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EXHIBITIONS OF NERVE.
ttl ,o HADE ISO MILES WITH
A „ ALP TORS OFF.
lillhr ~p l "rivaled Serve-Held
f | loll< | uen(M ana a C ent!-
I '' ' , (u . .nine Time—A Tremor
, j. v p Filled lHm Full of
, rl „! P^" n -
P , m t he New York Sun.
vs when I was knocking
i £ ihe Rocky Mountains and
0 . ~1 col. Noah Parker, of Gor
. required a good many dif-
I !
~f nerve for a person to
i in] |, of life from entirely going
1,1 1 _ i nhir.g of being comfortable
1 particularly remember
- ihnt illustrate how nerve
' : > ,j „ i to different walks of life
k* l ,. t . : nose days in order that every
,, , .me out right. One was the
~, j. . pell, who made a journey
n , uiih his upper jaw and part
, _ ,nd cheek gone, half of his
. , f one foot crushed and man
, I. i 11 arm frightfully lacerated
in.l thre - ’ ‘s broken. Another was the
| ~-e oe i, Wi low McCool and Jim Kidd,
h 0 e i -I " spite of Mart Huntoon and
fi- aiu of had men, and Jim was steal
jr , , nl w away from Mart at that,
~, , -i widow was stealing herself
from Mart and taking Jim along.
,; s , r d was the nerve of Joe Lathrop,
vha was laid up by a road agent and
(viuipede 11 ihe same time, when simply
a tr.nior would have unloaded the centi
. i,, : poison into him or the move
m(n( of a huger would have brought the
content.- of the road agent’s gun into his
heart.
j, .so If. 11 was a miner, prospector,
hnmer and trapper, well known in the
Wind ri\< r nintry, Wyoming. He had a
partner who went by the name of Arkan
sas Bi..’ ■ I '' ’ r knew what his real name
w I : was a good one. The time I
was in ii region Jesse and Arkansas
Bill had been prospecting, hunting and
trapp: - aiMUi the headwaters of Snake,
Wind and Mr, on rivers for some time and,
meeting With poor luck, had worked down
(o the ni rah of Horse creek, where they
found great signs of big game and good
fur. Following a herd of antelopes one
day, the chase took them eight miles to
ward a high bluff, around one edge of
which the hunters were cautiously creep
ing, Jesse in the lead. Turning a sharp
corner of the rock Jesse came face to face
with a big she silver lip. a yearling cub,
and two spring cubs. They were not ten
feet away, and they saw Jesse as soon
as he saw them. They were in a hollow,
and the position and place Jesse was in
made it a dangerous spot either for an al
ia, k on ihe bears or for defense against
them if they should attack. Arkansas Bill
had crept to his companion's side before
Jesse could warn him what was ahead of
them. 8.1 l iost no time in getting back
around the corner. Jesse was backing
away for the same purpose, when the old
bear, her blood being up, made a rush for
him Jesse tired as quickly as he could.
The shot broke the bear’s shoulder, but
the came on, more feroctoGs than ever.
Jesse jumped one side, but the bear was
too close to be evaded, and she caught
hm in the side. Hunter and bear tum
bled in a heap, the bear on top, at Ar
kansas Bill’s feet. The bear’s jaws closed
in Jesse's side. Fortunately her under
teeth struck a heavy leather bullet pouch
that Jesse- curried slung over his shoulder
by a strap, or her jaws would have com<>
together in Jesse’s side and torn it half
away. As it was three of his ribs were
crushed us it they had been pipestems.
J--u- managed io give the bear a powerful
k ck in the abdomen, and at the same mo
nm.t Arkansas Bill fired and lodged ,a
bullet just back of his shoulder.
"Paying no attention to Bill, the bear
lurned her head and grabbed Jesse’s right
tout just below the ankle and crushed it
to a pulp with one suvage bite. Not con
i’nt wnh that, she bit and chewed at the
loot and leg and tore away the flesh at
. very bite, Jesse all the while struggling
<o get his revolver out of his belt. This
ill lust caused the hear to wheel about
nenn, and she made a grab for Jesse’s
head. Arkansas Bill had his gun loaded
■ ' ' time—breech-loaders not .having
1 k there yet—and sent another bul
’l lnto 'he tough old silver tip. This
> TI ."1 In r over, and Jesse raised him
inertia 1 y to his feet and got his re
icnci in his left hand. The bear qulck
reeowred herself and struck Jesse
alow with her paw on the head and
v that knocked him down again. He
" i on to his revolver and sent a bullet
’0 o her body. Before he could shoot again
| " si.\”r t ip seized his arm between her
;lnf * crunched it entirely through,
■bout"! to him to move his head,
j'-i-t did so. At the instant he moved
, snapped at it. Jesse Bell, in
'•'| S ' h'' n * ,his s,, ualion afterward, declar
| n ' 1 *’ could look right down the
b"iu s throat.
