Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-05-28
/ The Romance of Cold.

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one, that unless the discoverer OF g.
lamp meets an untimely or bloody
md his find will never amount to any
thing; and this seems borne out by
iacts, since nearly all the discoveries
of the great gold mines ID the United
States, with but lew exceptions, have.
= the saying goes, died with their
boots on" OF thirty eight booming
towns in the early days, the locators.
Of twelve were killed by bullets, three
were buried in their creations by cave
ms and tho rest drifted away with the
tide OF immigration, have become lost
In oblivion or died and were buried in
paupers' graves. George III. Fryer, from
whom the celebrated fryer Hill, )" of
Leadville, derives it's name, died at
Denver not long ago from an overdose
OF morphine administered by his own
hand. Two years previous to his
death he was worth million or SO,
but he died q pauper and almost with
out a friend. Old Virginny after whom
the CONSOLIDATED Virginia was
named, and who sold his claim for $25,
q pony and bottle OF whisky. came
to his death by an overdose from
bucking mule near Dayton, New. b.
Bill Bodie, the discoverer of the
great Standard Mine in Mona county,
Caa:, slept his life away in a snowstorm
while making his way to the mines.
Col. Story, who gave his name to the
county in Nevada where the Comstock
is situated, was killed in battle by the
Pyramid Lake Indians.
Thomas Page Comstock died beg
gar in strange land. "Old Pancake"
as he was known in the mining camps,
committed suicide at Bohemian, Mon,
on Sept. 81, 1870, by shooting him
self. He was the leader of the famous
Big Horn expedition that was. sent
out by Nevada capitalists in search
OF the Lost Cabin mines, supposed to
be somewhere among the Big Horn
mountains. The expedition was a
failure, and Comstock, whether from
disappointment or from some other
cause, while encamped near Bohemian,
drove a pistol-ball through bis head
and died instantly. He was buried
there and his grave is unmarked and
unknown.
Near the wild spot where twelve
years before the hidden treasures of
Alder Gulch was first revealed to him,
William Fairweather was laid down
to rest. Like poor "Old Pancake"
this erratic soul stranded on the
shoals OF dissipation, although each
IN his day had turned the key-the
one silver the other golden
which unlocked millions for 9TH
ers but nothing for them
selves. VIM. Farrell. who "struck"
Meadow Lake, died a victim to re-
morse in one of the leading hospitals
OF San Francisco, 'haunted by the
spirits OF l, 900 deluded pioneers and
prospectors passing and repassing his
dying bed" The locator of the fa-
nous Homestake, in the Black Hills, is
said to have afterwards turned road
agent. Times going hard with him, he
attempted to stop a stage loaded for
and prepared for just such emergencies
and he was planted alongside the road
by the tender-hearted express agents
whom he had tried to rob and kill.
Homer, of the Homer district, follow
ed IN the suicidal tracks of Comstock.
After squandering a. small fortune he
shot his brains out on the streets of
San Francisco. Doughnut Bill, :sOld
Eureka" Kelse Austin, Lloyd Ma
gruder, "Nine-Mile Clark" George
Hankinson, Henry Plummer, and
scores OF others died violent deaths
in one way or another and reaped
nothing from the rich finds each had
made in his day. Doughnut Bill was
planted in the Lone Mountain Gene
terry in Utah, in 1868; a lone grave
under white pine tells where Door
cold Eureka" sleeps his last sleep;
Kelse Austin was killed and buried in
Echo County, New, fifteen years ago.
Lloyd Magruder, while conducting a
number of wagons loaded with treas
ure from Virginia City to the nearest
railroad, was murdered and robbed
by his teamsters, who were Plummer's
outlaws in disguise; George Hankin-
son and Henry Plummer we're hauled
up by vigilantes and strung up with
out the delay and formality Of a tri-
al. Plummer was great rascal. In
the early days of the mining camps OF
Montana, Plummer was elected sheriff
Of the camp about Virginia City. He
was the first locator of the rich
ground about Virginia City, but
thought he could make more money,
and quicker, too, by taking what was
already mined than by Iaboring in the
5ulch day after day and getting it by
aard honest toll. But he was tripped
up ut last, and died a cringing, miser-
able coward, on gallows OF his own
construct1on.-From a Fort Keogh
mon. Letter. =.
They Marry Early.
"Mexicans may be slow in many
things, but not slow to love-" writes
Nellie BLY, to the Pittsburg Dispatch.