The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-07-14

Lee. When these vessels reached Rio Janeiro there were upwards Of four
 thousand men there from the united
 States making the passage to Calltor-
 nia. The city of Rio Janeiro was
 thrown into great consternation, the
 belief prevailing that the passengers on shipboard were soldiers III disguise
 bent on subjugating the country A
 proclamation was issued by Dom Pe-
 dro. the same Don Pedro who received
 so much recognition at the Philadel-
 phia Centennial, that pacitied the null
 titude. The captain of the Paclfc,
 Captain Tibbetts, was tried ln RIO Ja-
 neiro on account of barbarities which
 he had perpetrated on the trip frof
 New York, and was deposed from
 command and sent back in spite of the
 fact that he was the principal owner of the vessel After reaching San Francisco Senator Cheney went into
 the mines, where he spent two years
 or more in digging for gold, The first
 one thousand dollars which he secured
 in gold dust he sent home to his moth
 CT, and it was used in raising the
 mortgage on the homestead that still stands in the heart of the Cheney awnings in South Manchester. Sena-
 tor Cheney has the singular distinction
 of having been the judge in vigilance
 committee court in the mines which
 sentenced an offender to death. He
 was the youngest man engaged in the
 trial, and was made judge of the court
 by a unanimous vote. The man on
 trial for his life had stolen twenty-five hundred dollars in gold from a fellow miner in the camp. He was deport-
 ed criminal from England and had
 served time at Sidney, Australia. He was known as Tom In the camp and
 the man whose gold had been stolen
 was called Mike" last names not be- ing used. After the trial and the sen
 tence of death pronounced by Judge Cheney the culprit was given thirty
 minutes that he might make confess
 sion. In the camp was a Mexican who
 owned lasso and took special delight
 in the impending execution. There
 were also two New York Bowery char
 acters present, taking deep interest in
 the event. At the end of the thirty
 minutes the lasso was fixed about
 Toms" neck, who protested that they
 were going to hang an innocent man. Run him up," growled the two men
 from the Bowery, The next instant From" was in the death struggle In
 mid-air. He was held there until evil
 dences of suffocation were pronounced, when he was allowed to fall to the ground under the protest that the las so had slipped. He was brought to and given one more chance to tell
 where the gold was hidden. He again protested that they were hanging an innocent man. Hardly were the words out of his mouth when the Bowery couple srowled again: Run him up. 1 Give him no mercy" Tom knew that | meant business, and as the lasso tight ened about his neck he motioned that | he would confess. He was let down and led his executioners to the rock | where he ad concealed the pouch of i gold, which was restored to Mike" 8
 hard working miner. From" was giv- 1 en six hours to get out of the camp ] Ettiu tltNtT dpptdE dSdlu III Lllb COuU- i try. Afterwards Tom" was hung in another county in the mining regions. 1 No doubt Senator Cheney is the only
 man in this state who has ever sen- | fenced man to death outside of the
 courts. He is the embodiment of the | old fashioned knighthood and has the 1 tenderness of a woman toward man.
 kind After the three years in Califor- ! mia he went to Australia with his
 brother, William Cheney, and spent l eleven years there in the gold mines
 and in trade, returning to the United i States in 164. He has had career of
 absorbing interest. James B. Olcott was a miner in California for some
 time and afterward engaged in busi-
 ness in Sacramento. He has made the
 study of grasses his life work, howev-
 CT, and has visited most of the coun-
 tries in Europe and has made trips to
 Australia in pursuit of his tavorite l lines of research. In his noted grass
 garden in Manchester may be found
 grass from Corea, now under the pro-
 tection of Japan, and the most inter- esting specimens from Australia Mir. Olcott owns an old ancestral farm, which has been the scene of his varied
 activities for thirty years, He is a
 boon companion of Senator Cheney,
 the old friendships lasting in unabated | vigor. MT. Olcott, the quaintness of
 whose writings is known in a thousand l Connecticut homes, wears a knicker- l booker suit of light brown and silk
 stockings of the same hue, Often he has yellow pine sprig in the button-
 hole of his coat. Ills face is one of intellectual strength, and his figure is the most picturesque one in the streets
 of Manchester. He has made the