Al * tal ls Bill, who haei been striving
~ '* 1 i'-ince at the bear, placed the
" !| i rifle at the silver tip's ear
; ;; b’-'l. si,., sprang back. She did not
tic trouble, though, to loosen the
,“ r b' r jaws on Jesse's head and
| ( " 1 l 'pc.i her great teeth over
away his upper jaw, part
11 ’ ” . die cheek and a pieefc of his
' ! , ilK 'hcs long and five wide. Then
over against Arkansas Bill,
• normous weight carried him
"o’, She fell across his legs
I,' fin',' ;,im 'l°'n. It was some time
1,,",' ouid get from beneath the
He was badly hurt, and
who ~ifflcul *y <o the aid of Jesse.
'ting up. While he was dress
>lp the h. st he could the
, which, with the two cubs,
~ ,'jl |"' ' ' passive spectator .of the fight,
J t . take it up where the old
1 '''n forced to leave it and
~ • op. rash upon the two hunt
!S Bl'l ha.l a long and severe
i. w 'll the fierce young silvertip
w ; • j, i ''H erded in killing the animal
i, j' "jk-shooter, every chamber be
"fore.the bear gave up. Jes
,,r ’ ' " patiently and without a groan
until Bill had finished the
. - n 'i~ " and returned to the dressing
’ Fixing them up th< beat
* ' I with the means at hand, Xr-
I ' '’ill took his wounded comrade on
~', '''j’ 1 started for camp. It was
. r i ternoon, and it was important
'' ' boald be reached before dark.
"K wolves were common In the
1 ... ' both Jesse and Bill knew they
t k i , ~ helr ,ra H If darkness over
s°me idea of Arkansas Bill’s
1 I J’ bad when you know
it; hl> . ' .“ ' w ’is a man 6 feet 4 inches
t I Kl, ’k feet and made in propor
•ird p,. ' Jrnp was eight miles away,
• ... , wa extremely rough. Bill
:lm ’ With his burden a short
•-''••A, f,‘„. „ 11 ,* . and Wil * n °t any too
Ix-tir,; them, not far away, they
'■Til. rJ. j'mg of pursuing wolves.
t"r: lr , v ,’- ollncl ‘he cabin occupied by a
u r*o-. th* Pj'ospector who had stumbled
I- u. i" c r and n ‘ered. He was a
;an ] , visitor. Arkansas
’ i ■ ■ sirenger fitted a bed of buck
i , I . ’ . on lepeo role3, which they
- r . pony, Indian fashion,
or *-e r, j '' r ' 0,1 draK started at
nearest point where medical
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Fort Bridges, 120 miles away, through a
rough and unbroken wilderness. They
traveled day and night, stopping only to
bathe Jesse's wounds at the stream they
had to cross. They ate as they traveled,
and on the afternoon of the third day they
reached Fort Bridges with their wounded
charge. On all that remarkable journey
Jesse never once complained either of his
sufferings or the hardships. I was at the
fort when the three men arrived. No ex
planations were asked or given until Jesse
had been placed safely in the hospital.
Then the commandant said to Arkansas
Bill:
“ 'lndians?'
“ 'Naw!' replied Bill, contemptuously.
‘Bears!’
“The surgeon told Bill that Jesse could
not possibly survive his injuries. But he
did, and was out wfithin a month, perma
nently disfigured, hut the same tough and
intrepid mountaineer that he was before
his experience with the hear. That was
the sort of nerve Jesse Bell had.
“The Widow McCool’s exhibition of
nerve began at Dry Cheyenne, and al
though she was a widow she wasn't 16
years old yet. She hadn’t wanted to take
the name of MoCpol a little bit, but Sam
MeCoo! had plenty of money and her folks
didn’t have any and wanted some. Sam
wanted her, and so her folks insisted that
she should marry him, and she had the
nerve to do it, for it required nerve for
any girl to marry Sam McCool. But she
was the Widow McCool tn less than six
months. Sam got into a muss down at
Douglas and the other fellow was the
quicker with his gun. Not long after she
became the Widow McCool the stage route
company made her its agent at Dry Chey
enne. The widow was trim and snappy,
dark as a Mexican almost, and pretty as
a picture. A dozen of the boys fell in
love with her on the go in. but she kept
’em at a distance. By and by Mart Hun
toon, the rich ranchman, saw the widow
one day, and he wasn't in the habit of let
ting anything get away that he wanted,
and the upshot of the matter was that the
Widow McCool at last consented to marry
him and help him to get rid of some of his
dollars. Mart was a tough one and about
the handiest man with a gun there was in
that region, and he had a bad gang of
rustlers at his hack. Mart and the widow
were to be married early in May, and
about the first of the month who should
drop into Dry Cheyenne but Jim Kidd.
