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Evening star., 1923-06-28

Italian Silk and Van Raalte
Glove Silk Hose i'll beautiful
lace patterns, also a few plain
knit. And beautiful quality
dropstitch full fashioned
thread silk hose. Black,
brown. beaver, gray and white.
WoaIEN's LACE-CLOCKED
FIBER SILK HOSE. in brown.
gray and fallow. IN
Slight irregulars. 15 OSC
dozen to sell at. t.....
woMEN'S SILK AND FIBER
HOSE. irregulars of 0E
s1.o0 quality. in black ZOC
and colors, choice. -.
woMEN'S. CHIFFON SILK
HOSE. in black and gun metal
with four-inch garter 7E
top. 3 dozen. slight ir- /OC
regulars. pair. .......
WOMEN'S FULL ASH
IONED ALL-SILk CHIFFON
HOSE. in gun metal. tan and
light gray. 2 doz- O. ~
en-. irregulars of Oily
$3.50 quality, -.
wOMEN's IMPORTED LACE
Isle HOSE. full-fashioned,
every pair perfect. In
lace clocks and lace IN
boots, Black brown ~C
and tan. ..............
CHILDREN,s IMPORTED
SOCKS, white with fancy coll
ored tops. Perfect IN
quality. Sizes s, Sk, uC
8 and 91H
WOMEN'S BURSON BLACK
HOSE, with white
soles. Regular and ex- ~
ira sizes. Slight sec SC
OndS
Evening star., 1923-06-28
Children'S
Wear

81 MILDLY BLOUSES that sold
for S1.9S. All white or trim
med with navy. O. nn
Sizes 10, IL and Ol .UU
IL
CHILDREN'S COMBINATIONS
of drawers and bodies,
trimmed with embroid- no
cry. beading and rib VOC
$3.50 ORGANDIE BoNNETS,
high-back style. in no
white, flesh, blue and voc
malS ................
3 CHILDREN'S oRGANDIE
DRESSES. sizes 8, 10 and IL.
Flesh, mais, orchid
and light blue. d . no
Sold for $5.s8. sDO.SO
CHILDREN'S WHITE Or
CANDLE DRESSES, sizes to s
years. Long wasted style,
trimmed with lace no
Insertion. S1.50 SCC
CHILDREN'S S2.eS HATS, Of
fancy straw. silk
and straw. dotted Nf no
swiss. organdie and ID 20
piuue. Choice. 80.
CHILDREN'S SPORT AND
TAIL OR ED HATS, HALF
PRICE.
Second Floor. Kings Palace.
Evening star., 1923-06-28
Trimmings

VAL LACE INsERTINGs, for
making the new rosette -
rings and for trimming &c
dresses and hats. Yard,
NARROW TRIMMING RIB
BONS, in plain colors and fancy
effects to match al 1tE
most any material. lOC
dT0
EMBROIDERY EDGES, to
inches wide, in OPEN
work and blind pat ~
terms. Cambria and AuC
Swiss. Yard
PEARL BUTTONS. of good
quality, 2-hole kind, in
four sizes. IL on a card. DC
Card .......-........
NECKWEAR Gle A N-UP
consisting Of Peter Pan and
two-piece collars in NH
eyelet work. also col Z9C
lar and cuff sets......
Evening star., 1923-06-28
Odd Lots of
Boys Wear

ROMPER SUITS, of durable
madras, in one-piece. ~
style with loose knees. @C
Sl.00 value ..........
"a BOYS BEACH CLOTH
SUITS. tailored Norfolk model
upai u1 T. tam Moseey eolors nat. pA.SO
BOYS BLOUSEs, in khaki,
percale and cotton N
pongee. Sizes 8 to DC
Is. .......
BOYS b0cx SIX e l. Il r O N
WAISTS. Ideal make, 1E
slightly soiled. To c0SC
close out the lot, each.
Evening star., 1923-06-28
Home Needs

10 STENCILED CIR ASS
RUGS that sold for $500; 6x9;
close, durab o. nE
quality In artistic sDa1.SO
patterns .........
10 STENCILED G r. A SS
RUGS that sold for
$S.95; 9x12; as 81 nE
serviceable as they sNO.S9
are slightly. $3.50.
500 WINDOW SHADES. OIL
opaque kind in dark green
only. Slight seconds 20
Of 800 quality. O0C
Sl.0O LUGGAGE BAGS. so of
them, made with steel 70
frame and three 0uC
clasps. Useful size.,.
Soc LUGGAGE CASES, size
8x11, 42 of these, for
picnic use and for ~
carrying the bathing ZyC
suit .......
SECOND Floor
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1923-09-07
CINE POPULAR:

Final de eel Hombre de las 8 Ca
ras" y una comedia.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1923-09-07
lQui6n venCerd FirpO 0 Dempsey?

