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Show DRINK WITH SHAVE ! ON Tl UP TRAIN Salt Lake, March 8. The most popular man in the state of Nevada is a barber who runs a little shop In tho town of Imlay on tho Southern Pacific. Pa-cific. If any one doubt this let him ask any one of over 200 men and several women passengers delayed by the floods at Imlay for nearly forty-eight forty-eight hours on March 1 and 2. Tho harbor of Imlay Is not only a hero, hut a life naver In the e.yes of more than one of the passengers. Tho little lown, where pcr 300 passengers were held for nearly two days, is a Southern Pacific railroad town, and saloons are barred. The barber took out a government license a few months ago. He then laid in a supply sup-ply of wet goods. Business was a little lit-tle dull until the washout, when the barber did a land office business with the marooned passengers. The barber Is alleged to have given a drink with every shave or hair cut, and it is said that some of the men got shaved at least twenty times In two hours, and even some of the women wo-men passengers were willing to pay for a hair cut just for the sake of securing se-curing stimulants. Alexander Bevan manager of tho Romany opera troupe, which arrived In this city this morning and will oix-n an engagement at the Mission theatre this afternoon, was much Inconvenienced In-convenienced by the floods. Mr. Bevan said: "Wc left Ios Angeles on the morning of February 2S, a week ago yesterday. Our first trouble camo before be-fore we reached Sacramento. It was a cave in in u tunnel. Wo had to walk oer the mountain and take another an-other train. We left Sacramento on the Overland limited on March 1 and the train reached Imlay at 2 o'clock on the morning of March 2, where we remained until 10 o'clock of the night of March 3. when our train was sent back and dctoured to this city via Portland. "Unfortunately for some of tho male passengers the liquors In the diner din-er gave out. There was no saloon in the little town, and until the barber bar-ber was discovered glooui prevailed everywhere." |