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The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1919-04-19
PROCEEDINGS or ADJOURNED
MEETING OF POLICE JURY

r
~ glaaouN.fl. ia Apr1l 18th 1919
tff-r due aafIaa had p given 80
faanlst- ~ rhs rnHes Jury. the
ra.u. inns met att lhe following
a.pbara present G. r Howell presi
arr Nrr- nraseuN Kaufman. liar.
A4snu Harraa aud Nar'man
aram being present
Yh. president stated lbat the meet
es eas held for lha purpose of adopt
tpr ava ordinance making distribution
pg rba taR uIIage la The ue@ and sup
planenial Midget fuF the Parish ct
Wrar O.. ana la fer the year 1919
or .rer No / prepared by the
-au.rH far the Police igrs sas then
- tg nd hHIy discussed item hy item
NJ e. II Harrow presented an
amH ,o this Ordinance aug
aa certain changes in same After
discus tou this amendment ~as with
drawn
The adoption OF rejection 81 ordin
lance NJ 81 then came up for final
faction whereupon Mr. Maryman moved
and Mr. llrazse,t> seconded his motion
that Ordinance No Il be adopted q.
fellows. to.wlt
Ordinance No. 81.
re ii ordained by the Police tury oil
I'M Parish NJ West Felictana That the
amended aud supplemental Budget oI
IrsppgEHgrrs and apportionment Of rev
enua. Of the Parish for the year 1919
daptea NJ it's session oH the 9Th daj
IrI March. 1919 aud subsequently, pub
Iishsd fuf thirty DAYS according To ta"
BE- and the same Is nov approved aao
FINAL, adopted as the Budget for the
Parish for the year 1918; and for The
purpose ~ meeting the expenditures
/ therein provided for and for payment
thereof there Is hereby levied on al
| The taxable property OF the Parish ot
Wesl felCiana, tax Of Nine ant
seyru.etg hths 90 y Mile On the dol
her At the assessed valuation thereof
dis lded and appoftioaed rs follows
| There tr levied
II For public education Z Mtll'
For statutory usual and
necessary charges IS IL Mills
| Aud there IL levied For contractna
Eahligations Incurred before the redbc
|tion ol paroehial taxation
IN Fal bridge bonds maturing
February 1919 principal
and interest .......... Ig-2o Mi
/ For certificate of indebted.
/ ness maturing july 1919
| Principal aud interest I3n Nil
For Road machine certlti
cate maturing March, 1919
I Principal and interest i-2" MI
/ 4 For grader certificate ma
turing March, 1918 Prih.
ctpat aud interest ...,.ss S.4o Nil
/ ful bridge bonds maturing
February, 1920 Principal
aud interest ..... go Mil
9 tat Road machine eeftiii
cate maturing March, iaso
Principal and interest go Nil
/ For Grader certificate ma
turing March. 1870 Pflh
cipal and interest ....,. 3ie Nil
Fu Certificate uI indebted
ness fRefundHg Non MA
t8r.ua Ials, l92n priaei
ua and interest ...... 1870 MI
That the assessor Of the parish !
lr trurted to extend said taxes Of -
|Ulsls un the assessment rolls
fbs roll was callt on this notio'
| AND the following members voted o.
the Ordinance as follows Mr. Fras
seeuN. ye~ NJ kaufman yes VI
! Harvey yes Mr. Austin, yes NJ
| Howell, yes, Mr. Aafyman yes, Nj
HarraN. ves and the Ordinance betnl
| NJ u vas declared unanimousl
adapted
There being ne further business 4
come before the meeting the Polio
1uf. stood adjourned
{. + HOWELL
il Il MATTHEW'S. President
Clerk
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AAAIyte AipAnls ia
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1919-04-19

THE Irrasur, Department advises
every holder of bonds 81 the Fourth
l.lhrrig Loan lo Feinyest the hair wear
interest ab.th Nas due april 18th
"a Thrift clamps and Var Saving.
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The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1919-04-19

ised postage stamps and old ad'
dress labels nnst be- removed from
parcel post containers which are re.
nailed
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-04-24
SOCIETY
By MISS GERTRUDE FRY
Phone No. PA

