The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1902-06-28
RENO
To the Editor Of the sKs rrxxL:

The shot days Of June are upon rs
and old Sol is sending his red-hot rays
down on the Just and unjust alike.
We have again crossed the summit
OF time and will have hold Of the
short end of the stick until We again
climb to the other divide" that marks
the period between short and long days.
II is too hot to think Of anything but
Carnival. Reno is neglecting all else for
the coming celebration the first week
in July. The town will put on holi-
day attire and with open arms reach for
the nimble nickel and the "dollar Of our
daddies."
Politics and everything else has been
side-tracked for a time. Even praise for
Congressman Newlands is being neglect
ed, 80 busy are the people with Carni-
val matters.
Reno Is shortly to have a public library.
Andrew Carnegie has donated to the
town SIS 900 to erect a building and the
Commissioners have levied a 10 cent tax
for its maintenance. In some countries
C~arnegie's generosity might make the
rich Of the section take on q crimson
COLOR Not SO with Nevada, however, for
our public men do not care q d-n to
what extent Mr.. Carnegie blows himself.
The men who have made their millions
in Nevada, gone elsewhere and lost them,
or turned their faces to the roses in more
congenisl ITO them places, had their es-
tates incorporated to keep on accumulat-
ing dollars, without q brick lain in Ne
vads, the source Of their wealth, to tell
the world that Nevada is on its map, are
not built that way. l might mention the
late Senator Fair from Nevada, the late
Senator Sharon from Nevada, the Floods,
the O'Briens, the Requas-but my PEN
Gil is too short to complete the list. By
the way, / think Senator Stewart and
Senator Jones WI Nevada something,
but if a compromise can be effected for
five cents on the dollar, perhaps IL would
be better to compromise. Mr.. Newlands,
too. l am thinking, owes the State more
than the State owes Mr.. Newlands, and
it might be a good plan to ask for a set
Element while he is doing politics this
Fall. What say my readers of the SENrI-
MEL If vi make the demand" After
all it would probably be a waste Of time,
for like all Of Nevada's "great men"
Newlands would promise and renig as all
politicians have done for ages.
But it is too blamed hot to-day to think,
so if you will take the will for the deed
and consider my letter written, l will 60
to the hammock, under the cork bark
elm and think Of the future and reflect on
the past.
Oh. Just one word more. The Reno
Journal says your correspondent is q
blackmailer. and the Dispatch says he
has q nose for news" One seldom ever
knows his good or bad qualities until he
becomes an o~fice-holder or is "distin-
guished" enough to be noticed by a news
paper. Bert Crawford OF the Ledger says
he knows who the "fellow" is who corre-
spends with you, and the Journal also
designates us as a "fellow," so that set
ties the gender question. Just why the
Journal should call me a blackmailer l
do not know, unless it is that the truth
sometimes hurts or heads off some plan
at "leg-pulling." But l have no fight
with the Journal, and that paper and its
Revolutionary" editor ian call me what
ever best suits the Journal and it's big
oted editor. And, by the way, I will say
that should l ever conclude to levy black
mail the Journal and it's editor are per-
fectly eafs, for l shall not try to get blood
from a turnip or out OF cabbage heads
either.
Is TO l, BUT WHICH ONE.
Reno, Nevada, June %, 1902.