Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-08-07
IICNUS' LETTER
Many Interesting Items From
Our San Francisco
Correspondent.
San Francisco, August i, 1899.

" i EooiA ISGdlh w tAbo ~ AIN Ai
proved in health.
W. Al. Reese, a s~on-in-law of Mrs.
Sam Burke of Carson, and who It will
be remembered a few years ago ran Il
restaurant next to Ed. Toupin's sa-
loon. was found by a miner near Daw-
son City, having persisted from hunger.
Mrs. Hetty Green, the wealthy New
York woman, is a guest at l cheap
hotel on kearney street.
Alex Corbett, formerly Of CalsOn. is
now engaged in painting scenery for
the Waldorf theatre in New York.
North, east, south. and west soldiers
are TO be seen, some on crutcles, some
with a cane, and most Of them with d
lady.
For four miles from the Water Front
to the Preside out-hanging flags, way
ing OF handkerchiefs, together with
Changing Of cOwbells, sharp cracking OF
pistols, ear-smash'ng bangs Of small
cannons from the Call building, and
SNS "NLF"tl SANS4S IN w. y =
Frisco gave the returned volunteers.
just wait for the First California bsys'
| return: you bet tbere'u be a hot time
in Frisco. where they will be recei Ied
with open arms.
Horace Manning arrived acre from
Carson last week.
The whereabouts Of Walter Barth is
well known in this city.
Miss Emma Lind is employed in a
large millinery stOre on Suffer street.
Walter Gould, the Surveyor of Reno
is spending a few days here.
Mrs. Charley Brown of Gardnerville.
who underwent an operation at the
MCLEAN Hospital, is doing as nicely as
possible.
The lady from Carson who has been
telling fortunes in Oakland, has moved
back to Nevada. The predictions that
Oakland would sink and hat beautiful
city be nothing but lava beds. hasten
ed this lady across the line.
w. H. Hobart. ex-State Controller
of the State of Nevada. returned from
Alaska last Wednesday after = month :
vacation. He reports that Johnny
Dormer, formerly of Carson, broke
his right leg below the knee about two
weeks ago, and it was feared that am,
putation might be necessary to save
it above the knee.
Willie narna has aonarta5 y ma
: sition in the Mutual Electric Ligh'
Co. located in the Emporium. Hi.
} brother has taken his position as tn,
butcher boy.
Geo. Liken., Jr., who graduated
from the Dental College of this city
has opened an office in Los Angeles an
nouncing to the public that he is a full
fiedged dentist.
O. H. Grey was often seen arount
the Palace Hotel corridor last week.
3 Hugh Castle, formerly of Carson
and now a b~Ookkeeper for a larg,
f wholesale house in Sacramento, is do
: ing the city for a few days, Hugh ha:
e grown to be quite a young man.
l Charley Thrall, Jr., of Wadsworth
= New, is here for medical treatment.
The fat ladies' bicycle race at tn
Chutes last Sunday was the finest spor
for the gentlemen that your CORES
pOndent eve witnessed, one lady froI
= Petaluma weighed 372 lbs. The Las
+ seen of her she had knocked d larg,
l. hole ia the Zoo.
g Mrs. Nettie Craven is again seq
around the Palace Hotel corridor.
! The mother of Blind Tom is living /
= this city with her daughter near pot
street. All the neighbOrs call he
It Aunt Charity" She is 81 years old
g butts still bright and active and fon,
Of telling TO all who listen the story {
, her MUS years travels with her s0r
the famous musician. Her grea
grievance is that she cannot near fror
him as often as she would like. Sh
knows he made d fortune and sh
knows somebody has it. Blind Tom
living in New Jersey guarded like
plI-OdCi SIc ucNcI bHSS VI leIIIlI
about the first day the blind boy ereI
TO old masters piano and played
8 tune. None of the Other children
and there are twenty Of them
are the least biz musical, but then
they a see. Some days she canno
remember the names OF all her childre
but Tom has always been her favorite
Blanche LeClaire Sloan, the onI,
sister Of the r~edoubtable Tod Sloan, i
an acrobat at the Chutes, and sres
crowds gather to see her perform.
Oliver Roberts returned to this cit
last week and is seen around the Palac
Hotel.
Mr.. Salix, formerly of Virginia City
and who was drum major during tn,
Carson encampment, will soon depar
for Dawson City.