The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-08

d Ddq way ana SHOULD Ue tdhtu to thS Mazatlan hospital. So to the Mazatlan hospital, an adobe affair then, with primitive accomrnodati for patients used to civilized medical attention and nursing. Frank Stayman was taken from the schooner on the evening of the vessels arrival in port. Skipper Ellis stayed ashore to nurse his mate i in the hospital. -
 "'But it was no use. The mate had been too long without treatment. He ' died oil his second day in the hospital. A little while before he. died he said :! to Skipper Ellis, in a lucid interval that presaged his early passing out.
 '' Jim, I'm all in, and it's me to pipe out right yere in this Greaser bunk d'rec'ly. But don't want to be put away down yere. never had no kind o'use for Greasers, and wouldn't feel ship-shape or prop'rly battered down layin' in Mexican ground. Now, they ain't no way for you to git my carcass ! up home fir burial, less'n the. next steamer up from Panama will take the box that m in up to San Francisco, which it probably won't. So, Jim, I WdIC you 10 DuTy lIle dl Sed'
 z" 'Jes take. me out on the, schooner on your way up home and git old Coonsey, the sailnaker, to sew me up in one O his handy hammocks, and toss me over the side with the usual lforty-pounder lashed to my anckles. I'll thank you to tend to this, Jim, and lit'li be a hull heap better than layin' aroIn' yere in a burial plot filled with half preceded dead ones. The sea's good enough fir mine. That'll be about all l-s'long, rlatey
 And then Stayman turned over on the other side and passed out.
 | "Stayman had forgotten all about that two-year clause iti the Mexican flaw, but Skipper Jim Ellis hadn't even ] if he didn't say anything about it, not feeling like distressing his partner in tfis final moments Ellis wrapped his mates body tip in a winding sheet, and then he went to see the Alcalde of the town. He explained that he desired to convey his dead partners body to the schooner in order to give it a sea- mans burial.
 t"The Alealde replied that such a thing would be out of the question. The skipper expostulated calmy but =lineffectually. The Alcalde said posi- Lively that the body of the mate would have to be interredl in the strangers lplot=-the equivalent down there of our lpotter's field-until the two years pre- scribed by Mexican law had elapsed. I"Captain Ellis went to. see the Ameri- lean consul. The consul could, of course, do nothing, and told Ellis ,so.
 {" They're very finieky and touehy about their laws down here,' said the lconsul to the skipper. You'd better | let the body stay down here for the two years.
 And sidestep complyin' with the ldyin' wish of my pardner? Not any replied Ellis, and then he came to see me. wanted to help him, but there was no possible way that l could do it I was in business in Mazatlan, and I'd have been chased into the sea by a Iinob had I shown any sort of disposi- tion to meddIe with the Mexican laws
 The Panama steamer Colima, bound up for San Francisco, entered the har- bor while we were talking, and Ellis boarded her and asked the captain if he would carry the dead mates body up to San Francisco if he, Ellis, suc- ceeded in getting the body on board the Colima. The Colima's captain, fearing trouble with the Mexican authorities land regardful of what his company would think of the thing, said no. 3l yi5'' All right. Then it's plumb up to 1 me, sure enough, remarked Skipper ,Ellis, bringing his teeth together with a click. s$$s#'...
 , @"At about 6 o'clock that evening Skipper Jim Ellis dismounted from a
 big mule in. front of the 'dobe hospital
 hitched the mule to a tree and went into the cooling room, where the body of his friend lay. He carefully secured
 the body in the winding sheet. Wher
 he picked the body up and threw I
 over his shoulder the Mexican doctor and two nurses set up a howl. Ellis pulled a gun with his right hand and backed toward the door.
 I Don't you hoptoads come. a-nigh l me-, quietly cautioned Ellis as he backed out This yeres my friend thai Fin a-carrin, and he's jes, as much I my friend dead as he was alive
 I '"The gun aWed the doctor and the H nures; but they raced around the bacl Iway to inform the Alcalde, whose office
 was only half a square away. The : Alcalde$ and half a dozen of those bare
 footed Greaser policemen rushed 'oyel
 and surrounded Ellis just &s tn, skipper, after placing the mates bod0
 in front of the saddle, climbed on boar,
 the mule.
 Arrest him!' shouted the lAlcald
 Jumping around, and the half-bree,
 loops pulled their dinkyj little sword
 and made as if to tackle Ellis. ihi
 time Ellis flashes both guns, and whsl
 he started to wave them the cop
 stepped back with a lot of suddenness
 TT ain't a-huntin' fir no mussiness
 proclaimed Ellis in a low but yer clear tone, but ain't a-going' t stan fir no interference whatever while IT
 performin' a Christian duty by pa
 the same bein' this were dead bo! 3 what would do the same fir me 5 circumstances similar. I'm law-abid l in and God-fearin' man wherever b . deep water or dry land. But this yere A a onusual case. and the first ombre . what tries t hobble me is sure a-goil l..