The Indianola Press. (Indianola, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, June 17, 1904 Page: 3 of 8
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JOHN BURT
■By FREDERICK
UPHAM ADAMS
Author of "TSo KISnapprS Millionaires,'* ''Colonel
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CHAPTER XII.—Continued.
Two hundred feet from the house
the dog paused and sniffed the air.
Then, with a yelp, he plunged to the
right, made for a rock which showed
dim through the snow, and burrowed
frantically Into a drift on its leeward
side. In the white mass Blake saw a
dark object, and as he reached the
rock it mored. The next instant a
bearded face appeared from the folds
of a heavy fur overcoat, and a man
struggled unsteadily to his feet.
"Can you walk?" shouted Blake,
grasping him by the arm.
"I think so," said the stranger, as
he grasped the rope. "How far is
it?"
"Not far," replied Blake, encour-
agingly. "Pull on the rope. It will
help you."
Once in the cabin, the stranger
seated himself near the stove, while
Blake produced a flask and heaped
fuel on the Are.
"Keep your hands and feet away
from the stove, if they are frozen,"
cautioned Blake.
"I'm not frost-bitten," was the
stranger's reply, as he clapped his
hands vigorously and pinched his
ears. I was completely done for. If
you hadn't found me when you did,"
he said with much feeling, as he ex-
tended his hand, "I should never have
left there alive!"
At the sound of the man's voice
.Tames Blake started and gazed in-
tently at him. When the bearded
stranger raised his eyes and offered
his hand the recognition was com-
plete.
"John Burt, or I'm a ghost! Don't
you know me, John?"
"Jim Blake!"
The New Englander Is not demon-
strative in his emotions or affections,
but the joy which danced in the eyes
cf these reunited friends, as they
shook hands and slapped each other
wwa
| Biirt an<l—and others advised mo to
; put myself beyond the reach of a
I prosecution In which all the mou<>
| and influence would have been against
me. But tell me of yourself, Jim.
I What have you done in California,
J and what has the Golden Stite done
I for you?"
"It would take me a week, John, to
tell my exneriences of the last live
years," said Jim Blake, tossing an-
other log into the fire. "Most of them
would not Interest you, some might
amuse you, and others would make
you mad. I've been rich three times,
John, and In love twice—no, three
times."
"How rich, and how badly In love?"
"My strokes of fortune and my love
afTairs are all jumbled together," ex-
plained Blake, laughing heartily.
"You'll have a bad opinion of me,
John, but I've reformed and am going
to lead a better life. I made my first
strike on the Little Calaveras;. Talk
about luck! That was a funny thing.
I broke my neck and discevered a
gold mine and a sweetheart in doing
it!"
"Broke your neck? Surely you're
Jesting!"
"It's a fact, just the same," as-
serted Blake, thoughtfully rubbing the
back of his neck, which showed no
signs of fracture. "I was a greenhorn
then, and my prospecting expeditions
were the joke of the old stagers. I
b< ught a horse and a Mexican saddle
and prowled through all the moun-
tains and foothills back of the Little
Calaveras. One afternoon I was fol-
lowing a trail that skirted along the
side of a mountain. There's a lot of
woodchucks inHbose hills, and in bur-
rowing around one of them loosened
a rock, which came rolling down in
my direction. My horse saw and
heard it, and shied off the trail. He
slid about twenty feet and then fell,
and as he went my right foot went
" si JXGT yLD/KslXD f&O/T
iris- facDj a/-' a ff&iyrsz&> ove&cq/Jt
on the back was more eloquent than
words.
"This seems too good to be true,
Jim!" exclaimed John, his hand
Jim's shoulder. "But for you, old
chum, my California experience would
have been ended. How small the
world is, that we should meet here, of
all places on earth!"
"Take off your clothes and get Into
bed, John," directed Blake, as he
pushed John into a chair and tngged
at his frozon boots. "Do as I tell you
and you'll be all right. Lie quiet and
rest. Don't talk, but keep awake."
Several times, during the next two
hours, John fell into a drowse, but
by force of will he roused himself.
