Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1884-07-05
CARSON LETTER.

OARSoN, July 81, 1909
The appointment of Hon. John ii.
Kinkead to the Alaskan GovernorshiP
is another proof of Senator Jones' man.
ly independence and self respect. The
Carson cavilers having no policy OF
their own owing to a deficiency OF
original thought, and who sequently
are "forninst" the policy OF all others,
must have been stricken with surprise
when they heard of the ex-Governor's
selection for the Arctic billet. 1t was
they, the rag-tag Of the town, who at
firmed that Senator Jones dare not rec
ommend Mr.. Kinkead for any federal
berth because of Mackay and Fairs
hostility against him. But our one Sen
ator did recommend Mr.. Kinkead, not
withstanding these predictions, and the
President has dominated him. This
cranky element, or rather putrid ulcer
on the body polite, may believe what
it likes, but l tell them that Senator
Jones is not at the beck and call OF any
one or number of men, even may they
be possessed Of the unweighed wealth
of Croesus; and no threats or intimida-
tons are powerful enough to make him
forget his noble and generous manhood.
This week Carson was again visited
by DR.. II. w. Hardness, one OF the
shining lights of the San Francisco
Academy Of Science-the same who
pronounced the oddly shaped indenta-
tions in the sand stone in our State
prison quarry "pre-historic tracks" OF
men and animals. He was here for the
purpose of gathering fresh enlighten-
ment upon the subject to be presented
to the learned body of which he is an
apostle. 1t is said of him that when
he first saw the tracks, he, without hes
itation, pronounced them to be $4,000
years old. What travesty on science!
Can any intelligent person believe that
this doctor or any other bug -hunting
scientist could so accurately calculate
the age of anything prehistoric at an
instantaneous glance? It's red apple
to the doctors brains that he cannot
mechanically demonstrate his theory.
The $50. called" wonders at the prison
quarry may be prehistoric tracks, but it
will require better SEMITIC authority
than DR.. Hardness to induce me to
swear to the alleged fact.
Tho "Holiness Band" is still with US
and the crowd attending their meetings
nightly increases. AS yet they have
made but few converts, for the Carson
heart is an obstinate and a rebellious
one. One night they converted GER
tain dentist and on the following night
he drove his family from the threshold
of their home. But that must not be
accepted as the usual result Of sanctih-
cation. Seriously speaking, if this lit
tie band of sincere christians are doing
no good it is not for want OF earnest
and assiduous work. They labor in
their unselfsh calling from dawn until
late in the night-hard work, too, l
must confess, in which no fair minded
person will begrudge them success. l
hear that they will not visit Dayton,
which is regretted for the sake of your
misguided soul.
Ouothed Mint man to me one day
this week, while we were clinking a
social glass, sole man we've just got
through with our yearly fixing up and
all's straight as string. D-n strange
that after all the yelling of the bob
tailed cranks against old man Crawford
they can't fasten any crookedness upon
him. He comes out clean.handed ev-
cry year and on top when lot of outs
trump up an investigation. Guess he
won't have any more trouble" have
about come to that conclusion myself.
| guess he has never been annoyed
much by the squeaking against him.
All the responsible people in the town
speak well of him, and if am Judge
of physiognomy, deduce they are
about right.
Every body who is not engaged in a