HIDDEN TREASURES.
A Golden Cavern in the Moun
tains of Utah.
The Strange Story of a Convicted 'Wife
Murderer Who Was Executed at Salt
Lake City Taking: the Secret
. with Him.
Many stories ' are told in the east
about great hidden treasures in the
mountains of the west. In some in
stances those wild remarks are but the
imagination of thoughtless brains,
while in many cases the stories are
true. The west is filled with treasure
vaults whose gold and silver deposits
are numerous, says the Chicago "Inter
Ocean. Old Spanish residences, now
going to decay, contain secret rooms
lined with gold and filled with precious
stones and rich jewels. The moun
tains contain dark canyons where
mines of fabulous wealth have lain
dormant for ages. The humblest sheep
herder or range rider may accidentally
discover the greatest mineral deposit
ever known, and the most timid ex
plorer may find the treasured wealth
of a French millionaire stored away in
the caverns of the old dwellings.
Utah was once Mexican property,
and its fertile valleys were peopled by
a wealthy class of men. The old cliff
dwellers of the Colorado left most val
uable homes containing gold and silver
bathtubs, vases and ornaments, while
the workings of miners living a cen
tury ago show the vast wealth taken
from the old arastras and sluice boxes.
A strange story of fabulous wealth was
related by Enoch Davis, a wife-murderer
recently executed in Salt Lake
City. He found the most wonderful
mines ever seen by man, and exhibited
nuggets of gold from the sluice boxes
which excited the curiosity of court
officials so that his life was spared for
many months.
About sixty miles from Salt Lake
City is an unexplored section of the
Utah Indian reservation. No man has
ever penetrated the deep, dark can
yons of this Indian land since the days
of Brigham Young, the well-known
Mormon leader. After the California
gold excitement it is said a gentleman
named George Enowles came from the
diggings of the Golden state and set
tled in Utah. He agreed with the
president of the Mormon church to
give him his weight in gold for one of
the numerous women of the Young
harem. The proposition was accepted
and Knowles was given six weeks in
which to produce the gold.
Enowles, with a son about fourteen
years of age, started from the Mormon
Mecca Monday morning and within
two weeks returned with eighty-five
pounds of gold nuggets. Young ac
cepted the money, but swore his slave
to absolute secrecy as to where the
gold was obtained. At that time the
church people were opposed to the
opening of mines, and no man was per
mitted to prospect in the territory.
The old man Enowles lived and died in
Salt Lake City with visions of wealth
haunting his deathbed, but he never
returned to the secret mines.
In after years the son determined to
disobey the orders of the church and
seek the gold fields he had seen in his
youth. He was accompanied by Enoch
Davis, the wife murderer. One dark
night in the month of June the pros
pectors dropped down from the high,
sandy mesas into the gold-lined cavern.
Here they found thousands of nuggets
with the mountain waters flowing over
them. Every pocket and knapsack
were filled with the valuable treasures.
When morning dawned they were met
at the summit of the canyon by a band
of Indians. The red men fired and
Enowles dropped dead. Davis feigned
death and fell to the bottom of the
cavern. The Indians could not get
down the bluffs, and the white man
lay there in an apparent state of death
until nightfall, when he arose, and
after two or three days succeeded in es
caping from the savages.
When Davis escaped he made nis way
to Vernal, a wild frontier town near
the Indian reservation. In this village
he took up bis abode, expecting some
day to be enabled to return to the
fields of wealth. He married and set
tled down to the duties of a home life
as the village blacksmith. His mind
became troubled, he resorted to drink,
and at last in a fit of jealous despon
dency killed his wife and buried her in
a potato pit near the house. The crime
was discovered within a day and Davis
was arrested and imprisoned on the
charge of murdering his wife.
In the prison all the nightmare of
golden treasures haunted the doomed
prisoner. He drew a map of the coun
try and presented it with the facts to
the court officials as a ransom for his
liberty. Many thousands of dollars
have since been expended in seeking
this famous gulch, but nothing has
been found. Davis, after repeated
postponements, was finally convicted
and shot without again realizing the
fulfillment of his dreams. The lost
gulch is yet a subject of much thought.
and prospectors seek the place as soon
as the winter's snow melts from the
mountain slopes.
. Trials of Tourists.
There turned up at Hamilton, in the
Bermudas, the other day, a company of
several hundred British tourists, includ
ing Sir Arthur Sullivan and many
musical and literary folks of some dis
tinction. They were a sorry and be
draggled crowd, and their appearance
was partly explained by the fact that
they had left a six weeks washing
ashore at one of the far-down islands
and had come away without it, so that
everybody was at a low ebb of linen.
