Show WILD WEIRD ROMANCE A Moc Baa ia skeleton armi tho following tale from a moninna writer appears in a recent esuo of the pioneer press and in explanation the editor says every resident of montana and many visitors to the famous terri that tho belt mountains have always been tho icat of ahat in their numerous gulches and canyons have been picked up wonderful relics among the cu rious nry agati zed autian and teeth of all gigantic aiza gold ia lias been found in the lilt mountains and and even diamonds are shown as products of one or the other portion of the vast territory adjacent yesterday afternoon while sitting in the lobby of tho international hotel this city I 1 made the nc of a gentleman whom I 1 afterward learned was a gold hunter he was a tall broad shouldered man with a frank open countenance expressive black eye and a very convincing way of talk ing he bad been in montana since tiie early days of mining and told me many thrilling tales of the times that tried mens souls these stories he said that I 1 have just told you may strange to you bat if I 1 were to tell yon of a discovery that I 1 have made within the past month you would consider it stranger baill and not believe me yet it is as true as atie gospel I 1 told hun I 1 was prepared to believe almost anything nowadays and urged him to relate it for pub li cation but he at first declined to do so on the grounds that he did not want the facts to be known at present I 1 persisted and he finally consented on conditions that I 1 must cot repeat to any one here for at least two weeks what he would tell me why ho said if it was known here that I 1 have such a secret in my possession 1 would be watched night and day and I 1 could not return to kiy claim without having a mob of adventurers at roy heel who would not hesitate to jump my find and help me out of it at the point of a pistol I 1 want to make another trip to that place and alien I 1 return I 1 dont card ft ho knows roy secret I 1 assured him that I 1 would not make it known in any way that would injure him and then he retired to h u room where ho relate the following story it seema almost incredible but I 1 give it for what it is worth word for word as it was told to ne and will let the draw his own several weeks ago he began I 1 was prospecting in tho belt range of moun laing I 1 will not name the exact spot for chivous ica sons As I 1 was going through a narrow gulch keeping a sharp lookout avi float or detach nl quart my at was attracted by a peculiar depression in the ground a short distance up the side of a steep hill it to me as an excavation ca had been made there in a remote age of the world and think ing that it might be abo dump of some ancient mine I 1 carefully examined the spot and found what I 1 took to ba a stone wall protruding through the soil I 1 took my pick and shovel and cleared away the debris from the front of it and discovered that it was really a wall built ot huge blocks of granite four feet equal aa I 1 learned afterward the wall was thirty leet long and six feet high aa soon aa I 1 had the whole face of masonry from one end to the other thinking I 1 might cod a secret opening but my efforts were fruitless at length I 1 decided to clear the soil from the top of the wall and ascertain if possible what it bad been built for accordingly I 1 went to work and labored assiduously for beveral days without making any discovery worthy of notice then I 1 began to tire and felt that 1 care a straw what that mass of masonry had brea erected there for the prehistoric inhabitant ia now montana I 1 thought as I 1 leaned on the handle of cay shovel and gazed on the ground was not unlike socio of the gold hunters of this day the former built dikes of stone to leap mountains from emigrating which had no intention of doing ao and the latter burrows into hilla in search of precious prec ioui metals where old dame nature never hid her yellow stores As I 1 musing thus my ayea fell on what appeared to be a seam in the rock at my feet I 1 traced the scam around with mv pocketknife and that it wad an opening between the wall proper and ft granite blab eix feet lang and three feet wide I 1 hurried back to camp and procured ft crowbar and after considerable labor succeeded in rowing the stone under it was an opening leading down into he bowels of tho earth while I 1 was prying at the slab and trying to turn over a cime up from below and nearly stifled me and when I 1 was through with the job I 1 could scarcely stand I 1 lay down for a while under a tree close ly and goon recovered roy I 1 donn n chort dig tince but was compelled to come out again as the air aa very bad I 1 waited a while and then went to the camp and got a candle and bome twice I 1 attached the twine to the candle lighted it and lowered it down into the hole it went out before it readied the bottom at intervals I 1 repeated chii teat at length the candle buried brightly in the hole and I 1 knew that it was bafo to enter abo pit at least eo far ns lie air was concerned fo with a candle in luy hand I 1 decender dec ended anil began tr explore the ni cavern I 1 ilia as I 1 went down anil found there were juat twenty three of thein eighteen inches apart at the fool of the stairs on the left hand side ot alio passage lay the skeleton oan man of immense stata uro the