The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-11-22

to Europe. In Paris I received letter
from banker in a mining town where
my home had been, enclosing a quit
claim deed to him of a one-third in
terest in the Kempton mining claim,
and saying that if 1 would sign it I
could draw on him for five hundred dol
lars. ! did not know of any such claim,
or of ownership of any mining claim
in that district, and 1 did not think it
safe to take the money, so wrote him
briefly declining the offer, giving no
reason for my declination, and stating
that I would soon be back. Some
months afterwards, on my return to
my former home, the same gentleman
called on me, told me that the mine was
looking better, and offered me three
thousand dollars for my interest. /
said 1 would look into it and let him
know in few days. I visited the
district where the mine was, searched
the records and found my name along
with those of one Kempton and one
Hamilton signed to a notice of location
of the Kempton mining claim. l did
not know either of these gentlemen,
and inquiry developed the fact that
they had sold their two-thirds' interest
to my banker friend some months be-
fore, and that Kempton was dead and
Hamilton had left the Territory. l in
terviewed the banker and stated the
facts to him, and agreed to accept five
thousand dollars for any interest 1
might have in the mining claim, pro-
yided he would sign an agreement that
/ had sold with the understanding that
I did not know whether was the per-
son whose name was in the location or
whether it was another of the same
name. He accepted my offer and paid
the money.
Years afterwards a man came into
my Office and invoked my services in
some litigation in which he was in
volved, and suggested that he had once
turned a lot of water on my wheel by
locating me in mining claim. 1t
seems that my locator had backed
litigant in a case where 1 had been
employed on the other side and he was
a witness and was severely handled,
and his friend lost the case, and he
remembered it, and when they were out
prospecting, and discovered the Kemp
ton, they concluded to locate me there
in, so that in the event of trouble they
would have lawyer.
AAA
The following is from an advertise
ment in the Prescott, Arizona, Miner of
August, 1879:
Stephen G. Karcon.
Jack of all Trades.)
Attorney at Law, Veterinary Surgeon
and General Contractor, will practice
in all the courts, draw deeds and all
papers, cleans vaults, whitewashes
fences, digs wells, saws and chops wood.
Translates French, German and Span
ish papers. Works by the day. hour or
job. Office at residence on Goose Flat.
Give me a call.
The offices of United States Mar
shall and United States Attorney in a
Territory are not very lucrative, and
resort has occasionally been had to
questionable methods for increasing
their revenues. One diligent and ra-
pacious Marshal in Arizona trained |
three Wallapai Indians as detectives. |
When the train stopped for half an
hour for dinner at a station in Arizo- |
ma one of these savages would ap- |
proach a second class passenger or q |
brake beam tourist, and say to him, |
You like make half a dollar? I give |!
you half a dollar you go to store across !
street and buy one bottle whiskey. |
Saloon man no sell to Injun. When .
you come back 1 give you half dollar