Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1883 — Unobtrusive Suicides. [ARTICLE]

Unobtrusive Suicides.

It may not be generally known that when California began to fail in her mining recourses, about a dozen years ago, that there were more suicides in that State than in all the world beside for a short time. Statistics show this. But these unfortunate men, broken and heart-sick from “hope deferred,” did not obtrude their dead bodies on their friends. High on the peaks of the Sierras, dow» in the dark canons, even to this day, now and then you may find a skull with a derringer bullet-hole in the forehead, Thftt is all,— Joaquin Miller,