“Jim was a quiet sort of chap, but he
was game. He sold goods out through the
country for a house in the East. The min
ute he got his eyes on the Widow McCool
he was gone, and the fun of it was that
the widow fell in love with him on first
sight, too. There was to be a dance at
Sheffield a couple of nights after Jim
struck Dry Cheyenne, and he asked the
Widow McCool if she would go with him
and take it in. She said she would, but
at the same time told Jim that if Mart
Huntoon got wind of it the chances were
first rate for their both coming back to
Drv Cheyenne feet first. But she and
Jim sneaked away and went to the dance.
Sheffield was twenty miles from Dry Chey
enne. It wasn't long before some of the
boys missed Jim and the widow. They
suspected that they had gone to the
danoe, and word was sent to Mart. He
came down from his ranch, crazy mad,
and got together half a dozen or so of
his gang, and away they went for Shef
field and the dance. When they got there
they found Jim and the Widow McCool
in the midst of the festive throng. The
widow discovered the new arrivals at once,
and quietly asked Jim if he had a pistol,
Jim said he had two.
“ ’All right,’ said the widow ‘Keep ’em
handy. You’ll need 'em befix-e long.'
“TTlen she and Jim took their places for
the next dance. Before this was over
Mart’s gang started a row. and began to
close in on Jim Kidd. He backed up
against a door at one side of the room
and whipped out his two six-shooters. The
gang pressed on and Jim shot Ed Cooke,
Mart's foreman, and another of Mart's
men dead in their track. In the excite
ment that followed the lights were put
out A second later Jim fell the door open
behind him. and he was yanked through it
so quick he didn't know where he was un
til he heanl the door bolted and heard the
voice of 4he Widow McCool. The merry
widow knew the house, and she had seen
that the door Jim backed up against led
(o a bed room that had a window on the
other side. She had slipped out of doors,
got into the bed room through the win
dow opened the door, yanked Jim into
the room and bolted the door again Wore
anyone in the darkness and excitement
of the ball room knew what had become
of him But for that Jim would have
boi n a dead man in less than ten seconds.
“Just as quickly as she had yanked Tim
into the bod room by Ihe door she hustled
him out of it by the window. They mount
<vi the first two horses they found tied in
the yard, and before Mart Huntoon ar.d
his gang knew what was going on Jim
and the Widow McCool were streaking it
awav on the road to Douglas. Jim had a
.pistol shot through his left forearm and
one through the fleshy part of his left
shoulder, blit the fugitives rode alt that
night and all the next day and got to
Douglas on Sunday night. There they left
their exhausted horses, hired n team and
headed for Chadron. Neb. By the time
Mart Huntoon got the trail at Douglas
Jim and the widow had left Chadron for
the East; only the widow wasn t the
Widow McCool anv more, hut Mrs. Jnmes
jr 1.1,1 Mart lost the trail and never found
it. and society at Dry Cheyenne and there
abouts wondered fori years tfhat had be
come of Jim and the widow who had
nerve' enough to steal herself from Mart
Huntoon mid his gang and to take Jim
Kidd with her, and maybe they are won
dering yet. , . ..
••It was down in New Mexico in the
palmy days of ihe cheerful pastimes the
citizens of that region were wont to in
dulge in i hat Joe Eathrop was calledupon
to exercise nerve of a peculiar brand. Jce
hid come Into that delectable country
. ',. h JSOO in gold. Which he was very so
o tOUs atW. for it was his intention to
make a fortune with it by investing it
rn a gold male a friend of his said he
had discovered a few miles from Pueblo.
Joe and his frlefid, with other travelers
were on their way to Pueblo in the coach
that carried the mall, and it was suddenly
♦ topped in one of the wildest spots in all
that country.and three rough-looking indi
viduals. each at the butt end of a rifle,
ordered the passengers to tumble out and
fine up, with their hands above their heads.
One of the three robbers was set to guard
the held-up passengers, with emphatic in
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, ISOff
structions to blow a hole through the first j
one of them that moved hand or foot,
while the other two looted the stage. Joe
was scared. He had stood there in a |
strained position for five minutes, lool: i
ing square into the muzzle of a rifle,
when he rolled his eyes downward to gel |
a more pleasing tiling to look at. but he I
didn't. He saw a centipede at least eight
inches long, one of the terrors of that
region, hurrying along directly toward
town.
“It was soon at the lip of his shoe, but
to his intense relief it avoided the obstacle
and passed on. It only went as far as his
heel, though. Then It climbed upward,
and the first thing Joe knew the hideous
and deadly thing was climbing his log
under his trousers, as he know by the
pricking of Ihe long rows of sharp claws
in his flesh. Joe knew that the least
movement he made would disturb the sen
sitive and acrimonious varmint and it
would instantly sink every one of its
many claws into his flesh and squirt into
his blood from each claw its quota of
deadly venom. And there Joe stood, doub
ly held up. If he moved a hand the des
perado on guard would fill him with lead.
