The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1907-04-06
PRIZE EGGS And
JELLY CAKE
HOW EGGS LAID BY HENRY
MILLER'S THOROUGHBRED
HENS WILL NEVER HATCH
A Tragic Story of Eggs and Jelly
Cake in Which Several Prominent
Personages are Involved


lower end of Paradise Valley two
Buff Cochin variety, and it is needless
to say they are his special pride and
pleasure. G.. Diehl, of the City bakery,
has some jelly cake on sale at his
place of business which, according t.
the testimony of the writer, who has
eaten of it, is perhaps the best jelly
cake that was ever baked. There is s
story, interesting in the telling, con
Meeting Henry Miller's thoroughbred
hens with this jelly cake at the City
bakery.
Mr. M M;ller has other chickens be
sides his thoroughbreds and he does
cutie business in egg selling. In
fact the main source of supply of the
many eggs used at the City bakery is
from Mr.. Miller's ranch. He for
wards regularly several boxes week
to the bakery.
Recently the thoroughbred hens on
the M Her ranch began to lay eggs.
and great was the owners pleasure at
this turn of affairs. 1t is stated that
he put an extra man to work on his
ranch whose especial duties it was to
keep an eve on the Buff Cochin hens,
ard when one of them laid an egg to
quickly sieze the egg and store it away
to prevent it becoming mixed with the
eggs laid by the ordinary hens. Grad
uaily the pile of prize eggs grew and
the owner decided to make a present
of some to his friends. Accordingly
he sent small box of one dozen to
his cousin Mrs. c. Diehl of Winnie
mucca Mr.. A. s. Evans was coming
to the county seat and the eggs were
sent in his care with instructions that
they be handled gently. The instruc-
tions to Mr.. Evans were carried out
in every particular, for he states that
he carried them in his arms over al.
the rough roads in order that they
might not become damaged by
shaking.
The eggs were brought to town and
left at the Giroux stables and word
sent to Mr. Diehl that box of eggs
had been left there for him. Mr..
Diehi accord 'ngly secured a rig and
went down to the stables, expecting to
find a regular shipment of eggs from
the ranch. He was considerably sur
prised to find only small box of
only dozen eggs. with each egg care
fully wrapped in paper.
Mr.. Diehl never uses hard Ian
guage about any one or he might have
said that Henry Miller must have been
sampling some rare wet goods when
he shipped him only dozen eggs in
that manner.
bakery and unwrapped. Mr.. Zuest,
the baker employed at the City bak-
cry, is the next person to enter the
stage of this tragedy. He found the
eggs Now, an egg is an egg to Mr.,
Zuest. He knows that an egg is ovel
in shape, that it is white and fragile
Not in his learning is there that fine
knowledge capable of distinguishing
the yolk of an egg which contains the
germ of life of thoroughbred Buff
Cochin from the yolk that contains
only common chicken. Therefore
Mr.. Zuest is not to- be blamed because
he put the new eggs into some jelly
cake chat he was making.
| And so Henry Miller laments that
dozen Buff Cochins, the offspring Of
his thoroughbreds, will never come
into existence, Mrs. Diehl severely
| criticizes her husband for his lack OF
intuition, A. 3, Evans laughs long and
heartily over the incident, Mr.. Zuest
exclaims, "That fine jelly cake, by
Jimminy,' and the scribe says
"Give me another slice; tits an III
wind that blows nobody good.'