Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-10-12
jim BUCHANAN'S
SAD PREDICAMENT
BECOMES POSSESSED OF FENII-
NINE LINGERIE INSTEAD OF
CORDUROY TROUSERS.

Jim Buchanan, the well known
mining man of this place has had
singular mix-up in San Francisco. 1t
seems that James reached San Fran
cisco at the same time with Olga
Nethersole, the wonderful osculatory
performer. and they put up at differ
ent hotels The arrival of two such
celebrities contemporaneously, was
too much for the clerks and porters
of the two hotels, and the result
was when Jim went to his room that
night, oh, mercyi
He opened his big trunk, where he
had stuck his prospector's boots, and
mountain climbing trousers. Then
he opened his eyes, and then his
mouth to yell. The first thing he
picked up, he dropped, and it is
wonder that the filmy lace wasn't
torn in his rude grasp. In the top
tray of the trunk was some of the
wardrobe, maybe all of it, of Meth
ersole's famous stair climbing scene
in Sapho. There isn't much ward
robe in that scene, it will be remem-
bered, but what there is is very fine
and fetching.
All of what happened when Miss
/ Nethersole, in the sanctity of her
boudoir, was called upon to view
those prospector's boots, and the
many nuggets from Jim's mines, and
the rocks that assayed we'll, but
didn't look good to French maid, is
not entirely set forth But the San
Francisco Chronicle makes a good
stagger at it, and here is what the
paper says in it's fullness:
James A. Buchanan, a wealthy
mining man from Nevada, spent a
few anxious hours on his recent ar
rival from Los Angeles over the tenn
porary disappearance of trunk con-
tanning between $4,000 and $4,000
worth of samples and gold nuggets
and $4,000 worth of mining secur-
tiles. About the same time Miss Olga
Nethersole was equally distressed
over the disappearance of trunk
which contained the fiimsy apparel in
which she is clothed when Gaussin
carries her up stairs, and various
other finery which is essential to her
appearance here in her repertoire.
Buchanan and Miss Nethersole
came up on the same train Friday
from Los Angeles. Buchanan had
only one trunk, but it was a highly
valuable one. 1t contained samples
from some of the richest mines in
Nevada, and bottles filled with mug
gets and washed gold In the trunk
also were stock certificates to the
value of $4,000. The certificates
were not signed, but they were
stamped and would have been ne
gotiable. Miss Nethersole had sew
eral trunks and if they were all fill
ed with the same sort of apparel as
the one inspected by Buchanan they
are highly interesting if not valuable
4 Buchanan went to the Grand hotel,
and left his check, No. 85,SS7, with
the clerk with instructions to have
the baggage sent to his room. Bu-
chanan has a trunk, known to the
profession as theatrical trunk, and
when he saw it in his room he sup
posed it to be his own. His key
fitted 1t SO he unlocked it and pro-
ceeded to unpack, as he wished to
set out some samples to show pros
pective investors on the following
day. When Buchanan had packed
his trunk he had placed a corduroy
and khaki suit on top with pair
of heavy mining boots and a candle
stick. What was his surprise to find
on top fiimsy garment, such as he
remembered to have seen Miss Meth
ersole wear in first act of "Sapho. :"
He says ne doesn't know whether it
was tulle or crepe de chine, but he
knows it was horribly thin
DISCOVERS SOME HOSIERY.
Buchanan decided to go farther
down. lie proceeded to uncover much
lingerie and lace hosiery. BY this
time he began to suspect that he hal
been sold gold brick and that the
packages had been switched, Buch-
anan kept digging, looking feverishly
for the nuggets and stocks. BY this
time he was standing up to his neck
in lace and frills. His valuable were
not in the bottom of the trunk, and
he absolutely refuses to divulge what
he found in place of them. Then he
began to wonder how so much stuff
could come out of the trunk and how
he was to get it back.
j After he had repacked the trunk,