The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 11, 1899, Page 20

HOW PEARL HAR I SAN FR ANCISCO C© T, DRESSED IN MALE ATTIRE, WAS DISCOVERED AFTER HOLDING UP AN ARIZONA STAGE. m as called a hand- rs she kept fx, the erri- sport and t ¥y about ot now and A common lived ar dt \ppe after pened on the dus rence to Glob er a hundred m apart. It was yon_of *he Gila River, near Riversic e h -V ion on the stage road over which all travel between the places pass he driver heard the old command, Halt!" & w the old vision of the big ouths of gun barr: Then t sen- saw the living pleture 1 were mish. They saw two men without ks in control of the situation, One eveled at the stage andat Ie n is to be obeyed, The other man made a warning disp! with big revolver. There were only three passengers and they got out and lired up with the driver, while the reek- ing; horses rested, and the shotgun pointed and the bigger of the two men went through the pockets of the quartet his bold or guarded well. s x-shooter, a gold in money. ers, a miner named At a little O'Neill noticed barrel and nd whi ind slender harmony with rough attire. T} oticed a and softness of features th by under the frcumstance a he noted that the dark hair wa t up in an apparent knot under the hat behir s certain. Tt dressed a e highway- 1ges do when r with. The cared. \When the telegraph at Globe th Or’ the robbery descriptions robbers went to papers, and another t 1 cl after cri It was three days before the Sheriff of Pima County and his posse struck the trail he robbers had started on foot sou gain the railroad or il was follow ssed on over lonely and somewhat clrcuitous roads and trails, traveling at night much of the time, ge Ung as they could something to eat and drink and some to pack along ey art of the day in the sheltered nooks ons; d s! uman and his bandit hunters ank their afternoon sleep there no dead or k to the nearest railroad her bandit lover, wearied had gone to sleep in the afternoon in a shade in a gulch near Eenson, a town on the Southern Pacific Railroad in the southeastern part of the ritory not far from the Mexican line and a hundred miles from the scene of the robbery. They had pressed on until close to better prospects of e ape. The Sheriff and his posse luckily trailed and discovered them and planned to s cure their game before waking them. The robbers awoke just as the guns were secured s 1ooking into pistol barrels. The male robber took things coolly and sensibly and quietly surrendered, but not so Pearl Hart, the “girl bandit.” She would likely have done s ing if she had warning a she couldn’t, and they just overpowered her while she fought like a tig as an up-to-date woman bandit might be ecx- pected to do. The palr were taken to Florence, where was quickly known that Pearl Hart, against what was good in 1d broken the Arizona , but it life and societ record of her The flesh of birds differs In quality ac- cording to the food on which they live. Such as feed upon grain and berries af- ford in general good nourishment, if we excep and ducks, flesh hard « on. A voung chicken cate food, extremely r use when th gestive of tame fowls the t nutritious. Tur nd guinea wntial aliment, but are the stomach as to the 5 are sirds the toughest. The flesh s in general, though more di- less nourishing than that of being dryer on account of exercise which birds take. which subsist upon worms, tishes do t furnish whole million dollar: aimed the hree “It surely pe to be a 't g0 to getting her ideas in your head” sald Senator St “It pays just as well to be an American patriot.”’—Indianapolis Journal. [ Wi the largest amount you can write a check for and then cash it? There are any number of persons in New York sign their names checks every which are big enough to make the gasp with astonishment When Uncle Sam handed over to Sp: four orders or checks on New York Treasury for $20,000,000 most people’s eves bulged out at so much cash being repre ed by such small bits of paper. The an who cashed them, however, never so much as winked his eye as he beheld them. He is used to such transactions 1 common thing for Uncle Sam to afts away up in the millions, There are lots of men in Wall street who sign million dollar checks and think who to aay average mortal less of it than some people would of hun- dred dc hecks. Wil cherer of the Clearing-hou through which institution all checks