"Cuando 20 pe,eaba la manera de
De Forest me herian en- la cara. Guam
do 10 hacia mi modo, siempre ga
naba sin recibir ell menor rasguno. Pc
leare siempre a mi manera''. ha dicho
Firpo.
Horacio Lavella, quien entrena a
Firpo, no puede serle it'll. siendo de
Sur America, donde ell boxeo todavia
esta en- pahales, Lavelle no puede ser
I'M experto. e. dice que ha estudiado
detenidamente todas las peliculas ci-
nematograficas de las pe,eas de Demp-
sey y que sabe como derrotar este.
ESQ es una necia aseveracion.
Dempsey no combatio willard del
mismo modo que 10 hacfa cuando en-.
pez6 su sensational caTrera. No lu-
ch6 con Brennan como 10 hizo con
Willard. No pele6 con Carpenter del
mismo modo que con Brennan, no uso
de la misma tactica que usara con Ell
frances en- su lucha con Gibbons.
Ell Campeon no sigue un determina-
do estilo de boxeo. Ell combattra a
Firpo de la manera que, a los primeros
momentos de IA lucha, crea 6l mas con-
veniente.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1923-09-07

DE ACUERDo CON LOS REGLANErJ
IOS QUE AL EFECTo PRESCRIBE
RE Ell TESORERO DE PUERTO Ri
co: (a) al adquirir los articulos tribu-
tables y tener-os en- su poder, hacienda
los asientos de entrada y salida Ell Ell
libro de existencias movimiento y
pagando simultaneamente los impues-
tos. mediante la cancellation de los Sc
Dos correspondence sobre una factura
de rentas internas, (b) medida que
vaya disponiendo de los articulos trl-
tutables. Las personals que adquieran
srticulos tributables por otro conducto
que no sea ell de los mencionados trafi
cantes, comisionistas sus representan-
tes pagaran los lmpuestos tan pronto
tengan los articulos en- su poder, y de
acuerdo con la defnici6n "AD-VALo-
REM" contenida en- esta ley.
Los trafcantes seran responsables del
pago de los impuestos al vender cual-
duier articu1o tributable un consumi
dor. Ell consumidor sera responsible de
pago de los impuestos al adquirir ar
ttculos tributables. 81 sobre 6stos anl
no Sc hubieren pagado.'
I. w. BONNER,
Tesorero de Puerto Rico. Adv
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1923-09-07
FIRPo IIA COMETIDO DOS GRAVES
ERRoREs, DICE FARRELL.
(Por Henry L. Farrell, Cor1esponsal
deportivo de la United Press).
(Despacho especial para Ell MUNDo)
II

