White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-04-22

at Ninnemucca and directed that
enal Judgment be entered accord
ingiy.
Judge MeFadden held the deed OF
trust 10 be invalid because it was not
yiened by Mrs Nixon and further
that it did not create public trust
The supreme court held this to be
errer in law and discusses at length
tLe right of husband TO convey COM
mapity property when IL Is not an
attempt to defraud the wife, citing
that Mrs. Nixon was present at a
nublle reception when the donation
was made by Senator Nixon and took
part In II.
The court further holds the trust
to be constitutional
Chief Justice Dueker was disquall-
fed and Judge Mcnamara of Elko,
who sat for him. wrote the opinion,
which was coneurred in by Justices
Coleman and Sanders.
II was in the year 1907 or there
abouts when the late Senator George
S. Nixon was about TO remove his
residence from Winnemucca to Reno
that he announced his intention to
present the new s60.0C0 Nixon opera
house of Winnemucea to the city pos.
sibly having in mind the thought OF
leaving n good taste in the mouthr
OF the people of his home town over
the fact of his removal.
The senator had just made for
tune, estimated at the time 10 be
si0,000,000. mostly from the Cold
field Consolidated mining operations.
OF which company he was president
and George Wingfeid was vice-presi-
dent and general manager. They
we're partners in various Goldfeld
mining properties and activities and
also In a string OF banks which haC as
It's nucleus the First National Of Win
nemucca, which was Nixon's hrst
banking venture. Prior TO his entry
into the banking business Nixon had
been telegraph operator.
II was while he was cashier Of the
wlnnemucea bank that he met Wing
field, who had arrived there from
Lakeylew. Ore, az a gambler When
Tonopah was discovered Wingleld
struck Nixon for the money 10 go
there on and by turning over to him
diamond worth 5000 he got lean,
said TO have been So. Soon he
wrote a letter of about three SEN
tences to Nixon advising him to come
to Tonopah, as he could make some
money by so doing Nixon went at
once and they became mining part
ner5 and prospered. Wingfield had
made some big winnings at his pro-
fession and soon was owner of 4
third interest In the Tonopah Club.
Some local parties there had a fallout
with the old State bank management
and II was suggested that a compet-
Ing bank be started. They organized
the Aye County bank, made T. l..
Oddie president and Nixon general
manager. with Wingfeld as n direct
or In 1906 they had disagreement
with Frank Golden aud put up buy
or sell proposition TO him. at that
Tine the bank having branches a
'Goldfeld and Carson Golden bought
and Nixon and Wingfiold started the
Tonopah Banking Corporation in OPP
position Then they bought control
OF the John s. Cook bank nj Goldfeld
and erected the Nixoa block. Soor
they organized the Nixon National OF
Reno and thus with the Winnemucea
bank had a string OF four powerful
Institutions.
Being elected senator In 1904, with
bis Goldiold and Tonopah interests,
Nixon was virtually forced TO move to
The central location at Reno, which
was better for him politically also,
IL was on this account that he pre-
sented the opera house to Winnemuc-
ca and the formal presentation was
made at reception attended by tn
ellte Of northern Nevada, including
Mrs. Nixon. II was written up copi-
ously and published broadcast at the
nme. Her presence was featured In
Very newspaper and that she ever
would repudiate the gift was far
thest from her thoughts. as was dem
ohstrated by her actions.
Nixon was reelected To the senate
over Key Pittman In 1910 and In the
iall OF 1912 he died at Washington
Under nasal operation for catarrh.
shortly after his death Wingheld ana
mrs Nixon appeared TO have failed
10 agree on a business policy and
when he took over her interests and
mat of her son in the Reno bank he
changed It's name from the Nixon TO
The Reno National
II was not until 1918 that Mrs.
NIXON leaped into the limelight by
aer conduct with relation to young
ae Valeria. a pipe organist whom shc
mad imported from San Francieco to
play the organ in the Nixon opera
mouse OF Rene. II was Thought at
'he time that II was through some
newspaper publications In the WIN
hemueca papers over her escapades
with the Spaniard that she became
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