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Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-08-28
CALYPSO!

q synopsis-The man who tells this
Is visiting his friend, John Saun-
Bahama islands. Charles Webster,
trio of friends. Saunders produces
a written document purporting to
be the death-bed statement of Hem
~ p. Tobias. q successful pirate,
made by him in 1859. 1t gives two
spots where two millions and q half
Of treasures were buried by hiD and
his companions. The conversation
of the three friends is overheard by
a pock-marked stranger. The docu-
ment disappears. Saunders. how
ever. has copy. The hero, deter
mined to seek the buried treasure,
charters a schooner. The pock-
marked man is taken on as a pas
senger. On the voyage somebody
empties the gasoline tank. The hero
and the passenger clash, the pas
senger leaving a manifesto bearing
the signature. Henry p. Tobias.
Jr." The hero lands on Dead Mems
Shoes. There is fight, which is
followed by several funerals. The
Zero unOS q cave containing the
skeletons Of two pirates and mas
sive chest-empty save for q few
pieces Of eight scattered on the bot
tom. 1.-THE hero returns to. Mas
sau and by good luck learns, the
location Of Short Shrift island.
Webster buys the yawl Flamingo.
and he and the hero sail for Short
Shrift island. AS the Flamingo
leaves the wharf, young fellow.
"Jack Harkaway," jumps aboard
and is allowed to remain. Jack
proves an interesting and mysteri-
GUS passenger. The adventurers
capture Tobias. Jack Harkaway'
proves to be girl and disappears.
The hero sails to Short Shrift is,
land, sees an enhancing Lirl with
q Spanish doubloon. Follows an even
more enhancing sight Of the girl.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-08-28
CHAPTER ,I-contlnued.
10

TIA! hat" called a pleasant voice.
evidently belonging to man of an
unusually tall and lean figure who was
approaching me through the palm
trunks; $50 you, have discovered my
hidden paradise-my Alcinous garden,
so to says" and he quoted two we'll
known lines of Homer in the original
Greek, adding: ''or If you prefer it in
Pope's translation, which I think
don't you!-remains the best:
Close to the gates a spacious garden lies,
From storms defended and Indictment
u fssi'. - 5ea = 4tae.is ;sse
"and so on. Alasl for an old mans
memory! It grows shorter and shorter
like his life, Ell? Never mind, you
are welcome, sir stranger. mysterious.
" tossed up here like Ulysses, on our
island coast"
gazed with natural wonderment
at this strange individual, who thus
in the heart Of the wilderness had
saluted me with a meticulously pure
English accent, and welcomed me in
a quotation from Homer in the original
Greek. Who, in the devils name, was
this odd character who. saw, as
looked closer at him, was, as he had
limited, quite an old, man, though his
unusual erectness and sprightliness of
manner, lent him an Elusive air of
youth? Who on earth was he-and
how did he happen in the middle of
this haunted wood?
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-08-28
CHAPTER III.
Calypso.

OF course a glance and the first
sound Of his voice had told me that
had to do with a gentleman-one OF
those vagabond English gentlemen in
exile who form type peculiar, think
to the English race; men that are 9
curious combination Of aristocrat and
Gypsy, soldier, scholar, and philoso
pher; men Of good family, who have
drifted everywhere, seen and seen
through everything, but in all thAil
wanderings have never lost their seJsse
and habit of "form," their boyish zest
In living, their humorous stoicism, a1d
above all, their lordly accent.
"Now that you have found us. Sir
Ulysses" = continued my eccentric
host, motioning me, with an indie.
scribably princely wave Of the hand to
accompany him-"you must certainly
give us the pleasure of your company
to luncheon. Visitors are as rare as
black swans on this Ultima Thule OF
ours-though, by the way, the black
swan. cygnus atratus, is nothing like
so rare as the ancients believed.
have shot them myself out in Australia
Still they are rare enough for the pur
pose Of imagery, though really not SC
rare as human being one can talk
to on this island"
Talk! My friend indeed, very evi.
IDENTIFY was a talker-one of those fan.
tastic monologists to whom an audi.
ence is little more than symbol. ]
saw That there was no need for me
to do any of the talking. He was more
than glad to do it all. Plainly his en-.
counter with me was to him like q
spring in thirsty land.
Solitude" he continued, sis per:
haps the final need of the human soul.
After while, when we have run the
gamut Of all our ardors and our
dreams, solitude comes to seem the
one excellent thing, the summum
bonum."
I murmured that he certainly seemed
to have come to the right place for it.
'Vory true, indeed" he assented,
with e0urtly inclination Of his head
~ though = had said something pro
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-08-28

