Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-08-07

group of miners who, with jests and
jeers, bad met her supplications for
charity.
"Get out of thisl' one shouted.
eve have had enough of you"
"She's got plenty of money!" cried
aqother.
"Wears diamonds in the city,
sneered third.
sect out No beggars allowed I"
they all shouted.
"Muerte a los gringos!" repeated
the woman, with q shrek which would
have chilled the blood of men unused
to her vicious ways. The crowd pushed
and jostled her, and laughed at heI
murderous denunciation.
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 woman" said he,
'here 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 un-
Kindly"
'He'd better be savin' them two
dollars to help out the payroll Of the
Bull Domingo" remarked a saloon
keeper, who had been keeping slate
for nearly three months for the ac-
commodation of vorkmen on that
property.
'It's 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 q
time forgot the Mexican woman who
occasionally came up from Durango
on q begging expedition.
Sonora Rosslina Ortiz once enjoyed
q happy home in the City of Mexico,
her birthplace. She had all the op-
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 Senor Ortiz had
died, leaving his widow penniless.
Poverty and sin were her undoing,
and when the Colorado mining fever
filled the mountains with fortune
seekers of high and low degree, Sonora
Ortiz drifted to Durango. She had
sunk so low in vice and crime that
she was accounted we'll fitted for any
thing from begging and petty thiev-
ing, even to the cutting of throat.
She was married to hardened char
ncter known as 'Robber Dan," an
American whose life both in and out
of the penitentiary was n series of
misdeeds. He had earned his title as
she had earned hers They. were well
mated in their criminal careers,
though the woman thus far had known
no more of prison life than is afforded
by county iails.
The i1-treatment she had received at
Tho hands and tongues OF the miners
at Rico had burned into her soul like
q hot iron, though the wound was
largely healed by the soft words and
silver SO kindly bestowed by John
er to be sBB sBe fo earg sne heP
ST death to all-save her own race
Ind equally incapacitated to insure the
blessings which she had invoked,
neither her curses nor her prayers
we're needed. However, none who
knew her had any faith in Black Rosa's
possession of good will toward anyone
II American or European blood.
Even Robber Dan S male companions
tn crime-who formed the most no.
Lorious and daring band of robbers in
Bouthern Colorado-did not escape
The vindictive spirit Of Black Rosa
But the woman was useful to them !;
and, when plentifully supplied with
drink, there was no crime too black
Tor her wicked heart, nor scheme too
deep for her cunning brain. If she
possessed single redeeming trait. no
,ne had been able to discover it.
Durango was ablaze with the glory
Of frontier life-a glory which comes
but once in the lifetime of q new town.
But there was then little regard felt
for the future by the fortune-hunters
who swarmed the streets and filed up
the hotels and held high revelry in
the saloons and dance halls OF that
aew camp.
Honest men with capital, seeking to
double their investments in fort
night, stood on the same level Of asso.
,ietiop with the horse tAi9f and tho