White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-08-26

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Probably two-thirds of the crowd
stood up rs voting aye. For the
noes only two stood, these being J.
S Daveler and Joe Jordan, Bill
Booths righthand meE of the Tono-
rah Bonanza. Members of the I.
w. w. sat tight. Thev did not vote
for me. and while they liked me
about as well as Truthful James does
new, they would not vote against
me. Neither Booth, naveler nor Jor-
dan had a dollar in the bank. The
|. w. VS. had, but that's a different
story to be told later.
So 1 was elected and presided al
the meeting.
A while after taking the chair
told them ! got into the game practi-
cally by picking up a white chip on
the floor, that 1 had not carried a
deposit in the State bank while it
was open, though ! owed it o few
dollars. but after it had closed / ad,
yertised in my paper that i would
accept checks on the State bank for
any printing, advertising, subscrip-
tions or accounts, and these by this
time had amounted to five or six
hundred dollars, that l had depos
tied them there, which was the only
claim I had to the right to partici-
pate or preside That went. all
right, and | proceeded to run the
meeting in the way hat P!att and
I wanted it run.
In q short time the rehabilitation
committee threw up the sponge and
turned it hack to Hickey. He came
to Tonopah with Mr.. Peck his at
tornay. a big lawyer from San Fran
cisco. ! tell this TO show how the
publisher of a little diHgv country
newspaper has his day with million
| aires sooner or later and car tel.
them where to head in at. ] have
always said it never pays to antag-
)ni2e a newspaper, for they all have
to come to the newspapers fer favors
some time and all the newspaper
man has to do is to wait and his
turn comes There is no man or
earth SO big or so high that sooner
or later he does not find this on.
and prove the truth of what | am
saying right here, and I can prove
this to any doubter any time by the
ex-kaiser of Germany. ] don't mean
by this that Mr.. Hickey evcr antag-
onized me, for he never did, but l
mention it for the mere sake Of i'm
parting useful information to those
who viii hear.
Well, anyway, at dusk that partic.
ular evening I was about TO start up
Bryan avenue to my home and sup.
per when a telephone call cam2. Mr..
Hickey wanted to see me at once a.
the State bank. In his sumptuous
private Office was a circle of leather
chairs with upholstery a foot deep.
and he presented me to Mr.. Peck and
others of their extensive retinue.
AS we seated ourselves in the
deep upholstery. Mr.. Hickey at my
right and Mr.. Peck at my left, the
famous millionaire began:
"Mr. B., we called you down
here to ask you if you could suggest
a means of having the Indictment
against me dismissed
well said 1, you are prepared
To recDen the banks, are you not?'
"Oh, yes. responded Mr.. Hickey,
Il have raised the money and am
ready TO reopen the banks the min
ute this indictment is dismissed.
That is all I'm waiting for
1T seems to me Mr.. Hickey" I
replied. you've got the cart before
the horse. If you have raised the
money and are ready to open the
banks the Indictment won't stor you
from opening them. You say you
called me down here to get nv sag
gcstion, All right. Here it is. Open
the banks and the Indictment will
fall of its W weight. The indict-
ment is for receiving deposits when
circumstances. IF YOU reopen them
aud have ample capital to run them
as you say, the world will know in
stantly that they r not In ~failin,
Circumstance s, and the Indictment
will lie An obvious absurdity. it will
never come to trial, but in the course
of d few weeks will be forgotten and
as a matter bf course will be dis
missed. Just reopen the banks, Mr..
Hickey. That'lI be everything you'll
need to do
Yes. tut my attorney advises me
otherwise-to have the indictment
dismissed first, and then reopen the
banks declared Mr.. Hickey.
81 don't care q - what your
attorney advises you"--and Mr. Peck
was sitting within three feet of me
"reopen your banks, Mr.. Hickey and
I II guarantee the indictment will be
dropped
The attorney SAID ii thing, brt Mr.
Hickey went on to say that | had
been called there to be asked If [
could not work up a sentiment
through my paper to have the in
dictinent dismissed as a contingency
!eadi'g to the reopenr y " the
banks l informed him nat ! would
be glad-enthusiastic--i. a labor to