Show A MinIng Camp Tragedy The basin in the mountains where I Bayhorse Is built does not appear to me to exceed ten acres in area Houses are d i built close nst the se Against mountain on L either side to make oie narrow street possible < ann at each extremity of this I short street the mountains close in cutting cut-ting off allextension of the town The I buildings are close and the noise of the I saloons and other places of business I ascends to heaven like the growl of wild I beasts in a menagerie The buildings I i are of pine boards there is not a plastered plast-ered room in the place so that the whole village is a resounding gallerya Babel of unceasing and unmelodious sound The five quick shots from a revolver which followed one another in swift succession on fheevening ofL the day of my visit were heard by the entire population popu-lation of eight hundred people It was said that a man had shot his wife and then killed himself She was wounded but lives the man died in a few hours Kate Cunningham was never Al Per ins wife though the was known as Roy Perkins sne was born in Utica and at the age of eleven was left motherless moth-erless At twelve years old she was provided with a stepmother and to escape home miseries at thirteen years old she married If a man could be meaner than her father Cunningham was meaner so at the age of fourteen she left him and became a wandering Magdalen At fifteen years of age she became a mother Shortly aftsr this she attached herself tp the fortunes of Perkins a saloonkeeper and then she found a man who could be even more brutal and devilish than her father or husband Per MUS t treatd her like a dog and yet because lie hated the life of shame she was leadingand wanted a home she was faithful to him Wnen he became so desperately bad that one mining camn would tolerate him nolongerhe tramped to another taking along with him the patient Roythe Kate 01 earlier days But when tbey reached Bayhorse Roy would have nothing more to do with him and for this Perkins tried to kill her When he bad emptied three chambers of his revolver at her and thought he had killed her he fired two shots at his own head one of which was fatal The child one of the1 most beau tiful boys even born iritonhisworld shame satiby ana saw and heard it all Thenvounded woman needed cafe but instantly every door in Bayhorse behind which a woman lived was closed against her It was rough miners who carried Kate Cunningham tOtlie little school house and made her a bed on the floor there and it was their nara earned and freelygiven gold that hired physician physi-cian nurse and all that was needed for the erring womans comfort They cared nothing for what because of Per I kins wretched remains When you want charity rockbot tom charity not formulated in theologies theolo-gies or consecrated by Churchly bap ttism but springing 10nt 6t some corner I of human nature not defiled by the fall yon muSt look in a mans heart for it not in a womans Idaho correspondent correspond-ent New York Graphic |