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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-22

was Allen Hurlbur.t a California stampeder of
the Forty-nine epoch. He was decent.
quiet citizen of GAINESVILLE. Wis. until the
gold fever struck him in 1919. when. like
thousands of others, he wel1 To he coast
expecting to pick up a great fortune liz b rev
days and return home to astonish and dazzle
his Old neighbors. He prospected unsuccess-
fully in half dozen states and territories and
in 1858 found him penniless in Walia Walla
Managing to raise a little money he and two
other yenturesome spirits, Jones and Cox
by name, bought new prospecting outfit,
consisting Of six horses and months pro-
visions, and the party set out over the Mullen
trail for the eastern slope of the Rockies
After many hardships the party reached the
Yellowstone, constructed big raft and
fioated down to the Big Horn river, where
they made camp in the widest and most
hostile portion of the United States. The
geography of the country was little known to
them, and they did all their travelling by
night to avoid the Indians, SO that when they
finally did make a camp they had but a
vague idea OF where they really were. The
range of mountains which doomed up before
their eyes were nameless to the hardy pros
pectors, but they boldly set at work in d
gulch. Prospecting and panning as they
went they struck better and better pay as
they went up, and finally in q defile in the
heart of the mountains they came to a streak
of pay-dirt so wonderfully rich that it exceed
ed anything any of them had ever seen or
heard of. They put down shaft to bed rock
only seven feet below and found gold from the
grass roots down, panning out from five cents
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-22

degraded or remarkably intelligent, and with
evidences OF refinement about them which
their ragged raiments cannot hide nor their
evident poverty wholly conceal. In the for
mer case it is possible that they may be max
ing an effort to better their condition. though
the chances are that they are spending their
objectless lives in wandering and moving on:
in the latter case they are invariably women
with a story which they conceal from the
public q story of error it NAV be- perhaps
of crime, but never devoid of romance, and
never. if the truth were known, showing that
they were themselves entirely responsible
for their degradation.
Although these people are never seen with
children, possibly never have any, yet, year
by year, the great army of tramps is increas-
ing. It is not long since this army was COM
posed exclusively of men, but now that
women have come to REINFORCE it. we NAV
look in the course of events for the accession
of children, particularly of those old enough
to be of use to the gardener and farmer.
These people know nothing Of law, and less
of religion, while many of them can read and
write, but few can be said to be intellectual
and even these are apt to ridicule the schools,
and to ask what good education has done
them. Day by day new social problems are
coming up and the attention of the thinking
public has been called to those elements in
our midst that endanger life and property
The tramp has vote, and, it need not be
said, it is always for sale. No matter who
may be busy. the tramp has ever ample leis-
ure, and he is ready, like damned stream,
to swell the great army Of the irresponsible
mob, whenever the barriers are broken down.
1t may, perhaps, be well to spend millions
for the redemption of the soul of the savage
African, or Of the contented Polynesian, but
in looking round sor avenues for the exercise
of philanthrophy aud humanity, it might be
well to give some thought to the heather who
are in our midst.
ALFRED r. CALHOUN.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-22

