White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-09

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anyway.
Maybe so I die" the Indian told
the editor. II go UP heaven. st
Peter ask me if I pay all my debts.
/ say yes. He ask me If I pay for my
paper. I say yes. He cay, "You got
'em receipt Then maybe SO / have
to look all wei hell for you to get
'em receipt"
fellow who licked the editor for
something that appeared in the pat
ent part of the sheet, yet ] never
knew for a fact Just where it hap
pened or how. 1t must have hap
pened, though, because I've told it
several times myself.
Anyway, I've known newspaper
when one Of their stories got into
the plate and went the rounds of all
the country weeklies. These things
are sent out by freight Oh express to
be used as they r needed, and
sometimes they get in right now and
again not until the year after. That
is how it happened recently in Ely
that a paper published a story about
Yukon caribou swimming the river
in such swarms as to impede steam
boat navigation this spring two
months before the ice went out and
dog teams, sleds, stages and autos
were still gliding over it. Just used
the plate to fill out a column at the
wrong time. 1t vas intended for last
year and was used this yea
The late William Mcclure Got
waldt, Nevada newspaper man,
boarded Rooseyelt's train and break
tasted with the president and Gov
ernor Sparks as they were gliding
over the desert empire, when some
thing was said about how a person
out here might not need a gun but
once, but then he would need it
awfully bad or quick, whatever the
saying is. Sparks had a little dry
sense of humor of his own, and as
this was being said he drew a twelve
inch gat out from beneath the tails
Of his Prince Albert and laid It on
the breakfast table. Several witty
remarks were made by the president,
the governor and old "Got," and the
latter having a good nose for that
kind CT news wrote it up for about a
stickful. Gotwaldt felt awfIlly
swelled up because this story of his
got into the plate and went every
where, and he never during the rest
of his life quit telling about it.
For the first years OF their ac-
nuaintance Roosevelt and Sparks were
the greatest Of friends. Both were
horseback men and cowpunchers, so
that they had things in common. But
Sparks lacked the deception in his
makeup to be a true politician, and
there is where the two in time came
to the parting of the ways. There
are plenty of people living who know
for a fact that Roosevelt told Sparks,
as he also told Senator Nixon, that
any time there was even a threat of
l. w. w. trouble at Goldfeld Just to
say the word and federal troops
would be dispatched. The time came
and the word vas said The troops
were sent, but it reacted in labor cir
cles. Roosevelt blamed it onto
Sparks, making him the goat, and
that piece of downright cruelty is
what caused Nevada's stalwart gov
errors death.
Sparks could not always see the
y1niyrt N n i1y1 -. -.
In 1905 he was Toropah's Fourth OF
July guest of honor, as Mr., Scrug-
hams was Ely's last Fourth, only
Sparks could not crate enough to call
the cows, and didn't try it. He was
not even a conversationalist. 1t was
most all in his looks, and as governor
he surely looked the part. That day
he rode a fine steed at the head of
the parade, which was The style then.
as it was in Thomas Jefferson's day
but this horse SHE'D while passing
down Main street by Jack Halls
saloon and left the governor in a
sort of reclining and sitting position
on the ground. The next morning
Buel had a cartoon in the Tonopah
Sun showing the horse looking
around at the PROSTATE governor and
saying:
did o say you were from
Texas?"
The cartoon made a wonderful hit
with everybody except the governor.
It happened to he his sensitive spot.
He was proud of being from Texas
and he did not like being kidded
about it, especially being ridicu,ed
about a horse spilling him. That eve
ming Buel called on him at the Mer-
chants hotel and got an awful bawl-
ing out. At first it was thought that
Sparks was only in fun, but he prov
ed to be really angry and kept it up
for siy months.
Finally Sam Davis managed to con-
vince him that he could not afford to