White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-04-01
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Everybody living on 4 ranch II
this part of the country knows Jakey
Mintz. hide buyer. Whenever Jakey
shows up you can bet your last dol
lar that the country has gone 10
pieces and there IS about 10 be Il
panic. which fact for one reason you
can read in his woebegone face. The
other and main reason is the condi-
ton of the market for hides and
pelts. ASK him what he is paying
and he always says:
Veil. days been a awful dwop.
lie said hat every time II answer
TO every inquiry in twelve years.
He had so many of these "a awful
dwopss that he has dwopped into
business for himself at Salt Lake
and sends his boy out te do the awful
dwop stuff.
Jakey at first intended TO go into
the restaurant business with the
.ayails of those financial ealamities.
but one of those little events in the
affairs of men which change their
course in life happened in his case.
He would drive into a ranch, I'M
hitch his team and take them to the
hay and then come and say. How
YOU do?' After dinner or breakfast,
whichever il happened 10 be, as he
was driving away he would say
4 tank Won for your dinner OF
I tank You for yeur ,eommoda.
shuns," as the cast might be.
Il was that little circumstance
that changed the whole course of
Jakey's future. He had a dream one
night that all those folks from the
seven counties he visits and their
children and hired help came 10 his
restaurant in a body and after de-
.yonring several beeves, carloads of
bread, butter. pies. cakes and every
thing he had in the house got up
and marched by him al the cash reg
ister and said;
I tank YOU for your dinner.
Wherefore Jakey did not go into
the restaurant business.
I think he dreamt that Ed Hill
was in the bunch. He never could
forget Ed Hill and says SO. Jakey's
truck got stuck in the mud down by
the Bassett creek ranch and re lad
To 90 oyer into the alfalfa field to get
Ed to come with a team and pull him
out. When JaEey commenced to ex-
press his thanks Ed didn't say
You're welcome like polite per
sons are supposed 10 have been
trained in their childhood TO do and
thus form habits of politeness, but
told Jakey it would be =.
I'll nefer fergit il : long 3 |
lif." said Jakey.
Nor did he forget to tell about IT
mentioning II, it seems. the next time
he went TO the Cleveland ranch. 10
Nose Anderson, the foreman. And
there you are again. After Ed quit
his job and went for his time there
was a little deduction of a fve-spot
for the charge made for pulling one
certain hide buyer out of n certain
mudhole
Come to think of 1t, Jakey hal one
other little saying in addition to the
awful dNop stuff. When he came
into Nevada to buy coyote skins the
first thing he would say would ie:
TIL Jutah bounty's been tukken
of"
The philosophy of that remark was
that he could not pay rs much by
S4 for the skins because he would
have his customer believe that he
could nc longer take the skins into
Utah and collect the 81 bounty on
them II was only a week or twa
after making some Nevada purchases.
having successfully used that argu.
ment that he was Jailed at Provo
for subornation of perjury for having
expressed a desire that some deputy
county clerk present them for the
bounty for about two bits each and
give him the balance Of s3.75.
Dot cost me fifteen hun'ret tol
lars" he said after TIE charge was
quashed.
He thought it was cheap enough
and never kicked half as much as he
did over Ed Hills five bucks.
When at last the Utah bounty was
suspended for q few months for lack
of funds he said he was glad of IL.
Kept repeating 1t and telling every.
body he was glad If IL. Asked WIZ
he was glad of IT he said.
well, | vurries all time. Couldn't
sleep. Cost me fifteen hnn'ret toll.
lars. Now | no more Vurries. "a
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George Starkweather Is exceeding
" partial TO hide huyers Dne came
to Niger creek when he was ranch.
ing there. monkeyod around a eounls
of hours and observed some brass.
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