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(fOnclxuUd from t’ght\ paffo.At this juooture Nra. Sohults, al-Most erased with the taro of affiure, dropped bet umbrella and, osing he* fi«ta, struck Chamberlain in the free blow aftei blow, oelUog bin thief* gambler, nifion, end sooundrel 'Ibe paaeeogeca watched the beating with interest, aad urged ber to her utmeot, until Chamberlain cried out aeaoagbt and was released ky the big Qoaier, with the quiet wariiog that be bad better bebare bim-alf, an let the girl go.Chamberlain doggedly deolined to give up bia prize. The or«wd grew foriooa, and it wai proposed to take him off and apply a coat of tar and feathers. Tbo oondaotor bad quietly gone out, at the suggestion of some of the paetengcre, cod telegraphed for a polioeman to meet tbi train at Noxth VcrooB. Hearing the threats of nummary veaageaooo, he signaled tbo trJo to go ahead, and carried all of the party along, including the bravo ludiauian, who lived at Milan, but wuui a lung to tee tba end of the affair.I'uriag the ran to North Vernon the louiieli girl was talked with by beveml passenger*. She laughed at l lie idea ol going home, aud said a tie wo*.Id go with Chamberlain some time aud it wu» uj use to eeud her home.You know he’s got a wife, arid Mis. ScliuliZ.Yea, 1 do, said the girl, and X kuotv where she is, but 1 wuu't uTl you.The excite incut quieted but little. On reaching North Vcruun two pul.oe officers boarded the train, acd upon having Chauihcrlaiu puinted out 10 ibem, bite tod hiui, sayic.j;.We love io get huld oi le.lows likef/you.liu was huailed out tod cauied off tu tbe village • aubousB, iu ihe midst ol a j eiing crowd, and u,reals to give him n uote ut tar. Mrs- Seoul'vc aud Mla King gut off ulau, uoucinpunud by the gigantic iudumau, who cuiU lie Wou'd eee tbeui io the hold and lake tin in back iu Mllau in the morning,The geulauiau wuo detailed tllcse lucts to tbo Courier Journal aud who wuauu lyc-wiineae, says he uever saw such luieuBe excitement, uud that if tie train had uot atarted out oi Milan juht when It did Chanjbcilaiu Wollld bavo be u luubbed.Tbe bainu leeiing las tratislerrcd to North Vernon, aud he Wuuid Uut be auipim-d to heai ol his being roughly handled la»t n.ght.M it. Scbuiu is a mil'mer a maniau maker at No. ltiif Luugwoith at reel, Cluciuutli. lier stst**. Lu«a Klflg, hce hein living with her lor about a year and a halt Their laiher is a expectable old farmer named King, who lives three miles lioui Mtl-tt.He manicd a btcond wile two year# ago, on which account the gill wtut to live with her stater. Chtmbui Uiu, it bccuiN, occupied room* over Mu. Svliuha* store io Cinciuouti, aad thus mude the acquaintance ot ihe pretty but silly girl, who was voing to leave huine uud friends lor him. Mis. Schuliz said he was agumo craod fast man about town, sod bad a wife living.NEVADA'S F1HST «t’«GKT11 aw Her Ural Fwce nfi GoM Wm liar •ut Ukaa BuirkrhHulle.Alta California.An ini cresting currcapondenoo has lately pns*td between KUiitt Lord, «ftba United Sta*as geological surrey, and John Orr, the first discoverer of gold to Nevada. Under the aupervia-ioo of the director nf the geological surrey, a history of the Oomstoek discovery and mining developments on the east slope of Nevqd*. to beiog pre* pared. Mr. Orr, at present residing at Donoao's ti!to, Sonomo county, hai in hie poeaemioa the first nagger kwown to bays been fouad io Nevada, and the ioqairtos of Mr. Lord bars been in relation to the circumstances of i^overy, and the possibility of wearing it from Ar. Orr by donation or purchase, for the ooQoctioe of mis* erala in the National Maseam, at Waabington. In conversation with Mr. Orr a day or tree ^o, he stated the fiwta relating to the dmmvavy. He started with a large irtkg ip some across the plains to 1849. UoWlly aevste weather vu eneoantmed, the roads were bad aad they were compelled to spend the winter at Salt Lake, He left for California oo the first wsgsu train from Salt Lake la the spring of 1860. bat the dcsort wrn not crossed until the last of May, because of high waters, and the faet that their road had to be eat through the snow until the Humboldt was reached. Orr had a partner named Nick Kelley, after whom Kelley's Ravine is named, and in tbe company was also one William Prouse, now living in Nurb City, about forty milea southeast of Salt Lako, Prouse had worked io mines 'n this state, before gold was discovered in Colona, and was a good prospector. One early day in May 1850, the train stopped oo the edge of what is known as Glt; U canon near the Canon river*to let the animals feed on some bunch grass found growing among the sage brush. Prouse at noontime io-»k a milk pao, aud, going down to ihe gulch, began washing dirt, in a few minutes eettiog color to tbe value of a few cents. Orr tbeo named the place Gultl canon, still retained.Orr was ktepiog a rude chart of the country traveled over, taking beariogs only north aud south, and entimutiug the distances traveled every day. Gold c.qod was marked oo the ohart, which was lost by Mr. Orr in 1855, while returning east to be married. The train oooo after resumed travel, going to the bend of the Carson V alle y. There was met a party of seven, who had left the train at tbe Sink of tbe H umboldt, intending to go in advance to Ca.iforuia sod select good locations for tbe remaioder ol the party. They had been uuab le to.cress tbe countryt and had been lost in the snow in the mountains four 6r five days, uonble to flud ihe divide (o Hangtown, and seeking Carson to recuperate - A stay ia Carson tor three weeks followed, whoa Orr, Ktlley ana several others returned to Gold oanqn and rtMumod prospecting.. Killy and Orr went up ihe ounoo* until a little fork was reached, wbeh work was heguu. The party had few tools, aud Utr had nothing but a butcher knife.While Kelly was working Orr noticed a very narrow place at the fork, where the water barely covered a riab of slate-rock. Idly he examined it, and, noticing a small crdvice near the edge, drove the butcher kuile iuto it, breaking out a pieoc. The Water running over it washed away the underlying diit, and ip a few seconds Orr discovered a gulden nugget where the roc* I ad covered. It wan quickly removed and afterward found to weigh §8 25- This was on tbo 1st of Juno. 1850, thiity years ago. -Prospecting was ecntinucd, and though gold dast was found io several places throughout tbe oanon, Orr’s Was the ooly nugget found. The party looked tools and pitvisccns, and beiog bent on reaching California, abandoned .the canon and mired at Leek Springs July 4, 185C,
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Nappanne Weekly News
Nappanee, Indiana, US
Thu, Jun 10, 1880
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