The San Francisco call., 1907-01-19

Miss Norma Merani. who represents
the italian colony in the contest in the
present period, has already given an
earnest of what may be expected of
her as a Yote-getter. She signalized
her second day in the race by moving
up to the head of the procession by
gain of $3.50 votes. This leaves Sacred
Heart College in second place. Miss
Merani is going to try to keep in the
lead throughout this heat of the race,
and the college will find in her rival
hard to beat.
Emile Iversen. the steady Sausalito
producer of votes, who won $50 in the
first period, got busy in his second
campaign yesterday and scored high
enough to assume third place
Not very many of the old contestants
have yet resumed operations after the
wind-up of the first period. but about
next week they will all be struggling
again for position in the score list.
Interest in The Calls gold prize con-
test is not confined to the Golden State.
I
testants are pouring in from nearly
every State in the Union and some
from foreign countries. In the first
period of the contest all the prize win
ners, as well as unsuccessful contest
ants. were residents of California The
most distantly located of the prize Win
ners are Don Campbell of Shasta
County and Miss May Erwin of Fresno.
Most of the prize money went to con-
testants in San Francisco or the near
bay counties. Monterey, Santa Cruz,
Santa Clara, Alameda, Napa, Marin,
| Contra Costa and Ell Dorado counties
got a good share of it. In fact only
eight out of the twenty-five purses
went to contestants residing in the
| city. All the rest went to outside
counties, showing that country contest
ants have just as good an opportunity
to win as those residing in the populous
city. The city contestants got $50
| out of the first $4,000 awarded; the
country contestants got the lions
share, $1,190.
ENTER THE FAIR NEVADAN
Now comes Mrs. ]. A. zawaskie, a
native daughter of California's most
intimate neighbor, Nevada, ofttimes
| yclept the Sagebrush State, and de-
| clares herself a candidate to win some
/
dispensing. Mrs. Zawasl<ie feels con-
fident that she can cause enough gold
/ to flow from Nevada's famous mines
/ to San Francisco to pay for subscrip-
! tions to The Call to start some Cali
/ fornia minted gold in her direction.
The Nevada mining camps depend
/ largely on San Francisco for their
! daily news, as Well as general sup
plies. and among the miners there is
no more popular newspaper than The
! Call. This was evidenced a short while
ago when The Call was selected as
stakeholder of the $4,000 purse which
the bushes men OF Goldfield raised in
one hour to have the Gans-Nelson fight
pulled off in that city. The Calls
news of the Nevada mines and Nevada
affairs in general, is always the most
ample and reliable. Consequently The
Call has the largest circulation of any
California newspaper in the Sagebrush-
silver gold-copper State.
| BOUND TO BE A WINNER
Owing to this large patronage of The
Call in her native State, Mrs. Zawaskie
sees no reason why a share of The
| Calls prize money should not find it's
way across the Sierras. At any rate
! she is going to try to draw some of it
that way, and her friends and admirers.
of whom there are nearly as many as
I there are residents of the State, say
! there is no limit to her drawing power
and her winning ways-hence she is
! bound to be a winner.
In making application to enter the
contest, Mrs. Zawaskie says: II great
| ly regret that 1 did not hear of The
Calls gold prize contest in time to get
in the race at the beginning, as I would
! certainly have given your California
/ Native Daughters a run for the money
| in the first series. However, L am anX-
| ious to enter the next series in which,
l believe, l can hold my native State
! in the lead from start to finish, for Is
you well know, the people of Nevada
! do not believe in taking things by
| halves, consequently, if | am permitted
! to compete, as the subscriptions Sc
cured by me will be mostly for one
! year and over, you can reaNly see that
! I ought to be able to hold my own with
/ any of those entered. 1 want my many
! friends at Tonopah and Goldfeld to
! know that Nevada is in the race to win
the leading prize, and If 1 am not
greatly mistaken the people of Nevada
generally will see to it that the pres
tige of our wealth-producing State is
| gloriously upheld"
Mrs Zawaskie is the accomplished
wife of J. A. Zawaskie, q well known
electrician and machinist of Austin,
Nevada. She is proud of the fact that