The Labor enquirer., 1884-09-20

i hope tpsee established complete equalit,
for all persons under the law.
i MiLLARD F. HoBBa, Plasterer,
PAUL T. Bowen, Clerk,
GIIBKRr RoCKwoOD, Printer,
JOSEPH tanning, Stonecutter,
j JAMES w. CoNsIDINR, Timer,
WILIIAM Il. ST1cKELL, Plasterer,
WILL s. WAUDBY, Printer,
MIcHAEL SoLAN, Tailor,
s. /. SLACK, Machinist.
JAMES /. MILES, Plasterer,
ROBERT FITzGERALD, Plumber,
| g. ]. ENNIS, Painter,
Committee.
A True story.
| From San Francisco Truth.
Mike Muldoon in the year 1860 kept 8
gin mill on Valencia street. Mike was
an aristocrat in every sense Of the word
His disdainful and nonchalant handling
of punched quarters when he slipped
them in with pile of other change
evidently proved that beyond q doubt
The Muldoon family had suffered re-
verses and had been swindled out Of
their family estates. This is how il
happened Mike used TO say: when
the old man first came TO the country in
'49 he lay down wan night and slept
And in SO slaping drained that he owned
seventeen whole blocks of city land and
whole room full av gould. But when
he awakened, it was all gone and divil
bit of it had he left. Some one has
stolen my property, says he, an I'll have
Lit again. And SO to the end that our
family vance more comes again to its
own, I'm helping me fellow man to the
best Tom and Jerry in the town."
So Muldoon kept on the even tenor Of
his way. He dabbled a little in stocks
and husbanded Ills gin-mill gains. Ten
thousand shining dollars lay in bank
subject to his order.
Oneday Mike drew his glittering hoard
and quietly boarded the train for Vir-
ginia City.
At Virginia City Mike went down to a
certain mine. He was looking for the
superintendent.
A superintendent is a paid servant Of
the mine owners who receives stipend
for two things, first to supervise the
labor second to report discoveries to the
owners.
Mr.. Muldoon exhibited his coat OF
arms and emblazoned family tree to the
superintendent. The fact of Mikes
descent from royal blood was evidently
proved.
One dark night a grimy miner has.
tened up the shaft, and went straight to
the superintendent's loom.
A conversation ensued. Muldoon's
patent of nobility was again exhibited
and the miner returned again to the
deep cavern, where he straightway pro-
ceeded to conceal all traces Of the vein
from whencea bit Of shining ore had
been taken. ii
Eight miners we're toiling for bread
twenty-five hundred feet below the
surface of the earth. The diamond
drill sent eight feet further inward when
drawn out, had let forth stream Of
Escalding water. The brawny Titans
stopped their labor and plugged the
hole. Grim Death had sent warning.
They must be cautious.
The superintendent at midnight sneaks
into the mine and down to the lower
level. He goes close to the dangerous
wall omwhence the water came. He
listened. All was. silent. With nervous
blows he drove the plug inward, and in
front Of it placed a cartridge. Then he
lighted the time-fuse and fed. An hour
later the foot-wall was rent and shattered
ard the richest mine of the Comstock
was filling fast with water. An accident
of course BY the way, four men were
killed.
The telegraph flashed the news to
San Francisco. The mine stock fell to
almost zero. And Muldoon smiled and
visited the stock boards and bought
largely but quietly. The grimy toilers
went again,to work below the ground,
the clank of the pump, the blow of the
hammer were heard with renewed
energy. The water was forced back and
controlled. The stock went up little.
Then came another telegram, a report
| this time to the owners from the super
intendent. But the owners now were
Muldoon and friend" Up went the
stock into the thousands. Wealth un-
bounded and unlimited, flowed again,
this time to stay, into the Golfers Of
MuIdoon. He retired from the gin-mill
and set up a carriage.
/ In the councils of the republic" sit
both superintendent and Muldoon, both
wealthy and honored aristocrats with 9
Lineage and coats of arms.
| HI
Jennie Wilson is sentenced to 30 days
in the Magdalen asylum for soliciting
prostitution. Her father was killed in
| the flooding of the Bonanza mine. II
Mary O'Brien is sentenced two years
at San Quentin for theft. Her husband
was killed in the flooding of the Bonanza
mine. H.
Laura Jones and Emily Smith died oi
@want in the ice bound streets Of Virginia
Their husbands were killed in the food
ing of the Bonanza mine.
i Here ends the history of one genera