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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-08-27

land. Once Terry, bowie knife in hand,
was overpowered by officers as he
sought to ave his wife from the con-
sequences of che of her outbursts, For
this, husband and wife, he an ex-Su-
preme Justice of California, were sent
to prison. They served their terms,
Some time after they were released
they met Judge Field at a railroad eat
ing station, Judge Terry slapped the
face Of the Supreme Justice Of the
United States. His hand had hardly
touched Fields face when a shot rang
out and Terry fell dying at his wife's
feet. David Maggie, desperate and IL
fighter, imported from the. frontier for
the purpose, secretly commissioned
Deputy United States Marshal, was
there as Fields body guard. His was
the bullet that killed Judge Terry and
the United States court took Maggie
away from the state courts that would
have prosecuted him as a murderer and
justified his decd.
For a while the Sharon-Terry-Field
ravelling must be dropped, for it
leads far from the Bell house, and in
cldents more Immediate to it press for
attention, but the thread back
to the stored mansion before it ends
IN the most pathetic incident of all.
One morning in October, 1892, Thomas.
Bell was found dying at the foot of the
great staircase. Somehow he had fallen
over the baluster rail at the head of the
stairs. He died without telling how
it happened. 1t seemed impossible that
it should have been an accident, vet
Bell was reputed to be worth twelve
millions, and nobody could understand
why he might have thrown himself
over the railing to the marble floor.
There were dark whispers of a still
more terrible explanation, but nobody
knew and nobody dared voice an ac-
cusation.
Nanny Pleasant had long been
Bells h~ousekeeper. Though he had a
wife and grown children they never
seemed to have a voice in the govern
ment Of the home. 1t was NANNY
Pleasant, shrewd, sspotlessly aproned,
suspicious and watchful, who guarded
the great glass doors. No visitor ever
passed that portal without first coming
under her inspection. Her word was
law. Her ostensible master or mistress
might be in plain sight at a window.
but this ~impeturable old dame would
tell the visitor nobody was at home.
If the visitor was O. stranger and asked
for any member of the family he had
first to tell Nanny Pleasant his bust
ness there before his caro- even went
in. But if there was anything to hide
nobody knew it. To this day nobody
has told why this city mansion was
guarded like a heleaguered castle.
Nanny Pleasant will never tell. She
is more than 80 years old now, and re-
ported on her death bed, but she still
holds the reins over that household.
-Four years had passed since the mys-
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-08-27
Murderer Caught In q Lumber Camp,

Murderer Caught in a Lumber Camn.
Scranton police were notified the 9TH
er day of the capture of George Van
horn, who murdered Mrs. Josephine
Westcott in Scranton last August, at a
numbering camp in Illinois, known as
Wadena. Van Horn had boarded with
Mrs. Westcott and was in love with her
but she repulaed him and finally or.
dered him away. He secured entrance
to the cellar by IN outside door, and
when she came down to get edibles for
supper sprang upon her and ecu her
throat with q razor.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-08-27
Has u Sweet and Powerful voice.

Mime Schulz was born in New YCrI
city, and, aside from brief engagement;
at the Boston Howard Athenaeum anG
in Philadelphia, her professional
career has been confined to appear
ances in New York city and Brook.
Ign. She first appeared publicly at the
old Bowery theater, singing in the
choruses and assuming small operate
roles. Her first music hall engage
ment was at the Germania Assembly
rooms, in the Bowery, where she sany
for three months, going thence t.
Goeble's Music hall, in upper Third
avenue, where she remained nine
months, retiring only because the
building was torn down to make room
for a mercantile establishment. She
next appeared at Prospect Garden Mu-
sic hall, where she remained two years.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-08-27

