Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-12-17
5 Marrow Escape.

] TUESDAY. when Ia led Bates such n can
as has rarely been seen, aud gave tn,
poor soul an endless amount of worr
Briggs is the last of his race, and h,
Indian blood in him. lie has on sever
occasions asserted his right to certai
lands conveyed to his ancestors, so h
alleges, by the Government and whic
belonged to him. When he started O
some weeks ago he told us his intention,
but we only laughed at him, which mad
him exceedingly wroth. To make tn
matter worse, Bates put up for him an,
encouraged him, and after Briggs ba,
gone Bates came around and started :,
explain the whole genealogy to us. Re
coming excited, he waved one arm q,
theoretically that he upset little cnnif
IN Parian marble that stood on the corpa
OF the cabinet, and shattered it into .
Thousand pieces. This woke US nm from
the quiet snoozs We were taking and or
effectually that we chased Bates ont .,
the place and swore an oath of eyterr;
nation against the whole tribe. How.
over Briggs and Bates came rushing in
peil-mell Tuesday afternoon, and, with
much clatter and gesticulation, proceeded
to inform US of the probable success ~
Brlggs' little claim. That individual
was nearly wild, and Bates himself was
ylsibly excited. We told him to snsaL
discover, utter. and with an eve tramn ,
lous with emotion and q yoica b,s,,,
with excitement, he narrated the follow,
ing tale, or rather unfolded it to onr 40.
tonlshed gaze. In the year 1904 ar
whereabouts, when Lewis and Clarka
. naue 'neir great western trip of explora-
t u OF, an old chief named Ni-cum.pa. or
The man with the boots " rendered. the
explorers great assistance. In recon.
pense for this the Government granted
Ni-cnm-pa whatever reasonable amount
OF territory he wished in fee simple to
MN and his descendants while grass
grew or water ran. (This is the wav
Bates told it, The old warrior fixed ON
a certain isolated group of noun.
tains III the Southern country in
the canyons OF which was then sitn-
ated an Indian village against which Nj
cum-pa had grudge. The deed to the
territory was formally drawn up and
named to Ni.cum-pa. The old chief
was gathered to his fathers and his son
VINO dying, left the document with His
BOY Time rolled on, the descendant Of
Nl-cnm-pa traversed many strange lands
and reached st. Louis, where he married
into French family. The issue of this
was son, who grew up wild
ana reckless, broke his father s heart and
mothef 8 apron-strings, and at sixteen
ran away, or rather rode away on a Dor
rowed animal. His father diving. left
him the title deeds, and he is known to ma
AS Briggs, which cognomen he adopted
ior convenience sake, had now returned
with what he believed to be documentary
evidence that the range of mountains in
which this town is built belonged in legal
right to him. 1t seems after Ni-cum pa
had mad his deeds all drawn up and
signed he went to this isolated mountain
village We have alluded to and DESTROYED
IT, When dying he geographically
located the place, which location was
remembered and transmitted
ana when he, whom we know as Briggs
went back to ST. Louis lately he found
the whole bundle of old documents and
instructions with the dust of fifty years
on them tied up in an old trunk. This
he pulled out aud spread strange looking
parchments before us and sumitted to
our inspection sundry dressed skins
covered with uncouth blocking hero
Rly phlcs. BY the time Bates got this far
Briggs was nearly boiling; he managed
to SHUTTER out his intentions. He was
going to run the Raymond L. Ely him.
self and use the Nevada Central for his
own pleasure and to convey his friends
mp and down from here to the pleasure
house be would build at Bullionville.
Main street would be graded and
for race track: all the frame
buildings in the place were TO be pulled
Town aud new town built, to be called
brnggsvllle. He splnttered along for
ully five minutes and illustrated how he
would play the very devil with existing
order OF things. We asked him how the
present inhabitants would take such
startling innovations az he proposed, but
DC only shook his sheep.skins at us
and ratified the old tin trunk, at the same
line jerking out what seemed to be an
inquiry II IL man couldn't do what he
liked with his own. Things did look
,ather squally for the despoler's of
brIggs estate. but we suggested that be-
ore he took entire possession of the
amp it might be we'll to have the docu-
nents translated. He assented to this,
md going out presently returned with an
'id and strange Indian we had never seen
before. The strange red man after man
srunts and groans succeeded in muster
ny the contents of the skins and greatly
o Briggs CONSERVATION and our relief
pointed to the distant Wahsatch peaks
md told him he must there look for his
property 1t seems Ni.cum-pa's biog-
aphers had located the claim too far to
he west, and as it dawned upon Briggs
nina that he had no claim to Nevada
territory, and that Phoebe was safe from
lis ruthless hands the CLEAN of triumph
"hich mad lit up his features died out.
'nd the dark frown of disappointment
settled down upou his features as the
pail OF night settles down on the face OF
nature when tho sun is gone and the
olrds have tied. Copyright secured).
de looked sadly around, tottered, and
would have fallen had not Bates caught
lim as he reeled. The touch seemed to
'lectrify him. He gave the trunk and
documents a savage kick, set his features
by Pete Heitzelman's eight-day clook)
md stalked out with deprecatory wave
u his hand to those who would have
stopped him. When he was gone Bates
urned to us and we really believe that
I'D fraud would have gone over the
whole thing again to prove to us that he
yasn t to blame but we sternly silenced
lin and told him the shades of evening
we're falling, we were an-hungered and
hat We yearned for the beefsteak and
'nions that Horst was at that moment
fishing up for us. We told him then and
here that it was most lame and impo-
ent conclusion; that after the peroration
hat he and his crack-brained relation
md favored us with We had expected
most thrilling disclosures and first
nss item that ha had wrouoht upou our