Georgia Historic Newspapers

    I A MURDER OF 1860.
THIRTY YEARS’ 6EARC3 FOR A
FATHER’S MILLIONS.
A Death-bed Confession That Un
earthed a Great Fraud—Searching
Two Continents— Hypnotism Reveals
the Place, but the Treasure is done.
A Life Work Without Result.
From the St. Louis Republic.
San Francisco. Cal., Jan. 31.—A most
remarkable romance in real life has just
bten made public in this city, a life story
on which some good playwright can build a
.S-act drama of intense interest fiom first to
last, full of pathos, excitement and queer
circumstances.
Avery wealthy, gray-haired Frenchman
named Charles Louis and his valet were
murdered in Washoe county, Nevada, in the
fall of 1860, when the country was all ex
citement over the great finds of gold and
silver in that lawless region, Louis came to
that section with a view to purchasing
some good miniDg claims and had been
negotiating for the same for several
months. A baud of Mexican misoreants got
wind of his coming, through an American
desperado, and resolved upon killing him for
bis money. The old Frenchman came across
the country in a splendid outfit, accom
panied by his servant, who did his cooking,
in strange contrast to the ordinary gold
seekers in their ramshackle wagon. Louis
secured a room in the house of a man oalled
“Mormon” Smith. Suddenly the French
man and bis valet disappeared and not one
of the band of Mexicans could be found
except “Mexican Liz,” who did the cooking
for tbe cut-throats. The posse, headed by
Sheriff Glenn, could elicit nothing from
her, she claiming to be iguorant of the
whereabouts or doings of her master. The
Mexicans were trailed for many miles, and
the ashes of their camp fire found, but the
trail was lost in the rocky Sierra Nevada,
and nothing more was heard of them.
“Mexican Liz” eventually died in Oregon,
but ere she departed this life declared that
SHi,COO were buried near Kranktown, Nev.
In ISG2 Mrs. Elen Barlow died at Sara
toga Springs, New York, and being de
lirious for some time previous to her disso
lution, her supposed daughter, aged 31,
caught words from the aged woman’s lips
that filled her mind with strange suspicions.
Mrs. Barlow, however, called the young
lady to her bedside before death and said :
•'You are not my child. I am only your
foster-mother. Your real mother died in
giving you life. Your father placed you
in my charge when you wero but two days
old,and you are rightfully heir to estates In
France and England worth millions. I and
my sou have conspired to defraud you of
your inheritance. Your father's name was
Charles Louis. Break open that secretary
after I am dead and the letters you will find
there will teil you everything." Begging to
be forgiven, with her arms around her
foster-daughter’s neck she sank into an
everlasting sleep.
A STORY OF FRAUD.
After the funoral Miss Louis read the let
ters in the secretary, and they told of the
black villainy of her foster-brother, Henry
Barlow. He had for years baen doing his
utmost to secure the dead man’s property,
and never intended that Charles Louis’
daughter should kuow that she was not his
own sister. The letters showed his efforts
in France and England to Becure ovidonoe
that would enable him to get property
worth ?5,000,000. He even visited the
mother of Charles Louis, about 90 years
a Mrsf Brougham of Birmingham, Eng
land, and a cousin of Lord Brougham.
Hero Henry represented himself as the old
est son of Charles Louis, and was wel
comed by the old lady as such. Learning
additional family history, he returned to
France. A part of the estate of Charles
Louis, who was a Bourbon, had beep
oontisoated, and it was found
that Louis was a political exile. A portion
of the property not confiscated was situated
iti the Faubourge St. Germain, Paris, and
more some fourteen miles from the city,
near Chantilly. The records of his search
and attempts to prove himself the only heir
were found in the dead woman’s secretary
by Mis3 Louis. One letter from Paris told
of his failure and contemplated return to
America. In this be declared that it would
have been a'better plan if he had married
j Anne Louis and then revealed her true his
i t.iry. Among the papers Miss Louis found
the name of her father’s New York solicitor,
who had collected the income from the
French estates and made yearly remit
tances to the Barlow family, but for what
reason the remittance was to be made was
! ou r told the attorneys. Mrs. Barlow as a
I partial reparation had left Anne Louis a
I few thousand dollars.
