The Washington herald., 1908-04-19

1NlNQ ua AllE OtU DEOiust ldtlllS EGtEAldi-
ly has the reputation of being an abso-
lutely fearless man, and old Tuesonians
viii sell you that he took a year and a
half of fighting insults from Handy sim
ply because he did not want to prejudice
Mrs. Handys case in the divorce courts,
and, possibly. leave her without law
yer.
How BeIIew Got His Scar.
If you have ever studied Kyrle Bellows
features through your opera glasses per-
haps you have noted the scar he bears on
his chin. It is a constant reminder to him
Of the most exciting of the long chain OF
interesting experiences which befell him
in the Australian gold fields, where he
tried to WOO fortune after he had got his
iii of the sea as cadet for seven years in
the British navy.
At the time the thriller" occurred, Bel
lew and two other miners composed the
night shift working in a certain shaft. As
the shaft had been driven about thirty
feet below the point where the new own
er desired 90 drive his tunnel. false bot
tom of saplings has been built IN It, and
it was from this that the drive was being
made While two of the men worked in
the shaft the third remained by the wind
fdSE at itlE AlitNLi tL t4tE HiAuAtt anu NAtAE1
his companions to safety when every
thing had been made ready for blast.
The man who usually remained at the
surface was a Spaniard.
On the night that Bellew got his scar
his companion in the shaft was called
away suddenly. and Bellew prepared the
blast alone. When everything was ready
he pulled the rope as a signal to the
Spaniard to get ready lighted the can
dies under the fuses. and put his foot in
the rope preparatory TO being hauled up.
Then it was that he noticed one of the
candles had overturned He leaned down
to straighten it. and as he did so uncOn-
sciously took his foot out of the rope. A
moment later, when he turned toward the
rope, after observing that the fuses were
burning in a business-like fashion, he was
stupefied to find it gone.
In his desperation, Bellew tried 10 reach
safety by climbing out of the shaft by
bracing his back against one wall and
cIawing the other with his feet He thus
had cTawled up the shaft half dozen
feet Of so when he fell with a thud on
the flooring. some of the saplings giving
way under him.
saved at Last Moment.
As he lay partially stunned on the floor
ing. Bellew suddenly remembered the
water beneath him. and realized that in IT
lay his only hope. Frantically. and with
phenomenal strength born Of his desper-
ate situation, he tore away at the sap
nngs until he had made hole large
enough TO take his body Then. lowering
himself over the edge, he let go his hold
and dropped into the pool beneath. The
v.-xrs instant aas,sa he axrFoefnv
Several hours later the dTiller return
ing to the shaft, was startled to find no
Spaniard at the windlass and the rope
tossed over n Immediately suspecting
something wrong, he secured help. went
down into the shaft, and found Bellew.
covered with blood and almost Hfeiess, in
the pool Of water, which, fortunately.
was not man-deep. BelleW had retained
just sufficient consciousness after the
shower of sapling and rock had failed
upon him to keep mis- head above the
water while he leaned, limp and help
less, against the shaft wall.
The spaniard disappeared that night ard
never again was seen In the camp. When
the rope came up without Bellew he
probably argued that Bellew was dead
man, despite anything he could do. and
the best thing he could do would be to
get away.
After the gold fever left him Bellew
tried his hands at newspaper work in
Melbourne. Then he returnd TO England
and made his name famous on the Eng
lish and the American stage. Australia
called him again in 1900. and for two years
he ID an exploring party through North
Queensland. His latest inteTesting-nOt
to say neutrality-suspicious. was his recent
appearance with Mrs George J. Gould
in a one-aet drama especially staged for
a day for the edihcation OF the metropoli-
tan 100"
Cbaffee's Thrilling Indian Fight.
Every one Of our surviving Indian fight
ers-Miles. Merritt, and Howard among
them-cou,d, if they would tell series
Of thrilling adventures on the plains, but
none probably could match Chaffees own
story Of his close call in the Big Dry
Wash in Arizona on July II, 1882
Chaffee was stationed at Fort McDow-
ell, about twenty-five miles north Of
Phoenix, when word was brought to him
that a band of $50 Apaches had broken
away from their reservation and gone on
the warpath. With his entire command
Of three troops and fifty extra mounts