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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-29

1 gave that black devil. l remember
this nick. Learn just who has passed
the gate since shutdown, and let no
one, white or black, pass or no pass,
go in or out till further orders from
me-
80 the excitement over the dia-
mond reached the office at last; for,
settling of the scales on one side to
be slowly but surely adjusted. its exit
meant an enormous loss.
." .We shall find it all right before
sundownS' he remarked, cheerfully,
nodding and smiling to me by way
of Excuse me, please, important bus
mess as he hurried out to set a
search in motion. He wholly over
locked the fact that his order made
me prisoner, but 1 anticipated an in
teresting show, and it would have re-
quired a strong hint to get rid of me.
First everything animate and mani
mate above the ground was searched.
1.-THE excitement increased as the
working gang came up the shaft, and
with the manager at least, it reached
the boiling point when the hunchback
appeared to take his turn at being
manipulated and punched.
"They worked rapidly, and in a mo-
ment showed him on, ready to stake
their lives that there was not pebble
the size of a pea about his deformed
body, but he turned to the manager
and asked is the baas searching for
his ten-shilling treasure?
1.-THE manager drew his revolver and
ordered his men to put the fellow in
irons, but the valor of the whole Of
them was infused with discretion, and
they gave him a chance to say, Irons
are for thieves, baas,' and l am not a
thief. Did not the baas tell me 1 could
have the diamond if 1 could carry it
away?'
""You haven't done it yet and you
never will. Give it up this instant or
I'll shoot you where you stand, the
manager shouted, and as calmly as you
please the poor little hunchback re-
piled: L have not done ii yet, baas,
for l am here; but l can and 1 will.
Salaam.' He turned like a cat, shot
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-29

wasn't the bride a beauty, jack"
"Really. couldn't say. Rob, for I
didn't look at her.
why. man! when you were present
ed you fairly glared."
optical illusion, Rob, for as raised
my eyes TO her face they stuck on the
blue diamond she wore and never got
further"
Jack, otherwise the celebrated Afri-
can explorer Col. John Richmond, while
suffering a brief sojourn in London. had
been dragged by a friend to the re-
ception of the last Anglo-American alli-
ance. They were now recuperating on
whisky and soda and cigars at the club.
"Since you're so much more inter-
ested in the diamond than the bride"
the friend remarked. 4 give you a bit
of gossip as to how it came where you
could see it. Ny lady's farther, as
YOU know, is an unlimited millionaire
A bagatelle of ten millions went with
her as apology for dover. and papa
thought he ought to do some trife by
way of wedding gift, beside. The Hope
diamond had just emerged from the
vaults and gone to America. Rumor
said it had been purchased by papa,
but gossip says he only proposed to
purchase it when his baby girl declared
she'd none of it: cringed over its his
tory. No. no, papa; don't give me the
Hope. Give nle something free and
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-29

cupation is mining diamonds in the
black hides of departing gangs
THE hunchback received his pass
and we went pretty well together up
to the managers office, 800 feet above.
There was excitement all along the
way as the news spread that the
hunchback was carrying a huge dia-
mond, but when we reached the Office
it utterly failed.
1T was two ways of applying the
same formula. In the mines they said
that as it took a trackload of blue to
give a carat and a half of diamond,
this one find was as good as sending
out over 300 loads In the office they
reasoned that those 300 loads were yet
to come They knew that the final
average would not be changed and that
a 500-Carat stone, even if 1t had no
flaw, would not yield the profit of 100
five-carat diamonds, though it demand
ed, in the average, the same amount
of labor, expense and blue. So the
manager took il with a frown, while
the hunchback watched him with glis-
tening eyes.
He tossed it carelessly in his palm
then handed 1t to a clerk who shortly
returned it. washed in acid and ac-
companied by a slip of paper, record
ing its exact weight and measurements
anu HOllIS d TACT WHICH Scented 10 us
turb the manager yet more, for he
caught up his glass and examined it
closely. AS he laid it down he noticed
the hunchback who had not so much
as withdrawn his open hand. 80.
you're the fellow who found it, wait
ing for reward?" he said. "Well,
here's ten shillings and may you never
| find another
HE tossed the half sovereign into
the open hand. The hunchback looked
at it, then at the manager. and replied
'Baas, when l was but an olive branch,
Arabs from the north burned our viii
lage, killed my father and took my
mother captive. Because l struggled
they twisted my back and left me for
/ dead. They sold my mother as a slave
/ in the yellow country on the sea. / did
not die, baas. l vowed to buy my
mother back or kill and kill and kill
! till she had been avenged. To accom-
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-29
WITHOUT A HISTORY.
BY WILLARD FRENCH.
(Copyright. bys 5.