found; Every true, indeed, and yet,
wasn't 1t the great Bacon who said !:
Whoever is delighted with solitude is
either beast or a god?'-and this
particular solitude, / confess, some
times seems to me little too much
like that enforced solitude of the
Pontic marshes of which Ovid walled
and whimpered in the deaf ears of
Augustus"
I could not help noticing at last
as he talked on with fantastic magnifi-
cence, the odd contrast between his
speech and the almost equally fantas-
tic poverty of his clothing. The suit
he wore, though still preserving a
certain elegance Of cut, was SO worn
and patched and stained that a negro
would hardly have accepted it as a
gift; and his almost painful emacia-
ton gave him generally the appear
ance Of an animated framework of
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-08-28

style that assure you it was very
captivating.
'You should have been an actor, my
lord Alcinous," said, laughing.
seemed already curiously at home,
seated there at that table with this
fantastic stranger and that being out
of fairyland toward whom dared only
turn my eyes now and again by
stealth. The strange fellow had such
a way with him, and his talk made you
feel that he had known you all your
life.
"Ah! I have had my dreams. have
had my dreams!" he answered, his
eyes gazing with a momentary wistful.
ness across the orange trees.
Then we talked at random, as friend.
~ strangers talk over luncheon, though
we were glad enough that he should
do all the talking-wonderful rides
cent, madcap talk, such as man here
and there in ten thousand, gifted with
perhaps the most attractive of all hui
man gifts, has at his command.
And, every now and again, my eyes
falling on the paradoxical squalor of
his clothing, would remind me of the
enigma Of this courtly vagabond;
though-need 1 say it?-my eyes and
my heart had other business ty.an with
him, throughout that wonderful meal,
embodied as 1 felt myself once more in
that golden cloud of magnetic vitality,
which had ut first swept over me, US
with breath of perfumed fire, among
the salt pork and the tinware of
Sweeney's store.
Luncheon over, Lady Calypso, with
a stately inclination OF her lovely
head, left us to our wine and our
cigars.
The time had come for the far-trav.
eled guest to declare himself, and 1
saw in my hosts eye courteous invi-
tation to begin. I had been bordering
what account to give Of myself, and
had decided, for various reasons-of
which the Lady Calypso was, of course.
first, but the open-hearted charm of
her father close second-to tell him
the whole of my story. Whatever
his and her particular secret was, it
was evident to me that it was an in
nocent and honorable one; and, be-
sides, may have had a notion that
before long was to have a family
interest in it.. So DEMONSTRATING in
with little prelude in the manner of
my host, just to enter into the spirit
of the game:
my Lord Alcinous, your guest, the
far wanderer, having partaken of your
golden hospitality, is now fain to open
his heart to you, and tell you of him
self and his race, his home and his
loved ones across the wlne-dark sea,
and such Of his adventures as may
give pleasure to your ears" .
though, having no talents in that d.
reltion, was glad enough to abandon
my lame attempt at his Homeric style
for plain straightforward narrative
of the events of the past three months.
I had not, however, proceeded very
far. when, with courteous raising Of
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-08-28
8 hand, King Alcinous suggested a

his hand, King Alcinous suggested a
pause.
If you would not mind" he said, II
would like my daughter to hear this
too for 1t is Of the very stuff of ro-
mantle adventure in which she de-
lights. She is brave girl, and, as l
often tell her, would have made
very spirited daredevil boy. If she
hadn't happened to be born q girl"
This phrase seemed to flash light
upon the questionings that had stirred
at the back of my mind since I had
first heard that voice In Sweeney's
Stnro roo, ac,.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-08-28
dial Hal" Called Pleasant Voice.

