The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1893-02-25

he AT ONCE JUMPED TO THE CONCLUSION.
playing and how much money there In up.
1t seems that our friend got q royal flush
and was called by three jacks. He at once
jumped to the conclusion that he had won
the jackpot but he was sadly mistaken.
Big Pete O'Brien was In the game, and It
was an occasion when pair Of skies, II held
by Pete, would beat four aces While raking
in the pot the liver pill man was stopped
by bullet, and even II he gets well he will
have bad limp to his left leg This town
isn't as big as Chicago or New York, nor as
wicked as St. Louis or Cincinnati. but we
have our customs and idioms just the same,
and the stranger who can't tumble to them
must take the consequences.
AN EXCELLENT APPOINTMENT. = We
point with pride to the fact that wc have
been appointed chairman of the senate COM
mittee ON forestry. We regard this as the
most important and responsible chairman
ship on the list and can truthfully say it
came to US unsought. We hope no one
will charge us with egotism when we say
that the right man has been put in the
right place The committee has already
had three meetings and transacted a great
deal Of business. Next week we shall In
troduce bill to provide for purchasing
and planting 900 bushels of mixed hick-
ory and chestnuts on the crest Of the Black
mountain range; also for the purchase
and transplanting of 10000 walnut and
butternut trees to adorn and enrich the
Gila river valley There is no earthly rea-
son why the territory cannot supply the
world with crab apples. She can also be
made to control the market on wild plums
and buckeyes. There are millions of acres
~ Il nil and Ia he tai
of this territory. Why not replace this use
less growth with oak, elm, beech, redwood,
sycamore and other valuable woodsf We
believe that the india rubber tree would
thrive In the valleys, and that mahogany
and logwood would be a success on the
hillsides. Our bill will call for an appro-
priation of 500, 900, 900 as a starter, and II
no spirit Of false economy pops up to scale
down the sum we'll make forestry walk to
the front in a way to astonish everybody.
pany presented 1.-The Merchant of Venice
to our theater going public Thursday
night. The play disappointed everybody.
There was no high kicking. Nobody was
murdered. Not gondola was to be seen.
While the actors appeared to be well up in
their parts, and while some Of them wore
fairly good clothes, there was a total lack
of that chic which makes a play go In the
west. We saw as many as SIX good open
ings for some one to be killed, but not a
hand was lifted At one stage Of the game
they could have made hit by having
girl throw herself over precipice, but the
girl preferred to sit in rocking chair and
read novel. Those who went expecting
to see Uncle Tom tracked by bloodhounds
or Buffalo Bill rescue the passengers of the
Deadwood stage demanded their money
back, but no one got it,
BETTER QUIT.-On our way over to the
capital the other day on our mule a cadav-
erous cuss who looked as if he hadn't eaten
q square meal ina month tried to play road
agent on US just after we had crossed
Turkey creek He had n couple of guns
leyeled on us when our mule made start,
and be fired The whole twelve shots before
we were out of range without bullet COM