skeleton measured ex acely 9 ezet C inches in height alo lay a few inches from the trunk and between the ano lay nuggets they sanin on a cioe gold wire and ranged from one ounce to tea in weight around the thigh arm and shin were other of eugate nu gate none of which weighed more than four at thia point the prospector paused put hia hand into his pocket drew out a friall buckskin sack and dumped its contents ou the table these aro some of the nuggets I 1 fondd on the skeleton said he there were about fifteen pieces of gold in the pile they were of many erent shapes none of them weighed over three ounces and each piece had a hole through the center on each aide of the skull he went 01 aa be dropped the gold back in the sack and replaced it in his pocket 1 I found some sort of precious stones they lay in a tiny golden basket and ft ere evidently worn in the ears as ornaments I 1 do not know what name to give them but I 1 believe they are rubies I 1 sent thero to an expert in new york city and told him to make me an off r for them if they had any value beside the trunk oi the skeleton I 1 found a copper ax with an edge harder and keener than any steel instrument of tho kind I 1 have ever seen ou the opposite side was a club made of the same metal as the ax it was shaped not unlike a baseball bat and was pretty near as large as one too under the trunk was a gold plate ten lung six inches wide and one eight of an inch thick it was covered with strange devices A little further on lay another skeleton that of a woman probably as the bones were much smaller than the other I 1 picked up a fi trint of nuggets near this skull alo they were perfectly round and exactly the same aiza chev weighed about three ounces apiece every now and then I 1 came to other skeletons and although by nearly every one of them I 1 found necklaces yet strange to say they were cluade of round copper balls and not gold like the first they will be valuable as relics I 1 think the catacombs cata combs as I 1 have named this passage is about three hundred feet SOD fourteen wide and thirty high and seems to have been cut out of the solid rock at the end of the gallery is a room sixty feet square and forty high in the center of this room stands a block of granite about twelve feet square and four hsih it seems as though the rock had been hewn out around it it is perfectly aguar and is exactly the same distance from the walla of the boim on every side are steps cut iu the rock leading to the top of the hall on top stands another block of granite ten feet long four wide and three high this is hollowed out in the adape of a human form I 1 lay down in this and though I 1 am not a small man by yet the mold was much to large for me around the room were scattered curious shaped vessel of which will hold twenty five gallons they arc very light yet tougher than wrought iron I 1 tried to break one of them by dashing it against tho granilo floor of the room I 1 not dent or even scratch it 1 I did not find all this out at my first visit for I 1 have been in the cave many times since then although I 1 gathered gathe up ounces of gold in the underground passage some of this I 1 have brought to town with me and I 1 hid the balance where I 1 can easly find it when I 1 want it I 1 would have brought it all with mo on this trip if I 1 had not had the mh fortune to loose roy horse it strayed off a day or two before I 1 left and though 1 hunted for it high and low I 1 could not find it and as my journey for several miles was through an ex cee rough country I 1 could not well carry any more than I 1 did 1 I covered up the excavation as well as 1 I could before I 1 left with pine boughs and do not think any one will find it before I 1 return again when I 1 have secured the grounds as I 1 intend to under the mining laws of the united states then 1 will be ready to point athla house of death to any who may caro to visit it TIdO COURTSHIP shap competition la till new york market berau thero ii a girl of astonishing loveliness who has just become engaged to a middle aged member of a certain yacht club anil if I 1 can believe alio etora that I 1 heard from the riyal of the achtman in the race for the 8 creatures crea favor the prize wai won in a decidedly unique and way the successful suitor owns a steam yacht and racing cutter on one recent when there waa a smart breeze blowing lie baj a little company take a spin with him down the bay aboard the cutter the beautiful prize made one of ho party and merry indeed was the baah out to aea and return to the jolly tinkle of banjos and the pleasant refreshment of champagne luncheon As the culler bobbed up the bay and into water the company wai sprinkled about the deok talking and Ki nging and havin a general good time the beautiful girl was lying back the mainsail mai neail near the moat to the compliments ments of the owner of the cutter who stood just forward of the mast suddenly and before any warning could be given the man at the tiller permitted the boat to lua thia brought the boom round with a rush the beautiful giri was swept without any ehrck whatever bleau off the rail and dropped with n splendid into the water without hesitation the yachtsman jumped over abo tiido and soon had the spluttering splutter ing girl grasped tightly in hla ardai in alofia tuna than it