Misses Hazel Holloway and Mary
Sission, of Hardin College, were week.
end guests of Miss Ruth Schooling al
her home in Sturgeon, Mo.
Mrs. ". G. Burks and Miss Mary
Lee Burks have returned from a visit
in st. Louis.
Miss Willie Robnett is home from
o visit in st. Louis.
Mrs. v. F. Ryan has returned from
a visit in Moberly.
Miss Belle BENEFIT, of Nashville
Tennessee, is the guest of Mrs. w. L
Reed.
Mrs. L. F. Mitchell is the guest Of
Miss Mary v. Houston.
Mrs. A. P. Green gave a one O'Clock
luncheon Thursday noon. The table
was beautifully decorated in pink
roses. An elaborate five-course menu
was served the following guests: Mrs
Sam Locke, Mrs. E. r. Locke, Mrs
Bradley, Miss Bradley of Kentucky
Mrs. C. C. Hammond, and Miss Mary
v. Holston. Attractive corsages OF
violets were given each guest.
Mrs. G. W. Fredendall and daugh,
ter, Katherine, arrived Thursday fol
a visit to Mrs. Joe Wilkins.
Miss Mary bearing of the South
Side School entertained the mothers
and friends of her pupils with a Jap,
e Tea Wednesday afternoon. The
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-04-24
A DELIGHTFUL SURPRISE

Mrs. S R. Dudley and Mrs. Albert
Zuck gave a delightful surprised pas
ket dinner Sunday for Mr.. and Mrs,
P. E. Ritter, it being their 22nd wed
ding anniversary. Each one brought
a well filled basket of good eats. They
received a number of nice presents in
gold, silver and hand paintings. The
guests were Mr.. and Mrs. C. B.
Lyman, of Mexico; Mr.. and Mrs. G.
A. Bremen, Mexico; Mrs. W. r. Dud-
ley and Mr.. and Mrs. S. R. Dudley,
Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. Ritter, MI. and
Mrs. H. J. Ritter and little daughter,
Frances; Mr.. and Mrs. Will Freeman
and two sons, Will Creasey, Sr., P.
H. Ecton, A. H. Conklin, Mr.. and Mrs.
G. A. Chadwick of Mexico; Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert Zuck; Misses Ora and
Uclage Williams, Mexico; Vida and
Mary Taylor; Edna Conklin; Eliza
beth Morgan; Ella and Ethel Dudley;
Florence and Rosalee Ritter; Messrs.
Louis Taylor and Edgar Conklin. Xxx
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-04-24

build their balsas, called the balsc
wood. 1t is a light, soft wood hat
requires ten days drying before be-
ing placed in the water, and we found
not a single tree of this. One, ard
only one, curse remained, and that
was a forlorn hope, to strike out by
land due east, trusting to hold out
until we reached the Benz River which
flows almost due north. We c~alculat-
ed from the charts we had, which were
the best obtainable, that we were not
more than twenty miles from that
river. We afterwards found we were
over sixty miles away, the charts be-
ing woefully inaccurate. We esti-
mated we could make half a mile a
day, cutting every foot of the way
through a dense Jungle. But should
we ever reach the Beni, what then?
There is no navigation on it.
(The article will be completed in
the next number of Travel.)
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-04-24

