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El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1923-06-04

Isantprce, JUNO I, 1923. '..,'
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1923-06-04

ci0n que +desce scbre ell particular, 6l
ststosamente, despues de estar COM
psStaAeef c&fAsidq del hecho, plg-
cederir Il cortarle el aqua la RESI-
dtiftfa tldIlde no Sc admita al polfcfh.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-10-28

And they are also saying that Lloyd
Robson has a brilliant future. Broke
nc banks yet, but undefeated cham
pion of quite a ways around and
YOU never can tell.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-10-28

When ! was a kidlet in The high
school ! used to have a funny recita-
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-10-28
HOW IT LOOKS TO OTHERS

If only Bobby Burns could have
been at the stockmen's. meeting
Thursday afternoon he might have
been prompted tc recite his mos
famous yersc
"Would that some one had the gift
to gee us,
To see ~ourSells as ithers see us.
What might have suggested it to
the author of Cotter's Saturday Night
was the seif-styled strenuous effort
of Vernon Metcalf, for some two or
three hours, to put over a scheme to
increase the cost OF administering
the federal and state laws pertaining
to livestock growing, by adding a
burden of three~quartars Of a mil
lion dollars a year in Nevada alone
and equally as much in every west
ern state, to pay the salaries of gov
eminent trapperS, ~So-called, and
trapping inspectors on life pay.
Then the next subject taken up by
The livestock presiding lecturer was
that of a demand for less taxes or
livestock.
The combination of topics and the
name of their handling would have
made Bobby Burns grave or gay, hard
to tell which. Anyway, would that
he had only been there.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-10-28
PRIVILEGE OR RIGHT

Grazing of stock on the public do
main and the forest reserves is a
privilege. not a right, according to
official construction and that of stock
men. With the acquiring of land for
ranches controlling certain range no
rights are conveyed, The convey
ance Of privileges carry no weight
and are null and void.
1t is the hope and purpose of stock
men to revers this arrangement,
making such a grazing right with
the full power OF conveyance thereof
with the land.
II such revolutionary change is
made in the federal land and graz
ing laws it would cut deeply into the
structure CT the forest reserves
themselves, il not do away with al!
their present relations with the live
stock industry.
AS an instance, it would make It
impossible for the forest e or
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-10-28
THE SAND RIDGE.

Old remembrances of the sand ridge
speak of glorious days OF yore
When the Indians sounded war
whoops as they singled to their
lure.
Out across the creek that sparkled
with its banks of grassy sod,
Lay The ranch hills cit with water
showing banks of clay and sand.
There we children picked our images
CT most anything we chose;
Here we spent our time most joyful
crawling hanks without our shoes,
Lot king down upon the sand-ridga
lay The fields of growing rye
1t Looked like a baby forest with its
stocks viii. h grew so high.
The buildings were Of logs hewn
roughly chirked with poles of pine
so rare.
Still we loved the homestead dearly
with its fields of sand SO fair,
On the trail that leads tc water going
down the side hill,
Lies the memories of many gallons
carried up without a spill.
''coSN "oS buiit VA iOSS dilu ulOItdT-
two large rooms and bowery too,
Where the feasts of the past were
relished with our friends and rela
tives TOO;
Looking north toward the big gate.
winds the rood that leads with car
Up and down the hollows and around
them fathers hands did rein them
there.
Sagebrush grew along the roadside
with great trunks and massive
bows
Giving proof that nature was ready
to yield good results from seeds
and plows.
Time has dimmed the road with sage
brush-oly streaks remain at last
'Twould he hard to find the big gat.
twenty years since out we
passed
Though the same sun sets on the
sand ridge, bringing its evenings
to a close.
Yet it sleeps in fondest memories.
holding fast to sweet repose..
Arthur Leigh.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-10-28
STATE SUPPORT LACKING

