Show BILL NIB EXPLAINS His Connection with the Origin of the Messiah Craze I I AM HERE JOHNSON SIDES Bill Gives a Sketch of the Career of tho Inspired Pinte Tho Part Sam Davis Played Special t THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch NEW YOKE Nov 29 BillJNye read with with composure the dispatch printed here today charging that the Nevada people held him responsible for the Indian uprising up-rising Nye was seen today by a reporter I and when asked to explain his connection I i with the appearance of the Piute Messiah ho said I am very sorry my name has been mentioned in connection with this I affair for more reasons than one but I principally because the government may decide i de-cide to make me pay the costs of tho war i Still I am a rich man and am prepared to furnish even fooder for cavalry horses provided pro-vided of course vouchers for all expenditures expendi-tures are given me uI know Mr Jonnson Sides quite well continued Nye and I found him to ba avery a-very decent fellow as Piute Indians go When I last saw him in Reno he was a man about live feet six inches ta lstout and very dirty His hair had just been clipped oil with a pair of blacksmiths pliers 1 was introduced to him by Sam Davis editor of tho Carson Appeal whom I suspect of having sent the dispatch about me last night When I was introduced to the new Messiah he assured me he had heard of me frequently and was a constant reader of my letters In view of subsequent dovel pments I think Johnson Sides is a nearer relative of Ananias that Messiah Still an Indian Messiah dces not need to have avery very high regard for the truth I am very sorry for the Piutes who choose Johnson Sides as a leader because I I think Johnson Sides has not the requisite knowledge of modern warfare to cope sue cess fuly with the United States army In my opinion Red Shirt and Sitting Bull were Napoleons alongside of Johnson Sides But Johnson Sides has an appreci tive nature He will take anything from a blanket to a mustang and feels happy when he gets away with it He is very proud of his ability to read and write and he delights above all things to mingle with i thb whites I know that one day last spring Sam Davis was in Reno and greeted Johnson Sides in that effusive manner that one > would a long lost brother with a strawberry straw-berry mark on his shoulder Sam caressed Johnson Sides who assured him of his love and invited him over to Carson Johnson Sides said he would go sometime as it was easy for him to get there You know that all Indians are permitted to ride free on the Union Pacific railroad because it is believed they gave the road some valuable grants Well one day Johnson Sides got together about 15 cents jumped on the train and prepared to visit Sam Davis at Carson Sam didnt know he was coming until he got a mes age for which he had to pay which read as follows KED hOG iN ov iu Sam Davis Carson Nev T am here Johnson Sides lerc Sam whistled softly wrote a persona for the Appeal and was about to go out of the office when I painted poster was handed him which read as follows Sam Davis Carson City I am here I Johnson Sides Sam swore and refused an advertisement I advertise-ment owing to his absence of mind and was about to kick the town bully by mis take when this telegram for which he also paia was handed him Licking Stick To Sam Davis Carson NevI am here Johnson Sides Then Sam got a little heated under the necktie sent a message along the line not to receive collect messages from Johnson John-son Sides But he could not stop Johnson Sides He came right along with the train and for four days he slept on Sams office lounge while Sam slept on the floor A year before that Johnson Sides had joined the temperance society and taken the pledge He kept it too for almost a year but in an evil moment he fell He wa drink from detected taking a Philadelphia a secreted receptacle umder his blanket and the news was published far and wide That of course made the good people of Carson very angry at Johnson Sides and as the legislature was in session a bill was introduced ordering Johnson Sides total annihilation or at least his social ostraciza tion Johnson Sides felt very sad For the next few days he was very busy buttonholing button-holing legislators and asking them to vote against the bill In fact Washington D C or Albany N Y never witnessed such wire pulling as was then indulged in On the day appointed for the final reading read-ing of the bill the house was crowded The 1 galleries were thronged with chiefs war riors and squaws White people filled the rotunda When the time came and the clerk called up the bill one of the ablest speakers in the house arose ane in a most dignified manner said Mr fcpeaker Sir I move you that it be the sense of this house that tho drink taken bv Johnson Sides on the 13th day of January be and it is hereby declared null and void There was a big fight on the question and the Piutes were greatly agitated but there were rounds of applause when the motion prevailed and Sides was declared to be as pure as driven snow After that Johnson John-son Sides debated in his mind whether to return to his blanket and barbarism or start a gin mill Ho finally decided to do the latter So he went up into the Sierra Nevada mountains and preempted an old log house over which he put a sign John sons Sides Fodder for Man and Mustangs On the day i opened three wnite men called and got three drinks for which they forgot to pay They advertised the place however and within ten days the entire Piute nation chiefs warriors medicine men and squaws were all the guests of Johnson Sides The fact they were all fat rock didnt trouble them although its an undeniable fact that Johnson Sides was not entirely happy Well one day when all the Piutes went off to a neighboring grove on a picnic Johnson Sides tooK a sneak and after posting a sign saying 1 have made an assignment Johnson Sides he resumed his blanket and his barbarism Now I am loath to speak on this subject for I am naturally of a most peaceful disposition dispo-sition I am sorry that Johnson Sides is on the warpath but I have to point out the inponsistfinnv of the man He noses as a Messiah and in that role should bring peace to all men but here he is digging up the tomahawk and scalping knife and I ralsin 0 general insurrection Itisreally too bad I sincerely trust that the United States government will not think harshly of melon what have done As I said before be-fore I immensely wealthy and in 0 position to pay all costs of the war Moreover More-over I am very willing to ao so Indeed I do notknow but what I will insist on being charged with the cost of the affair I will however object to paying for any bath that Johnson Sides may take I appreciate the fact tat Johnson Sides reds my letters and I hope he will read them more carefully after this I I thought that any of my utterances would drive even an Indian to warfare I would not write for any newspaper news-paper an Indian could read There is no fun in getting up war especially when you have to pay the costs |