The St. Johns herald., 1895-08-08
FATE OF GOLD Hvri7eRs.
Driven Insane by Thszst VTl.zle Seeking
 Fortunes o;a -tlse e,o.nraso Door.

Driven Insane by Th;-at VgI.ise Seeking
 Fortunes On tIse Colorado Desert.
 8fisfortunes that have overtal,on so many wretched desert gold huntera seems to have no effect c1 oeAer seek CTS after fortune, says the Pol-a Springs fCol.) correspondent of the New York Telegram. Perhaps TO fate has been so sad as that of the unknown pros pector who was carried into Yuma re- gently insane for the want of water and food The unhappy rlan put in an appearance with his nurse at the romantic village Of Dur-li1 oa the Southern Pacific track. DurInid iS ia the heart of the desert. an3 few T1iles from Salton. ThieaaI V5icano are the dreariest spots in lhe worl1. For nany miles in the vicinity of Volcano Spring nothing grovs. The Cr1u2l i treaeh- erous, for un1or it's seenilyly firm e1- terior are boiling Eud .Eclis. There is shelter for neither bel5t nor bird. Even the miserable sage bTush gets 10 hospitality from the lem soil. i pitt Hess SUI by day ant hot wind by night greet the travcic7s who cross the desert in their hpnt for gold deposits. Here the prospecter Grst brought him self to notice by as-zinCs for shovel.
 i've got dead burro out wonder, '' ne remarked, gazing to the west, and l want to bury it.
 The shovel was given him and away he started. He came back some time after and said he had buried the car- cass some siy.-eet Ealer the ground. IL was considered stran1a at the time. as no one here ever thinks Of burying an animal. The dry air desic2tes the body as completely as if 1t had been subjected to tae heat of al oven. He hung about the section hous9 for few hours and then left f2r Durmil, where he mentionc1 his loss. There he stayed, refusing all offers of food. bat picking up his subsistence from such foo1as he could find about the plaee-dry bits of bread, which even a coyote would have scorned, he ate greedily. Then he asked for shovel and announced his intention to dig ID his donkey, as he had found Q sovereign remedy against death. The shovel yas gi7cn hin, and. 
 three or fou- days, the crazy man dis inferred the ren2ins. lie came back, saying that the donkey refused to get up and live. The section men sent word that they had aa ins2ae man Cn their hands and feared he would die, as he refused food. The condnetor of q freight train vas ordered 5o take him into Yuma, and essaye1 the task. Tho wretched man womb ran like q deer from his captors, offering violence to anyone who came near him. Finally one man moro astute than the rect said:
 Look here. the superintendent wants to sec you in Los Angeles and pay you for the donkey you lest"
 If that i5 what y0l yg2nt -ae for I'll come" he answered, ''cn3 # yol prom iSe not totic nc up Iii l5e qaiet."
 He was taken into 9um2, bat all cf- forts to discover his identity provc1 un- availing A short tine previously another man came into DarEid raving mad. His tongue was blecG, his eyes rolled and glittercd and ho was in the direst extremity. Water end food ju- diciously administered e2vcJ his life. Though his new foRnd friends ba2gcd him not to follow the f,sci1iaticns of gold hunting he refused t listen to reason, scornel the kindness of section 'uen, upbraided them for being slaves and working for wages, and continued his hopeless quest of IlGciy2 gold