almost every sensation that has stirred
the Pacific coast. 1t has always been
the House of Mystery.
Just now it is ruled by an old negro
woman. who sometimes exercises ty-
%rannical pow2r over the widow Of he
man who owned it and his children.
This wOman was nee a slave, the
story goes. She is now on her death
bed, and possibly that fact gives
courage to the eldest son Of the dead
man to bring suit against his mother
that the darkness Of that household
may be d~issipated and the old bag be
forced to loosen her grip upon the d.
vided family and its fortune. Every
body in the west knows this negro wo-
man, who has trailed through the
courts like a black shadow in case
after case involving the richest fam
lilies on the Pacific coast. Nanny
Pleasant is the name they all know
her by. How she came to California
is lost in the mazes of the tangled
stories that are told of early days on
the coast. It is enough to date her back
to the time when Senator William
Sharon was in the flush of his fortune,
s~quandering millions in his evil pleas
ures. 1t was boom time on the coast.
The Comstocks had yielded up their
falf a billion dollars worth of bullion,
and it was his share of this that en-
abled old Sharon, the most vicious
probably Of a circle of rich men, the
like of which had not existed since the
ancient regime, to defy every law and
conventionality. James G. Fair was
another Of this ilk. Thomas Bell, who
owned the House of Mystery. was an
other.
Sharon had started Nanny Pleasant
as the housekeeper of a magnificent
bachelors boarding house. The men
who frequented this place could pay
fortunes for discretion, and though
Nanny Pleasant has been twenty
times upon the witness stand only in a
single case ha, she betrayed what went
On in this house. Had she zone in for
~biackmailing the old woman could
have drained the richest pockets in
California, but there was a strain of
loyalty in her mixed blood that held
her true. She could afford it. 1t was in
this house that the saddest and most
dramatic romance of the west began.
Senator Sharon brought to the house a
beautiful, delicate, refined young south
;ern woman, who was then known as
Sarah Althea Hill. Long afterward
this girl claimed Sharon as her hus-
band produced the contract of mar
riage hat the California courts de-
cided was written by him. 1t was in
this house according to the testimony,
that the contract was drawn up, and
Nanny Pleasant was a witness to it.
There was CONSERVATION when Sarah
Althea Hill proclaimed herself William
Sharon's wife and sued him i'm the
courts for divorce. He was a million
aire twenty times over: She had moth
ing with which to oppose this fortune
until Nanny Pleasant threw all her
wicked savings into the scale against
the millionaire. That trial stands out
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-08-27
Explosion of u Powder House

The drying house of the st. Clair
powder mill at Wetherell Junction
caught fire and blew up a few days
ago. The fire started outside the build
Ing. No one was injured. The origin
of the fire is unknown,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-08-27
HOUSE Is ACCURSED,
THE BELL MANSION IN SAN
FRANCISCO.
1T is INTERVIEWER WITH MANY
OF THE SLOPES TRAGEDIES.
t Was to Its Portals That Senator
Sharon First Brought Sarah A.. Hill
The Killings OF millionaire Bell and
Judge Terry Recalled.
jnzae.za HE House Of Mys

terry is opened At
last. The old Bell
mansion on the
west side Of Octavia
street, between
Suffer and Bush,
San Francisco, is
about to give up
its secrets. For a
quarter of a CEN
fury this old house
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-08-27

the house being closed and torn down
at the end Of that time. The next Ell
gagement and the longest and most
noteworthy in her career, was at Zipp's
Casino, Brooklyn, where she opened
when George H. Huber took the man
agement, and remained for eight con
secutive years, saving the time con-
snmed in her bridal tour in Europe.
she having become the wife of Man
ager Huber at the end Of the second
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-08-27
THEATRICAL TOPICS.
CURRENT NEWS AND GOSSIP
OF THE STAGE.
The Latest Play of the Too Much
johnson Pattern-It Is Called Jack
RobiEson-Some Burlesque Stars
Notes OF the Stage.
ACK ROBINSON"

ACK ROBINSON"
a three act comedy,
by Walter S. Cra-
ven, was acted for
the first time on
any stage at MetZe-
rott & Luckett's
Columbia theater,
Washington, D. c.,
the other evening".
The plays deals
with the duplicity
Arizona silver belt., 1897-04-01
SUMMONS.