Ely will stand by the Lincoln high
way as long as the Lincoln High
way association stands by it. 1t takes
nc stock in the attitude that because
Utah has designated the Wendover
highway and refused to designate the
Lincoln, it shall abandon the latter
and connect with the Wendover
through Elko county, which county
will never build its share Q
The proper way for Nevada to
have done-of course, it is past now
and probably too late-would have
been to refuse to connect with any
highway Utah proposed, the Arrow
head or any of them while Utah re-
fused to connect with any Nevada
highway. 1t is a sort of ammuni-
ton that could have been fired in
either direction.
The subject ome to the fore or
account of the recent proposal to pave
the highway between Ely and McGill
the federal government having re-
fused 10 assist under the I per cent
law. If the state highway depart
lnent were behind Ely and the Lin
coin highway. instead of favorinp
the Wendover connection only, there
should be nothing to it.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-10-28

any government agency whatever to
| revoke a persons permit for trespass
or any cause. The grazing right
would belong TO the ranch owner in
fee, being irreyocable. Present graz
ing rules and their attractions to-
| gether would be thrown into The
scrap heap of forgotten lore
Rather than a forest ranger or
dering a permit holder off the land,
the latter could order the ranger off.
possibly with the one proviso that the
ranger might have a right to pre-
vent cutting or burning of the timber.
IN White Pine county at this time
there is a case at law that could
never have arisen with these tenta-
tive plans in force .
But there is q further study and
a deep one, which is that of the pos
sible homesteader of the same land.
or other possible applicants for own
ership or rights thereon, whose pur-
poses might conflict with those of the
stockman whose privilege would have
been changed TO a right, made trans
ferable and amounting to ownership.
Truly the plan is revolutionary and
as a guess one might be justified in
saying that it is a long way off.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-10-28

If Andy Boundy don't look out he'll
get to be as bad an umbra as Tony
ZURICH and your humble servant.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-10-28
AND BANKERS sUGGEsr THIS

The last place on earth from which
one would expect propaganda for can
collation. of European debts to ema-
nate is the American Bankers assccia
ton. Yet the head of that crganiza.
ton has announced that he IS about
to launch such 4 campaign III its be-
half.
There probably is not a bank in
the United States that could survive
were this plan put into practice With
reference to debts owed to it. in the
wal the United States, as represented
by its treasury department, was the
banker for the allies, and there is
but one difference in the analogy,
which is that of size. Being q banker
on a huge scale Uncle Sam is in the
exact position of a private banker
and if his business would not be Grip
pied by putting this unbusinesslike
proposal into practice the financial
world and the American people, as
well as the debtors, would be Grip
pied morally and the result would be
the same.
DEbb Canoeing iNESSaiiutt . "
be expected from theorists. freaks,
w. ]. Bryans and the hare-brains gen.
orally, but the last to propose it
should be supposedly hard-headed
bankers.
Forgiying these debts would have
one meaning and that only. 1t would
mean that the taxpayers of the Uni
ted States would pay the cost of the
war from the side of the allies, and
also in turn shoulder what rep
a~ration are ever paid. IN other
words, the United States would pay
the total cost of both sides.
The former of these propositions
is plain and tho latter should require
no calculation. France has hinteC
several times that it might waive
operations or a portion of them il
it's war debts were forgiven. Thi:
means in plain language thai the
money already advanced by libert,
bond buyers would be considered a!
eXtinguishing the PREPARATIONS debts
which would be placing the United
States in the position of paying The
German debts occasioned by the wal
as it has already paid the allied costs
Since the American taxpayer.
must pay the liberty bonds as the,
mature. it requires no further expla
nation to make it plain as to whit
the bankers ASSOCIATION asks to pa,
the cost of the war.
1t will have a tendency to sugges'
TO Americans that they Will thinl
tries out of their next troubles.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-10-28
WISDOM IN ROAD BUILDING

