The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12
Mr.. EAMES' ODD zoo.
QUEER THINGS THE MINER SAW IN
A DESERTED UTAH TOWN.

Monsters Also Followed His RIA
tiOns of Whisky-Then Games Lost
Track of Sapphire as Big as an
Edam Cheese.
Helena QMont) Letter In Chicago Inter
Ocean.
"Once you get broke in" said Bob Har-
wood, its about as hard to quit mimi as
it is for sport to quit gamblin' It's
| fever, tnfatuation, a sort of a-hopn' -to-get-
, a-big-pile-neXt-pop kind of life that man
doesn't generally shake off till he's dead;
and yet there are exceptions. For instance
there's Harrup Eames. He's dug as many
| holes in these mountains as a whole viii
lage of prairie dogs, but at last got sick
and tired of it. Just now he's sawin' wood
and sayin nothin'. Yet he knows about
where there's the biggest sapphire the
world ever seen-a big blue one, the size
of an Edam cheese-and still he's that dis
gusted with the prospectin' life that he
won't go over and get it. 1t was tryin' TO
| get 1t in the first place that made him sick
o mimi. He had to cross a terribly rough
country to begin with, and then he saw
some things that kind o. put him out O.
/
that, and of a throat trouble he caught
afterward, he just saws wood, as I said
before, and says nothin
Charley VII, Harrups old chum, put
him on. And Charley knew about the
| sapphire from an Eastern professor who
was later killed by the Sioux. This pro-
| fessor called 1t hexagonal crystal or
some such outlandish name. when all
| along it was nothin' more nor less than a
| big blue sapphire, as big an Edam
| cheese, and Charley never once thought
| 1t valuable till he got to noticln' that the
| professor buried il as regular as they
! moved about from camp to camp. For
, they was all out lookin up curiosity specl-
mems, and Charley was scout and guide.
| But what they done amt got nothin' to
do with Harrup Eames only that Charley
| Un, remembering about where they last
! pitched camp, where the professor was
killed, put Harrup on, and Harrup, gettin
| together his mimi tools and eatables,
| starts out after the sapphire.
| Now his trail led him over TO and be-
yond the Snow mountains. Just about fif-
| ty miles further on was another range
| called the Bull mountains, and somewhere
| between these ranges was the sapphire
| To simmer 1t down still finer, he had been
told to look up big patch of wild syrnga
| that whitened the land in that neighbor-
|
with these details before him he felt that
| he mad a clnch in gettin' it,
However, when he got to the Snow
mountains, Harrup found 1t turnin' so
cold-though it was only the beginnin' o
| October-that he had to stop now and then
to shake up his demjohn in order to keep
| the stuff inside from freezin' And as for
the snoW-real. genuine snow-the tops of
! the range was so covered with IL that
Harrup, whenever he'd happen to look up,
mechanically took another drink so as to
stop the chills from comm on But so far
there hadn't been any danger So Harm
was feelin' real cheerful by the time him
and his mule got to the pass which pass
leads through and out of the range Rut
here, at one point, the trail broke into
TWO. one trail went up the mountains and
the other down.
Harrup studied things over a bit and
finally decided to take the upper one AZ
ter travelin couple o. mile he struck the
snow line, and an at once the mule re-
FUSED to go on. Just ahead was a curve
ana Harrup wanted to get round IL and see
what things looked like from that side So
| he kicked the mule and thumped IL ana
both begged and cussed but IL wonIdn,t
bulge. Then he got down and walked ahead
a yard or two Then he fay fiat on his
belly and looked over; for he'd got TO the
very edge of precipice that was about a
mile high. Down below the trees Ioolra1
IKE current bushes. Harrup watched the
eagles flynn round between MIN ana tbero
for a minute, and then, tellin the mule
that IL had the brains of the famjly-mean
IN himself and the mule-he faced about
and soon was takin' the other trail.
But he'd seen something He'd seen n
cluster o. cabins. lool1in' like dry goods
boxes, YIN a mile or so away from H..
toot OF the precipice, and he fen to won
derin' what camp there could be In tbat
wlio aho Iortorn-lookin' part of the coun-
Try: AS ne came out the pass on the lower
TRAN the first thing he seen was vacant
cabin 1t stood on a little hillside hv itsaie
Harrup rode over to it and soon seen thai
IL had TWO rooms, with a couple o. he'd
steads in each room.
Just the thing says Harrup, spread
"a u, ms blankets on the bedstead nearest
MIN. "A Teller can live here like a rriroa |
For he'd made up his mind to loaf a fan,
days round where there was company as
much for rest as for change
Inc camp, with its store fronts and
straggling log huts, lay some distance off
% asrrup eats not meal and takes the
last drop out o the demijohn before ooIn,
down. Then he starts out to see the siehts
Now there was two things he noticed he.
fore he'd got very far. One was tha
strange silence everywhere, and the other
was the coyotes lopin' about-generallv in
the rear of the cabins he passed Harrn,, !
was so astonished at SEEM 'em so nlenti-
full that he begin to get a bit uneasy ana
to feel a crepin up his spinal column. And
the coyotes-long, lean, hungry felIers-
after runnin' off about ten feet. would
STOP dead sun ana stare at him as IL they
never heard tell of a man before
And soon reachin' the store fronts he
begin to examine the signs. The letters
was pretty rusty. but he could make 'em
out; and after figurin' a while he found
mat seven o the signboards read Moose |
City somethin' while only four-tbe next
highest number-read Colorado or
'Pioche'
Pioche," says Harrup, is In Utah; and
IN dead certain that amt got down os |
far as Colorado. So 1t must be Moose CITY
that I'VE struck, although I'm hanged If |
I'm stuck on the place?
with that he opens the door of the |
Moose City saloon and goes in. There |
stood the par, as natural as life; but not |
soul was behind. IL; and dust and cob |
webs hanging to the chairs and table. |
and covering everything like a porous |