Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 1 August 1895 — Page 4

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August 26,27,28,29#30,'95.

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Tuesday will occur the County Trot and Pace. Wednesday— 3:00 trot, 2:25 pace, 2:40 trot. Thursday—3:00 pace, 2:21 trot, 2:30 trot, Friday—2:30 trot, free-for-all pace, free-for-all trot.

The usual exhibitions will occur daily as heretofore. There are some special attractions in the way of amusements that will be announced next week.

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A PICTUBE OF HADES.

EDITH SESSIONS TUPPER DESCRIBES THE WORST PLACE ON EARTH.

There In No Water or Shade There, but It Revels In Gila Monsters, Scorpions, Tarantulas, Rats and Sucli—A Good Place

For lost Souls.

[Special Correspondence.]

BARSTOW. Cal., July 24.—As the train shoots across the Mohave desert, that most desolate and sterile waste, with its awful monotony, its drear expanse of sand and alkali, unbroken save for the stretch of rails glittering in the burning sun, you wonder if anywhere on earth there can be a more desolate and terrible region.

Saying this to a grizzled old native, an Arizonian of 40 years' experience, who had come on tlio train at the Needles and who had told me many interesting stories of hardship and hairbreadth escapes, he replied: "Yes, mom" (everybody says "yes, mom," and "no, mom," in this country), "there is. Wait till we git tcr Daggett, an I'll p'int out a section of country that leads right inter the jaws of death an the mouth of hell.''

Hades Pointed Out.

And when later we stepped on to the platform of the railroad station at this desert camp my friend pointed away to the varicolored Calico mountains and said earnestly: Thar, mom. Beyond them peaks lies hell!"

Gratified as I was to have the placo located, I was a bit startled as I asked, "What do you mean?" "Death valley," replied my guide, "the awfulest spot

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human critter can stand the horrors of that country. It's alive with snakes an vermin, the worst yo ever see—sudden death, suro thing reptiles. Hot! I tell yo thar hain't but one place hotter. An it's ha'nted by the brave fellers who have gone plumb, clean mad tfyin ter face it, an who have died an baked an scorched thar."

I had of course read and heard of this terriblo waterless desert, but until the hardy old veteran's solemn manner and vigorous English had set it before me it had made no impression. Now, however, I became interested and asked many questions.

No Shade, No Breeze, No Water. Death valley lies in the southeast corner of California, close to the Nevada line. It is 8 miles broad by 35 long and comprises 300 square miles of such desolation as would make a Siberian steppe or Lybian desert seem a paradise. On the west tower the Telescope mountains, and the east is shut away by the Funeral mountains, an appropriately named rampart for the valley of the shadow of death. Parched,

HOLDING IIIS TATTKIIED Cr.OTIIIXG HIGII ABOVE HIS HEAD. scorching, suffocating, lies the arid, awful plain, unmarked by any vegetation save the scraggly, fierce cact us. From the salt and lava beds here and there oozes a horrible liquid which has maddened and poisoned many a hardy adventurer, causing his bones to bleach on the burning sand and become merely a playhouse for rattlesnakes, scorpions and the deadly Gila monster. Shut in by these awful mountains, with ail interminable stretch of burning sand underfoot, no shade, no cooling breezes, no water, with only hideous reptiles for companions, what wonder men have gone mad, babbling as they died of the sparkling pools of water they saw in their path!

The scene is said to be a weird and awful study in black and white—tho black of the frowning mountains, tho white of tho burning sand, which in various places is heaped in high mounds by the furious blasts which swoop down from the heights. Then there is tho fiendish'self rising" earth, as they call it out herfy^vhich curves and puffs up as far as one may see, as if invisible yeast were foaming and working beneath it. Whoever steps upon this treacherous quicksand is lost. It is but a crust over a horrible slimy swamp of salt mud. Nothing more awful than this '.'shuddering sand" can bo imagined. Another.section is called the salt earth, consisting of millions of sharply pointed pinnacles of salt, harder than stone, like cruel, glistening steel instruments.