They were cheered with the hope that
the British cruiser Blake, whose cap
tain had promised to fetch up the miss
ing garments, would soon arrive in the
harbor. This hope was disappointed,
for the excursionists left on schedule
time, a few hours before the arrival of
the Blake with their linen. Those that
saw them at Hamilton are wondering
how they looked on reaching Great
Britain. .
"CREDIT IS CAPITAL.
It Served a Wall Street Broker ln Good
Stead on One Occasion.
I know in this city a southerner who
has made his way from nothing to a
comfortable fortune, says a writer in
the New York Press. He was a broker
in Wall street, plodding slowly along,
living from hand to mouth, with a bank
account that sometimes grew as big as
eight hundred dollars. He met a capi- i
talist who wanted certain bonds, and,
with a commission of twenty-five hun
dred dollars in view, he undertook to
deliver them. He knew an old bond
holder who had them, and his purpose
was to get them without causing a sud
den rise in their value. The old fellow
named his price, which was entirely
satisfactory. The amount was twenty-:
five thousand dollars for the lot. My i
friend went to his office, drew a check
for that sum and handed it over.
"Perhaps you know that it is cus
tomary in transactions of this kind to
give a certified check." said the bond
holder. This was a stunning blow, almost a
knockout, for a man with a bank ac
count of never more than eight hun
dred dollars, but my friend, begging the
old fellow's pardon for the oversight,
started to get the proper certification.
He went straight to the cashier of his
bank and stated the whole case to him,
explaining that he was to deliver the
bonds within two hours and make his
profit of twenty-five hundred dollars.
"It is an unusual request," the cashier
said, with a smile of ha'f pity for the j
ignorance of his customer.
"1 know it," said the broker, "but I
cannot lose this chance of making two
thousand five hundred dollars. You
know I am honest. I have been a de
positor here for two or three years, and
have never before asked a favor. I
will have the cash here within two
hours to make good the check, or will
deposit the collateral."
The cashier hesitated. He who hesi
tates is lost. He looked the broker
straight in the eye and said:
"I will io it. I know you are an
honest man."
With a certified check for twenty-five
thousand dollars, the southerner re
turned for the bonds, much to the
amazement of the old bondholder, who
declared that if he had known his abil
ity to produce a certified check for that
amount he would not have offered the
bonds at all. Hi offered them as a
bluff. But the bluff being called he
had to yield. Inside of an hour and a
half the bonds were delivered to the
capitalist, and a check for twenty-seven
thousand five hundred dollars was de
posited at the bank.
My friend has had many transactions
with the old bondholder since then, and
be never fails to ask: "Do you want a
certified check?" to.which the reply is:
"Never mind about it; I'll take any sort
of check you give me."
MINKS IN AN ODD BATTLE.
They Fought Each Other Vlrtouly and
Voclferoutly. In the Water and Oil.
An unusual battle was witnessed at
Greenwood lake one day recently by
Mr. Silas Pickering, of Newark, and
old Steve Garrison, the veteran guide.
Steve was rowing and Si was catching
frogs for bass along the east shore of
the lake, says the New York Sun.
Suddenly they heard a remarkable
squealing, and as they turned a
point of rocks they saw on the shore of
a little cove two full-grown minks in
combat. The usually shy animals were
so busy that they paid no attention to
the approach of the boat, and Steve
rowed up to within fifteen feet of
them.
The minks seemed each to be fight
ing for a throathold, and the way they
sparred and scratched was highly in
teresting. Finally one caught the
other by the back, and they rolled
from the rock into the water, where
they continued to fight as energetically
as on the shore.
Soon they emerged, separately, but
clinched as soon as they were on the
rock, and the fight waged sharper
thaa ever. Both minks squealed al
most continuously as they snapped and.
scratched at each other.
Three times they pitched from the
sloping rock into the water and
crawled out to renew the fight ashore,
but after another such dip only one
came up. The other had evidently
tired of the fight and sneaked away
under water. The victor crept upon
the rock and. not seeing his adversary,
began to strut and fro as if much
pleased with himself. Suddenly he
caught sight of Pickering's striped
blazer and fled into the bushes.
HU Little Mistake.
A young farmer who had great con
ceit, little discretion and scarcely
any education presented himself at a
Presbyterian conference and said he
wished to be ordained as a preacher.
"I ain't had any great learnin'," he
said, frankly, "but I reckon I'm called
to preach. I've had a vision three
nights runnin'; that's why I'm here."
"What was your vision?" inquired one
of the elders. "Well," said the young
man, "I dreamt I see a big, round ring
in the sky, and in the middle of it was
two great letters P. C. I knew that
meant Presbyterian conference, and
here I am." There was an uncomforta
ble pause, which was broken by an
elder who knew the young man and
was well acquainted with the poverty
of his family and the neglected condi
tion of the farm in which his father had
taken such pride. "I haven't any gift
at reading visions," said the old man,
gravely, "but I'd like to put it to my
young friend whether he doesn't think
it's possible those two letters may have
stood for 'Plant corn?'" Fortunately
this version was accepted by the appli
cant. A Spider with a Voice.
