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

mOnJn on an average ana X
dire threats, but when the panic
came, presto! it was different. Then
Frank Golden came to me and ] was
a gentleman to be looked up to and
nothing vas too good. My little
papers influence was the prize
From that time OF l will give you
500 for every time l w called
him Cdr. Golden" when l met him.
1t was Frank" after that, each and
every time. He was then taking off his
nat to me-. He was the one who
kowtowed and toadied, much the
same as Mr.. Hickey sought my good
offices.
So, / say, let no man, high or low,
get it into his head that the time will
never come when he will need the
friendship of a newspaper, no mat
ter how puny and little, for like love,
as sung in the Little Tycoon" some
day it comes 20 r get
away from it. But. after all, in
spite of Il monthly rows. I am not
Intentionally speaking unkindly of
Frank Golden. l will lay this wreath
on the old scouts grave: All of them
were good to me, but he was the best
to me of the lot.
A few years later in Portland !
called at the home of Jack Marshall
and had a long talk. l asked Jack if it
were true that two weeks before the
panic OF 1907 he had told Governor
Sparks, as he handed in his resigna-
ton as state bank examiner Of Ne
vada, that the reason he was doing
so was because if he did his duty he
would have to close every bank in
the state.
well, that was the substance OF
it, answered Jack.
You probably have noticed Milt
Smithson's finely developed chest,
arms and calves and pictured him as
he appears erect on the streets OF
the angel city in a patiolman's uni
form, which he has done for the past
twelve years. Naturally Indian clubs
and punching bags are associated in
the mind of an observer of such a re-
markable physique and quickness OF
foot and hand, but thai is not it at
all. AS one Los Angeles paper some
years ago laconically remarked the
Los Angeles river is the biggest lit
Tile river in the world. Ordinarily it
is so dry that it resembles Cooper
wash in summer time, but when
rains come to Los Angeles they ar
rive, making Noah's deluge look like
a trout stream. The waters surge
over the pavements of Main and
Spring streets, Broadway and Grand
avenue exactly like the Ely flood of
last summe and there are thousands
upon thousands of girls and big fat
women who have to be carried in
arms from the street cars to the
sidewalks and sometimes up a flight
of stairs to keep their trilbies dry.
These include stenographers. tele
phone operators, salesladies, wait
resses, mere leaders of the butterfly
life Of a great city, members of the
400, matrons of 200 pourds-you
know: no use going into details. This
is the policeman's job, giving him his
main exercise. Twelve years of this
has made Milt what he is. What a
wonderful effect it might have on
such sturdy young scions of Ely as
Joe Tietz, ir., Gee Geraghty and
Johnny Sundberg. 1t would make
supermen of them. doubt II Bud
Stroud could hold up long under thai
work. for besides the eXertions thu
dampness is bad for rheumatics.
When it rains at Tonopah Mali
street is one great splash. Their,
We're no crossings and | used t
'rail about 1t in my paper. Once
had Buel cartoon it. He had a pic
ture Of Charley Blumenthal and Johr
Lynch, each ankle deep, packing {
2OO-pounder across from the Ny
County bank to the Mizpah hotel
and Charley's fairy was saying tt
him, Are you through the dacite we
Charley" The dacite was an in
trusion that had cut off the ore il
lie Mizpah mine at the 500 level.
Ole Elliott says: They overlook
ed a cotipla places n East Ely
! bank an White Pine News.
.~.4. B. BROOKS.
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