| some nature descriptions, and Mrs.
Durkee read some personal letters.
The hostess served refreshments,
| after which the Circle witnessed the
tank demonstration.
Mrs. L. H. Strunk gave a line party
Monday afternoon at the Orpheum in
honor of Mrs. P. A. St. Vrain. After
the matinee delicious refreshments
were served at The Tea Shop. In line
were Mesdames Arthur Sharp, W. G
| Wilkins, L. B. Hawthorne, B. F
| Wells, S. D. Stocks, j. H. Whitmore
! Charles Carpenter, F. N. Henderson
Blaine McKusick, v. F. Ryan, R. NJ
Emmons, ]. E. Durkee, Earl Brown
]. C. Mundy, J.E. Streif, R. C. Strobe
Rolla Mcintyre, Cortez Edmonston, T,
J. Williams, Ray Miller, P. A. St
Vrain, and Mrs. Ross Cauthorn.
Mrs. S. NJ. Locke entertained at a
$500 luncheon" Tuesday noon in honor
of her house guests, Mrs. Bradley
and Miss Bradley of Georgetown, KY
Cherry blossoms were placed over
the house and an elegant three course
luncheon was served to fifty guests
! in the dining room. The guests OF
honor and Mrs. C. C. Madison of Kan
sas City, and Mrs. Edgar Wiles OF
Dayton, Ohio, were seated at the large
table. After luncheon 500 was en-
joyed during the afternoon.
Mrs. Fred Morris entertained at
luncheon Wednesday at noon, for Mrs.
Bradley and Miss Bradley, of George
town, Kentucky. The table was at
tractively conferred with wild violets,
The guests were Mrs. P. E. Locke
| Mrs. E. R. Locke, Mrs. S. M. Locke
| Mrs. C. C.. Madison of Kansas CITY.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-04-24
MRS. JOSIE GIBSON
DIED WEDNESDAY AT
SISTERS HOME

Mrs. Josie Gibson, wife of John
Gibson, supposed to be wounded in
a Base Hospital in France, died at the
home of her sister, Mrs. E. D.
Thompson in Mexico at 8 o'clock We'd
nesday afternoon after an illness of
more than a year.
The deceased was born in Boone.
County, Mo-, March 4, 1892. She was
reared to womanhood in Mexico and
was a daughter of the late John Bal
bridge, who died in Mexico, July &c,
1918.
Besides her husband she is survived
by her mother, and three sisters:
Mrs. Thompson, of Mexico; Mrs. ".
L Hamilton, Auxvasse; Miss Lille
B~aldridge, Fulton, Mo.
She was a member of the Baptist
church having united with this denom-
nation at Greedy, Colo, several years
ago while she was in that State for
her health. 1t was Mrs. Gibson's de-
sire to become a Missionary and she
had hoped to attend some school to
study for this werk, but her health
would not permit.
With the death of Mrs. Gibson Mex
leo has lost a beautiful character, a
patient and accomplishing sufferer
through the many months she lay
helpless on her bed. She was never
heard to complain. Her sweet kindly
manner and her devoted faith to her
Master, made her life a happy one,
although bowed down with suffering.
The funeral services were held at
3 o'clock at the home 1923 South Olive
Street, conducted by the Rev. Hughes.
Burial was in the Elmwod cemetery.
The Ledger joins with the many
friends in extending their deepest
sympathy to the bereaved.
Mrs. Gibson had not heard from
her husband since last July and the
last notice received was that he had
been wounded and was in a Base Hos
pital in France. Since then nothing
has been heard of him. 1t is feared
taht he too is dead.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-04-24

room was beautifully decorated in
Japanese designs, and one corner OF
the room represented a Japanese gar
den. The children were dressed IN
white with pink chrysanthemums in
| their hair, and a short program rem
| dered, after which tea and waters
were served.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Wilkins and
their guests, Mrs. Fredendall and Miss
Katherine Fredendall, were entertain
ed by Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Claybrook
Friday evening at a picnic supper.
Mrs. C. C. Grimes and children will
spend Easter in Columbia.
Mrs. Frost is home from a visit in
st. Louis.
The Federation will meet Monday
| afternoon at the Library at 2:15. AT
three o'clock DIR. Fairchild will speak
on "The League of Nations" The
Chautauqua Circle will be hostesses,
Everybody is invited to hear this lee
ture.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. NJ. Locke enter.
tanned their two guests and a few rel
atives at The Tea Shop Monday ev-
| ching. Those present were Mr.. and
Mrs. Pelide Locke, and Mrs. c. C
Madison of Kansas City; Mr.. Edwin
Locke, and Miss Willie Morris.
Mrs. Oscar Poisson, of St. Louis
will arrive Tuesday to visit Mrs. l
S~ilverstein.
The Chautauqua met with Mrs
Henderson Tuesday, with Mrs. Ross
Cauthorn as leader. The lesson was
on mark Twain" Mrs. Clanton
gave a sketch of his life. Mrs. Wal
lace Fry gave a"Review of Huckle-
l berry Finn" Mrs. McKusick read
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-04-24

