White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-08-19
BABBLING BROOKS
IN THE DESERT

Report nave reached HlG tHdI L
have queered myself with ]. NJ. Lock
hart. l have suspected this for a
long time, but I'M not worrying over
it. Much as l cherish the friendship
of all men, especially of great men,
1 know I can easily win ]. NJ. s friend
ship any minute l want it, in exactly
the same manner that l won Dick
Dunlap's friendship some few years
ago at Tonopah.
Dick occupied somew hat the same
position at Tonopah that Mr.. Lock
hart holds in Ely. Dicks particular
office was to look after the matter of
protecting a number of local corpora
tions-railroad, mining, etc.-from
unjust acts of the people. The cor
porations were not so bad at that,
one of the kicks against them being
that they refused to take ar interest
little while some person would say
something derogatory and get the
people more or less worked up
against them and Dick would horn
in and rescue the aforesaid corpora
lions from the injustices that might
have been visited upon them by peo-
pie.
Another role that Mr.. Dunlap filled
was that OF being POSTMASTER, and
empty honors of this sort were al
ways seeking him. But in presiding
at banquets he did not say "So-and-
So will be the next speaker, and will
say so-and-so." The custom there
was for a committee to select the
speakers and let the speakers select
their subjects and say what they
pleased. But Dick had a popularity
all his own. When an Introductory
speech was made if it were most fat
tering, you could bet your last nickel
that Dick was at outs with the party
he was eulogizing. He had four fav-
orites CD of this sort that I car best
remember, these being Tom Lynch.
Key Pittman, Don Gillies and your
humble servant. So when Dick laid it
off in swelling any one of the four of
us up, it was a safety first proposition
that he probably was not on speaking
terms with the one he praised up the
longest and loudest.
And here's the way I got OH the
good side of Dick Dunlap, but the
funny part of it is l did not do it
st~udiously. 1t was a mere accident
We were serving as fellow directors
of the MiZpah Club. and were forced
into each others company. In the
meetings ali Of us used to spend most
of our good constituents time wind
tanning about our winnings in The
stock game. Dick generally looked
at me increduously when l told him
of making a winning of twenty thous-
and OR so, but one day when I had
sold my Goldfeld Con. for SO a share
l was walking down to the bank, and
meeting Dick 1 showed him a check
for $4,000. From that moment
Dick was my friend, and that he re-
manned through thick and thin-as
long as my money lasted. When it
was generally supposed to be gone he
slowed up.
So you see how I am going 70 slip
it over on Mister Lockhart if I hap
pen to take a notion that l want tC
win his friendship. I car show him
the first check for $22,500 that hap
pens to come into my Golfers and, be-
lieve me, it will work. Yes, it will
work exactly as it did with old Dick
Dunlap. You might say I might not
receive a check for $22,500 right
away or for quite a while. Maybe
not, but even if it is for s25, coo or
$4,000 it will work Just the same.
oh, yes; / may take a notion to have
it certified, just tc make the play
good. No hurry about the right
away part" though. l can wait as
long as he can.
What would l do with $225O0 if l
had it? Are some of you asking that
QUESTION? Why, deposit it for safe
keeping with Mr.. Brimmer, Of
course.
Yet there is one difference between
Dunlap and Lockhart, otherwise their
similarity being like two peas. When
Dick got it in for you he let the world
know it by his naughty demeanor
when he met you IN the street. When
J. M. gets it in for you he is soft
soapier than ever when he meets
you. Everyone knows that. That's
the way l got on to it a long time
ago that he had me on the list.
Funny notions some people get,
They tell it over at Trout creek that
a certain young man, a pal of mine,
was seen recently trying to find his
way from Hole-in-the-Rock to Dry
Meadows with a couple of iackrabbits
that he had slain. The funny part
of it is that the young lady in ques-