The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-16

The chances of finding gold near the
MoJaVe desert are as great as they ever
We're, for California is still the golden
heart of the world The only obstacle is
that much Of the gold lands are already
owned, and to reach the unprospected por-
tions the seekers must go into the danger
Gus place hitherto avoided by miners.
1t is only during the dry season that the
Red Cross will seek TO restrain travel
ers from venturing into the desert. In
the wet season they can do so with the
greatest comfort The air is then very
soft and clear and the ground is covered
with the most beautiful flowers. Those
visiting it then can not realize the desc
lation of a few, weeks before, and pathetic
scenes take place among seekers after lost
friends.
A lady, whose husband. a venturesome
traveller, was lost, presumably in the
Mojave, started out TO look for the body.
The dry season had passed away and
about a month of the wet season had pro-
crossed. Being a woman Of means she
obtained a stage, and with extra mules
for long search in the desert she started
out of Banning to cross to Yuma. The en-
tire desert was to be tranVerSed foot by
foot and the mans body was to be recov-
cred if it took months of search. Il shall
know him. she kept asserting positively,
land 1 shah take his bones home with
me-
The ride across the desert was made in
twenty days. Five hours a day was all
the time they travelled, for the hours We're
slow from constant hunting, and 1t took
many days. Many times the stage was
nearly overturned by the skulls project
ing above the sand; and the bones or the
horses, hidden now under the lovely YER
dure, tripped the coach animals and sent
them downward lying kicking and Strug-
Cling among the skeletons Of their kin.
In sight of houses the woman gave or
ders to recross the desert by another path.
Follow every known trail" she said,
land we shall find him. If we do not, we
will off desert
by step and foot by foot.
In vain they tried to dtssuade her. The
return was made by a more northern
path but unsuccesSfully; and, still search
ing, they turned to come back again. The
last few days of the second return trip
the devoted wife was out upon the
ground most of the way, searching and
never firing, among the grueSome objects
along the trail. For miles at a time the
stage would not halt, for the ground
was smooth and fair; and then an omi-
nous JOLT a stumbling of the horses, and
the stage would come to a standstill,
while the search was being made in the
new spot Of death.
At length. after crossing and recross-
ing the desert as many times as the
drivers would consent to, and sending to
the outskirts fepea teddy for provisions,
the search was abandoned at Yuma.
He is gone and l cannot find him,
moaned the woman to the crowd of SYM
pathizers gathered around the station
where the stage puH6u up, LoI d4l lldA
heard of the strange traveller and her
dismal search.
you may be thankful he died outright,
maam," blurted out one of the toughest
of the men. Suppose he had been like
this poor Teller we brought in one day.
when he was blind from burn and heat"
AS he spoke he pointed TO a window,
barred and lowed, in an attic Of the sta
ton, which was also the tavern of the
place. There, with face pressed against
the irons, distorted face peered out max
ing the most idiotic grimaces.
my husband, my husband" shrieked
the woman, falling forward in a dead
faint.
And so it was Driven insane, as SO