The reaction after the awful struggle
in the drifts waa severe, but he mas-
tered It and was himself again. Blake
exhausted the resources of his larder
in a dinner, which John enjoyed &3
never before In his life, and Dog did
net go hungry.
Then pipes were produced, and,
nested near the red-hot stove, the two
friends recounted some of the events
which had marked their lives during
the preceding six years. It swvned
ages to both of them. The striplings
of seventeen were now stalwart men.
Blake listened eagerly to his friend's
recital of the events leading up to the
quarrel with Arthur Morris. Jim
clenched his hands and leaned ex-
citedly forward when John told of the
struggle %ith Morris In the tavern.
"I have sometimes thought," said
John, "that I should have remained
and faced the charge of murder which
might have been made against me.
That was my first Impulse. I did not
fcill Morris, and it Is enly by chance
that he did not kill me. The revolver
was still in hia hand when he fell,
though I had bent his wrist so that
he could not turn it against me. It
was one of those new self-cocking
weapons and Morris shot himself. But
I no witnesses, and Grandfather
through the stirrup. He rolled over
me, and we started down the slope.
Sometimes I was on top, : nd some-
times he was on top.
"Four or five hundred feet below I
saw a thin row of trees, and I knew
they marked the edge of a clIfT. For
some reason there's most always a
fringe of trees at these jumping off
places. We were going like lightning.
Just as we neared the edge the horse
rolled over we again. As I came on
top I saw that we were going to pass
between two small trees. A big
rock slewed the horse around, and he
went down head first. I grabbed at a
tree, and by the merest chance threw
my free leg around it. I held like
grim death to a coon, anu heard the
leather snap as the horse went over
the precipice. If it had been a flrst-
class saddle I wouldn't be here to
tell the tale. I was hanging down
over the cliff. It was eighteen hun-
dred feet deep to the first stopping
place, and I saw that horse, all
spraddled out, turn over and over in
the air. I closed my eyes so as not
to see him strike. Then I crawled
back a few feet and sat down behind
a rock. That's the last thing I re-
member until I woke up in bed. An
old doctor, whose breath smelled of
liquor, was bending over me. and
near him was one of the rattiest
girls I ever saw. She and her father
were approaching me when I started
to Elide down the raountata. Her
name was Jenny Rogers."
Jim sighed and paused.
"This Is growing romantic, but how
about the broken neck?" asked John.
"It was broken, or dislocated, which
is about the same thing," continued
Blake. "Jenny's father knew of an
old Spanish doctor, about forty miles
away, and went for him. He was a
wonder on bones. He was black as
an Indian and uglier than sin. • He
felt around my neck, swore softly In
Spanish. rolled me over on my face,
Climbed on my back, jabbed his knees
into my shoulder blades, and grabbed
me l>y the jaws. He ga\e my heal a
quick wrench. 1 saw a tnousand hk>-
rockets; something cracked and I be-
came senseless. When 1 awoke he
; had my neck In splints, and was jab-
bering Spanish to Rogers, lie said
he was the only white man In the
; world who could set a broken neck,
and 1 guess he was. He had learned
the triek from an Indian medicine
j man. He charged me twenty five dol-
lars. and told me to lie quiet for a
week. Jenny Rogers nursed me, and
of course 1 fell in love with brr. 1
was in their cabin, and near bj Mr.
Rogers had located some valuable
claims.
"Here is the most remarkable part
of this story," Blake went on. "When
I was able to dress I picked up that
cursed Mexican stirrup to see how the
leather happened to break. It was a
steel affair, and I noticed some bright
yellow spots in the crevices. Blamed
if it wasn't gold! I didn't say a word,
but when I was strong enough I went
back and climbed slowly db'wn the
place where my horse fell. It was(
easy to follow it. Near the edge of
the cliff I found an outcropping of
gold-bearing ore, and the mark of
where the metal part of my stirrup
had scratched it. I staked out n
claim and sold It to Jenny's father for
a hundred and twenty live thousand
dollars. He's made two millions out
of it. I made love to Jeifhy, and 1
think she would have had me, but I
went to San Kranclsco and dropped
the hundred and twenty-five thousand
on the mining exchange. I went back
and asked Jenny to wait until 1 made
another fortune. She said she'd think
about it. I guess she did. A year
later she married a man who is now n
United States Senator.. So I broke
my iicck, lost my fortune and my
sweethoart all in less than n year."
