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White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-02
NATIONAL BANK "ovERDRAFTs.'

The following from the San Fran
cisco Chronicle probably expresses
the views of a majority of the bust
ness men throughout the country:
ION March 4th last. out of out
standing loans of s6,499, 964, sos
there we're 81. 046,5 34 in the form of
''overdrafts."
Now, an oyerdraft does not ma
terially differ from any other form of
loan. except that as a rule ii is ex-
pected to be paid almost at once by
new deposits. 1t is quite customary
for banks to give to mercantile firms
"A Zine of credit up to which they
may expect banking accommodations
upon their notes without specific Sc
curity.
An overdraft is precisely such a
credit. Under American practice, the
oyerdraft is ordinarily made in pur-
suanee of a previous understanding
for loans to be almost Immediately
made good by deposits or security.
This practice has been for a long
time in use in New York for the ac-
commodation of stockholders. They
know early in the afternoon how
! much they will need, but will not
have in hand the securities which are
to be pledged until they. have the
money to pay for them. They are,
therefore, permitted to make an over
draft to be promptly Offset by a Sc
cured note.
And there is less risk in that
practice than in many others which
all banks have to take in the course
OF business. However. there was a
great fuss made about ii.
I'm some countries the "oyerdraft'
is the usual method of extending
bank credit, and. as in the usual
method of extending bank credit,
and, in the case of other bank credits
it may be secured or unsecured.
1T is in some respects better for
1.-THE borrower. for he pays interest
only on his daily balances, whereas
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-02
sTABBING AFFAIR AT McGILL.

With the motive yelled in mystery.
Louis Zissis was arrested last Thurs
day night by Sheriff Grain and Dep
utv Sheriff Newman at the dairy ranch
north OF MeGill about six hours fater
he had stabbed Tom S~tavrakis near
the oil flotation plant shortly after
they had finished the morning shift
at the coneentrator.
II is claimed by eye witnesses that
tie foreigners became involved in an
alteration, and that Stravakis STRUCK
the knife wielder With his fist
Zissis quickly drew a knife from his
rocket and cut his fellow e%ountrymaT
in the breast.
The wounded nan was rushed to
the Steptoe hospital. An ivestigation
revealed that the fleshy portion oil
the heart had been penetrated. II was
believed for a short time that the
cutting would prove fatal, but the
Greek will reoover from the vicious
attack. according to late reports.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-02

II he borrows on a note "noe
ouount is credited to his he
-. interest on the face of his note,
~a1,bough only a small part il IL Is
drawn out.
There is no doubt. however, mat
,ha ability to borrow at any
without notice to the lender mucn
loss consultation with him, removes
one restraint to borrowing when II
;s wise to retain in a speculative com
munity.
But whatever the wisdom o
strict legality of overdrafts, they are
often a great convenience to business
men who need money only for a day
or two and have been sua IN d
small way ever since we had national
banks. 1t is, in fact, a matter when
may safely be left to the dissertation
of hank officers who are fit to man
age a bank at all.
THE dictatorial and offensive at
titude of Controller Williams in
peremptorily f%orbidding natlonai
hanks to allow any oyerdrafts at all
is quite in the line of his general
administration of his Office, which is
probably disliked by all national
hanks and has provoked the Riggs
Bank of Washington into open re
bellion.'
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-02
CATTLE RUsTER SENTENCED.

w. r. James was given an indeter-
inmate sentence of from twelve to
fifteen months in the district court
last Friday by Judge c. j. McFadden
on a charge of grand larceny. The
prisoner was taken to Carson this
morning by Deputy Sheriff J. o. Nc
Herman, where he will don the habil-
iments O ia felon for being implicat-
ed in the theft of thirty-one head OF
cattle from Swallow brothers at Sho-
shone.
The defendant was arraigned in
the district court on April "a and was
given until last Monday to plead.
James entered a plea of not guilty
at the designated time and W days
later announced his willingness to
admit his guilt to the crime charged
in the Information.
J. II. blackberry. or Bradberry,
who is believed to have been the
leader in the cattle rustling stunt,
shipped the animals to Kansas City,
and sold them at less than the mar
ket value. blackberry Is still al
large and efforts to ~aprrehend him
have proven futile.
During his confinement at the
county Jail James had become a gen
eral favorite among county officials
who are inclined to believe he 10 .
victim of circumstances. having beer
led into his present predicamen'
through the fundamentally O.
others.
While awaiting arraignmen'
James has been devoting his SPAR
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-02
s'MUSN'T TOUCH.