I From the old attorneys of her father she
I found that he owned tracts of land in Mex-
I ico, Texas and California, but further than
I the murdered man’s letters, they have no
I word of their exact situation or extent.
I .lie iuoomo from the French estate had
I ceiged a year before, for some reason un
I iaawa to them at that time,
! HER LONG SEARCH.
| fortified with information from the at-
I torueys the daughter visited San Antonio,
I and there found that her father had a
I ffled grant of 40,000 acres in Brown
I ana Fisher counties. Being unable to idon-
Ich k orse ff satisfactorily as the daughter of
■ Luarles Louis she was unsuccessful in her
I attempt to secure the property.
I u° :! ‘ aa Antonio Miss Louis proceeded
to Monterey, Mexico, where her father also
I m™ 11 Property. Hero she met Father
I Aanuel, an old padre, who had for years
I acted as a recorder of land claims. His
I records showed a large property in the
■ haiaaof Charles Louis. Learning that the
I :il ! ulr er was the daughter of Louis, he re-
I posted to her a confession made by a Moxt
|^ ani * a!I 'ed Juan Gonzales, wounded unto
■ death in a street brawl. The padre did not
i K° over Gonzales’ criminal career except in
■Jo far as it related to her father’s murder,
, !r “ 18 known that Juan Gonzales was the
I S erer °- the old Frenchman. He
■ la how the band, after killing a number
1 ! ?u tl on ti:e r °nd to the mines, had heard
ITV v. eomin g of the white-haired .rich
I SmvSi an; k° w they got him away from
I 9 011 tbe pretence of showing him
Imines of fabulous richness in the
I they did not have tbe
I thoi 9to ' v<jr ' c 1 how, when they had reached
■kn , re , treat intho mountains, their cabin.
I t , ? surva nt down with a club and
| old man that his life depended on
■ wßjoo a draft oa a cartam bank for
the brutal murder.
„ s J l9 ' VR s about to sign It. his servant
lor th unt * BB izGd a bar of iron acid made
rii . crowd. Then the aged
tl„ ar °pped the pen and fought like a
his I ' <u ‘ the c *nh which bad beeu used on
. , rrvau b The Mexicans dared not use
0r the attention of men going
the trail might be attracted. Gon
bari at * t,l| gth struck Louis over the
ban’ ' Ver P° wer ed the valet, and os the old
draft w ? 3 ®tlU alive asked him to sign a
■“Ut he was too far gone to do ao.
" 9a “ Lit” begged hard for the fiends to
‘he old man’s life, but they knocked
fell!ed ti 0 had. and then, after a oouuoll,
a solo 1 18 °*d man and his servant. Liz took
the ® n °®th never to tell anything. Then
iii-u™ rous band of five drove the old
”‘r- ,i flra U P into the mountains, and two
tv , “‘led to bury him. The team was
y, '“rued loose.
in JJ! Were Bev eral thousands of dollars
wajrn colna underneath rugs in Louis’
body ’ ant * “round the murdered man’s
WhichTv, 1 " 0 eoreral pieces of parchment,
wnfir, t. Mexicans could not read, the
Tne ? belnf? in French.
eamn tear “ l ' vander0 and into one of the big
peetert’ a , 800n the Mexicans were sus
monev ?L f? ul ,)la y- One night all the
Ifciidi 7° tae P a P e rß were buried, and the
torjjg £!;, out °f the country, intending to
The hod' 60me *i a >' and dig" up the money,
other m aies . wera buried near where two
der e 9,1 “ad been murdered and put un
houtalu. 11 ' , 1,110 thing after another kept
‘ 3 his fiends from coming back,
jail walls principally and knife wound* in
some instances.
All this Miss Louis found out, returned to
New York and married A. E. Allen of Sy
racuse. They, together with the only living
attorney of her father in New York, went
to Paris to try and secure the French j rop
erty, but Heury Barlow’s imposition and a
lack of funds kept her from getting her
rights. The attorney died shortly after
ward and her husband became an invalid,
and Mrs. Allen supported both by teaching
school. Her husband died, and them Mrs.
