The Clifton clarion., 1885-05-20
NEVADA LIARS.
The Most ProdisiOus on Earth-A
 Cow with Gold Plated Teeth.

Of all the liars on the face of the earth, we believe. the Nevada newspaper liar Is the most prodi- gious outside of Missouri, says the Salt Lake Democrat, and the newspaper men in that State all seem to be accomplished. They also place a great deal of confi= dence in each other. One of them will publish yarn and every other paper in the State will re- print 1t. After it has gone around the entire circle, some other old duffer will start another famous tale, and in this manner the pub- lie is constantly kept in a state of excitement.
 About year ago one of these sensation originators related how a wonderful Illuminating shrub" had been discovered in remote locality. This bush would emit a brilliant phosphorescent light after dark, and could be seen for miles around.
 Some other fellow then told of an apparent bottomless cavern which had been discovered in Lake Tahoe, which was echpsed by the subsequent announcement that the cavern proved to be the extended jaws of a defunct fish. We believe Don De Guile was responsible for the startling dis covery of live alligator in the Sutro tunnel, but we forgot who it was that saw the twenty-foot trout in one of the Nevada lakes. The Carson Appeal victimized a great many Eastern papers with the description of 8 novel vehicle patented by Nevada man. This wagon was so con- stracted that the horse travelled underneath it, and was thus pro- tected from the weather. In going down hill the wagon would pick up the horse and carry him.
 The latest lie is manufactured by Sam Davis, who seems to be- exceptionally prolific It is as follows:
 Yesterday the Appeal received from Bellevue, the gold plated tooth of a COW, which was killed for beef, recently, near Bishop creek, by Mir. Goodwin, butcher of that vicinity The tooth is about two inches long, and the portion below where the gums were, is coated with gold, except, the crown of the tooth, which shows no gold except in two cavities, This would naturally be the result of grinding the upper and lower teeth together. The theory is that. the COW got the gold plating by  drinking water which held gold in solution. The' COW has been for years feeding along the banks of Bishop creek and its tributaries. The letter accompanying the tooth states that all the teeth in the cows, jaw were covered with the metal The tooth was shown to Dr. Sithworth, who said he did not believe that the metal had been placed there artifclally. His opin-- ion was that it accumulated through perhaps several years by being deposited from gold held in solution.
 Interest IS revived in the men1- orable Tlchborne case by the dis eovery in California of witness who,it is claimed, will testify to the identity of Arthur Orton, the cele- brated claimant. Orton, otherwise Thomas Castro, was a butcher in Waga Waga, Australia, and brought suit for the recovery of estates valued of f24,0 900 a year on the plea that he was Sir Roger Tichborne, the heir of an English Catholic family. There were two trials of the ease, one in the Court of Chancery, began by Orton in 1867, which occupied 130 days, and the other before the Lord Chief Justice of the Queens bench, the late Slr Alexander COckburn, in which he was'tried for perjury. convicted and sentenced to four teen years hard labor, and which took 1S8 days more. The witness just discovered will swear that Orton is Sir Roger. There are not wanting people who be- l1eve in the justice of Orton's claims, but the evidence against him seems irrefutable. The orig inal Sir Roger could speak French fiuently, whereas the claimant is. ignorant of the language. More over. Orton's brother and sisters