The Washington herald., 1910-06-29
GOVERNOR WILL
NOT STOP FIGHT
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ernor would delegate the power to stop
/ the fight In case any element of fake
should appear to Capt. Cox, the head of
the State police, who will be on the
ground with fifty Of his men TO assist in
keeping order
Il vii! do nothing OF the kind he
answered, because 1 know that there is
no fake about it."
After his conference with Rickard
Gov. Dickerson went In the pro-
moter's automobile cut to Moana Springs
TO see Jeffries in action But the
ex-champion was not in the mood for ex-
| ercise. even under the eye of a friendly
| governor. Jeffries was introduced to
| Dickerson, and the executive passed a
/ few commonplace OF conversation; that
was all But when Rickard pilcted the
/ governor to Johnson's camp there was
a different reception for him. The big
/ black laid aside his violin bow. forsook
the roulette wheel and jumped into his
! fighting clothes. Then. while the COVER
nor stood by the arena, out by the cab
/ bage bed, Johnson did his best to exhibit
| his fine points.
Kaufman. the first sparring partner he
took on. escaped with a cut lip and some
! Earring uppercuts.
| Cotton, the next one, had the temerity
/ 10 cut the champions lip, and Johnson
straightway beat him to his knees with
| three hard lefts
Monahan got more than the usual share
| OF punishment, and Dave Mills, the last
to make the sacrifice, got some hard ones.
The critics said that Johnson let him
/ self out more than he had done in all
! his recent training And il was all for
the governor Of Nevada.
Elected Two Years Ago.
Gov. Dickerson came into office about
/ two years ago upon the death OF Gov.
Sparks with whom he had been elected
as lieutenant governor on the Democratic
ticket Before he took Office ne had not
INDUCED in politics, he being a printer
and editor Of a paper in Ely. When the
agitation looking toward the removal OF
the fight from San Francisco to Reno
was begun. the governor was in Oregon,
! and out Of touch with affairs in Nevada
/ But at that time sounding lines were
/ dropped and they touched the governor 5
private secretary, George Finch. in Car
| son City. From Finch favorable vibra-
ton was received along the lines and
I Reno was elected the heir 70 a golden
/ harvest. Nevertheless. Mr.. Richard cock
/ ed his cigar Al a joyful angle to-day after
/ that little interview with Nevada's ex-
/ ecutive in person.
Whether Gov. Dickerson delegates any
/ extra authority to Capt. Cox, Of the
/ State police or not on the day OF the
/ fight, there is going 10 be enough in that
1 officials hands 10 guarantee that there
/ viii not be any Of that element OF con-
/ VITALITY which is known in Nevada as
/ Rough work" Capt. Cox Is In town
1 20 -,
| Friday his fifty men will ease themselves
into Reno society unobtrusively, but none
/ the less surely.
"A man from the Pleasant Desert town
/ OF You Bet where they give one free
/ wash with every four-bit drink" was hav-
4 ing the alkali dust taken out Of his hair
1 at barber shop this morning, and dur
/ ing the process he passed a comment
/ upon the Nevada State police You
won't know which tooth OF the saw cut
you. he said. If you start anything
with them fellows. They are soft-spoken
/ men who are awfully quick on the jerk.
/ and they have killed a few four-fiusheTs
/ who tried 10 play the cut-up with them
I Saw q tough person down in Rhyolite
/ start 10 put his gun on one Of the State
/ police; he had the fingers of his gun
/ hand bored through before he got his
| - "a az ~ A%AN ANfNA VI AAAs " tAAsks 4 t4NA
! there was q runaway down the street al
the same time The State police hoy
/ backed our in the street, stopped the run
away with one land and kept the tough
/ person covered with the other all the
| time. After he'd hitched the horse, he
! told the sport with he hole through hi:
| hand to come along with him and mt
went"
Citizen from "You Bet" Talks.
The citizen from You Bet opined theT
that there would be no tin-horn gambler
or strong-srm man who'd care to get toe
| handy with his dukes when the State po-
lice were around.
Capt Cox. who is a tall. straight stand
ing man, with the bearing Of an English
/ army officer about him, said to-day tina;
he did not expect any trouble. There
/ would be no element OF the bad man Of
Red Romance" in the crowd that would
/ be spilling over Reno from now until the
/ day after the fight, he thought. no dan
Cling guns or any Of that sort of fiction
scenery. The people he had to look on,
for were the crooked gentry from the
East who were dropping into town right
along now in tourist and first-class Pull.
I mans, and who would like TO take a
! EAdiEE dl tapping a man OlA a sue Slt
/ or in a saloon back room and getting his
sack of gold. They don't have strong
| arm men and pickpockets in Nevada,
those most all come from Pacific Coast
| cities, and over the desert from the
East.
Chief of Police 4. A. Burke. OF Reno
said this morning that he wasn't Wor-
rying much over the law and order OF
this fair city.
Fourteen Men on Police Force.
There are fourteen men on the police
force" he said, that Is. including the
the keeper Of the jail, and both Of them
may be used in time of emergency. Be-
sides them we are going to have a lol
of detectives up here from San Francisco
and Oakland to help US out. We know
that there are a lot of pickpockets and
stick-up men in town now but We can't
arrest them unless we catcht hem trying
some of their fine work. OF course we
can't tell them to get out Of town; this
| Is a free country, you know. Best we
can do is to keep our eye on 'em and
nab en- when they get funny. Oh no
we are not fussing much. Any way, yov
| know the arena is outside of the town
limits and it's UP to Sheriff Terrell, OF
Washoe County, to tend TO the crowd:
out there on the day of the fight
Reno Crowded with Pugilists.
Reno is getting so thickly spotted Will
/ celebrities that one cannot walk half
block down the main streets without
stepping on the toes Of a man who pre-
serves a oaulihower ear and his honor
as a gladiator The ex-champions ar,
coming so fast now that the newspapel
men do not take the trouble to turn tn,
pages of the registers in the Golden Ho
tel and the Riverside House; they jus
stand still in front of some handy bee
sign and tabulate the notables as the,
pass by.
Besides Corbett and ChoynskI az IN,
Jeffries camp and Kaufman out at Rick
road house, where Johnson plays th'
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