The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1880-02-27


very hard time OF IL, and the rough fellows
in camp treat, d him badly. he got
chanoe 60 go win two Mexicans To Sonora /
for horses, aud III went there. lie was
gone y few moatus. they waited IL The
Mode couifty To latl.n up their hores.
The Mod0cs kdlcd tbs Myxcaus and took
the horses. Joaquin was badly hurt by /
horses running over bin. He stayed with /
the Moducs and learned % lac them. They (
offered 10 return hun 10 tie white settle
ments, but he chose To say.
AMONG THE MoDocs.
The Pit River was broke our. He fought \
with the Indians against the whites. Be- 1
fore he went 90 Mexico lie had fought with /
tho whites against the Trinity Indians.
There he was wounded for the first time. |
He stayed with the Mod, cs for two or three /
years; not all the time, but varying his lie \
by gong into the white settlements To work |
and get at books. When be returned 10
the indians he always carried back ammu-
milton. 10 the tights be was always IN the |
Modoc ranks. IL was seen that there was |
white man among them, and be was sup |
posed TO be lhe famous Mexican bandit
Joaquin Larnetta. Hence the name that i
he adopted. He married the daughter of
the Modoc Chiri Di.rk ard lie bad !
one daughter by her. Who Is nov in school !
in San Francisco. Ths mother WAS killed |
ia battle. Once he was captured by the |
whites as a hurse.thiei aud put in Jail at |
Shasta City. The whites did not know
that he was the man with the Indians. but \
thought he was only y common h0rse-thlet.. |
On the night Of the Fourth OF July, when |
every patriotic citIZrns of Shasta was
drunk-and they were all patrlo.s-the
Indians came down, broke into the Jail and
llberateit him. they escaped t. the noun
tains. Some time after, IA fight with
the settlers, the Modocs were badly beaten.
Black Reard put his son-in-law in charge
Of two Indian guides, loaded him with gold
that had been captured from Governtoent
train, aud they landed lin at the head OF
river. lie made his way TO San Francisco
aud Immediately sailed for New York by
the Nicaragua route.
WITH WALKER IN NICARAGUA.
Joaquin Landed IN Nicaragua aud Joined
Walker. Que day III a ioraging expedition
the party he was with was ambuscdded
All were killed, or il wounded escaped.
Joaquin alone was captured. his youth
and the prayers OF some Mexican ladies
saved him. AS soon as he was able TO be
removed be was taken to the coast and put
on board a ship bound for Oregon. IL
| landed him near his fathers place. tie
studied law under his uncle for year and
was admitted TO the bar. Soon after this
event he went out with prospecting party
| to the territory west, which il now Idaho,
and started an express from the new mines.
| He made money and bought an interest III
| a paper, which was soon suppressed by the
military authorities. 10 the mean time he
had married. In 1868, with his wife, he
went to San Francisco 20 devote himself to
| literature on the stage. He failed and went
| back TO Northern Oregon. The Bannack
| Indians attacked the camp who're he was
working as a miner. A company was Or
ganIZed to fight them. Joaquin was elected
captain, and followed them up, and was
soon joined by a small force OF regulars
under Captain Waymine. whom he speaks
OF as brave and capable soldier and as
true little gentleman as ever lived. The
Indians whipped them.
JOAQUIN ON THE BENCH.
Meanwhile. without his knowledge Joa-
quin had been elected Judge, qualified
and served four years, and he says :. adj
ministered law. DID IL | know whether
1t was law or not, but tried TO administer
justice-with one law book and two re-
voivers." After his term was over he
practiced law for year or two. Ambitious
for seat on the Supreme Bench OF the
State, he went to the Nominating Conven-
tion TO secure q place on the ticket. His
| wife there served papers for divorce, by
mutual agreement the divorce was granted.
In the mean time he had published in a
pamphlet his Songs Of the Sierras,' but
they had attracted no notice save kindly
mention from Bret Harte in the Ooerland
Monthly. Joaquin abandoned his political
ambition when the divorce papers were
served on him. He went to San Francisco
Che was 20 by this time), stayed there
month or two, and then started for New
York, en- route TO Europe. Among the San
Francisco li.ery people he met he speaks at
Ina ID. Coolbrith rs lone OF the brightest
and best women in the world, who deserves
more fame than do for she has done BET
ter things"
LITERARY SUCCESS IN ENGLAND.
He landed in Glasgow, stayed about a
month at Burns old home. went to the con
tinent To the theater OF the Franco Prussian
war, saw several battles, was arrested both
oy the Prussians aud in Paris as a spy. and
then crossed the chaRnel and lived three
months near the home of Byron, writing
poems ard preparing TO descend on London.
He conld not get publisher to print bis
poems, and was forced to Issue a small
edition himself. which he sent to the En-
glish papers. He became famous at once.
. Since then he has lived chiefly on English
money-the copyrights for mis- books of
poems and his novels IN England.
Rep How many books has he publisfiede
j. R.-"Sopgs of the Sierras." "Songs
! Of the Sunland, - .'Songs OF Italy," - The
Baroness of New York "--poetry: Zone
Fair Woman" |" The First Fam'lies of the
Sierras," and "I.ife among the Modecs."
, Since then he has been thrice to Europe;
he has seen the best English literary soce-
ty, and he has twice revisited the Pacific
: coast lie has settled down now in New
. York-at least he thinks be IL settled down.
! He has lectured little. never heard him,
|, but asked him once what sort of a lecturer
he was, and he said, 1.-THE worst in the
country; can't lecture any more than a
. mule" From what have heard guess
: this statement Is correct, batting, Of course,
little for poetical exaggeration. Besides
his books, he has written The successful play
of The Danites, and he has three or four
! other plays in progress. He also dabbles
in stocks. He has made a great deal OF
money by his books. He expects to write
: the great American play. believe the
Chronicle is responsible for forcing him to
write his most successful book, financially
considered, life among the Modocs,"
: The Chronicle. when he became famous,
, !, mentioned the fact that be bad been Gnce
, , arrested and put in jail as a horsethief. and
! published the Indictment. He was forced
. to tell the story OF his savage life 60 vindi-
cate himself. lie made $4,000 out of 1t
In few months. Miller says that "Walker
in Nicaragua is the best of the Songs
: of the Sierras," and that "Real and Ideal, -
] In his Songs or Italy" Is the best poem
he ever wrote, shut, he added, STEW read
| II and uahodv lEaa IL ~