Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-08-17
ONE ON JACK CfIINN
How He Became Excited Over
the Sight Of Buckets
Of Blood

Word comes from San Francisco rel
alive to great joke on Jack Chlnn
that has never been in print.
Last winter, after the Stewart cam
paign, Chinn, who had been living for
a couple of weeks on Old Kentucky
Bourbon to keep his nerves steady and
compensate him for a loss of ten hours
sleep night, went down to San Fran
cisco to recuperate. He met Col. Chad
bourn at the Palace Hotel and the two
got quite chummy. One day when he
was in Chad g room--the boys all call
him Chad when his uniform is otf-the
conversation turned on the immense
amount of blood shed in the Blue
Grass State. Col. Chinn admitted
that one got rather used to blood by
the bncketiul ia old Kentuck,, where
knife fights were very frequent good
part of the year.
Presently in came Charlie Shortridge
of San Jose, and in a playful way
Charlie got to sparr.ng with Chad,
and by the merest accident hit him a
blow on the nose that made the blood
come. Chad went into the bath room
to apply some cold water, and when
Charlie came in TO comfort him and ex-
plain how sorry he was for the mishap,
Chad was leaning over the bath tub
and allowing the blood to drip. There
happened to be ten or twelve gallons of
water in the bath tub, and Charley
CHANGED to spy a bottle of claret in the
room. The chance for joke was TOO
handy to be thrown overheard, and
| opening the claret he poured the con-
tents Of the bottle into the bath tub
and in an instant there seemed almost
/ blood enough to swim in.
II say, CHM, come here quick, this
man win bleed to DEATH
Chinn came in and when his eye fell
on the bath tub he threw up both
hands and calculated:
Great God, let's get a doctor and
get him right away. He can't live a
minute if this keeps up
He grabbed his hat and struck out of
the room hunting an elevator. In a
few minutes he had the clerks of the
hotel rushi, g about for doctor, and
offered the first bell boy ten dollars
who would land one at Chad's room
At once he had the Office and the whole
ground floor in a commotion, and col
Ored help rushing frantically around
and yelling for physicians. In about
five minutes half dozen doctors were
heading for the room and they found
Chad quietly smoking and chatting
with the San Jose editor.
Its all over. gentlemen. Merely a
temporary hemorrage. [ often have
EN- and Immediately recuperate."
Chinn showed the doctors the bath
tub and they estimated that the patien
had lost about fifteen or twenty gallon:
of blood, and Chad said that abou
once month he lost blood in this way
but he was very full blooded and
high liver, and be guessed he needed
something of the kind to relieve hi
system.
The medicos talked the matter owe
and one of them got permission t,
write up the case for an eastern medi
cal journal, published in New York
Chad and Charlie had lot of ful
with Chinn over the sell and scoldet
him for rushing out and rousing tn
whole hotel over few drops of COR
which they insisted didn't amount t.
anything.
f After Chinn left, Chad went 10 an,
counted up eight empty claret bottle
) of imported French wine that Char
lie had used to make the water suffi
GENTLY red to give the bath tub th
proper effect of blood, and when h
, hunted up the bills and found wha
: that wine cost, he began to woude
), whether the joke was really on him G
Chinn.