The Washington times., 1895-03-10
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POINTS ABOUT PILGRIMS.

A very modest and uDassuming man fs
Mr.. John KAISER, mining expert from
Globe, AriZ, who is at the Hotel Raleigh,
although he possesses a great many titles
to distinction, and wears in his scarf
Mexican opal, set round with diamonds,
which can not be equaled in the United
States.
Mr.. KAISER is a Cripple Greek pioneer,
and he was the first man TO turn a shovel
full of earth in what is now the greatest
gold mining region III the world. He came
to this country when about twelve years
old, and after knocking about New York
city for while he worked his way west
ward and brought up finally in Deadwood,
OAK. when that town was a prosperous
mining camp. He has since then followed
gold mining as q business, and has tried
his luck successfully in California, Dakota,
New Mexico, and Arizona.
When Cripple Greek was being prospected
Mr.. KAISER decided to take a shy at it, and
he was one of the leading citizens of the
place, during its rapid growth from shanty
camp OF dozen souls to town OF 10 600
people. When he first went there he was
employed as an expert and engineer, but he
soon went into mining on his own account,
operating claims of his own which he sold,
always reinvesting the proceeds in the camp.
He is now working in the interests of the
gold mines in the neigborhood of Globe,
AriZ., which he says will, with little
development, become the greatest gold
fields in the world. They have wood and
water in abundance, right by the mines, and
every facility for successfully operating
them.
The ore averages from $50 to $40 a ton,
and Mr.. KAISER says the day is not far
distant when the mines OF Globe, AriZ.,
will excel Leadville's famous record Of
$50 100000 in twelve years.
II witnessed an instance of the sum-
mary manner in which card sharpers are
treated west of the Rockies during re-
cent trip through the mining regions,
said Mr.. A. E. White, OF Los Angeles, Cal,
at the Randall last night.
1T was in small camp in the southern
part OF Arizona, which, of course, con-
tanned saloon to every two dozen men. |
happened to drop into one of these fire.
water dispensaries one evening during the
progress of a game Of draw 1t was
three-handed affair, two of the partici
pants being evidently miners, but the third
was dressed in clothes savorng more of
Eastern civilization. After several games,
during which luck seemed to be going
steadily against the two miners, the bar
tender, who had been closely watching the
game, slipped out and held whispered
consultation with the proprietor.
After his little confab he again turned
his attention to the players, and for several
more hands he watched the stranger rake
in the scads of the two miners, who had al
ready lost $500 or $500 between them.
Apparently satisfying himself that the game
ac mi no "a rp he hp no In r
and got down large bandana handker.
chief, and with il he softly approached
the lucky player, and in a twinRling had
him blindfolded and stretched out on the
floor He was deprived of his weapons,
his winnings Were taken from him and re-
turned to the two miners, and he was es
corted to the door of the saloon and gently
but firmly admonished to visit some other
locality. He waited for no second invi-
tation, but made tracks for the railroad
station, and has not been seen since in that
locality
Several gentlemen Were discussing the
recent trial of Capt Howgate aud embezzle-
ments in general in the corridor of the Eb-
bitt yesterday evening, and Mr.. George K.
Haines. of Dayton, Ohio, said.
The coolest robbery of any large sum of
money which ever came under my notice
took place in a small town in my State
dDOut three years ago, ana OttdslOUei COLI
siderable talk at the time. 1t was the rob
berry OF $16o 600 by an express messenger.
He took the package containing the money
from the express office and went out and
secreted il in some secure place, and on his
return. of course he found the office in a
state OF widest excitement. He asked what
oceasioned the disturbance and was told
Of the theft of the money, whereupon he
very coolly informed them that there was
no use to raise such a row about it. as he
had taken it,
He was arrested. and frankly admitted
having taken the money and said that he
was willing to compromise with the COM
pany. IL the president of the express com
pany would draw up and sign paper
pledging himself not 10 prosecute he would
return one-half the money; otherwise he
would serve his term. He said that he
would only get fifteen years at the outside,
with over three years off for good behavior,
and he knew of no way in which he could
earn $3.50. 600 in that time
ITO end the story, his terms We're finally
agreed 20. The officials of the company
by compounding felony, rendered it inn
possible to prosecute him without them
selves getting into trouble and the Young
man took his $50 ,000 and went West. He
was afterward shot in saloon row in
Creede, Col"
Tombstone, Ariz.. got its name?" in
quired Mr. Charles S Murray, of Santa Fe,
Y. NJ, of a Times man at the Metropolitan
last night. 1T is not, as many suppose,
the result of a mere freak or fancy, but the
natural outcome of events which signalized
the birth of the town, and the story is an
interesting one.
"Esteban BroDknow, a Hungarian gentle
man, was the first to locate the rich silver
mines in that locality, which was then in
tested by savagcs, but just as he was getting
his operations well under way he fell a
victim to his Mexican operators. Three
more attempts were made to work the
mines, but their promoters were success
lively assassipated, when in the month of
June, 1877, miner by the name of f. H.
Schieffelin, aman ofenergy and intelligence,
decided to make an effort to work the
mines
"on disclosing his intentions of pros
pecting them to some other miners, they
said to him, Your first prospect had better
be for a tombstone, and when we pass by
your grave we will write your epitaph ;
This melancholy reference to the fate of
his predecessors did not deter him, but it
suggested to him the name which he after
ward gave to the district-Tombstone
He. however, more fortunate than the
others, after persistent and untiring labor
finally got the mines TO working success
fully"