Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-07-04

remarkable History OF $1,000 in
the White Pine Flush.

n~enaarAaDte HlstOry OF $1,000 an
IN White Pine Flush.
A SENTINEL reporter, in a conversation
yesterday with an old-time c69) White
Piner, got the story Of a very curious in
cident that happened at Hamilton in the
year mentioned. All sorts of people were
coming in and going out, and there were
men up to every kind Of trick to get hold
of the proverbial "pile." Among those
who came into Hamilton was a DR.. T. w.
Hale Of Washington, d. @. He was an
educated physician and a very genteel per-
son every way. He was a rather young
man and had not established himself id
the practice East on q paying basis. One
day he received q letter from John M.
Fornaker, Hamilton, Nevada, in which
was enclosed a draft for S. $1,000 and in
which he was urged to take the money and
come right out; that there was q fine field
for him, etc. The Doctor knew no per-
son of the name given and cudgeled his
brain to recall some boy bearing the name
of John M. Fornaker whom he had known
years before and forgotten. He failed to
help his memory at all and thought of
pitching the letter and the draft (which
he suspected must be bogus) into the fire;
but he did not do 80. He went and pre-
sented the draft. 1t was Immediately
cashed, aud he put its face value in coin
into his pocket. Then all thoughts of his
being a stranger to the writer of the letter
were removed. He lost no time after get
ting the 81 1000, but started directly for
Hamilton. Upon his arrival he started in
quest OF the man signing himself as John
Nj knTnnEaF and IL HQ onrnn TINA hafnFa
he found him. 1t looked as though For
maker did not wish to show himself to DR..
Hale, who had got his 81, 900 and had
come out to meet him at his own urgency.
When Hale did run him down, however,
Fornaker said right off: "You are not the
man l wrote to. 1t is another man bearing
your name" Hale felt, then, that be had
been led into a very embarrassing error,
and said: II am very sorry for this mis-
apprehension. The money that / have
left above my expenses belongs TO you. 1t
is $3.50. Here it is. Take it," "No," said
the fellow styling himself Fornaker;
you will need that to take you
back; and as IL is my mistake
that got you into this trouble, you
keep it TO pay your way back home. / do
not need it for myself, anyhow" DR..
Hale staid about Hamilton for q little
while taking observations of the country,
and on his way out to the railroad stopped
at Pinto, where he met Supt. j. O. Powell
and told him the singular story, in sub
stance, as we have related it above. OF
Fornaker it may be said that within two
or three days after meeting Hale he had
disappeared, gone nobody knew whittier.
He had been looking around Hamilton up
to that time appearing always well-dressed
and without any particular business to
occupy his mind. Mr.. Powell saw the
letter written by Fornsker and vouches
for the correctness Of the narrative. He
and DR.. Hale, after discussing the affairs
all over together came to the conclusion
that Fornaker was out in Hamilton on
some illigitimate project, counterfeiting,
perhaps, and that he had directed the letter
containing the 81 900 draft to q partner"
OF his in Washington under a name select
ed, at hazard, by agreement, which hap
pened to be that OF the Doctor, who went
to the Postoffice and got it out before the
partner" called for it; and that Fornaker
was afraid a detective was on his track
and hence got out Of the camp without
delay and was afraid to touch the $3.50 prof
fered him. Look at it any way you please,
it is a singular story. Since the adventure,
nothing whatever has been heard OF either
Hale or Fornaker.