Remember when you were a little
tad. or taddess. and your mother or
father pointed out something to your
little eyes and said: Mustn't
Itouch?" OF course you remember 1t.
You'll never forget as long as you
live how those very words threw a
mystery around the object hat you
Mustn't touch" and how that
phrase started the determination in
your mind that you WOULD touch.
The other day a mother took her
t~wo-year-old baby TO call on a neigh
Dor. The first thing the child MOTTO
ed in the room was the glare of the
fire in a stove. She pointed at 1t and
said. in her childish lisp:
Pity"
Mustn't touch. baby" warned her
mother. drawing her away from the
stove.
Then the mother turned TO talk
with her friend. The very first thing
the baby did VAS to touch the hot
stove. The Mustn't touch" COM
mand of her mother only whetted her
curiosity and MADE her touch the
stove. But she burned her hand and
learned through experience not to
touch.
The other day the mother of a
boy in town made some pumpkin
pies. As she placed them neal a
/ window TO cool she saw her young
son looking longingly at the steam
ing pies.
Mustn't touch" she warned.
shaking a finger at him. Then she
left the room. The first thing her
sen did was &c grab one of the pies
and eat it all. He became very i'll.
He learned through experiences
that he shouldn't eat 100 much pie,
IT, Mustn't touch" warning had
only made him all the NOR, curious.
Men and women are only big boys
and girls. They have almost the
same thoughts and identically the
same aversion TO the phrase Mustn't
touch Only in the realm of big
boy and girlhood it isn't a mother OF
father who saws 'Mustn' touch" but
some law. framed by a zealot whC
would try &c make legislation dc
what nothing but education or ex
perienoe vii accomplish. Such law
are always broken and thus Is gener
ated a disrespect for good and neces
sary laws.
If a law was passed today prohibit
ing a man having ham and eggs 10
breakfast 1t would be a safe wage
that he would have ham and egg TO
breakfast for 364 days out of tn
year and on the 365th day he woul
have-ham and eggs.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-02
GLENN TAYLOR WINS CONTEST

Miss Glenn Taylor VOL first place
among the girls in a field of six con
testants in a defamation contest n a
was held in the assembly room OF the
high school last Tuesday night, and
will represent the girls in a state
oratoricai contest to be held in Reno
next Thursday.
She has chosen Americas Great
est Opportunity
oJseph Zoberniek was the success
full contestant among the boys. The
youth who emerged from the COM
petitive affairs is noted for mis- YER
satilitv. and besides being capable oil
upholding the honor of the local in
l~stitntion of learning in the inter
scholastic meet, obernick is detre-
mined to cop the laurels in a forensic
engagement. His Grafton, Human
tvs Cause Triumphant" was deliv-
cred in a way that left no doubt in
the minds of the judges that he was
entitled to a trip to the metropolis.
The musical selections by a chorus
of twelve high school girls were
models of art and haromny, and
added intellectually TO a we'll balanced
program. While the judges We're de-
liberating, Lawrence Teitz captured
the house with several clever stories
in a Dutch dialect.
The judges were Attorney b. L.
Cuayle. Senator n. Fl. Chaplin and s.
Il. Erwine, principal of the McGill
schools
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-02
May Interest Eastern Capital

G. l.. Sheldon. a local mining en-
gineer. returned last Thursday from
Battle Mountain, where he spent
several days inspecting mining prop
perry for local capitalists. He de-
clares that there is considerably min
ing activity in the northern part OF
Lander county.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-02
TOBACCO TRADE OF THE WORLD

The United States is the greatest
producer of tobacco in the world. and
the greatest exporter, the greatest
importer. and the greatest consumer.
Our production of leaf OF all sorts
averages somewhat mare than 1000
900 600 pounds a year, having a val
ne to the producers of about $780,
900 600. An enormous quantity is
exported-considerably more than a
third of the production in normal
years-for the sales of tobacco
abroad are excelled by only senven
of the products America sends to
other countries. The tobacco ex-
ports exceed in value such items as
cotton manufactures. electrical ma
chinery. paper and paper prducts and
leather and leather manufactures.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-02

moments to drawing. and specimens
of his handiwork indicate that he Is
a natural born artist. His efforts
are confined chiefly to ranch scenes
and depictions of bucking horses
James confessed his participation IN
the crime to District Attorney Zurich
although no promises of leniency
were made to the defendant.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-02

