The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-04
A TON OF GOLD.
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Bad Luck of Three Miners From the
Confederate Gulch.
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THEY FACED MANY PERILS
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CARRIED TREASURE THROUGH
TIE INDIAN COUNTRY.
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Getting Into Civilization, They Fell
Victims to the Wiles of Very
Smooth Robbers.
THEY FACED MANY PERILS
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east, where they expected to live happy
ever afterward, I'm reminded OF the
srrinter who ran hard, but tumbled at
the tape, and thereby lost MS money
and the race.
COZ course, they knowed they had a
sob before EN-. for the Sioux was BAD,
and so was the Backfeet. Moreover,
there was the long ride Town the MIS-
souri,. and in a boat of their own
maxim. And, besides that, their ton
O. gold weighed over 1000 pounds-lor
they wasn't cheatin' themselVes-and
a ton O. most anything, honest weight,
is a pretty big handicap for n to
make speed with in goin' through a
hostile country. However, a party sim,
ilarly burdened had got through all
right, and, KNOWN this fact, they
didn't hesitate a minute about toloW-
IN. Long Williams seen to gettln the
grub; b. Dingee hired the escort, and
Cute Mullen made it his chlet Worry
10 rent the teams and wagons. AM
thus equipped they struck out for Ben
ten, at the head of the MISSOURI IN the
late fall of '64.
AT Benton the escort turned PACK.
Long Williams hated to see 'em go. II
was like partin' with old friends, ne
sand, and that. too, at a time when MN
and Clute and B.. Dingee most needed
en-. But after the three had talked
it over they come to the cohciusloI
that so many men in the party would
he sure to bring the Indians down upon
'em. and so they reluctantly drank EN-
a deep farewell. Then, havin at last
got their big yawl built, they give Fort
Benton the go-by and pushed out INTO
the middle O the Missouri.
Now says Clute, we can say with
out lyin' that our troubles is about 10
begin To which Long Williams and
Is. Dingee agreed.
after numerous h~ardships and halr-
breadth a from Indians, the voy-
ayers reached Sioux City, where they
found the steamer Deer Lodge, belated
on its down-the-river journey, because
OF disabled machinery, n was there
tied up; but, with everything fixed
| again. it was on the point O resumln
its trip to st. Louee. So the boys was
lust in time. The luck O. the thing
made 'em feel so good that after seem
| that their gold was slowed way IN
their big stateroom they started in to
| quench e~verybody's thirst, including
their own"
THEY MEET JOLLY PASSENGERS.
For they felt that, now that they
was in the white mans country, their
! troubles was over, n the wear and
tear O. gettin' to civilization alive JUS
/ titled EN- in relaXin' their nerves a
bit. Moreover, there was some jolly
/ fellows aboard-fellOws that had got on
at Sioux City just a minute or so be-
fore the boat started; and these fellows
had duieted their suspicious right at
the outset by declarin' that they had
never played poker nor three-card
monte in their lives. The only thing
they could do was drink, and drink they
did, easily beatin' h boys at this
game, and the boys were experts, too.
at Omaha neither Clute nor Long
could see the town for the haze. As for
r Dineee. he was out-and-out blind.
SO none of EN- took particular notice
of another passenger gettin' aboard at
this point, nor appeared 20 see the half
a dozen boxes. similar to their own,
that he had the deckhands carry up
to his stateroom. Nor did the boys
know when the Deer Lodge touched at
Nebraska City, where some OF the pas
sengers and a box or two left the boat;
and at ST. Joe all three was a-snorin'
in their berths. Yet, at st. Joe, all the
other remainin' jolly fellows and all
J the other boxes parted company with
the steamboat, and neither Clute nor
Long nor 3. Dingee was present to say
good-by. But in passin' L-eavenworth
the boys walked UP. The first thing
they seen was their boxes, lookin' just
as natural as life, and standin' right
there where they'd slowed 'em.
REMINDED OF OLD TIMES.
"Then they caught a glimpse of a big
sign stretched along the river bank
4 sayin' that teamsters for Denver was
wanted. And seem it, and despite their
feelin's at the time-for their heads
ached terribly-they glanced at one an
other and grinned. For all had skinned
mules or whacked bulls at n time or
another, and SEEM the sign had
brought the recollection back.
az reckon, says Long Williams,
glancin' sideways at the boxes, that
with a ton O. gold in u fists Wen not
apply. But what was the name O. that
! camp, and, moreover, when are we to
get to st. Louee?' And they went out
to look up the steward, got a few eye
openers, and, incidentally, to find out.
Now, as the steamboat was aD-
proachin' st. Louee, the boys went into
one o. the boxes to set some dust they
owed the steward. B.. Dingee pried off
the lid. and started, while Long and
Clute stepped out to see the stateroom
number, thinkin' they'd got into the
wrong place by mistake. But no, it
was theirs all right. Then they all
went to pryin' off lids, and the racket
1 lll0N llAdAAG OdSA Il IAN poppy ~
their door. Then Long Williams, see
in that the last lid IA off, says, in a
terrible voice:
THEIR GOLD IS MISSING.
Hang me, if they hain't stole our
gold, and give US scrap front And he
glared about him, ready to kill the drst
one that denied it, But, O. course, no
body did deny it. For it was the truth,
and everybody could see it as plain as
Long Williams.
'WeIl, the upshot of it was that,
there, with the spires o. St. Louee "
sight, they put back in their yawl W
stream for st. Joe and Nebraska City.
where they wanted to find the jolly
fellows who, the captain said, had got
off at them points with boxes similar
to theirs. But they never found EN-.
Yet they put in the winter huntin'
round like moles. And then, soring
comm, they remembered the big sign
at Leavenworth. Then B. DIngee says:
Well, boys, it's bulls again
And Confederate says Clute
where I've still got a claim to divide.
"'Ameni' says Long Williams. AND
their carava pulled out.
Nov, 1 seen 'em all over at Confed.
crate that same fall. They was mimi
but they wasn't gettin' out no ton o
gold. They had had their shy at &
heap O. money, and fortune seldom pats
the same men on the back twice. Yet
4 they had done mighty well, considerin
the chances they'd took. And so L TOLD
'em, addin', too, what / said at the out
set. that they reminded me of the
sprinter who run hard, but stumbled
at the tape, thereby losin' both. hi.
money and the race"
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