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Show THE NO. 47 AMERICAN FORK, UTAH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1SI7. VOL. IV CALIFORNIA JOE. (By W. P. Cody.) was acting aa guide to the Big Horn Mountain expedition agulnst the Indiana, of which Gen. Anaon Mills waa in command. One day we were marching along the very summit of the big divide between the Big Horn and the Powder rivers and came to a sadhalt to rearrange the dles and so forth. We were fully 400 miles from the living place of any human beings. So when all of a sudden we saw a man on the hills at a distance in the rear we watched him pretty sharply. He was on horseback, traveling quietly along in the same direction we were beaded. Gen. Mills asked me If I had any of my men out I had none, and we made up our minds that it was an Indian. As we drew nearer, however, I saw It was a white man, and In a few minutes I recognised my old acquaintance, California Joe. And a curious spectacle to behold he was. He was lookmounted on a tough, battered-u- p ing old bronco with a saddle that looked as though It might have seen service since the days of the s. His dirty buckskin leggings had been so shrunken by frequent wettings and dryings that they were drawn up above the tops of his boots and nearly to his knees. His boot heels were so worn down that they were nearly obliterated and his buckskin shirt was a maze of grease and dirt. He had a Navajo blanket and an old blue army overcoat strapped to his saddle, while on one side of the bronco there dangled a piece of raw elk meat. His rifle was an old Hawkins muzzleloader. Hello, Joe, I shouted as soon as be was within hearing. Where in the world are you going, away off here?" Oh, nowheres In pertlckler, he replied; Jest out fer a mornin ride. Gen. Mills and the officers had heard of Joe, and when I introduced him all around they greeted'hlm very warmly. They pressed him with questions and I did the same. But It was no use. We eould get nothing out of him save that he was Jest out fer a mornin ride," as he had said when I first hailN 1874 I pack-trai- n, -- Forty-niner- ed him. I said at last, Well, Joe. you want to go along with us? dont Waal, no. he said slowly; leastwise unless you've got some terbaccer. I don't travel with no Government outfit unless theyve got terbaccer. Tobacco was rather scarce In the command.but such of the officers as had any contributed their mite, and Joe was supplied temporarily and agreed to go with us. Ills knowledge of the country made him Invaluable as a guide, although he was generally trailing along behind with the soldiers, swapping his lies for tobacco for Joe was notorious expert at drawing the long bow. He kept along with us without event for several days, until rather late one afternoon, when we were nearing Cloud Peak, In the Big Horn Mountains. I had dropped back to ask Gen. Mills about how maqy miles further on we would go before camping, and found Joe, as usual, retailing a yarn for a chew of tobacco. While talking with Gen. Mills we noticed that the advance gnard had come to a halt and were examining something on the ground with every appearance of great Interest. It was an unusual thing for the advance guard to stop for anything, sa that our curiosity was greatly aroused to know what it was which they were looking at. It proved to be only a grave, but a grave made with such care, so beautifully and heavily covered with stones to keep out the ed that night, a few miles further os. kept a sharp eye on Joe's movements fully believed he would take the first chance to sneak off to that grave. I didnt know whether he had noticed) my- watching him and had given apt trying to slip away from me or not but pretty soon be gave me a wink and in a few minutes we were out of sight, talking together. Look here, Bill," he said as soon as we were' alone, do you want to seq some fun?", Of course I do," I replied. Well, then, you come along with me; we can make a sneak right now, said Joe. j But, I replied, dont we need anything? Don't we need a pick or" Joe looked at me with a grave, almost meltfncholly expression for a moment before he replied. Then he said ; slowly: N no.' I guess we can get along without any plek." He led the way and I followed. He started In the opposite direction from the grave, but, as I thought would be the case, he gradually began to circle around, until finally we were among some boulders overlooking the spot where the dust of the dead man was mouldering away among his buried treasure. It was a starlight night and we could see the gleam of the gray stones on the grave quite clearly. I was beginning to get quite In a fever to begin the resurrection business at once. Now, said Joe, you Jest squat yourself behind that there boulder fer a chile and youll see more dura fun than you ever seen in your life before, But," I said, what What?" broke In Joe. What? Why, Id less than an hour youll see half that camp come prowlin around here with picks and shovels and rlppin up the ground around that stone heap like a pack of pawin 'em. Then