San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-03-01

baseball team hired me for mas
cot. II they lost they were to kick
me and IL they won they were to
give me $40. The club lost both
games and they kicked me and
made me walk back from Fresno.
zone day / was walking along
Kearney street, San Francisco, and,
being hard up, L asked a man for
help. He gave me so cents. An
other man who saw it said he
would give me chance to earn
$40. / accepted, but it was the
hardest money ever earned. The
fellow put me in a dry goods box
and shipped me from San Fran
cisco to Sacramento. 1t was in
tended as a joke, the box being sent
as New Years present to young
lady. They forgot to mark this
side up with care on the box,
and the eXpressman had me
on my head most Of the time. 1t
was Sunday when the box got to
Sacramento, and nobody would
open it till Monday. l was pretty
nearly played out by that time.
Shortly after this man at Wood
wards garden, San Francisco,
hired me to black me up, stand me
in front of a canvas and let the
people throw base balls at me at
the rate of three shots for a quar-
ter. If they hit me they got
cigar; if they hit me in the head
they got two. Some fellow hit me
with base ball in the face,
knocked me down and broke my
nose. The work was too hard, so
1 quit, and the man wouldn't pay
me anything.
"My next experience started on
Market streets San Francisco, agian.
A man met me and showed me
telegram, which at the time L
didn't know was a forgery. 1t
purported to be from the Police
Gazette and offered me $1,000 and
a belt il l would 60 from Frisco to
New York in $50 days pushing a
wheelbarrow. | got an outfit and
started from Seaside garden.
Thousands of people were there to
see me off and they paid the man
% cents apiece. When L got forty
miles on my way. travelling by
night and resting by day, heavy
team knocked me and the wheel
barrow of bridge into creek. 1t
was night and / didn't see the team.
7 .o1l &bo ,.,hnnl harrOuy and fnntad /
it back to Sacramento, where the
governor gave me $40 and three
DAYS to get out of town. He said
was a nufsapce. So went back to
San Francisco and there began
another hard experience. 49,,
"You know the government pays
$50 for information leading to the
arrest OF deserters. Some one gave
me away and got that $50. They
me and sentenced ,
me to three years at hard labor. 1t !
was hard prison. They set us 70
breaking stone. One night 1 lay
in bed and thought o. how to get ,
out. had seen people with fits on. {
So / began to shake just like them. r
They took me to the hospital,
off my ball and chain and
gave me better food. The doctors
tried to see If 1 was playing off. -,
They burned the soles OF my feet !
with hot poker, a thing that is
not supposed to affect people with
fits. 1t hurt so that cried out and .
gave myself away. They put me >
in a dungeon for three days on
bread and water. When released / )
made up my mind 30 get out or
kill myself. So ] fell over a cliff
Durposely and was badly hurt.
Then they let me out OF prison on
jhe ground OF disability.
"When all the great pedestrians
we're in the six days walking
match at San Francisco, l was en-
cred. More money was wagered
IN me that L would not stay the
Xix days than all the others put I
together. But 1 STAGED and COW
,red 800 miles and wap money for
ny hackers. / int Aed to cover
100 miles in Madis& Square gar 3
len, giving occssioI songs and
lances on the track. Is
at also let any one bit me with q