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as he could. Being Gringo from Cincinnati, he
thought 1t was ghost.
Amy Mexican vaquero would have recognized
the sign. Such light burns over buried treas
ure-nowhere else
Had he followed the light, 1t would probably
have led him to the buried loot OF old Joaquin
Murrieta hree-Fingered Jack, Tiburcio Vasquez
some other of the hundred bandits who
infested the TETON Pass and Re Valley OF the
San Joaquin.
And sir they were bandits. Dick Turpini
Fought A wretched piker! Dick Turpin and
Claude Duval couldn't have got job currying
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 a 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 are 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 q very ordinary-look-
ing young Mexican at the time he began his dep
rotations. 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 born,
at the time of the California gold excitement in
1849. With him beautiful young Spanish
girl of a high-born family. Her name was Rosetta
Feliz.
She ara Joaquin settled In Stanislaus county
and had begun washing the gravel for gold when
the tragedy occurred that turned Murrieta into
the cruelest outlaw the world has known.
At that time there were all manner OF race
riots through California as result of the anti
foreign" mining laws that had been passed. Dur
ing Of these riots, Murr!eta and his bride
and indignity. Shortly thereafter, Joaquin,
while riding a horse borrowed from his half
brother, was arrested and whipped as horse
thief
With black murder in his heart he took the
road" and no knows how many innocent
lives sacrificed to wipe out the wrong done
this Mexican peon when dashed to a tree at Muir
phys Diggings In Calaveras county that day
whenft 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 Joaquins picking and he soon col
lected desperate band of cut-throats. Chief
among them were Manuel Garcia, known
Three-Fingered Jack on account of r1utilated
hand which had been wounded in the Mexican
war: Reyes Feliz, brother of his bride; Claudio,
Joaquin Valenzuela and Pedro Gonzales.
Three Fingered Jack was a monster of vice
and maniacal cruelty. He seemed to take spe-
cial delight in numbering Chinese. On one occa-
sion he rounded up six Cinnamon the road
tied their queues together and cut their throats
at time-laughing at the terrified yells of
the living as the dying men struggled, In their
blood,
For about four years Murrietas band ravaged
central California. Their main field of opera
lions through the San Joaquin valley. The
old timers say that the stage that 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 clump
e chaparra was quite likely to hear the sing Of