Allen, with rigid economy, managed to
save enough to come out to Nevada iu search
of some good clew that would enable her to
secure the property and prove herself by the
dead father's documents the rightful heir of
the millionaire.
Coming to Reno Mrs. Allen found a
brother to Sheriff Glenn aDd from him
gained a corroboration of Gonzales' confes
sion. From William Thompsjn, member
of the legislature, and from “Mormon”
Smith, at whose inn Charles Louis stopped,
she learned considerable about her father,
who was an exceedingly proud and digni
fied man. A number of old-timers in the
neighborhood volunteered to help the lady
find the cabin and the graves, but the rude
hut had long since fallen down at the behest
of Father Time, and the rude elements of
that rugged country, and the daughter for
the first time was really discouraged. Her
money was about gone.
At length Henry Marston of Washoe
county became interested and volunteered
his services and purse to aid in the search.
Marston was very well posted on the topog
raphy of tbe country in early days. For
two weeks they remained at Stevenson’s
ranch and examined almost every spot in
the vicinity where a cabin was known to
have stood. They were unsuccessful.
TRYING HYPNOTISM.
Just at a time when Mrs. Allen was about
to give up in despair she was advised by
friends in Reno, Nev., to see the hypnotist,
J. Franklin Brown of this city. Coming to
Ban Francisco a few weeks ago and seeing
Brown, he dclared that the case was beyond
his power to handle. Mrs. Allen was a firm
believer in clairvoyance, ho we ver.and finally
persuaded Brown that her brain could be
placed in a condition to further unravel the
mystery. Brown found her a very fair sub
ject. At the first trial she recounted while
in a trance most minutely every incident
connected with her father’s death, and
finally, calling for pencil and paper, began
drawing a map of the part of TVashoe county
in which the murder took place. This map
was far bettor than the one given her bv
Father Manuel of Monterey, Mexico, but
did not give the locatiou of the
rocks beyond which the bodies
and gold were buried. At the
next sittiug, on the following day, Mrs.
Allen drew a better map, but still it was
not quite definite enough, although it gave
a starting point. She was greatly exhausted
at the end.
At the third sitting the cabin, rocks,
graves and position of the buried gold and
papers, with estimated distances, was indi
cated in the map she drew. Mrs. Allen de
clared it was the hand of Juan Gonzales
that guided her this time, and that he ap
peared to her, repentant and remorseful.
With this last map Mrs. Allen went back
to Washoe county with Mr. Marston, and
after some little trouble found, about four
miles from Stevenson’s house, the rotten re
mains of an old cabin on a knoll. Thirty
feet to the right was the stump of a pine
tree that had been cut down for firewood.
To the left were two fallen trees that had
stood near the cabin thirty years before.
Nothing was in a good state of preservation
about the fallen cabin except the stone
chimney and a few old “stakes” that once
formed the root.
SKELETONS FOUND.
After considerable digging a skeleton was
found about eighteen inches under the sur
face. Tufts of black hair adhered to the
skull. Mrs. Allen declared that tbeie were
not her father’s remains, as he had gray
hair. Then a second sxeleton was found.
This one had long white hair upon the Bkull.
A third skeleton was found, but the fourth
one, indicated by Gonzales, defied their ef
forts. About the skeletons exhumed were
fragments of rotten clothes, but they crum
bled at a touch. The shoes of the white
haired skeleton were preserved hotter than
those of the others, beuoe Mrs. Allen con
cluded that these were the remains of her
parent. The documents she so longed to
fiod were missing, and the woman who had
spent thirty years of her life trying to find
some clew that would enable her to obtain
her rights was disappointed. Sad and
silent she stood over her father’s grave.
The next day Mr. Marsted spent half the
day digging for the burl -d gold and papers.
At last he oame upon the remains of what
might have been the strong box of thirty
years ago, though nothing was left to
identify it but a mass of rotten punk and
the rusty iron hasps, one of which had been
broken. The gold was gone and no docu
ments were to be found. Some member of
the robber baud had doubtless returned
after all.
