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¦ ¦ ¦ '. ' ¦ ¦ --¦¦•.. THE SUNDAY CALL. THEOFLOST DUTCHMANSECRETTHE THE SECRET OF THE SUPERSTITION MOUNTAINS IN THE HEART OF THE APACHE COUNTRY IS DISCOVERED AT LAST. RICH mineral strike has just been A 1 made- In the Four Peaks Moun- I 1 "tains, sixty miles east of Phoenix, J[ and miners declare the famou3 "J^ost Dutchman" mine has beer- rediscovered. A prospector found the ) riches concealed under a surface which is edy. The map and written descriptions the hills on a prospecting tour. They went them. In.several years Reed disappeared, said to be fairly glittering: -with nuggets of the location of the property had been into the Four Peaks at a time when the leaving Rodig in sole possession of th* knowledge of the placers. and the matter taken from tbe rich vein carried off by the other German, who had Apaches and Government^ troops were remarkable A strange series of misfortunes has colors. At last, say come the settlement on the north side ¦ struggling for supremacy, and honors which teems with to followed Rodig in his efforts to relocate those who are familiar with mining in of the Salt River. Being too busy at that were not better than even. Prospecting the placers. Three years ago ho and a- this region, the remarkable riches of the time to investigate the story, Walker al- was dangerous and most of the frontier companion were almost drowned while "Lost Dutchman" willbe brought to the lowed the matter to rest for several characters hovered under military pro- attempting to cross the Salt River In attention of the world and the men who years, and it was not until 1SS1 that he tection at Fort McDowell: - Several de- their search. At another time he was have spent thousands of in at- took occasion make matter public. tachments of troops In the Four pitched from a horse and returned to dollars to the were: bones, tempting to locate this property willhave He has never investigate the Peaks region, some at guard at points of Phoenix with fractured and there had time to • is still another instance in he to their disappointment mine, which ample time nurse supposed location, of-the as he was vantage and others scouring the country was ambushed by Indians on his journey for not having looked further for those since then fullyoccupied in looking after for Indian siens. and forced £o flee for hi3 life. riches which the superstitious Apaches the affairs of the Vekol mine. The prospectors reached a point about He says tjie character of the country have successfully guarded from the white In 1S05 it came to light that the second twenty-eight miles from Fort McDowell. has changed wonderfully since the early men for a score of years. The cost of the fugitive living Mesa, Ariz., Here; skirting Four days many had been in the foothills of the and oft the' landmarks have noted ledge is figured not only in dollars with a Mexican woman and that he made Peaks, they discovered placer ground and disappeared. Where 'there, was once a but in human lives. Supersti- began operations. The second day the swampy flat to-day the gTound is dry occasional excursions into the . places The mine just found shows evidence of Mountains, of colors and barren. At other where he tion bringing back with him gravel banks revealed a myriad traveling open years ago remembers over an coun- having been worked by white large gold- nuggets. Two years later, and the prospectors were elated over the try there is now a heavy growth of trees men. There is an eighty-foot shaft and when he was at the point of death, ha promise of enough gold to make nabobs and shrubbery. around the mouth are scattered rusty made an attempt to reveal his secret, but of them .all. That afternoon, with their A man named Burke Tcokey came to picks and skulls of several human beings, died before he could tell the story. He single pan, they took but several hundred Phoenix recently with papers aiding in which phrenologists declare are the re- gasped the "Weaver," by which dollars of gold dust to add to the value the solution of a lost mine mystery aa re- name of any mains, of white men. Allthese evidences convey three large discovered. markable as related. He was a mem- he probably intended to that old of nuggets ber of;a which prospected add to the theory that the "Lost appalled by a party in the color John Weaver, the hermit of the Supersti- At sundown they were early days Anchos, Dutchman" myth, but a mine in canyon, in the- Sierra a was no Weavers Needle, into a deep tion Mountains, knew the secret of the phenomenon which the gold diggers re- neighboring