Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-11-29

with George ID. Roberts, RalstOn, Har-
pending and Arnold as managers, and
the papers were full Of the new diamond
fields of Arizona; but 1t didn't last long,
though it took in even the experts for a
time, and Arnold made q handsome stake
out of it."
How was it exploded ?"
Well, Clarence King, 1 think it was,
went down to examine the find, an il
struck him as mighty queer that it was
| the most impartial diamond field he had
ever seen or heard Of The diamonds
represented all pasts Of the world where
such things are found. King collected
a few Of them an submitted them to one
of the best working jewelers. in New
/ York, an the jeWeler reported that every
one of them had been cut an a few of
them polished, and that nature hadn't
act, hand nor part In 1t. King so re-
/ ported, and that was the last of the vast
diamond fields Of Arizona as the news
paper fellers called them. Arnold,
though. got off with a darned good stake.
/ When Roberts, Harpending and the rest
! tried to get him TO even up he told the
/ public they were as deep in the mud as
/ he was in the mire."
PURE GAMBLING.
Here your correspondent thinking that
/ there was, in the language Of the Gov
ernOrs of the two CarOlinas, "a long time
| between drinks, - set them up again, aud
! the honest miner" continued: There
was no discount then about sellin' any
thing. There WAS poor Judge McCOmas,
/ who brought his young family out from
/ St. Louis only to have Gen. Crook pets
murder them in ThOmpson's Canyon.
/ He was a man for the broken prospectOr
/ to tie to. The Judge went in for general
results. He thought if he bought hun
| dred claims an one Of them turned out
good it would more than pay for the rest
! His logic was good, but he kinder took
/ too many chances. Why, when fellows
/ bust round the camp twas a common
/ saying, Boys, let's go out and make a
! location for McCOmas.' The Judge would
/ buy nything, for small prices, of course,
! 5000 or $500, but $40 would have been
away up for many a barren ledge rung
/ in on him. l never saw such excitement
as the killing of the Judge an his family
made in Grant county. Every man
/ turned out to hunt the red devils an af-
ter the usual course the soldiers stood
! between the friends Of poor McCOlnas
an the red devils whose hands were red
| with his and his family's blood. The
soldiers allowed them to escape into old
! Mexico, an those of them who were slow
on the trail found Already welcome at the
! San Carlos Reservation"
"Seems to me" broke in the barkeeper,
"tbat the folks who never see an Indian
outside a tobacco store, where he peace
| fully offers them a cigar as a wooden
/ dummy, understand better than US what
/ the people on the frontier want from the
! Government. They only ask fair play.
] They want that when an Indian murders
a man he should be hanged, after jury
! trial, jest like white man, an they
want when he steals that he should be
sent to the County Jail or the Peni-
] tar b q D. fa he
90 right up here to South Fork an get on
| the MescalerO Reservation, an Maj.
| LleWellyn Will receive him with open
arms, though f9lly aware that he has
! been out on the Warpath KILN all before
| him. A lot of Victories numbering gang
! are on Llewellyn's reservation to-day,
an the red-handed killers of the Nc
COmas family are protected by Gen.
! CrOOkes right-hand man, Capt. CraW-
ford, at San Carlos"
THE MYSTERIES OF Sailing"
"Do prOspectors ever salt mines?" deli
Cately queried your correspondent, to
change the subject.
Sometimes; but as a rule they're a
| darn sight more honest nor mine owners.
Sometimes a fellow mixes rich ore with
his ore dump, or builds up good ore in
the heart an blows it out with a stick of
giant, but now this takes in no one but
tenderfoOt. Sometimes a fellow starts in
prospecting without ever seeing a mine
or knowing what ore is, and can't tell
good thing when he has it. Did ye ever
hear of the original discOverer of the
| Toughnut mine at TOmbstone?"
/ Universal ignorance having been eX-
pressed he continued.
"Well, he was a regular tenderfOOt
from way back, and was workin' with
two pards on the claim, an one day he
came up from the bottom of the shaft an
says he, Boys said he, Pm played out,
amt got no more heart in this racket.
/ allow as long as 1 was striking any
thing like ore I'd stand 1t out here, may
We spit on my grave if 1 amt working
beesWaX,' an he showed his pards a
piece of rock thickly covered with a
brown substance as did look uncommon
: like wax. will ye take $500 for your
share?' said one of his pards. Bet yer
sweet life I will and so the stuff was
handed over, the quitclaim deed made
out, an the tenderfOOt lost fortune. The
thing he took for beesWax was chloride
of silver an the rock went $4,000 to the
ton. Tell We, stranger, it amt every
mans a judge of rock"
paddy CAsEY's GANG"
''Why,' observed the bar-keeper, "fnd-
in good claims is more luck than any
thing else, and the more a man knows of
regular formations an all the stuff of the
mining schools the poorer prOspectOr he
makes. The true prOspector has only
one rule, an that is that gold and silver
are Just where ye find them, an not
where the books an colleges say they
should be. Why, one Of your sO-called
experts could have gone over Leadville
for years an never found nOthin.' The
. old location notices didn't recognize
such a thing as a deposit. 1t was always
a lead, lode or vein. Now it's lead, lode,
vein or deposit. The men who make the
hits amt the men as studies books; but
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