If he moved a muscle of his leg the cen
tipede would fill him with poison. Slowly
the centipede climbed the leg, leaving its
itching, burning track in the flesh, some
thing in itself almost beyond human en
durance, Joe didn’t know how soon the
centipede might get mad at something
and sock its venom points into him. any
how, but he did know that the robber
would soon be through with searching the
stage and then begin going through his
pockets, while the centipede was explor
ing him, thus disturbing it and inducing
its stinging him.
“The centipede made its way deliberate
ly up one leg, then across Joe's took to
the other leg, down which it moved more
deliberately stili, pausing now and then as
if it had a nation to go up again. It
did start back up the leg once, and Joe
was on the point of dropping his hand in
hope that the robber would put him out
of his misery by shooting him, when
centipede turned and went down again,
and kept on going until it came out at
the bottom of the trousers leg and went
scurrying away. Joe shut his eyes and
gave one long breath, and was on the
poiqt of relieving himself with a yell, let
the consequences be what they might,
when the individual with the rifle ex
claimed;
“ ‘Say, pard, you got more nerve than a
six-hoss wagon could lug! Damned if I
could a stood that feller wrigglin’ over me
myself.’
“That cold-blooded reprobate had seen
the centipede go up into Joe’s trousers
leg, and knew all the while what Joe was
suffering, and just stood there and watch
ed what the result was going to be. The
robbers made off as soon as they had se-
all the plunder, and the looted stage
and passengers wefct on to Pueblo. And
that was the sort of nerve that Joe Eath
rop had to have with him that memora
ble day. A year afterward Joe was one
of a posse that pursue# a gang of rob
bers near North Juan, in Nevada. Joe
discovered one of the gang hiding behind
a rock. He shot the desperado dead, and
when he saw his face declared he was
happy, for he recognized the man who
had held him up during that Pueblo stage
robbery that time and gloated over his ex
perience with the centipede.”
MADE FORTUNE AS CLAftIEIR.
Oertener, Whose Business Was to
Start Spurious Applause Leaves
*50,000.
From the Chicago Tribune.
Gertner, the great “claquer” of Vienna,
says a foreign paper, has just died of a
broken heart. He saved up .over $50,000
as the proceeds of his unique calling. He
was for years director of the claque at
the most popular theater of Vienna, the
Deutsches Volkes Theater. Now, a claque
is the prearranged applause which greets
the “star” performers in a company
whether their performance is good or bad,
and is started by paid shouters (or claq
ueurs) judiciously disposed among the au
dience. It is said that Gertner elevated
his humble occupation to an art, and was
in great demand by actors who wanted
discreet assistance from the auditorium.
Gertner was the soul of discretion.
He came to the theater night after night
in different characters and costumes, and
was never recognized as a' claqueur by
those around him. Sometimes he occupied
a box, sometimes a seat in the stalls, some
times he posted himself in the gallery,
but always where he could indicate to his
subordinates, by a code of signals previ
ously arranged, how and when to applaud
without attracting undue attention. '
Gertner would be seen sitting in a box,
for which he himself paid, in an elegant
dress suit, with white tie and gloves, and
looking vso distingue that no one would
have dreamed that he was claqueur. When
he raised his handkerchief to his nose, a
round of applause followed; when he re
placed the handkerchief in his pocket the
clapping gradually subsided.
Gertner came to grief in a curious way.
He was sitting in the stalls at an impor
tant first night, and fell asleep during the
play. A particularly tragic passage had
been reached, when Gertner suddenly
awoke with a start and commenced to ap
plaud vigorously.
The house roared with laughter, and the
piece was ruined. Gertner was dismissed
in disgrace, and has died of a broken
heart.
SAVANNAH I’OI.ITIf'S.
Vletv of the CnmiinfKn Taken in n
Neighboring City.
From the Charleston News and Courier.
Municipal politics in Savannah has near
ly reached the boiling point. There will
be two candidates for Mayor and two al
dermanic tickets in the field. The May
oralty candidates are J. J. McDonough
and Herman Myers, both of whom, we
believe, have filled Ihe office, and each will
do his best, doubtless, to prove that he
should be elected. Col. J. H. Estill, the
editor and owner of the Morning News,
has accepted the nomination for alderman
on the Eiileral ticket, buf not without se
rious reflection, and then only as'a mut
ter of duty and service to the community.
We hope that he will be elected—he ought
to be—and we should be glad to vote for
him for alderman or Mayor or any other
office, where good character, fine busi
ness ability and zealous regard for the
public welfare should be the tests op
plied to the candidates. No one in Sa
vannah has done more for that place than
Coll Estill, and he should be elected with
out objection, and will be if the voters
have any regard for duty well performed.
His election would be particularly grati
fying to us because he hails from Charles
ton. The cursory reader would never know
it, however, from his newspaper, which is
for Savannah through and through and
all the time, against the world, the flesh
and the devil.
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TO-DAY'S WEATHER FORECAST.
Forecast for Savannah and vicinity until
midnight: Fair.
