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About Cloverdale courier. (Cloverdale, Tillamook County, Or.) 190?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1915)
ï When | wa? a youngster casting about for something to do for a living I spent a good deal o f time groping In the dark. I was o f an adventurous disposition and longed for new fields. Finally I settled on a career. 1 went out to India to seek my for tune and found— well, for three years 1 found poverty, then I found some thing better. Walking on a street in Calcutta, I saw at my feet a brilliant spot emitting the colors o f the spec trum. I stooped and picked up, to my surprise, a diamond, it was not one of enormous proportions, nor yet was it small. It wus worth not less than $10,- 000 nor more than $20,000, but as I was no Judge of diamonds, I did not know. It was surely o f sufficient value to take me home to America and give me a new start Nevertheless. I was sufficiently hon est to look In such mediums us would serve to advertise Its loss. 1 did not advertise It myself because there is so much rascality in that benighted coun try that had I done so 1 would have been beset by persons whose object would have been to get possession o f It surreptitiously. I did not see any ad vertisement of a lost diamond, so I considered myself Its owner. My the ory o f its loss was this: There had been a gathering of Indian potentates in Calcutta, and some one of them bad dropped it. These fellows have so many jewels that the loser may not have missed It. or perhaps If he did miss it he may have considered it be neath his dignity to issue any public notice of the fact. One Incident In Its finding troubled me. Upon picking it up, while I was examining It I looked up suddenly to learn If any one saw me and encoun tered the ga*e of an Indian. There was a diabolical expression on his face that told me If he had a chance he would murder me to relieve me o f my find. I put the gem In my vest pocket and walked away, not looking at the man to see what became o f him. I had a room In a low grade hostelry —I could afford nothing better—and that night In order to make sure of my gem I tied it to the palm of my hand and slept with It In my grip During the night I heard some one rummaging In my room. I lay perfectly still, and by and by whoever was there went ou t I had not told any one of my find and could not understand who could have had a motive for robbing one whose very appearance indicated poverty. I had a friend in Calcutta who was in good circumstances. I went to him. told him o f my find and that I wished to go home. He loaned me the money to pay my fare, and I sailed for San Francisco. I had not been out twelve hours before I recognized in one of the passengers the man who had seen me pick up the diamond. It is a very uncomfortable feeling to, know that yon a r e cooikh I u p with one who is determined to relieve you o f a valuable article. It seemed tome that, whatever 1 did to conceal my diamond, this Indian would get It from me. I was sure that lie had come on board for it, and the natives o f India are so stealthy, have so many Insidious ways o f securing their ends, that I consid ered my property ns good as lost. On the forward lower deck was a coop containing chickens. They were of a rare variety and were going to some American chicken fancier. One morning, standing t»efore the coop, a singular plan o f concealing my dia mond occurred to me. It was to let one o f the chickens swallow It He would hold It In his crop, and I could shadow him as the Indian was shad owing me and in time get it away from him. From my next meal I took away with me some crusts o f breud and, going to the chicken coop as soon as I was sure I was unoiisei ved, be gan feeding a stately rooster. He took down one piece of crust utter another, and among them I fed him my dia mond. It was rather lurge for him, but he got it down, and I congratulat ed myself that If It was lost to me that rascally Indian would not get It I visited the bird, that was now worth a small fortune, tho same even ing and went again to the coop the next morning. He waa there in the evening, hut at my morning visit I was horrified to see thut he was missing from the coop. I knew that the Indian had goi him, but did not trouble my self to discover how. Not a word did A say to any one on the subject I met the Indian later walking the deck and fancied that there was a look of tri umph in his eye. As for me. I en deavored to conceal any evidence of knowing that he had secured posses sion o f my property. If he was obliged to kill the rooster for the diamond 1 was resolved to kill him before I would permit him to leave the ship with my property. Where did lie keep tho bird? I was not long In finding out. My stateroom was in the stern o f the ship directly over the steerage. In the middle of the night I heard n crow. Jumping from my berth. I threw on some clothes, ran below and hunted for the crower. I found him In possession of the Indian. 1 drew a long knife, with which I made n pass nt the man. selz ed the rooster and ran with him to my room and locked the door. I never left the room, nor did the bird till after reaching port. I killed him In my stateroom and was delight ed to find the diamond in his crop I got it safely ashore and sold It to a leweler for $18,000____________________ FRANK TAYLOR, PROFESSIONAL CARDS ïillamook Abstract Company T h u s . G o a h im , P iu oa u & jrr. Cloverdale, Ore. rnnmtiiiHS I. O . O . tXW SViJfTK S E T O K A B S T R A C T B O O M * or T IL L A M O O K COUNTY. TILLAMOOK CITY. U R M O N . TH.61NE, ATTORNEY AT LAW The Ocean Spray Rebecca Lodgp No. 148 meets every other Wednes day in each month at 8:00 P. M. Mrs. Millie Suppington, N. G .; Mr*. 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Nestucca Lodge No. 114 meets each Saturday at 7 p. m. Jno Lowrance, N. G., F. Worthington, iugton, Bee. Visiting brothers are cordially Invited to meet with us whoa you are in Cloverdale. O B B W JW . Cloverdale, Notary Public Cloverdale Lodges. ■ h o c : ! P. W. TODI), Prop. of Tillamook, Oregon TILLAMOOK. - - OREGON
