The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-02

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that my pigs had right to run at large,
and that they should make their houses
more secure. The miners argued that,
right or not right, they would shoot my
pigs even If found near their cabins. If
that was not sufficient they might shoot
me. Their positiveness in this matter
was of an intense and violent character.
There was no such thing as discussion
with them on legal or equitable grounds.
think now that l and the pigs had law
and right on our side, but the miners
were in the majority and had might.
Nor was this all. These pigs, seemingly
recognizing my ownership, came home
at night to sleep. They slept in pile
just outside my cabin door, and as the
night air waited down from the higher
Sierra SUBMITS became cooler the pigs
on the outside Of the pile became uncom-
Portable. Being uncomfortable they tried
to get inside the pile. This the warm
pigs inside resisted. The resistance was
accompanied with squealing and grunt-
ing, which lasted all night long and dis
turbed my sleep.
The pig pile consisted of rind of cold
and uncomfortable pigs and core of
warm and comfortable pigs, and there
was continual effort on the part of the
cold porcine rind to usurp the places of
the warm and comfortable porcine core.
They gave me no rest, for when, with
the warm morning sun, this uproar
ceased, there came the season Of COM
plant and threat from my plundered
neighbors. Finally cold storm chilled
half of these pigs to death. l sold the
remainder as quickly as possible to
ranchman who better understood the
hog business.
During the receding Of the waters
after one of the annual spring freshets l
saw several hundred dollars in gold dust
washed out near the base of pine tree
on the rivers bank between Hawkins
and Swett's Bar, where probably it had
years before been buried by some IN
known miner. That is, saw it after it
had been washed out and found by an
other more fortunate miner. In all prob
ability there are many thousands of dol
lars in dust SO dug by hard working
hands and so buried in California, there
to remain until the last day, perhaps
longer. Where's the utility of resur-
recting the root of all evil" on the last
day, just at the time when people in
heaven or elsewhere are presumed to be
able to get along without it? Yet it is
a mysterious Providence that impels any
poor fellow to dig his pile, bury it for
safe keeping, and then go off and die in
some out-of-the-way place without being
able to leave any will and testament as
to the exact hole where his savings lay.
Regarding buried treasure, there is a
hill near jamestown concerning which,
years ago, there lowered a legend that
it held somewhere thousands of dollars
in dust, buried in the early days by a
lone miner, who was, fer his moneys
sake, murdered in his cabin. They said
that by the roots Of many trees on that
hillside it had been unsuccessfully dug
for. Anyway, the miner left a memory
and hope behind him. That's more
than many do Ii you want to leave
lasting recollection of yourself behind
drop hint from time to time ere you
depart for 1.-The Bright and Shining
Shore" that you have inferred $4,000
in quarter section of land;
you will then long be remembered and
your money dug for.
PRENTICE MILFORD.