n the District Court Second Judicial Dis trict. Territory of Arizona in and for the County of Gila.
 Emma D. Williams. Plaintiff vs William A. Williams, Defendant.
 Action brought in the District Court of the Second Judicial District of the Territory of Arizona in and for the County of Ga and the complaint filed in said county of Gila, in the office Of the clerk of said District Court. The Territory of Arizona sends greeting to William A, Williams. Defendant
 You are hereby summoned and required to appear in an action brought against you by the pbove named plaintiff in the District Court of the Second Judicial District of the Territory of Arizona, in and for the County of Gila. and answer the complaint filed with the clerk of this court at Globe. in said county Ca copy of which complaint accompanies this sulnmons) within ten days (cxclusiye of the day of serv- ice) after the service upoh you of this sum mons-if served in this county; but if served out of rhe cohnty. and within this district then within twenty days. in all other cases thirty days-or judgmant by default w.ll be taken against you according to the prayer of said complaint.
 Ind you are hereby notified that if you fail to appear and answer the said complaint as above required, the said plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief demanded therein and 'ts and disbursements in this Lehalf ex- pended,
 Given under my hand and the seal of the
 District Court of the Second Judi ., cial District of the Territory of ....,.. Arizona in and for the County of
 Gila. this 10th day of March A. D.
 Is91
 o. N. CRIES WE'LL, Clerk.
 tt'iTst pub March lSiD
Arizona silver belt., 1897-04-01
SUM MONS.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT, SECOND Ju- dicial District, Territory of Arizona, in and for the County of Cha.
 Susie Gill, Plaintiff. vs. William Gill. De fendant.
 Action brought in the District Court of the Second Judicial District of the Territory of Arizona, in and for the county of Gila and the complaint filed in said county of Gila, in the c.fice of the clerk of said District Court
 The Territory of Arizona sends greeting to William Gill defendant You are hereby sum moned and required to appear in an action brought against you by the aboye-named plain tiff in the District Court Of the Second Judi. cial District of the Territory of Arizona. in and for the county of Gila. and answer the com plaint flied with the clerk ofthiS court at Globe in said county Ia copy of which complaint ac. companics this summons) within ten days (ex elusive of the day of scryice) after the service on you of this summons if served in this coun- ty; but if served out of the county, and within this district, then within twenty days in all other eases thirty days-or judgment by de. fault win be taken aga!ns; you according to the prayer of said complaint
 And you are hereby notified that if you fail to appear and answer the said complaint as above required the plaintiff win apply to the court for the relief demanded therein and costs and dh,Dursements in this behalf ex. pended
 Given under my hand and the seal of the Dis
 trict Court of the Second Judicial Dis
 trict of the Territory of Arizona, il and tsEALI for the county of Gila, this 23d day of
 February, A. D. 1897.
 O. N. CRESwELL 2-25-5w Clerk
Arizona silver belt., 1897-04-01
.pinina station.

sDining station.
 The scenic route of Arizona. The best route to California. The only north and south line in Arizona to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, peuifed forest clir dwellings great pine forests, Salt River Valley and numerous other points of interest.
 Through tickets to all points in the United States Canada and Mexico. Nos. I and con meet at Jerome Junction with trains of the U. V. & r. By, for Jerome. Connecting at Pres cott with stage lsnes for all principal mining camps; Gt Congress with stage lines for Harqua Hala station and Yarnell; at Phoenix with the Maricopa Phoenix Ky for points on the Southern Pacific Close connections made at Ash Fork with Santa Fe route fast trains to all points east and west. Trains for California leave Ash Foek at 7;l6 and s:is p. m., arriving in Los Angeles next afternoon at l:25 and San Francisco second morning at lOf5 Train for the east leaves Ash Fork at 5;55 a. m.
 F NJ MURPay. GEO NJ SARGENT. Pres. and Cen. Mgr. Gen. Fgt and Pass. Ag't.
 Prescott Arik. Prescott Ariy. E. R WELLS. Asst Gen Mgr. Prescott. Anz
Arizona silver belt., 1897-04-01
SUMMONS.

n the District Court. Second Judicial Dis. trtct, Territory of Aiizona in and for the County of Gila
 Louis Linduer, plaintif. ys. Mary Virginia Linduer defendant
 Action brought in the District Court of the Second Judicial District of the Territory of Arizona, in and for the County of Gila. and the complaint filed in said County of Gila in the office of the clerk of said District Court The Territory of Arizonl sends greeting to Mary Virginia Lnduer, defendant
 You are hereby summoned and required to appear in an action brought against you by the above named plaintiff in the district court of the Second Judicial District of the Terri. tory Of Arizona in and for the County of Gill, and answer the complaint tiled with the clerl, Of this court Ut Globe in said county Ca copy of which compain accompanies this sum mons) within ten days (exclusiye Of the day Of seryice) after uNe service upon you of this suInmons-if served in this county; but ii served out of the co mty. and within this dis trict, then within twenty days. in all other eases thirty days-or judgment by default will be taken against ycu according to the prayer Of said complaint.
 And yon are eereby notified that if you fai to appear 8id answer the said complaint as above required, the said plaintin will apply to the court Tor the relief demanded therein and costs and disbursements in this behalf ex pended
 Given under my hand and the seal of the Dis.
 trict Court of the Second Judicial Dis
 tsIct of the Territory Of Arizona. in IaEAI.l and for the County of Gila, this 10th
 day Of March A. D, lsg7
 o. Y. CRIES WE'LL. Clerk
 (First pub March is)
Arizona silver belt., 1897-04-01
Notice of Contest.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE.