we thought about the broncos, buffalo hulls." Yes, but whrt dont we cut In now, and all I need to tell you Is that we X and get out the gold ahead urged, loaded down the broncos and loaded down ourselves with them gold nug- of them? Gold be durned." said Joe, congets until we couldnt carry another I never set eyes on that ounce. We threw away everything we temptuously. bad and could get along without and cussed grave afor tola mornin'. Before we had Well;- Joe was,ngLL took nuggets on In Its place. Then 'we struck out Our plan waa to get to been there half an hour shadowy forms the Missouri and then build a raft ancl began stealing In and out of the gloom. float down to St Louis, and we did, They eame singly, they came in pairs only when we got right where we are and they came in groups of three and now standing the man lyin' under them four, and such a clattering of picks stuns took sick all of a suddent and In and tossing of dirt as they made! two hours he was dead. We buried They dug up about half an acre of him and fixed that grave Jest the way earth before one after another, wheezyou see It now. Nothins ever touched ing and blowing with the work, knocked off and melted away in the darkit That Id swear io." Well," asked one of the officers, ness, out of which they had emerged, leaving a sulphurous trail of lanwhat did you do with your nuggets? Oh, I cashed mine in St. Louis, went guage devoted to old Joe behind them. to New York, and from there went to And how the old man did laugh-hold- ing his sides and grinding his face Paris. It was nearly two years before the last of it was gone. Then I got into the ground to stifle the noise. As for me, It was not altogether over to England and worked my way round to the Pacific coast on a sailin such fun as it was for Joe. I couldnt help thinking as I watched the lunaship. Gen. Mills' lips were trembling with tics antics that It was only an accisuppressed laughter as Joe wound up dent that I was not a conspicuous star his yarn, for he knew the old mans among them. Yet I would have had good company. reputation aq a liar. At last he conThere were officers among them as well trolled himself and said gravely: Joe, you said every man and every as privates. Joe died with his boots on. Somebronco was carrying all the gold possible." body shot and killed him at the Red Cloud agency in 1874. Thats the fact. Colonel. Couldnt have carried another ounee among you? continued the officer. Apprllte. Not an ounce," said Joe. is entirely distinct from Appetite case, the if Joe, thats Well, now, which may be painful In its what did you do with all the nuggets hunger, is Nature's intimation that it extent; that belonged to this man here in the something Is needed to supply the place grave? which has been used or taken That's Jest the pint. Colonel," said of that motion of the body, away. Every Thats Jest the pint Joe, eagerly. of the mind, wears away every thought What did we do with all that man's and uses up some particles of the tisnuggets? Why, we buried them with and unless other particles are sues, him and they are right there in that in their place the parts would supplied 8100.000 there grave now, and there's worn out and lose their strength, be worth of them If theres a cent. Tha's would cease to work. the and system wy Iv been lookin' fer that grave for s nature of Instinct, a in the the last twenty years; that's why I Appetite will not cease which faithful monitor, wouldn't tell you only that I was Jest until the want la supadmonitions its all when out fer a mornin ride you has been eaten. until something wanted to know where I was goin; plied, and most best The healthy appetite Is a me of in that's why it all bust out which inclines us to eat in moderthat I and seen I the when grave heap down on the ation when the regular time for eating slammed my coyote-ski- n If the appetite is voracious at last. comes. there and said Id got ground after day it is the appetite of disFully a hundred soldiers had caught day instead of gratifying it freeand ease, well enough of Joes yarn to be pretty stirred up by it, and notwithstanding ly we should curb it. The easiest way the old man's awful reputation as a to corrrect Buch a voracious appetite liar, the circumstances of his trium- as is sometimes connected with dysphant expression when he first caught pepsia, is to take half as much as usual, sight of the grave as well as his earn- eat it slowly, and in half an hour you feel that you are not hungry at all and estness of manner and the circumstanbad eaten enough. Persistence In this had this tial detail of his story all more effect even on some of the off- method will in a reasonable time break icers than they cared to admit, and up the voraciousness unless some othmore than one wistful eye went sneak- er cause ban dyspepsia is at the root ing back to the lonely grave when ths of it. order was given and the command reThe popularity of precious stones sumed its march. I wont deny that I was a good deal now Is the pearl first, the ruby secInterested myself, and when we camp