1t is strange but true that the mar
who will finance his business sensi-
lily and carefully, who will buy and
sell a house with acumen and wis.
dom, who will choose his bank with
meticulous are and guard his per
sonal financial affairs with the ut
most skill, frequently throws caution
to the winds when considering the
raising and spending of money for
roads.
1t is SO pitifully easy to arrange to
have someone else pay for the road!
A bond issue to run fifty years puts
the burden Of paying on the men and
use the road! This is bad enough
as a matter Of unsound economics.
but it is worse when the money SO
raised is so unwisely expended as to
produce a road which wears out long
before the bonds become due. In
such cases, and there are many OF
them. the body polite finds itself in
the position of paying for roads
which no longer exist, end faced with
the additional necessity of rebuild
the road and maintaining it. as well
as paying the interest and finally the
principal on the bonds which built
roads which wore out.
There are cases where long term
bonds are justified and necessary.
But there r no cases where the ex-
penditure of such funds is justified
Tor anything less than a permanent
road, so located, so built, 50 planned
as to length, gradient, width and
location as to make it of service tc
the people to come as we'll as those
who now use it.
1t has been said that there is moth
ing permanent about any road ex
cept it's location, but this is only true
where maintenance is an after
thought. 1t is as unscund to build
a road and let it unravel to pieces as
it is to build a house and let it 60
implanted and uninsured. Paint the
house. insure it, repair it, and it may
stand for a hundred years Or more.
Maintain the road az 1t is used. and
1t should last Indefinitely. Only such
roads should be built with bond is
sue money. and only such roads
should be built with money derived
from town or county or state bonds.
as will serve town, county and state
for all time to come.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-10-28

Ely's fire department is a joke.
Hasn't had a fire worth going to for
I don't know when
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-10-28
CHALLENGE TO LIFE-yORBEI.s

According to the admission Of per-
sons advocating government trap.
ping the net cost of each predatory
animal trapped in Nevada is 1882,
this after the government has re-
ceived the proceeds from the sale OF
the fur during the fall and winter
. months when the fur is salable.
Half of this cost is paid by thu.
federal government and half by the
state, but in either event the whole
sum is paid by the people which are,
in fact, both the state and federal
governments.
Now, taking the former angle of
the argument the people as citizens Of
Nevada pay S2.91. and as citizens of
the United States, separate entities
from their citizenship of Nevada.
they ray the other $2.91.
But forgetting and putting aside
the second $2.91, and considering
only the first, it may be noted by
students of arithmetic that the dit
ference between 1921 and IS is only
o cents.
II the people in their capacity of
citizens Of Nevada paid SO as a boun-
ty, they would be enlisting thousands
OF persons instead of a bare sixty
as d%estroyers Of predatory animals
placing the money in general circu-
lation and would be permitting the
same thousands Of persons to retain
the proceeds from the sale of the fur,
which this year will not be less than
So or an average for the coyotes
trapped, and may go to $40 or more.
In their dual capacity of citizens
of Nevada and the United States the
people, instead of investing an ad-
ditional 0 cents on each animal trap
ped. would be saving s2.S2 and still
giving the thousands of trappers the
proceeds from the same fur sales.
There is the whole argument and
the White Pine News hereby chal-
ienges Mr.. Metcalf, Mr.. King, Mr..
Sans or any Of the rest of the govern
ment life-job trapping supporters to
Tefute or answer it.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-10-28

" Aol . ~ NJ - L. W NOAA
position-in which was a passage
about Daniel Websters Dictionary"
/ thought it was so funny that l could
not recite it without giggli9g. But
while / was running a paper at Tono-
pah the shoe got slipped on the 9TH
er foot without me knowing it until
it was too late. ! had an advertising
solicitor named Bergman. of Teutonic
birth, who was noted for his diction
being incapable of tanning, manage
ment or control His vocabulary
was an outlaw. He would utter The
freakiest words and write them down
too, letting them get into the paper
If you did not watch him like q hawk.
J caught onto this the first few days
he was there and made it my per-
sonal business to handle his adver-
Using copy, but one day when I was
out of town Kirke Simpson-last
years winner of the $1,000 Rookie
Teller prize for the best news story in
the worldwide was anything but a
copy reader, passed a paid write-up
about the opening of Grant Crumley's
$4,000 Nevada Club, and among the
many attractions and conveniences
there for the use of patrons was 4
line volume of Daniel Nehster's
dictionary"
Paid w%riteups generally are thrown
at the animals-printers- as fodder
without being edited, but l had brok-
en- this rule and followed my new
hunch religiously in the case of Berg
man, yet this was once through be-
ing absent it got by me. I had for.
gotten about my %scbcolday recita-
lion more than twenty years before
that, but this circumstance brought
it back to me instanter.
can't begin to recollect the num-
Der of comical things of his that I
caught and marked out. Another time
he had a pad write-up about Jim
Golden's new beer hall in the base
ment of the. Ryan & Stenson build
ing, and told of people coming up
the steps feeling "repressed." By
by a slight twist of the wrist ] blue
penciled that and rute refreshed"
and the chances are Bergman would
have sworn hat that was the way
he wrote it.
l got this much gratis with every
package. Forty times every day
well, not to eyaggerato, I'll say four
times each day Bergman told me
both publicly and confdentially that
he was an a%ll-around newspaper man
and capable of sitting right down in
the city editors chair, doing the
work as well as Simpson or l could
do it, and that there was where he
ought to be.
Ely's fire department is a joke.
Hasn't had a fire worth going to for
I don't know when
If Andy Boundy don't look out he'll
get to be as bad an umbra as Tony
ZURICH and your humble servant.
And they are also saying that Lloyd
Robson has a brilliant future. Broke
no banks yet, but undefeated cham
pion of quite a ways around and
you never can tell.
They do say down at McGIl that
popular and lovely LenOre went and
got her hair bobbed. We all begged
her not to, but she's the same Lenore
TO us just the same.
To the divil with their bounty laws
now. My stakes made. I've just tied
Doyle Robson up in a contract to
play the leading role in a parody or
"Too Much Johnson"
B. BROOKS.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-10-28

