Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-03-21

n Could See the Candle Flicker"
sut II their claims In the other days
speak Of, when a man struck II rich
he went out ON the causeway and pro-
claimed his great lrck. He spent all
his money in adding to the general
;oy0usbess OF the camp, and made no
bluff at work until his means for in
ducins celebration We're wholly ex-
hausted
Nearly all the bonanza strikes have
been made by accident. There was
Adams famous luck over in the San
lila range Adams said he was de-
sendant of the family that had so
many presidents and signers OF the
Declaration in it. | always set him
Town for liar-he came from Elgin.
ILL., He was invariably making this
Declaration of Independence play
z-len he should have been doing as
sessment work This mans name was
John Quincy Adams-same as the last
president of the ame-and he never
Iet you 90 to sleep in ignorance of the
fact. Why Providence should pick out
such a man to shower favors on | new
n could imagine 1t was his idiotic
s.arelessness that made him a pluto
crat. Any man with a morsel of sense
would. have never have got rich as he
did. He was always prospecting
around in the most unpromising spots.
He packed Jack load of plumber with
aim. pans, and picks, and shovels and
powder. besides his grub. One day he
8as projecting around the Sandia hills.
thinking he was looking for float, and
letting his heart swell with family
bride. lie had his baversack slung
hyer his shoulder and among other
rack in ii were ten or twelve cartridg-
% for blasting. His ma gnifying glass
lay at the top of the bag. Adams sat
DOWN against rock to rest. And the
glass focused the sun 80 that Ii set
ire to the canvas bag. Adams said
subsequently he made the quickest
play of his life I'm getting from under
that fiaversack strap. He hit one ridge
aud landed forty rods away behind an
other rock. He had Just reached coy
ar. and. bling went Off his blasting pow
der Adams went back. cut Of the
llest curiosity. to see what kind Of q
ilole II had made. He found the rock
he had leaned against scattered al
large over the face of the earth. The
iIayerack had fallen INTO q sort of Grew
III. at4the foot. and the explosion had
lifted everything into the air Amone
DINER lUluSEs IL DDetitu VEIN vi iitf
milling ore running $500 to the ton
That man Adams sold tenth interes
FOR x1U.G0O. II was worth ten times a
much but he deeded money for descl
upment He made more than n mill
:5n.. and they are working at the yeii
vet Adams is blocding It back Il
Massachusetts. He bought some q
me property Of the old family bael'
snd. naturally. gilded and Vanished i
He says the Adamses are or enrtl n
ne second time"
Il never let fewer than three me
crk in one Of my Mines said a
ownet Of property In the Clear Cree
district. cit may be an idle notion
Afit f-baye been haunted by the ide
flaat ] cfme near committing mu
der % the most ld-bIooded eharacte
few years ago. IF there had bee
three of us. instead OF two partner,
The thought would never have come
me. and wouldn't have the ba
Creams that disturb me OCCASIONAL.
have never since put myself In y.
sition where possible homicide woul
aot have at least one witness. | wi
DOT work alone with another man In
nine.
.jegot my start up In Farncomb Hi
Tim souther was my partner. "