takes to tell it the boat was rounded up alongside of them and they were lifted dripping to the deck it was an act of and foolhardiness fool hardiness eaid the young fellow who lost the girl the old fox as willing to nak her lifo in order to place her under obligations to him but it is just she liaa promised to marry him but I 1 eldali be within hailing di stancu of her all bis cummer and if I 1 dont break the match then ill slay a bachelor the rest of my daya I 1 have one last resort v hen I 1 cant win her by honest attentions what is thai I 1 inquired startled at the insinuation 1 own that man at the wheel who let aba boat luff I 1 got him a place on the yacht of a friend of mine and ill pay liim if 1 find that hi testimony is needed it looks very much as though courtship in these latter days was into a science 1 1 til an american cottom new york there is a kind of freemasonry between smokers in the united states that I 1 have never seen in my own coultry cou said a canadian visitor to this city yesterday and the first time it came under my observation it annoyed me I 1 was on a central park bench smoking a cigar when a man approached me and said have you got fire there 1 I dont understand you I 1 replied will you give me a light he eald t dont think I 1 have a match left I 1 answered feeling in my pocket 1 I dont want a match he said your do reaching out his hand for my cigar I 1 felt rather annoyed at what I 1 thought his impertinence in trying to form my acquaintance and re plied 1 I have not the pleasure of knowing you sir and I 1 dont care to hav you handle the cigar I 1 have in my mouth anyway he seemed surprised at my refusal but eaid nothing since then I find every body does it here men accost an entire stranger use his weed to light their own say thank you and pasa on without the least inclination to start a conversation or any thing like that I 1 have seen the newsboy borrow a light from the merchant and a negro do so from a swell and it has even come to be a point of etiquette for the lender first to give a strong puff on his cigar to make it burn brightly and then knock the ashes off before presenting it there is no reasonable objection to it I 1 suppose as the part of the cigar that is put between the lips is not touched but I 1 never saw it at home that I 1 remember probably because wa looked upon cigars there as rather extravagant luxury anyway nearly all smokers habitually using the pipe it surprised me at first in this city to see everybody smoking cigars from the millionaire lio down to the car driver A dog choit for some time past those trudging home over the mountain about four miles eoula of this city late at night have seen strange sights and heard peculiar noises it appears that a largo black dog makes his appearance at a certain point along ehfe turnpike and walks with abo traveler until a well known mark baill further up the mountain is reached when he aud denly disappears as he came the dog utters no sound and betrays not the least show of either friendship or violence there are those who believe that the mysterious animal ia the materialized ghost of a murdered man as he invariably makes bh appearance at the exact spot of a tragedy there are a dozen men who claim to have encountered the dog at that exact spot some of them more than once they that they never pass the spot without a shudder and they hurry by the spook spot as fast as they can women never pass the place at night and many even make a wide detour to avoid it in the daytime advice to mothers soothing syrup always be lor children I 1 bootlick Boot lica the clillie clil lil alio guins allays caiti calir stul la the lett remely aar twenty five cent bottle it C aco falate agents at strati have bar outside and city property anh aril t ap pp lafit ot property before ilat A safe investment ii one ahli li 1 to was you or in anre 0 a of liane price on thin safe you i an buy aroot our ot airy oiry or it h til to rans in awn tints or spy w clort lucli iw 0 hilr ina whooping croup U it 1 pl canant and ta kaiui parr nate wv ran epou talal bottle ne haw he became famous A the iowa stays our old hubert alid ll id 0 iowa hm been of the state awn ate anil n 0 lor yeam lint known until he hail and colic cholera and and got into hiie ot their now lie ilare 1 lil bald while in lv aroln cn taken with a for att 0 IB n I 1 civil trying karins and balne them for allet nl let but in vl I 1 small battla lit chamberlain colic cholera and and two donig of that brought mo out all right I 1 it a crand remedy M nd CO cent bottle tor ale by win driver A son nil all leading IN THE AIS A in aba park when lh is san chronicle ill ilia park there 13 a that proves as deadly to animal life as eliat deatle valley of java where wild beasts perish by the score said henry W at llie palace hotel the other night the gentleman was connected with the party who surveyed the reservation under he leadership of arnold hague the park geologist while following alio streams 0 o brnca tha extinct liol springs the explorers readied a ravine in which the lonai of many an imala bears deer rabbits aej squirrels the presence of the remains caused the party much wonder and a solution of the strange abir was found only when a crow that bad been seen to fly from the eido 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