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Show Nee St a uZ. Far- ; existencé at what is now-knownas Rich Bar, on the Cosumnes river. Like all other mining towns, a galoot: (or, more properly, then called Gatog shop) was almost the first house healt is as White-as Alpine snows, let a summary justice bring a saBt retribu- {San Francisco Examiner.) ugo,a litle mining camp sprung into |Montezemvas Tt eticti fifaces- tien wee | furmerly stood, in their Exstern home knew: naught uwell at the REEB ps ig 3 *“OSMOPOLITAN - Restaurant, LEVY, -------eecee cence Proprietor At this popular Wines, Are resort none —STAMN Rooms attached SALOON,—hy & Tom to the B: arty Landt -Uppper Main tal of their dreadful deeds, Could they have covered tp their crimes and kept aloft from suspicion, they doubt- less would havecived Quirk, The ey Street. MARKET, Beef etc. by Marshal and SACoHBY ED. THOMPSON, S all Prop'’r. FURNISH NOW PREPARED TC The kinds of liquid refreshments. Dest brands of -,. is f LIQUORS 1 AND CIGARS. ‘EXCH ANGE SALOON, on Main Street, Reef, A. Levy, propricror, ooo CABINET SALOON, Main Street, “Salt Lake bottled beer_on ice. EB Finest Ed. Thompson, Proprietor, Billiard Table in the City. Weiss Brewery Silver R€ef, Utah. Welte’s BREWERY, vilion, Main and Pa- Peter ‘ The CAPITOL Satoon ir situated House on Main. and run by Main Street. PIONEER, : BiL. LIARD capes peng teenies Jupp Brothers, situate on Lower the only Blacksmiths are alwayeon hand. and Main 8t; Wagon’ Repairers _ ELK HORN SALOON, Wines, Liquors’ and Cigars by ‘i HALL, GEORGE MIULER. | Paygmepaa SaLoon, Main Street, John Fordman proprictof. Ai eon The Slcecar Billiara FeAl) x takanges, Biller ped. Reel. Taetes fm tho Territory, JHE BEST | wines, Liquors & CIGAR S one Dbtaingble ‘in the First Class UNITED STATES. J.B. CASSIDY, jesanore and Gikerr. Merase "enw Main St. Bilver Keef, on. hand, ichas ROU alti BEAR. b oan aA deta | used. leting the murderers escape a summary justice they so rigidly deeerved. Many a man has beeu buteh‘ered and stowed away’ fo dark reces- Wien: Cassipy, AM NOW PREPARED TO SUPPLY | J. H. the Trade. Powilics, cand the public gerise. ocoes erally, with « Choice Article oc Beer, by a ld the Keg. Quart ‘or Bottle. eer delivMartin KEELER, Barber’ end Toneorial Arered ifee to any part of Silver Reef and adjaecnt viciuities. “2a fist, next door to the Pioneer Saloon on ag The Dancing Pavilion the Brewery “fe at all times at the service of the pub’* * for the purposes of social recrestion.-@® Wo improperx characters tolerated. PRTER WELTE. out, Street; by Street above the Harrison ee DANCING the pole of an axe or hatchet had been and died with- outseny one dreaming that sueh ateul blemish could be upon their character but in their longing for filthy Jucre, they perpetrated awful erities, drenching their hands in the blood of their murdered victims. ‘Their clumsy effort at concealment betrayed them, aud suspicioned, they tled, to be pursued, and ris said, caught ait shot to death only’a few score miles from where they committed their great butchery, ‘y 4 Many such crimes as. those of the senders have been committed in California, shrewdly planed and-earried. Reef, CABINET SALOON, olds whose daughter she- claiing to be- [Tt happens there is- no ‘such Senator.]The goods were sent, we believe, but the owner made inquiry and ered up. One of the three had his ‘iseovered the fraud that ‘had been = skall breken by: some blunt iastrapractived upon him and got back. his ment, causing one to éurmise that. -property. The confidence game was the people’s bivod curdles at the reci- Main Sueet. Cigazs over the bar to patrons, ter Private Ciub eetublishment. a Mrs. the day $1. but the choicest Liquors and dealt ty ersigicicncncne oF Grama, Meals 50 cts; board by ses; some buried in holes, $145: worth of fine goods sent to the, Western Hotel for. Senator Reyn- others thrown into caves. Some were cast duto deserted prospect holes, fitled The teeth in each next tried'on Dale & Co., from whom the girl got a pair of vases on pretense oue were good, giving evidence that they were young men, Many years ago, when this vamp was in full blast, three young men who were, partners, lived bere in a cabin by themselves, were