Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-09-16

Of the courage Of Kinko. of the sacrifice
he had made for the safety of the trav-
elers, and finally, as a supreme argument.
he pleaded that his client had saved the
imperial treasure.
Arguments were of no avail with this
pitiless magistrate who had not acquit-
ted ten prisoners in his life. He spared
the delinquent the bastinado; but gave
him six months in prison, and condemn
ed him in damages against the Grand
Transasiatic Company. And then. at a
sign from this condemning machine, poor
hinko was taken away.
Let not my readers pity Kinko's fate.
l may as well say at once that every
thing was arranged satisfactorily. Next
morning Kinko made a triumphal entry
into the house in the Avenue Cha-COua,
where we were assembled while Madame
Caterna was showering her maternal CON
solutions on the unhappy Zinca Klork.
The newspapers had got wind Of the
affair The Chi Bao, of Pekin. and the
Chinese Times of Tien-tsin. had demand
ed mercy for the young Roumanian
These cries for mercy had reached the
where the imperial ears are placed. Be
sides. Pan Chao had sent to his majesty
a petition relating the incidents of the
journey, and insisting on the point that
had IT not been for Kinkos devotion. the
gold and precious stones would be in the
hands of Faruskiar and his bandits. And
that was worth something else than six
months in prison In a fit of generosity
the Son of Heaven favored Kinko with
the remittal of his sentence.
L decline TO depict the joy, the happi-
ness, the intoxication which this news,
brought by Kinko in person, gave to all
his friends, and particularly to the fair
Dlnca klork. These things are ex-
pressible in no language-not even in
Chinese, which lends itself so generous
ly TO the metaphorical.
And now, my readers must permit me
to finish with my travelling companions
whose numbers have figured in my note
book
Nos. l and 2, Fulk Ephrinel and Miss
Horatia Bluett: Not being able to agree
regarding the various items stipulated
In their matrimonial contract, they we're
divorced three days after their arrival
In Pekin- Things were as though the
marriage had never been celebrated on
the Grand Transasiatic, and Miss Hora-
TIA Bluett remained Miss Horatia Blnett.
May she gather cargoes of heads of ham
from Chinese polls; and may he furnish
with artificial teeth every Jaw in the
Celestial Empire.
No. 3, Major Noltiz: He is buSy at
the hospital he has come to establish at
Pekln on behalf of the Russian govern
ment, and when the hour for separation
strikes, l feel that l shall leave a true
friend behind me in these distant lands.
Nos. and g, the Caternas: After a
stay OF three weeks in the capital of the
Celestial Empire, the charming actor
and actress set out for Shanghai where
they are now the great attraction at the
French Residency.
No. g. Baron Weissschnitzerdo-fe
whose incommensurable name write 70,
the last time: Well, not only did the
globe trotter miss the steamer at Ten
tsin, but a month later he missed II at
Yokohama; six weeks after that he was
shipwrecked on the coast of British Co
lumbia, and then, after being thrown
off the line between San Francisco and
New York, he managed to complete his
round of the world in a hundred and
eighty-seven days instead of thirty-nine.
Nos and 10, Pan Chao and DR.. Ito
King: What can I say except that Pan
Chao Is always the Partisan you know.
AS to the doctor, he has got down to
eating only the yolk of an egg a day.
like his master, Cornaro, and he hopes
to live to hundred and two, as did the
noble Venetian.
No. 3, Sir Francis Trevellyan, and No.
II, Seigneur Faruskiar: 1 have never
heard of the one nor have 1 heard that
the other has been hanged. Doubtless.
the illustrious bandit, having sent in his
resignation Of the general managership
Of the Grand Transasiatic, continues his
lucrative career in the depths of the
Mongol provinces.
Now for Kinko, my No. II: 1 need
hardly say that my No. IL was married
to Zinca Klork with great ceremony. We
were all at the wedding, and if the Son
Of Heaven had not richly endowed the
young Roumanian, his wife received a
present in the name of the
passengers of the train he. had saved.
That is the faithful story of this Jour
ney. have done my best to do my duty
as special correspondent all down the
line, and perhaps my editors may be
Notwithstanding the slip or two
you have heard about.
(The end)