Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-08-22

- hurried past ana went nome as IasL
as he could Being Gringo from Cincinnati, he
thought 1t was a ghost
ANY Mexican vaquero would have recognized
the sign. Such light burma 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, Three-Fingered Jack Tiburcio vasquez
or other of the hundred bandits who
infested the TETON Pass and the Valley of the
San Joaquin.
And sir. they were bandits Dick Turpin!
Fought wretched pker! Dick Turin 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 held up a 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 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 very ordinary-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
1s49 With him came beautiful young Spanish
girl of highborn family. Her name was rosetta
Feliz
She and 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 a result of the anti
foreign mining laws that had been passed. Dur
ing one Of these riots, Murrieta and his bride
we're driven out OF the gold diggings with insult
and indignity. Shortly thereafter Joaquin,
while riding horse borrowed from his half
brother. arrested and whipped as a horse
thief
With black murder in his heart he took the
road" and no knows how many innocent
lives were sacrificed to wipe out the wrong done
this Mexican peon when dashed to tree at Muir
phys Diggings In Caaveras county that day
when they took him from the borrowed horse
On account of the injustice of the anti.foreign
legislation, there hundreds of young Next
cans ripe for Joaquin's picking and he soon col
lected a desperate band of cutthroats. Chief
among them we're Manuel Garcia, known as
ThreeFingered Jack account of mutiated
hand which had been wounded in the Mexican
war; Reyes Feliz. brother G: his bride; Claudio.
Joaquin ValenZuela and Pedro Gonzales
ThreeFingered Jack was a monster OF vice
and maniacal cruelty. He seemed to take spe-
cial delight in numbering Chinese On one occa-
SION ne rounded. up SIX Cinnamon on the road.
tied their queues together and cut their Threats
one at time-laughng 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 ives through the San Joaquin valley The
oid'timers say that the stage that ran from Los
Angeles to Stockton was 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
HE The solitary hCrseman. rounding a clump
y chaparral was quite likely to hear the sing of