White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-07-15
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there and then he went nedQ PRINT
ing his paper as if he had been there
a million years. I could have gone
into court and litigated for a year or
two but said, whats the use?' But
the worst is yet to come. My plant
had been shipped by way of Candle
laria and l had given orders to divert
it to Tonopah, giving my bill of lad
ing to Harry Hudson, freighter. But
the wrong freight team got it and
took it to Goldfield. While l was
waiting and wondering, hoping to
start up at Tonopah, where I had de-
cided to locate, one day | got a tel
ephone call from Goldfeld. l could
not make out who was talking but
was told that a printing plant had
arrived there by freight team and il
was about to be moved into O'Rrien' S
office, as he needed more material in
addition to his own and would pay
me for it. Soon I get another call
and they insisted. l had to make
some loud threats, for I was some
angry. think it was the freighter
talking and l told him he had no
business with that plant and it had
been ordered diverted to Tonopah.
He brought it over and tried hard to
collect the freight from Candelaria
to Goldfield and back to Tonopah,
but I stood pat and paid him only
from Candelaria to Tonopah direct,
Meanwhile 1 had had the word
''Tonopah" e%leetroplated for my
heading and started the To1opah
Sun. Eight months later 1 had the
word Daily electroplated and
sneaked a new linotype into towr.
without my competitors getting onto
it. The first day the new daily sold
fine in Goldfeld, but after that it
dropped off The bunch there was
strictly for Goldficld, SO after trying
it for three weeks I slipped that cleo
troplated word "Goldfeld' into half
of the papers and issued the Gold
field Daily Sun, sending them over
by the first automobiles that ever
came to Nevada. 1t went fine. The
next Saturday O'Brien said in his
paper. "There have been rumors DIR
ing the week of a daily to be started
IN Goldfield, but the town will not
support one. When the town will
support a daily the News will start
M 1t will be the first daily in
Goldfeld."
Three or four weeks later l had
my second linotype and was printing
my daily in Goldfield, in addition to
the n in Tonopah For several
months the office was in the Phenix
building, down on Broadway, too far
out. At last we were able to move
into the place on Main formerly oc-
cupied by the Goldfeld Bank and
Trust Company, which had failed.
1t was about four doors south o.
O'Brien's place, between him and
town. Every day and sometimes oft
ener people would come in and ask
for Mr.. O'Brien. l gave instructions
and followed it rigidly to tell every
one that his Office was four doors
farther north. In not a single IN
stance in months did such persons
go out but said, well, this is a
printing office. isn't it?' and gave us
job printing orders. We made more
than our rem of $3.50 a month from
these inquirers alone and l doubt if
O'Brien ever found it out.
In 1906 I had a reporter working
there named Colonel John Natter.
He had been a colonel in the Spanish
war. He was a fight fan. l never
believed in prize fights, considering
them barbaric and brutal, but always
printed %prizefght news. l seldom
visited Goldfield oftener than once a
month and in my absence Natter
wrote a telegram Offering o guaran-
teed purse of 100000 for the Cans
Nelson fight, to re held in Goldfeld
Labor day. He took the message to
the Northern and invited Tex Richard
to sign it. Tex signed it and Natter
took it to the Western Union office
The fight was landed for what Their
was the most princely purse ever of
fered and my men went after Tex
strong for the printing to be done.
Colored posters and dozens of other
things were ordered. In all about
5000 worth of composition had been
done in the office, but none of the
presswork, when one day after Tex
had been in the Office to see some of
the proofs he was accosted by mem
bers of the I. w. W., who were boy
cotting me, and asked If he was hav-
ing his printing done there. He was
told to cancel the orders or his
fight would be boycotted. He came
hack to the office on the run and can
celled the work. He never paid for
the composition and later my man
ager showed me the Western Union
bill, with the item of the Richard
telegram thereon, showing that I
had paid for the message that thrust
fame onto the shoulders of a man
who, through that and similar acts.
afterward became one of the famous