The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 1, 1899, Page 21

SCTOBER 1¥95, 5 ) 4 Lo YEARS AGQ REAVIY WAS A PROSPEROUS YOUNG hAW YER, ' t i 8 X Bt . hey [T s AN INFERNAL o ' I\OLCANIC ERUPTION ¢ Bl SNATTERED AND ! his lite- Wl HumMan FLesH r a “WiTH INFINITE TOIL ] HE DUG A& PIT" — e e L 3 the terrors v earth 1 rocked s an in- NO LE-DS THAaN o TRIRTEEN TIMES THE ¥ APOCHED AT TAUKED HIrM . xplosion, dous con- bowlders from ing-places and T 1 through ide which he had mo learned to hind the well nigh impregnable stone experiments, which gave him a clear and a quantity of broken rock. Dry walls of the place which was at once ldea as to the practical application of lea i ose were the days, however, his habitation and h rtr was this irrestible yet mysterious force. were walting In the darkness, alert and After fully deciding upon his method ceal evidences of & ready for the flerce onsl t. Dur r of procedure, the hermit' made a jor ground, and then lleys of the brief but bloody-engagement that ney to Tucson, a hundred miles sulatéd by b and devasta. followed Reavis' trusty rifle did deadly tant, to procure the arfiéles mecessary” Stretchéd along the n had the Work, and the discomfited warriors for the carrylng out of his plan. IHe 88h trees-that-bor It Wwere at last forced to retive, carrying had brought with him into the wilder- the battery conces with them the bodles of four of their among-his. other possessions, the cabin. g year the erything was. now complete, and d small ston attered over.th »able of 1ce-to. con- s g the of their de- 8 ulated the cruel and treacher s of the ance of the res were the roving rule s and plains” and 1d dealt de ever a -white 1 toer 1 to dispute ti ) over Was not long before they learned of the A hermit's advent info their wild do- Comrades. During the valle width, Be) tion Mounta into the heave the wildern the hermit's 6000 heri he pattery which had so amused and in- . ting out the tt and as soon as they dld they lone white & by _the sted him in° other days, therefore Reavis for the ‘advent of f and early in the afte ed to fmmolate him upon the APaches no less than thirteen times, po peeded only wire and powder to put his un He had not long to 9r' u [ dense shadow over r a vale and of their savage hatred for his &nd after each unequal battle he had pjq designs into exécution. These ar- walt, for on the third night after he SySr #ffef t canyon. The place, tc ) g race. the grim satisfacsion of cutting from ticles, after a long and dangerous trip, had finished his preparations for their %‘pn3 APAEN ni e tiee v f as isolated as a rock in midocean, ap- Being as cowardly as they are mur- £OUT t0 seven mortuary notches on his -quring which he was obliged to travel reception, as the moon was slowly lived secu S sy Rld and & : pealed particularly to vis' morbid derous, a band of a dozen painted war- @Y : Stick.” This, however, grew ;ignts and secrete- himself . and ' his sinking behind old Superstition, his . mountain home the bravest t a fashion pature. Here at least he would be riors stole up the preciplitous tral one Monotonous. Reavis had settled In pyrros during the daytime, he secured dog's low growl awoke him from his Warriors have fled at g approach ax event; his br ne of thé lovelie secure from the intrusion of wealth- night, and just as the morning sun was these mountains for the sake of peacegng prought back to his cabin,.and at light slumber. it he were the Death / in human p : 2y B e : and quiet and solitude, a1id -these-con- —gxiaupon his: arrival home began his ~ Silencing his {rusty friend by a low. oI ¢ air dan : his-home a mecking miners and the impertinent rising above-the Pinal range sounded Src A%/ TTC BVVACS ARG LIEC SO P & Y 4 g his trusty friend by 2 - " His bones have been burled. on o which curlosity of idle sight-seers. Few were who would ever climt by Indisputable proots Eed trall, since there we there their hideous war whoop in the si- hat rug- lence-deafened ears of the man -who rs far had heretofore reigned supreme in his work of preparation for the wholesale voiced word and a reassuring touch of rocky ridge near a tragedy he had-planned. ~his hand, Reavis péered out into the at least a hundred With infinite toil he dug a pit elght night and saw a dark figure steal from broken off old besides being expensive in the matter of ammunition. 5 by the which he of W shono= young Reavis easier and more accessible at a little mountain retreat. Fortunately, the _After much cogitation he evolved & feet deep and four feet-wide, straight the shadow of the bluff outside his in- cataclysmic e e tu upon civilization for- distance, and therefore would ever dog that had acgompanied him into ex- Pplan Which he thought, and-rightly, across the narrow pass which gave en- closure into the smadow of a clump of {‘L\T'm;;sld Yo Tect ithough ha 158 e eve c West, dwelt for think of venturing into the gloomy cul fle—a progenitor of the one that, too, as it proved, would forever rid him trance to hia home. Four kegs of trees just beyond his pit. Another and oo g, Apache remains e near re alone in the wilder- de sac which he had selected for his faithful unto death, defended his dead of these unpleasing distractions from powder containing fifty pounds each another followed until twenty-six were Arizona he will tell the tale of the ness rth Fork of the Feather home. master in these later days—awoke his well-settled plan of existence. The were then placed at equal distances gathered there together, and as the solitary white man who, years ago, R base-of Mount Shasta. He tollfully collected the pleces of Reavis from his slumbers before his idea he hit upon was a novel one. apart in the bottom of this pit, a hole silent watcher, scarc drawing killed the flower of their tribe by the B ing incursions of miners, broken bowlders which lay mcattered Savage foes could carry out thelr in- In his happy and hopeful early vears having first been made In the top of breath, kept his eyes fastened upon practice of dewlli h orcerysgand g s that part of the coun. over his'small territory, and built for tention of surrounding and making he had occupled his hours of recreat- each and wires fitted therein and care- them, they moved toward his cabin PEImitied fo HVe afisrward becaugs tr to him, as he found it himself a cavelike cabin on the banks him prisoner. tion by studving into the mysterles fully secured. These kegs Reavis cov- in a body, carefully keeping concealed & - power of one who is in league with 1 ible to eeclude himself from the of the little stream near the center of When their blood-chilling, challenge and. possibilities- of the electric - fluid, ered Wwith' a layer of earth tightly ‘under the shadow of the follage above t{he “Bad Spirit” and kills by maglo lcome Visits of wandering pros- his natural stockade, and prepared to rang out upon the midnight air, the and had conducted in his own labora- packed around them, and then filled them. Just where the pit stretched its flame .that. springs out of earth and pectors, who rudely broke into his gol- pass the remainder of his days in the beleaguered white man, entrenched be. tory & series of somewhat extensive the long hole solldly with more earth hidden length from side to side of the air at his bidding.