Arizona silver belt., 1891-12-05
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No Danger Ever Troublcs This NautIur
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 There is q vessel now lying at San FrtnriSco that attracts grpHt lipal of attention by her queer rig and old lash toned appearance She ls the Brltlsh four uasted bark Omeo, belonging 10 Meibmrns The old crnii has quite "A history and was formerly steamer She was built m iSiS m Euglaud and s 7Sa tons During the civil war she, was nspd nS e blockade runner and made number of trlps ro Charleston. escaping capture more than once from the Federal war vessels
 Tue lasl trip she made was re marlabe one She passed the gun .bSiais that were hluckadinp the barber and then orders were gwen hy The flag Slnp tu keep a sharp lookuut inI her wheu she attempted to leave, and to catch her ut all hazards The days went by until slN weeks had passed and the officers wer. begunng to tlnmk that lIr steamer had ssiyfpi them the slip aAd made away without their kuuwluV it when one uIght rockets were. seen from the cruisers aS II some one was Siguairug on NluIp.
 A bnrl luukum was kept for the slippery huckaie runner and just be lore daylight she wjts seen well m shore passing out Sur wss l,stdrd tu the guards wj(h rottuu and had several hundred halrS pllrd on deck Hall a dozen steamers started after her at once and lt seemed aS Il she would ht caught at lHSt But sl,e managed Co rrarh open water without cnmng in range ui the guns ol the war>lnp>. and il a lew hour had dlStanced all bu; one of her purSnrro
 Thus was ou, ui The new gunhoats. a scU.' -traim' ui great speed and as the TWO flew through the water tlt. American captain had tIr satisfaction of noting that slowly hut surely he wiIs ovprlmU,n,g the heavily laden block Ader The caprau ni rlr ButlSll steamer also peurIve,i that the gun buat wttS gaIllnig un hum and he knew thai II w;Is nulv question ol time, unless something turned up tu prevent ij when the Ampricgul would toe uu his way tu New York with the cutton steamer m tow
 He booked at hIs deckluad which %as worth thuuSaud> oi dulIar~ m layer p,ol could hs laud t There and then luoked at tile Amertqm winch w;p> Sluwly crawling up oh luu until every minute he rNfar'ttd lu S,'e the puff ni Nuukr trnm Irr bow gun He drri,lc,l that the ,leckiuad must ga Hut there was great danger ul rrlpplng the steamer >huuld he drIp the hlg bales over the side as ulie ut tlirm might be caught u the propeller and then ship and r,rgu would gu tu New York with out duuht
 In order tu prevent this, a long stage wHs rugged over the stern and tue haleS rolled uu, uuii htiurr they were dropped into The sra Tir plan worked first class Iu ia,i. hetrel than the bold En ghSlmru had dared tu hope Bale Ritrl tale was dropped overheard. and soun lnlg hnr ni them lloatrd uu the watpI rigli n the riad oi the AiuerI cuu sieamrr and no attention was paid tn tliriu hy ti- ufiirpr~ ui rhe gunbnat until crash was heard aud ul few setuin!s hrI rngmps stepped The cap tam went duwi in tlIe engine roOu tO learn what WIS the matter and Shnr, invest Igarluu showed that rlIe gunbuLi wa, hrplr,sly crippled
 uI,. ol the bales had been caught by tllr propeller and its cm,t-uts wound HrUuud lIr shaif in second and fo tllru riiagrIn the rlcll prIzr slipped through then tingprr when they were ur;uly alongside Alter the wal the Umru went to Australia. aud for A uumbrI dl yrars ran lrmp Melbourne tu New Zealah and was then turned mtu sjlllm2 vessel She is regarded a> the luckIr>i ~!ilp aiiuat 'u- we'll ns uu,. nl rhr nlSirst ss m ,iie ul her queer rig very lew can oiitsaIl her. IR..tt,Hf Er.... IBr..sv