India, according to S. E. Peal, has a
stridulating spider whose sound, like
the pouring of shot upon a plate, can
be heard ten to twelve yards; ants
that produce sounds by rasping the
horny tip of the last abdominal seg
ment against dry leaves or twigs, and
a butterfly which produces a series of
raps with its wings.
MYSTERY OF A MAINE ISLAND.
A Hermit Englishman Who Ended Hll
Misery by Catting 11 la Throat.
"Some years ago, up at North Haven
island, on the Maine coast," said a New
Yorker, according to the Sun of that
city, "I came across a mystery that
haunts me still. A bare rocky point
juts out into the sea on one side of the
island, and the first year that I visited
the place there was a rude cabin on the
rock. Having gone out there from cu
riosity one day, I found a man in
shameful rags trying out the oil from
the refuse from" V fish-canning factory.
When I came to examine the man his
appearance astonished me. He was an
extremely handsome, woll-mado Eng
lishman of forty or thereabouts. His I
hands, soiled with the material he I
worked in, were small and well shaped, j
When I tried to draw him into conver- i
sation he at first answered in monosylla
bles, and was almost sulky in his reserve.
He gradually thawed, however, and I
found that he spoke rare and beautiful
Englfch, that of a well-read and well
bred man. Glancing into the door of
his cabin, I could see perhaps a score of
well-thumbed volumes in library bind
ing. His reserve was such that I could
not ask him about himself, but I left
the island deeply interested in him.
"I turned up at North Haven the
next year,and one of the earliest things
I did was to go out to the point in
search of my acquaintance. The rock
was bare again, and there was no trace
of him and his cottage. I asked about
him of some persons I met on the island,
and here is what I learned: He had
come to the place mysteriously some
years before, having been dropped by
a schooner. He found work at the fish
cannery, but later quit the place, built
his cabin on the rock, supplied himself
with food chiefly by fishing, and ob
tained from the factory the privilege of
trying oil from the refuse. From the
product he obtained a little ready money
for tobacco and other luxuries. At
some time between my two visits his
cabin was discovered to be on fire late
one night, and. hurrying down, his
neighbors saw him amid the flames
dead, with his throat cut. The fire had
so seized upon the hut that his body
could not be removed until it was nearly
consumed. lie was buried, and no so
lution of the mystery was discovered.
Life had evidently become insupport
able to him. and he had taken the way
of suicide as the easiest one out of mis
ery." AN AMERICAN TRAIT.
Whatever Is Done Is with All the Kaerffy
Tost cased.
When E. S. Martin, in his comments
on "This Busy World." described with
accuracy that intensity of energy and
excess of zeal which overtrained the
Cornell crew and led to their inglorious
defeat, he pointed, says. Harper's
Weekly, to a trait of American char
acter which must be estimated and
understood by anyone who undertakes
to sot forth the existing conditions of
American life and development. As
Mr. Martin truthfully savs: "It has
been said of politics, in thU country that
it is war. In the intensity of business
competition there seems to le a grow
ing sentiment that business Ls war."
This merely mean that the Amer;cnn
pushes every principle to its ultimate
logical conclusion, but this is one of the
keynotes of American character.
It may be a good trait or a had one,
but it is essentially and exclusively an
American trait. It is probably the out
come of those conditions of freedom
under which we struggle and conquer
or full, but it exists in no other country.
In this country alone has the principle
of business competition been pushed to
its utmost. Then, when the limit of
competition has been reached, a
struggle equally fierce has developed
the principle of combination, and pools,
and trusts, and syndicates, and traffic
agreements have shifted the scene and
scale and scope of the contest.
The principle extends alike to great
things and to small ones. We play the
game for all there is in it. whether the
game be politics or poker, railroad
management or college athletics. It
may wear us out, but it does not let us
rust out. It may interfere with our
growth in sweetness and light, but it
is not a trait of weaklings and deca
dents. Above all it is evolution, the
development ol natural causes lying
down deep at the roots of our national
life. It is a movement we have entered
on. to which we are fully committed,
and which we could not check if we
would.
Cannibal Crusoe.
One of the tales dug up out of the
misty past is that given by the York
(Me.) Courant of the wreck of the
Nottingham galley on Boon island.