Miss Franc Johnson entertained the
! active chapter of the Beta Sig Soror-
ity with an elegant buffet dinner at
her home two miles north of town
Sunday noon. Sorority colors were.
! used in decorations, and to each guest
was given dainty red and pink fcl'-
get-me-not bouquets. The guests
were Misses Frances Fengal, Mabel
Shepherd, Edith Rolf, Caroline Wor-
rell, Eva Wallace, Viola Kripp, Gene
| We've De Witt, Pauline Fishback and
Lillian Adams.
Miss Dorothy Worrell gave a one
| o'clock luncheon Friday at The Tea
i Shop in honor of Miss Leila Dickinson
Of Clinton, Mo. The guests were mem
| beers of the Theta Sorority and were
| Miss Frances Mason, Mrs. Sam
| Sharp, Mrs. Joe Luckie and Mrs. Ray
Miller.
Miss Clarice Painter had as her
! guests for the weekend: Miss Muriel
Freels, Miss Gladys Lee Wells, Miss
| Julia Miller and Miss Marie Miller, of
| Hardin; and for dinner Sunday she
| had with her house guests, Miss Lii
J liam Wright, Miss Ellen Machen and
Miss Nina Machen.
Mrs. Sam Evans, Mrs. c. R. Gibbs,
and Mrs. Van Ness returned from
louisiana where they attended the mis-
| ~sionary meeting of the Baptist church.
Miss Franc Johnson left, Friday, for
| Glasgow to spend the weekend with
Miss Gs-nevieve De Witt She will
| also visit Mrs. D. L. Johnson in Kan
sas City before returning home.
Misses Eva and Georgia Miller, Rlll-
la Powell, and Woodson, of the Fed
] eral Land Bank, st. Louis, are sepnd-
ing Easter in Mexico.
Miss Mary Louise Jones will give an
Orpheum party Monday evening in
honor of her sister, who is visiting her.
Mrs. W. N. Jones, Jr., of Kansas
City is a guest at the home of Mr..
Jones' parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. N.
Jones.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-04-24
DIR. MoREHOUsE WOUNDED.

DR.. C. H. Morehouse, who was a
ch~iropractic here before the war, was
in this city Wednesday on his way
home to M~arthasville, Mo. He was in
the seth division, a member of Co.
NJ. 1856 Inf, and was wounded in the
st. Mihiel battle three days after he
went over the top with his company.
His wound was in the right leg
He had it dressed on the field and
fought four more days with his COM
pany until blood poisoning set in and
he was forced to go to a base hospital,
He was looking exceptionally we'll
and his many Mexico friends were
glad to see him.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-04-24
Cnnnh

In this disease it is important that
the cough be kept lose and expector-
alton easy. This is best accomplished
by giving Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy. That preparation also tends to
liquify the tough mucus, making it
easier to expecto~ate and renders .he
fits of coughing less frequent and less
YER 1t has been used in many cpl
denies of this disease with the best
results. 1t contains no eodeine or
other narcotic. Adv.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-04-24

We now entered the fever zone Our
head porter o was taken violently i'll
and had to he tied across the back of a
mule. The following day two more
porteros ard Sanchez was down with
the fever. Our progress became Slow
err and slower. The weather was in
tensely hot, with heavy rains each
day, and we began to suffer from the
mosquitoes and gnats which amounted
almost to a plague. l shot a red deer
and Dillon killed two wild turkeys,
which gave us much needed fresh
meat.
We noticed many jaguar, deer, pee
cary and turk ey tracks around the
spring, but saw no game. Scattered
over the pamI'a were numerous huge
ant hills resem bling giant beehives, in
some cases fully fifteen feet high and
fifty in diameter.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-04-24
UNIT TO WHICH MISS
RAM BELONGS DUE IN
NEW yORK SOON

Word has been received by the sis
ter of Miss Cordelia RAM, that Hos
pital Unit No. 81 of which Miss RAM
is a member, is expected to arrive in
New York either Easter Sunday or
the following Monday.
Miss RAM has been a nurse in this
Unit in France during the war.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-04-24

