White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-12
A CAT MAY LOOK
UPON A KING-BUT-
When a Coyote Gazes, Anita Wakens
Desert Solitudes With
Frightened Screeches.

hO Hu' % VI Anita viii
probably crowd all other attractions
off the scenes when the trip of Anita
King from San Francisco to New
York is completed-if that hazardous
trip ever is completed and the mod
est little photoplay artistic succeeds
in reaching civilization without being
devoured by the wild and ferocious
beasts that roam the deserts-accord-
ing to a story told in the Salt Lake
Tribune. 1t will be recalled that
Anita expected to pass through Ely.
1T is perhaps well that she did not
because according to the story told
in the Tribune she experienced SO
much difficulty in pulling out of and
backing into every mudhole along
the route from Frisco to Salt Lake,
lit is hardly to be expected that she
could have possibly missed the big
|pit at Copper Flat. and certainly a
lpicture of the fragments that remain
ed of her gigantic touring car being
unloaded on one of the dump cars in
the pit, while search was being made
in an Effort to find enough of the star
to warrant the holding of funeral,
would not be an attraction upon the
screen.
According to the Tribune, 1t apears
that Anita broke into Salt Lake in
the greatest state of excitement i'm
laginable and told an alarming story
about having encountered a coyote
away out on the desert in Nevada,
and after the animals eyebrows had
been shot off one by one, either by
Anita or a band of cowboys who hap
pened to be herding shep only about
thirty miles distant and we're attract
ed to her rescue by the frantic
screams of the star-of course the
real details have not yet been told
well. anyway, while Anita is only in
cidentally advertising Paramount pic
lures, II she ever succeeds in placing
In the hand of Mayor Mitchell In
New York the message she bears to
him from Mayor Rolph of San Fran
cisco, some thrilling stories will be
told upon the screen of her peri,ous
trip across the deserts of the Vast
YOU BET YOU.
Perhaps If Anita had followed the
iLincoln Highway instead of striking
on on some sort of exploring trip
into the sagebrush or following some
of the trails or so-called roads recon-
mended as Just as Good" she would
not have had all these either real or
accidents and hair-raising
Ior hair-splitting experiences. but it is
all part of the important duty of de-
livering that very important message
to one mayor from another-to say
nothing OF advertising. The harrow
ing experiences of Anita are more or
less pathetic. when 1t is learned that
she became so greatly alarmed at the
sound of distant coyote-particular-
ly when 1t Is q known fact that
coyote is natural-born coward and
will run away from anything half its
size twice as rapidly as any other
known animal. Just why a great
corporation would send little inno-
cent girl like this out into he wilds of
Nevada is not known, but she has the
of the community and all
the people regret that she should have
seen fit to leave Ely of her calling
list and take some other route instead
OF the Lincoln Highway. and they are
deeply grateful to the 'prospectors"
twho were in an automobile), for
having rescued her.
MORAL: If you want a trip with
THRILLS. take any old road; if you
want trip of ease and comfort fol-
low the Lincoln Highway.