supposed able money, to have of having been sent for them by Sister Vincent, of St.Joseph ’s Convent. Then. she hired out in the family of 0. Cronkite as a domestic, and 800n suc ceeded in robbing her erpployer of They had-consider- and were talking’ ef go- ing to their Atlantic ome. AN of a’ sudden they disappeared, no one knew where or. whither they goods; but in the rush of that day of gold no one stopped to see to his neighbor, but, allured oby the enchantment that with water, and sieep the’sleep that gleamed like a-specter in his pathway knows no waking, telling no tales res looking neither to right nor left, only vealing no facts. One of such inci- for gold did men seek or care. Doudtdences I am about to relate. It hap- less, those threeskeletons which:have pened at the bove name! -plice so long ago that the oldestinhabitanc of that early villiage has forgotten with a few exceptions, all facés and almost all names connected with the early history of the place. As [ have said, it was thirty or more years go since a large frame building was built upon Rich Bar, being divided into four different departmente(kitchen, dining-reom sleep ing departments and stloon.) This building passed into the hands of gev- money, house could no suspicion attached to any of pect hole are the bones of another in be respectable, away sole hope that may succeed and Sacramento, City who who loitered round the Bar, riding the merchant’s horse toward decraag the: mento on the very day: the merehant No was said to have gone to Sacramento voice came from its doorway, saying: relic of the buried past. himself. The, desperado soon. after left that’ vicinity; ,and when fast heard from was under-arrest for horse-steal- “Tam tottering by decay; my owners have deserted me, but dilapidated: though [am, beneats my ruing could I relate it, isa-blood-curdling history. Here lie the victims of Jastardly mur| der—dead, murdered, buried, and ing in the State of Nevada; Perhaps this man could tell something re- |. garding the skeletons just found if he would.’ If he was not the:murderer they have slept these thirty years or he inay be an at¢complice.~ So many 4 more in this narrow compass, motion- years have gone by since the perpe- | Yaya * wy *y in this line for one the was for a long there found. She- issaid to cher relatives or in’ reforming her. As the gold fever died the old house the money would store. The girl, at an adreas ina neat no snch numbered friends its owners; they were all supposed to suid they saw a notorious characyer, | time deserted, standing heard of her age. The name of the girl is withheld for pradential redsons and man, a merchant of the place, -who disappeared just as mysteriously. He sturted (or it was so supposed he had) for Sacremento on horseback.: He pai about $4, 000 upon his person. . His horse wis found ina Jivery stable in Sacramento, but he hineelf was nev- Bar be and is a prodigy just been so unexpectedly exhumed by Mr. Ball are all that remains of | the three missing young men—murdered for their, money, Probably hid away in some _pros- Rich last victim be simply perfect in her methods ‘of winning the confidence\of people, eral parties, the last ofthose who er seen or heard of after, he was supowned it inthe early days being dead. /posed. to have left: the Bar. 'There|) together with ‘all his family. ‘There were men along the road. between was The had gone,’ mother was suited he brought to the his request, wrote handwriting, but Their household utensils, together with their beds and bedding, trunks, clothing, ete., remained in their eabin undisturbed, Had such an oecurrence happened in this recent day, suspicion would have at once heen sroused at leaving so abruptly, and especially not disposing of. any if their household $2in of is Bs Lasky. The. girl entered his ‘jewelry store, and purchased a number of articles, stating that if her * EET. pasts 460d hes SILVER: sl le 4g the largest Hotel in Hurrisoa, + ee ny | HOUSE. the Reef by P. Ther is no telling how maby crimes were eomtnitted in California, ia early days, under the miduight, darkness in such. shapcd hole, each one occupying a dens, to remain as deep i im giyoun and) corner, their fe et being together, their Leails