There were a number of small swift
streams crossing the pampas, heavily
timbered on each bank for about &
mile back. We were anxious to fine
one that was navigable to the Ben:
River to the east of us, a large tribu-
tary of the Madeira River which flows
into the Amazon. Being unable to OBJ
tain accurate information as to any
of these streams, we decided to build
a canoe and start down the largest of
them. The Indians strongly advised
against this course, saying that the
rapids which the river surely con-
tanned would wreck our boat and we
would perish; and although we Of
fered every inducement we could not
get any of them to accompany US.
However, we persisted in our plan.
Transferring our camp to the river
bank and telling a mahogany tree
about five feet in diameter, we hewed
out a canoe with our axes. We found
a bee-tree from which we obtained
beeswax and caullled the boat. 1t was
completed in four days, measured
eighteen feet in length, inside depth
two feet, width three feet. 1t must
have weighed fifteen hundred pounds.
After detailing the hardships of the
early part of the trip afoat Mr.. Clay
writes:
The leg jam was found to be over
a mile long and absolutely impossible
Making camp on the bank, we held a
council of war. The situation was in
deed grave. We roughly estimated
we had come fifty miles northeast.
To go back up the river was quite out
Of the question, as it would have been
impossible to make any Roadway
against the strong current, not to
mention the falls and rapids. To cut
our way through the jungle was
equally impossible, because we never
could have found the Indian village
nor progressed over a mile a day.
We decided on an attempt to portage
the boat overland around the log
drift. Cutting down a tree, we used
a right angle fork to construct a
windlass. After many attempts we
found the rope would not stand the
strain of pulling the boat up the
eight-foot bank although we had ar
ranged IN incline of poles smeared
with mud. The tenth time the rope
parted, we gave that solution up as
hopeless. We made diligent search
for trees suitable for building a raft
below the drift, but could discover
nothing except hardwood which either
sank or barely foated it's own weight.
There is only n wood which the In
dams Of the Amazon Basin use to
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-04-24

W. N. Silliman and Mrs. Silliman Of
st. Louis arrived here Tuesday of this
week and will make Mexico their
home. Mr.. Silliman purchased an in
terest in the Audrain Service Garage
and will be found at that place of bus
mess. Mexico is glad to welcome him
and Mrs. Silliman.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-04-24
STUFFED UP WITH
"A BAD COLD?''
Get busy with a bottle Of
Dr.. Kings New Discovery
at once

Coughs, colds and bronchial attacks
-- they are all likely to result in danger
GUS aftermaths unless checked in time.
And how effectively and quickly DR..
Kings New Discovery helps to do the
checking work! Infiamed, irritated
membranes are soothed, the mucous
phlegm loosened freely, and quiet.
Gestfui sleep follows.
Alldruggists have it. Sold since 1869
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-04-24
FROST DAMAGES THE
FRUIT AND YOUNG
GARDENS WEDNESDAY

Mexico weather experts inform the
Ledger that the frost Wednesday
night was sharp and biting and did /;
great deal of damage to the fruit buds
and tender gardens. Its effect coulc
be noticed Thursday morning the
plants being crimped.
The thermometer registered 35 de-
grees above, during the night which
was the lowest.
BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-04-24
WILL CLARK DIES SATURDAY.

Will Clark, about 60 years old died
at his home on the John Paul farm
south of Mexico, known as the Ortez
Fruit Farm, about 1 O'Clock Saturday
morning. Mr.. Clark was a bachelor
and made his home with his brother
L. Clark.
The funeral services will be held at
the home at 2 o'clock Sunday after
noon. The Ledger extends sympathy
to the brother.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-04-24
spark.


