The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-30

boring ranch he would be there in dis
o1,ise 70 hear her final answer and act ac-
cordinply. Now, at last, the better reason
of Miss McDaniels indicated itself suffi-
GENTLY TO cause her to take young lady of
her hosts family partly into her confidence
to the extent at least of an intimation that
something in the manner Of Austrian
George" alarmed her. As. however, she
was not definite in explaining her sense Of
peril, her friend only volunteered to be
her companion in any future walks she
might take about the place, and advised
her to pay no attention to the dark Servi-
ans eccentricities of demeanor. She went
to the party with the family on the evening
named and by remaining closely with
them avoided whatever scheme her pur-
suer had devised for an interview. On
leaving the ball room to return home, she
and the young lady above mentioned were
separated for moment from their COM
panions, and IN that moment the barbara
an lover fulfilled his awful threat. At the
very side Of her Mortified friend she was
struck down and instantly stabbed to death
by Austrian George" who boldly proclaim
ed his name to the swiftly gathering throng
of pleasure makers and only fed when the
appalled, spectators sought to seize HIM.
Before morning the news of the atroclous
crime had spread far and wide, and by
early dawn an armed band OF determined
ranchmen and Indian runners bad left the
house to which the body Of the slain girl
had been carried, on the trail of the exc
Grated assassin. 1t was believed by those
who knew the character of the mao they
we're tracking that he had retired to a cab
in which he was known to possess in a wild
part of Boomers Hill, at the north fork
of Feather river, there to make desperate
fight for his life and die as became a bar
barian. To this cabin fastened the aven-
gers accordingly, and in that neighbOrhoOd
the Servian was oyertaken, combatted, and
killed like dog. As one Of the pursuers
fired the fatal shot at him he was in the
act Of Staying himself with his own revOl-
yer, and expired with a shout of triumph
for his crime and defiance for his execu-
TONERS The latter, IN their evaporation,
at the wretch, fired his cabin, and casting
his body into the flames, destroyed the last
vestige of the assassin and his den. Such
was the tragedy of Cherokee Flat, as it
was called; dark and revolving to tell and
not to be too briefly recalled, save as a sin
uIdT SluuA vi Ilt DdlISLu IL 1S pbSSIDIC
to import into CIVILIZATION and the occasion
of a later tragedy scarcely less remarka-
Bile Some weeks after the tragedy a wri-
/ ter in the San Francisco Chronicle showed
/ that Sharksovick was a native of Buka de
! Katarrah in Austrian Dalmatia, where tC
| this day, despite the efforts of the Aus
! trian Governor to prevent, it is the social
custom and law of the wilder tribes to alb
abduct, if possible, or if not. to kill wo-
man beloved and refusing her love in re-
| turn. The writer further asserted that
| the Sclavonian colony in the interior OF Cal
| ifornia still retained this savage usage in
! their American repatriation, and would
| have defended Austrian George to the
last man if he had sought refuge amongst
them. 1t appears that this barbariSm OF
the California Scrriaus, or SclavonIans !.
really practiced, is held by them as a Sc
cret the revelation of which to outsiders
! involves death to the traitor. The appear
ance Of the newspaper statement wrought
them to a high pitch Of excitement, which
one of them improved to denoune a civil
| lized SclavOnian merchant of OrOville
named Marchella, and his partner in Sar
Francisco, named GrosSatta-with whom
he was at feud--as the renegades who hai
betrayed their countrymen to the Chris
tian dogs. Upon this denunciation a ma
tional vendetta against the accused was
solemnly pronounced, and member o.
the colony named Ross selected to follow
and assassnate the denounced men. Ii
the latter part Of last March this emissary
of barbarian vengeance came upon thu
doomed Marchella on Montgomery street
the most public part Of San Francisco, anC
there, without a word sh It him down
Upon being being arrested for the pililes
deed Ross stoically surrendered and pro
fesSed a willingness to die for it, as it wa
for his race, and not for any personal en-
nifty, that he had killed traitor This i
the man whose recent arraignment, as i
said at the beginning of this sketch, re
wives the whole wild ana savage story o
George Sharksovick-a narrative of barbar
ism almost unique in civilized annals, AM
challenging curiosity and wonder for it
strange incongruity with the life of civil
cation in which its principal scenes wer
cast As a study of medieval characte
and custom renewed in modern times it
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