"And what have you now?"
"This mountain chateau," replied
Bl.ike, with a lordly sweep of his arm.
"and a hole in the ground back of it.
Then I have a fine view of the valley,
a good appetite, a slumbering con-
science, and—and Dog, here, who
never upbraids me for being seven
kinds of a fool.
John told tho story of the dying
sailor and his map, and read an ex-
tract from Peter Burt's letter. Then
lie produced tho map, and tUey spread
it out on the table anil examined it
by the light of the lantern.
"I followed the trail ill right," ex-
plained John, "until tho storm set In,
and then I had to feel my way. Be-
fore I lost my hearings I was abfiut
two miles from the point where this
sailor claims to have found gold. I
kept near tho edge of the cliff until I
could go no further, and then curled
up behind that rock in the hope that
the storm would cease."
Blake studied the map with grow-
ing interest and excitement. With a
splinter from a log as a marker lie
traced the trail.
"1 know every foot of it!" he ex-
claimed, resting the point of the
splinter tin a round spot on the map.
"Here is Fisher's I.ake. You camo
that far by stage. Here is the creek
which you follow for seven miles un-
til you come to the old Wormley trail.
You take that to the cliffs, and go
along the clifTs until you cross four
brooks and come to the fifth one. You
were within a hundred yards of that
fifth stream, John. Now let's see thy
key to this thing."
John handed him the letter.
" 'From the east face of the square
rock, on the north bank of the brook,
at the edge of the cliff,' " read Blake.
"I kr.ow the rock well. Let's see.
'Thence east along the bank of tho
brook in a straight lino four hundred
and twenty-two feet, and then north
at right angles, sixty-seven feet to tho
base of the tallest pine in the neigh-
borhood.' "
Blake rushed to the door, forgetful
of the storm, to verify his suspicions.
He pushed it open an inch, but a
solid bank of snow blocked the way.
"Where do you suppose the base of
that pine tree Is?" he demanded.
Without waiting for a reply he found
a hatchet and tapped the clay floor
until he located a spot which gave a
deadened sound. Then he chopped
away a few inches of packed dirt and
sank the blade hito a solid substance.
"There's the base of the big pine
tree described by your dead sailor,
and I'll bet my life on it," he shouted.
And here are sections of the tree," he
continued, pointing to the logs which
formed the foundation of the cabin.
"I'm dead sure of it, John. It's about
a hundred and forty yards from here
to the edge of the cliff. I know, for
I measured it. And its about twenty
yards to the brcok.v What is more
conclusive, this was by far the largest
tree anywhere around. That's why I
located tho cabin here. Let's see
what comes next!" His eyes glis-
tened with excitement.
The Instructions were to measure
three hundred and eighteen feet north
from the base of the tree and thence
east to a carefully described rock,
which Blake remembered. This was
the base of the Incline. Within a hun-
dred yards of this rock the key lo-
oted three gold bearing quartz
ledges.
(To be continued.)
DANCING IS NOT ENOUGH.
Jaifed Paris Makes It Into a Game
They Call -Boston Ball."
Binirt icclety on the continent hns
started a r.ew dane", which combines
the ever-favorite waits with n game
It is called the "Boston ball." and Is
very much danced in Paris Just now.
The floor Is marked out In rectangu-
lar form as for a game of tennis. In-
side this six half circles are marked,
two at each end cornerwise, and one
at each side. This leaves a Jong
space In the middle At the junction
of each side semicircle with the mid-
dle space a croquet hoop Is placed,
tied with s color.
