Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1889-08-10
Echoes of the Earthquake.

l S2Iu GOVefnOr stevenson ol NcNdGd
at the Palace last evening, 81 am
reminded of a funny yarn aboat
Oliver Roberts, the Assistant
meteorological Observer Of Nevada
residing at Carson. Roberts had
been doing some useful party work
in tke campaign, and demanded
an Office, but il was not forthcom-
ing Immediately, and so when the
Legislature met he made what
they call up there, great North
American kick. He told the
Legislature that he had carried
torches in the procession until his
back vas all raw"
"Why did his back get law ?"
| inquired the reporter.
Goal oil from the torch running
down his collar. | myself have
gone home at night with ceal oil
in my shoes where it had run
down the back OF my neck. The
old lamps which you fellows
down here keep trimmed and
burning are sent up TO the political
virgins CT Nevada in the following
campaign, and they most all leak,
SO that the kerosene trickles down
the backs of our necks in streams.
"Well, Roberts told the meaa-
bers OF the Legislature how he had
worked, and they had bill passed
creating the Office of Meteorological
Director, thinking to give Roberts
the place.
After the bill had passed they
discovered that it took a scientific
man to run the Office, so they had
% get one. Chas. Friend was tho
,nly really educated scientist in the
state, so be fell in, but they made
lin agree to appoint Oliver Rob- /;
rts Of the kerosene grievance as 7
lis assistant. There was no salary
or the assistant, but the party
ecognition tickled Roberts consid-
rably. He was also employed in :
ne Capitol building watching the !,
late safe at night, for he was ),
nown to be man who was dead
luare and dead game. The ).
lachine that registers the earth |,
uake shocks with a swinging g
encil on a fresh piece of paper :;
as always kept in his room IN :,
e building, ard ne took great :.
tide in it. :,
"As soon as the machine got
eyed he began to pray for an :,
Gone night Controller Hallock n
I'd Chauncey Noteware fixed the :,
[ leg Of the sofa, SO that they =,
u!d pull it with a cord, and -,
lille Roberts lay there doing
ey shook up the seismograph so !.
az it apparently registered big H.
rthuuake. They then got by
e door and pulled the leg Of the
IA off, letting Roberts down. He Be
led off on the floor, and as Al
on as he hit the carpet he reached to
two big six shooters and began err
lncing around. na
''Then seeing no one about to for
} the safe, he looked at the an
'thquake register and was quite sci
ted to find that he had nailed /
} shock. He took the time, and ths
Ting down made out an elaborate COT
'ort. baI
Meanwhile Note ware had slid iik
n to the State Observatory and lad
'ok up the regular seismograph ma
onging to Friend. acc
Roberts rushed over in the OF
rning to make his report, and ana
end said there must be mis-
e, as he had felt ne shock. :
When he went to consult his ~
however, he found -
record OF big one, but when
v came to compare the two -
Y did not look at all alike. One =.
ord showed a movement from
It to southeast, in a half circle, T
the other quake was headed, Fra
ording to the record, due east, of +
ard PiZen Switch, near So. Kro