New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-03-17

nailin' fur our answer: Look hyar.
you cheatin cusses,' he SEE, takin' up .
shovelful of earth, in which the dust
were a-sparklin' in the sun, this
claims worth twenty thousand dollarsr
81 No; only worth to1sand dollar
said fatty, shakin' his head.
Shall we let 'em have it, boysF
sez Zeph, turning to us.
=. Yes, let 'em have it, seq. We
can find plenty more
Come on. then, seq Zeph: and ha
and two more went back with the dep
pytation to the tent of their headman,
and thousand dollars worth O. dust
and nuggets was weighed out into q
bag; Zeph put his mark on kind o.
dockyment in Chjnee; and, half an
hour after, we went back to camp,
leavin' the smilin' Cinnamon to their
purchase.
''' It's a blamed shame to cheat the
poor, innocent babies like that Isez.
''Not it, seq Zeph. Its only like
playin' poker with 'em, and winnin'.
Let's go and liquor
I'VE didn't expeck any row, for
them Chinees had to keep very quiet for
fear O. bein' sent of; and Zeph sed the d
put up with their loss, clear out, and go
to some other gulch. 49,. ~.@.s.
''But they didn't; for next day Tom,
who went up to see what ther was q
dom, sed they'd moved their camp up
round the hole, and were working away
like q swarm O. bees.
That night, as we were s:ttln'
smokin' at Bills store, some chaps
stro)ls in, and one Of 'em seq, in bit OF
temper:
"'Call this here free countryr
"'Yes. stranger, dew SEE Zeph, rat
thing some nuggets in his pocket; who
sez It ain't?' 3D. =
81 do seq the new conner. Hers
are we workin' like slaves for q few dol
lars worth o. dust, and pack o. heath
en- cusses comes aud settles down and
grabs all the best on it, :"
Dew they!' seq Zeph, winking at
g" Yes he sez, they dew. There's
that pack O. Chimes moved up higher
in the gulch, and they've hit on a big
pocket. They got two pound nugget
out LnlS very a1ternOOn.
What!' reared Zeph, with his
eyes starin' out of his head like q lob
ster's. Il. ~ .-.. .-.-. ~. ...-.,..
"a two-pound nugget, and the
stuff's panning out awful. l say it's a
shame, and Government ought to stop
it, ~ 49,,
.Sold' groaned Zeph.
"Next day it was the talk o. the
place. The Chimes were panning out
gold at a tremendous rate from their
claim, ind there was talk o. drivin' the
heathens away, but the party of order
was too strong, and they know'd if the
rowdies was allowed to get the upper
hand here they'd be just as likely to
seize anybody else's claim; so it was
decided to temporize with the heather,
and try to buy the claim.
"They were two hundred strong up
there; and when we went up to see the
place-which we did in a kind of des.
perate feelin' the fat chap smiled and
clapped his hands, and gave Zeph Z
little round nugget as big as q pea.
"A meetin' wss held, an we conclud.
ed to make company and buy back
the claim. Twenty thousand was the
most as was to be offered.
Twenty thousand dollars!' groaned
Ieph. oh, boys, what fools we was!
s;ut l did want to hold out fur two
thousand!' -.
''1t's no use to growl,' seq Tom.
How much ha' we got now?'
49, Beout nine hundred dollars, l
guess sez Zeph. ~-~,=ve,,. -
"' Wall, then, SEE Tom, 'let's 20 in
for shares as far as our money goes
1.-THE money was nearly all SUBJ
scrlbed; but we got one for eight hum
ared dollars, and could ha' sold our
share the next minute for thousand.
"Next mornin' the party settled to
10 the business went up to the Chimes
camp, but they wouldn't take the
money. They said they'd begun work
and meant to have the proceeds of the
day; but the boys looked dangerous, so
the heather finally said they'd settle up
that night, take the money and give
possession.
This made the gulch worse than
ever, and shares changed hands at a
tine rate, men sellin' theirs and then
gettin' so excited that they bought back
again. s'.'
g. shall never forgive myself, boys
SEE Zeph, the next mornin', as we sat
over some fried bacon and biscuit; Il
throwed away fortunev
"' Halo! What's the row?' sez I,
jumpin' up.
"There was suthin' afloat outside.
for there was heap of excitement, but
no one kinder seemed to know what it
was. .., y-..,. '.,r.@
AFTER WI lie we got to know tina,
there wasn't single Chinee left in thu
gulch; they'd gone off, no one knew
where, in the night.
They're mighty artful,' SEE Zeph:
and he was right, for we soon know'd
just what had happened.
We six had cheated the Chinese re-
tail; they'd cheated us by wholesale,
for there wasn't, and never had been, a
grain o. gold in that claim that wasn't
put there first. It was only q small!
show that we made; but the heatnen
had dubbed together their dust and
nuggets to make big show. That day
they packed it all up agen, and when
they'd got the go. 900 they sneaked out
from the camp. / guess the eulcb
would ha' massacreed them; but the
heather hadn't left behind 90 much a.
. trail.
Yes. gents, yew've got to git up
airly to take IN Chinee. Al tie Year
Round.
AN eccentric gentleman recently made
, wager of &c, 900 that he could remain
on the top of the Arc de Triomphe in
Paris for four hours with nothing on but
! suit of thin canvas. The cold wealth
er came on, and the bet was won on 4
day when the thermometer was Is de.
yrees above zero. 1t is quite unneces-
,ary to add that the man was an En-.
ylishman.
The Emperor William sleeps on
bed hard enough to have suited the
Duke Of Wellington, does not smoke
Or use snuff, is fond Of flowers. and es-
pecially Of fresh sir, drinks one glass
of Burgundy : day. rises early and
Fsres frugal1y. He Is eighty two years
old, and can ride horseback like Z