Washington Forecast for Friday—
For Georgia and South Carolina—Bain;
warmer; light northeasterly winds.
For Eastern Florida—Threatening 1
weather; light northeasterly winds.
For Western Florida—Generally fair;
warmer; light easterly winds.
General Conditions: Along the Atlantic
coast,from Savannah to Boston, clear, cool
wealher prevails; Miis condition also ex
ists along the Gulf coast, except at Key
West and Tampa, where it is cloudy. The
weather is clear in the Ohio valley and
generally throughout the Mississippi val
ley. In the west and northwest it is
cloudy. The temperature aiong the Atlan
tic coast is lower, while ifi the west it is
higher. The greatest velocity of the wind
is at Hattcras, 32 miles per hour, from the
north. Eight rain has fallen in the in
terior of Georgia.
Yesterday’s Weather at Savannah-
Maximum temperature 8 a. m.. 45 degrees
Minimum temperature 8 p. m... 42 degrees
Mean temperature 44 degrees
Normal temperature 51 degrees
Deficiency of temperature 7 degrees
Accumulated excess since Jan.l. 6 degrees
Accumulated excess since Jan.l. 6 degrees
Rainfall .00 inch
Normal 11 inch
Excess since Jan. 1 .53 inch
Excess since Jan. 1 53 inch
River Report—The hight of the Savan
nah River at Augusta, at 8 a. m. (75th me
ridian time) yesterday was 13.9 feet, a fall
of 2.8 feet during the preceding twenty
four hours.
Observations taken Jan. 19, 1899, 8 p. m.
(75th meridian time), at the same moment
of time at ali stations, for the Morning
News:
Stations— | -|-T.| *V. |Ratn
Roston, clear | 32 | 10 | .00
New York city, clear —| 32 | E | .00
Philadelphia, clear | 34 | E | .00
Washington city, clear ~| 28 |Calmj .00
Norfolk, clear | 30 | 8 j .00
Hatteras, clear j 40 j > 32 | .00
Wilmington, clear | 38 j 10 j .00
Charlotte, clear | 34 j L j .00
Raleigh, clear | 32 | 6 | .00
Charleston, clear | 44 | 14 | .00
Atlanta, clear | 38 j E | .01
Augusta, cloudy j 38 | E j .01
Savannah, clear j 42 | 8 |* .00
Jacksonville, cloudy | 46 | 10 | .00
Jupiter, clear j 60 | 12 j .00
Key West, partly cloudy j 64 j 26 | .00
Tampa, cloudy | 50 j 6 j .00
Pensacola, clear | 42 | 8 | .00
Montgomery,’p'tly cloudyj 40 j 8 j .00
Vicksburg, clear | 40 | E | .00
New Orleans, clear j 41 j 8 | .00
Galveston, clear ] 46 | L | .00
Corpus Christ!, clear | 56 | 12 | .00
Palestine, clear [ 46 j 6 j .00
Memphis, clear ~..| 36 | L | .00
Cincinnati, cfear | 30 j 6 j .00
Pittsburg, clear | 30 | E j .00
Buffalo, clear ...j 26 | 12 | .00
Detroit, clear | 26 j 10 | .00
Chicago, clear j 26 j 30 | .00
Marquette, clear | 28 | 14 j .00
St. Paul, clear | 32 | L | .00
Davenport, partly cloudy! 34 | 8 | .00
St. Ivouls. cloudy | 31 | 8 | .00
Kansas City, cloudy | 40 [ 12 | .00
-|-T, temperature; *V, velocity of wind.
H. B. Boyer,
Observer. Weather Bureau.
THE NEW ORLEANS RACES.
Good Weather, Good Tracks nnd Two
IN lulling Favorites.
New Orleans, Jan. 19.—T0-day was the
forty-ninth day of the Crescent City
Jockey Club's winter meeting. Weather
clear and cool; track good. Our Nellie
and Egbart were the winning favorites.
First Race—Six furlongs. Takanassee, 4
to 1, won, with The Star of Bethlehem, V
to 2 and even, second, and Jim Gore, 8 to
5, third.' Time l:lsVi.
Second Race—Six furlongs. Pell Mells,
5 io 1, won, with Ned Wiekes, 11 to 5 and
3 to 5, second, and Nan Dora, 20 to 1, third.
Time 1:16.
Third Race—Selling, one infle and one
sixteenth. Amber Glints, 4 to 1, won, with
Elewanna, 9 to 2 and 8 to 5, second, and
Babe Fields, 5 to 2, third. Time 1:50%.
Fourth Race—Selling, one mile and one
sixteenth mile. Col. Frank Waters, 5 to 1,
won, with Barataria, 6 to 5 and 2 to 5,
second, and Albert S, 12 to 1, third. Time
1:51%.
Fifth Race—One mile. Our Nellie, even,
won, with Estrabrook, 20 to 1 and 5 to 1,
second, and Sir Biaze, 9 to 1, third. Time
1:44%.