STILL HAS HOPE.
Mrs. Allen, who is stopping at 834 Sutton
street, has still a little hope left. She had
an attorney in Chicago who was trying to
fiud evidence in her case and was on the
track of the nurse who was present at her
birth in Saratoga, and knew of her having
been placed in the hands of Mrs. Barlow to
be reard. The nurse’s name is Margaret,
and if now alive she is somewhere is Eng
land, where a search is being made for her.
The nurse’s husband also knew of the cir
cumstances of the transferring of the child
to the Barlows, and could their evidence be
seoured it would establish the right of Mrs.
Allen to estates in France which are now
valued at several millions of dollars.
Dead Bea Fruits.
They slay multitudes when they are the
product of neglect or Incipient disease. A
“slight” cold, a flt of indigestion, biliousness or
constipation each or any of these “minor ail
ments” advance in many cases with “league
destroying strides.” Give them a swift, early
defeat with Hostetter s Stomach Hitters aud
avert the danger. Abernethy administered an
alarming rebuke to the man who informed him
that he had "only a cold!” “Only a cold," re
peated the doctor. "What would ye have—the
plague 1” Rheumatism and la grippe are easily
extingulshable at the start. Why then allow
them to get up a full head of steamy Put ontne
brakes with the Bitters. The genial warmth
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of the blood, its toothing and strengthening
effect upon the nervous, specially recommend it
to the enfeebled and sick. ’Tis the great specific
for malaria.— Ad.
FOR DYSPEPSIA,
Indigestion, and Stomach disorders, use
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All dealers keep it. SI per bottle. Genuine ha*
trade-mark and crossed red lines oa wrapper.
Gymnasium goods, athletic good* and
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A course of P. P. P. will banish all bad feel
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tbe world, take P. P. P. and become healthy
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Windsor ties, lawn bows and Poquin
goods at LaFar’s.— Ad.
Military goods ordered in any quantity
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P. P. P. makes positive cures ot all stages of
Rheumatism, Syphilis, lllood Poison, Scrofula,
Old Sores, Eczema, Malaria and Female Com
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rapidly.—-4d.
Men’s handkerchiefs, linen or silk, and
silk mufflers at LaFar’s. — Ad.
Neckwear, Fisk, Clark & Flagg’s fine
goods, at LaFar’s. — Ad.
Erysipelas, Swollen Limbs. Bad Sores, Seales
and Scabs on the leg have been entirely cured
by P. P. P., the most wonderful blood medicine
of the day. —Ad.
For Corns, Warts and Bunions
Use only Abbott’s East Indian Corn Paint.—Ad.
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1802
VIGILANTES IN ARIZONA.
HOW THEY WORKED WITH GOOD
MATERIAL TO GOOD ENDS.
Some of the Wild History of Tomb
stone—A City Marshal Who Wae a
Type of His class-Men Who Died
With Their Boots On.
From the St. Louis Republic.
Tombstone, Ariz., Jan. 13.—1n the
evolution of a frontier town there are
usually four period*. The first Is the shoot
ing element; the second, the choice of the
best shot in that element for city marshal;
the third, the vigilance committee, which
bangs the marshal, and tbe fourth, the mob
which hangs the leaders of the vigilance
committee. That has been the order of
progress in many of the towns of Arizona.
It will continue to be in ell future booms as
long as southwest human nature remains
what It is. The evolution in future may be
more rapid, but it will be along the same
lines,
USUALLY BAD MEN.
“Bad men” are always elected marshals
in frontier towns. No other rule would be a
safe one. What is needed is a man fvho has
the nerve to pull quick and shoot straight,
and too often these qualities are oonjoiued
with all the attributes which the vernacular
of the southwest has compressed into the
word “cussedness.” Bill Hlckox, tbe first
marshal of Cheyenne, was probably an ex
ception to the rule and about the only one
to be found. In Nevada and Montana, dur
ing the silver eta, the very worst men of
the mining communities wore always chosen
to get rid of the others who were only a few
degrees better than themselves. They did
the work,but as a rule,after they had either
killed or driven away the gang, they organ
ized new ones, of which they became
heads, and used their official opportunities
to enrich themselves. That has been the
experience of most western towns.