After the sicl<ening sight 1 had no
desire to stay longer and followed him
out Against the light his crooked
body seemed to wriggle more than
walk AS he reached the supervisor
truck shot past us through the cham
Der, with two dead bodies thrown on
top. The hunchback glanced toward
them and muttered: Another to come.
They are the price of this.
The supervisor nodded impatiently
as though a foreman should not waste
his time reporting trivial matters, but
when he glanced in the opening hand
and saw d dirty, grilnmy octahedron-
a 5O0-karat diamond, he started for
ward with an exclamation which caus-
ed the fingers to close again like a
trap.
Let me see it, shouted the white
man. Seeing is not touching, for you
replied the hunchback, stepping farth-
or off and cautiously opening his hand.
Give me a pass, for l will take it to
the baas' Which, / believe, is the
one privilege possessed by those
wretches down in that hole; If they
find a diamond they can take it to
the manager and receive a reward. 1t
is the only inducement offered them
rot to steal. The rest is all threat
and punishment. They are sent naked
into the mines and still are searched
each time they come out. They never
pass the outer gate during their con-
tract time and the last week before 1t
expires are kept in solitary confine-
ment, leather mittens locked on their
hands. Then they have a grand final
search, by white men, whose sole oc-
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-29
TALKING STONES.
BY Jay Garter Beard.


This series of articles is inte&ded
to suggest a few of the ways in which
a boys surroundings in the country
may furnish him with healthy tNer-
else and amusement Contrary t'S the
general belief, city boys are otter ut
less to know how to amuse themselves
in the country. They do not +1der-
stand how to make the most - the
splendid opportunities that are at
hand. They are accustomed t. rows
of brick houses and miles of hard,
paved streets, and show but snall ap-
probation of the great stretches of
open country, the manuals. the insects,
the flowers and the woods.
There is a particular class of afnuse-
ments to which boys are much given
that is but little understood ~ the
older people. / mean the amuse nents
which have to do with imaginllG one
self something quite different from
what one really is. II is usually A
very reckless. bloodthirsty in5tyidual
whom boys choose to represent Per-
haps they form themselves into band
Of outlaws possibly the famois crew
Under the lead OF Robin Hood. q may
chance that they viii turn pira es. and
the leading spirits will be KIN " as
Kidd or Morgan; or else the boss sud
denly become Indians with chief
named Sitting Bull or Rain u-the-
Face. In whatever game 81 tbs sort
the boys may adopt great dea must
De imagined. u was largely 90 Bcape
ridlcule which every boy dreaC but
partly, also, because they TX, the
idea ~ writing in sueh q fashion that
a could MOI De- road except by their
own fellows. that q crowd ~ b BE la
the upper part ~ New York star was
JED 20 evolve form ~ ciph b.
means ~ which they could leave mes.
saFef iptsliiGible only 20 q few osen
spirits,
Lnless one Was in the secret. hsss
mesaGNcs looked Nka nothing e. cepf
ffW tNcfa and stones scaffarsu 81
me roadside bpf fo fhcas Hho ~
Npfkfe Qai the SLICK SAD stQue alfhas
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-29
POVERTY LUNCHEON CLUB.
How the Poverty Luncheon Club
Reused n sleepy Village.