Sixth Race—Selling, seven furlongs. Eg
bart, 5 to 2, won, with Randazzo, 3 to.l and
even, second, and Shuttlecock, 8 to 1, third.
Time 1:30.
NEW TRIAL FOR CARTER f
J lie Pending Case Alleged to Re Full
of Irregularities.
F(om the New York Journal.
Washington, Jan. 17.—Capt. Carter is al
most certain to be given anew trial. The
Judge advocate general has been so un
sparing in his comment on the marvelous
Irregularities marking Ihe course of this
case that the I'risldent has finally been
stirred into action.
The President now knows that If the
case lie dragged over into next summer
the contractors will escape liability by the
statute of limitations, and he is unwilling
that they should escape by executive pro
crastination. He has only one way out of
the difficulty, and that, it is apparent to
some judicial authorities, he is about to
pursue. He favors trial de novo.
The Carter ease is particularly Interest
ing to New Yorkers, for Democratic cam
paign managers have freely declared their
belief that It caused a change of 9,000 votes
unfavorably In Onondaga county, where
John F. Gaynor lives. He was one of the
Carter contractors, and is the Democratic
state committeernun from that county.
SOUTH AFRICA’S DIAMONDS.
INSTANCES OF 1.1 CK RELATED 11V
A FOHMGR DIGGER.
Men Hho Mmp Haile Itirli Finds on
Ground \\ bore Others Had Spent
Their All—First Dln-ovrrlm oi
Diamonds—Stringent Uni luninif
the Illicit Diamond Buyers.
From the New York Sun.
“The tirst diamond discovered in South
Africa," said Henry A. Kralsch, who spent
several years in the diamond fields, "was
purchased in 1867 by a trader, an Irishman
by birth, named John O'Reilly. While re
turning from the interior with his cattle
he stayed for a few days, in order to re
cuperare, at a large farm on the banks of
the Orange river owned by a Boor flamed
Schalk van Niekerk. A peculiar stone had
been picked up some time previously by a
Bushman boy. O’Reilly bought it for a
trille out of curiosity, not knowing him
self what it was. and took it with him to
a town called Colesberg and handed it to
the resident civil commissioner, who in
turn forwarded it to Dr. Atherstone in
Graham's Town, Cape Colony. This gen
tleman, after careful examination, pro
nounced it a veritable diamond 21Q carats
in weight and worth $2,540. It was subse
quently purchased for this price by the
governor or the colony, Sir I'. Wodehouse.
When the find became known a search for
diamonds was instituted throughout the
Hope Town district, hail it wa> not until
1869 that the existence of diamonds in pay
ing quamilies was proved beyond a doubt.
Then a great rush of diggers from all
parts of the globe was made to (he Orange
liver anil its vicinity. It is a curious fact
that, though the earliest tinds were made
in the Hope Town • listrict, no mine was
discovered there, in the latter part of
1870 a lot of miners who haal gained val
uable experience in California ami Austra
lia discovered a mine about 1,000 miles due
north of Ho|ae Town, nearly 1,000 miles
from Cape Town, which they named after
the then British colonial secretary, the
Marl of Kimberley. At the bargaining of
1871 10,000 men had found their way to this
spot. The extensive farm on which the
Kimberley mine and town are situated
was the property of one Van Wyck, from
whom it was purchased for about $25,000.
"The actual diamond mine is a hole of
twenty-five or thirty acres. The mining
was so-called gravel digging until 1878,
when the hard rook was reached at the
depth of 270 feet from the surface. There
were then about 320 claims on which li
censes were paid. The yield of diamonds
from this big excavation since the opening
of the mine in 1871 probably exceeds eight
tons weight of precious stones, In value
nlaout $240,000,000. After years of progres
all the individual small diggers and claim
holders sold out to a gigantic syndicate of
which the late Barney Barnato and Cecil
Rhodes were the promoters. This com
l>any employs at present about 1,700 white
men and about 14,000 Kaffirs, and its ex
penditures for labor, material, etc., are not
less than $12,000,000 annually. The finest
diamonds ever found In South Afrlea wns
the famous Porter Rhodes, discovered in
claim, No. 375, near the center
of Kimberley mine, on Feb.
12, 1880. It is a pure white octa
hedron, weighing 150 carats and value! at
$300,000. A splendid yellow octahedron
was found on March 27, 1884, at the east
end of the mine. It weighed 302 carats.
The largest diamond ever found in this
mine was discovered near the west end of
the mine,on Sept. 29, 1886. It was a large
irregular octahedron, slightly spotted, of
yellow color, and weighed 404 carats, or
nearly three ounces. In the month of
February previous a similar stone of 352
carats was found near the east end of the
mine. The former of these stones is prob
ably the largest diamond the world has yet
produced, excepting a very imperfect stone
of some 500 carats found in Jagersfonstein,
Orange Free state, in 1881.
