Barbour County index., 1910-02-09

K( venture in the Central
Is >S3:.sSSA American republic The
state department is full of
records OF instructions and expedi
tions which had to do with Nicaraguan
affairs and the United States connec-
tion herewith
1t Is said in Washington that there
was living at last reports man named
r NJ BAKER who is perhaps the sole
survivor or the famous. or notorious
as you WILL Walker filibustering expe- {
dltlon into Nicaragua more than half a
century ago.
MT Baker at last accounts was Iiv-
ing In the city of Chicago, where his
friends knew him as Dad" Baker The
full story Of Bakers Central American
adventures is told by man who re-
Gently saw Mr.. Baker and heard the
story of the Nicaragua expedition from
his lips.
Dad Baker was forty-niner. He
Iert with party from Dayton. O. and
IN ~ days reached Independence. Mo
from that place the expedition 100
men strong, started across the pIains !
When the heart of the Rockies vas
reached there were just five men left {
IN BAKERS party. the others having
uled' or deserted for other caravans
oh tne way When part way across.
anu oeiore me disintegration of the
' Uu.n'' there was hard fight with the
ui"ns' VINO attempted to STAMPEDE
.o S'och: Ih1s fight lasted for some
time. with heavy losses to both sides
but the fight, so Mr.. Raker Gov.
not han so severe as was that which
they encountered when thew str,,oI-
mountain fever. when MOI -
mountain fever and nothing to eat hut
hard bread and bacon. he has tho eat1t
vi MS lie and for his life" is tho Nc,
Dad" Baker put It. way
shaved death then" he said 90
., nis s'ory goes, but did not actnaIIv
ui0 uHlll aIter l had reached CaIifo
- III company with a score
Vi otners' had smallpox. We ware ~
ounks IN nuts and we had. Won rna
DeheVe' none Of the delicacies ~ +ha
season IL was there that died IT,
= Iootoi was overworked and when bo Gov. /,
vas oounu 70 die anyway he sfnnlv go
SWING me medicine and told one ~ ~ Soopl ~
"no was not yet stricken down iuSt -
III comfortable position and Ie+ M
neard this bit Of cheerful instruct
een' Dut 1 was at that low ebb when -,
ue"'n as relief. BY and bv Il,
ctrona- - iiu' DeileVe this when you see b
hIlt fho Il
TOR said was dead and all tho othnuu INC ~ u
WIN MIN. My jaw was set and NV o,,oo -,
HAeu' felt dead, and vet witba1 ~
&c Teenllcohsclousness that somewhere ahou+
mere was spark of life, though n nigb+
as far away as my toes - iiienI
was laid out there and exnected ~
euocohsclous way to hear soon tho frno
olscourse, but then all at once began r. .
symptom of returning life. Something I
q gu" came over me-and in a few mimi
mad strength enough to wink and move
Jaw. 1t Is my belief that thew were met oh,
10 Dlnd up my jaw as they do after moo
nave died When l literally gave them I
Wink that was alive some of them "a
pretty near dying themselves. I think I
maddest man in the party was the doctor
uoe'ors nau oeen plentiful in those diggir
tulS one "ouid nave lost his practice then a
'nele' lor oy coming to life after being q
nounced dead by him nearly ruined his m
ical reputation. When you are getting rae
TO ole Just ask some trustworthy friend
stick pins into you or do something else !
that after the doctor has pronounced ,
dead, to see if he knows his business fo
give you the word of a man who has be
there that It's not pleasant to be official
dead, to be unable to move a muscle and
10 realize, even though dimly, that you n
soon hear the clods falling on your coffin Ii
After Mr. Baker came back to life he tC
up mining claim. He worked it a day-M
day-and saw but comparatively little pr
poets of success ahead. Monday night +
Dutchmen offered $500 for the claim. Bal
gave 1t to them and took the money. TuesC
the purchasing Dutchmen took out s25
worth of gold Then Dad Baker became
bit disguised and struck out for San FIR
cisco and it was not long before he made
his mind to cast his lot with William Wall
and see what he could do in the way of nj
ing up some money at Nicaragua
1T is a good many years since the fiIib
tering expedition started for the Cent
American state, ostensibly to aid the popu
= side in civil strife waging in that count
but in reality probably to see how MI
money could be picked up loose In
streets"
William Walker was a newspaper man
lawyer and a physician. but primarily. init
sically and before all he was an adventur
In the year 1858 he started out to cant,
Sonora from the Mexicans He actually s
ceeded in getting a grip on lower Califor
and probably would have succeeded in taxi
Sonora but for the fact that his supplies gs
out. Notwithstanding the fact that Walker
tually invaded Mexican territory with
armed force, he was acquitted by the Unit
States court by which he was tried after
arrest, OF any violation of neutrality la
After his acQuittal in San Francisco he