THE TROUBLE IN TOMBSTONE.
When Tombstone sprang into sudden
fame it had as ba lan element of this sort
as ever afflicted any community. The min
ing camps of the northwest had been broken
up, Virginia City had fallen into decay,
Texas was filling up with a law-and-order
element which was driving the crooks out of
the towns and cities of the Lone Star State,
and Denver, Cheyenne, Leadville aud other
Pacific railroad and mining towns had set
tled down into decorous aud law-abiding
places and set adrift large numbers of men
who could not endure life under such con
ditions. AY hen Tombstone took a boom, all
of those elements centered there. There
appearing to bo something peculiarly
fascinating in the name of tho
place to men the highest ambition of
whose lives was death with their boots on.
Hundreds of them poured into the new
camp aud at once began to make one of the
wildest and most abandoned towns which
has ever figured on the frontier map of any
country. Of course first conditions could
not last. There were busine s interests in
the place which demanded both protection
and a degree of law and order necessary to
tho reputation of a place which was sup
posed to have a future. A city marshal
was wanted, and, according to the western
rule, he was huDted for among the most
abandoned and desperate characters in tbe
place. Strange to say, and contrary to the
rule in such cases .notone could be found who
would accept tho p sition, even with the
large salary which was offered asan induce
ment, and the opportunities for rich plun
der such a position opened. There were too
many desperate men in camp at that time
to make such an official position in Tomb
stone either dosirable or comfortable. Crime
and lawlessness was making its last great
stand against tho advauce of law and order,
and nowhere else in the country, before or
since, lias there ever been such an aggrega
tion of Jhard and tough characters as was
assembled in Tombstone during the first
year of its existence. And yet, among all
these elements, there was no one man of es
tablished reputation os a dead shot and
cool hand who was willing to assume an
official responsibility and make himself a
target for assailants concealed behind dead
walls, emigrant wagons or the half-opened
doors or windows of saloons, deuce houses
or gambling dens. People who had been
through such phases of existence in western
towns before, and knew that Tombstone
was more dangerous for the exercise of
official authority than ever Dodge City had
been in its wildest days, were not anxious
to take hold and put on the (-tar which
should be the mark for men boasting of
their marksmanship to shoot at.
THE MAN OF THE HOUR.
In this dilemma people began looking
about for a tenderfoot. A city marshal
must be had. He was indispeoeible, and if
no old timer could bo induced to act the
next best thing was to engage a man who
might be persuaded to take the risk under
an imperfeet appreciation of the extent of
it. The difficulty after this determination
wasToacbed was to find someone who,with
out a frontier record to inspire the respect
ot the bad men in canm, would still be able
to hoid his own. Providence sent to
To mbstone about that, time a man
named Hank Wilson. He hailed from
Boston and was about as ill
natured and ill-favored a specimen of
human nature as the “Hub” ever turned
out. He was not tall, but had most prodig
ious masculnr developement, which gave liis
body a width out of proportion with its
bight. His head was of enormous size and
set upon shoulders of giant beradth. To
add to the grotesqueneis of such a figure he
was bow-legged. Not a figure for running.
As it turned out, Wlison never felt his lack
of snfced, for, though ho was shot from be
hind, he was not aware of the presence of an
enemy.
How this man came to be selected as mar
shal nobody ever knew. There was no cor
porate body to confer the title upon him,
and he was never selected in moss meeting.
He was asked, however, by a number of
merchants and property owners to act as
night watchman, and the next evening
about sunset appeared on the streets with a
double-barreled shotgun under his arm and
a budge on the breast of his coat. Nobody
disputed his authority and nobody
laughed at him, for although Wilson
was not known to have killed his
man, ho had the reputation of only waiting
for a chance to do so, gtind partly through
bis vicious and ill-tempered disposition and
partly through a playful habit he had when
in conversation of circling a huge revolver
about the bead of the individual to whom
he was talking. It was also due largely to
his ability, which he took every occasion to
display, of outting off the leaves of tree*
and bushes iu his pistol practice.
