The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-10-07
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Guess you never heard of the great
run / made for the settlements with a
fortune in dust an the Injuns after me-
did your" remarked passenger from the
heard of it. and all were curious.
wall, resumed the Argonaut, II
was a prospector way back in 40 l
want afraid of no Injuns nor nothin', an
so / struck out over the range where
white men had never been before l
travelled aroun an proSpected an pros
pected until was bout out of grub, an
had got nightly discouraged. Finally
l met young 1njun squaw, an'-wall. l
was younger then than am now, an L
charmed her. She took pity on me
an told me where l could find
bushels O gold. l followed her direc-
tons, an sure enough, openin' right out 0
the mountain side was ledge full O. mug
gets as big as my thumb an bigger oh,
but it was wonderful / threw away my
gun an all my food an everything, and
loaded up with gold. just as l had picked
up bout all I could carry / heard a
whoop. The buck Indians had discovered
me. Then began a race for life Though
| was loaded down with gold l threw EN-
all off the trail an arrived safely at the
settlements. My gold weighed out just
81, 81 900 worth. es, sir; those are the
exact figures, barrin' few odd dollars an
cents. 1t was the biggest strike ever
made in Californy
you say you carried the gold yourself,
without horse or assistance?" inquired a
man, who was busy with paper and pen
Gil
"Yes, sir; every ounce of it.
well, will you be kind enough to tell
us how fast you ran with $3.50 pounds of
gold about your clothes?"
But the alleged 49er, casting one with
ering glance at his questiOner, demon
strated his agility only by rapid fight
into the next car.
Tine Is minus canal.
New York World Interview
About that canal, we had abundant
chance of seeing just how things were
going on. The impression is that if it is
ever built it must come under American
control, and most of us think that it must
be built by Americans At present it is a
gigantic swindle on those who are furnish
ing the money. The agents there will
pay $40 for days work which could be
done for SIS, and then levy the so as q
bonus. 1t is so Ia everything. There
were carloads of machinery which had
never been unpacked, and then the NOR
tality among the engineers is something
terrible. The labor is that of Jamaica
negroes, and more cowardly set Cf be-
ings does not exist.
The Colombinans hate the negroes
and hew them down as you woulda brood
of mosquitoes. Pay day it is no unusual
thing to have gang of Spanish half
breeds enter the quarters of the hulkish
negroes and rob them without resistance
One Of the negroes was walking along the
road, when Spaniard with machete,
that has blade used for cutting banana
stems. deliberately struck the darky on the
back of the neck and his head fell for
ward, hanging on his breast Why, when
one of these fellows was attacked by a
little S0aniard and slashed all over the
head aud face, one of our officers proffered
him a revolver, telling him to shoot his
assailant, but the fellow only sneaked
away, saying; 40, Use afraid; you go and
do it F"
The negroes have become thoroughly
alarmed, and are Hooking away from the
country as fast as they can. The ia
maican steamers have gone home packed
with them and crowds are waiting ship
ment What the canal will do after thu
negroes leave it is difficult to say, but it
may only bring on the collapse of the
canal bubble sooner