are obliged to pass, says New York busine men write more and bigger checks than the people of any other city in the coun- The morning I called on him about two hundred thousand checks, represent- i 3,000,000, had passed through. That simply an ordinary morning’s busi- s. Mr. Scherer in his many years' ex- perience in the financial world has signed his name to a few big checks himself, some of them representing nearly twenty million dollars. B. G. Mitchell, treasurer of the Central Trust Com . probably signs as many checks as any one in the city. Most of » big downtown banks keep one man ning checks all day. One light- ning calculator who liked to waste time figured out that the paying teller of a big Wall street bank signed enough checks daily to make his pen travel from Man- hatan to Albany. The big insurance companles get a good large checks, some of them running from a hundred thousand to half a mil- lion dollars. Big checks float around in greater number among the members of the Stock Exchange than In almost any other place. A big block of railroad stock was sold just a few days ago and a check for three and a half millions given in payment. So far as known the largest checks ever drawn by a woman were two signed by Miss Helen Gould. One of these was for Wells, fc leave next week cisco en route for Portland, Or. attire, shooting adventurous il The story of a woman who, because father had been chan; beat HALL, WAS Pearl Hart, the Woman Bandit 5 % HOW HELEN JACKSON, KNOWN AS JACK DISCOVERED AFTER LEADING A COWBOY’S LIFE FOR SEVERAL YEARS. “Captain Dick Wells and Mrs. life of t of hoof and t sought to drown the grace. As a he hanged zed her name, h m fitting finale, W ‘merly Jack Hall, for San Fran HIS is the item that heas Arizona mory will the persc column of most of th week's Arizona papers. Back of this is a story that set all Arizona agog. The tale « woman T in cowboy lassoin taking in pes the wild, fre v hors; . r sex and in the of bullet e dis- when her sex was discovered, she married “Captain i the bravest and boldest cowboy Arizona. It is a story lnked with strange and dramatic incidents that could Appen no- where e in Arizona, where f still puts fiction to blush and boot and spur have not altogether given way to patent leath It wa just about a year ago that a slender, clean-shaven youth asked for work at one of the big cattle ranches near Williams. Captain Dick, who was the leader of the cowboys, engaged the ‘‘ter derfoot,” and *“Jack Hall,” the name the applic for work gave, won his spu in the annual rodeo for which the cow- boys were then preparing. grot other cowhoy the had p his m A number n on per all, 1 to one 3 emonic n When the twirlir Jack ttle and at He was q ked him. d he had cal iIn a ty cearch of ( of the in hand while barkeep doing a the of cowboys wer Ari en inhabi At was acting in th ¥ da tr por 1i 1f to t slept t and distant toward but for the most efore spendir iddle 1d at his horse rounding up night = from he am t of the rest of the cowboys. more monies encoura ping his k Hall watched the scene in silence rkeeper until reached the limit of his endu » pistol it said: it yourself.” The cowboy snatched another on: Jjack Hall w pain. right Then the were n was for one c Grover 's woun: GEST CHECKS EVER $100,000 and ws during she purchased Lyndhu ar Tarrytown, and, it is a check for $344,000 in payment. One to barkeer f dancing and his pistol et that he saw wrenched hand 1 want fily WS Ity The cowboy arm. 1ck 1 finger: the war of the nt. amount. as a curiosity. for big one for The Bank of England holds the record This institution ,200,000 and another for $622,500,- 000 These valuable pieccs of paper were drawn in connection with the last Chinese loan. “My good wom: judge whether, capable, to the plain and simple question when you were crossing the street with the baby on your arm, and the omnibus was coming down on the right the brougham wi nibus, you saw the plaintiff between the brougham and the cab, or whether and when you saw him at not near the brougham, cab and omnibu: or elther, or which of them respectivel checks. the and, a with Cleveland in p there being a discrepanc that need the money Mr. co the the the tu tempted to stop shouted for r of ed the barkeeper by pop- bullets dangerously whoy maste b rning s too quick for him. Was a quick, sharp report and a cry of s wounded ance. cere from on in | did a