Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-06-05
EDITORIAL DUELIsTs

~ assimilation Of the Virginia City Enterprise BY the Chronicle
q inc same camp recalls AN event IN Nevada journalism thai
appears to have passed from the memory of man This ~ w,
between 7 Goodman Of the Enterprise and Tom Fitch 81 ~
Union The latter received snch lambastng that his dignity ~
disturbed and ms wrath aroused until nothing duel ouc
appea the nflamed state Of mind Fitch demanded ..had
aonement which he slow arranging The na,r f IL
offence better be imagined described since Fitch
The sverIonged and master of could not find %
IN ms apaos vocabulary to resent the npratona effort of Good
man The meeting occurred in Six Mile CANYON Auo 1899 -
nine O'Clock in the morning according to Myron Angel NH f ~
staff Of the Enterprise who History Of the journalism II
Nevada Mark Twain the staff on the ENTERPRISE ana !
Tell ms lot to cover the story which did in the following
terstic style: 10 az
Where Young and ourselves mounted oo
onns last horses and followed at the rate 81
mle minute since when. being clad nor even half
sod we enjoy in standing m than i ,i
down but we lost bloody Marshall perry arr,xas
early with couple Of Deputy sherin RIodga,
came with couple herns and those misarshIa
ding wheps arrested the party and marched f hes
town In interfering legitimate business NJ p sre
and Mr. Blodgett think they almighty smart ~, W. ,l
70 get - ''''e
Z ~ ays Gays items OF news be culed from pas
sung events Tor often happened that was scarce INT tb
had come out and the columns be filled with na
character That established genns Of the STAFF ybib ;
men a ~ = Mlghes B j. Burns j. j. Ayers N d Earobild
Co. s = =. l.oseJoy ncknamed The Old Pah Ute H. Del
'"use " y GOODWIN K NJ Daggett who described as
lhe PEN = Forbes whose paragraphs under tbe had
ing Sembins was the forerlnner Of the paraoranb; a
n na nave become popular with the leading eastern pane
d. s, "hom everybody knew Dan De guile Clement
Ehorlax ri
McI"eh All Dofen and others day anon, tha a
features OF the day that widely copied and renrn j
were he massacre Of white family and the seapinp If M
reuheaded woman at Dutch Ncks' and the mytboal aau y
como filled with virgin gold related with all The ,yon a4
names ana surroundings that imposed on the most ent
sli' oi lhose reporters satisfied with prey
x ~ 9eu'y O the outside world but kept constantly At
y upon each other The first press for PRINTING ne
apr Nevada was first heard of office of the
enterprise July 81 1868 The general mxnp on that occasion
ps newspaper ana bottles OF wine Mark Twain ia
aAe among olher things cold his
was forced Tor few days local columns ovar r. H.
ehu Element T. Rice whom he had chrisened Tbe
~ m next issue OF the sensation for Rice took tho an
'u 70 extend proiuse apologies everybody and
'n whom or what Clements had grievance or faln ~
ne oismy OF Clements better be imagined than described l
M Gay after reporting back his old he GOT even with Th
hrehaoe IN which he said among other things :
We annul all he coming from ne ana
~ nun up 70 eommiseration
no more cultivation prncpe than
ania'es ana adons the seras
We have done - ~