NEW YORK, Sept. 6. Omitted
Press) De acuerdo con la opinion de
muchos buenos jueces, Luis Angel Fir
po es culpable de dos graves errores
cometidos al hacer los preparativos pa
ra su encuentro con Jack Dempsey
por el campeonato mundial de peso
complete.
Firpo ha debido esperar un afio mas
antes de aceptar ell ''match' con ell
campeon, y, en- vez de rehusar los
servicios de Jimmy De Forest, ha de-
bido entregarse de l'eno al hombre que
hizo de Jack Dempsey Ell Campe6n
Mundial. Esto es 10 que Sc dice.
Ell suramericano no solamente come
ito una grave fa,ta al retirar De
Forest, sino que ha perjudicado la en-
trada al match, va cue infnidad de
fans tenian la firme conviction de
que Sc lie presentaba Firpo una ex-
ce ente oportunidad de veneer 81 era
6uCI0uduO pUI O6 OISoC.
Sin embargo, despues de observar a
Firpo en- sus mas importantes encuen-
tros. en- los entrenamientos para esas
luchas, Sc llega La conclusion de que
las oportunidades del suramericano en-
la gran lucha no dependen en- 10 mas
minimo de su entrenador.
El mejor entrenador y maestro de-
mundo nunca podra hacer NADIA mas
con Firpo, de aqui Sc desprende que
el suramericano no habra de tener una
oportunidad mejor sobre Dempsey e.
pr6ximo ano. que la que tiene en- la
actual temporada, contando, desde lue-
go, que Dempsey no decaiga en- un ailc
mas.
podca aprender mas tarde. y es hoy
tan boxeador como pueda serlo en Ell
future. Firpo tiene bastante intei.
gencia para ade' antarse con un ms
tructor competente; pero no tiene tenn
peramento para enmendarse por ST mis-
mo.
Cuando Jimmy De Forest empezo a
entrenar a Firpo, trato antes que ma.
da de ensenarle usar Su mano IL
quierda, golpear recto con su dere-
cha. y, ademas, trat6 de educarlo en-
algunos de los Fundamentals de- boxeo
defensive.
Firpo demostro dar buenos resultados
en- Ell gimnasio cuando Sc entrenaba
para su encuentro con Bill Brennan;
y cuando einpezaron sus preparativos
para el asaIto con Wi lard, realmente
parecia que estaba aprendiendo algo
nuevo. Aun cuando el no es5aba en-
caprichado con clio, usaba su mano iz-
quierda con bastante oportunidad, Sc
movia con una hgereza no sospechada
en- 6l, boxeaba mucho mejor de 10
que sc creia. T9 pr
Todo 70 que aprend:6 y demostr6
en- Ell gimnasio 10 perdio en- Ell ring al
enfrentarse con Willard. Cuando
Wiuar5 lie pego 10 olvido todo, a ex-
cepcion de su instinto de matar Dejo
caer su mano izquierda, y Sc lanz6 So
bre willard como un salvaje, blan-
diendo su brazo derecho como 81 fuera
un garrote primitive.
Olvid6sele Ell boxeo el modo de de-
fenderse. Peleo como un loco furio-
so, Y venci6.
Entonces viose que Firpo nunca
aprenderla ser un boxeador acabado;
Y Sc hizo pdblico e. tenor de que per-
d:era mucho de su eficiencia 81 Gambia
ba su estilo.
GPor que debe Firpo aprender a
boxear ser fino, 81 el es un comba-
tiente natural, rudo y tosco7-se ha
preguntado, entire osros jueces compe-
tentes, Jack Britton.
Firpo ha razonado por Ell mismo ca
mi1ao.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1923-09-07
"LO Que las Esposas ouieren".
1AMENTABLE Aoc1DENTE

En- la noche del 8 del corriente en-
los momentos en- que Sc quemaban fue-
gos de artlfcios en- Ell Riverside
Park - de Ponce, la sefora Elisa v.
viuda de Salinas, madre politica del
senior Octavio Barros, recibio varias
heridas graves en- ell rostro Dicha Sc
nora Sc encuentra recluida en- el hos.
pitaI "Asilo de Damas''.
Lamentamos dicho accidente.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1923-09-07

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., setiembrs
-Eisponi6ndose para otro dia de pre-
paracion concienzuda, Luis Angel Fir
po hallabase en- Ell boardwalk en-
ia parte baja de la playa de Chelsea,
esta manana antes de las siete, entire
gado a su ejercicio. Corrio por bastan-
te tempo con sus acompafantes y mas
tarde volvi6 su residencia en- Ia sec
cion ar.stocratica del barrio de Che!-
sea. ALI POGO entraba en- ell garage
cue existe a espaldas del cottage"
habilitado para Firpo, y donde Sc ha
(Contin1a en- la pagina g.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1923-09-07