PREPARATIONS WERE MADE TO LYNCH HIM.
to dollar each trial. They decided to stay
all winter, put up rough sluice boxes across
the little creek and sluiced from morning
until night while the warm weather lasted.
The average yield was $500 a day until snow
flew and cold weather settled down. Then
the creek froze up and the prospectors turned
their attention to building a log cabin, which
they surrounded with a stockade in which
were kept the horses, the hay cut for them
and the game shot for the winter In the
following spring the men were early at work,
taking out as much gold as ever One day
while Hurlburt was cooking in the cabin. a
small party of Indians stealthily approached
the mine and killed and scalped Cox and
Jones. Catching up knapsack full of gold,
Hurlburt ran into the woods and made his
escape, without looking around or pausing
to notice landmark. The Indians looted
the cabin, drove off the stock and left in the
direction from which the prospectors had
come the year before. Hurlburt went the
other way. After many days tramping across
the foot hills and afterward the prairies, ne
struck what proved to be the North Platte
river, ninety miles above Fort Laramie.
he had seen in two years. The country was
on fire over the news of rich finds at Alder
Gulch, and those met by Hurlburt were bound
for the diggings at Grasshopper Creek as
well as Alder. Hurlburt added to the pre-
vailing excitement by telling of his mine and
exhibiting the knapsack of gold. The news
spread and adventurers in search of gold
came in from all sides. In week Hurlburt
was retracing as nearly as possible the
course over which he had SO wildly fed
the previous month, and at his heels was a
crowd of not less than lao wagons, with $50
men, women and children.
Days grew into weeks and weeks into
months and still the party tramped. on fol-
lowing Hurlburts lead everywhere and hop
ing for fulfillment of his often-made
promise to land them at the mine of mex
haustible gold. Finally, in the fall, Hurlburt
confessed that he was lost as badly as his
cabin and mine, and that he had no further
hope of finding his valuable property. He
had been looked up to all these months, but
now there was a sudden change of sentiment
and preparations were made to lynch the bad
pilot. The rope was around his neck, and
was about to be pulled taut, when a courage
Gus and less vengeful member of the party
sprang to Huriburt's side with a drawn
revolver and prevented the consummation of
the bloodthirsty plan. Hurlburt was released
and went his way alone. About this time the
Indians took to the warpath and the eastern
prospectors were stampeded, heading for
land where there was greater safety, if less
gold. Hurlburt was last seen in Virginia
City late that fall, and probably persisted
alone somewhere while hunting for his cabin
and the mine.
Bart Beekley, a Colorado miner and chum
of Jack Mcdonald, spent year searching the
Big Horn, Castle and Emigrant mountains,
hunting for this wonderful lead, but at last
gave it up in despair, although his faith in its
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-22
GOLDEN WILL OF THE WISPS.
The Strange Story of the Lost
rline of nontezuma.
TRAGIC FATE OF the MAN WHO FOUND IT.
The Lost Cabin Mine and the Men WHO
Have Worn Out Their Lives in Weary
Searching fer it-HOw the Lost
Vein Was Found, Lost and
Found Again After Years.

DENVER, COL, April 1s.-The glamour of
romance clusters thickly about the mines of
this western land. There is always an in
terest in wealth and its possession and pro-
duction, and over no source of riches is there
SO much romance, comedy and tragedy as
there is over gold in its virgin state The
marvellous wealth of the Montezumas. the
search of Monte Cristo and the deeds OF the
Forty-niners who took from California a
store of wealth, but endowed the coast with
a neyer-ending glory of adventures, I'M
equalled and unapproachable, instead, are al
ways of interest. The adventures. deeds of
daring, privetion and distress. some of them
rewarded with fabulous finds of gold, have
been related in song and story, and in every
part OF the world have been discussed time
and time again by the side of lonely trail
fires, in the cafes of eastern cities and in the
courts of royalty. The search for gold in
business pursuits may be prosaic, but the
search for gold in its native condition is
never unaccompanied by adventure and
dangers more or less pronounced. With
gradually growing suspension of the indie
pendent gold mining industry on the Pacific
coast, the old time prospectors, scorning to
enter the services of the syndicates which
came into being, turned their steps north
ward and toward the east locating in Arizona,
Montana, New Mexico and this state. They
are the men who developed the silver
resources of this section, and they are the
men who have discovered new mines of gold
in regions where the metal had not been
known to exist, developing for the states and
territories a source of wealth which is an
nually adding to the possessions of the
citizens. Fully as susceptible to the influ-
ences of the stories told OF rich mines having
been discovered and again lost as are their
fellow citizens of the eastern states, these
hardy, restless miners, full of the migratory
instinct as were their predecessors of the
days of Forty-nine, keep upa ceaseless, ener-
getic search for the hidden stores OF fabulous
wealth which tradition tells them are to be
found in lost mines, places which other
miners had discovered, and then through
the misfortunes of being driven out by
Indians or superior numbers of other pros
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-22