ond and the diamond third. prowling wolves, that It told a very touching little sto ry of its own of devoted friendship. As w'e stood grouped about It Joe eame up. He looked at the grave for a moment, and then suddenly dashed his greasy coyote-ski- n cap on the ground, and In a voice that thrilled curiously in contrast with his usual listless drawl, he cried out: At last! It was some time before he would answer any of the questions that were fired at him, but finally. In response to an Inquiry by Gen. Mills, he said: Do I know anything about that grave? Waal, I reckon I do, bein' aa I helped make it myself." And then he told his story, slowly and with a good deal of dramatic power. The name he gave as being that of the occupant of the grave has now slipped my mind. The man in this grave." he said, was one of a party of us that was trappin and prospectin' ever so long ago at the mouth of the Columbia river; doin a little work for the Astors trappin and doin' a little work for ourselves trappin. But there wasn't no lead in sight up that way that promised to pan out, so we all allowed we'd strike back towards the Missouri river, prospectin' as we went along. We went through Idaho and Montana and worked along In western Wyoming. One day while we was goin' slowly along down a tributary of the Shoshone river, all of a sudden we see suthin glittering in the bed of the stream. Nuggets! That's what they was. Big and little yeller nuggets scattered around in the bottom of the stream. No man livin' ever seen the like of it We never stopped to bother about our broncos. We jest splashed Into that stream hands and feet and began clawin' out them nuggets. In lessn half an hour we had the bank heaped up and scattered all about with ; - ( ' . - Jack-kniv- es IS A VERY RAD ROY. FOSSIL IVORY IN ALASKA. StorlM of Uluura That Sound Llk VauiMm. A It waa quite the result of accident DESPERADO that what may be called the last home IS CAGED. of the mammoths for we can hardly live specimens Uttla Elmar Davis af Wabatar City, credit the Indian tales of became known to a FIVE-YEAR-O- L LD white man, says Iowa, Kacantljr Mada Away with a the Pall Mall Gazette. The redskins of Horae, m Hlrycla, and Tricycle and Kwaqulhuilette, a village on the YuAll In Oua Day. kon river, have long known of the epot, but of the value uf the Ivory have been totally Ignorant. They are silent men, Davis, live those redskins, except when liquor la years of age, Is the lu and it reqnlred long residence them, youngest criminal ' before a miner named them among ever dealt with ofheard of the treasure-trev- e George Hughes ficially In the state Illness kept whereabouts. and Its of Iowa. Within a man a prlsonei at Kwaqulhuilette this few days he stole a year or two ago. Aa he recovered he a horse and buggy, to learn many of the Indian a bicycle, a tricycle began and ways partially mastered the lanand a quantity of of the particular tribe he waa guage household goods. with. His attention was attracted to At the request of Ivory ornaments the natives wore, his parents he was sent to the State the and he noticed that even their rude Reform School at Eldora. articles were made of the same Until a year ago the family resided dining IIo induced the Indians to material. In Webster City, says a dispatch from show him the place whence came the that place. From here they moved to took several days hard Marshalltown. The father of the boy Ivory. It to reach the spot. But the sleighing is an Industrious snd respectable man, who takes great pride in hia children. reward was worth the work. The miner saw what no white man had ever be.They are always dressed neatly. If not fore witnessed. There on this plain, richly, and the whole family Is good were hundreds looking. Little Elmer la the next to frozen to the ground, of gigantic of hundreds skeletons and the youngest, small and very bright Until a short time ago there was noth- beasts, and scattered everywhere were ing out of the ordinary in hla condui t. the tusks white and gleaming with He waa regarded as a promising child, frost. This was undoubtedly a gravejand waa a great favorite with the boys yard of mammoths, and the miners and girls of hla neighborhood. His fancy pictured it also as s battlefield, bright eyes and curly hair never failed for lu some Instances the tusks of one animal were found buried in the skeleto attract the attention of passers-bton of another. But this Is not the only Hla parents loved him devotedly, and had no thought that bis where the Ivory has been found. place precocity Creek found on Sixty-Mil- e would take such a One miner turn. startling When the family lived here the little a tusk of a mammoth that projected fellow was much admired by the neighseven feet out of a hank. The lower bors, and the parents were highly es- end was burled In frozen soil. Yet anteemed. When the report came that other came across a tusk he could the boy had developed Into a thief, scarcely lift, while a third who came those acquainted with the family could down from Klondike the other day not account for It