Lavel,e dice que Firpo tiene una ma
no izquierda que sabra usar con gran
des resultados, y que ha logrado per-
feccionar un sistema de defensa que de-
jara Dempsey raya. Sin embar-
go, Firpo no 10 ha demostrado asi en-
sus entrenamientos.
Firpo recuerda todavia muchas de
las cosas que le enseilara De Forest.
en- sus entcenamientos las pone to
1avia en- pr&ctica. pero es un hecho
lue todo 10 olvidara tan pronto como
entire al ring.
Dempsey, como ell suramer:cano,
practicamente Sc entrena por ST mismo.
Desde que gano Ell campeonato mum
1ial Dempsey Sc ha entrenado por 81
mismo; pero siempre ha seguido al pie
Ie la letra la rutina exacta que jim
NY De Forest lie mostrara cuando en-
oez6 su carrera. Jerry Lavatas. ell
'Griego'' eS el entrcnador nominal
lei Campeon; pero Dempsey sabe muy
bien 10 que lie convene hacer y es 70
5astsnte listo para escoger las mejores
poses. Lavatas es mas ben ell COM
oafero del Campe6n.
Sc ha dicho en- distintas ocasiones
1ue De Forest es ell iinico que puede
indicar a Firpo como derrotar al Cam
peon. 81 De Forest supiera como ha-
cerlo, hace tempo que Dempsey no
euera va ell campe6n mundial. Todos
ios managers que han trabajado
'on Dempsey. lie diran a I'd. que saben
como derrotarle, Leonard, Dundee, etc.
pero no pueden encontrar al hombre
que realize sus deseos. Quizas De Fo-
rest ha podido indicar Firpo una ig-
norada debiidad del Campeon, pero
que bien habra en- clio, cuando Firpo
20 puede nj siquiera aprender re-
cordar cue debe tener siempre sus ma
nos arriba cuando este en- ell t'ring''.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1923-09-07
EsCANDALo EN- LA VIA

Por formar un fuerte escandalo en-
IL Gale de la Villa, de Ponce, fueron
arrestados Juan Rodriguez Isldro Ca
uuias.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1923-09-07

FL argentine progresa visiblemente en-
sus ataques contra los entrenadores
que lie acompafan en- su campamen.
to de Atlantic City.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1923-09-07

FIRPo VA AUMENTANDo GRk-
DUAIMENTE LA INTENsIDAD On
SU TRAINING PARA DEMPSEY
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1923-09-07

LEA GEL MUNDo7'
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1923-09-07

La cinta 'El Avi6n de la Muerte"
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-02
RELATION OF TRAFFIC IND
ROAD MATERIAL PORTRAYED

where near approach 100 vehicles
per day have ben surfaced with a
rigid type OF pavement; that is.
Reno-Carson, Reno-Sparks and
Minden-Gardnerville.
Those portions of our highways
across country which receive heavy
traffic owing to their being located
in towns such as Elko, Ely, Win
nemucca and Tonopah r being
rapidly prepared for rigid type
pavements. The remaining roads
in the state will naturally receive
gravel sursacing. In only one case
do these roads have q traffic great
er than 400 vehicles a day and that
is in the section Fallon toward
Reno. The maintenance repair
which is necessary at this time on
this road indicates the traffic found
thereon. In conclusion 1 think we
can safely state On such roads as
Austin east or west, Winnemucca,
east or west, receiving a traffic
such as would exceed four or five
hundred vehicles a day, that the
gravel road that we are placing is
going to be ample for the traffic in
the state.
AS soon, however. as cross state
traffic increased by additional tour
list traffic reaching the point where
we have four or FIVE hundred vehi-
cles on these roads our problem
will he very much increased when
it Genes to preventing these roads
from raveling from he surface
down, We do not feel that it will
break through but are quite con-
fident that the only action of the
traffic will be to wear them from
top down. We, therefore. are
using every means at the present
time to find some way OF holding
the surface of our gravel roads SO
that when the time does arise we
can protect them at a reasonable
cost and that they will handle at
least nj thousand or more vehi-
cles per day without undue wear.
Yours very truly,
GEORGE w. BORDEN,
State Highway Engineer.
Carson City, August %, 1928.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-02
NEVADA LINE CURES
UTAH'S BAD ROADS

