Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-05-23
GONE Up THE FLUNIE
An Old Forty-Niue Tell How the Expire,

sion Originated.
The blggIst nugget ever found, con-
tinued the old torty-niner, was worth
$500. | did we'll in those mines. AT
one time l had $4,000 on deposits in jim
Mills Il Cos bank, but put it back in
the grounds and came away from the
mines poor. | lived in Columbia from
1881 10 1860. | understand now that the
streets of Columbia are all torn up and
mined over While in Columbia | had
some great experience. We had all the
wild life incident to the California mining
towns, and for a long time there was no
effort made to punish murdererS. and
We had man for breakfast nearly every
day.
You have often, herd the expression
gone mp the fume, haven't you? Well,
that phrase was started right here in
Columbia, and can tell You all about it
Barley was the first man, who went
up the tiume. He had been Il good man
until he married and started gin MILL
/ Then he became a tough character Jack
Smith, Philadelphian. and a popular
/ fellow, got 4 little full. and Sauntering in
/ to BarkleyS place he accidently broke a
pitcher. He offered TO pay for it. but the
woman of the place precipitated quarrel
AMI Barley in the presence of two men
| shot Smith down.
| The Philadelphia boys collected to-
| gether, formed a Vigilance Committee
and arrested Barkley. News spread
! quickly in those days. and before night
/ Jim Stewart. the Sheriff, had heard of the
! Vigilance Committee. and he and two
! other brave men came gallOping down to
| Columbia. happened to be the second
| man IN the house after the murder. and
: OILS 70, Il hot
and his men were coming, so ! took a
! short cut down to the place of hanging
/ and warned the boys They were over
/ 1000 of those men, 50 they Just formed a
! solid wall around their prisoner and kept
/ the sheriff back until the prisoner was
! dead. The place chosen for the execution
was on the road between Columbia and
! Gold Springs, and the gallows was the
| tiume that crossed over the road at the
| hight Of twenty feet. Barley was the
| first but there We're many others who
were subsequently Iynched on the fume
The warning note of the vigilanteS to the
| evil-doOrS was:
" Look here, young fellow. you go
slow, or you Ii SO up the tiume.
And frequently questions of where's
Mike, or Bill. or Jim?' would be an
Swered:
. Them. why they're all gone up the
hume.
The expression and its wholesome use
was spread from camp to camp. and now
it Is Worldwide, and you frequently
hear people say when a firm fails or great
loss by tire Is experienced, well they re
gone mp the tiume, but ! don't suppose
many people know where or how the ex
| preston originated
The climate of China is said to be grow
ing not only colder but drier Animals
and plants accustomed 20 hot, moist re-
gions are gradually retreating southwark
/ Two thousand years ago the bamboo
hourished in the forests of north China,
but it can no longer be found there.
The French Academy failed to elect a sue
cessor to Emile Angler at the regular meet
ing on April 30. There were thirteen can
didateS. Two had not a single vote AMI a
third had only one. lola had four. Seven
ballots were taken without any candidate
having the clear majority necessary and
the election ras then adjourned. At
the seventh ballot, Nj. Lavisse stood first
but with only ten votes, whereas twenty
were requisite for election.
Probably no simple aggregation of
figures give such Il wonderful idea of the
| advance in modern warfare as the descrip-
ton of the new krupp gun, which has Just
| been ordered for CronStadt. 1t throws Il
ball Weighing 1000 pounds distance of
twelve miles The gun is forty-four feet
| long and it can be fired twice a minute.
! Every time it goes off it costs the govern
ment 81, 500. 1t will not be used for the
| purpose of firing government salutes.
The champion tramp would seem to be
one Foilers He belongs to Portland Me.
and Is a shoemaker by trade For ten
| years he has been roaming the country,
and he declares that not once during this
| time has he paid railroad fare, though
on all his trips he patroniZes the Iron
! horse He says he has a craze for trav
| cling, which seems very evident from his
statement that he rides about 10000 miles
per year. Altogether he has travelled 200,
900 miles.
In some experiments lately made in Eng
! ing, a one and half inch iron bar was
welded both by means of electricity and by
! hand. The former stood a strain of 81 8
| per cent. of the strength of the metal itself
! and the latter 1913 per cent. The electric
| weld, however, showed cracks when bent
| cold at an angle of 66 degrees, whereas the
handmade joint stood l38 degrees of bend.
Best easiest to use and cheapest. Piso's
! Remedy for Catarrh. BY druggists. SOC
| The piece of crown glass, forty inches in
| diameter and two and half inrhr, thick.
/ made In i'2ris 90 ,''r Object gia-, OF trr-
| scope for laa ( diversity of Southern Cali
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