This vessel, which was bound to Bos
ton from London, was driven on the
island in a terrible gale on the night of
December II, 1719. The weather was
so dreadful that some of the sufferers
soon died. There was nothing to eat
but shreds of raw hide, rockweed and
a few mussels. After a few days two
of the men attempted to get to York
on a raft but were drowned. At last
the hunger of the survivors-became so
raging that they ate some of the flesh
of their dead comrades, and, having no
fire, must', pei force, swallow this raw.
Immediately their dispositions, which
had been kind and helpful, seemed to
undergo a total change. Instead of
praying, they began to swear, and
quarrels commenced. At last, after
twenty-three days of this horrible life,
they were rescued, being then mere
skeletons and unable to walk. A light
house was erected on this island in 1811.
Too Smart.
A Philadelphia lawyer was seated
with a group of friends the other day
discussing the leading topics of the
day. One of the men present, Mr. Can
by, persisted in monopolizing more
than his share of the conversation, and
his views did not at all accord with
those of the lawyer. As the men sep
arated, one of them said to the lawyer:
"That Canby knows a good deal,
doesn't he?" "Yes," replied the lawyer,
"he knows entirely too much for one
man; he ought to be incorporated."
METAL PRODUCTION LAST YEAR
Mtatlstles Compiled By the Engineering;
and Mining; Journal.
The statistics of the mineral and
metal production of the United States
in 1894, compared with the output in
1893, have been compiled with care and
were published recently by the En
gineering and Mining Journal.
The total value of the mineral and
metal production of the United States
in 1894 and 1893 was as follows: 1893,
fS15.84a,S'00; 1894, e553,272,U02; decline,
?(l2,r,73.904, or 9 per cent. This great
fulling off was, however, due far more
to lower priees than to lessened quanti
ty pf the product. Thus the value of
our coal production declined lust year
C13,7S:i,S2S, or 7 per cent., while in
quant ity it fell off only C.220,970 short
tons, or 8? per cent. This compara
tively small decline in the volume of
coal produced is substantially a meas
ure of the whole mineral output of the
eountry.
The copper output increased 8 per
cent., from 327,255,788 pounds in 1893 to
353, 50-!, 314 pounds in 1S94, though in
value it declined no less than (1,039,508,
or 414 per cent.
The production of gold increased
from (35,955.000 in 1893 to (39,701,205 in
1894, but the commercial value of the
silver produced declined from (47,811,
45J in 1893 to (31,403,531 in 1894, a' fall
of (13.907,929, or 34 per cent. This was
partly due to a reduced production. 60,
500.000 ounces in 1893 and only 49,840,
875 ounces in 1894, but the price also
declined from 78.2 cents per ounce in
1893 to 03 cents in 1894. '
Pig iron showed a heavy decline in
quantity, from 7,047,384 long tons in
1803 to 0,057,388 tons in 1894, but the
value declined much more than the
quantity, or from (93,888,309 in 1893 to
(71.900,303 in 1894. a falling off in values
of 23 )V per cent., and in quantity only
3J per cent.
The value of spelter declined (1,000.
000, though the quantity produced fell
off but 2,250 tons.
On the whole the mineral Industry of
the United States has made a highly
satisfactory record in 1894 in the quan
tity produced over such an enormous
shrinkage of values. With prices lower
than ever before thought possible, and
in the majority of cases lower than sim
ilar articles arc produced anywhere
else in the world, the output has de
clined but little. The low prices no
doubt maintained a large consumption,
and now, with reviving prosperity and
prices, the producers will reap the
harvest for which they planted in the
hard times.
A CLOSE TRADE.
An Instance of Nramn ' That Is Hart
to Itrat.
The close-fisted and the absent-mind
ed serve a similar use they amuse
their neighbors. The New York Sun
quotes a man from the rural districts
as telling a story of a Mr. I'utterby, an
ola-lime townsman of his, whose repn
tation for "nearness" was evidently
well deserved. Iocally he was thought
to Ik" almost a prodigy in this respect.
but no story of this kind is so good but
that another can be found to beat it.
One of the coins current in those
days was the old Spanish silver-piece,
which passed for twelve and a half
cents, and was variously called "nine
pence." "York shilling" and "bit." It
was the existence of this coin that en
abled Mr. Putterby to achieve his
crowning triumph in the way of a close
trade.
A farm-boy came along one day with
a load of pumpkins, which he was ped
dhng about the village at a cent
apiece. Mr. Putterby looked at them,
concluded to buy, but wanted only
half a pumpkin.
"But a whole one is only a cent."
said the boy. "How are you going to
pay me for half a one?"
"Easiest thing in the world," said
Mr. Putterby.
The pumpkin was cut, he took one
half under his arm. and handed the boy
a shilling.
"Now give me the twelve cents
change," he said; and taking the
twelve coppers from the ustonished
boy, he walked away with his pur
chase. W
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