rags and bones, startlingly embodying
the voice and the manners Of prince
Yet the shabby tie about his neck was
bound by ring, in which was set q
turquoise Of great size and beauty.
Presently, as we loitered on through
the palms, we came upon two negroes
chopping away with their machetes,
trimming up the debris of broken and
decaying palm fans. They were both
sturdy, ferocious-looking fellows, but
one Of them was veritable giant.
"Behold by bodyguard!" said my
magnificent friend, with the usual pos
sessive wave Of his hand; s.my
Switzers, my Janissaries. SO to say"
The negroes stopped working,
touched their great straw hats, and
flashed their splendid teeth In de-
lighted smile. Evidently they were
used to their masters ways Of talking.
and were devoted to hin.
"This chap here is Erebus," said
my host, and the appropriateness Of
the name was apparent, for he was
certainly the blacklist negro had ever
seen, as superbly black as some wom-
en- are superbly white.
sand this is Samson. Let's have q
look at your muscles, Samsm-there's
good boyv'
And, with grins of pleasure. Sam
son proudly stripped of his thin calico
jacket and exposed torso Of terrify-
ing power, but beautiful in its play of
muscles as that of god. .
Leaving Samson and Erebus to con-
tinue their savage play with their
machetes, we walked on through the
palms, which here gave a particularly
junglelike appearance to the scene
from the fact Of their being bowed
out from their roots and sweeping up
ward in great curves. One involunta-
rily looked for man-eating tiger at
any moment, standing striped and
splendid in one Of the openings.
Then suddenly to the right, there
came flash Of level green, suggesting
lawns, and the outlines of q house.
partly covered with brilliant purple
flowers-a marvellous splash of color.
"Bougainvillea! BOugainvillea spec-
tabilis-of course, you know 1t. Was
there ever such purple? Not Solo
mon in all his glory, ct cetera. And
here We are at the house of King
Alcinous-a humble version of it in
deed"
It was a large rambling stucco
house, somewhat decayed looking,
and evidently built on the ruins Of an
older building. We came upon 1t at a
broad 1talian-looking loggia, supported
by stone pillars bowed in with vines
very cool and pleasant-with messy
slabs for its floor, here and there
tropical ferns set out in tubs, some
wicker chairs standing about. and a
table at one side on which two little
barelegged negro girls were busy set
ting out yellow fruit, and other APP
purtenances of luncheon, on a dazzling
white cloth.
HAS your mistress, returned yet,
my children?" asked the master.
"No. sar," said the older girl, with
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-06-22
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
BUY ROAD MACHINERY

At the last meeting OF the Board
of County Comm issioners a complete
road building outfit was purchased
for the county. which will be ade-
quate to take care of the road repair.
ing and building which has become
an urgent necessity owing TO the dan
rerous condition of many of the coun-
ty roads.
The county purchased a As Holt
caterpillar tractor which will be ship
ped at once from the factory in Cali
fornia A Western road grader com.
plcte with scarifier and three way
blades was rented from a California
frm Nth the privilege OF purchase n
found satisfactory for the road work
in tho county.
Trailers will be purchased from u
road contractor in Tculan. Nevada
end 1t is reported that by the first of
July the county sill be in a position
to start the much needed work on the
county roads.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-06-22
Especial to the News)

JUAREZ, Mexico. June 2l.-Amer-
leans we're warned 10 leave the Nor
mon district OF western chihuahua
when the crisis arrives. by General
Manuel Gieguez. commander of the
northeastern military zone, according
to telegram received last night by
American Consul Dow from American
Consul Stewart at Chihuahua City,
The message stated that General
Gieguez considered the withdrawal of
the Americans from the Cases
Grandes Mormon district advisable
until such time that he could send
troops into that district to protect the
Americans. The warning was re-
ferred to ihe American state depart
ment.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-06-22
STATE ORGANIZATIONS
OF AMERICAN LEGION

