Show COMPELLED TO DEED HIS GROUND AWAY Rhyolite Nev March 16 Frank liar Har rig ris known in every eer mining camp as Shorty Short and the man who I the first mine in the Bullfrog district has arrived In Rhyolite from Emigrant Springs in Death valley valle with the story stor of oC a holdup In which he hp was forced at the point of pistols in the hands of Jack Sweet and Ralph Williams to sIgn ign a quit claim deed to the Bullfrog Miner Uner lode and the Bullfrog Miner lode No Xo 1 Harris Harri who bears a good reputation In the Nevada camps and is known as ns an industrious sober miner filed an affi at f I davit with the Wild Rose Ros recorder to forewarn any nn intending purchaser of the properties in question that he would file suit to have the quit claim deed set aside Harris said saidI I was prospecting in the th Wild Rose district in May 1906 1106 and camped near Jack Sweet Alexander Alexandr Goodfellow and Curt Cirt Miller We Ye were not partners and Sweet who ho was in the country on a grubstake pulled out and reported it no good I located the claims in question and when I came in with Ith my m specimens Sweet claimed that lie he had iren mt yn m in ey C to look after hrs his interests and nl to t cut him in on anything I staked I have wit nesses to prove proc that he lie did not do so On the night of ot March 7 1907 1001 I 1 was in Jack lodging house in Emi Emigrant Emigrant Emigrant grant Springs and Sweet anu anti Williams came into my room at midnight and de demanded demanded demanded that a quit claim deed and acknowledge the payment of 1000 I T was unarmed and they called Jack Hartigan Into the room to witness the signature while another man in the next room heard ever every cery word of the conversation n and Williams threats Hartigan will sweat swear to the truth of or my m statements for Cor I signed the deed at the point of a revolver Now I intend to fight the case Williams Is a bad man even for the desert country lIe He has shot up a town or two and not long aco ao a o forced a Gold field contractor named Bund Bundy to dance while Williams pumped lead Into the floor around his heels Harris story Is borne home out by b Hartigan |