Continued from page one.J

wayfarer with sufficient beer to
quench the thirst.
Teams were donated by j. II.
Gallagher. F. X. Barnard, NJ. g.
F~arnsworth. w. l.. Nelson and the
Ely Lumber and Coal company. Mr..
Gallagher fed the different teams
that were engaged in road work. W.
/ Stewart and John Lewis worked
on the White River summit.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-02
n NEW MAYOR.
To the Voters of Ely:

To the Voters of Ely:
In selecting the Mayor of this City
I think all voters should support the
man who will not only give a safe,
a and conservative administration,
but who will work for the advance
ment of the entire community
Among the three candidates for the
Office. the one live wire" is A. b.
WITCHER. and in my judgment he
is the logical man for the place. He
has at all times been foremost TO
take hold and help in every move
ment for the benefit of the town, as
we'll as the district.
No matter whether it has been a
meeting of the business men. or one
for Good Roads, Fourth of July,
Labor Day. Gun Club. Baseball, or
n other public enterprise. he has
always been among the most promi-
nent ones to take part and boost,
financially as we'll as vocally. Just
recently when the business men
wanted to get the Saturday Night
specials put on, to whom did they
go for help and who got busy for
their benefit Witeher.
When delegations r selected TO
meet prominent visitors to our camp,
who Is always on hand to greet them,
and spend his time and money to
show them around the district. and
hoost for u.s. Witcher.
When the City needed $4,000 10
pay for the new fire truck. to whom
did they apply for it land got it,?
Witcher. When the City needed
money to save is credit in time of
depression last fall. and to keep its
warrants from going at a discount,
who financed itss obligations?
Witcher.
Who told the administration in
plain language that the City must
economize and cut down its expenses.
and keep within its income. II 1t
expected to get further help from
him? Witeher. Did they do it? They
did: and wasn't it good. sound. SEN
sible advice? And isn't a man who
offers it a safe. conservative business
man? You know it.
And yet one of his opponents said
that If Mr.. Witcher was elected he
would Immediately take steps to
raise the taxes.
Mr.. Witcher is one of the largest
individual property owners and tax
payers in Ely: l am informed that his
own personal taxes amount to some
thing like $500 a year. Does any
sane man think he Is anxious to pile
more on top of that? Certainly If he
does anything he will try to cut 1t
down instead of increase il.
Ely is apparently on the verge of
another good era of business; things
look brighter than they have for
some time. and We want to keep them
looking that way. We want to pro-
gress. not retrograde. We want a
good. live business mar at the head
of this town. who will help in every
way possible to put Ely to the from
and keep il there. Mr.. Witcher il
the man who will do il. II anybod!
can. He is not narrow or contracted
in his ideas. but broadminded an,
liberal. and can be trusted to Civ
this town what it needs. a cuisines
administration"
JOS. V. MURPHY.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-02

Now Is a good time to take a glance
over your back yards and devise some
plan to ~ostracize the fruit cans and
rubbish which have accumulated
since the last installment was remov-
ed. You can generally Judge of the
occupants of a house by the condition
In which the front and back yards
are kept In q general sense we all
pride ourselves on being Clearly and
tidy. Home and its surroundings
above all places in the world should
be scrupulously guarded ? ainst con
influences.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-02
ELY JTTNEY SERVICE.

Arrangements r now in enect
whereby East Ely residents can enjoy
the privileges afforded by autos from
Central Ely to Ely by telephoning
from the Ely Lumber and Coal Co.
Central Ely Office to f. W. Jackson,
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-02

phone 43. at a cost within the reach
of all. He will make the trip from
this point for 10 cents per passenger,
nrovidine there are enough to make
a thirty cent trip. Call him up at
any time and make arrangements to
have him call for you at this point.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-07-16
INFORMATION EASY TO GIVE
Daddy Happily in Possession Of
knowledge as TO Where One Vac
uum Was Located.

