The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1893-10-21
ONLY TWO ACRES OF NEVADA
ButSam Davis Proposes to Mako The
the Liveliest in the Fair.

the Liveliest in the Fair.
There is the greatest excitement just
at present among the sagebrush dele
cation that frequents the bar and cinch
room at the Palace.
They are all worked up over the Mid
winter Fair, and even the silver ques-
tion has lost interest as subject of
discussion with the Nevada contingent.
Sam Davis of the Carson Appeal is in
town. When the Horace Greeley of
Nevada packs a few paper collars and
file of his daily in a carpetbag and
comes down to the city on his annual
pass he brings along a few of his Muir
berry Sellers ideas with him, and he
stirs up the rest of the Nevada crowd
that stay around the Palace until they
can hardly sleep nights thinking over
his schemes.
A few weeks ago the Fair manage
ment granted Davis concession to
put up an old time Western newspaper
office in one corner OF the grounds and
run frontier daily, to be called The
Sagebrush Selfcocker. This conces-
sion has been expanding and bulging
out over the sides of Davis fertile
brain until from a tiny newspaper
plant it has grown into Nevada early
day mining camp to cover two acres
of ground. If he doesn't get his am
bition under control in week or two
his exhibit will represent the history
of the world since the creation and
take in the whole Exposition and the
rest of the Park, too.
NO LACK OF FEATURES.
All his Nevada friends are as en-
thusiastic as he is and they keep evolv
ing new features faster than Davis can
put them down on paper. 'fhey have
dug up the original cabins OF "John
N.Y. Mackay, Alvinza Hayward,
"Uncle Jimmy" Fair and Senator
"Billy" Stewart and propose re-
erecting them ont at the Fair. 1t was
first proposed to get out the original
owners of these domiciles in red shirts
and boots and set them to work ground
sluicing and swinging pick as IN the
days of old as part of the exhibit, but
Mackay ism t over his recent wound yet.
Fair says he's little old and rheuma-
tick to sleep on the ground out at the
Park and Stewart is pretty busy just
now in Washington.
Another of the proposed features Is
the presence of "Lying jim" Town
send, as Sam Davis calls him, of the
Homer Index. Townsend is the man
who disputes with Jim Gillis of Jack
ass Hill the claim of being the original
esTruthful James of Table Mountain, "
and also to be the claimant showing
best proofs of having originally told
the jumping frog story to Mark Twain.
It is planned to have hln recite "The
Society upon the Stalislaus" daily,
and tell the legend Of the Calaveras
Frog Sundays, if the Fair be open on
that day.
A REGULAR MINING CAMP.
Davis also intends to erect mlnla-
ture placers and and sluice boxes, dig
half a dozen prospect holes and put
up stamping mill and a fume. Gen
nine old-time miners will work the
placers, rob the sluice boxes, jump
the prospect holes, and perhaps go up
the fiume for the entertainment of
visitors. They will sleep in the his
toric cabins and eat the typical beans
and bacon off the top of -four barrels.
Davis himself will run the news
paper office and get out live Nevada
paper with the mulicage bottle in one
hand and a cooked gun in the other.
There will also be an exhibit of old
mining tools and relics of one sort and
another This is the extent of Sam
Davis idea at present. What it will
be next week tits impossibleto to say
S. +. Examiner.
About 1000 people gathered at
Desmet, S. D., to witness legal exc
cution last Saturday, and great indig-
nation was shown when it was learned
that the governor had granted re
spite. Loud threats were made to
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