Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1902-07-31

Them Palmetto boys were mighty
keerless after they'd made their big
strike and got to work on the vein, and
reckon they threw a lot of gold away,
said Cy Parker, who remembered their
large handed recklessness in the flush
days. . ''On'y that we didn't think it
was white MANS work to rake over an
other mans leavin' we might hev had
what them dsrned Cinnamon hev drop
ped into. Tell you what, boys, we've
been little too high and mighty, and
we'll hev to climb down."
At last the excitement reached it's
climax, and diplomacy was employed to
effect what neither intimidation nor
espionage could secure. Under the pre-
tense of desiring to buy out See Yup's
company select committee of the min
ers were permitted to examine the prop
erty and its workings. They found the
great bank of stones and gravel, repre-
senting the cast out debris of the old
claim, occupied by See Yup and four Or
five Flooding automatic coolies. At the
end of two hours the committee returned
to the saloon bursting with excitement.
They spoke under their breath, but
enough was gathered to satisfy the curl
GUS crowd that See Yup's pile of tail
ings was rich beyond their expectations.
The committee had seen with their own
eyes gold taken out Of the sand and
gravel to the amount Of 500 in the two
short hours of their examination. And
the work had been performed in the
stupidest, clumsiest. yet patient Chinese
way. What might not white men do
with better appointed machinery! A
syndicate was at once formed. See Yup
was offered $40, 900 if he would sell out
and put the syndicate in possession Of
the claim in "a hours. The Chinaman
received the offer stolidly. AS he seemed
inclined to hesitate 1 am grieved to say
that it was intimated to him that if he
declined he might be subject to embar-
RAISING and expensive legal prosecutions
to prove his property, and that COM
panies would be formed to prospect"
the ground on either side of his heap Of
tailings. See Yup at last consented,
with the proviso that the money should
be paid in gold into the hands Of Chi
aese agent in San Francisco on the day
Of the delivery Of the claim. The syndi-
cate made no opposition to this charac-
teristic precaution of the Chinaman It
was like them not to travel with money,
and the implied uncomplimentary sus-
picion of danger from the community
was overlooked. See Yup departed the
day that the syndicate took possession.
He came to see me before he went. I
congratulated him upon his good for
tune. At the same time [ was embar-
rassed by the conviction that he was IN
fairly forced into a sale of his property
at figure far below it's real value.
I think differently now.
At the end of the week it was said
that the new company cleared up about
$500. This was not as much as the
community had expected, but the syn
dictate was apparently satisfied, and the
new machinery was put up. At the end
of the next week the syndicate was
silent as to their returns. One of them
made a hurried visit to San Francisco.
It was said that he was unable to see
either See Yup Or the agent to whom
the money was paid. It was also no.
ticed that there was no Chinaman re-
naming in the settlement. Then the
fatal secret was out.
The heap of tailings had probably
never yielded the See Yup company
more than $40 week, the ordinary
wage of such a company. See Yup had
conceived the brilliant idea of "boom-
ing" it on.a borrowed capital Of $500
in gold dust, which he openly transmit
ted by express to his confederate and
creditor in San Francisco, who in turn
secretly sent it back to See Yup by
cody messengers, to be again openly
transmitted to San Francisco. The
package Of gold dust was thus passed
backward and forward between debtor
and creditor to the grave edifcation of
the express company and the fatal curl
osity of the settlement. When the syn
dictate had gorged the bait thus thrown
out, See Yup, on the day the self in
vited committee inspected the claim,
promptly sailed" the tailings by con-
scientiously distributing the gold dust
over it SO deftly that it appeared to be
its natural composition and yield.
l have only to bid farewell to See
Yup and close this "Reminiscences Of a
misunderstood man by adding the opin-
ion OF an eminent jurist in San Fran
cisco, to whom the facts were submit.
ted: $50 clever was this alleged fraud
that it is extremely doubtful if an &C.
tion would lie against See Yup in the
premises, there being no legal evidence
Of the 'salting, and none whatever of
his actual allegation that the gold dust
was the ordinary yield of the tailings,
that implication resting entirely with
the committee who examined it under
false pretense and who subsequently
= forced the sale by intimidation.
Swallowed a Knife.
In November, 1923, professional
juggler named Dempster swallowed