New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-21

ior the mail stage between Batopias and CHI
huahua and to guard the silver trains Sometimes
more than three hundred thousand dollar worth
OF the metal carried time by mule
pack to Chihuahua to be minted there into Mexi-
can dollars, deposited as bullion for an equiVa-
lent III banknotes. Naturally the presence OF 10
much treasure in their midst invited attack from the
lswless bands which prowI through these noun
ta1ns- AT last of the mule trains was at
tackled the guard overpowered and the silver sto-
len Shepherd, in a rage. spent money like water
in apprehending the criminals His offers OF eX-
ravagant rewards at last brought about the capt
ure of the bandits. and they were escorted p'
some Mexican sodiery to the Governor OF the
province for trial A few days later word came 10
the Shepherd hacienda that the robbers had az
shot dead, AT time it was said that the
Bonanza King had been responsible for this sum
We're afterward unmolested -
by the robbers who had thus been sghaily pun pun
shed was shown the time he was captured by one
Batoplas when he was surprised by hNe my
he had haPpn naG to fa 6eh1d his guard
threw up his hands kept them up and Wen, VII" tbe
money he had on his person Toasted him wan
Silver King" and then bade him a merry goodby
The interior of his fortified hacienda contains d
stores factories and mills The streets are hllea
Sand The houses where the O employs live
s3 @ Of b s1n r a6d adn O9 h oce
ing is on a war footing. with its windows and
%Ssr PSe ea 51ss Th assdy or
ment, is also a fort within fort. Then there are
Ee p rom 6e mines beow Crushed
refined and the molten metal is run into huge
It is a Considerable army that lives within the
side except upon rare occasions. All were. sub
ject under Boss" Shepherd, the strictest dis
cpline but such was the admiration of these easy
going. mapping people for the manly forge l,h
aaq wf5ont wbpng It may Seem
ful that desperate character never orsallGetp
and defy all outside interference But Boss
shepherd exercised TOO great If an hin a If he
almost superhuman being. ra ,ts fam
lily lived was a palace The table was loaded with
as many delicacies if It had been in Fifth-aEe:
faad TIE Trop Sea WITS
plant ths tr we're pd the
papers telegraph ticker kept its operator rat a IN
lor contained furniture wrought Of silver ana soa
The n07 b and time Of the Asecs Here
the trophies of his POLITICAL III life costly g1d
AND sG IN h music gasfH r n one
played at times piano brought from & rorh
mountain trail. where 1T had TO be lowered ann
preepices Near the mine kings palace was a
stable whose stalls we're filled with hs
With pure biooded Guernseys and Jerseys -,
bnge aonedUct, built at cost several mill
ions Of dollars and bringing thfther the current
Of m S@ MEANS Of This ahe aqpsue
built of the SrneltefS iidu
M ali the available wood within distance OF
FIen though the great bonanza king Is dead IT
is said that the money which ne esta NIL
and which is now current throughout Mexico WIN
still remain in circulation. After a determines
tight mine king practically completes me pen
resented by its face value SO much SILVER 9elo non
mill Boss Shepherd had been closeted WIFI
President Daz and the two had eaten an a. dfa ad
American tri,mphed. and his mine was practlcanI
recoeniZed as an official mint and ms money aS
a part of the currency of the republic