Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1918-05-10

$3.50 on the account, after which pay
ment the matter of the fine for the
South Fork mill violation would be
smoOthcd over This Mr. Percival
agreed to do. On the 9Th OF May
telegram came from Wood containing
some routine matters of food bust.
ness and the last word of the mess
age was Saturday" indicating to the
mill official that he was expected to
meet Wood in Reno on that very day.
Mr.. PcTCiyal was unable to go TO the
riverside city upon that day and call
ed Wood by telephone. telling him
that he would be in Reno Sunday.
Wood replied that that would be too
late as he was obliged to go to San
Francisco that night, but for Percival
to come on to san Francisco and
make the payment. In the meantime
Mr. Perciyal had consulted with at
torneys here and had teleghaphed to
one OF his associates in the mill, Mr..
Lowell to meet him in Reno. 1t was
then too late TO stop Lowell, who was
already on his way. Accordingly Per.
ciyal went on 10 San Francisco where
he met Lowell and Wood as well in a
hotel Here, 1t is alleged. Wood made
the bald proposition TO Perciyal and
Lowell to control the sale of flour for
them in the entire state of Nevada in
return for which he WIS TO receive a
salary from them OF $500 per month.
lie stated in this regard that he held
the state of Nevada in the palm of his
hand and could do as he saw fit with
the flour situation. lie indicated that
he could either make the mill people
or break them, just as they saw fit
to act in the matter. He stated fur
ther that If they employed him on his
proposition that he could make them
$4,000 during the war. Mr. Percival
again put him off and together he and
district attorneys office in San Fran
cisco and laid the whole affair before
them. Following that. Mr.. Percival
secured two rooms in a San Francisco
hotel. In one of them a shorthand re-
porter was placed at the cartubes of
diCtaphonc which was wired into
the other room and a chair placed at
the position near the diCtaphOne.
where 1t was planned Wood should sit
in the other room with the shorthand
reporter was the chief of the United
States Secret Service in San Fran.
cisco, In position to see and hear
what was gOinng on. Wood came to
PcTCival's room and took the chair
planned for him. Then followed a
complete discussion of the South
Fork mill case what Wood proposed
to do to quiet that affair as well as
his proposal TO control the flour sit.
uation for the mill men in Nevada,
month, payable in cash in advance. At
this discussion every word he said
passed through the dictaphone into
tho reporters note book, as well as
being heard by the Secret Service
man. As part of the plan Percival
agreed to pay him the balance of the
Ely money and to give him $500 as
his first months payment under his
proposal as soon as they arrived in
Reno. To show the personal in
Woods actions. Mr.. Percival offered
D.. Or InE - no
paid as Il balance on account of the
Ely agreement, but Wood stated that
he positively must have 800, because
he and his wife had just bought some
furniture which must be paid for and
no needed 800 with which to do 80.
Accordingly 800 in marked S5 bills
was paid him In the room and he left.
Mr. Pcrclval, with the Secret Service