HE KILLS HIS MAN.
After Wilson had walked his beat in quiet
for about two weeks he began to put on tbe
bearing and manner of a man who con
sidered himself “Chief.” The challenge
though not expressed in words, was implied
in his every action as in his attempt to ex
ercise arbitrary authority. It was under
stood that “Hank” had hung out a red flag,
and nowhere on tbe frontier, and least of
in Tombstone, could such a defiance be
allowed to pass unchallenged. It was not
long until Wilson learned, through
th( se mysterious signs and indicat
ions which, in all lawless communi
ties, often warn men of the existence and
the source of danger to themselves, that a
gambler who wa-> known in Tombstone as
"Sandy” Bowers, but who was popularly
believed to have left a prettier name behind
him in New York, where he cimo from,
was after him. Bowers was a desperate
character, who bad run dsns in all theoattle
towns of the west. His resort had been the
scene of several killings, and Bowers in
every place where he had ever located had
waited to be foroed out.
Iho origin of the difficulty between him
aud Wilson was an effort to compel tbe
gambler to keep a more orderly establish
ment. Bowers denied Wilson’s authority,
and it became an open secret that the differ
ence of opinion would be fought out when
ever the two men met. Everybody knew
that Bowers would shoot. He had several
notches on hi* stick. Tublie curiosity was
on tiptoe to see how the marshal would
acquit himself, aid belting nos ah ut even
as to whether be would "flunk” or stand
game. Tho question was never settled.
W ilson killed Bowers, but he did it in a
way to rob the exploit of much of
its glory, and to leave a doubt in many
mi: ds whether he was “dead game” or only
a shifty pretender. The tight occurred In
the Hed Light mis n, which in all its ap
pointments was a counterpart of every
other Red Light saloon seen in every other
border town in this country. Wilson bad
gone in to see that there was no
disturbance in sight, when Bowers
entered at aside door. Seeing Wilson he
called out to him to defend himself, and at
once pulled his own weapon. Wilson sprang
to the side of a billiard table opposite the oue
on which Bowers was standing, piaciug the
table between himself and bis opponent. As
Bowers leveled his weapon, W ils>n dropped
behind the table. Bowers held his weapon
downward, and tbe bullet, striking the
cushion, buried itself in it. Before Bowers
could fire again W ilson was on his feet, and
firing straight at Bowers, shot bitn through
tho breast, with almost immediate fatal
effect.
THE LEADER OF A GANG.
He had killed bis man, and although
there was a cloud upon his title to laurels
his reign thereafter was undisputed. As his
prestige and power became m re generally
recognized and freely conceded, he lost all
sense of responsi: ility and became oi.e of
the worst criminals of the community. He
gathered about him a band of thieves, who
operated not only in Tombstone, but
throughout the territory of Arizona. Wil
son was the acknowledged bead of the gang
and made no particular effort to oonceal
his connection with it. His official position
not only gave him and his pals splendid op
portunities of plunder, but it. also enabled
him to shield his confederates in guilt from
detection, pursuit and capture, both in
Tombstone and out of it.
THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE.
In this emergency the vigilance commit
tee came as naturally as the procession of
the equinoxes. It had its appointed place in
the evolution of the city and territory and
it dropped into it and filled it. It was
necessary, however, when the oommittee
was first organized to work in secret and
under cover. The terrorism with which the
marshal had inspired the community, tbe de
votion of his followers, who were not few in
number, aud a general spirit of resistance
to law and order made it necessary to be
quiet as well as expeditious. The society
was organized not only in Tombstone but
in all parts of the territory, aud its various
b anebea communicated with eaoii other as
often as possible. It was generally agreed
and finally determined upou that tho first
blow must be struck at Tombstone and that
Wilson must be the first man to he dealt
with. Just as the committee was ready to
deal with him provideuce took the job out
of its hands, and in a very dramatic and
seusational way seldom equaled in Tomb
stone annals.
DEATH OF WILSON.