Merton the quiet. Merton the stag
nant, had been stirred by the advent of
a Poverty Luncheon Club. Instead of
holding hands and murmuring against
the dullness of a village in which no
one could boast of an extra ten dol
lar bill, the women had been reused
TO action. The Poverty Luncheon Club
was pledged to give regular entertain
ments within a five dollar limit. The
club did it. too, with such notable sue
cess that the social barriers surround
ing Merton had been effectually burned
away.
The Merton women had not advanced
sufficiently in social life to find their
husbands absence a delight. They had
an unexpressed but deeply felt desire
that Tom or Dick, or Harry could see
this-or taste that. When DR.. Stone
inquired of his wife, Why are you
women so stringy you don't invite your
husbands to your pow-wows once in a
while" Mrs. Stone felt her husband
had been chosen by his fellow citizens
as a mouth-piece. She decided to bring
the matter before Mrs. Rope, the pres
ident The result was, an evening en-
tertainment was proposed in place of
the next luncheon. Mrs. Stone, feel
ing herself the promoter of the scheme,
offered to assume the duties of hostess.
One fine day Merton was thrown into
a state of excitement by cards of in
Vitation to Mother Goose Party"
There was no intimation of what a
Mother Goose Party might be, beyond
the word Costumes which appeared
in one corner. Houses We're searched
and garrets overhauled. Trunks which
had lain undisturbed for years were
brought to light and made to yield up
their secrets of yore.
The evening came. The guests as
sembled at the sensible, if unfashion-
able hour of o'clock. Dr. and Mrs.
Stone, dressed as Father and Mother
Goose, received them at the entrance to
the parlors. Mrs. Stone wore an old
fashioned gown of green silk that had
been her mothers. This was rendered
characteristic of Mother Goose by the
cloth military cloak, around which was
sewed a border of white paper geese.
A peaked hat of cardboard, covered
with red paper, ornamented in the
front with a quaint buckle, completed
this simply prepared costume of Moth
er Goose. Her left hand, Hospitality
not threateningly-bra a broom.
and JULY rotundity of figure lent an
The Doctors good-natured visage
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-29

plish that vow, baas, I have worked
hard for money and for this" BY some
kind of contortion he threw out those
bulging muscles from head TO foot, till
he seemed one distorted mass of gigan-
tic strength. To-day my god helped
me. He showed me the diamond. 1t
will bring the baas more gold than
could carry on my back. ! might have
kept 1t. but brought it here. Does the
baas say that this is my reward"
From the managers point the find
meant a serious loss, and he replied,
impatiently You couldn't get a dia-
mond the size of a bean outside this
yard. You are welcome to all that you
can carry away with you when you
CO. He glanced through the window
at the iron paling, more than ten rect
high, completely surrounding the
mines. On both sides of it there is
barbed- wire net fence and the space
between. lighted at night by electric
ity, is constantly patroled by armed
men.
THE hunchback smiled-at least his
teeth and eyes glistened among the
wrinkles on his face; but he spat upon
the coin in his hand, threw it out of
the open window and, turning, wrig-
gled himself slowly back to work.
II went to the managers office next
morning to say goodby. In the course
of our chat 1 referred TO the incident,
and remarked that l didn't believe he
had heard the last from the hunch-
back. He simply smiled and said:
Let's have a look at the stone by
morning light. A clerk went to
fetch it from safe filed with small
tin boxes, but after some delay re-
turned white and frightened, and whis-
pered 20 the manager.
II
chair. He caught a box from the clerk
and emptied the contents on his desk
"a slip of paper and a half sovereign.
Who put it away and locked the safe
last night? You? And you are sure
the diamond was there? Then how un-
der heaven came this coin in it's place
this morning And it's the very one
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-29

clean from history, bloodstains and
tragedy
But papa had set his heart on hav-
ing his gift a blue diamond. Presto.
be was off to Amsterdam, with KIM
berly agent and two of the best dia-
mond experts in the kingdom. The
result? The diamond which prevented
your seeing the bride. A diamond right
from the mines and the cutters, which
her grace can wear knowing that no
other grace or disgrace ever con-
taminated it, that it has no history but
what she makes for it,
wherein, she was right" said Col
Richmond, stroking his mustache. "a
diamond without history, bloodstain
or tragedy is the only one for such
resting place. l felt that same abhor-
renee for a diamond once, myself; a
magnificent stone, presented to me, but
/ refusted it, simply because there was
too much blood and tragedy in it's his
tory"
Good heavens, Jack! Who'd ever
credit you with sentiment? How did it
come about?"
simply enough in a way. old man.
was in Kimberly, preparing for the
trip made north to the Nile. Rhodes
was interested in ii and Introduced me
to the manager of the mines, which
resulted in my inspecting them. In
that vast labyrinth of tunnels and gall
leries 700 to 1000 feet under ground,
an army of blacks and a regiment of
white men work like demons, night and
day, as if the destiny of the world
hung upon the number of fitting
trucks they filled with blue and sent
flying down the inclined tracks, from
every direction, toward the main
shaft
Where several working galleries
meet a main tunnel a chamber is ex-
cavated lighted by electricity, supplied
with water for the miners and occu-
pied by two white men, one to signal
a gallerS when the way is clear for the
trucks 1t has filled, the other to tally
them as they come out. In the work
ing galleries the only lights are ta-
pers, fixed on wires, stuck into the
wool of the black miners. They dance
about like shotoing stars, those little
taper lights down the dark passages
The heat was terrific, sitting, but it
was intensely interesting.
They use small charges of dynamite
TO help their picks. and set off q blast
while / was IN a gallery watching a
gang of eight or ten under native
hunchback. A sharp gust swept out
OF the tunnel with the blast, and as
quickly back again, blowing out every
taper. but they We're used 10 IL and
had them lighted again In an instant
HI RuA tlIFf VA TIC AfitbNr VIM 4Hf
unconscious. directly under a fissure
IN the roof opened by the dynamite.
They we're simply stunned and
would recover in "a moment but with
the first light the hunchback saw
something he stood on one Of the
bodies 10 reach h. but the opening WAS
TOO narrow for his hand. lie caught a
bar. thrust % Boz and pulled ul huge
muscles bulged an over him. suddenly
con ~ more ~ solid blue clay -
pn che three unconscious men, -
inE she ife out ~ Them. bar TIE
haq 20 f'nia a. care They began asl-
90 me nearest truck. while fhs
hhasf scrambled ir fhe maae on
ts arc trFef pulled ruf something
~ Fss ~ hafss snr ana afaffnH
e. HRsa onail ~ ugafed
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Continued on Page Twenty-Five.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1902-05-09
Journal
Special
Minidoka Notes.

