The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-26

| 10 get at SO we SOLD out the hauling business
| and took passage on the sloop Carolina for
| Sacramento with about 5000 between US. Paid
| twenty-five cents pound for baggage, and the
boat only moved when the wind blew. Hotter
n blazes. Took seven days to make the trip.
H'gh?"
"What camp were you heading for?"
'Thats what I'm getting at 1t was Coloma
After we got to Sacramento we paid some Span
iards five bits pound to haul our baggage
| over there. Never saw such damnable roads
| in my life. Had to grab roots and limbs of
trees to stay on the earth. Did you ever see
| that kind of roads7 High? We didn't know
| thing about mining, but we took up a claim
and went TO work.
| Mr.. Davis hesitated here few seconds and
the reporter ventured to inquire whether or
| not the operations proved successful
"Did they prove successful? Well, we were
| making hundred dollars a day hauling
| trunks and other things in San Francisco, and
| in Coloma we found thatwe had scraped up a
dollar between us for each day of the week we
stayed there. Thomas was the most disguised
man ever saw, and we finally sold out all the
sugar, tea and flour we had for 50 a pound and
started to walk back to Sacramento. We had
been living on fapjacks made of -four and
water fried in a little bacon grease. High?
Then the thought of that one hundred-dollar-
| day job we had abandoned was about all we
could stand"
Couldn't you get mules?"
''Wouldn't spend time hunting them up
We couldn't get out of there fast enough to
please ourselves Hadn't had square meal or
a decent sleep since We left San Francisco
Worst place 1 ever saw. High. After we left
Coloma we came upon family camped in
green spot and they had some apple pie and
loaf of homemade bread. Great blazes, how
we loaded up on that pie! Pretty good?
believe it was about the best 1 ever
saw. High? Couldn't hardly walk when
we got through. 1 had q jaeger mus
ket, pepper box pistol, one pound
of powder and thousand percussion caps. A
man OF the party, who was afraid of the
Digger Indians offered me six ounces of gold
dust for it, and sold out on the spot. Musket
weighed fifteen pounds and only cost me So
The next night we arrived at Sacramento, and
/ found some carpenters building house. I
crawled under the bench where I found
some shavings and went to sleep. Never
slept so well in my life. Slept two
days High? Thomas got sick and died. 1
went up to sutterville, three miles above
Sacramento, where Ex-Governor McDougal and
a man named Blackburn were trying to start a
town and met some of the passengers of the
Gray Eagle. thought an investment in land
would pay, so bought a block for $500, pay
ing part down and giving my note for the rest
Ex-Governor Stoneman was there with about
six soldiers and doctor, the standing army of
the West. I mention this because one evening
fell senseless with congestion of the brain and
the doctor dosed me up with quinine and
brought me out all right. High.
81 got very sick of the place and sold out my
property to man named Billy Kershaw Then
L went back to San Francisco. Never should
have left it. Don't ever leave a good thing
H'gh?"
sHello, Davis" exclaimed B. F. Porter. a
itoIic no
scene. 81 see your old partner, Jim Fair is
still having lots of trouble"
Eyes; also lots of wives" responded Davis.
'He must have about 300 of them by this time.
H'gh?"
NJ. NJ. Foote has queer theory that Dr. Gard
ner of Napa is the real person responsible for
the bribing OF the jury in the Mcdonald case.
His method of reaching this conclusion is as
involved as the problem of whether the hen or
the egg was made first.
s'The other day. he explains, s'Hurley said
to me: 'Mr. Foote, I'm feeling dreadful See.
I've lost nearly forty pounds Then he showed
how his waist had fallen away, and finally de-
clared that the fault lay with Livernash
"'That fellows glance goes through me. he
said. whenever he looks at me nv flesh
grows cold all over and don't know what Pm
going to do next Really, Mr.. Foote, think
he's hyp-not-issed me-"
Now, there's where the point of the matter
Hes Foote points to the fact that Dr. Gardner
claims to have restored Livernash to his mental
equilibrium by hypnotic influence, and Foote
also insists that the doctor has added materially
to the lawyers mental strength by imparting
portion of his own.
snow" Foote says, at was only by hypno.
tlzlng Llvernash that Dr. Gardner made the
attorney sane. The new mental strength of
Livernash has enabled him. Hurley EXPLAINS
to overcome the latter's will and make him do
strange things. So, you see, if Hurley tells the
truth. ne is being influenced by Liyernash.
named is therefore the one who is really S,,i1t
OF attempting to bride the Mcdonald jury"