drooping to the center, apparmystery as nignt itself The Benders in Kansas were, ap- ently as if the hole was to small to prehended in their bloody work and contain them, anid they were jammed fied to escape justices and even now downward so that they might be cov- os a5 yEghercs onan pa | HARRISON. eo unhonored grave. ber of persons. She w eut tothe store of J. C, Gloveron Eighth strett, a week or 80 ago ard got $470 worth’ ‘of goods upon the skeletons. of threa men, by ‘representing herself to be the Upon examihing more particularly, daughter of N. Greene Curtis: At he found they had been buried in a Vj Ziemer‘s store ond strtreet, she ordered fn eee “ Rass und Main Street. : f *s : Suolons, » A. ; : fas MAIN-STE Koom. gant. , 1 gar Notary Pablic in the oflice. Lunch tha: ; JOHNSON, € * “2 N, play D Salt Lake City, Utah “st jouse, denicegame thar ste victimized « pam—— | and Agents and Attorneys ! tery irerhors corne?™ of his about where the saloon part of the old house stood, he was greatly surprised and horrified by coming suddenly ‘le than anexemplary life, were iniliated into that bacehanalian revelry ihat Iured them on to an paknown : Quirk. se H. ee M, Tt it ‘all of valuable information, and Should He iv every home. | PIONEER BILLIARD Bil i: ALL, yrs BIRD & LOWE, ae ) ~[Saeramerito Bee} 4 Salt LBke City, Utah, Pp : There is young girl: about” the city. who will bear wate hing. She Is but 23 oroe 14 years of ge and x yet: is 80 keen + “BH ewil bo sentto lant ye ar’s costomers-without writing. -C, W. DORR, DES MOI NES, IOWA &Co. Ip LUND. 4 A YOUTHFUL SHARPER. | : oe Meat MARKT, by | PEARSUN | ities 5 “>” (Successors to T. C. Ener <i in the coming tewn. It seemed an vion upon them,” indispensible appendage as a resort - In recent years the old building befor the weary miner co spend his leis came the property of Renben Ball, ure hours. Mere be repaired to en- who sold it to his brother Willan. gage his time at the card table, or, The latter tore the old house downand J perchanee, “trip the light fantastic erected a new one apenas portion of ~“yte ew Th the tark-eyed=snaids. of| the ground Spor whiol, the ord. one 1 ‘BAILEY & PARSONS, }- sr ‘Main Street, Silver Reef. we Notary Publie. es |Jdulius Sorcad, Professional. en h interested to rend their address, . riteefor it now, it will pay'you. (_. Publishers 784 Proprietors. + = gud # stempto pay post ages Clothing and ~ Groceries, ee in Goods, Street. 1OWA-SEED MANUAL,| EI sishing s DEALER Main Ss] DOWhichIRR" ‘will be sent to every oné who is SAGER, Be eeeeee Perro PUBLISHING COMPAN COM- PARATIVELY SAFE, O 0Month. * Delivered by carrier, per ‘week.. /SUNEE ions DS _ One f B, 3 SEEDS POTATOES $ SMALL FRUITS, |i: " Together with ‘many miscellaneous articles for the FARM AND GARDEN, f W. 13 Se > Plymouth, Amador county, January 18, 1883.—'Tiirty or more years A TIME: WHEN CRIME WAS LUND & Co.; Grocer and Dry Good Merchants, a TeOLD ac EE OF "SUBSCRIP. 4088 yyaar. RUS MEANS i's sccincspocaiocaes cbs: Tarcg.Aton’be.. wae ese eee ae eine Seed eetens OF .GROG SHOP— in aes Zi eee TERMS : MYSTERY HE SeasKee Every y §Saturday Morning. @fice—MINER Building bonis Main Street rau and still, ee mute as < the slid teatkie of oan eniidoke that it wonla ing boards’ tint support my walls, be the merest chanee rif. the imurderere The murderers tnsiiapected—do they” ever reveive™ justiee for” the: great tread the face of this .world un crimes they cormitted.’ ‘The cariom apprehended ? Perhaps. And if not may have.a ehanée to spéechlate: as'to dead, their sevret is safe, baried in ‘how ‘the poor, fellows were killed, the solitary and lonely hole along when sid by: whom, whether robbery with its butchered. victims, CouldI er malevolenee;, but, doubtless; they speak, [ tlone could tell the tale; but must stil leave the mystery inintIam ifanimate. My tongtie is as still} penetrable: darkness: beyond which ag the iomb itaelf. Search! Secure if they can only giiesseen: tnystery that you can those who per petraned this is forever buried with thepaet, © blo dy murder, and, though their hair os ‘Nea. Senasruan.' | OF THE TOWN. UTAH. A re pts fo ~@ne OUR BUSINESS-MEN. REEF MINER SILVER. REEE, cathe de "WASHINGTON / eS REEF, . “SILVER O RR Vi a VOL. |