the writer of that item does not
know who in the devil tho guy is.
therefore he puts him in the paper
as well known and gets away with
If
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-10-28

OF more recent application has
been that of saying that some travel
ing salesman, or typewriter agent. or
tire distributors man, who comes to
town twice or SO q year and does bus
mess with not to exceed two or three
individuals in 4 town, but happens
to acquire I chance acquaintance
with a newspaper writer; is well
known. That comes about through
the latter thinking because he knows
q person everybody else does, and he
fails TIC think and write from the
standpoint of his readers, imagining
that they know everything that is in
his noodle a nd if they don't they
ought to and are a little off, and
thereby he is entitled to economiZe
the eXertion of lingering his typewrit-
err long enough to tell them. So be-
tween these various circumstances he
puts down a person who is wholly
unknown or well unknown as we'll
known and thinks he has turned
over a period worthy of Lord Mac
auley.
This sort of a reporter is of a
kind with the one who was sent to
cover n fire. He came back full of
it, talking like a race horse, hut it
was discovered as the paper was go
ing to press that he had not turned
IN the fire story. Asked about it. he
was astounded. Everybody had been
out to TO the fire and therefore there
was no use writing it up he told
EN-.
Some papers. Of which the San
Francisco Chronicle is a conspicuous
one. have work the well known"
gag to such an extent that they for
years have hyphenated it. With them
it is "well-known," ands the next
thing you may expect is for them to
drop the hyphen and run it in as all
one word-"wel1known-and then
the vindication OF the hotel cub re-
porter and hotel clerk would be COM
plete-in a job lot.
There used to be a bank cashier at
Alturas, California. nemed B. F..
Lynup-pronounced the Same as 4
baseball lineup. OF course he was
well known-to the limited circle Of
people who knew him. But orce he
went to Rene and registered at a
hotel, which village was put of his
habitat use the word habitat
facetiously in his case because he
had Noah Webster backed off the
map for using big words, as well as
for e~nunciatiOn, and I heard him
once in a public spiel use the word
habitat" in speaking of a cattle
range, but the word range was too
small for him. Anyway. when Mr.
Lynup put the f1ourishes of his cash
ier's signature on the hotel register
the Reno Journal reporter in the
first place should have known that
such only was the signature of either
a bank cashier or would-be one, but
he did not tumble to that and he went
a little afield on the name also, for
the next morning in the Journal ap-
peared this epic Of prose, n. F..
Syrup, a we'll known citizen Of AL
turas, is at the Riverside" Which
shows that Mr.. Syrup" was not only
we'll known to the reporter, but to
everybody on the Journal staff down
to the Office cat, and to every reader
OF the Journal from the Atlantic to
the Pacific,
This is one out of thousands of
instances that I could have col.
lected had I thought it worth
while, to prove that when the hotel
reporter does not know that a mans
graft is he puts him down as q well
known citizen"
When ! was a kidlet in The high
cnhnol I ucod 10 hnu1 q f.nar .Aa.4.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-10-28