The manner in which the bad roads
selves into the opposite the instant
the Nevada line is crossed Is exempli-
fed on the Grand Central highway
in Snake valley. Neither side has
been repaired q great deal. the Utah
side not since the highway was COM
pleted two summers ago, and the
Nevada side not more than probably
to have been smoothed once with
the coutny grader, if that much, vet
the road just naturally is better and
a person can notice where the line
is by this fact alone.
At the border a four-foot slab of
rock has been upended, it being be-
tween the Bellander and Simonson
ranches. On the Utah side the high
way is rough from the action of rain
and melting now Tor the past TWO
years, and especially by reason of
the water tearing out the little ra-
vines crossing the road on the mesa
from west to east. Both sides could
stand a lot of fixing, but that inter
Vention of the state line has eff
fected a visible partial cure on this
side of the boundary.
This road ~traverses bench land
for fifteen miles, crossing ravines
every few yards. Much water comes
down these, especially in the spring
time, and much work is essential or
the road would lapse into the con-
dition that ordinary country roads
are when they never have been
graded.
This road Is p%assable, but be-
cause of the small washouts it is far
firm being a speedway.
Travel on the Grand Central is
spasmodic. Some days there are
ten OF fifteen cars and again it will
go ten days with none.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-02

ness over to him. but instead Of wait
ing until October 10 a draft FOR
$4,000 on the John S. Coow and Co.
bank came to me October /, clean
ing up the deal and giving me the
most cash at one time that l had
ever had.
I put the money into Mohawk,
Jumbo, Red Top, Tonopah Mining
and some other good stocks as we'll
as a few wildcats in four weeks,
my profits were $40, 900.
OF coure, Burnell v went to
Colorado. He stayed there and a
the paper. I was credibly inform
ed afterward that Weber paid the
whole sum. so knowing Weber but
slightly l received s13. 900 of his
money. l urged Mr.. Burnell to be
conservative about enlarging, as
Goldfield was an up-and-down camp,
but he would not listen to me. He
had to have a second linotype right
away, and told about 1t taking 500
600 at least to start things off, and it
is supposed that Weber put that up
also. I was informed several a
later that none of the original S13,-
coo was ever paid back.
have heard a great deal of kick
ing about Henry Weber and also that
he harbored some soreness against
me for something that is beyond nv
imagination, but I never had any,
thing but the kindliest of feelings
for him | am convinced there were
lots worse men in Goldfeid than
Henry Weber. He put his money
into the ground and into other in.
vestments for what he conceived to
be for the betterment of Goldfield,
which plenty of others cannot say.
At the time when he was convicted
or selling promotion stock to a buyer
who thought it was treasury stock,
and was given a s~even-year peniten-
tiary sentence, which he never serv-
cd, ] said exactly what | say now.
that 1t was a mOckery to penalize
such men as him when Windy Bill
Wilson, George Graham Rice and
hosts of others of the real money
getters were allowed to go scot free.
Goldfield was far from being an
honest camp in the sense that Tono-
pah in its earlier days was, and Web
err may have done exactly what he
was convicted of doing, but he was,
comparatively speaking, one of the
minor offenders during the heyday
of Goldfield validating.
In a strictly legal sense he earned
his conviction, but where he got dol
lars Others got thousands and were
never ever arrested.
Both Overbury and Weber have
been published FAR and wide many
times as Nevada millionaires, and no
doubt at various times their fortunes
during the better days of Goldfield,
Bullfrog and Divide have run into
the hundreds OF thousands, but what
they actually had in cash or tangible
property when death so suddenly
claimed them will remain for their
! executors to reveal
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-02

Ry L. C.

