Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-06-14
Mln-a's suPERs1lTloNs.
One of Them Has to Do with Strikes Dis
covered on Friday.

One of Them Has to DO with Strikes Dis.
covered on Friday.
Superititions OF miners are among
the curiosities of mental phenomena
which are past finding out as witness
scrap of conversation in Cree ie camp
one evening recently:
s'Hallo, Dave! That strike at the
Dug Out is a big thing. just bin up
there
mo good, Charley. 1t hooded it.
SELF was the reply.
I'm what style?"
1T were Friday job. Pay dirt on
Friday are devils gift"
"onless there's heap of it. Then
it'll do"
The more there is. the worse for
the finders. objected Dave. sit cusses
EN- all the more. Over on Grip the
short name for Cripple creek fat
streak was struck ia the Davis mine
one Friday morning. None of the boys
thought what day it was, they were so
ticlxled, but after doing little work to
find out if it was the real cream, they
all got blind drunk and kept tanked
up full for week. just week, and
it was Friday when they got back to
work, you see."
Had anybody stolen the mine?"
mot yet. 1t were all there, and as
they went further in it got bettern
better. In ten weeks they took off
forty-six wagon loads to the mills. and
it gin em back silver worth ninety
fiue thousand dollars. The owners
lowed they could take it to Denver
better'n to send it by express, and they
hired car over to the Springs and had
the pure stuff loaded in. Then they
stayed there till two in the morning to
guard it. Jest then along came lot
of agents with mules and carts and
carried off about half the bars, and
left the three fellers tied and gagged,
locked in the car"
"You don't say that agents carried
off a ton n half of silver?"
Certain and sure. You see, part of
'em was galoots from the mill and
knew all about how things was fixed,
and heern part was from the sheriff S
Office to keep order and see there was a
fair divide. Most anybody could be q
agent in them times.'
"Well?"
Eyes, and that hold-up was Friday
morning. They got to Denver with
the other half of the stuff, got re.
ceipt for it and sold her at big shave
! reckon they got pretty nigh $4,000.
but it didn't do 'em no good. They
had worked hard and KEEP sober good
while, and wanted little blowout
They started in by getting too drunk
for any use, and that made 'em too
rich for any sense, SO they began to
| speckelate in the faro and monte bust
ness, and in two weeks they were
cleaned out. One sobered up afore the
| others, and he had about one hundred
dollars left and they got back to the
Davis one Friday night looking like
three old buns"
''But there was good stuff left there
yet"
"Oh, plenty. 1t were good for big
money, but the boys was in debt con
siderable, and SO they had to mortgage
her. Some fellow there was always
looking for a chance like that. They
paid their little debts and worked hare
for a-week. Then they had fight
among theirselv y and two knocked
off work and got trunk. Tother stuck
to biz few days and then he got
drunk, Pretty soon things got so bat
nobody'd trust 'em, and when the
mortgage come due the Davis was sole
meas'ly cheap. Some spectators go
her, and they took out pretty nigh on
to six million dollars before she gir
out"
well, I don't want no Friday il
mine"
Nor too. Cincinnati Enquirer.