For months previous to his final ending
Wilson had been entirely neglectful of his
official duties. He held office simply
through sufferance and knew it. Ho took
advantage of his position to impose upon
saloons aud gambling houses. Every night
ho would enter nearly all tho resorts iu
town, take a stack of chips without paying
for them, rake in the bets if ho won, while
refusing to stand for a loss. This con
tinued for a much longer time than it would
naturally be suppossed that such a com
raunity would tolerate it. Finally
one night in a joint saloon and
gambling hell, where Wilson was sittiug
in tho game without paying for the ante,
ami had raked in several large bauds, it
was resolved to get rid of him. The game
was brought to a conclusion as speedily as
possible. Wilson was the only one of the
four men who had boen playing to remain
at the table. Ho sat there in a half-drunken
stupor while the other three stiod at the
bar a few feet off and threw dice to see
which of them would kill him that night.
The choice fell upon Jack Lantis, who at
once proceeded to prepare for the work.
Loading a double-barreled shotgun full of
heavy buckshot he walked to a side door,
through which, by sticking the muzzle of
the weapon, he could shoot Wilson
from behind. His two confederates went
into tho street in front of the place, began a
mock quarrel in loud voices aud shot their
pistols into the air. Everybody iu the
saloon, except W ilson, rushed out, and at
that moment a louder report than that of
the revolvers was heard in the alley. It
was Lantis. When the orowd came back it
found Wilson still sitting in the chair, hut
with his head almost off. The buckshot had
struck the neck and, ranging downward,
had penetrated the breast. There whs a
vacancy in the city marsh dship.
THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE’S WORK.
It was supposed, in vigilance ciroles, that
after the death of Wilson there would be
no further difficult/ with his pals. The
mistake of this view was not allowed to live
long, for on the very morning following
Wilßon’s murder one of his men shot and
killed William Arnott, a respectable citizen,
and who was believed by the or irnlnal ele
ment to be identified with tho vigilance
committee. Tho murderer made an escape
from Tombstone, but fell into the hands of
another branch of th 9 vigilantes about fifty
miles away, who had bean ap
prised of his crime by oourier, and
who had appointed a rocoptioa com
mittee to meet him. He was not hanged
upou a tree, but upon a gallows, consisting
of two perpendiculars and one horizontal,
and to the body this notice was attached:
It’s Aoin Scripture,
But It Goes.
The First Shan’t Be Last.
Nor was it. The perfect organization of
the Arizona vigilantes was demonstrated
during the next few months. But very
little of tho actual hanging was done in
Tombstone. The great value of the Tomb
stone lodge of the society was to notify
the branches of other sections of tte terri
tory as to the crimes aud descriptions of the
criminals who had escaped. The provinces
could be depended upon in almost every
case. Tombstone pressed the button and
they did the rest. Within sixty davs
after tbe death of Wilson and the murder
of Arnot, Harry Larkin, who had
killed five men; “Black” Barton and
“Hed” Thomsou, the stage robbers; Johnnie
Daly, the horse thief, and “Bud” 81ms, the
murderer of Tom Grant, ’the stage driver,
besides a dozen of the smaller fry. had per
formed on the tight rope to small but
select audiences. The criminal elements
had noti ;e to move on and they moved.
Before the procession was out of sight there
was a closing performance under the
auspices of the vigilantes near Phceuix.
Three toughs making their way out of the
territory had burned the oabln of a poor
settler and shot his horses. The committee
overhauled them and banged them on one
limb. The middle man of the combination
was Jack Lantis, the cowardly assassin of
Hank Wilson.
SERVED LYE FOR SOUP.
Mistake of a Near-ilgtted Woman
Costs Her Son His Life.
Des Moines, la., Feb. 7.— C. F. Duke, a
prominent druggist, swallowed a spoonful
of hot Jye, from the effects of whloh he will
die. At dinner time bis mother had two
pots on the stove; one was full of lye, and
the other of soup. She is near-sighttd,
and in going out to the kitchen to bring her
son a plate of soup she dipped it out ot the
wrong pot.
This son put a spoonful of tho lye in his
mouth, and thtuking It very hot swallowed
It hastily. His Bufferings have been terri
ble ever since, and recovery is impossible.