Every night after my performance is over
have piece of rare roast beef some rye
bread with fresh butter and glass OF beer.
Sometimes at dinnersI drink little light
wine, but I am, very temperate with regard
to stimulants. I am;fond of fruit, but fruits
and vegetables do not make up large part
of my diet. Beef is.the foundation of it. T
occasionally smoke light cigar.
81 sleep a great deal, usually nine or ten
hours
Glow long desyou expecs to be able to pre-
serve your present strength
"Oh, indefinitely. I telLmy friends that
am going to live to beia hundred years old,
and be just as strong when I reach the CEN
fury mark as I am now
''What is the heaviest weight you ever
lifted?'
an harness, have lifted $500 pounds,
and without any artificial aid whatever
have raised weight of $500 pounds, but
never strain myself in the least, and really
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-22

SHADOWS Am AND SHOULDER MUSCLES.
do not know how much could lift. All the
things that do are equally easy, and can
not say that any one is more difficult than
the others"
Shadows physician afterwards informed
me that this statement was literally true,
that Shadows strength had never been fully
tested. One OF his feats is to supper. the
weight Of three horses. A gentleman once
asked him why he had the horses so fat, and
he replied that it really made no difference,
for thousand pounds more or less we're
nothing to him.
"Haye any noted men ever placed them
selves under your Instruction.
yes; among my pupils have been the
Prince of Wales and the late Emperor Fred
erick of Germany
Sandow is not easy to interview upon mat
tiers which involve the suggestion of self
praise. He is not only the strongest of men,
but is also the most modest and the gentlest.
asked him number Of questions which ne
excuse himself from answering because his
responses might have been taken as implying
criticism of others. He appreciates the fact
that he has been handsomely received in this
country, and it is his constant care to avoid
giving utterance to anything that might Of
fend the people Of the United States. In
private Life, too, he is considerate of the
feelings of others to remarkable degree.
learned, however, from one who knows
his opinions of Americans, that he thinks
that we tax our brains at the expense of our
bodies. He alse considers that many of us,
in bTIvri foe
rather~than comfort, and when we purchase
supplies for the table we are apt to get things
that are high-priced and not as nutritious as
food that is cheaper. He regards the English
and the Germans as physically our super
iors.
Shadows ideas have been put into practice
extensively in Austria and in Rome, and they
are growing in vogue among the French and
the English. AS nation we are behind the
times in this matter. although great many
persons, both men and women, have recently
been attracted by Shadows assurances, have
attended his lectures and are training with
more or less diligence according to his sys-
tenn.
DR.. G. 81. Mersereau, Shadows medical adj
wiser, is thoroughly familiar with his phys
ique, and has all ola physicians enthusiasm
for this perfect man. He told me in glowing
terms that Sandow was not only person Of
wonderful strength, but that his figure was
exquisitely beautiful and his development in
every part proportionate. His head is
shaped like that of the Apollo. and his feat
ures are cast in a Grecian mold.
"He is only twenty-six years old and is
growing stronger all the time" said Dr.
Mersereau. Gin the few months that inter-
vened between last summer and last winter,
during all of which time he was giving exhi-
billions, he gained fully the strength of three
men.
"Mr. Shadows height is feet 3-4 inches,
and his weight when stripped is 100 pounds
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-22

