Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-22

mination.
All Of the old timers in and around
Eureka remember Jack Conklin, an
individual who fiourished in town up
till 1874 and then disappeared. Jack
was a Woodworking, Industrious citi-
zen, having up till the fall of '73 put
in all his time at the various furnaces
around town in the capacity of feeder
and smelter, and pore the reputation
of being one of the best manipulators
al the front OF a furnace that ever
graduated at that particular branch of
the business. By frugal living and a
habit Of saving his surplus earnings,
he had, in his three years. work, ac-
cumulated quite a modest competence.
which he that year greatly increased
by a fortunate stock speculation, un-
dertaken by the advice OF a WE'LL
known mining superintendent, who
gave him a dead point on a favorite
stock. He was supposed to have
cleared up in the neighborhood of
| 81. 200, a fact that he did not conceal.
Unlike most men who make a lucky
hit, Jack clesned up his gains and made
no investments. The gold coin was
delivered to him by the agent of Wells,
Fargo IL Co., and ne CAV out nat he
had loaned 1t at ruling rates, although
he was very reticent as to whom the
borrower was.
PLAYING THE GENTLEMAN.
He played the gentleman for some
six or eight months, idling around
town the most of the time, but
boarding and lodging himself in a lit
tie dug-out up on the western side of
the mountain. In the summer of 1874
he left Eureka for a shor trip to San
Francisco, telling his friends that he
would be gone to the Bay about six
weeks. He never returned, however,
AMI, although some wonderment was
expressed at his non-appearance, there
was no one sufficiently interested in
his welfare to make any inquiries as to
his Whereabouts. The dug out was
visited and Jacks old clothes and
cooking utensils found there, but the
Indians made way with most of them,
and after a yea ortwo's The cabin
went to rum. Jack Perry, who knew
him well, was in San Francisco at the
time of his arrival and mentioned hav-
ing seen him several times on California
street and in the Lick House saloon,
recalling the the meeting from the fact
hat Conklin was ~gorgeously arrayed
and was sporting a gold watch and
chain, articles OF raiment and adorn-
ment that he must have procured after
leaving Eureka, as be was always very
IL Al 10 ia - obi
sojourning here.
REAPPEARANcE.
About three weeks Z Conklin
made his temperance in town, but
was so changed that his former asso-
ciates failed to recognize him, and he
betrayed no particular desire to make
himself known to the few of his old
time friends left on the Base Range.
He only stayed two or three days, and
then left for San Francisco again. After
his return to the Bay he met an old
chum TO whom he impaired his ad-
ventures for the past three years. lie
said that he left Eureka with the inten-
ton OF having "A good time in h City
for a month or so, and then returning
to his home again; that he took 500
with him. a portion of which he in
vested in clothes and jewelry. After
stopping i'm San Francisco for a couple
OF weeks, he made the acquaintance of
another rural visitor, as he supposed,
and hat together they took in the
various sights of the City, including
the theaters, underground dives and
other resorts. One evening the stranger
proposed a walk down OF the water
front, and after arriving there they
took a glass of beer together in one of
the many saloons that abound in that
locality. He remembered nothing
further until the next day, when he
woke to find himself on an outward
bound ship loaded with wheat and
bound for Liverpool. His watch,
money and fine clothes had disap-
peared, and he was clad in a coarse
sailors rig. The fact was he had been
shanghied by the oily countryman.
OUTWARD BOUND.
Expostulation was useless, and he
went to work performing sailors
duties. congratulating himself on the
fact that the voyage would be a short
one, and that he would soon he able to
return to America. Unfortunately he
met with an accident the week before
reaching Liverpool. having the misfor-
tune to fall down the hatchway, frac-
turing his skull in the sudden descent.
| The next eighteen months is a blank,
| although he learned that he was re-
moved to the hospital on the arrival
| OF the ship, and from that place-al-
though the wound was successfully
t~reated-to an asylum; the blow on
the head having made a confirmed but
harmless lunatic of him. He was con-
| fined in that institution a year, at the
expiration of that time a fellow inmate
struck him with u small stick, telling
him to the ground and rendering him
insensible for the time. On recover-
ing, his memory and senses returned,
and he remembered perfectly every
incident that had occurred up to the
time OF the first ACCIDENTAL after
that was a blank. He was discharged
as cured. and applying 10 the Amer
lean Consul for relief, procured a pas
sage TO New York.
BACK TO AMERICA.