Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-10-19
NOTES AND QUERIES.

indian, even IN q WaSnOe. IL has COlne e
the ears of this Notary that certain stalwar
member of this tribe lately made himself use
full at the back gate of Carson residence, il
the reduction of woodpile to the convenien
proportions of stove-lengths. The acquain
lance on both sides of the contract was pleas
ant and profitable; and the red man ate hi
biscuits and drank his great bowls of coffee
with cheerful satisfaction. Also it is to be
said that this son of the wilderness performed
his work honestly and with neatness and dis
patch. Some days afterward, espying another
woodpile heaped upon the place of his late la
bors Metamora came and viewed the premises,
thinking to obtain another commission. He
found Chinaman at work upon that wood
and he was disappointed. His chagrin found
vent in oatis and his scorn in mimicry. lie
cursed that Monaghan and all his tribe. Then
he Knocked his looks and burlesqued his slow
motions. All this while the aboriginal tenn
per was going from bad to worse. He spoke
his mind to little boy who stood quiet OBJ
server of the scene and nodding his head in
approval of a half formed intent to do an act
of violence "Me lick 'im2" suggested he.
The lad shook his head in doubt. Then, an
adult having drawn nigh, the warrior (who
speaks English with surprising volubility), re-
newed his objurgations. After letting off a
great volley of oaths and repeating his scorn-
full mimicries, he made short speech to the
following effect: "The pale-face gives work
to the celestial hordes Metamora, despoiled
of his hunting grounds by the Great Father
which is in Washington, must bend his proud
form to toll. The Red man starves. The
Monaghan gets money in his purse" Then,
rising to the grandeur of his theme and be-
coming eloquent with his wrongs and his sense
of injustice he adds "I jun man git money
he spend em. He get old deck of cards and
heap play poker. Chinaman get money; no
spend EN-. He keep EN-; bimeby he send
'em to Chiny. Injun berry good man. China
man d." etc. etc. Now put me up
any white faced demagogue and let me see if
he can improve on this And yet we shall be
told, some more times, and then again and
again, that the Indian is child-like and guile
less and innocent of all sophistication. He is
scarcely better than pot-house politician
An old sink, under the Second street
sidewalk adjoining the Ormsby House, dis
covered yesterday by Mr.. Pantlind's work
men, is the most discoura9ing sign of premed-'
itated nastiness we have had called to our at |
tention. All that was sloppy and foul and
stencil breeding and pestilential about that
tavern has been filtered into that receptacle |
under the sidewalk there for years, for aught |
we know The strange part of it is that the |
drain which was built to carry away those foul
waters had been tapped at this sink and stop |
ped with earth below it showing the intention
of the ingenious sloven who invented it to be
to turn all those impurities right in there,
under the windows of the dining room A
under the very table d'hote of our
principal public house! Is there any further
limit to deliberate slipshoddy2. One of
the contemporaries of the MORNING APPEAL
has chosen to reproduce the worser first half
of an item of ours concerning the Reno Fair,
leaving out the modifying deductions of the
local commentator at the end. This is to the
prejudice of the Fair and not quite Just to-
ward this medium of moral teaching. 1t is
but candor for US to say here that Carson and
Carson's spokesman, journalistic or other,
have no other feeling toward the Reno Exhi-
bition than that of neighborly kindness.
Somehow the two towns, Carson and Reno,
nave got themselves into the attitude of rivals. j
No doubt the scrambles over the State Prison
nave had something to do with this. The
irst Fair ever held in this State was held here,
It Pavilion which stood on Capitol Square
This was at time when Reno was not yet l
,orn Those were the earlier aud purer days
# the Republic, before Powning had set
blaze the riotous waters of the babbling
rruckee or Alexander had sighed "a second
ime) that there were no more worlds for HIM /
elf to conquer Since that first (and only {
ttempt at Cattle show in Carson there has c
,een organized an Agricultural Society in this t
ity. This association, instead of purchasing
he old Carson Race Grounds-the best by all
dds in the State-it committed the fatal err
or of buying another piece of land and sink 6
lg all its money, squandering all its credit g
nd getting itself hopelessly bankrupt there
the old Course had been bought there was
othing needed in the way of preparation for S