"About twenty miles to the westward of
Kimberley the Vaal river Is met. Dia
mond mining is in active progress on its
banks. These mines are generally termed
the poor man’s diggings, because any man
with a little capital can go there and stake
off an unoccupied claim 40x40, pay his
monthly license fee of $7.50 <o the govern
ment mining commissioner and go to work.
The only mining implements necessary for
his undertaking are a pick and shovel, a
large gravel sieve and a smaller hand
sieve, two tubs, generally obtained by saw
ing an ale barrel In half, and a provisional
table to sort on, as well as a large pail In
order to carry the water for washing the
sand from the gravel in the tubs. Asa
rule one of these prospectors, according to
his means, hires two or three Jiafflr labor
ers at about $5 a week and keep, the ra
tions being regulated by iaw. These men
perform the more laborious work in the
sun, the prospector generally limiting him
self to the actual washing and sorting. The
1 digging is purely surface, as at a depth of
about two feet a solid rock is met. 1 have
known instances during my sojourn there
where men have expended their last cent
and savings probably ranging from SSOO to
SI,OOO, enduring all kinds of hard ships and
never found anything.
"On the other hand, I have also met
men who, after a few weeks’ work, found
stones to the value of $20,000. I can recall
one instance where a man whom I per
sonally knew had accumulated about $2,000.
He took chances and went to the river to
try his luck. He employed several natives
and took out a license for three claims.
He worked unceasingly for about two
months, without finding a single stone.
Then he abandoned his claims and return
ed broke to Kimberley. A week or two
after his departure a Scotchman named
Cameron staked off one claim In the cen
ter of where the former three had been,
hired one Kaffir and started to work. On
the fourth day when he was washing up,
he found a pure white octahedron of 147*/i
carats, which he sold to a visiting broker
on the spot for $30,000 cash. The largest
diamond found on the Vaal river surface
diggings, known as the Spalding or Stew
art diamond, was discovered In 1872. It
weighed 288 carats and was valuerf then
at $25,000. It has been out and weighs
now 128 carats. These diamonds found on
the banks of the river are of a decidedly
superior quality to the Kimberley mine
diamonds, being generally perfectly white.
All commodities of life here are very ex
pensive, owing to the great difficulty of
transportation. 1 have often paid $1 for
a can of condensed milk, 60 oents for a
loaf of bread, 50 cents for a small tin of
sardines, 25 cents for a pound of sugar,
and 75 cents for an ordinary glass of Irish
of Scotch whisky. The only food which
is cheap Is goat’s meat, which must be
consumed within a few hours after slaugh
ter, owing to the hot African sun and the
utter absence of ice. meat can be
purchased as live stock from the constant
ly traveling Kaffir herds for about 3 cents
a pound. The climate is fairly healthy
for Europeans, and especially beneficial
for pulmonary weaknesses. Female so
ciety is out of the question, ns far as
white women are concerned. During my
first two years of residence there I saw
only one while woman. She was travel
ing through to join her husband, a mis
sionary. When the presence of this so
called angel became known in the vicinity
everybody quit work in order to gaze upon
her.
"From the discovery of diamonds In
South Africa until the present day one
great obstacle the diggers and the com
pany have had always to contend with
has been the enormous loss annually of !
rough diamonds stolen by the native Kat- I
lir laborers while at work in the claims
or on ihe depositing floors. These thefts
reached such enormous proportions and
tile diamonds found such ready market
among the unscrupulous element of ike
white iwpulaiion that it became necessary
io enact sfieoial laws to cope with the evil.
In the earlier days, upon conviction, the
Kaffir was simply punished for theft by
anoui twelve months’ imprisonment, and
the white buyer, for receiving stolen
property, was subject to a line of alxnit
I've limes tiie actual value of the dia
mond and three months imprisonment
with hard labor. Tiie profit of the buyer
was so great that th,H punishment proved
to lie utterly inadequate. Trial so far had
bten by a magistrate, it became now nec
essary to create a special court. Under
an act passed by tiie t’.i|>c Legislature,
commonly called the Illicit Diamond Buy
ing or Diamond Trade act, lids court con
sisted of three Supreme Court Justices, do
ing entirely away with trial by Jury. Up
on conviction, the maximum sentence for
a Kaffir, the thief, was fifty lashes upon
the liaro back with the cat-of-nlne-tails
and lo undergo imprisonment with hard
labor for a term not exceeding ten years.
The receiver or illicit diamond buyer up
on conviction received as a maximum sen
tence fifteen years’ imprisonment at hard
labor, the lirsi one-flfih of tile term to
l>e s|K'nt’ln isolation and in chains, and
he was also liable to a line not exceeding
as well as confiscation of all real
and iiersonal proiierty which he held at
the time of his arrest within the diamond
mining area. The ground taken was that
the criminal hail accumulated this prop
erty from the gains of lUh illicit traffic.
