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Death Alone In the
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fiferiJe of a “Desperado
Him From the 'Rope—S'tory
of a Crime and Its
Shaaift 'Retribution.
“Hands up!” was the command that
startled the assayer of the Ivanhoe
Mining company one night, and as he
turned from his retort he looked into
the muzzle of a revolver held by a tall
and determined looking man. Farther
away toward the door stood two other
men, both holding guns pointed toward
him. Instantly his hands were above
his head.
Behind him in the big retort were
100 pounds of amalgam—quicksilver
and gold. From this amalgam the
quicksilver was being evaporated, and
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when this process was completed the
retort would contain about fifty pounds
of gold.
Just then Johnny Hanson, the night
man on the concentrators, entered the
assay office to pay a visit to the as
sayer. On entering the door he found
himself glaring at three revolvers, as
had the assayer; but, being impetuous
and young, instead of throwing up his
hands he grappled with the nearest
robber and shouted lustily for help.
The assayer, turning involuntarily
from his corner, saw three desperate
men trying to choke Johnny into si
lence and so seized an iron pinchbar
and struck wildly at the nearest foe
man. In an instant the butt of a re
volver crashed on the assayer’s temple,
and he fell like a stunned ox/to the
floor.
But now the camp was aroused. The
superintendent of the mine, pistol in
hand, was crowding in the doorway,
and behind, more formidable, were
burly men, the day crew of the mill.
Then it was that the first shot was
fired. Who fired it no one ever knew,
nor could any one tell clearly after
ward what followed. Crash after crash
the reports rang out inside the little
assay office. Fighting like wildcats,
the tangle of struggling men surged
through the narrow room. Furnace and
scales and lamp and glass flux bottles
were swept in wreckage to the floor,
and through the darkness leaped the
long, red spitting of the Colts. And
then, somehow, the fight passed through
the door into the open, and the miners
were madly racing into the night after
an enemy that had fled up the canyon.
The chase was soon abandoned, and
under the direction of Big Meade, the
mill boss, the assay office was inspect
ed. On the floor lay Johnny Hanson,
Munson, the superintender t and Gil
more, the rock breaker man, ail dead.
A hundred yards from the assay of
fice one of the miners returning from
the chase found three horses tethered
to a tree, and a great joy filled the
camp when the discovery was made.
The pursuit, short as it had been, had
been too close to permit the robbers to
seek and untie their horses.
At daybreak the posse, twenty mount
ed men, started in pursuit. A light
wagon followed loaded with provisions
for three days, and, significant of their
stern purpose, a coil of manila rope lay
upon the seat.
Hour after hour the posse galloped
over the prairie, its front spread out
like a line of battle over ten miles,
that the fugitives might not run to one
Fide. In such a way they covered near
ly forty miles. Then Meade, who was
riding in the center, halted and called
to the men on either side of h’m.
“We must have passed them ” s«id
Meade when most of the riders had
gathered around him. “We’ve come
as far as they could have come with
out horses in this time, and we can see
five miles ahead of us.”
“Let’s figure this thing out before we
riae back,” said Sheehan. “Now, five
miles back there’s been a big band of
sheep thi i summer, and they have eat-
en th» grass so close for a strip of six
miles back of that again that a grass
hopper couldn’t hide in it from a blind
owl. So if they’re not ahead of us
they are lying on their bellies near the
edge of that bare strip eleven miles or
so from here.”
Sheehan’s calculations were nearly
correct, for scarcely had they turned
in the grass belt before a man arose
from the grass. He made no fight and
was quickly bound and placed in the
wagon.
Within half a mile they flushed the
two remaining robbers. They dashed
away blindly, and Sheehan fir&d, send
ing one to earth, while the other stood
quietly to be taken.
“It’s Black Kelly,” said Sheehan.
“He’s pretty well shot up, and I had
to put another hole in him.” It was
Black Kelly, sure enough, a tall, dark
skinned desperado, whose desperate
deeds had made his name notorious.
Meade dismounted. “Bind up his
leg, boys, before we get to business.
Tie up this other man and put him in
the wagon.”
No one asked the destination, but
Meade sat on the box of the wagon
with the driver, and the posse followed.
They knew the grim finale was near at
hand, but one cannot hang a man on
the prairie. Two hours back from
where the fugitives had been taken
was a little clump of trees, not more
than three or four, but then only one
was needed. Through the gathering
dusk the party moved in silence, and
after the last glow of the sunset had
faded the trees loomed in shadowy out
line before them. The wagon stopped.
Quickly a line was made fast to a
stout, projecting branch, and the noose,
tied with its long cylindrical knot, dan
gled in the air. Then the man who had
been first caught was brought up and
made to stand in the wagon behind the'
seat while his legs were lashed togeth
er. The noose was drawn down, placed
in position around his neck, and then
the crowd fell back. Meade took out a
notebook and stepped beside the wagon.
“What is your name?” he asked ab
ruptly.
“William Hamilton,” was the answer,
almost inaudible.
“Have you any message to send to
any one, anything to say?” he asked.
“I was led into this thing,” began
Hamilton. “I didn’t do any shooting.
I just tried to get away. It was Black
Kelly who done it. He put up the
whole job. If you would let me go
this”—
“Drive on,” said Meade.
The driver of the wagon jerked the
reins, the wagon moved from under
Hamilton, and the first of the trio was
hanging in the night. A merciful shot
from a Winchester terminated his suf
ferings. The second man received the
same treatment.
Kelly was then placed in the wagon,
and for the third time Meade stepped
forward, the recording pencil and note
book in his hand.
“Have you any message to send to
any one, Kelly?” he asked.
Kelly’s black eyes were gazing far
into the infinity of the night. He never
deigned to turn his glance.