Tempted and Were I.ost.

What would ever tempt ono to enter this accursed place? Tho rich fields of borax •have been the bait which have lured men to their doom in this barren valley. Scientists say it was once a lake impregnated with solutions of sodium, from which come the deposits of salt and borax. It is undoubtedly of volcanic origin.

Its doleful name was given it back in tho days of the argonauts. In those early, days of the excitement following tho discovery of gold in California thousands of gold seekers made their way overland by every availablo routo. Ono of these led through Salt Lake City and across a thousand miles of alkali plains and desert that lay between tho Mormon settlement and the Sierra Nevada mountains. One p«.rty, numbering about 70, including women and children, was induced to deflect southward from tho regular trail across Nevada in tho belief that more abundant water would thus bo found and the perils of the long journey much abated. But it proved a trail to death. Tho oxen died of thirst and starvation, and one after another of the party perished on tho sands of the cruel, implacable desert. AT last they reached tho summit of the Fuflesral range. Looking down Into the valley below them, they saw a great body of water, as they believed, but on descending they found they were the victims of a mirage, and that what they had fancied was .waiter was only the reflection of the sun on alkali marshes. Ail the party but two men, Bennett aud Stockton, perished, madly seekaig water. Thd story is more terrible from

the fact that subsequent prospectors discovered fresh water springs hot very far from where the unfortunates died.

In 1891 the region was scientifically explored by naturalists employed by the United States department of agriculture. They reported that some of the noblest mountain peaks in the world are there visible, but the traveler might as well leap into the crater of a volcano as to venture within the awful vale. The record of deaths shows that the victims are always 6eized with delusions about water. My Arizonian friend told me that a rescuing party found one poor man walking about stripped and holding his tattered clothing high above his head. As they approached him he called to them to look out, the water was very deep, and when they came up to him he clutched at them as a drowning man would. Prospectors are often found dead, their bony fingers digging in the sand as if vainly seeking a hidden spring.

In 1880 a party of Frenchmen attempted to cross the valley. All sturdy fellows, they scouted tho idea of peril. They took, as they fancied, plenty of water, but before they were half way across it gave out. Crazed with thirst, they cut the throats of their bureos and drank their blood. Four escaped, but several died. The leader of the expedition never recovered from his frightful experience, but was so affected by tho memory of his tortures that he blew out his brains.

Roast Lizard.

The Digger Indians and the Piutes live in the mountains and in the forests on tho verge of tho valley. The Piutes are known as the white Arabs of tho desert. Their staple food is lizard flesh, which they consider a great luxury and which thJty catch on the borders of the valley. These lizards are about two feet long. The Indians call jhem "chahwalla" and roast them as taught between hot stones. Whito men eat them, too, but dress them and broil them over a sagebrush fire. They are said to bo very good eating and to taste quite like frogs' legs.

There are no birds in this neighborhood save the weird, mysterious raven, whose ominous voice fitly croaks the fatal entrance of those who brave the terrors of the valley. Howling coyotes add their harsh cries to the sum of horrors about the place. Curious reptiles, uncanny and hobgoblin in appearance, are found here. The most deadly creature next to the Gila monster is what the natives call a "side winder" snake, which is peculiar to this desolate desert. It is a rattler about 20 inches long, which moves from side to side with a startling spring instead of gliding along. Moreover, it has horns, and I don't know but hoofs too. It is assuredly of the evil one. Scorpions, tarantulas, rats, horned toads and gnats lend their aids to render Death valley the most appalling place on earth. There are mice, too—mice which live upon centipeds—and there are rats with huge ears, a sight to scare the dogs. ......

Remarkable Effects.

