Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-03-02
a MINERS QUEER ssoursr.
his Pat Gave Up $1,000 and Secured .
Fortune by Disable, ING the WIN.

Fortune by Di.obc,inr the WIN.
The other day we met On kcarney street
ap I'D time Washoc acquainiance called
Jcra Briggs. Whose usually well worn
miners appearance was on this occnsiuu ~
placcd by q gorgeous display ~ velvet vest,
check pants, rel scafi and pondcfuus
watch chain, while his honest and simple
face shone above these cyidenccy OF pros
perity with the placid contcniment Of -
full hArvctt moon.
Hello. Jem," wo aid. "glad 10 sae yuu
looking 40 prosperous Must have struck
II rich recently"
$50 have" said Jcm, and then a. his
tanned face snddsned little he continued.
but had mighty tough los, though.
Ny partner. Ned Bimber-you remember
Ncd-has gone up tbs shaft"
Dead, ehf'
Yes, IN tell you how II wal You s.c.
Ned and I had a quarrel about two year'
ago. Don't matter now what Il va. all
about Mebhe Neil wis wtong and mobile
! was. but nj the same neither " ~
would back down-coupfcr f,iOls. you'll
say, and 20 W. were. aud che upshot was
that W. parted, and q Ifccd mover To speak
TO each other ggaiu.
"And didn't yougn
"No. sir. morr shame for ~, as We had
been paris, thick aud thin, for fifteen years
together. Wei, Abouf six mouths after
that Ned got a good gravel claim up 90 the
Feather, where they've bcou turnlng the
river led, aud he struck Il rich -clcane'l up
nigh on 10 slJ0Ono In TIM months"
And how were you getting onF
"Ohi clean broke Working up at Gold
lIill for A. day. Well | WIS kinder
sncakin' glad 10 learn Of Nod'a luck. for all
we were outs. but the next thing I hoard
was that he'd been killed by the banks cav.
In. In on him. lie liSc. Just lungen0ugh tn
make his will. Well. the lawyer wrote
a. how Ned wis worth Just about 100000
and the will gave e5OO0 apiece TO each of
three distant cousins Of his'n--they had nll
come out from tho .a.t when they heard u
Ned's midland the same amount 10 mo,
mind you, Just ~ though We hadn't quar-.
relied. hut Ned Allcrs was a centric soft
Of cus-, and the will provided thai none 0f
~ should get tho money II we attended tho
funeral. liz didn't want anylndy al the
funeral but Just the undertaken The will
said he had lived lonely, aud ho wanted 10
be buried lonely 1hem's lust the words
and felt they were intouded for me. sure.
wv Nt"lffHtNf'tiN ~ ANN AfHA W Wv fNNAAi
about sl0o.OoO-was provided for Ia an.
other oo.iloll. TO b. Opened tho day after the
funeral, but we all supposed u was donated
60 charitable object, TOT Nol hadn't any
Kin 'oeptln' the oousins.n
"Of course you stayed away from the
funeralfi
That's Just the point Somehow felt
40 miserable and downhearied-you SEQ
Ned was the onllcst partner ever had
that detortpinsd TO 70 aud sso him sent
down on his last casc anyway, money or
no money, and did"
"And the cousinsW
"None u EN- went fAci Il they were
- disgusted nj the 'dlyvy' that they cleaud
out down 10 Frisco 20 scr ahout hruaking
the will. 10 was the only mourner at the
funeral. Ny friends oil thnnght was NJ
for the craHy house To throw away the
5000 like that well. just couldn't help
II, Il turned ont. though. To h. the bcst
lead ever struok.'
''ilow was thatfr
'Why the ncXt day when tho main will
wa- opened we found Il really gave the
entire balance " the clean up to whichever
Of " four dlsobeye,l the condition for the
5000 bclucxta. 80 you $50 came In for
the whole lump Just Ikea knife. Aud do
you know. a. sure ~ guns Inn shall all.
er- believe that Ned put up the whole fob
n purpose he knuwed I'd be thAr,'i
--San Francisco Examiner