The Opelousas courier., 1894-05-26

group of miners who, with tests and
jeers, had met her supplications fol-
charity.
sect out of thisr" one shouted.
"We have had enough of YOU"
'sshe's got plenty of money" cried
another.
"Wears diamonds in the city, u
sneered a third.
"Get out! No beggars allowed! p
they all shouted.
"Muerte a los gringos!' repeated
the woman, with a shrek which would
have. chilled the blood of men unused
to her vicious ways. The crowd pushed
and jostled her, and laughed at her
murderer Accommodation.
Manager France, of the Bull Do
mingo, heard the disturbance between
the miners and the miserable old wo-
man as he came up the gulch.
Here, my good womap," said he,
there are two silver dollars. You had
better not stay around here" he
added, kindly, as she took the money
and called blessings upon his generous
soul. "The men are not used to giving
aims, and they will only treat you I'M
kindly
He'd a better be savin' them two
dollars to help out the payroll of the
Bull Domingo" remarked . saloon
keeper, who had been keeping a slate
for nearly three months for the ac-
commodation of workmen on that
property.
cts a woman as always breaks a
suckers heart" urged a miner. And
then the crowd fell to discussing the
material affairs Of a camp, and for a
time forgot the Mexican woman who
occasionally came up from Durango
on q begging expedition.
Sonora Rosalina Ortiz once enjoyed
a happy home in the City of Mexico,
her birthplace. She had all >55he OPP
portunities Of education, both in
Spanish and English. and in her early
married life had travelled much. But
misfortune came to her in the death
of her husband and two of their three
children, after the loss of all the prop
erty they possessed. They had for
several years made their home in the
United States, where Senior Ortiz had
died, leaving his widow penniless.
Poverty and sin were her undoing,
and when the Colorado mining fever
filed the mountains with fortune
seekers of high andlow degree, Sonora
Ortiz drifted to Durango. She had
sunk so low in vice and crime that
she was accounted well fitted for any
thing from begging and petty thiev-
ing, even tosthe cutting of a throat.
She was married to d hardened char
acter known BIS 'Robber Dan" an
American whose life both in and ont
OF the penitentiary was a series of
misdeeds. He had earned his title &c
she had earned hers. They were well
mated in their criminal careers.
though the woma thus far had known
no more Of prison life than is afforded
by county jails.
The lll-treatment she had received at
the hands and tongues Of the miners
at Rico had burned into her soul like
. hot iron, though the wound was
largely healed by the soft words and
80 kindly bestowed by John
France. But, since she was not likely
ever to be able to carr ontsher threat
Of death to all-save her v race
and equally incapacitated to- insure the
blessings which she had invoked,
neither her curses nor her d
needed. However, none who.
her had any faith in Black Rosa's
possession Of good will toward anyone
81 American OF European blood.
Even Robber Dan 3 male companions
q crIme-who formed the most no
torious and daring band of robbers ID
Colorado-da not escape
The vindictive spirit IF Black Rosa.
3ft the woman was useful To them :
when plentifulY supplied with