There is no humidity in tho place. Tho frizzling heat, which remains in tho neighborhood of 150 in tho shade all the time, produces remarkablo effects. Wood falls apart chairs and wagons and barrels drop to pieces within a few minutes. No one can support life an hour without water. A terrible story is told of the exploring party of 1871. Tho commander, Lieutenant Wheeler, called his guido up and ordered him to cross tho valley on foot. On the guide's remonstrating two soldiers were ordered to start him with fixed bayonets. Before an hour had passed ono soldier crawled into tho camp more dead than alive. Tho other was found by a rescuing party, but the wretched guide had wandered away beyond help, and one more victim was added to tho roll which the ghastly, ghoulish spot calls for every year.

And yet in this awful region, tho most arid spot on earth, as Death valley is now conceded to be, strangely enough, ono can find fish. There is an extension of Death valley proper, known as Fish Lake valley, on tho line between Nevada and California. In this valley, so my Arizona friend told me, there are many pools, brackish, it is true, but full of earp from 10 to 15 inches in length. These carp, however, have been introduced by philanthropists and have thrived in all tho waters in wliieh they have been tried. There is an artificial pool in Death valley itself where the carp have flourished. There is another fish wliidi has been caught in Saratoga Springs in the lower end of Death valley, something like a black bass, of brownish liuo, with a tingo of red on tho back and yellow on the belly. There are dark bands running down the sides, and tho fins have dark borders. It feeds on insects and is caught by people who camp by tho springs with a pin hook on a thread for lino and a small morsel of meat for bait. Fish in tho streams tributary to tho salty lakes of this arid region sometimes swim down to tho lakes, and t.lieir dead bodies aro found afloat near tho mouth of tho streams covered with an accummulation of sal soda crystals, which by their weight have drowned them.

In tho adjoining country about Death valley aro found many traces of former occupation by a civilized people. In ono rango of mountains is a lofty perpendicular cliff of limestono over 250 feet in height and having a smooth surface. About 100 feet from tho base of this cliff aro cut a cross and tho letters D. They are at least 00 feet in height and can 1)0 readily seen from a great distance. The Indians havo no traditions concerning th "!i, and the accepted belief is that they were carved by tho Jesuit priests who in established missions to tho south in Arizona. To cut thoso letters on tho faco of this '"eat cliff man must havo erected a scaffjoitl 1 no feet high or have been lot down 150 feet in mi tho top of tho cliff.

Ciiosts There Too.

But Death valley—that place in which Danto might have laid tho seeno of his Inferno and amii^1 whoso noisome vapors, slimy pools, hiiU

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dead men's bones the pencil of Doro would have reveled—has yet other horrors. The terrors of the daytime are as nothing, it is •said, to the unknown aiul awful influences abroad at night. My Arizonian lowered his voice as he spoko of the ghostly shapes and apparitions that walk there, tho fearful moans and sighs that float upon tho hot sirocco breath of midnight. "Ha'nted" is the frightful valley by tlio most dreadful specters, from whoso open mouths protruding tongues loll in search of one drop of cooling water and whoso parched heads split apart with tho terrific heat. There is ono awful phantom that es its horse with a canteen in its bony hand, putting it to its flesliloss lips again and again to find it empty and to drop it with a heartrending moan. This apparition lias been seen time and again by those who have ventured near the valley at the hour when graveyards yawn. Indeed, take it all in all, one might search the whole world round and not find another such spot which from Its situation, Its surroundings, its horrors ftnd its shadows would so aptly correspond to one's conception of a place for lost souls.

EDITH SESSIONS TUPPER.

LOSS TO THE INSURGENTS.

General Jose Maria Rodriguez Killed in a *r Recent Battle. HAVANA, Aug. 1.—The insurgent

chief, General Jose Maria Rodriguez, who was formerly associated, with Carlos Castillo, has been killed in an engagement with a detachment of the civil guards at the Venidia plantation, near Guautanamo. Identification of tlio slain leader is complete.

A company of 40 insurgents attacked Fort Mijal, which is on the railway be--een Songo and Pompo. The garrison impelled the attacking party aud compelled them to retire with their dead and wounded.

At Calabazar, province of Santa Clara, four insurgents have surrendered to the Cuban authorities. Two insurgent spies have been captured at Yumuri.