The good man had just been in
formed by the only person who could
possibly possess the information that
he hadn't an ounce of sense. that he
had never had an ounce of sense, and
that there was not the remotest
chance that he ever would have an
ounce of sense.
Having been assured on these
points, the good man turned to his
paper, only to be interrupted by his
young son and heir:
Father" asked the boy, what is
a vacuum and where can l find one?"
MY boy" replied the good man, ''if
we are to assume that your mother is
qualified to speak on the subject, ]
possess the only real vacuum in the
neighborhood and, for your further In
formation, it is situated just between
my collar and the glossy open space
where used to grow hair
you mean your dome?"
Yes, my son, that is the family vac
uum."
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-07-16
LOVE OF ART NOT REQUIRED
Mans lnsensibiIity to the Beautiful
Understood When He Revealed
His Lies Occupation.

AS they passed the soldiers monu-
ment in the public square of a small
town he turned to his right compan.
ion and said:
Pretty bad, eh?"
What's pretty bad?"
why, this monument Awful. isn't
it, to put those things up all over this
fair land? No art in EN-"
Il rather like EN-"
Rather like EN-, Ell? suppose you
think that pile of chimneys over there
is pleasing to the eye?"
Not bad"
What do you think Of those fright
full advertising chromos on the land
scape?"
Pretty good"
You'd like the interior of a New
York theater-I believe"
Splendid"
Ever heard of art?"
Never"
DO you mean to say. sir, that some
of the sublimest notes of the human
heart meet no response in your bo-
som? Have you no taste. no judg-
ment, no sense of anything harmoni-
GUS? Are you lost to the fitness OF
anything at all? Great heavens. sir!
Where did you come from? Who are
your"
Il, sir, am the heartless wretch who
arranges the deathbed scenes in the
moving picture shows. Life.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-07-16
BIG INCREASE Of
FARM PRODUCTS
Province of Alberta Shows In
crease of Over 20 Millions.

Figures just compiled by the public
ity branch of the provincial depart
ment show that last year. notwith-
standing that quite third of the prov
ince was affected by the drought to
very serious extent, the total value
OF agricultural products actually pro-
duced in the province showed an in
crease of over twenty million dollars
over that of the previous year. Al
though southern Alberta had a bad
year agriculturally, the province as a
whole experienced a period of great
prosperity, due principally to mixed
farming, which is becoming more gen.
eral with each succeeding year.
The value of mixed farming. in fact,
was never better illustrated than last
year as the value of the animals
slaughtered and sold alone equaled
the value of the spring wheat crop.
without taking into consideration the
value of the butter, milk, cheese, poul-
try, vegetables, and other by-products
of the farm.
Oats was the banner grain crop,
1,147,SS2 acres being seeded, and pro-
ducing 34,397117 bushels, or S015 to
the acre. Sold at an average of SOC
per bushel. these yielded a revenue OF
17,19S.55S. Comparatively little win
ter wheat was produced, the yield be-
ing little short of one million BUSH
els, but the spring wheat crop
amounted TO 15,102,0S bushels. the
yield per acre being 1926, At an aver
age of $1.35 per hushel, the value of
the spring wheat crop was therefore
$20,3S7.S12. The total production of
barley was 7.S47, GAO bushels, which, at
SOC per bushel. yielded a revenue of
$4,316,202,
Other productions were as follows:
Flax. 207,115 bushels, 1910, 67200; rye,
261,s43 bushels, $3.50. $4,000; speltz, Az
707 bushels, $32. 10000: hay, 100000
tons, $2,5O0,00O; potatoes, four million
bushels, $3,000,000; turnips three mil
hon bushels, $750,000; carrots, 100000
bushels, $1S0,000 mangolds, $4,000
bushels. $4,000: animals slaughtered
and sold $20,000,000; butter and
cheese, $1,5OO,000; milk, 100000;
wool clip. 100000 pounds, 100000;
fish, $4,000; game and furs, $780,
600; horticultural products, $4,000;
poultry and products. s2,650OOO
The total of the agricultural prod.
ucts is given as $7S,516,s91, as com.
pared with $5S .09S,OS4 in 1918.
The statistics also show that the
value of the live stock in the province
at the end of the year was $110,044,-
$50, this being an increase of 1892
! S45 over the previous year There
were 609,125 horses, 750,7S9 swine.
SOL 1888 sheep, 192.905 dairy cows, 1885,
O35 other cows, 190.923 beef cattle and
| 1920 other tle.-Advertisement
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-07-16
AID TO SANTA CLAUS

