Show A THE ROMANCE OF GOLD fate of tho the men who discovered somo of the great Amer american ioan mines I 1 I 1 lei I 1 d belief islan ilin old one that unless the discoverer di coverer of a camp calup meeting tin nn untimely or blood 0 bloody O I 1 end lits his find wilf never a I 1 n munt 3 u n t ta td anything g gi nit and d aliis seems borne or I 1 0 n by facts since nearly all the discoverers of 0 flie g great real gold the united states with but deive few exception caption cep tion lieve as aa the saying iliff 0 goes died with their boots bof af thi I 1 ty eight booming towns in ill tile earl early das days s the locators of twelve were killed by bullet three vere A re hurich lied in lt cir creations barcai bj abak I 1 ns li tiuis 7 the be rest drifted away IT with the he lide of immigration i mini gration have lot in oblivion or jirl died rind luul verc burica in ia graves george ge II if ferver irom from whom tile the celebrated J iyer hill of leadville derives its mainc died it at denver deliver not loll 1011 long ngo ago from nil an overdose doof do of morphine by OR h awu years pre ioni to l li wai troi th it a million or so but lie he died a pauper and aind nl id inot without ft a fri friend cull old virginne Vir ginny after eliom tle the Consolidate il virginia was wag named and who sold his claim for 23 25 a ITO lony 1 nud and a bottle of whisky came hy to ina 1 1 1 death by an all overdose from a 0 intile near dayton nov ney nill hailie the hie discoverer of the treat great standard nine mine ill mono Cout ity california slept iiii his life awny away in ili a i snowstorm torin while making itis his wa to tile mines I 1 colonel story who gave liis his name to the ouno connly in nevada where the Co comstock was killed in battle by the pyramid lake indians page comstock Com tock died 1 ii I be beggar bear ar in ill a strange all old pancake ag af lie was k known in the lul milling tIll e cahim s committed committe tl suicide at it I 1 3 M T 1 on oil sept 27 by shooting him s ei f ile he wils was tile lie lender of the famous firo ous bio aig uig 0 horn expedition i tion that was wai sent out by la 11 au 1 in search of file lost cablik Ti 1111 iiii I 1 I 1 N 0 1 linol to lie herce among t the it C ilig horn mountain the exi expedition I 1 edition wi yas 1 a 1 failure and alid couls comstock to cl will liter from disappointment or oni eother cause while encamped camped eti near doze drove n 11 pistol thio liall his lis head beia and all d lied died instantly lie ile was buried there and his grais gr geniti niti unil laili ed unit unknown near lie wild s pot where twelve years before buforo file lie hidden treasure e of alder aider gulch was rei repealed rescaled caled to him william il linin 1 wi was laid down 10 aft like boltl pon ike his is soul strauder straud ed on oil file lie sheils of di thou it each c icci ill 11 his lay had a lag keg the one silver the ali biller dell which hiril unlocked millions for others other but nothing for themselves willi biant ain I 1 farrell birrell who struck bealow leid nw lake died a 1 victim to remore ili one of the le leading aling lio of sin san fraucisco fl alcisco I by tile the spirits of 1000 deluded pioneers and prospectors spec tors passing and ili his dying r led bed the locator ot 0 if tile the famous in tile the black hills is said to have hare afterward turned road agent acut going liard hard with bill hi ce attempted to to atop 1 a I biage ina loaine led land arid prepared for forout ILIA jut inch buch emergencies and lie wa wai plat ed alon alongside gide by the lie tenderhearted express agents whom lie had blied flied to rob and kill floater oi of the alie homer district followed in ill the suicidal buic idal I 1 lacks sit Couls alter squandering 1 I i small fortune lie shot his brains out in ill tile sit acts of sin sall francisco Dougli Doughi mt nut ili bill old eureka ke kalse ie austin lloyd L 10 magruder ma Mn gruder ruder nine ine niile clark georgo eo go 41 henry ilum mer and beur ii of others died violent death in ill one way or orn another nother and reaped nothing from ohp rich 1 bluds each had made in liis his day bill was planted in the lie lonu lone blount mountain ain in utah tit in ISM IS SS a lone 0 craic dundei it 11 white pine tree in ill 1 I flunt ler mining milling town to of california tells telli where bold old eureka sleeps beeps lii ilk lat babl sleep kehe I 1 austin wati was killed and buried in elcho county nevada fifteen scars iya uder ruder while conducting bU P ii aluni I 1 er ot or WA wagons OUS loaded with treasure from city lo the hie ric areat railroad waa murdered and robbed by liis his teamsters team stem who were wem Nun inicis outlaws in disguise george Il ankinson ibison and v crr li up 01 ly I 1 3 1 vii I cantes and strung iiii T tholet le e and for 1 W ai lily of a trial I 1 1 1 u T umer was a icat rascal in ili the early en r I 1 days of the mining a camps C of was elected sheril tile cainie abent virginia city tie lie was the first locator of the rich ground about virginia city ind and though lie could make more inore money and quicker too in by tabing tali nj blat was wad already mined than by 1 ja buring ill lag auh day after day daiy ind and getting it by ja haid dionest toil lint lie was tr tripped PC up at luif and died a crin cringing Ini coward on oil a gallows of liis his own froni from tile benver news ACIM |