Mr.. Nelchior of Marion drove over
here Tuesday to ge. new saw-mill
which he intends to put up in the canon.
The spring moving has begun We
have had goodly number OF wagon
travellers passing through here lately.
A belated sheep man came in town a
night or two ago, asking lis way to Carey
by the desert road. The possible wafer
famine on the trip had no fears for him.
He told some remarkable facts 81 about
the length of time horses and sheep
could go without water.
Mr.. McBroom has been engaged for
two or three months in buying horses
for Souta African service. was in town
on the sixth. He states he will be
shipping several carloads from kimamr,
shortly. Horses purchased from Bowers
& Gray of Dry Creek, will be of the
number.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1902-05-09
Department of the Interior.

United States Land Once, Haley, Idaho.
April 5th, 1872. Notice IS hereby given that
there has this day been received at this Office,
plats OF the survey Of the following townships
Township 10 South, Range u. East. Town
ship IL South, Range u East. Township "
South. Range - East. Township 10 South Range
IL East. Township II South, Range "a East.
Township 10 South, Range - East. Township
IL South Range Is East. Township u South,
Range - East Township 10 South, Range is
East. Township II South, Range l6 East.
Township u South, Range IL East. Township
10 South, Range l6East.
Said piats viii be officially filed on Friday,
May 9Th, 1902 on and after which date entries
in said townships VIII be accepted in this Office.
N. J. SHARP, Register
". A. HoDGMAN, Receiver.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1902-05-09
Clover Creek Items.

Mrs. Mckinney has returned to Sho.
shone.
Glover Creek as usual is migrating to
Camas Prars.
Chas Hobby has taken his cattle to
his home on Camas Prairie.
C, w. and 7. S. Courtney have started
with their cattle to Camas Prairie
Mr.. CoIviu has returned to his home
OH Camas leaving Mrs. Colvin down here.
We understand Miss May Vader has
gone 10 Blackfoot to visit her sister
Mrs, Ivy.
Mrs. Hobby came down to nurse her
son Arthur who has been very sick with
pneumonia.
Mr.. Ben Painter has gone to Camas 70
help Messers Radamacher and Reayer
gather their cattle.
Scion Bray returned from Camas
several days ago. Mr.. and Mrs. Colyin
came down with him.
Mr.. Radamacher has gone up to Camas
Prairie to fence his place Mr.. Mandingo
has gone up to help him.
Ira Bray came down from Camas and
reports his sister Mrs. Gibbons and her
TWO little soDs being quite sick.
The people of the Greek were very
sorry TO hear Of Mr.. Bradlord's death.
a number OF them attended his funeral.
Arthur Sanders has returned from
Camas Prairie where he has been assist
lug Chas. Hobby take his cattle up for
the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bray and Mrs. Colvin
went down to see Arthur Hobby yester-
doy They report him some better but
still very weak.
II. II. H.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1902-05-09
sIethodists And Dancing.