At one of the desks in the United
States patent Office sits young wom-
an scanning pile of drawings. They
are odd-looking sketches, consisting Of
hundreds of dotted lines. Zig circles
and little circles. almost all the letters
of the alphabet, and shadowy forms of
human beings and animals She is Miss
Alice Purinton, an assistant examiner
in the patent office, and it is her duty
to pass upon the patentability of chill
dren's toys.
Hundreds of drawings and specif-
cations of every toy imaginable find
their way to her desk daily, and this
material must explain exactly how the
toys are made and operated. 1t is abb
solutely necessary that the toys work
as the specifications state, and any
skilled mechanic is supposed to be able
to make them. If the description OF a
certain toy is not lucid enough for
Miss Purinton to derive clear under
standing of the mechanism a model
must be submitted. The submission
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-07-16
VICTIM OF RACE HATRED

Sir Edgar Speyer, member of a
banking firm that has houses in Lon
don, Frankfort and New York, has
truly become a victim of race hatred
generated by the war. Because he is
native of Germany, his loyalty to
England, his adopted country, was
fiercely attacked, and finally he re-
signed his post as privy councillor and
came to America. He tried also to re-
sign his ba-onetcy, but found he would
have to remain a nobleman for life.
Sir Edgar has lived most OF his
life in England and was made baro-
net because of his munificent philan-
thropies and his public spirit. Up to
the outbreak of the war he was one
of the most popular men in London,
and he remained popular until last
spring, when the undercurrent of Eng
lish resentment toward Germany and
Germans became vindictive. He was
attacked in the newspapers. and
despite public assurance by Premier
Asquith, long his friend, that he was
- Id 7
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-07-16
-"TORPS" OF THE BRITISH NAVY

''Torps" is the nickname of the
torpedo lieutenant on battleship. Sir
Henry Jackson, new first sea lord Of
the admiralty, is the "Torps" Of the
British navy, for he is unquestionably
its leading torpedo expert. His Sc
lection as successor to Lord Fisher is
recognized as most fitting, for Ger
many's naval tactics have forced Eng
land to admit the importance of sub
marine warfare.
When Sir Henry entered the navy
in 1868 the world was still chiefly
thinking ABOUT tts crude "spar" tor
pedoes which Cushing and other Amer
leans had used in the Civil war, with
the result that they were apt to blow
up the torpe5oer as well as the tor
pedoed. In 1881 he was appointed to
the Vernon, the old torpedo schc :
ship at Portmouth, as a young lieu
tenant for course of instruction.
When that was completed he was able
10 start his career as torpedo lieuteD-
ant on a battleship, ana that soon
L.. L.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-07-16
0T1OFC@DINARN
W PEOPLE W.
DOES NOT SEEK PUBLICITY

Ask almost any man in Washing.
ton to name the assistant secretaries
of state and this is the kind of an an
swer you will get:
Let's see. There is Adee, who
has been in the department since it
was invented, and Phillips, Repub-
lican. who came in in the midst of
this administration because they
wanted another experienced man in
the department. Why, hang it all,
there must be another assistant some
where! / have it. What's that fell
lows name who came here from Wy
oming? think he was a druggist,
and. If remember correctly. he is the
Democratic national committeeman
from that state"
John E. Osborne?"
Sure, that's the fellow. BY jim
miny, have not heard of him since
he was first appointed. Where does
he keep HIMSELF"
John E. Osborne keeps himself
pretty much out of sight, so far as
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-07-16
LOOK YOUR BEST
As to Your Hair and Skin, cutleura
VIII Help You. Trial Free.

The Soap to cleanse and purify. the
Ointment to soothe and heal. These
fragrant super-creamy emollients pre-
serve the natural purity and beauty
of the skin under conditions which,
II neglected, tend to produce state
of irritation and Disagreement.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. KY,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-07-16
EooIlna the EnemY.

Rain was falling steadily as the
weary cyclist plodded on through the
English mud At last he spied fig.
ure walking toward him through the
gloom.
Gladly he sprang off his machine
and asked the native:
How far off is the village of Pop
pleton?"
Just 10 miles the other way, sir.
was the reply.
"The other way" exclaimed the
cyclist. But the last sign post
passed said it was in this direction. +"
"Ah.' said the native, with know
ing grin, but, We see, we turned that
there post round so as to fog those
ere Zeppylings! "-Pittsburgh Chron-
icle-Telegraph.