Six couples take part In tho Boston
ball dance at a time, one pair being in
each of the four semicircles, and two
In the center space. Tbeso have n
ball ftiveu them (each pair wearing a
hoop color), and It Is their object to
Irlve the ball through the croquet
hoop Into the different side semi-
circles which may be considered the
home territories ss In polo.
The ball Is only driven by the feet
while waltzing, and whenever the ball
In Its rushes from one direction to
the other enters the semi circles be
losging to one of the corner pair,
those dancers become principal play-
ers and tako the jilddle fluor, ex-
rhangiDR with tho pair whose bad
play allowed them to do so.
It must he remembered that wullz-
Ing Is going on without cessation
the whole time, each pair being con-
fined to Its own domains until a
chance offers to gain tho center. The
number of goals are duly reckoned for
each side, and prizes are given.
At any moment u weary cnuplo in
the outer spaces can be recruited from
frosh dancers without stopping the
Came.— Ijidy's Pictorial.
A Char.je for the Worse.
Jacob H. ScliilT, the Nev, York bank-
er, was talking about plain and direct
speech.
"To bo plain and direct Is always
best," ho said, "hut to bo too plaiu anil
direct is to be uncouth—to be ludi-
crous.
"A good example of that was afford-
ed by a clergyman. He was address-
ing a congregation of fishermen, anil
he wanted to be sure they would un-
derstand him.
"'The Bible tells us,' said this clcr
gyman, that. It Is as difficult for a
camel to pnss through a needle's eye
as for a rich man to enter tho king-
dom of heaven. Tiiat, though, is a
roundabout, confused way of stating
the case. I should state It llko tills:
"'It Is as difficult for a rich man to
enter the kingdom of heaven uh for a
shad to go up a smooth-bark apple
tree tall foremost.'"
Stumped the Judge.
Judge Emmons gave one of his Il-
lustrated lectures to a religions socie-
ty recently, among his auditors being
S group of little boys In a condition of
awe at the glory of close association
with such a great man and of delight
at the various weapons shown. In
concluding, the commissioner said:
"And now, if there are any topics in
this line on which I have not touched
m any questions you would llko to
ask, I will bo delighted to answer
tbem."
There wan a movement among tho
small boys, several encouraging one
lad by nudges and nods of the heail
and whispers of "Go on; ask him."
Finally the little fellow rose and tim-
idly said: "Please tell us who stole
Charley Ross."—Boston Journal.
Dividends From Mines.
The total dividends reported by Col-
orado mining companies, for the year
1903, amounted to *5,182,179. Add 10
per coat for close corporations, mines
owned by Individuals, etc., *548,217;
the dividend of the American Smelt-
ing and Refining Company, $4,126,000,
and the dividend of the United States
Refining and Reduction Company,
1480,000, and the Colorado mines show
profits to Investors of 910,635,898 for
the year 1903.
Spanlah King Neara Manhood.
Alfonso, king of Spain, Is growing
into a manly youth, eager for outdoor
exercise of all kinds and bearing well
the fatigue of public ceremonial and
state details. His health, at one time
uncertain, has Improved greatly, and
the Spanish people will welcome his
marriage, as the next in line for the
throne Is bis sister, who Is married
to a man who is not by any means
popular.
Birds Winter Well.
For a winter climate Cation City,
Colo., has a reputation second to no
locality In the United States. During
the winter of 1903-1904, hundreds of
robins, bluebirds and turtle doves
made their homes In that vicinity, and
there was no weather during the
whole season so severo as to harm
the feathered creatures.
«0T THE CHECK CASHED.
Rascal's Bright Scheme to Get the In-
dwrserpent of Worthless P per.
"Yon win notice," said n city detrc-
tlve. 'that nearly all merchants In-
stead of simply Indorsing a check pre-
fix 'for deposit' with a rubber stamp
and give the name of the bank. Cleve-
land merchants learned this after un
experience that cost one of them *600.
"A man walked Into a Jewelry storo
and selected a $125 watch, left a check
for $600, drawn on an out of town
bank, with Instructions that the watch
be regulated and that he would corns
after It and Ills change a week later.
On returning he was Informed that
his check was no good.
