The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-29
NEvADA'S SHAME.
She Earns Her Right to the
Title Ofs'The Rotten Borough"
The Bill Legalizing Prize Fights
In the State
PASSES BOTH HOUSES.
The Governor Expected to Sign
1t as Soon as 1t Reaches Him.
The Law Permitting Fighting
Between "Man and Man."

Carson, New, Jan. 29.-Carson, and
it is safe to say nearly the whole OF
the western portion of Nevada, is all
excitement, and all one can hear on the
streets is talk of the probabilities OF
Corbett and Fitzsimmons coming to
Nevada to settle the worlds champion
ship.
Gov. Sadler was interviewed but de-
clined to say anything further than
that the bill had not reached him yet,
and that he supposed it had not been
enrolled in time.
The matter of location between Reno
and Carson is still cause of considera-
BILE speculation, taking it for granted
that the contest will come to some point
in Nevada. The Carson people claim
they have many more advantages than
Reno.
Mr. Wheelock and A. Livingstone,
local business man to whom a good deal
of credit for passing the bill is due,
went out to Shaw's hot springs yester-
day and it is conjectured they We're
looking that place over with view to
making it the training quarters for one
of the principals. Corbett and Fitz-
simmons will be both at once notified
of the action taken today and they will
probably start for the coast in a day or
two.
THE LAW.
Following are the provisions of the
prize fight bill as it passed the legisla-
ture:
An act to restrict and license glove con-
tests or exhibitions between man and
man and to repeal all other acts in
conflict herewith
The people of the state of Nevada,
represented in the senate and assembly,
do enact as follows:
Section L Any person over the age OF
81 years may procure a license for an
exhibition in a public place for any
contest or exhibition with gloves be-
tween man and man for a wager or re-
ward and the weight of gloves shall
not be less than four ounces, used in
said contest or exhibition.
Sec. 2. The sheriff in any county in
which exhibitions named in section
of this act are to be held, shall issue
license for such exhibition or contest
upon payment to him of the sum of ST.
600.
Sec 9. Blank licenses shall be prepar-
ed by the county auditor of the county
in which the exhibition or contest
named in section l of this act is to be
held which license shall be issued and
accounted for as by law provided for in
respect to other county licenses Each
license delivered by the sheriff under
provisions of this act shall contain the
name of the licenSee and name of con-
testants for the reward or wager offer
ed for such exhibition or contest
Sec. The licensee shall then before
such contest under provision OF TINS act
file with the county clerk where sucn
contest or exhibition is to be held, a
certificate in writing executed by two
regular practicing physicians OF this
state showing that the contestants
named in the license are sound IN phy-
steal health and condition
Section A. That such contest or exhf-
bition shall be within an enclosure SUI
fcient to exclude the men of the public
not in attendance thereat, and no in
toxica ting liquors of any kind snail pc
sold or given away at or during the
contest or exhibition as a fOreSald, on
the grounds or within the enclosure
where said exhibition or contest IS held:
Section g. No town, city or municipal
corporation in this state snail nave pow
er to prohibit, suppress or regulate any
Si1ch glove exhibition or contest or IL
cense therefor as provided by TINS ACT
and no such exhibition or contest shall
take place on Sunday.
Section Z. All money received for Ii
censes under provisions OF TINS act snail
he maid one-tenth into the county treas
ury and nine-tenths into the state
trea surv for general county and state
purposes.
Section g. Any person procuring said
license is hereby authorized TO charge
an admission for such exhibition or con-
test.
Section 9. Any person or persons who
shall participate in conducting or man
aging auv glove contest or exhibition
contrary to provisions of this act shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
on conviction thereof be punished by a
fine of not less than 5000 nor more than
81 600 or by imprisonment in the county
iail not to exceed six months.
Section 10. This act shall take effect
at once after its passage, all acts and
parts of acts in conflict herewith are
hereby repealed
STUART IS SATISFIED.
Chicago. Jan. ga private dispatch
from Dan Stuart says he will notify the
PRINCIPALS in the big fight to be prepar-
ed to fight in the state OF Nevada on the
not prepared at the present time to
name the exact location of the fight but
in the course of the next ten or fifteen
DAVIS he will announce the town where
the fight is to be pulled
A meeting of railroad men will be
held in San Francisco to arrange rates.
etc Stuart says in his dispatch that in
the next few days he will leave Dallas
| for Nevada in order to give the ar
engagements for the fight his personal
attention
NEVADA SUITS CORBETT
| Chicago Jan. $3.50 the fight is a
| sure thing for Nevada, is it?' asked
| James J. Corbett last night, when in
| formed that the bill had passed both
| houses of the Nevada legisla ture.
We'll it's great thing to have it IN
| der legal sanction, but it might as well
be pulled off right here in Chicago as
| far moral considerations are con-
| cerned.
Nevada suits me perfectly fora fight
| ing ground. 1t may be a little cold there
| and I was counting on fight down
| south, where it is warmer, however, its
ali one to me. Its high altitude out
| threre, but I'll fix that by putting in my
| training as near the battle ground as
possible. Nevada suits me and 1 am
IT,