Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-19
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"a W0VNSu \A1sWsy NOIE0 pOuUCut
Ihave suffered such 4 terrible fright sino'
. leaving New Carlisle this morning. Ont
every day was late, Of course, and the con
sequence was that I had to wait over in
Peru several hours. This 10 the city where
all the Peruvian bark used in the United
States is manufactured. Isaw aPsruvian
dog manufacturing some. He had boy
up on . fence, and was giving hin Peruvian
bark enough every minute to scare all the
ague out of America for the next ten year,.
But I digress.
Iwent to Z hotel in Peru and took q room
with q fire. . lane window curtain, m in
valid water pitcher, and some other portable
articles of furniture in it and left my bag
gage carelessly piled up in great stacks
around the room. Judge of my dismay,
when after leaving the room for = few mo-
ments, 1 returned to discover that q desper-
ate attempt had been made by 4 party of
men, who had evidently been following me
for several days, to steal M diamond neck
lace. You remember the necklace very
well, of course it is the same one l lectured
in last season, and wa q present from Khalil
Boy, to whom it had descended among the
family jewels. 1t was originally obtained
for his grandfather, who was a Buddhist
priest, and stole the necklace from the imsge
Of Bhundal-up-Ghu in the hill district,
Jabbal-al.Jai. The stones were unusually
large and brilliant, and some of them
weighed nearly four ounces when killed
and dressed. II Was valued at $34, 900.
The robbers, four in number, who had seen
me wearing it, and had followed me for sew.
eral days, were masked. and effected an en-
trance into my room BY climbing a tele-
graph pole about two miles down the
Wabash track, thence they "cooAedW along
the wire until they got into town, wAsas they
got onto the roof Of the station md dsbcend-
ed to the ground, vent around behind the
hotel, found . ladder, probably left there by
some a~ccomplices, got onto the roof of the
hotel. entered the chimney and worked their
way down it into the cellar. 1t was then
easy work to come up the cellar stairs, go
into the Wash-room and wash their hands
and remove their masks, and then came out
into the Office and asked the clerk the mum.
Der of my room Then the deed was all
but accomplished, when, BY a piece of won.
derful good fortune, l returned to my room,
having been out in the back yard stealing
enough wood to make the fire last fifteen
minutes, ust in time to prevent the spolia.
ton Of my jewel-case. The robbers escaped,
leaving the hotel and the city in the same
manner az they entered it. l think, indeed,
l have been rather indiscreet, seeing that 1
travel alone, in wearing so much valuable
|jewelry. l inclose necklace herewith.
Hang it up on q nail in the Hawkeye Office
until | return home, and don't let Newt
wear it every time he goes 10 a party.
A very thrilling accident happened to
the train in which l went to New Carlisle
yesterday. We we're crossing a long bridge
at a very high rate Of speed, the captains
chronometer indicatsng a gait of PIN on
the first quarter, when suddenly the engi-
neer staggered into the special drawing
room car in which 1 always. trayel-big coal
stove in the middle, tool-chest at the end.
and long seats at the sides, go you can lie
down and pound your ear when you are
weary-the engineer came in, with a face
Of ashy paleness, and said to the conductor /:
eve are lostw
"Wha has happened?" eagerly asked
the conductor.
I leaned forward and caught the engi.
neer's agonized whisper:
"She's blowed all the packin' clean out of
the ash-panw
Few Of the other passengers realized the
peril through Wnlcn We were pass.
ing; but l sat and listened to the labored
sound Of the men at the pumps, and silently
prayed that night or Butcher would come.
Night came along after awhile, and we were
saved but Butcher did not put in an ap.
pearance and I afterward learned that he was
detained by deafness.
am enjoying one of the ~pleasante.t lee
lure tours l ever made, and providence is
evidently on my side. l have nearly lost
ny diamonds, like Modjsska had q ,ail-
road accident, like Roze got myself
scratched with a cat, like Cary sprained
ny back kicking over a piano. stool, like
Nilsson had a row about my dressing-room,
ike Minnie Hauk CANTOR wouldn't let me
'ang my overcoat on the gas-6xtures); ca.
'nions, like Kellogg; and spell nv name
With . j., like Wilhelmj. The men who
the people from the platform have
90 long neglected their opportunities, and
propose to make the stars of the musical
vorld hump themselves round like comets
f they have any more advertising incidents
lappen to them than I intend shall occur to