"'Well, that's strange," he said. 'It's
the second timo tho bank has done
thai thing 011 me. But here's tho
money for your watch,' and lie count-
ed out $125 in currency and starlcd
for the door. 'Oh. yes,' he said, turn-
ing around, 'you'd better give me that
chock.' It was willingly handed over
to him. On the back was the Je. eler's
simple indorsement. With this tho
man went Into a bank, get It cashed
and was never heard of afterward."
Banns of Marriage.
The custom of publishing the bsnns
of marriage dates back to the primi-
tive church, for Tertulllan, who died
A. H. 240, states that warning of In-
tended marriages was given among
the early Christians.
It appoars that the publication of
banns was habitual in many places
long before there was any generul
law on tho subject, since (Irogory IV
(119X1216) speaks of the banns (from
Latin hniinum, a proclamation; Anglo-
Saxon ban) being given out In church,
according to custom. Tho praetlco
was Introduced Into France about tho
ninth century nml In 1176 was en-
forced In the dlocoae of Paris.
The earliest enactment on the rub-
Ject In England was en order made In
the synod of Westminster In 1200 to
the offcet tlist no marriage should bo
celebrated till the banns bad been
published In the church on threo sev-
eral Sundays or feast days. This rulo
was made obligatory throughout tho
church by tho fourth Laleran council
held In Rome in 1215. By act of par-
liament. ban 11s must now be given out
In England on three Sundays.—Lo
don Answers.
The Buffalo a Criminal.
As a species of hardened criminals
among placid herbivorous animals,
says a writer I11 McClure's, none Is
worse than the bison or American
buffalo. Toward man and beast and
even anion* tlionmelvos. these vicious,
vindictive and agile brutes, whoso
half-brothers on other continents do
not fear even tlio terrific onslaught of
lions and tigers, are In a state of al-
most continual warfare. Eagerly crop-
ping grass from a meadow, or luxuri-
ously wallowing in tho swamp-mud of
their ranges, a herd of theso giant,
brown, ponderous bended, shaggy pa-
triarchs make a sceno of peace anil
contentment. Yet they are among
the wickedest rogues and most ag-
gressive fighters over seen In a zoo.
Sullen and ugly, they often become
furious to madness without the least
provocation, and frequently attack one
another with serious or fatal results.
It Certainly Is.
"Yes," said the thinker of audible
thoughts, "it's- a grave Injustice."
"What's a grave Injustice?" asked
the man with the rubber habit.
"Burying people alive," explained
be of the noisy thoughts.
Only Too True.
Ho wns u boy of 12, and his sister
wa3 about to be married, and the wed-
ding breakfast was to be served by a
caterer, an entirely new experience
for the brother. In his anxiety lest
be shouldn't get his share of the good
things, he asked his sistur about It,
and she, of course, assured him that
he could have all he wanted to eat.
After she returned home, she asked
him how he fared, and if he bad eaten
all he wanted, and he replied:
"I didn't eat all I wanted, but I at#
all 1 could."
Marqula Ito.
Marquis Ito, the Japanese states-
man, Is described as an indefatigable
reader of Kuropt-an and American lit-
erature. He reads not only the
standard works, but the new publica-
tions and the current periodicals of
both hemispheres are devoured. He
reads German, French, English and
Chinese as easily as he reads his own
language. He has been accustomed to
give five to six hours a day to read*
ing.
' '-'I
To Sell Old Warship.
The Duke of Wellington, an old-
time battleship, which led the British
Baltic fleet In the Russian war of
1854-6, is to be sold at auction. She
has been used as a depot ship at
Portsmouth for many years. She is a
three-decker of 6,071 tons and 240
feet six inches in length, Is built of
wood, carried 104 guns and had a
crew of over 1,000 men.
Less Timber by Lake.
Timber receipts at Milwaukee by
the way of lake, during 1903, fell off
30 per cent, compared with 1902, and
railway receipts In the same district
increased. The ilanbor must be hauled
each ysar a greater distance to reach
the lake ports, and the railroads are
securing the business by lowering
rates.
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