White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-04-08
BABBLING
IN THE DESERT

Mumford was a big, husky Nor
mon and went on a mission in the
southern states. He was ready wit
ted and could be pugnacious as the
occasion to him seemed to demand 1t.
One day he called at the house of a
woman and offered her some tracts
and had something to say in a josh
ing way about Mormons not having
horns, etc, when she replied:
"Oh, that religion is just for ig.
norant women and girls"
Eyes, that's right answered
Mumford. II came after you and
your daughters"
Another day Mumford offered TO
show a copy Of the Book of Mormon
to a man at a southern sawmill.
Another pack O. lies, I reckon"
said the party he was seeking to
~prose1yte.
Now, see here" said Mumford
as he shed his coat, IF YOU can lick
me that book is a pack O. lies, but
if you can't it amt"
That put the argument up 10 the
southerner from a rather unexpected
angle to come from a reverend gen.
tleman. and he assumed a diplomat.
ic attitude and told the Utah man he
was only joking.
In the old days of Eureka they
had their election day excitements,
the same as everywhere, and on one
occasion, through the evening and
the following day, as the returns
came in the fellows were making the
place hilarious with their carvings
on in betting and offering to bet
every which way on the national and
state results. One nan would sally
forth with his hand full of gold OF
currency and shout, Hundred thai
Ohio goes republican, Another
would shout, Fifty hat Indiana's
democrat" Every doubtful state
had its hackers who were willing tC
put up the cash to fortify their ar
guments and on the states that were
conceded one way or The other there
were the usual bets and offers to bel
on the size of the majorities. Since
thoroughbred sports always like
sure thing not a few of these were
basing their sp%ortiveness on the fac
of having received telegraphic tips
in advance or of hearing of someone
who had. That circumstance was
what made it occur 10 some ioshel
to slip the word to Chris Maltesff
that a wire had come saying thai
Nova Scotia had gone republican ant
to go and bet 'em. Say anything else
in the criminal calendar you care tC
about Chris Maltesta, you can never
accuse him of being a piker.
"Hunder fifty Noby Scoshy go pub
lican. Hunder fifty Noby Scoshy &c
publican"
With a huge roll of tens and TWEEN
ties clutched in his fist Chris waved
defiance at the population of Eureka
for a night and a day, and he backed
the whole town off the board. Ii
the amusement that he unconscious
ly was fostering, for everybody was
hysterical with laughter. 1t seems
that no one thought to call the bet
I imagine that II / had been there
would have taken that $3.50 from
Chris just because | liked the ole
poker dealer, for Nova Scotia neyel
went republican and ! could have
proved it by our esteemed fellow
, townsman and one time blue-nose
Dan C. Mcdonald.
I am just guessing when | cal
Judge Mcdonald a Nova Scotian. II
| happen to be wrong be will fine me
for contempt or murder me the nexi
time he sees me. If il is so he will
appoint me mayor of Ely or to the
highest Office in his gift, for it will
swell him up You never saw a fish
eater who was ashamed of it, but
call a plain Canuck ii Nova Scotian
and your name Is Dennis and then
some. Also vice versa. In reality
don't know which Dan is. fer h.
comes neal looking like either one.
At any rate will get out II 1t now
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be as much of a Nevadan as that
native of natives. Billy Behank.
But Chris Maltesta wasn't 50 much
worse than Senator w. b. Allison,
for a quarter of a century Iowa's
kept in stock candidate for president
of the United States. Senator Ali.
son and one or two confidential ad-
mirers were riding on a train out CT
Halifax on their way back through
New Brunswick to the state of Maine
line. AS they rolled into a little
burg in the fsh-eating country there
was quite a crowd in holiday attire
and the band was playing. Allison
bounded out onto the back porch OF
the coach he was riding in and
bowed and scraped and started to
deliver an Grafton in response to this
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