Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-10-13

soil IS allowed to remain here for any consid
cradle length of time As soon as the rottin
flesh has ceased to fertilize the ground hi
bones are dug up and shipped back to hi
native country with all freight charges paid
It casts altogether about $25 to resurrect thu
remnants and send them home via. Pacific
Mail steamer. A few days ago an APPEAL re
porter went out to the cemetery and witnessed
the operation of disinterment.
| aas THE RBsURRECrIoNISr.
The man who superintends the ceremonies
incidental to digging up the body is an ancient
Chinaman who really locks as if he might have
been buried without any violation of pro-
priety quarter of century ago. His con-
slant association with things cadaveroas has,
as it were, assimulated him to the dead and it
is currently reported that one day while over
come by the heat he slept alongside his work
and was only awakened when he found the
coyotes attempting to pull him to pieces, sup
posing that he was corpse.
| HIS ASSISTANTS
We're of the same csrpsey kidney, and as they
! sat about the grave smoked short, oul-smell-
ing pipes which, mingled with the strong
scents of opium which impregnated their
clothes, formed an oderous combination not
| unworthy of place in the political canvass.
These men locked for all the world like old
leather carpet bags, time shaved and travel
worn, which had gone back and forth across
the continent, the under dog in every collision
and the sport of every baggage-smasher.
When the men had finished smoking they
put away their pipes and the boss resurrec-
ZIONIST, consulting a wooden head board on
which was Chenese inscription, ordered his
assistants to dig
UNEARTHING THE BODY.
The men fell ia work and lifted out shovel
fuls with great gravity, taking up only small
quantities at a time, like men who labor in
the streets in the chain gang. 1t was fully
half an hour before they reached the wooden
box which inclosed the corpse, and when =
hollow sound all hands gave grunt of salts
faction in the same key. The earth was
cleared away until the box was fully exposed
and then the lid smashed in with few
blows of the pickax. The lid, which was rot
ten, soon pulled off and revealed the
shriveled body wrapped in a yellow shroud.
Yellow, by the way, is Chnman's favorite
death color, taking his cue, no doubt, from
the yellowness of the falling leaves in Autumn
and the hue of the $50 pieces which are in
h1x, Ia1 hut ho
the body was fully exposed the boss reached
down and inserting hooked rod of iron under
the chin, jerked it firmly in and then dragged
the BODY ont of the grave as an angler would
land a trout, Topped it in the sand alongside |
of him. No further notice was taken of this |
body until three more were dug up in like !
manner.
BURNING THE BODIES
When the last body was being fshed up !
fire was built, the wood of the collins helping |
to furnish fuel. About a quarter of cord of |
wood was used, and when the flames were
burning at their fercest the four bodies were
dragged alongside. Although they had lain
from two to five years in the soil they were
by no means fully decomposed and shreds of
flesh and shriyeled skin still cased the bones
like the weather beaten glazed leather hang
ngs about delapidated carriage top One of
the corpses had almost as much flesh on it as
when first buried. The living stripped the
lead of their ornaments and metallic trnkets
Is were deemed OF any value and when this
vas done the boss gave a sign and the bodies
we're slammed into the fire one after the other
Ind piled crosswise. The flames closed about
hem as if they had been sticks OF well sea-
oned cord wood and in a few seconds there
vas cracking sound which indicated that
he fire was getting its work in. \ dense
brown smoke also rose and the air for good
distance around was laden with an odor which
n comparison would make a slaughter house
eem like tropical garden. The reporter
withdrew to the windwar side of the fire, but l
he Cinnamon crowded up close as If they $
ealy enjoyed it. 1t took nearly an hour for s
he fire to leave the bones clean of flesh and y
hen it was suffered to die out The Goals
'ere then raked away and the bones pulled I
ut of the Ere quite white aud Clean By this t
me the four skeletons were ,ningled IN IA
ascestral pile and it was impossible j.,
} distinguish All Chung, the lamentesl chick ;,