The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-07-13
MINERS SUGGESTIONS.
One OF Them Has to DO With Strikes Die
covered . Friday.

One Of Them Has to DO With Strikes Dis
covered % . Friday.
Superititions of miners are among
the curiosities of mental phenomena
which are past finding out. as witness
a scrap Of conversation in Creole camp
one evening recently:
Halo. Dave! That strike at the
Dug Out is 4 big thing. just bin up
there
mo good. Charley. 1t hooded it
SELF" was the reply.
I'm what styleY'
1T were a Friday job. Pay dirt on
Friday are a devils gift
'.Onless there's u heap of it. Then
it'll do"
1.-The more there is. the worse for
the finders objected Dave. 1T cusses
'em all the more. Over on Grip 1.-THE
short name for Cripple creekl a fat
streak was struck in the Davis mine
one Friday morning. None of the boys
thought what day it was, they were SO
tickled, but after doing a little work to
find out if it was the real cream, they
all got blind drunk and kept tanked
up full for a week. Just a week, and
it was Friday when they got back to
work, you see.''
Had anybody stolen the mine?"
Not yet. 1t were all there, and as
they went further in it got better'n
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
flowed they could take it to Denver
bctter'n to send it by express, and they
hired a 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 a 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
of ton n n half of silver?''
''Certain and sure. You see. part of
EN- was galoots from the mill and
knew all about how things was fixed,
and l heern part was from the sheriH's
Office to keep order and see there was a
fair divide. Most anybody could be a
agent in them times
"Well?''
Yes, and that hold-up was a Friday
morning. They got to Denver with
the other half of the stuff, got re-
ceipt for it and sold her at big shave
I reckon they got pretty nigh $4,000,
but it didn't do EN- no good. They
had worked hard and KEEP sober a good
while, and wanted little blowout.
They started in by getting too drunk
for any use, and that made EN- too
speckelate in the faro and monte bust
ness and in two weeks they were
cleaned out. One sobercd 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 bums.''
''Rnt there was good stuff left there
yet
"0h. plenty. 1t were good for big
money, but the boys was in debt con-
siderable. and SO they had 20 mortgage
her. Some fellow there was always
looking for Il chance like that. They
paid their little debts and worked hard
for week. Then they had fight
among themselves. and two knocked
off work and got drunk. T'other stuck
to biz few days and then he got
drunk. Pretty soon things got so bad
nobody'd trust 'em. and when the
mortgage como due the Davis was sold
meas'ly cheap. Some spectators got
her, and they took out pretty nigh on
to six million dollars before she gin
out
"Well, I don't want no Friday in
mine.'
Nor too. ''-Cincinnati Enquirer.