Weekly journal-miner., 1922-08-30

grewsome and trying. The girls are aged Is and Y years. They were new to the section and barely knew the trail to Calkins camp. But they delivered their blood-chil1ing mes sage and returned to their mother, who was with her dying husband. SAYS MCCLURE SHOT FIRST
 If Mrs. McClure's theory is right, Mcclure must have fired on the sight of Bourne and Bourne must have returned the fire almost in stantly, for the death wound of either man, according to Carter would have made him unable to have done any shooting, as the shot gun charge fired by Mcclure took effect just about and inch over Bourne's heart and was fired at a distance of not over six or eight feet, as the bodies of the two men were lying not more than six feet apart The body of Bourne lay just in the doorway of the stone cabin, and the body of Mcclure was just outside the cabin few feet The death wound of Mcclure took effect just in the edge of the right eye and passed through just under the left eye, bulging out the left eye slightly as it passed through. Garter thinks neither of the men ever knew anything after receiving his death wound
 AT TINY OASIS
 Tussick Spring is tiny oasis in the desert. It is the only living wa ter for something like five miles from the place It is in a deep gulch at the base of Silver mountain, which is rugged, high and steep. When one approaches Tussick Spring from the Crown King side one sees it first as a green spot at the foot of a winding and precipitous trail which seems miles long, At the little oasis, is rudely constructed stone house and also a small cabin of boards and a small shed or two The cabins stand by a steep gulch on the oppo- site side of which is a small garden spot where little hay and vcgeta- bles are raised, and skirting the green spot are five or six large and spread ing fig trees, which bear several crops of figs each year, and which have wide green leaves. The water from the spring is sparkling and cold and it is resting place for weary traveller.
 MYSTERY AND TRAGEDY
 After the smoke of battle, ill the shadow of the spreading fig trees, Deputy Sheriff Carter tried to un- earth the mystery of the sudden double tragedy. Mrs. Mcclure, heartbroken and wretched, maintain ed steadfastly that her husband was not jealous of Bourne She declared they had been fast friends for five years, and declared that she did not know why the shooting started. But she admitted to Mir Carter, after it was over and she had sat alone. and thought it out, she surmised that her husband had decided to kill Bourne and that he intended 10 kill her too, and that was the reason he he'd said Wait till 1 get my hat and will go with you" But Carter does not know why she entertained this surmiSe unless there could have been some reason why Mcclure should want to kill them both and the only reason for such an act must have been jealousy.
 As strange closing for the ex- traordinary double tragedy at Tussick Spring, the coroner's jury, the shcr- iffs men, and the doctor, left the mourning woman with her dead.
 She asked to be allowed to bury them both at Tussick Spring, that resting place for the weary traveller.
 A half dozen friends of the hills gathered to comfort and aid her to lay them away.
 A burro had been sent to the near est place for some rough boards with which to make their collins and | she and their friends will lay them ta rest where they lived for five years, and where they had hoped to make their fortunes out of the mine, and where they dreamed their dreams of. success and had their moments of