The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-05-29
Looking Over Humboldt County
Letter No. BY C. ID. Ayres

A 4 ANY and diverse are the expressions in commo use-can em slang
WI if you will to indicate a man is going crazy. The rancher may say
He has mouldy hay yin his loft" The good old sextono of the church
might indicate his suspicion of a mans complete mental balance by remark
ing" has bats in his elhy" Down in the southern country 1 learned to
indicate the sam idea by announcing "Hes getting ready to start across
the desert without a canteen!"
When a spring broke Of the stage coming down from McDermft, the
other day, l wished fol a water bag. So did everybody else. There yer
six passengers and the driver. While the other five passengers stood around
IN The not sane giving thu driver good advice and getting ticks OF themselves
I started o a hike to a little ranch house that looked about a quarter of a
a COW asked if there was a good chance to get a drink Of milk. The girl
appeared uncertain Turning. she called toward the house:
Ma, there's a travelling mar here who wants 20 milk What shall
1 dor
Ma appeared in the kitchen doorway and answered:
"Tootse, You know perfectly well what to do. You come straight into
the house-and bring the o with you"
l managed to get a drink of water. and returned to the delayed stage
The passengers were still giving advice, although the driver had temporary
repairs almost completed It must be awfury comforting to a la who
is working at a broken spring under a desert un, to have good advice
handed nut to htm-an fol nothing. I think if all suggestions had been
carried out he would have built a lew cal right there amidst the sagebrush
Further down the road, after w had changed drivers. several punctures
developed; and believe right there Mr. selby resolved to equip his cars
over twenty-seyen miles inc me ann ravers - N aa~H r 10 I'm my a zine
ing several cars. I believe it is safe to say you will never meet a outfit
withou ne Or more waterb bags And have learned that even the northern
desert is not o be rided with, wen though the road be crossed by numerous
mountain streams, as is the case n the Quinn River valley.
McDermitt is a real nice. friendly community. 1 "a much impressed by
the frlendlness Of the people; hence was the Tor surprised to learn that
a terribly modern breach-of-promise cas- had been threshed out in the
village just before my arrival The participants in the matter were all Of
te pest peopr ad oV m pom seemed to diferendate the affair from
the average sordid city events of h m AZURE. McDermtt has no lawyer
and SO the case "a settled by a committee of citizens. The description of
state Of tn wav ntoUeers 80 - - pmUea mo-. iog . IN n SILVER
adudfeate a case by lining u IN either side of the town watering-trough
Mrs Theresa Kelsey sued Joe Ugarizza C1hue Joe"), it seems, for breach
of promise to marry. Just why Little Joe wanted Ito back nut from the deal
was o made apparent Mrs Robert Wilkinson acteda as counsel for plain
tiff, and F. A swayne represented the defendant. Joe Bankofer acted as
a sort o. sheriff pre- tenn, and Jim Minor ohcated as clerk of the court A
jury selected. consisting of Mrs. Troutwine, Fred Wilkinson. Frank
OLeary, Mrs. Robert Howard, Harold Zwngle, and Mrs c. Mccormick
Witnesses to events leading up to the MISUNDERSTANDING were Bobbie
Bankoher, Mrs. Spague, and Tom Morris. 1t is yet Whispered about Nc
Dermtt that tn evidence IA something scanlous, so probably h less said
about it, the better. Let it suffice to say that the defendant va found guilty
and sentence to give a supper to the jurymen. attorneys, and som few
others. Report is that he paid; also that Jake Schass, manager of a rival
mercantile establishment is liable to be the mex victim Of a similar charge
OF course. now that the excitement is over. it is only fair to IA that this
trial the conclusion of a program given by the recently organized Good
Times Club of McDermitt 1t ws the comedy touch to a meeting of The club
held May IL. in the hanL" which RAJ attended by 125 people of he neigh
borhood. A stranger might wonder where that number of people cam from
but they were there, which evidences the enthusiasm with which McDermitt
goes int a good thing.
Some people maintain that the clerk of the our receiyeds SON nonevs
in the form of fees and fines, which he either went south with or snent for
irrigatng purposes in the vicinity Of the court; but these statements do not
seem to be proven. and it is quite likely those who circulate them are merely
jealous.
The program preceding the trial was as follows:
Reading High Prices" r ward
Rectaton-AN New Use for Old yAna Rabar
Charles Hewitt
Dialogue-Fannys Secret ----~--- Freda Wilkinson and Dannie Sullivan
Robert Howard
Mrs. Robert Hean
Scotch oil Wilkinson and Naomi Baber
Rectaton-"Witht the Yanks ON the Marine -~- Bobbie Banko6er
j. Z. Ward
Original poem, by a gentleman of McDermitt read by Mrs. Charles Hewitt
Music -----B Nv John Vargas n Harry Potxrte
I tried hard to get a copy Of the original poem mentioned, but failed. IT
the least mention of the subject, and positively forhds the use of his name
1t is also said that he is the best roncho buster in the whole valley. That's
right-you have three guesses
Speaking Of broncho busters and &c persons" in general, I would like
to repeat som stories listened to when Ralph Montgomery, John Vargas
and Frank Rcke got into a tanning bee at the Ore-vada hotel. I have