and could hardly be- told of a mammoth tusk found close to lieve It to be a fact When the report the already famous Bonanza creek. It that he had been committed to the Re- Is, perhaps, not strange that no one has form School at the request of both of brought down any of this Ivory, but. his parents was confirmed, people could some of the adventurous men out of only wonder. Several weeks ago the the thousands who have gone to the hoy developed a mania for thieving. arctic gold fields will perhaps return He was not at all particular about with tusks, ft Is not much to be exwhat he stole. The first thing that he pected, however, as the more Ivory one happened to farey would mysteriously carries the less gold one can bring disappear, and would finally be found and, besides, these miners may In hia possession. At first he confined down, been have romancing. That Is hardly his operations to his fathers house, but to be believed, however, seeing that when he commenced to appropriate and several who had no connection with secrete the property, of the neighbors, each other told of tusks. there was much talk and the parents of the boy were deeply mortified. When THREW AWAY Trig (SAME. he capped the climax by stealing a horse and buggy and other articles, ItrcMiia Ha Dliln't Want lira Old Maa'i Uiithtir. they concluded It was high time to reSome one had Just read a story of sort to more drastic measures than cor- two men who had played a game of poral punishment, and so turned him cards for the hand of a girl, says the over to the tender mercies of the state. Detroit Free Press. I never believe such yarns, declared one of the listenHYSTERICS ON WHEELS. ers. Some fellow just Imagines and Teesllar Hallucination, of Bicycles Be- then writes them up. coming a Recognised Disorder, This was the cue for the man who Bicycle hallucinations are becoming had seen much of the world before seta recognized nervous disorder," said a down. "I saw two men play for a doctor to a reporter for the Cleveland tling bride once. I was down south as a sort I know of half a dozen of Plain Dealer. companion and body guard for an cases or more. One woman came to Invalid who was traveling through the me and claimed she couldn't ride on a mountains on horseback. A storm street where a street-ca- r line was In kept us for three at a place w here days operation. Every time a car came the daughter of the house was one of along she had a wild impulse to topple those stately beauties you occasionally over toward It. She simply couldn't find the mountaineers. One of among help it. Another woman said that her own people wanted to marry her whenever she rides her wheel she has and her affections were centered on a an idea that somebody is Bcorching shrewd young Yankee who was down close behind her. She feels the scorchl here for some purpose he kept to himer's presence and expects every mo- self. Both suitors happened there (he ment to be hurled to the ground. If one evening during our presence, the she rides in company with friends she native called the girl's father doesn't notice the unpleasant sensa- young aside and after he had declined to let to comes but her again as soon it tion, as she is alone. A man came into my the two fight for his daughter it was a game of old sledge must office a few weeks ago and said there decided that her determine fate. 1 sat behind the was something wrong with his eyes. while the father was at the Yankee, I looked at them and they appeared all right. He told me that whenever shoulder of the man he favored. One he mde hla wheel and he waa very game of seven points was to settle the fond of riding the ground began to fateful controversy. I noticed that my man played inslip away from in front of him and the but luck was with him and differently, whole landscape seemed to curl up and it kppt on curling aa long as he he had six points to his opponent's five. rode. I fancied I knew what ailed him. On the deal my man got the ace and He watched his front wheel too closely. deuce, which made him a winner, and I told him to sit up strafghter and to I was about to congratulate him, when keep hla eyes off the wheel. I guess I he gave my leg a squeeze that went to cured his malady, for he hasn't come the bone. ' What have you for high?' he asked. baek. I have another patient, a young King girl. When she rides she trembles vioWhat for low? lently and this Imparts a trembling Four spoL' motion to her wheel. It doesn't appear ' Shes yours. and the voice was sad. to exhaust her, hut she 1b very much worried because she can't stop it. I Nervously shuffling the deck, he conthink she will outgrow the tendency gratulated the beaming young mountaineer. Not a word now, he said, as she gets older and stronger. when he got me alone. I didn't want Ifad I said so the old man would 9 her. Twenty years ago England had male and 14,901 female school hare taken it as an Insult. Had I .teachers. Last year there were 66,310 wanted her and won her I would never female, and only 26,270 male teachers. have lived to marry any one. LMER y. 11,-1- |