| Show EMPIRE SENS IN ROBBED BOBBED Between and Carried Out of the Claim maim Grass Valley Vally Union One of the most daring cring robberies in inthe inthe inthe the history of any mining town was perpetrated at the Empire mine about ten days ago the news of which leaked out only yesterday No N publicity was given to the affair by the management I but a detective was wan at Lt t once onee put to toI work to ferret out the guilty parties I and to recover the missing property if it possible All 11 efforts in this thi direction however have failed tailed but nothing will wiIl I be left undone in probing the matter to the bottom Jn In a raise in tn one of the drifts recent ly Jy the richest looking ore ever encountered encountered encountered in this famous amous old mine was un uncovered uncovered Uncovered covered by a blast blent The ledge exposed was wag about six feet long and end four inches wide In calling it a Jewelry box it was well twell named nam indeed That the prin principal principal I cipal owners of the mine might see it itin Itin itin in its natural state te t Superintendent Starr determined to let It remain in place until they could Arrive from San Francisco to view it The bonan boD U was not for them how however however ever eer although althou their own property yielded elded it Some ne parties knew of its location and hazarding h iD 1 their lives a week ago la last t Sunday tb they y broke through a e th d Jn 1 an tun tunnel tunnel nel and t tied feet fe fe t before they got to t To reach reth the drift they had fo 1500 10 feet te and beyond thi a distant of t feet teet in inthe inthe Inthe the drift drifty tuy the treasure t estimated to be worth from to The plunderers had no n 0 tools of their own I evidently for fo they used the drills putting in two holes to blast out the treasure r re The blasts blate were heard by the and his assistant but I they never for an ap instant thought a robbery was being perpetrates In all I it is estimated that about ut III pounds of the richest part of ot the ore was taken I and much was left behind which they could not carry away and which Is also very rich The penalty for the crime is severe and it will doubtless go bard hard with the guilty parties if It they are |