Insurgents in large force attacked a detachment of '20 soldiers on the Isabel plantation near Guautanamo. After several hours firing, the insurgents were forced to retire, takijig with them their dead and wounded.

Insurgents seized and destroyed 1,400 logs of hard wood in the river Gevilla, province of Puert^Principe. An order prohibiting under penalty of death the shipment of lumber of any kind from the province of Puerto Principe has been promulgated, by the insurgents. A band of seven insurgents lias surrendered to the authorities at Puerto Principe.

At Cuban Headquarters in New York. NEW YORK, Aug. 1.—Cuban head­

quarters yesterday was filled with an excited throng of patriots anxious to hear the latest news from the seat of war. During the afternoon a report was received which caused a general feeling of gloom. IfJBrigadier General Jose Maria Rodriguez has been killed, as reported, and the Santa Clara expedition dispersed, the revolutionists have sustained a great loss.

Prominent Cuban leaders, however, insist that dispatches from Havana are not always reliable, and until they receive confirmation of the disastrous news from their friends on the island they refuse to believe the report.

A. Goviu, a Cuban patriot, landed here yesterday on the Colombia from Colon. He had a large amount of money with him which he had collected for the Cuban cause in South America.

BOLD ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY.

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One of the Thieves Captured After perate Struggle. CLEVELAND, Aug. 1.—Two men made

a bold attempt to rob the safe of the Bartholomew Brewing company on Michigan street yesterday. One of the men engaged the bookkeeper in conversation while the other quietly slipped in a rear office, and when discovered by the bookkeeper was busily at work on the safe.

An alarm was immediately raised and both of the thieves ran down the street with a crowd behind them yelling "stop thief." A policeman soon overtook one of the men, who drew a revolver, and after a short struggle, broke away with a pair ot handcuffs dangling to one of his wrists. The fugitive ran a short distance and then turned and deliberately fired several shots at the policeman, who promptly returned the tire, none of the shots hitting any one.

The thief again ran and dashed into the building occupied by the SherwinWilliams' company and up several flights of stairs. The thief reached the fourth, and then lie was cornered at a window by several of the employes, Then a light took place. The fellow was desperate. He knocked down several men and threw three out of the window. There was a roof of a lower building just below the window, and the men failing upon this, escaped injury.

A policeman arrived at this point and with a. blow of his list laid the fellow low. The handcuffs were quickly snapped into place and the policemen then hustled their prisoner to the Central station. He gave the name xt Joseph Rawson and said ho was years of age. The second thief was not captured.

EXPLOSION IN A FURNACE.

One Man Fatally JJurned and Several Others ISadly Injured. MARTIN'S FERRY, O., Aug. 1.—A ter­

rible explosion occurred in the oupola at the blast furnace at 7 o'clock yesterday, caused by the accumulation of stock. Pieces of iron, coke and cinders were blown 300 feet in the air.

Samuel Coshnich, a filler, working on top of the cupola, was burned all over and will die. He presented an awful sight, and his cries were heard across "the river.

Five other men were injured. They are: James Carman, cut on the head by a flying missile.

George Wilcotfc, neck and shoulders burned and lacerated. Fred Eieliler, nail driven into his stomach.

S. W. Douglass, burned. Robert Hall, right arm mangled.

TUG CALUMET LOST.

liodies liecovereil From the Wreck of tlio Kate Kelley. RACIXR, Wis., Aug. 1.—Tlio tng

Mollie Spencer, Captain Roach, came into port for coal yesterday and received a telegram from Chicago to watch out for wreckage of the tug Calumet, supposed to be lost. No signs of wreckage has been seen here. Tugs have gone out to search for her.

A body supposed to be that of Mate Long of the Kate Kelley,

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FORT SCOTT, Kan., Aug. 1.—Tho body of Walter Austin, who was drowned while attempting to cross a flooded stream here Tuesday night, was recovered by divers yesterday. Willie Gould's body has not been found. The flood is subsiding and the country roads are being opened up again. The flood was destructive to crops in the low land.

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