range 'of the Superstitions. reality and one which willnow send vast thence up. a side canyon, where.the, mine Lost Dutchman. IfWeaver knew he died garded as an evil omen. The Four Peaks The prospectors were driven from rich treasures to the Government mint. Mese- was situated. The undergrowth was so with the scret in his breast Few ven- seemed to be drawing' toward them. placer diggings^ by\ the Indians. Four velero, chief of the Apaches, guarded their < were killed single survivor, dense that they" .were concealed ¦,from tured to visit the old recluse who, in the Whether It was a mirage or eccentricity andfthe after secret well, for many prospectors who having received \na4'y injuries, Including view until they had^reached^ their heart of the Apache country, retired in a of nature they could not determine to* sought to enrich themselves by the treas- - the loss of a hand and two broken ribs, nation. ¦¦..'¦..'.-.- .;¦ .v cave, the opening of which was festooned their own satisfaction. The sound ; of Apache f?^:'J<^ . was scalped and Left'^pr dead by the sav- ures in land were raided and ! As' they drew-neafc^thfty^Hear'd by the scalps of g Mesevelero's braves. cannon suddenly played on their appre- ages. He came life, however, at the very scene of their opera- founds 'to and kil^d that ,to indicate"; that the mine Weaver, disappointed Louis, ears they fled from plac- in escaping on a burro, tions. seemed in love in St. hensive and the^ succeeded . car- was still being worked. -Upon approach- spent thirty years in a lonely canyon in ers. It was a series Of signal shots from lyingwith him enough' gold to defray the the noblest works of the Gold is one of ing cautiously they saw three men whom the mountains caring little for worldly some of the troops in the mountains above expenses 'of a fifteen years* treatment in Great Spirit in the eyes of the ignorant them, shortly afterward the rever- a New Mexico hospital. He- brought let- they took to be Indians. Without stop- matters and less for gold. He picked off and Apiches and he who would rob the earth -berating peal the big cannon at Fort ters from the hospital vouching for a part ping to investigate ; they opened fire and many an Apache who endeavored to in- of least, of glittering metal brings down the McDowell was a warning that Indians ap- cf his tale at and interested sev- the killed all three. A closer examination sanctity his cave vengeance of that tribe. Indians who vade the of until the proached and whites who valued their eral local capitalists, "who equipped a showed them that they had acted too, Indians avoided him the of their party to follow" his guidance have sought to gain trinkets from the in terror lives should move. back Into fcostily and had killed workmen of their . time Victoria was the fighting the mountains. This visitor claims to be whites by delivering gold from deposits superstitions. Importunities of his At that Mexican friend, who were still endeavor- chief of the Apaches. He had sent an Burke Tookey. His condition is now pre- whose locations were secret to the red friends to induce him to mingle with the carious, and it is doubtful ing to work the mine. Being considerably • army of 1600 braves up the Salt River ifhe will live men were held up to the scorn of their world were as unavailing as their at- to see the fulfilment of his dream. frightened fearing the consequences and a band of 400 was planning to join it race and cruelly consequence and tempts to learn from him the locations of regulars the forces LLOYD DAMRON'. tortured In rash deed they hastily gathered to move on the while of their crime against the Great Father. of their gold ledges with which he was undoubt- were weak. up ore that was already taken out "White men have shared the same fate in the edly familiar. "Bear" Weaver he was The three gold-diggers lost no time in precipitate re- Tucson, attempting secure gold in Apache and proceeded to beat a sometimes called, because his- only recre- making their way to where they I to the hand, however, bad there is no more striking: treat. Retribution was at ation was in hunting bears, and because sold their gold dust. The party went to lands and feared, Tombstone, they bound themselves instance than is afforded by the "Lost and the Apaches, whom they had he' made a vow ten years before his where having been to the spot by the that no one of them should return to the Dutchman." attracted death that he should never again comb without companionship of the firing, made a furious attack upon them.

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