They do say down at McGIl tina
popular and lovely Lenore went ant
got her hair bobbed. We all begget
her not to, but she's the same Lenor,
to us just the same.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-10-28

To the divil with their bounty laws
now. My stakes made. I've Just tied
Doyle Robson up in a contract to
play the leading role in a parody or
"Too Much Johnson"
B. BROOKS.
Pocahontas star herald., 1923-10-12
Farmer Found Dead

Robert Crockett, aged % who was
farming on the John X. Gibson place
at Lauratown. was found on the streets
of Portia Tuesday morning of last
week with a bullet hole through the
heart. A pair Of dice and a .32 cali
ber pistol were lying on the ground in
front of him, and as there was no
money in the clothing, the theory is
advanced that Crockett was killed In
argument during a crap game. Coro-
ner J. C. Land held an inquest, the
verdict of the jury being that Crockett
came to his death by gunshot wounds
from a gun in the hands Of some per-
son unknown TO the jury.
Crockett had gone from Lauratown
to Portia to attend a show. A mem
Der Of the show company testified that
he saw Crockett sitting on one OF the
benches outside a rooming house and
cafe about IL 80 the night before, and
that he heard one shot
Crockett is survived by one sister
and two brothers, all residents Of
Lawrence county.
Pocahontas star herald., 1923-10-12
Probable Suicide

o. Polk, 75 years of age, a former
citizen of Calico Rock, who has been
in the produce business at Cotter for
two or three years, was found dead in
the back room of his produce house
one day last week.
He was fully dressed and by his sile
was a four-ounce bottle containing a
small portion of carbolic acid and an
other full bottle OF acid The lips.
mouth and throat showed acid burns,
and the body was in a natural posi-
tion, head resting on some old clothes.
The body was discovered by a lady
who went to awake him for breakfast.
He is said TO have been respondent
over financial affairs, which caused
him to end his life.
Mr.. Polk came to Calico Rock 13
years ago from Colchester, ILL.,, and
was highly respected by all.-Calico
Rock Progress.
Pocahontas star herald., 1923-10-12
North Arkansas News
Armless Boy Makes Good

seafcy Ark, Oct. s.-sam Sloan,
at rhe age Of IL, had more obstacles
70 overcome than any Of the poor but
proud aeroes of Haratio Alger. Both
MS arms were cut off in an accident
in a cotton gin.
sam Sloan learned TO write holding
a pencil in his teeth. He went through
school, then through high school. He
became an agent for a newspaper, and
a travelling salesman for a produce
company.
Ihen Sloan took job as clerk for
the Missouri and North Arkansas rail-
way, and as typewriting was required
OF clerk, he learned to run a typewrit-
er, using special contrivances. He
purchased motor car in 1919 and
learned TO drive it alone, as no one
would take the responsibility of trying
to teach the man without hands. He
has never had an accident, and in 1921
he became a motor car demonstrator
and salesman.
He entered politics and was success
ful on his first trial. He is now
treasurer OF White county.
Pocahontas star herald., 1923-10-12
For High School Students

state Superintendent Of Public In
struction, A. B. Hill, ID. T. Henderson
Pulaski county superintendent OF edu-
cation, and ]. w. Ramsey, city super
intendent Of schools at Fort Smith,
have been appointed judges for the
Herman Davis essay contest, II was
announced yesterday by the Herman
Davis Memorial Association, which is
conducting a statewide campaign to
perpetuate the memory Of Hermon
Davis, the Arkansas boy who was Sc
lected by General Pershing as Amer
ica's fourth greatest hero Of the World
war. and secure funds to mark and
maintain his grave near his former
home in Mississippi county.
The essay contest is open TO all
school children of Arkansas. The only
rules to be observed are that the essay
must be on the subject of the life and
achievements Of Herman Davis, that
II must not exceed 500 words in length /;
and that IL must be submitted to the
secretary OF the Herman Davis Memoir
ial Association at Mariana before
October 80. Sketches Of the life Of
Herman Davis has been distributed TO
all the schools in the state. Addition
al copies may be secured by addressing
the secretary of the association. Gold
medals will be awarded to the boy and
the girl in high school and the boy and
the girl in grammar school whose es-
says are adjudged the best in their
divisions.