The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-04-30
TO EXHIBIT PANAMA
EXPO.AT KNOXVILLE
Especial to the Silver state. }


WASHINGTON, April 30-Through
Col. d. c. Collier, the state of Califor.
MIA has accepted the invitation of the
National Conservation exposition to
participate in the great event to be
held in the fall of 1913 at Knoxville
Tenn. That is to say, Col Collier has
undertaken, as president of the Pan
anna California exposition, San Diego
1915, to see that California is ade.
quately represented at the big exposi-
tion which will primarily show to the
world what the south is doing, and can
do, in industrial lines.
William S. Shields, president of the
Knoxville exposition. in letter to
Col. Collier setting forth the purposes
of the exposition, says: cit has been
suggested that the California exhibit,
shown at Turin, Italy. might be used
at Knoxville before it is returned to
California for exhibition there. 1t is
also suggested that an exhibit at
Knoxville designed to advertise the
Panama canal exposition miaht aid
materially in drawing people of the
southeast, and other visitors of the
Conservation exposition to San Diego
in 1914 and 1915. 1t is planned that
the sixteen southeastern states will
have extensive exhibits at Knoxville.
and it would be of great advantage to
this region to transfer these exhibits
at the completion of our display to
San Diego. The two expositions could
in these and other ways be of great
mutual assistance. Both expositions
will advertise widely throughout the
United States, and two-fold effect
would therefore be obtained if each
would advertise IFS participation in
the other'
San Diego has accepted the proffer
of cooperation and it will endeavor to
make an exhibit at Knoxville that will
he credit to it.
His Heart in the West.
Roy Norton, the author, is contem-
shall be laid in San Diego and vicini.
ty with its latter chapters climaxed
in the setting Of the Panama-Califor-
MIA exposition
Mr.. Norton has but recently re-
turned from Europe, where he has
been living during the past six years
Singularly enough, he is best known
as writer of western romancees
which he attributes to the fact that
he is a westerner. His Moroccan move
.sThe Garden of Fate, - which was q
success in this country and abroad, al
though pitched in the land of the
Moor, still had western American char
acters; and in his most profitable nov
ell, "The Vanishing Fleet one of the
main scenes was located in Seattle
His Forthcoming novel, ''The Plunder
err is purely western, and is, indeed
almost an Oregon story His short
stories of "Willow Creek, = published
in the Popular Magazine established
his reputation for versatility.
The truth is that but few writers
are so familiar with the Pacific coast
His has been a wandering career and
for nearly ffteen years he divided his
time between newspaper work and
mining, the range of his endeavcrs ex-
tending from Cape Nome and Klon-
dixie on the north to San Bernardino
on the south. He was one of the
founders of the San Bernardino Sun
worked on the Los Angeles Times, San
francisco Chronicle, San Francisco
Call and Seattle st-Intelligencer
was editor of the San Jose Herald,
telegraph editor of the Portland Jour
nal, news editor of the Seattle Star,
manager of the San Francisco Wave
and at one time had charge of the
Chicago end of the Scripp's McRae
News association. In all the interims
of this time he was miner and a
prospector.
For many years he would invade a
newspaper Office and by the closest
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he had 'sgrub stake'' accumulated
he would abruptly resign his position
and "take to the hills. = 1t is need
less to write that sooner or later a
ragged sun tanned, bearded man. big
in statute and with the hands of a la.
borer, would reappear in some news
paper Office of the coast and apply for
work. He was fortunate in having
sufficient reputation to always make
him a welcome addition to staff
Not infrequently the editors loaned
him sufficient money to metamorphose
his appearance. That writing proved
to be his forte has been demonstrated
by his success since he abandoned the
pick and shovel, something to which
he was driven by illness following an
invasion of the tropics where, in the
interior of Cuba, shortly after the war
he surveyed and promoted railway
He has a knowledge of many Ian
guages and of the globe over which
he has wandered in restlessness, and
he is one of the most interesting of
American writers. besides being con
versationalist of rare charm. His en-
thusiasm for the coast will be re-
flected in his new work whose locale
will be San Diego.
Fun for the Joiners.
The American institution par ex-
eelence may be said to be the secret
society. In this class none is more
popular than the one which provides
for occasional public frolics, like the
Knights of Momus. the Hoo Hoos, the
veiled Prophets and many others. A
new society has been formed at San
Diego called the Order of Panama and
in the latter part of July of this year