New York, April 2S.-Deep int
crest has been aroused among the
Methodist ministers of this city by
the recent meeting in Chicago
when it was argued that the church
laws prohibiting dancing and kin
bred amusements ought to be mod
flied to meet modern ideas OF the
people at large.
That a large number of Method
ist ministers of this city believe
that the church laws against dane
ing, the theaters, card playing, and
so on. do more than good is appar-
ent. TheIe is large number OF
the conservative element among
the ministers, however, who think
that a relaxation in church discip-
line would work to the detriment
of morals.
Rev.C.L. Goodell. of the Hanson
Place Methodist church in Brook
lyn. said: II think the sentiment
is such at present that a general
conference might amend the chap
ter on amusemen.s in the church
law so as to eliminate the prohibi-
ton against such diversion as
dancing and card PLAYING which
can of themselves be conducted in
the most innocent manner"
Several o ther ministers voiced
similar expressions.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1902-05-09
THUNDER MOUNTAIN

The nearest and best route to Thur
der Mountain runs through Haley
Idaho. and all going there are invited
To stop and examine nv large stock oi
Furniture, Wall paper, Paints and Glass.
Remember that l buy furniture in
car lots and can name the right prices.
Everything sold by me is guaranteed
My line Of UNnERTAKING SUPPLIES is
full and complete. No trouble TO show
goods. Mail orders will receive prompt
attention. G. f. Harris, Undertaken &
Licensed Embalmer, Haley, Idaho.
Office phone No. 20.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1902-05-09
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Land Office at HALEY, Idaho. April 18th, 1907
Notice Is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice Of his intention
to make final proof in support OF his claim, and
Mahon. clerk Of district court, at Snoshone
Idaho on June 2nd. 1902. viz:
JOHN CURRAN.-H f. 1922.
For the Sc IA NE II, Ne "A Sc II Sec. 81,
ship South Range II East.
He names the following witnesses 70 prove
his continuous residence upan and cultivation
of said land. viz: Martin Giblin. of Hagerman,
Martin Curran of Haeerman, John 4. Caldwell.
of Hager1nali W illiaIr L. Coltharp.o of Hagerman.
N J. SHARP, Register.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1902-05-09
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

TIMBER CULTURE. FTNsL PROOF
United States Land Office, haley, Idaho,
March, 81, 1862
Notice is hereby given that FRANK r. GOOD
ING has filed notice of his intention TO make
final proof before Register and Receiver at his
Office in HALEY, on Friday the 9th, day OF May,
1862 on timber culture application No. 3l7, for
the SW Ia of Section No. 8 in Township No 6,
s. Range No. Is, f. NJ.
He names as witnesses Charles r. Jones, of
Cooling Ida Peter D. Gerald. Of Gooding,
Ida. John A Ivie, of Cooling, Ida, Samuel
Lewis, of Gooding, Idaho.
n. J. SHARP. Register.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1902-05-09
NOTICE ron PUBLICATION.

TIMBER CULTURE. FINAL PROOF.
United States Land Office, at HALEY, Idaho
April 1852
Notice is hereby given that JoHS CuRRAS
has fled notice of intention 10 make final proof
before a. !. 8fc5.ahon, clerk of district court,
at his Office in Shoshone, Idaho. on Monday the
tion No 3s5. for the Sc IA NE "A of section
No. 81 in Township No. s., Range No ID Z.
He names as witnesses: Martin Giblin, Of
Hagerman Martin Curran. OF Hagernan, John
r. Caldwell. of Hager1nan, William L. Coitharp,
Of Hagerman, Idaho.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1902-05-09

Aguinaldo, when asked if there
was anything that he wanted at the
hands OF his captors, hesltated a
moment and said there was one
thing he wanted very much, some
thing he had only once in his life;
land that was ice cream.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1902-05-09
Delinquent Tax Notice.

All those whose taxes are delin-
quent FOR the year 1901 are hereby
notified that costs of advertising
will be added on all taxes not paid
on OF before May 10Th, 1902.
Geo. L. Eveleth, Assessor.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1902-05-09
United States Land Office.
HALEY, Ida, Oct, %. 1900

Haliey, Ida, Oct, -, 1900
Settlers are hereby notified that ]. W.
Waldron of Shoshone, Lincoln county,
Idaho, has been appointed United States
commissioner for said county, and in
that capacity is authorized by law to
take dispositions and make out all nec-
cessary papers in connection with en-
tries under the homestead, desert, or
other land laws.
n J. Sharp, Register.
w. A. Hodgman. Receiver.