by Il. y. DTduSOIi
John T. Overbury and Henry Web
er dead-both killed in an auto acct
dent near Tonopah. This brings back
memories of the not so very old
days in the southern Nevada boom
camps.
Before going into these it may
first be said that Overbury end
Weber were on their way from Death
valley to Tonopah within a few
miles of the latter place last Sunday
morning at l o'clock when their car
turned over. Overbury was killed
instantly and Weber, thinking to
bling succor to his p~inioned com
rade, started on foot for Tonopah.
He was found unconscious one mile
from the spot where the accident
occurred, dying the next day.
I never enjoyed intimate acquain-
transactions Of a striking character
with each of them. When I came
to Tonopah in the spring Of 1904
Clarence Oddie and Overbury, under
the firm name of Oddie and Over
buy, were carrying on some grading
contracts on the Tonopah railroad
which railway was finished to Tono-
pah July 2e that year. l think it
was a little after the railway was
finished that I got a tip from some
person whom / cannot remember
that ] could get a big story for my
paper if l called at a certain cabin
that night and inquired for John
Overbury. AT that time the great
problem of Tonopah was water. The
Crystal Water Company was piping
water in from Tonopah Springs.
about four miles, some of it was i'm
pounded in 2 small reservoir, and
there was another small company,
I've forgotten just who and what.
Besides, after the railway was com
pleted, there was the White Noun
lain Water Company, which had a
tank on a fiat ear and was deliver
ing drinking water from the end of
the Candelaria pipe line by train.
I remember my Introduction to
Uri Curtis, the party introducing us
saying he was manager of the water
company, and I asked which water,
the red or the yellow. 1t was a con-
vivial gathering before the bar Of
the Tonopah Club, and Uri and the
rest had in their grasp huge stems
filled with something foaming TT
the top.
About that time Judge Brissali
and his wife were driving over the
Halifax summit and saw 4 bunch IF
nude boys bathing in the reservoir.
which gave me a sensation and scoop
from which I incurred Urls displeas-
IRE for a time. His Office manager
Indignantly denied the bathing
story in the other papers. but a
~sixteen-foot barbed wire fence was
built around the reservoir right
away. Uri called 1t ~'resevoy."
The White Mountain company was
composed of a bunch of fine fellows
personally, friends Of mine, hut when
I found out and exposed it with big
headlines in my paper that they we're
were collecting $50 a day from the
city for water 20 sprinkle the streets
and the county commissioners were
standing for it. they gracefully re-
duced the price 20 $40 which re-
NAMED the figure for a few months
that the services was continued No
lasting enmities were anyandered in
this case, but II illustrates the posi-
ton a newspaper MIN is placed
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-02
OVERBURY AND WEBER DEAD
IN TONOPAH AUTO ACCIDENT

in. Either he must dc mis- duty Ly
the public and run The risk of in
curing enmities or he must close his
eyes to everything ard let the public
be what Vanderbilt said.
All this, together, with lack soi
fire potection, gave dash to Over,
bury's story, which was about a new
water company he had formed and
was going to bring in the water
some fifteen miles from from Rye
Patch. This was another sensation
and scoop over my two competitors
and it took fine.
Oddie and Overbury put in the
system and it was financed by Col
onel Wheeler, who still has it. This
was a good system, particularly for
the owners, and under various nance
Wheeler has retained control.
That is about the last I remember
of seeing Overbury until three years
later at Los Angeles. A bunch of
Nevadans who had cleaned up were
making their hang-out at the AIty.
andria hotel, including George Wing
field, Ernest Kennedy, Raymond
Frisbie and several others. One day
some person said to me:
MIR. Branson, don't you know
John Overbury?" going through the
form of introducing us.
"Oh. Branson, why yes" Overbury
almost shouted in glee as he gripped
my hand. when I met him first |
didn't have a dollar, didn't have
the price of a meal"
Which led me to suspect for the
first time that when Cverbury gave
me the big story he was operating
literally On a shoestring basis. that
perhaps the story that had been tip
ped of to me was not to be given out
unwillingly and further that it may
have been the means of his putting
his water promotion ove Further.
that by the latter time he must have
cleaned up several dollars as one of
the founders of Rhyolite and wasn't
denying it. But that bit of ego was
common to a lot of us. anyway,
John was a congenial fellow and his
nntimely death is bound to be univer-
sally regretted in southern Nevada.
1 think it was September II,
1905, that I met Weber for the first
and only time. The Goldfield Sun
was In the midst of a boycott waged
hy the I. w. w. I think George
Wingfeld accompanied me to a small
shack on Columbia street, telling me
beforehand that a man there whom
he could assure me was all right on
the I. w. w. question wanted to buy
the Sun. He introduced me to Weber
and the latter in turn introduced me
to J. M. Burnell. Weber told me he
had nothing to do with it, but that
Burnell was a Colorado friend of his
who had been In the paper business
at Leadville. I could see that Bur-
nell couldn't buy many daily news
papers. he having on a So suit of
clothes and generally his appearance
was unprosperous. He gave me The
impression Of not wishing to appear
too anxious to purchase, looking for
minor things to bubble over, but in
side of ten minutes he agreed to buy
the Goldfeld Sun for $4,000 If Mr..
Weber would loan him $3.50 for the
first payment to hold it until the
Goth and tie balance of $4,000 then,
and in the meantime he would go to
Colorado and return by October 10
with the other $4,000. I received the
$3.50, the $4750 and turned the bust