Surer foundation cannot be laid than the
real merit which is the solid base for the
monumental success of Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
Ad.
Indian Estimate of a Do*-.
FVom tr.e Helena (Mont.) Inderendent.
Maj. Peter Honan. agent of the Flathead
Indians in Western Montana, recently pur
chased a I'.ne-blooded and ugly-faeei bu.l
dorf, not to guard his pleasant quarters at
the Flathead agsncy, but to give his Indian
wards a now subject for study in the annual
kingdom. The appearance of this strange
quadruped caused as much excitement
among thoae untutored sons of the forest as
a behemoth of the paleozoic age wouid
arouse by a sudden appearance on Main
street. The chiefs held a long consultation
over the characteristics of the animal, and
finally decided to call him "i good bad
dog.” The first adjective is doubtless caused
by a certain Indian sense of diplomacy to
be exercised in addressing tne animal, while
the latter is evidence of the red man's re
gard for truth at all times. At all events,
the name is worth studying.
Fed.
From the Boston Journal-
A Vermont correspondent of the Journal
suggests that the word "fad” is not modern,
but provincial English. In the Warwick
dialect the word means a “whim,” and in at
least two of the dialects the word "faddy,
is used, signifying “frivolous” or “whimsi
cal.” Another use of the word is to describe
a person who is difficult to please in trifles'
and in that connection appear the words
“to fad,” meaning to te busy with trifles.
As would appear from our correspondent,
the word has beeu in use among the hum
bler classes in England for some time. Hut
how did the word get into ourrent conver
sation and writing both in this country and
in Englaudi It seems to be comparatively
now. The Fall Mull Gazette , in a recent
number, seemed to doubt whether the En
glish people were responsible for it, and wns
at a loss to account for the present common
use of the word. If newspapers are any
index, the word is more frequent in the east
than the west; in the city than the country;
in “society” than business or among stu
dents.
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HOTELS.
PXT L.A SK I HOUSir
SAVANNAH, GA„
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This Hotel has been renovated and put in first-class order In every particular All the latest
STEAM PRINTING. LITHOGRAPHY, ROOK RINGING, ETC.
SHI t0,,,-
gi?o o| ill
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DANIEL HOGAN.
WE==
REPEAT
OUR LAST WEEK’S
RUG SALE.
That is WHAT ARE LEFT. It’s
always gratifying to see a customer
get MORE than she expected Our
RUG values exemplified this last
week. For the benefit of those who
missed, the balance can go at same
prices:
$1 50 SMYRNA RUGS $1 10
8a 25 “ “ $1
M 15 “ “ $2 25
83 90 “ “ $2 75
$5 00 “ “ £5
You know a GOOD RUG when
you see it and you will quickly recog
nize the RUG-GED path we are
traveling in offering them at such
absurdly low prices.
NOTES of SPRING in the atmos
phere warn us that we had better
continue our tremendous DIS
COUNT of
33 Per Gent.
-on-
FUR AND PLUSH CAPES, PLUSH
JACKETS AND MISSES’ LONG
AND SHORT
CLOAKS.
They are good to BUY and HOLD
for next winter.
BOYS’ SUITS
Are still asking to be picked up at
startling prices.
SPRING GOODS
Arc olbowing us FOR ROOM.
D. HOGAN.
JEWELS*.
rX DESBOUILLONS,
THE JEWELER,
Cl ALLS the attention of tho public to his most
t carefully selected stock of GOLD
WATCHES of the best make and quality, also,
his selection of Clocks of all paterns which he
sells
AT THE LOWEST CASH PRICE,
Also his fine lino of Sterling Silverware th© best
thing for wedding presents.
EVERYTHING WARRANTED.
Repairing of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry done
with the best workmanship at
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PLUMBER.
FINK LINE OB’ ’
GAS FIXTURES AND GLOBES
L. A. MCCARTHY’S,
-6 DRAYTON FT.
OLD N E WSP A PKRB—3OO for 25 cents-at '
Hufdnees Office Morning News.
.Children Cry for Pitcher’s Casforla. ]
BUTBU.
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