“Drive on,” he said. The cold au
dacity, the sheer nerve of the answer
sent a thrill of animal admiration
through the men. The mountain iron
in their blood rang to the spirit of the
man as 'Stern as they. Even Meade
himself lost his self possession and
stood a moment speechless.
After a short discussion Meade turn
ed again to Kelly. “Kelly,” he said,
“you ought to have been hanged first.
You ought to be hanged now, but it
seems as though your nerve has got
you one more chance. We’re going to
untie you and give you a one minute
start into the prairie. If we see you
after one minute we’ll shoot. You’ve
got no horse, no gun, no grub and
you’re pretty well hurt. It’s 140 miles
across to the railroad. There’s no wa-
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“DRIVE ON,” SAID KELLY.
ter this side of it, and there isn’t a
chance in a thousand that you’li reach
it.”
Kelly said nothing. Sheehan un
bound his legs and arms. Meade led
him to the edge of the crowd, and he
disappeared into the darkness.
Though no man saw, it is a certain
thing that somewhere in the parched
desolation that lies between the rail
road and the trees the desert laid her
hot hand on ihe parched throat of Kel
ly, and the buzzards made merry on the
morrow.
The Fountain of Youth.
Like pretty much everythin.! else,
this matter of having children has two
tiles to it. As a great many children
are failures and as children are the
joint product of heredity and environ
ment, both elements preponderantly
under parental control, it would seem
more sensible to say that there were
too many people undertaking parental
responsibility instead of too few. And.
further, parenthood has many cares
and sorrows and exasperations. Still,
when all is said, how many persons
who have found themselves childless
at forty-five have been able honestly
to congratulate themselves?
Children have a use as an assurance
against destitution and loneliness in
old age. They are satisfactory to the
vanity for family immortality. But
more than these and all other advan
tages is the advantage of prolonging
one’s life. Growing children wi'l keep
any proper man or woman young in
spirit and in mind, will retard the de
velopment of that sour yet complacent
cynicism which curses old age both for
oneself and for those about one.
The man or the woman—again, thq
right sort of man or woman—who has
children drinks every day a deep draft
at the fountain of eternal youth.—Sat
urday Evening Post.
The Dammaras of Africa.
In Galton’s “Tropical South Africa”
it is stated that the Dammaras use no
term beyond three and that when they
wish to express four they take to their
fingers. Beyond fl ve they cannot count
at all. It is seldom, however, that they
lose in a bargain through their inability
to count. When bartering, each sheep
or ox or whatever they may be sell
ing must be paid for separately. If
this rate of exchange were at the rate
of two sticks of tobacco for one sheep
it would greatly puzzle a Dammara to
accept four sticks for two sheep. Gal
ton says that he several times paid
them in that way and that the Dam
mara forthwith set aside two sticks for
one of the ( sheep, and even when he
found that he had two sticks left for
the other sheep he still had his doubts
as to the genuineness of the transac
tion and was not satisfied until two
sticks were put into his hand and one
sheep driven away and then another
two sticks given to him for the other
sheep.
The Flight of the Locust.
Writing in the Empire Review on the
locust in South Africa, S. B. Kitchen
says: Locusts are very tiny creatures,
at most two or three inches long, yet
giant jawed and shelled in a grim
brown mail so hard that as they strike
it causes a sharp smart. They travel
in such numbers that it takes them
four or five days to pass over. The
scouts alone, hovering in patches like
red dust clouds,are numerous enough
to destroy the vegetation of a district,
while the main body, high up in the air,
a host of little black specks, stretches
out into an interminable screen be
tween heaven and earth. The fanning
of their wings brings a fresh coolness
over the hot earth even in the depth
of summer. There seems to be a fresh
breath of ozone as of the sea.
The Laughing Hy ;na.
Although the hysterical laughter of
the laughing hyena i? i.ot, as was once
supposed, the outcome of a deliberate
attempt to decoy unwary travelers to
their doom, this strange animal is, nev
ertheless, one of the most cunning of
dumb animals. He is so suspicious of
everything he does not understand that
the sight of even a bit of string at once
puts him on his guard. Trappers are
aware of this fact and generally use
the stems of creeping plants instead of
string of any kind in setting their
spring traps.
Preserving the Traditions.
“Yes, I have launched my new
yacht,” said Muchpop.
“What do you call her?” asked the
friend.
“Named her for my native city—
Brooklyn.”
“And did you smash a bottle of wine
across her bow when she was chris
tened?”
“No, indeed! We broke a nursing
bottle full of milk.”—Judge.
Father and Son.
Little Bobby—l can’t find my hat and
coat.
Father (rushing about)—l can’t find
mine either. I don’t see what your
mother does with things. She’s gone
out, and there’s nothing for us to do
but hunt till we find ’em or else stay in.
Little Bobby (after long thought)—
Let’s look on the hall rack.
Imposing.
She (at the review grounds)—What
an imposing figure Captain Borrows
has!
He—Yes; naturally so.
She —And why naturally, pray?
He—Oh, he’s always imposing on his
friends.—Philadelphia Inquirer.
Called Him Brother.
Harlow —I noticed you called Fred
“brother.” Does he belong to some se
cret society that you do?
Shallop—l don’t belong to any secret
society. I call him brother because my
wife once promised to be a sister to
him.—Boston Transcript.
Like n Charm.
Customer (angrily)—You said that
hair r Storer you sold me a couple of
weeks ago would work like a charm,
and it didn’t do any good at all.
Druggist—But. my dear sir, no one in
this enlightened age believes in the ef
ficacy of charms.
Ambiguities of Parrot Talk.
Ida—That parrot is always saying,
“Sit close.”
May—Yes. It’s hard to say whether
his former owner was a street car con
ductor or a young lady keeping regu
lar company.—St. Louis Star.
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