Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-03-09

A Question OF v~eraeity Between
TOm short and Jerry Moore.

Tom snort and Jerry Moore.
Some time ago., Tom Short, OF Ruby
Valley, gave information that Ruby Lake
had dried up. Jerry Moore, Of the same
section, told the Elko Post that Shorts
statement was untrue. Now Tom again
comes to the front, swearing that the lake
is as dry as q powder house. A commission
should be appointed to settle the disputed
point. Shorts rejoinder is a little rough
on Uncle Jerry's ability as q farmer, but
inasmuch as he requests the publication Of
the letter over his own signature, we can
not very well refuse it a place in our col
umns. We will permit Jerry to hit Tom
equally hard through the columns Of the
SENTINEL, if he feels like measuring a lance
with him, or failing in this, be has our full
permission to tackle him for libel in the
Courts. In the meantime, the question Of
water or no water in Ruby Lake, will con-
tinue to Engage the attention Of the scien-
tiic world:
RUBY VALLEY, March 4, 1880.
EDITOR SENTINEL SOM time since, an
article appeared in the Eureka papers that
Ruby Lake had completely dried up, and
giving Thomas Short Of Ruby a. authority
for said infof nation. Now comes Jerry
Moore, through the Elko Post, and denies
that the lake aforesaid is dry.
Living on the very shores Of the lake,
and riding around and over it continu-
ously during the last fall and the present
winter, / ought to know, aud do know,
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said about the lake being dry is true. How
he (Moore) can possibly know any
thing about the lake is q mystery TO
| me, for to my certain knowledge he has not
been near the lake for the last eighteen
months, and if he had he would not be a
competent judge, not having las all his
neighbors believed been in his right mind
for a number Of years, and surely not since
his famous defeat before the Republican
Convention at Eureka some two years ago,
although Col. Canavan says he thinks he
is elected yeti.
Asfurther proof Of his ~unevenly balanced
mind, / will mention some OF his peculi-
arities in his early farming operations in this
valley. He is reported to have planted
hominy and split peas thinking to raise hom-
my and split peas; and in planting pota-
toes he was always particular TO instruct his
Indians to drop the pieces with the eyes up,
or they would grow down, and he would
lose his crop. At another time. when his
Transfers had yoked o muley OK on the
wheel he gave orders to take that OK out
and put him in the swing, ''for don't you
know" he said when that o. comes to
hold back the yoke will slip over his head"
When Jerry attends rodeos, instead Of cut
ting out his cattle as other men do, he pro-
vides himself with a long whip, with a fish
hook attached, thinking if he can't cut
them out he can at least fish them out.
His neighbors say he does not know
enough about locomotion to engineer a bull
team from his ranch to Eureka, yet he is
the man who thinks himself competent to
go to the Legislature, and regulate fares
and freights on our railroads.
Now, why a man with oil the above men,
toned idiosyncracies should take the troub-
le to rush into print to deny that Ruby
Lake is dry, when every man in the county
but himself knows it is dry, is a mystery
to me, except it be to crafty that chronic
| disposition of his for meddling with other
peoples business, and neglecting his own,
for which he is famous in this part of the
country, and feeling that l have given good
reasons why Jerry should no be believed, l
again affirm that the Lake is dry.
As a man of veracity, jerry is at a dis
count; as a farmer he is a failure; as an en-
gineer OF a bull team he il off, and as a pol
itician his race is run, for it is time all old
fossils were laid on the shelf, aud the peo-
pie have come to that conclusion.
Yours, respectfully,
Taos. SHORT.