UNITED STATFS LAND OFFICE. PRESCOTT Arizona. J an. l9. 1897. {
 Complaint having been filed in this office by William Crump against Charles E. Thomas for abandoning his Hd. E. No. i03o, made August % 1891, for the lots l. ?, 3 and 4 sec. 3, twp. 5 N, R. II F., Cla and Salt River Meridian, Gila county Arizona. with view to the cancella. tion of said entry contestant alleging that said Charles E. Thomas has wholly abandoned said entry and changed his residence there said entry and next prior to date of filing his affidavit of contest in the U. s. Land office at Prescott, Arizona and that said tract of land is not settled upon and cultivated by said Charles K. Thomas us required by law.
 The contestant filed his affidavit of contest in this office on the 10th day of Janary 1897 and also on said date filed in this office an am davt setting forth that after using due dili gence he, the said contestant, is unable to get personal service upon the said contestce and asks that said service be had by publication. The same is granted, and the said parties are hereby summoned to personally appear at the office of A. J. Howell, Esq., notary public in and for the county or Gila and Territory of Arizona, the office of said notary public being in the village of Tonto, Glla county. Arizona. on the 12th day of March, A. D. 1897, at 10 o'clock n. in., to respond and furnish testimony concerning said alleged abandonment. Hear ing before the register and receiver of the U. s, land office at Prescott, Arizona, on the 3oth day of March, A. D. 1897 at o'clock D. m.
 F. W. OSULLIvAN Register
Arizona silver belt., 1897-04-01
Notice of Forfeiture.

 To Lee B. Gaylord, or to whom it may con- cern:
 This is to notify you that we, co-owners in the Cedar Stump mining claim, situated in the Territory of Arizona county of Gla and more particularly described in Book No 4, of Gila County Mining Records. on page 40, have done and performed the annual work on said claim, as required by law, for the year 1896 This, therefore, is to notify you that if you do not pay your full proportion of the costs of said work, together with the cost of this ad- vertisement. within ninety days after the ex- piration of this notice, your interest in said mining claim as co-owncr will utterly cease, and by operation of law become the property of the undersigned.
 w. T. McNELLY,
 THEO H. HARRIS. Globe, Ariz., Jan II. 1897.
 (Jan l4-90d)
Arizona silver belt., 1897-04-01
Notice of Forfeiture.

To Larry J. Ryan, or to whom it may con cern,
 This is to notify you that l. as co-owner in the Wild and Wooey mining claim. situated in the Territory of Arizona. county of Gila. and more particularly described on page 25l, book No. [, of Gila County Mining Records. have done and performed the annual work on said claim for the year 1895.
 This, therefore. is to notify you that if you do not pay your full proportion of the costs of said work together with the costs of this ad- vertisement, within ninety days after the ex. piraton of this notice, your interest iH said mining claim as co-owner will utterly cease, and by operation of law become the property of the undersigned
 E. MCCOY. Globe, Ariz.. March II. 1897. C9O-dD
Arizona silver belt., 1897-04-01

The report of the Darkest Eng land" scheme for the Salvation Army for the last year shows that 3,23l,917 meals were supplied and 1889, ,246 nights lodging; 250l men were re- ceived into the factories, All into the first prison home, 1895 provided with employment, temporary or per mGnent, and 1885 women and girls re- ceived into rescue homes. Although there is no pretense of making the work self supporting, the shelters for food and lodings received over $19O, 900 from those sheltered; the city colony with many branches returned Sl70, 900 toward an expense of S493,- 900, and the farm colony, in spite of very many difficulties, came within S25, ,00O of meeting its expenditure of $25o, 900. N. Y. Independent.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-04-01
Notice of Forfeiture.

