Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1918-04-25
THE PROSECUTIONS
SCOOP

uleldn6e VI hlbidNOiS udNtSA dPPSaiSu
in a most unaccountable manner upon
the street and in the front yards of
the city last evening and the seers of
the municipality are even now at
tempting to Justify its presence
among US under conditions consistent
with fact. How? When? What? as
II were. The tangible form of the
mystery was eight solid pages of type
in the Daily Free Press setting forth
1.-TWO Hundred and Seventy-five par
ticular and specific charges against
the Commissioners" and particularly
averring the alleged guilt of Commits
sioner Henry Jones. Forsooth, it did
appear that we article had been lying
in the treasure can of the Free Press
for the past ten days or more. And
yet the complaint of which copy was
used in getting up the Free Press
scoop was not filed in the office OF
the county clerk until four thirty yes
terday afternoon and the paper itself
appeared upon the streets at the
same hour! Shades of Merlin, ghosts
of Houdani The editor of the Free
Press holds the deepest magic within
his pencil-pushing palm! or course
we know that under no state of affairs
could he have been cahoots with the
vigorous prosecutors! Most certainly
not! The allegation is denied, siren
uously, darkly, mysteriously, gabfest-
eddy denied No state officials act.
ig in the interests O: public long
suffering from the henious acts of
Henry ]. Jones and his Al varieties of
specific and particular crime, would
allow 1t to be said for one moment
that they took the editor of the Free
Press into their holy confidence ten
days before the dear public was put
next to what was going on! Oh, no!
business of sprinkling holy water.)
Never let it be said that those wear
ing the toga of righteousness would
ever slip such a precious document to
tho seer on the Free Press even before
they allowed the attorney for the de-
PENDANT to have n copy! More holy
water.) And the dear public must un.
derstand that the state has had very
strenuous task on its hands tipping
this extensive document. II was even
necessary to get the audit books of
the county down on the floor and use
a microscope to ferret out some of its
hairtrigger details. This required
time, much time. so much so in fact
that upwards of eleven different post
ponements or thereabouts were neces-
sary before the document could be got
ten into condition for filing! There
fore, II was impossible that a copy
should have reached the desk of ye
scribe on the Free Press before a
copy was served upon the defend.
ants attorney. And the long hours
consumed in reading 1t to the court!
Sun dials of Father Time. but 1t was
job! Much was accomplished in
those hours consumed in the reading
OF Elko's largest complaint. So much
was crowded into those hours in fact,
that attorneys on both sides entered
the courtroom at four thirty p. M. and
court adjourned at ten minutes to
five. or course the question of one
paper being favored over the other
cannot even be considered.
How the Independent was overlook
cd cannot be accounted for Il must
be that a copy was delivered TO the
Independent but the Free Press ma
chine man was so vastly more rapid
In setting type that he was enabled
to produce the whole thing in print
In three or four minutes. II is an err
ror, the statement that the Free Press
has been burning the midnight oil
over the linotype for the past week
Even though II has been doing so is
no indication that the machine mar
was engaged in setting type for yes.
terday's issue. Most certainly not!
Expression of great indignation) Alb.
surd, you know! Therefore we say
that Ed Steninger has revived the
days OF Merlin, out Houdanied Hou.
dani and outgeneraled Herman the
Great. Tho herb pot in which the
Free Press man dips his pen has most
wonderful productive qualities. II Is
brewed during the darkest hours Of
the night when ghosts nit from ono
newspaper to the other. and tap mys.
teriously for admission 10 the sanctum
sanctorums that they may leave their
astral ideas for the much mIignCd cdi.
tor next morning. The formula Is
known only to the master OF the art
who publishes the Free Press. assist.
cd by other master minds familiar
With the accomplishment OF getting
away TO a good start The community
'f Elko must ever be shrouded in a
'all OF mystery that seeps into the
'ery mind OF man engcndering the /
ternal question. How? What? Where? /
1xeunt, all ye meddlers. II is not for
on TO know the deep, dark mysteries
( the prosecutions scoop. You are on
no outside looking in. Now you see
, now you don't Keep your mind