White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-02-25
BABBLING BROOKS
IN THE DESERT

IN LIE DEOERl
Mad Anthony Juiich-did You get
that?
But be sure and put it down that
| was the one who discovered him
under that name-for some time I'm
going TO play the role OF Il told
yoI So.
1t was in the post-revolutiorary
DAYS thai President George Washing
TON sent General Anthony Wayne, OF
Stony Point and Ticonderago fame,
to punish the Indians of Ohio ana
Indiana and at one of the battle
grounds today stands the city oil
| Fort Wayne. It was because OF his
unbending determination to give
them the limit that the Indians them
selves gave their conqueror the name
of Mad Anthony. II has stuck 10
him quite a while. How about IT.,
anyway?
But If you don't see an analogy
forget il.
How nicknames once started DO
| sometimes travel, depending on their
a%ptness, 1t was twenty years ago
at Dawson, the capital of the great
Klondike country. that a ball game
was being played. 1t was between
the lawyers and the government Of
fcials or lawyers and somebody else,
I've just forgotten who. In the bar
risters' team was a mar named
| Walsh, who was noted for his wit
and for his merciless sarcasm. In
this game Barrister Walsh was in
the zenith of his glory. The way he
ioshed the other side and enlivened
the game by his verbal t~wo-baggers
and home runs was a caution. In the
next issue of the newspaper upon
which yours truly was employed as
city editor, Cartoonist A. V. Buel'
for years since of Tonopah fame and
now OF Sacramento, had a perfect
likeness of the bewhiskered barrister
labeled Foxy Grandpa Walsh" 1t
was sprung at the time when the
Foxy Grandpa cartoons were ut the
height of their popularity. 1t took
like fire. From that day to this the
name of Foxy Grandpa Walsh has
been known in every part of Can
ada, far and near, and its subject
lived up to the part. But the chances
- ,a4 4aa IaaaIiaa In a hFndrad
thousand could tell you why they call
him that or how IL started. They
cannot tell you even why he is ia
nous, but this is the reason.
Buel started something else that
has travelled to the ends OF the earth
1t was the calling of the 1. W. VS.
Il Went Works" This happened at
Tonopah in 1906. When the first Of
the l. w. w. troubles were started in
Tonopah, coupled with others at
Goldfeld, Buel had a cartoon in the
it the portly walking delegate order
ing a skinny washerwoman to join
the organization or she would be run
out of town. On the delegates lapel
was a broad ribbon badge with Il.
w. w" in large letters and between
the latter letters in smaller ones
finished out the words Wont
Work"
Up to that time bur two papers on
this planet had dared to denounce
the l. w. w. These were the Round
Mountain Nugget and the Tonopah
Sun. The part of the latter in the
fight against the organization that
ensued and the victory amounting to
a debacle of the /. ". ". in Nevada
Is a part Of the history Of the state.
Hearing that the superintendent
OF the courthouse parklet is in need
OF animal eurios for the replenish-
ment Of the Ely zoo, a correspondent
has addressed an open letter to the
said superintendent. transmitting 1t
to the White Pine News for pnblica-
ton. as follows:
First get the monkey who thinks
he is smart by ogling. kidding, jost-
Ting and insulting girls upon the
| street.
Then there Is the babboon who
mocks. mimics or laughs at physical
ailment' or deformity.
Likewise get a specimen of the
hippopotomus who spreads himself
over an entire esat in the shift train
coaches and courtroom while women
have to stand.
"A good specimen would be the
sloth, the guy who leaves people with
a chance to break their necks on the
snow and ice on his sidewalk
Then there Is jackass-human, who
doesn't care II his headlights do
glare. because they don't bother him
Then there is the laughing hyena
az Il tuet I.aar1 "a naxy Ann about Dot