association as special correspondent.
His work has taken him over a large
area of the United States, and in
connection with stated duties he has
found time to write at length on a
variety of subjects in which he is
interested and attend meetings for
the purpose of making addresses.
He Is a believer in and a strong
advocate of the policy of conserv-
ing natures forces as applied to the
mental and physical being, and his
own activity and strength, notwith-
standing his years and what he has
passed through, seem to prove that
optimism and the power of sugges-
ton rightfully applied are passports
to the don't worry" club.
He is a member of Farnsworth
Post No. 456, Dept. of ILL.,, is a
thirty-seeond degree Mason and
member of Lakeside lodge No. 739,
at Chicago, and of Oriental Consis-
tory Valley of Chicago.
Yesterday Captain Parker and Mr..
Moon went to Lane City together,
and the meeting of the two veter-
ans was a reunion of "Reminiscences.
1t was also an incident of unusual
Importance to Captain Parker, for he
was presented by Mr.. Moon with the