Show MINING FINING SENSES E early arb octora in nevada 0 I 1 passed through n man m I 1 i eq c and the L litter glitter of d taw I 1 I 1 I 1 V A leri tible vilot vil ot of 0 1 i JI 4 ta t these treas treasure ii seekers et one ode oi alt ti w A p h had id 0 o k kib ib 1 a n lit it 0 t to r I 1 a vivid stanza in ill thu the life ili history akly of the itla it la tor earl in the pring pr iii of if 1 43 T a ailt i lt of allee isaid adventurer I 1 froin district nevada with tile 11 w 11 pion plo jit atols outfit intending to strike the ahli abolila riv ri er the prudent re eist bite ol of bettt e A ii i idaia after velling travelling tra nir c prospecting for it a couple of days they arrived a 1 little after dork abc it a number of i prin rings sin roun rounzel lel by baish es near the present ovation location of leis utile lk day dav iad had been I 1 unusually 1111 lwe N t 0 A iu arld and tile sight of the cool vater a welcome one to the exhausted men who A ho it at once decided to camp aa a sd set about prep preparing tring i mag i i eji japp 1 1 of vv k ite it a s uta hied joi caking cookii cH king jg and loth both man and livorse partook took alund aptly of the cool water crater which the pi s ed to each other ifcher had a taste water they also iio noticed that there ther wils was a ai disagreeable disi 9 I 1 able smell sidell around their camping ground whit 11 they atti attributed to tho the dead bod of a coyote cavote not far fron the gifter supper over the tired nien men rolled thein themselves selve in tiei their blankets and were nvere soon sleeping M the sleep of the innocent at the follow v ing 0 ra morning orning they went down to the springs for a wash and a cool drink when to their horror they yaw saw the decomposed body of in an indian whom they discovered had head died of smal loox pox lying iving M in iii the witter water about half a dozell doen feet fl aiom il the pl pi ice whence chev w had obtained the alie water wate the th emht 0 beaole A further investigation reve revealed aleI the fact that four other indian bodies were lying in the springs a i short distance irom froll tile the one abt discovered all beau bearing ing c the unmistakable marks of the mallox mal pox scourge u which abich they after afterward waid learned from a number of Sho shoshone shoshoni shoni indians who approached their camp lud had nearly populated depopulated de their vintage one ot 01 the indians upon dropping his blanket revealed to the horrified horri lied tied Z gaze nt t the ora his body covered with putrid running sores resul resulting tint from froin the dread desense di sense s aiom 0 in r m miracle i r acle tile white man inan cac aipel the acton contagion and made all haste to leave the plague stricken springs but the experiences of that tit ovit r tt s ta I 1 b iny day left an 11 u until the day of their death silver ih ianiri ir niri nv nev iu in S i L stock ex cabane D |