| The ha~rdships were beg E1ning to tell
on men mad animals; the dow npour of
| rain kept u clothes a.n6 blankets
drenched and we were in anything but
a comfortable state.
The endurance of the pOrteros was
remarkable, apparently induced by
the continual chewing of leaves of
the coca bush. 1t is. a habit among the
Indians Of Bolivia and Peru, and an
Indian courier can make fifty miles
a day without food when provided
with his f~avorite stimulant. They
carry a small bag of these leaves
swung from their belts and a little
horn cup of ashes which they mix
with the leaves while chewing them.
l was so exhausted that l essayed a
trial of this wonderful herb. Getting
a handful from one of the Indians, l
proceeded to initiate myself. Within
half an hour the change was remark
able. All trace of hunger had dis
appeared, the last vestige of fatigue
was gone and l felt as though l could
walk on indefinitely. I continued eat
ing the coca for ten days and exper-
fenced no i'll effects, no aetianary
period of lassitude as l had feared.
The leaves have a rather bitter taste
and stain the teeth a light green. The
Indians claim that they are fatal IN
/ less mixed with the ash, which is made
| from the bloom. of the lotus or orchid.
Just how true this is l do not know,
nor did 1 care to experiment in order
to test its truth or fallacy.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-04-24

John R. Barker, Battle Creek, Mich,
writes 81 was troubled with heartburn
indigestion and liver complaint until
I began using Chamberlain's Tablets,
then my trouble was over" If you
are troubled with indigestion or con-
stipation give the ma trial. They will
do you good. Adv.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-04-24
New Son Arrives.

Mr.. and Mrs. Ed O'Brien Of this city
are rejoicing over the arrival Of a son
born at the Audrain Hospital Friday
night.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-04-24

No more lazy bowels, yellow COM
pfextion, sick headache, indigestion,
embarrassing breath, when you use as a
corrective DR.. Kings New Life Pills.
They systematic the system and ksep
he -wpsld licking -ehseEEHls'
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-04-24

The village was inhabited by the
Tacana Indians. The men were mag
nicent specimens with broad, dee p
chests and small waists and hips. The
women were comely of face and pos
xessed of 1.-THE, perfectly developed
figures which women of our hig her
civilization might envy. These were
the first Indians we found who trans
ported their burdens on their he ads,
which probably accounted for their
erect, graceful carriage. The women
would come down to the river and
calmly battle before us, with a native
insouciance that was surprising to say
the least. We received every courtesy
and consideration from these people
and they We'd with each other to make
our stay in the village pleasant.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-04-24
Stop Corn Agony
In Four Seconds
Use "Gets.It"-see Corns Peel Off!

The relief that "Gets-It" gives
from corn-pains-the way it makes.
corns and ~calluses peel OFF painless
ly in one piece-is one of the Won
ders OF the world. The pms in
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-04-24
Took a Severe Cold.

"Our five year old son Paul took q
severe cold last winter that settled on
his lungs and he had terrible cough
ing spells. We were getting worried
about him rs the medicine we gave
him did not help him in the least. A
neighbor spoke so highly of Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy that / got a bot
tie of it, and the first dose benefited
him so much that l continued giving
it to HON until he was cured" writes
Mrs. Frank Croker, Pana, Ill. Adv.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-04-24
THE
BOLIVIAN JUNGLE

The following excerpts from C. M.
Clay's article in The Travel maya
zine regarding his remarkable trip
across South America will be of inter-
est to his many acquaintance here.
The clippings follow:
1t was September sixteenth, the be-
ginning of spring in Bolivia, and the
sun shone down with a warmth which
dissipated the cutting chill of the
high altitude as we left La Paz, pic
turesque with its red tile roofs, nest
ling in the crater of an old volcano on
the veritable top of the world. Our
caravan consisted of five saddle mules,
fifteen pack mules, five Amara Indian
porterer r packers, two civil engi-
neers, Christopher Dillon, Servando
Sanchez and myself
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-04-24

In this village W. found a lone white
man whose name, for obvions reasons,
l shall not divulge. He was 81 fugitive
from justice, having held up and rob-
bed, single-handed, a paymaster's
pack train on its way to the mines, al
though it was guarded by twenty SOL
dfers. After years spent among the
Indians he vas overjoyed at finding
someone who spoke English, and rem
dered US valuable assistance in many
ways. 1t was most pathetic to hear
him say he never intended returning
to civilization, but expected to live and
die in the village. Certainly the years
spent with those s~emi-savages had ex-
plated his crime.