Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1902-02-22
NEVADA HAPPENINGS.
Reno's Great Smallpox Scare and The
State University.-.-Senator CIev.
land.--Eastern Capitalists
TouOpah.
CARSON CITY, New, Feb. 20, 1902.

Inc great smallpox scare at Reno
has somewhat abated, but its evil
effects remain. There were less than
a dozen cases all of mild form like
varioloid, or as the newspapers called
it the Manila itch, or the Cuban
itch, " Those quarantined at the pest
house are having good time at the
public expense, and go out prospect
ing, or rabbit hunting, as they see
fit But the Board of Health pro-
nounces it rank smallpox, demanding
wholesale vaccination, so the doctors
are just arbitrarily jabbing the virus
into everybody they can lay hands on
at a dollar head, whether they like
it or not.
Meanwhile all the public schools
remain closed, also the churches. but
none of the public saloons and brew
ries, which are supposed to be well
supplied with disinfectants. One
preacher though, opened his church
last Sunday and ran it as usual de-
claring that he would trust in the
Lord to keep smallpox out of his own
house, or affecting his worshipers.
The quarantine at the University re-
suited in rebellion in which seventy
or more of the students walked out
and were discharged and sent home
by President Stubbs who is a strong
and prompt disciplinaran He modi-
fled his actions subsequently, so as to
allow the juniors to come back after
this week and the seniors to return
on proper application and apology.
But he has created feeling Of an
tagonism not easy to reconcile. and
dealt the University a severe blow in
more ways than one. a blow which
it will take some time to recover
from.
The arrival of Hon, A. c. Cleve-
land in town day before yesterday
stirred up the Senatorial question
considerable as Cleye is supposed to
be on it like bay-steer. He is look
ing ten years younger, and in condition
to put up tirst.cass scrap, politi-
cal or otherwise Jones is quiescent,
and Newlands is working, but it
cam be denied that the gentleman
from White Pine is looked upon with
much popular favor for the T. S.
Scnatorship, if he will have it, Re
publicans say he must run, must
come into the fight and win out sure.
But somebody else may come in be-
fore long to be the standard bearer
Of Republican victory. Cleveland
went to San Francisco but is ex-
pected to stop in on his way back
James Yerington, Nevada Com
missioner at the recent Buffalo Pan
American Exposition has interested
several heavy capitalist from the
east to visit this State and is show
ing them the old La Panta, Pamlico
and other mines out in the G & c.
railroad section. No doubt Tonopah
will come under this investigation,
and yon will be able to show them
something in the way of mineral
wealth that will make their eyes
bulg out with glowing surprise. Jim
Yerington and that Buffalo EXPOSE
ton did more to show up and prop
erly advertise the mineral wealth
and natural resources Of Nevada
than anything that has happened in
the last twenty years outside of
Tonopah.
The citizens of Reno pause in
scratching their Manila itch long
enough to stir up their grand pro-
iect of a big street fair next Fourth
of July. They have the various com
mittees already appointed, and are
going to have a Midway Plaisance
and other arrangements that will
double discount Carsons brilliant
success on the last Fourth They
started in early and will run it for
all It's worth, itch or no itch, The
only thing that works seriously
against them is the Tonopah excite
ment, which is liable to draw every