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Show Ill's MIL IKll.Llll. H ONI. OV Till: 8UIIMVUIC10F TIIR DON. mM M II 1 Alllk AND Ills ICL'I 1CJ. H A gray.beardod, weary looking man H of giant size eimu down from Callsloga H yesterday and reglsteied ut tbu Ittiss BBH house, says the Han 1'rancUoo rani- H frier, lis had with him a ecullar H looking bug of bucksklu, which ha mMM handled larefull), aa though its con- H tents warn of rlceless valut, aud did not rest contented till thu yellow bag HHBJ waa In thu safe 1 lie old man was W. C.flravcs, and H his llfu has been an eventful oue, Ho H was one of tho celebratod Donuer pirty, who weru lost lu thu Hlerrasiu H thu ttrrlblu winter of ISli) 7 whllo H trying to reach California, suffering H unheard-oi prlvallons. Out of ninety- H I eople forty seven iierlshed from cold H and hun.rr. The party came lo a stop MMM 011 theodgo of Dotiner lake, November 1, 181), and It was Maroh fi, or four B mouths nod four days, bsfora all thoso yet allvuBtartuI away, HHBJ Mr. tlraves was at thu tlmu 18 years HHBJ old. He started out about March 1 HBBI with the nrst relief party. His father HJHJI had revlously died while trying to ' H get rellof, lieforu his mothur started SHJB with thu remaining emigrants on 'MMm Maroh IS shu hid what silver money BBBai MMM Hlward Ileynolds, a prospector for gold qusrtz, found tbu sliver coins two H yesra ugo, after tho long Interval of forty-two yiars. Air, Uravea secured BJBB them and thoio wiru what hehadla BHBH his yellow bag Tluy consist ol over B one hundred coins, nt tho value of H ;lo A majority aro SO cent (It cis of MMM thu UultoJHiotes Ilesl les thoau there H aru Mexican dollars, llollvlan, 1'rencb, JHBIHJ llelglan, West Indian uud Argeutluu BHBJ BHBH The old pioneer told how his mother MMM dttd In the mountains on her wuy nut H and alluded graphically to their lm H prisoumeat lu tho mow. HHB M 1 LWM |
