White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-08-05

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Let me fix that out" he demand
ed.
Thereupon he wrote an interview
with Alton b. Parker, quoting the
erstwhile democratic nominee as
saying, Roosevelt has been caught
lished. My Goldfield paper was be-
ing run by hired men and when ]
asked them where they got that dis
patch, which did not come through
the Tonopah office, as all others did,
they told me how ii had been faxed
by Rice.
Jimmy Brien, running the Gold
field News, like other Nevada mining
camp publishers. used to be handed
occasional armfuls of stock in the
companies he wrote up. Some of
them, including myself, would not
ask for stock and would not accept
shares from some companies under
any circumstance, but I knew
Jimmy to turn it down but once.
Rice had a system of phoning to "A
newspaper man and saying so many
shares of stock worth $500 in
or more of his companies had been
set aside for him, but he just then
had a chance to sell it for that
amount and if the publisher pre-
ferred he would let it go and send
the money instead. When Rice had
finished that little spiel over the
phone to O'Brien, O'Brien called
him.
"Send the money he said.
In a few minutes the money ar
rived by Office messenger.
That is the time 1 referred to
in saying that I never knew O'Brien
to turn it down but once.
The first few days Rice was in
G%oldfield. before he started to work
for the Mims-Sutro Company, he had
to eat, so he worked as reporter for
O'Brien. Being a wonderful writer
he got up a great lot of fine local
stuff. He had had a lot of New York
and other newspaper experience and
he knew q story when he saw it and
how to work it up. Soon he met
Tom Jaggers, an old Death valley
p~rospector, who came in all bruised
up and told a story of how he had
fallen into an old shaft or cave in.
Tule canyon, lain there for days
without food or drink, among lizards,
gila monsters and sidewinders,
when his eye finally fell on some pic
ture ore with which the cavern was
lined. How he got out think he
had a broken rob or arm and some
other casualties-is immaterial. At
any rate there was the story and Rice
wrote it up as a sensation. O'Brien
started to edit the copy. Reading
it about half through, he said.
where's the stock?"
What stock?' answered Rice.
"The stock that goes with this
story" quoth the thrifty editor.
Rice eypostulated and tried to
make O'Brien see it from his point
of view, that this was a news item
and a good one and he should not
ask for stock for printing a thrill
ing discovery story like that. But
you've heard about convincing a man
against his will, and that was
O'Brien. Yet as intimated, Rice had
to eat those days, SO his Jewish
courage that, for once, had all but
failed him vas mustered up and he
accosted Jaggers on the street, tell
ing him Mr.. O'Brien asked for stock
for printing that story, and old Tom
sure enough came through and
O'Brien got his stock.
So the tory was printed as written
and with a few shares having been
donated to w. r. Hearst to give it 4
little additional class. the Hearst
Jaggers mine was revealed to the
world through the advertising col
umns and plenty of stock certificates
went forth to c%onfiding investors.
From the history of the output of
the mine since it would seem that
O'Brien's instinct was superior to
that of Rice in all respects save one.
which is that perhaps he should have
gotten a personal guarantee from Mr..
Hearst that the stock would sell for
something or other.
| forgot to remind Mr.. Chandler
that he had never thanked ME for
standing UP and applauding five min
utes after the others quit when
Grant Miller said: He's a CORPORA
ton lawyer. hut an honost one" I'll
leave it to George Doyle if l didn't.
B.. BROOKS.
Too Much Of Good Thing.
Money and time are The heaviest