To Al Collins and Beu Bound, or to whom it may concern:
 This is to notify you that l, a co-owner in the Odd and Valley View mining claims situated In the Territory of Arizona, County of Gila. and more particularly described in Book No {. of Gila County Mining Records, on page IA. have done and performed the annual work on said claims as required by law, for the year 1896.
 This, therefore, is to notify you that if you do not pay your full proportion of the costs of said work. together with the cost of this ad- yertisement within ninety days after the ex- piration of this notice, your interest in said mining claims, as co-owners. will utterly cease and by operation of law, become the property of the undersigned.
 PATRICK ROSE Globe, Ariz.. Jan. 7 1891
 (Jsn. T-90d)
Arizona silver belt., 1897-04-01
MEXICAN PEARL FISHING.
The Annual Yield of the Gulf of Cali
 fornia is About S35O,OOO.

The agent of the English proprietors of the concession granted by the Mex. ican Republic for n monopoly of pearl fishing in the Gulf of California re- gently arrived in San Francisco and gave some interesting details of the present methods employed in their in- dustry, which has continued ever since the occupation of the country in the time of Cortez.
 The whole coast of the Gulf of Cali fornia abound in pearls, and the con sessions control the entire territory. Until within the last few years native divers were employed, and the depth to which they could descend did not exceed 35 feet. With the introduction of diving apparatus the limit of depth was increased to 30 fathoms. The best divers could formerly remain under water not to exceed two minutes. A modern diver thinks nothing of two hour stop in water 100 feet in depth, though at greater depths the stay is necessarily shortened on account of the enormous pressure of the superincum- bent water. A diver when upon the floor of the ocean looks about for the oyster, which he tears from the object to which it is attached and places it in a small bag hanging to rope, which is hauled into the boat at a given signal. Sometimes the number of oysters SC. cured is large, at other times only few are caught.
 The diver does not contine himself to the pearl oyster alone, but if he sees rare specimen of coral or new species of shell he places it in his bag and sends it to the surface, where 1t becomes the property of the concession and the source of its large income.
 Last year the value of the pearls harvested in Lower California was alone S350,0 900. In addition, 5000 tons of shells were exported, which were valued at S1, ,250, ,000 more. Pearl fishing is the entire occupation of the natives, and La Paz, the headquarters, city of the peninsula with about POGO inhabitants, is solely dependent upon the industry. The business is one of chance, and the pursuit is fascinating one to the Hatives, who are born gam blers.
 Every oyster does not contain it's pearl, and only at intervals, and rare ones at that, is a really valuable pearl discovered. The largest one ever found was about three-quarters of an inch in diameter and was sold in Paris to the Emperor of Austria for slO, ,O0O Many black pearls are found in Lower California and are valued higher than the pure white. The large majority are seed pearls and are only of moderate value. .-S. F. Call. .
Arizona silver belt., 1897-04-01

Trains Nos. and run daily except Sun. day
 Trains Nos. l and connect at Ge- roni'no with stage from and to San Carlos and Globe.
 Trains Nos. l and make close connection at Bowie with Southern Pacific trains Nos. 10 and 20 for all points East and West. +Stations have m agent. Telegraph Station. The Company reserves the right to vary from this schedule as circumstances may re quire.
 Employees will destroy all time cards of previous dates.
 WM. GARLAND, President E. J. BEARD, Superintendent.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-04-01

performed the annual work on said claim as required by law, for the years 1894, 1893 and 1896
 This. therefore iS to notify you that if yor do not pay your tuil proportion of the costs of said work. together with the cost of this ad- yertisement within ninety days after the cs. plfation of this notice. your interest in said mining claim as co-owner will utterly cease and by operation of law become the property of the undersigned MORRIS HLEIM. E. MCCOY.
 Globe, Ariz., Feb, H. ls91 (e0-d)
Arizona silver belt., 1897-04-01
Dissolution of Co-Partnership.

Notice is hereby given that the part nership heretofore existing between Wm. Mill Williams and w. L. Akers, under the firm name of w. l.. Akers X Co.,, has been dissolved by mutual consent Of the parties thereto. Wm Mill Williams will continue the busi- ness as sole proprietor, has assumed all indebtedness and will collect all accounts due the late firm.
 w. l.. AYERS,
 VIM. MILL WILLIAMS. Globe, Ariz., March 5, 1887.