White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1922-11-05
PROH|BT!con 0F..,,cERS
ENTER VIRGIN OASIS

trat10n experts ana AniSntS ol tuc
round table gathered to listen to dis
cussions on constitutional amend
ments at Caliente last week. The
important points are still open and
will not be determined until final
conference Is held with Judge Far
rington at Carson City February 4. In
the meantime certain liquids which
have been known to start riots and
stop passenger trains will have time
to filter through systems the owners
of which have long boasted were ca
pable of extracting and retaining 100
per cent of the values and immedi-
ately apply the values thus saved to
song, laughter, long life and happf-
ness. Many discoveries are said to
have been made and those playing
important roles in the conference are
said to have advanced new methods
which will hereafter be given con-
sideration.
October "a the representative or
a concern claiming to have the best
water filter in the world arrived In
Caliente He made himself generally
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pie working of his device, together
with the enormous benefits derived
by its use, convinced several whom
he interviewed that after drinking
water which had passed through his
, filter it was advisable to take at least
small amount of some other liquid
in order that certain microbes neces-
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beings might be gotten into the sys-
TEN, because nothing of that nature
remained in the water after 1t had
| been filtered by his wonderful proc
ess. Demonstrations were frequent
and soon several boosters were seen
drawing manufacturing plant plans
in which the doors to the managing
directors room were equipped with
diamond door knobs and sumptuous
quarters were laid out for certain
cabinet officers who were to do The
| janitor work.
Then entered the moving picture
man. He had heard of the wonderful
| filtration process and came from the
west, as did the man with the great
invention for purifying everything;
even such towns as CaIiente and Ely
Negotiations were entered into with
leading citizens to stage a great film
production in and around Caliente
| that would make the Covered
Wagon look like a one-reel comedy.
The acquaintance of those engaged
in the most active lines of business
oil if1o uUhn
knew all the routes and passwords
was taken into their confidence soon
the three men were visiting al. the
soft drink" parlors in Caliente and
as they had no stock to sell they pro-
ceeded to buy all that was for sale.
In this they succeeded to remarka-
BILE degree.
In order to carry out their we'll
laid plans concrete evidence of their
purchases of stock became necessary
and the two magnates left Calientc to
procure the services of some man
high in official circles who thorough
ly understood the preparation OF
proper certificates as evidence OF
such valuable purchases.
Documents conspicuously bearing
the seal of a United States commits
sioner were procured Armed with
these flying squadron of six federal
prohibition enforcement officers from
Los Angeles swooped down upon the
railroad town last Sunday and imme-
diately visited all the establishments
IN which their advance agents bad
purchased stock and demanded all
the stock still remaining in the treas
ury. With 1t they demanded the
presence of Louie Amante. Hans Oh
sen. L. c. Denton. Cappy Capell,
Bobby Roberts, the stock clerk in
Ernest Ferris place, James Decker
and Clay Hughes. Some insisted that
the demands made by the officers who
exhibited their certificates of recon-
mendation from the federal commits
sioner. and which advised the parties
to whom they were addressed to con-
ceal nothing from those assigned to
carry out the final plans, were *
orbitant Nevertheless the stock was
gathered up and the sleuths, care
fully holding possession, added TO It
as they went from place to place until
they reached the establishment of
Decker and Hughes. Here the two
preprietors so plainly showed their
dissa abstraction with the entire trans
action that 1t was necessary to rule
the hands with irons in order to in
sure their presence at the conference
then scheduled to take place before
| United States Commissioner Harley
Harmon at Les Vegas the next morn
ing.
| During the animated discussion
which occurred in the Offices OF Deck
er and Hughes some gumshoe step
ped on the electric light wire and
"doused the glim." In the hurried
business transactions which followed
all the stock was liquidated and even
the bottle containing contributions
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