State secretaries of the American
Legion have mailed application
blanks for the forming of local posts
to the soldiers and sailors throughout
the different states. The application
form quotes from the constitution of
1.-THE Legion adopted at the St. Louis
caucus last May. declaring all per-
sons eligible to membership who
were In the military or naval service
Of the United States during the Pc
riod between April s. 1917. and No.
vember II, 1918, and who were not
separated from the service under
terms amounting TO dishonorable
discharge or those who refused to
perform their military duties on the
grounds of conscientious or political
objections.
Each local shall have minimum
membership OF fifteen. A post de-
string charter shall apply to the
state organization and the charter.
when recommended by the state or
ganization. will be issued by the Ma
tional Executive committee
The application for a charter must
be signed by at least fifteen eligible
men and the name selected for the
post must not be that of any living
person.
The American Legion is a veterans
organization. It's purpose is non-po-
litical and non-partisan: it will keep
alive the principles OF justice, free
dom and democracy for which these
veterans fought and will preserve
to future generations the history and
incidents of their participation In the
war. Also 1t will cement ard per-
petuate the ties of comradeshlp form
ed In the service.
State organizations are being rap
idly perfected. There is one in Ne
vada and any man wishing to Join
should forward his name and address
to J. ]. Burke. Box 872. Reno, Neva-
da. for complete information.
1t is an organization in which
those men who were not fortunate
enough to get overseas are eligible
as we'll as the A. f. r.
The big convention is scheduled
to be held in Minneapolis. Mimi. next
November 10, II and IL, when 1t is
believed that most of the A. e. F. will
be at home.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-06-22
ELY NEWSBOYS STAGE
A SPECTACULAR STRIKE
Ely Lads Who Sell Salt Salt Lake Trbunes Make Winning
Demonstration Against Questionable Practice Of Dis
tributns Agency---Sae of Papers Effectually
Checked Pending Adjustment of Grievance.

News boys OF Ely who handle the
Salt Lake Tribune from the agency
of l.. II. Murdock declared a strike
last night and refused TO handle the
papers or allow the route boys 70 lis
tribute their papers.
The grievance declared by the boys
was that the agency discriminates in
supplying certain boys with papers
tar enough ahead OF the others to
give these tlvorites the cream of the
trade II is reported that the route
boys ride to the train with the truck
that brings up the papers and that
these boys are supplied at once with
the fresh editions and allowed to
start selling before the regular
newsies have a chance to get their pa
pers.
When the papers we're ready to dis
tribute last evening the news boys
stood in a solid line along the side
walk and told the clerk at the agency
that they were on strike and would
not handle the papers until a prom
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-06-22
Collapse of the German
Cabinet Believed to
Pressage Acceptance
by New Leaders.
Another View Is That
Move Means Excuse
for Further Delay and
Toning Down Treaty.

PARIS, June 21.--President Ebert
has requested Herman Mueller. ma
jority Socialist leader. to form q new
German cabinet to replace the col
lapsed cabinet headed by Phillip
Sdheidemann. according to advices
received by the peace delegation.
Dispatches received over the Amer
lean militarywire into Germany early
this afternoon stated that Herr Muel-
Ter, having failed to form a cabinet.
DIR. Eduard David. former president
of the National Assembly. had been
asked to assume the task. Matthias
Erzberger probably will head the Ger
man peace delegation. The German
provincial press Is strongly urging
the speedy signing of the treaty.
Advices to the American delegation
summarizing the situation, show the
sentiment through Germany to be in
favor of accepting the peace terms.
News of the retirement of Phillip
pthfiurHihnu, piCiuici, anu u tnC
reformation of the coalition govern
ment. in Germany came as no sur
prise in peace conference circles, az
it had been known for some time that
the premier and other members of the
cabinet were so thoroughly commit
ted by past utterances to not signing
the treaty that a new cabinet and
perhaps a new president might have
to be installed before ne treaty is
signed. unless II was materially modi-
fed.
This break IN the government will.
it is expected in peace circles. be an
excuse to ask for more time, but 1t is
believed that the new cabinet. IL Ed.
uard David has any authority, will,
after asking for few conditions.
sign the treaty.
One of the conditions likely to be
asked for is that the Allies tone down
the clause concerning the responsible
ity for the war and also that they give
up the idea of holding the Kaiser re-
sponsible in the courts.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-06-22
C. II. EVANS
SENDS HOMESTEAD NAP

