The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-02

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mules backs. ON each side of the frs
MagOn of the three in the train was 4
banner one bearing the legend Greet.
ings from the California Elks'' and TIN
- other. Greetings from Reno Lodge
bS7.'. On each side of the middle wager
ID. was a streamer on Which was painted
Best. People on Earth For the las
wagon, which bears. the water tank, z
big-stu5fed*elk had been borrowed from
! one Of the. Colorado exhibits 1t rods
proudly, With the legends beneath it
i. 1 m en-: the water wagon; and "A dead
3 one: from Colorado The. banner oil
Vallejo: Lodge No. $50. one of the baby
Lodges OF California; swung from the
rear Of. the. water wagon, but probably
. by mistake. =. :.
81, :A.:BORAX BILL DRIVES.
|. .'Botax Bill, 81 the Chauffeur in charge
OF the twenty mules, handled his one
line. with even more than his aceus:
+ toned :. aplomb and brought his pack
through without "a. break II is a con-
slant. wonder to the tenderfeet how this
Death Valley pilot with the four-acre
hat can. keep his string Of twenty ant
mails going straight with a single line.
. For the graceful manner. in which he
performed Tuesday Bill will probably
'-be presented with. an honorary pair OF
.au4ers and certificate emitting him
fo.-sta out all might as often as he
+. President. Francis and about twenty
Elks rode in the wagons,
I Three Of the Sacramento Valley pro-
4 motersr-ColOne1- r. NJ. Green of Oro-
/ Vile, John .Reith :Jr., Of Woodland and
! VIZ IL -doTrissey Of Qrland, Glenn
I CQunty-have returned home. They
I have adj done excellent work here for
Z the. valley and their absence: will be
. he
! Supervisors of each. county in the asso-
+ citation the necessity Of sending on a
I representative to- help. impress. the de-
STABILITY of the valley as "a residence
plate upon visitors; The short time he
has been here, he says. has been suf5-
Gent TO demonstrate to him the i'm.
pOftance of the exhibit: and to give him,
an idea Of the profitable results to be
obtained. -
/. rolqna Green .WiIl attend to some
mining business in California and. then
|'go 30 Boston on Grand Army business,
returning here in September. Judge J.
h. Wills of Placer. one of the most
energetic and popular of the county
commissioners here, is now in full
charge. of the Sacramento Valley dis
. play -.
Commissioners Virgins and Filcher
gave a card party at the State building
Friday night. which was. attended by
many Of the people on the grounds
and was much enjoyed
+ The barbecue TO be given by the Gov
ernor Of Nevada near the building of
his. state viii be. one of the star func-
lions of the exposition The Nevada
commissioners, Colonel Yerington and
Senator c.. II. f. Hardin, ARE already
letting wood contracts and gathering
up packing cases for kindling. and Gov
ernor Sparks is fattening up some. of
his biggest steers. Foreigners at the
I fair are getting out their notebooks
and preparing to jot down all the in
formation they can gather when this
holocaust, said to- he an annual custom
of the. Pacific Slope tribes, is pulled off.
I IGORROTI-~ ARE PLEASED.
The only people who seem to. be wen
posted on the affair are the Igorrotes.
and they are expressing satisfaction
that Nevada is on the opposite. side of
the grounds from them. 1t would. be
disgusting TO them, they say, TO see
degenerate human beings roasting and
actually eating the. carcasses of cattle,
when SO many fat, wholesome dogs
were running loose in ST Louis. The
Igorrote chiefs have declared that no
Nevadans shall be received socially by
their people. "A fund is being made up
by them for the purpose of presenting
Chief" Sparks Of Nevada with two or
three well-groorned dogs to- be used at
hrs feast. as a matter of education.
Nevada has made a clever selection
of: commissioners. They are versatile
and cover the range of humanity
Colonel Yerington is of the romantic
school. and the stranger who meets him
first is in doubt as to whether he is an
Episcopal rector or an Oakhurst Ii is
said that some of the male citizens of
Nevada. who have sat up nights trying
to read their fates in the royal gallery
have no doubt whatever on this score.
Newspaper women write gushing
things about Yerington, and heads of
female societies for the propagation of
brotherly love among the Fuzzy wuz-
zies allude to him as that dear man"
All this helps sell Nevada mines and
Nevada farming lands.
Senator Hardin. is Of the rotlfnd.
mirthful class, and while he cannot
melt with the soulful glance as we'll as
his colleague, he can hand out q sioIlv"
that adds 20 per cent to the price of
potato lands. There never was a TIME
when he couldn't drop into Billy Rice's
place on the end and keep the show go
ing. AT Harvard they called him Lit
tie Eva" but that name has faded
from him in his sturdy manhood.
HAS A READY TONGUE.
Senator Hardin spends much of his
time at his States display in the Pal
ace Of Agriculture. One day a lady
wearing one of those blazing State
badges that look like campaign ban
ners sauntered up and busted herself
looking at the mammoth spuds and oe-
reals and mineral soap grown in Har
din's State-the agricultural specimens
as fine as any shown at the fair and
usually productive of much admiration. |
Is that all Nevada can grow?" asked |
the fair one, with something of a tone
OF contemDt-a tone some Eastern peo-
ple' assume when they gaze upon those |
wonderful products of the wonderful |
West.
Hardin had already noticed that the |
blazing badge bore the name of the
Buckeye State. He said, with a bow
equal to any Of Commissioner Yering- !
ton's-they practice them together
Madam, 1 know we should apologize |
for fv.r