His normal chest measurement is AZ inches.
The chest of an average man is 81 inches
round, and pugilists aud athletes reach as
high as 40 inches. Mr.. Shadows expansion
is IA inches. so that during expansion his
chest measures 81 inches. An ordinary man
expands his chest inches, and a good ex-
pansion is inches. The best record, except
ing Shadows is inches, which was made in
Rome. So, you see, Sandow has good 8
inches above all rivals
Sandow tells you that what he has you may
do.
Is it not, as said at the beginning, mes
sage of encouragement
GEORGE N. SMrru
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-22

dmfnary wooing, no love-making, no tender
words, but in blunt, Anglo-Saxon fashion, he
addresses her in these words:
"Cully, dear, has you got your bloke?"
If the woman says eyes, the man, without
any feeling of disappointment, seeks else
where. If she should happen to be Temporal
hly disengaged and tells him SO, he asks: :.
'SnaIl we hitch?"
In majority of cases they 'hitch'' with
sut any legal or religious sanction to the con-
tract. In nine-nine cases out of a hundred
these temporary marriage contracts are
faithfully adhered to by both parties till the
winter comes again. In leaving New York
city, the two favored routes are up the Hud-
Son or over to New Jersey, the latter being
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-22

existence was stronger at the last than when
he commenced the quest.
Jack Mcdonald heard the story of Beckley's
wanderings from the latters lips, and he, too,
put in year at the hunt, but did not find it.
Joe Sweeney came from the southern mines
and hunted long and earnestly for the Lost
Cabin mine, announcing at one time that he
had found it, but he was mistaken, and
equal disappointment awaited Jack Nye,
weil-known Nevada prospector, who spent
much time in the Big Horn country. and who
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-22
BEST WAY TO GET STRONG.
A Chat with Sandow, Strongest
of the Strong nen.
The TRAINING THAT He PREsGRlHEEss.
simple Rules Watch, If Followed, VIII
Bring Health and yisor GyEana-
= sums He Regards as of Little
Value The Proper Food to-
Eat = Growing str0ngH-
all the Time.

Eugene Sandow, the most powerful man of
whom he have any accurate record, has
message of cheer to all who wish to be strong.
It is his conviction that every ordinary man
may become like himself by following his
advice, and while this advice may be sceptic-
ally received it is certain that he has dis
covered means by which all of us may
attain a much greater strength than we
would otherwise naturally hope for. San
dow physically, was an ordinary boy. All
that he is he has made himself by systematic
exercise.
His friends think that he has introduced
new era in the culture of the body, and has
founded practically new science. He is an
educated man, and in that respect is different
from most professional strong men. He
took a course of medicine and anatomy at
one Of the German universities, and he under
stands the position, use and proper exercise
of every muscle in the body. 80,
I saw him not long ago. and he consented
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-22
0DDs AND ENDS.

Coxey's army seems to be getting regular
rations of food, but it is in a deplorable con-
dition for soap ration. -
Senator Matt Quay is evidently looking for
ward to a long residence in Washington. He
is building a mansion on 4 street, which will
cost not less than $50 000
A Methodist minister in Portland, Oregon.
is being tried by his church for the heinous
offense of wearing white pants and chatting
on base ball. How the cloth has degenerated
since two generations ago, then they wore
solemn black and carried their own private
flask.
Hebetude-"Are there any professional
humorists nowadays?"
Proofreader-s'Yes but they are under
'i'''-'A' ~ Hl''Anol0.
Midas, in ancient times. we're told.
Just by touch turned things to gold.
Amazing is the change since then:
Touch of gold makes anything of menl
"The mud of calumny soils fair name''
dreamily observed an innocent-Iooking indi-
viduai to the reporter. Perhaps the fellow
didn't mean any offense but he looked well
as corpse.
Science has utterly rejected omens and
prophecies, and yet one-half Of the educated
classes, and ninety-nine one-hundredths, if
not all, of the uneducated classes, believe in
them.
Washington is essentially political town.
1t has no commercial advantages, discourages
business for political reasons. ard would be-
come as defunct as Dumfries if the star of
Legislative empire should move elsewhere.
Dumfries was located few miles below
Alexandria, on the Potomac, and at one time
was a leading port in the western world. It
carried on a brisk trade with Great Britain,
and was a substantial looking brick-built
town. The adjacent farmers of Quantico,
Pohick, Natick and Occoquan have bought
and carriedSb0aY tho hn.,.~- and rA-0-ected
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-22
HERE AND THERE.