The News has received from Con-
gressman {. X. Evans a letter with
the Information that the map issued
by the Department of the Interior.
showing the designations of the En-
larged Homestead Areas of the state
of Nevada has been forwarded; also
thai he Is in a position to furnish ad-
ditional copies If desired.
At this time of the year the inter-
ests In homesteads is at its height.
Many prospective ranchers are inter
ested In the new law that provides for
the taking up of enlarged homesteads
and IL will be 10 their advantage TO
communicate with Congressman
Evans.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-06-22

ise was made that there would be no
fayorites in the future. Protest
had previously been made against
this practice The regular route boys
were warned not to start out with
their papers and they decided TO heed
the warning. Papers that were left
at the newsstands we're collected by
the newsies and returned to the
agency and guard was placed
around the store 10 persuade patrons
from buying the Tribune.
After several hours Mr.. Murdock
managed to get the route boys and
the regular newsies together and de-
cfded to put the route boys on the
list in the usual manner, which will
give all the boys an even break ac-
cording TO length of service. This
arrangement was satisfactory. but
owing to the fact that 1t was long aft
er the "curfew hour" the young
strikers had to hike for home and the
paper business recorded one dull
evening
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-06-22
AMERICA HAS BIG ARMY MORMON DISTRICT N
READY FOR LONG SIEGE MEXICO IS ENDANGERED
Special 70 the Newsl

WASHINGTON. June al United
States army officers here said
today that the American army now
preparing 70 advance into Germany
could operate as an entity separate
from its home base for a year or more
IL circumstances should require They
declared the force of 225,000 men
probably was the best equipped that
ever had been assembled. The per
sonnel was described as practically
hand picked with equipment of the
most modern type. Great depots sit
uated in the area behind the Coblenz
bridgehead were filled with the best
of the reserve supply.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-06-22
sOSyON AND ELY CON.
MINING COMPANY

We clip the. following from tn.
8ostoE Financial News of June l3;
Boston and Ely expects to start de-
velopment work not later than JuIv
first.
on consultation with the several
interests connected with the new
consolidation, 1t has been definitely
decided to have the headquarters OF
the new company In New York City.
Immediate steps are to be taken
to have the securities OF the new
company listed on the New York
curb.
President Whicber expects TO visit
Ely some time about tna middle of
July.
Tn: directors of the new company
far as decided upon. are as fol-
.cws:
W. +. bartholomew. of Tucker.
Haven & Bartholomew. Boston. Mem
aers OF the New York and Boston
STICK exchanges.
W. ID. Elwell, of Whitney q Elwell,
fostop. Members of thu New York
and noston stock exchanges.
George r. Presby. of Tucker.
Hayes and Bartholomew.
w. w. Cohen. of w. W. Cohen &c
Co, New York. Members of the
New York stock exchange.
w. N. McGill, Ely. Nevada.
8. Herbert Williams. Ely, Nevada.
Harry w Barrett. New York.
Arthur L. Kingsbury. Northamp-
ton. Mass
L. f. Whicher. New York. Director
United Verde Extension.
The new company liz being organ
lied under the auspices of Mr.. C. C.
Barton, Jr.. attorney. of Boston, and
he expects to have everything in
shape by the end of June.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-06-22

ATLANTIC CITY. June 21.-Sam-
mel Gompers was today reelected
president of the American Federation
Of Labor. In convention. Mr.. Com
pers in a speech said the selection
was Americas answer to Its traducers
md opponents.
In the message sent to President
Wilson by President Gompers II was
declared that upon Mr.. Gompers' ad-
vice the executive council OF the
American Federation had recon-
mended to the convention the EN-
dorsement OF the League OF Nations.
including the labor provisions. In
formation relative to the reported
changes In the labor provisions we're