Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-08-22

hurried past anu went honS as ipSN
he could. Being Gringo from Cincinnati, he
thought it a ghost.
ANY Mexican vaquero would have recognized
the sign Such light burns over buried treas
ure-nowhere else.
Had he followed the light, it would probably
have led him to the buried loot of old Joaquin
Murrieta ThreeFingered Jack Tiburcio Vasquez
or some other of the hundred bandits VINO
infested the TETON Pass and the Valley OF the
San Joaquin.
And sir, they were bandits. Dick Turpin!
POUCH! A wretched piker Dick Turpin and
Claude Duval couldn't have got job curryins
horses for Joaquin Murrieta Don Joaquin was,
without doubt, the most terrible bloodthirsty and
successful bandit who ever held up stage.
He was chief of band that sometimes num-
bered nearly hundred daredevils, and the treas
ure that he collected must have been enormous
An examination into the events of his pictur'
esque career would clearly indicate that the sto-
ries of his buried gold not mere vaquero
myths. He must have left treasure in consider
able quantities cached somewhere in the vicinity
of the TETON ranch-very likely in the TETON
Pass.
Murrieta is described as a very ordnary-look-
ing young Mexican at the time he began his dep
relations. He sometimes went by the name of
GARLIC and many suppose that to have been his
real name.
He came up from Mexico where he was born
at the time of the California gold excitement in
girl of high-born family. Her name was Rosetta
Fez.
She and Joaquin settled in Stanislaus county
and had begun washing the gravel for gold when
the tragedy occurred that turned Murrieta into
the crueest outlaw the world has known.
At that time there all manner of race
riots through California a result of the anti
foreign" mining laws that had been passed. Dur.
ing of these riots Murrieta and his bride
were driven out of the gold dggings with insult
mr. ffV fhprRqffar IOnOnn.
while riding a horse borrowed from his half
brother, arrested and whipped horse
thief.
With black murder in his heart he took the
road" and no one knows how many innoceRr.
nves We're sacrificed to sipe out the wrong donSl
this Mexican peon when dashed to tree at Muir
phys Diggings in Calaveras county that day
when they took him from the borrowed horse.
On account Of the injustice of the anti-foreign
legislation, there were hundreds of young Next
cans ripe for Joaquin's picking and he soon col
lected desperate band of cutthroats. Chief
among them were Manuel Garcia, known as
Three-Fingered Jack account of a mutilated
hand which had been wounded in the Mexican
war; Reyes Fez, brother of his bride; Claudio,
Joaquin Valenzuea and Pedro Gonzales
Three-Fingered Jack was monster Of vice
and manacal cruelty. He seemed to take spe-
cial delight in numbering Chinese. On one occa-
sion he rounded up six Cinnamon on the road,
tied their queues together and cut their throats
one at time-laughing at the terrified yells of
the living the dying struggled in their
blood
For about four years Murreta's band ravaged
central California. Their main field of opera
tions through the San Joaquin valley. The
od-timers say that the stage that ran from Los
Angeles to Stockton held up so many times
in the vicinity of Bakersfield that it became an
ordinary and commonplace event No road was
safe and every traveller rode at the peril of his
life. The solitary horseman, rounding cump
of chaparral. quite likely to hear the sing Of