Show A WILD LIFE w i 00 je or 4 oft n WM a time a a alineN no words of mine can describe tho the thenon that were enacted during tant chaotic period thou sands and of men organized in band bands or wholly holly disorganized were arrI from crory part of constantly tho the world and lawe laws leaving for tho tile digging digg pIgs oat and gamblers opened saloons where by tho the bloore nt at acry cry point men money was scattered e ci er where nai as if by the wind minor who had realized fortunes fortu noe la in a fow da a camo came down to stockton sacramento sac ra and ban Francl to squander thorn them in n night dl at tho the tables gambling gum bling scarcely a woman was any uny whore to bo be peen all restraining in fluentes fluen cos ces of society were absent and I 1 cannot find an bottor bulled to tho tile case than 0 1 a on ca frolic ae As thoro thera were no vives th thre re cou could id bo be no homes or Pm philles illes A low etorla had boen been hastily put up the shore mado made of rough board hoards or cam can aa as and ull of them ere tolas an enor 1 a tho the re rest ilot ot the tho villao const of sh ehin tio or tents used to f 0 restaurants resta and a Bi loans human life was a moving pan orami iho ilia whole place wae was aar nil a with a mus of unkempt men chul clad in flannel shirts and heavy boota boots who ho were inspired with theono the ono desire to hurry to tho the aminat 1 ihle I 1 ills rough life guinot A wo not without wit holit its touches of sentiment ono one day tho the town was electrified by tho the rumor that an tin invoice of women bonnets had ar at rived and could bo be own at ono one of tho tile stores tho the excitement wa wai intense In and thoro there was a rush from every direction to got a realistic tow low of oven even 60 insignificant a substitute for remajo society eo cloty I 1 do not tho the truth in saving that tho the tho tights of homo home that were awakened ic it tho the breasts of tho the rude rudo looking men nt at tho eight sight of choso bonnies tears from eoa e ci which tho corat forma forms of privation and hardship had to rcola M distort ton tho the christian flan mission try wai already on tho the ground and goal parson williams had managed to had anil a place where ho he could pro on bunda bunday ono one of tho the first men who arrived with bla his family camo came to ono of those meetings atten dol by his wife and baby during the sermon it chanced that tho the baby cried and the mother was about to withdraw when tho the preacher addressed her thus my good woman I 1 beg be you to remain the innocent sound of that infants wico 1 Is more eloquent than any words I 1 can command it speaks to tho the hearts of men whose whoso wives and chil children drea aro are far away looking and praying for a eato safe return to their own loved ones bt at home never shall I 1 forgot forget tho the sobs and tears which those wards evoked throughout that rough assembly the infants cry seemed to them the music of angels with choso who made san francisco 1 nry abode gambling ap feared to bo be tho the chief occupation abd spanish monte the favorite game ono housa frontin fronting if on the plaza a two story framo frame building called th tho parker house rental for per annum the rental being paid mostly by gam blera alera A dinglo store of email small dimensions and made of rojah h boards rented routed for 3 a month A canvas tent used as a ga ing saloon rented for per annum albney was loaned on good security at fifteen per cent a month and out of tho the loan the borrowers made fortunes in n real estate op operations orations tho the century magazine |