Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-02-27

The Experiences Of White Piner-
He UnbosOms HAS Troubles TO n
Friend A w0man's Love Too
Mlueh fnr Him

Much for Min.
ibid you ever see that fellow before p
said a miner 10 Mendes' saloon last even
ing to q SENTINEL reporter as the ssfel-
low" passed out, looking respondent and
decidedly crest-fsllen. Well, that ia Joe
Lombard. He used to be located near
Hamilton, and was always regarded by
the boys as a thoroughbred in every re-
spect. By that / do not mean to say he
was o rough; far from 1t. But he always
held his own, and whenever he said any,
thing you could just bet your last piece he
meant u. But he struck the town last
week . changed man. He came over from
the dunnison country, where he has been
the past hye years, and where he has some
mighty valuable mining property patented.
De had me take q drink with him yester-
day evening, aud being an old acquaint-
ance friend ne told me of many Of the
troubles he had passed through in Colo
RADIO. l never thought it wa In Joe to
allow a woman to overbslance his steady
going disposition and make of him the
unhappy, restless wreck that he is to-day.
But there was u that got q hold on his
afectIons, and the result was Joe sue
cumbed. II was doubtless the first time he
had ever toyed with Cupid's darts, and the
probability is he has received q wound
from which he will never recover.
To make q long story short, Joe met o
woman at Tin Cup by the name Of Kate Lee
By his description Of her l should judge
she was q woman OF some 80 years, o good
housekeeper, well proportioned and rather
good looking. She was the matron at the
hotel or clearinghouse where Joe stopped,
it being owned by an Arizonian by the
name OF Carr, and it was not long after
their first meeting that he got at his meals
what the other boarders called "shift boss
steaks. He got more han that, too; he
got 9 great many tender glances. At first
Joe treated the boys joshes and the
woman advances pretty much as he
would have done under similar circum-
stances when In White Pine fifteen years
ago-that 10 to say, they would not have
crested in him any disturbing elements
but finally she was too much for him; he
weakened. A courtship ensued, and after
g month or two he proposed and she &C.
cepted. They we're going to get married
during early Spring, aud then they we're
going of on a tour. Nothing was TO be too
good for his intended, and he had the coin
at that time to back up his intentions in
good style.
"True love, they say, never runs smooth,
and Joe's experience gradually became
rocky-so much 30 that the engagement
was broken off. Joe was riled, and / sup
pose he blamed the woman. She acted in
dependently, and he, to get even, COM
menced to pay ardent attentions to another
woman who roped him into marrying
her in q very short time. He never
loved her. and you can imagine what
their union resulted ina divorce.
This latter courtship, marriage and
separation consumed at least six or eight
months. Joe saw he had made q fool Of
himself, and his first love returned with
Q twenty-horse power head Of steam be-
hind il, 30 to speak. he made amends
with Kate as best he could, and in a
short time they mutually agreed on the
proposition to call in 8 parson to tie the
knot. But before the marriage came off
Kate took down with q fever, and judg-
ing from Joe's description OF what he did
for her, l venture to say that no man ever
showed q woman greater or truer affection
than he did for her during her illness.
But death claimed her, and, well-you saw
Joe going out there"
Has he lost all his money 2" ventured
the reporter after q moment.
Money Why. $4,000 would not
cover the coin he has, say nothing of his
patented mining property. which is worth
three or four hundred thousand. But
what good is il to him? The fellow is lost.
A woman's love was too much for him.
In coming here he expected to find some OF
his old congenial friends, / suppose, but
the moot OF them have left, and those
who are here have changed. He talks of
going down 10 Los Angeles in a day or two"