Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-08-14

tain PrOspectOr, nj Related by
Himself-He Details His Adj
ventures and B0rrOws a Dol.
lar.
After the fashion of grasshopper suf-
ferers, fellows who have been out and
injured by going to the Black Hills
country are beginning to put in an ap-
pearance. We run across one of these
yesterdays strapping hombre, who
worth more than the dollar we were
induced to give him. He told us about
starting from Lawrence (the place
sacked by Quantrell during the war;
in April last, and how he, in company
with five others, invaded the Black
Hills from the eastward; how they
found rich placers and we're just about
ready to start operations; how the
country showed up rich with plenty of
game and grass, and bright skies and
salubrious weather; how the Indians
made raids on them and stole their
horses and killed one of the party, and
finally how a body of United states
troops, with an unfeeling officer in
command, pounced down upon them
and marched them back to the white
settlements on the Platte, where they
were kept in close, unhealthy quarters,
until ut last an order came from ten.
Phil. Sheridan, or sOtne other Muldoon
in the service of Uncle Sam, for their
release. This ended the first chapteria
our hero's romance, when he straAShX-
ened up. drew a fresh breath and be-
gan to relate the experience of another
expedition, OF which he was a promi.
tent member, to the forbidden territory
from this side OF the gold fields. He
started the last time from Cheyenne,
penniless, OF course, but well backed
up with provisions and tools by other
enthusiastic gOld-seekers, who were
anxious to avail themselves of his ex-
tensive knowledge Of the country to
be explored. The party got in all right
and had been prospecting and cavOrt-
ing about Custar's Gulch and Harney's
Peak for some time, looking for the
richest place to pitch their tents and
locate their long toms, when the ruth
less hand OF the Federal military again
reached for them. He says his party
Ddu ditcduf StiCtCctitu i'll pdflttlIlS Out
Sl,s75 60 from the "very grass roots"
wheI disturbed by the boys ia blue,
and has not the slightest doubt that
had they been permitted to prosecute
operations on the contemplated grand.
err scale OF rockers and long-toms for
ouly "A brief period, they would have
had gold dust enough To pay the ma
tional debt for the next generation; |
but he was not born Tor any such good
luck. you see, aud when the military
escort On the following day took up
its line OF march for the great
trans-continen:al railway, he was
required to fall into line, and
march too. They struck the railroad
"A litlle east of Cheyenne, and from
thence he beat his way to Palisade,
thence by narrow-gauge and Foot X
Walker To Eureka. He next beat us
ont of "A dollar, coin of the realm, and
although he told n smooth story in n
pathetic strain. and gave names and
other par iculars with remarkable pre-
cision. he failed utterly to convince us
that he had ever seen the Black Hills.
We were, in fact, satisfied from the
start that he was roinancing," but he
enjoyed the belief all through that he
had US, and we were either too charita-
bile or lacked the necessary backbone
to spoil the pleasant delusion. The
study of human nature from the bed.
rock up supplies food for reflection,
and it is seldom that a better subject
can he found than is presented in the
person of an unmitigated fraud who
imagines, from the time you suffer him
tn bring his diamond drill to rear on
you that lie has a good thing. That is
precisely the kind of "A game we had
yesterday with our suffering friend
IRON the new gold fields, and il ever
we find out that WI put him up wrong,
we shall not hesitate to make ample
PREPARATION.