strange thing. His that bandaged his adver- He attended to him, eve! cutting his fgod for him, untjl the cowboy > ed e @ DRAWN. pain. ment Cleveland s0 he framed the check s given to the Government t week , a country seat reported, gave mallest checks ever issued Uncle Sam gave this to of salary, n the accounts did not —_—e————— “you must side and the cab on the left, s trying to pa Et ald the ve an answer in fewest possible words of which you are the and whether or the dropped the near had Then the him, y more dancing, do but ‘herc the issued learned the and om- s christened alled simply was well. After th urse Jack and m “Nurse.” He had an almost womanish way of cag- ing for them if they fell ill. “He ain't a drinker and he can’t play rds worth a hill of frijoles, but he's 1 rigl ing medicine and such things,” e 1ed the cowboys Moreover, he was right when it c: ] to hand a horse or revolver, which after all t more points in the c boy's ¢ ation than bottle or card Besides he had as a m ally Captain Dick, which in Ariz the open to y cowboy's frie ip. « ain Dick did not win his mong the Arizona cowhoys with provin strength c s gooc arm. Captain Dick has never be liever in th at more X law's delay. He than rritory. 2 of I ustice aft been innocent. Captain Dick makes sure offender’s guilt before he ties the knot. It was in 1882, whi was still very voung, that Captal populr ache high v rk. Gene Fremont, ritory, b the new Gove d introduced a b r of 1 in he Ter- lature, which w then in session, asking that several tho d de rs be put asida to equip a comp: of itia to be sent to the southern part of the Territory to subdue the cowhc he clder inhabit s and members of the Legislature scouted the idea. The Owo OO00OO0O0O0O0OO00000000000 CO0CCO000000C00000 0000000000000000 Who Wasqueraded On the Wild Frontier s Wer omernr CO00000000000VVOVOIMOCOOS 0000000000000 00VUO OOVDVOCOOOCO00000 quest for the militia had come from a “few England greengrocer, who had not ‘et become acclimated to the cowboy and his harmles§ Fourth of July antics while in town, “What the leg 100t the cowboys even at the pric e Pathfinde will the militia do?" demanded ators. if they misbehave. £ blood,” replied Orde the ¢ Then a member from Yavapal County read a letter from “Captain Dick” invit- ing the mili to the southern part of of that Legislature who tre 1t letter to tk ay and ch any one to /thing as funny from Mark | Rill Ny Dick proved his s of hum, cunning with the pen s well tol. Several of the le vored sending the militia so as to give Captain -Dick write the militia’s epitaphs, the boon he asked for bestow! itality of the cowboys. less to a chanc which ng the hos- lost, rimself and mous on all the Southwestern cattle ranges everal years a number of cow- b s rode into P tt and after fright- ening all the barkeepers ] into a comatose condition ware and practicing fanc mounted their horse d the town wildly shooting at the clouds. A posse of citizens w formed and a mile or two out of town they overtook . hilarious cowboys, killing one of them 1 wounding several. he d killing aroused indigna- tion the Territory boy or seriov ingly go their w had was had not a day into 1 DI 1lloped k to the Mayor's office and dis- ft it with a folded pie in his It bore the Mayor's signature pror to raise a certain amount the families of the dead cowboy Two days later came tain Dick to the town manded - from Cap- It de- \n or and with the , or there wc be some carefully aimed shooting from > cowboys. And it wa th the townspeople would be wror end of the guns this time money nd apology, d, besprinkled with seals and signed by leading citizens and officials, was hastily dispatched to Captain Dick. The | cowboys were satisfied with the apology, and so the matter ended When thi Captain Dick stricken wi oid \ it wa who nursed him throug sickne nd th the wptain’s nan usually. rode b captain’s A year the real identity of -*“Boy"” or Jack™ was discov: ered. all came through the teach in the country schoc king Jack to ri into town to bu 1er Som ribbon. It was late in the nC wh Jack reac Williams, the t A hurry, and the dry for wk d e of pink a cowbo r saloon, but wt store it is a While the cler off the ribbo: close to knocked ur The Cons prove e was shown to ick” had been x or be put in the s trial She told him her r had bec return to the L ns home ve promised 1 her M And Captain Dick sa; be “Boy” to him,