Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1898-08-25

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these precautions, he had managed,
with consummate care, during period
! Of eight months, to load into the south
western entrance a vast store of ma
terial. purchased at Cincinnati, Louis
vile, St. Louis and Memphis, and de-
livered by boat at the Wash bayou,
/ where there was a storehouse and
whence the goods were hauled for the
/ apparent use of the two 5urface hotels
/ Other and smaller streams of supplies
were reaching the sanitarium overland
continuously. 1t is calculated that dur
! ing the eight months over eleven hun
bred thousand dollars were spent for
supplies In the lists of purchases APP
peared two items of unusual import
zone thousand magazine rifles
eighteen thousand dollars" They
were contracted for in the east by
western dealer ostensibly to be sold on
the plains and were bought in three
lots But they reached the Wash
bayou without attracting attention,
for they were shipped in pieces at in
tervals and put together in the Laran
works, The other item was-''five
hundred polished nickel steel plates
made to order by the Corinth Steel
company and consigned to Bradshaw
& Fenning, Memphis, Tenn" These
plates figured in the mysterious Laport
gun which afterwards caused such
CONSERVATION.
Hendricks, during these eight
months, had evidently calculated to
offset the increased probabilities of
exposure in making such vast pur-
chases by the increased security af-
forded when he got his material into
his fortress-and this alone would
show that he had other and vaster
schemes in allegiance, and that, after
all, the fitting out of the Laran cave
was only a provisional step to some
thing else.
Our imaginary visit, therefore, at
this time discloses at Laran an entirely
different condition of affairs. The
sanitarium looks like a rural hotel.
There are several persons on the broad
balcony, but they exhibit only the in
dolence of country boardcrs. The
warm sun lies peacefully on the lawns,
but there is simmer in the air above
the big chimney which tells of great
volume Of heat pouring into the blue
sky. There are servants about the
kitchen and there are two Royal Dane
mastiffs with their heads on their
paws asleep ON the steps of the main
entrance.
There is not the slightest indication
in this quiet hostelry hidden among the
trees and rocks of the great slope on
which it stands of the activity under
meath its foundations.
The moment we arrive in the lower
domain, we find the place lighted as il
with the light of day; the hum of ma.
chinery and the murmur of voices reacl
us. The whole area is encircled with
wooden structures, offices, wareroom!
and habitations, some of them hastily
though. aimsily, built. In the center
of the area is pavilion and overhead
is p big electric sunlight On one O
the walls is the terminus of Laport'
railway, with its suggestion of littll
station and iron steps reaching down
to the stone flooring and a heavy Grant
for landing tools. The coal measure
passage has been dug out evidently bl
using the coal. But it is when W,
come to the rotunda that we shall b.
astonished. This magnificent natura
temple is brilliantly lit and "A regimen
of men is being drilled on its clearet
and almost smooth stone flooring. TIL
DEVILS Outlet is fenced in by an irol
II rail-for one morning Miss Endicot
was caught walking on its brink AM
- looking over with horror pictured o.
{ her face. She was rescued and Hen
u 4 bricks ordered the place rallied in.
From the Imprinted railway static,
:, which here is twenty-eight feet abov
= the solid level. Hendricks and tire
men are watching the cvolutions G
= the regiment which are in some re
y spects wholly unlike anything eve
u before seen in military tactics.
: The vast spaces beyond the rotund
= and quite up to the lake itself ar
~ packed high with stores. It looks Xix
!. a series of endless warerooms or MOI
II strous depots and smells heavily liB
= one of those streets where all the con
- modities of man Obtrude themselvc
- upon the sidewalks and impede trave
n If we penetrate to the hog back arc
u we shall find that in its passages al
N stables and that there are not onl
10 horses but mich cows there and tina
e the great chasm in the south wall hs
10 been converted into a magazine an
.o has heavy wooden doors across its Ell
If trance. The mouth of this chasm,
N will be noticed, owing to turn in I'll
in wall, faces directly north. The benchr
At of the Laport railway are only tvs
m feet above the tops of the woOde
10 doors.
ID Vague rumOrs were in the air abol
Sc the Tennessee sanitsrium. The seer
Iy service Of the government was in 20
E. session Of the facts which set the
Dr. searching for the man known as q
s. captain and they had traced him TO Il
he Mississippi. Vast quantities of go
rs had been paid out for goods sent
m Laran. One fact elected another. Bl
ID inquiries failed to identify Hendricl
with the description given Of Kent
as he appeared on the san Pedro and q
Ne Memphis bank said that he had 60
rs on deposit there prior TO the robhel
~ Of the Corinthian. The moment tn