Isolation in prison consisted of being kept
apart from all other prisoners as we.l as
not having the privilege of seeing a visit
or or writing a letter or communicating
with any one. The prisoner was herded
with about fifty others, consisting of Kaf
firs and Bushmen, in large dormitory
cell about 100 feet long by 15 feet wide,
was obliged to work twelve hours a day
in the hot sun in a stone quarry, and had
chains weighing from seven to eighteen
pounds riveted on his legs. His behavior
during this part of his term had to bo
exemplary; otherwise it was prolonged at
the discretion of the prison superintend
ent. Upon my leaving the colony there
were about 300 whites thus undergoing
sentence. There was no appeal from this
sentence excepting to the Privy Council
or House of Lords, and this was hardly
within reach of the average convict.
"This law checked to a certain extent
illicit diamond buying, but it must be re
membered that the inducement to commit
• the crime was enormous. For instance,
a Kaffir was induced to steal a diamond,
say of about 40 carats, which he could
safely conceal in his mouth, and even
swallow. The native runner qr go-between
in the employ of the white buyer would
pay him about $lO for this stone, which
might have a market value of from SI,COO
lo $2,C00. The runner received a present of
about $5 in addition to a wetkly salary of
about $25 and his board. Upon conviction
the runner fhred the same as his master.
Many fortunes have been made in this
traffic and the, buyers have slipped from
the colony in (he nick of time on the eve
of being trapped. Trapping is fhe mode of
procedure resorted to by the detective de
partment in order to catch the buyer. The
detectives get hold of a runner, who is
induced to betray his master. A trusted
Kaffir is procured and thoroughly searched
ami stripped by a number of detectives, so
that he has nothing in his possession. A
rough and uncut, well-ldentilled and ac
curately weighed stone Is then handed to
him. The runner takes him in tow and
introduces him to his master. These two
tire followed and watched by a number of
disguised detectives. The white man will
ask to see (he stone, which the Kaffir takes
from its hiding place. A bargain is struck
for a few dollars, the money 1b paid over,
and the Kaffir departs. As soon as he
reaches the open a signal is given to the
detectives, a rush Is made, and the dia
mond buyer is arrested. Upon being
search being made lip' diamond is found in
the buyer’s possession, and the money
in the Kaffir's. The runner turns Queen's
evidence against his employer and Is held
as a witness. The detectives corroborate
all details and a conviction is certain."
THROAT CAT TO SAVE I.IFE.
Hy a Heady Surgeon In the Recep
tion Room at Bellevue Hospital.
Fron/the New York Journal.
Charles Welnhold owes his fair chance
of recovery from a rare and tiangerous
disease to tho fact that Dr. Burt D. Wil
son happened to be in the reception room
of Bellevue Hospital when he was driven
up to the entrance in an ambulance.
Welnhold was speechless and half suf
focated. There was an enormous growth
on the right side of his face. But Dr,
Wilson saw more than this. He knew
that tho stress of the growth had caused
the man’s windpipe to collapse near the
jiharynx—a result known as Ludwig’s an
gina," of which there had been only two
other cases recorded In this country, both
fatal. He named the disease to an as
sistant.
"We must get him to an operating ta
ble at once." said the assistant.
“lie would not live to reach It," said
Dr. Wilson. "We must operate here and
now."
The sufferer was of fine physique, six
feet tall and weighing 200 pounds. With
a gasp and a nod he indicated his realiza
tion of the necessities of liis case. With
out waiting for an anaesthetic Dr. Wil
son plunged a large lance into Welnbold's
throat at a point two Inches to the left
of his chin and drew it down sharply to
the collar bone. Drs. Wynkoop and Nutt
assisted. The swelling at once subsided,
the pressure on the windpipe relaxed, and
the man was able to breathe.
The operation lasted nearly twenty min
utes. The patient txire it with great for
t itude. He was taken to*a ward and put
to tied, where he will have to remain for
several weeks. Dr. Wilson said he would
surely recover.
The surgeons of Bellevue nre also con
gratulating themselves and a patient nam
ed James Weldon on the latter’s remarka
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weeks of a peptonized mUk diet, and was
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Weldon had lorn the thumb on the iron
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id. At Bellevue he was Immediately at
tended by Drs. Pierce, Gladstone and
Roils. None of the physicians believed
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few hours. But they injected 100 centime
tres of tetanus anti-toxin Into the abdo
men. He was then allowed to rest for
two hours, when 50 centimetres of anti
toxin were injected into his thighs. In the
meanwhile Dr. J. D. Bryant tiad reached
the hospital and given the case his atten
tion. All the surgeons wore Indlgnunt
that a man In Weldon’s condition should
have been allowed to leave Roosevelt Hos
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him away wlili a hint that he go to Belle
vue.
In a few days Weldon began to improve.
He had lost forty poo'iids. He began lo eat
solid food, and yesterday it was found
that he had regained twenty pounds.
The ease has attracted many physicians
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