The machinery failures in the British navy
have become so frequent as to call for a
Parliamentary investigation.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-22

H-eiheit, tho organ Of the American So
cialists, edited by the notorious Johann
Most, has been forced TO suspend publication
for the want OF fund.-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-22

Hebetude-"Are there any professional
humorists nowadays?''
Proofreader-@Yes but they are under
treatment for melancholy
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-22

Midas, in ancient times, we're told,
just by a touch turned things to gold.
Amazing is the change since then:
Touch of gold makes anything of menl
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-22

Coxey's army seems to be getting regular
rations of food, but it is in deplorable con-
dition for soap ration. -
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-22

''The mud of calumny soils fair name,'
dreamily observed an innocent-Iooking indi-
viduai to the reporter. Perhaps the fellow
didn't mean any offense, but he looked well
as a CORPSE
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-22

Senator Matt Quay is evidently looking for
ward to long residence in Washington. He
is building mansion on Z street, which will
cost not less than $50, 600,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-22

Science has utterly rejected omens and
prophecies, and yet one-half Of the educated
classes, and ninety-nine. one-hundredths, if
not all, of the uneducated classes, believe in
them
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-12-28
MUSICAL FEAST.
A Rare Treat at ST. Johns Church
Last Evening.

Those who braved the cold and bad
walking last evening to attend the dedi-
cation of the new double organ at st.
Johns Church, and there were hundreds
OF them, enjoyed a musical feast par
excellence. Several of the most prominent
organists in America participated, COM
prising Richard Henry Warren OF
st. Bartolomew's Church, New York;
s.. b. Whitney,, of the Church Of the
Advent, Boston; N. b. Sprague, OF Grace
Church, Providence; Robert Bonner,
formerly organist of st. Johns Church,
and William Eccles, organist Of st. Johns
Parish.
There were vocal selections by the choir
and solos by Mackenzie Gordon, tenor OF
st. Bartholomew's, New York.
OF the singing, 1t may be said 1t was ex-
cellent, except that Mr.. Gordon's voice
struck the uninitiated as being more OF
baritone, naturally, than tenor.
OF the organists, Mr.. Warren was, OF
course, the star OF the evening, and, in
fact, he has the reputation OF being the
finest in America. He has way
of ceressing the keys, delightful
to see and hear, and he brought
out the finer resources ofthe combination
instrument to their fullest extent; and
when he lifted his hands between the
passages no discordant rumbling fingered
TO mar the following bars.
Mr.. Whitney played In his usual vigor.
Gus manner, bringing out the grand
churchly character OF the instrument, and
Mr.. Sprague displayed its sentimental
powers 10 good advantage, although his
last effort was more appreciated than the
first.
Mr.. Bonner and Mr.. Eccles are both
brilliant players and did excellent execu-
tion.
Following Is the order OF service proper
which proceeded the organ recital:
Organ prelude. MIR. William Eccles,
organist OF the parish; sentences. Lords
Prayer and Psrsices; Congregatio nal
hymn. No. 150; the lesson; cantatc
domino, in G, Dudley Buck; creed. col
lcc,s and grace; Anthem, "UhfoId Yc
Portals Evorlas,ing;" from "rhe REDEEM
tion," Gounod.
Tie program for the recital was ss- foi-
lows:
Organ hec.;ai--Ga) Ave Maria, Arcadct-
Lissl, (bJ Improvisation, (c) Mnrchc
1othiquc. salome, Mr. Ecbard Henry
Warren; chOrus CD Apgvi- = olson Clark,
dr. Robert Bonner; lecIstivc and aria,
'theSorruws OF Death" a. d "1he Night
Drlarlior." from "a Hymn OF Praise"
M,ndcls.otn, Mr. Mackerzie Goruon,
organ. lr. 8. y. wnitne. ta) iuvocatioo,