Rock Island Argus., August 05, 1913, HOME EDITION, Page 9, Image 9

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SILVER BAR HAS
A PERILOUS TRIP
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Ingot Sent from Mine at Silver
City to Davenport Over
Year on Way.
TAKEN BY HIGHWAYMEN
THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUS. TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1913.
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Recovered, It Is Piled Up in Debris by
Omaha Cyclone and Lost for
Several Months.
Stolen from a stage coach by a band
of highwaymen on Its way down from
the. mountains to Silver City, founJ
several hundred feet down the moun
tainside rom the trail, shipped to A.
I Ruobcam In Davenport In lieu of a
dividend check on mining stock, '.ost
in the debris which The Omaha cyclone
piled up in the Rock Island railroad
ards there, ued by a section gang to
Kra!cliten spikes on end finally sent
to Its destination in safety are chapetrs
in th.-i history of a huge bar of silver,
whit h arrived In Davenport yesterday.
The story of this bar of silver, read
ing; like a ta.!e of far west fiction, ba
gan to liuravel as a perspiring express
man, beat double with the weight ot
tne great bar of metal, panted up to
the marble counter of the First Na
tional bank.
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"What are you bringing that chunk
of iron in here for; don't you know
this isn't a machine shop?" demanded
(ashler Iasw Yog try,
"This ain't no iron." replied he of
the sweaty brow, "it's gold, or silver,
or radium, or something very expen
sive and the boss tells me to be very
particular about It. There's some
thing written on this side, mabe that
tells what it is."
Cashier Yaggy bent over ho huge
light and alter some trouble deciph
ered the following inscription: "No.
134. 1344 ounces. Dead wood smelter.
('. i; V. A. J I. Kiiebson. Merchants'
cafe, Urady Ktreet, Davenport, Iowa.
Silver City, .'. M. Natl Bk."
I: whs a bur of silver weighing
neuriy I'M) pounds and wrrth close to
Sl.tmu. The expreupman '.eft with his
signed rnn-'.pl arid Cashier Yaa?y call
ed to the saving teller, "Add a hun
dred pounds of sliver to Mr. Knell
Ham's account." Th huge bar was
lurped into the vaults end rolled into a
corner.
I.F1TFH ItlHIOKV.
A few minutes later President A. I".
I'awuon received a letter from the Sil
ver City National ban!,, explaining why
tli.' bjr had been sent and giving ita
l i; lory since it wan turned out, a moi-
.!! inot, from the Deadwood smelter.
That thy iugot ever arrived safely
fius miraculous in view of the
chalices it had of being irratrivab y
lest, it was dug out of a mine some
15 miles from Stiver City and sent to
the Deadwood smelter near the mine
to bo reduced into metal avai'able for i
commercial uso. This was in April or
last year.
five bars, including the one which
reached Davenport, were then sent
down by stage coach over the"- steep
mountain trail to Silver City. This
trail leals cve-r high precipices, over
deep gullies and around sharp curves.
On the coach were the driver and two
guards. About seven miles from the
mine the trail turns sharply around a
curve to the left and as the coach
rounded the cliff the guards suddenly
looked Into the muzzles cf live rifles.
Ot AltlW A II I J IMS UlllKl).
There was no chance of resistance.
Tho guards were disarmed, and cov
ered by one of the banditg while an
other shot the lead horses of the
coach and Uie remaining highwaymen
took out the flve bars of silver. The
driver and guards were then told to
drive on. Crippled with the loss of
the lead hordes the heavy coach made
slow progress, not arriving in Silver
City in time to give the alarm until
the following day.
A posse was organized and started
back over the trail. Several hundred
yards up the path from the point
where the hcldup occurred the posie
found the scene of the disturbance,
such as would have been caused by a
frightened stampede of pack animals.
Several hundred feet down the moun
tainside were found two pack mules,
dead, each with two of tho silver bars
trapped to its back and on a project
ing ledge, a few feet below was found
auo'-her bar.
KM APR EMPTr.IIAIDKD.
It Is supposed that one of the ban
dits attenipteJ to carry the bar
en his saddlebow and that It slipped
away from him and that in his effort
to recover it the pack mules were
crowded over the trail. Nona of the
highwaymen waa ever caught.
Tim silver was brought down to the
company headquarters at Silver City
-ml i a,, bar stamped with Mr. Rueb
sam's address and sent to Davenport
as a novel form of dividend check.
This was a few days before the tcr
riblo cyclone which swept Omaha and
surrounding towns, causing so many
c.eathB and such gTcat financial loss.
The hue bar of silver had been sent
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by freight and the car in which it as
' billed happened to be in the path of
j the cyclone. The way bill which re
I corded Its shipment was lost and even
j the number of the car in which- it was
shipped was destroyed.
Failing to hear cf the silver's re
ceipt here the Silver City bank re
ported the loet ingot to the Rock Is
land officials and the road detectives
began to work on the case. They
tracked the shipment to Omaha, where
all trace of it was lost, and it was
thought that the great winds might
have picked up the huge bar and car
ried It a great distance away. This
supposition waa reported to the Silver
City bank.
PECTIOX MA'S FIMJ.
About a week ago a section gang
was working along the tracks coming
! into Omaha. One cf the men, down
! at the bottom of the embankment
j looked around for ' something to
l straighten a spike cn, and happened
I to spy what looked to be a cranite
boulder protruding from the water. He
j noticed that the spike did not strike
against it like steel on reck, and on
inresUgation found that he had pick
ed out a larg? mud-covered chunk of
metal.
The section man, in scraping tfie
sides of the weight, found some writ
ing on it, and the bar of silver was
carried in and reported to headquart
ers, whence it came to the road detec
tive office. Here a complication arose.
i The address cut into the silver read
J A H. Ruebeon, whereas the correct
name was Ruebsarn. This occasioned
j further d-elay for investigation, so that
it was not until yesterday that the
ingot finally reached its destination.
I Mr. RjUebsam is out, of the city and
the bar was taken to the bank for
safe keeping.
The bank is not able to tell its exact
value as the ingot is slightly under
weight and is not absolutely pure,
having a small amount of tin mixed
with the silver.' It will be shipped to
the federal assay office at Washington
to determine its exact, worth. The bar
is 12 inches long and six by five inch
es at the end.
Antwerp A rich geld field has been
discovered in the southern part of the
province of Katangu, Belgian Congo.
NO CHILDREN CHAUFFEURS
Chicago Police Chief Says Auto Driver
Must Be 16.
Chicago, Aug. 5. Enforcement ot
the city ordinance, prohibiting oper
ation of automobiles by -children waa
ordered last evening by Chief of Po
lice McWeeny.
-"City ordinances expressly prohibit
the operation of automobiles by per
sons under the age of 16," said, the
chief. "The same ordinance provides
machines may be operated by persona i
between the ages of 1 and 18, if there
be at least one adult in the automo
bile. I am going to see that this or
dinance is strictly-obeyed."
The chief said he had complaints of
persons being injured by automobiles
driven by minors
Detroit Franchise committee of the
council approved Mayor Marx's resolu
tion calling on the. people to refuse to
pay'more than 3 cents fare on local
lines where franchises have expired.
.The company . affected . threatened to
s ton running cars.