The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 14, 1900, Page 4

THE SUNDAY CALL. — Lucky Baldwin tells how be bas mad The Eormer Millionaire Writes the History of His Varied Carger With Tis SugCesses and Failures. He Explaing Why Re Intends Trying Fortlune RAgain in the Far North and What Ris Expecta- HE £ rina stock kings is going to seck new domains. Flood, Fair long win s prepa where he mad that at one time was va e on tem million dollars The burning of the Baldwi tel some wmonths ago left a $2 L ws i " is that wm 1ys the rtg his Santa $ the mortgage on his Sc romnch the m 1 zed from win ¢ he «oill be “land boor.” Pine i 1d J J o T 1e - tune, Toiho 1§ ¢ 1 that a and pose. And all luck -1is still —_—— qfi T hat sails for Cape thing 1 go ahead and do do when T get to ; 10 take along with m gest and best tent that money w . r after I land N will be staked on be move into. m = oking at machinery, for 1 intend to work by modern methods any hold of. Al the nec- will be shipped on the I eall on. sesides the acd machinery, I am 1 fron bullding 100 feet long @ feet wide. This bullding will be Are Regarsin e the work At g nt I that. her. 1 to what A man 1 nall or t for. I am going ve T'll be is, and therefore I bel the future as I have been in all luck as lucky i the past man makes his own luck. The lucky man is a rustler and his luck is in hir ot in his sta The man who rus s the man who succeeds. They cali me “Lucky” Baldwin, but I know of but one time in my life that I won out on pure lu en I was in an in tl nt a forelgn ul there sum of money. He returned it with a very valuable and pe- r ring, which he 1 i on my finger ¢ seventle The ring was greatly ad- o, but I never me any luck. At tts were deal- particular share he was wear the n. 1 sold profit e and knows how to get it Aside from the de- sire of making a forlune I want to live the cle engage in et ba a firs busines er and dissembl prop your g principle ready to use other any hat's the kind of all to the big mines. in the hum of a mining town. When t a ' mining camp mining nes that a man For everything else you but mining is sition—if you strike without ian between you and the occupation in ies 80 Bhard as in mining— ays millions just ahead for thing 1 1f I had twenty boys I'd send them The chief reason for my determination to g0 to Nome is to show people that “Laucl ' Baldwin's luck is still with him. I'm strong, full of energy, willing to take big chances and ready to work. That's #imple, but {t's the only thing T ever got in my life that I didn't work for. They talk about “the luck I had cross- ing the plains. 1 did make money coming across the plains, and that in '53, when £0 many left their bones to bleach in the desert. But I had sat up nights planning and thinking and not trusting to luck. We started from Racine, Wis., with twenty- six wagons. Six of the wagons belonzed to me, a number of people coming as my passengers. I had made a little morey and every cent of it was in- vested in this undertaking. That first thousand dollars, the profits of a grocery store in Wisconsin, was & great deal harder to make than the next hundred thousand that I made. ‘When we reached Balt Lake our party eplit up, some of them buying their wagons from me and traveling in differ- G the New Land of Gold. ent directions. I had brought along & wagon load of teas and tobacco, which I sold to Walker Brothers at a good profit. Two other wagons were stocked with fine brandics and wines. Brigham Young sent his brother out to our camp to negotiate for these and 1 finally sold them to kim at my own price. Brigham Young's brother came to the camp dafly and gave us much friendly ad- vice about the route to take on the rest of the journey. He urged me to depart from the road usually chosen by travelers, insisting that the other was easler, safer, and that we could find better feed for the horses. ,We took his advice. It was just after the famous Mountain Meadow massacre by the Utah Indlans and we were naturally fearfui of meeting the same fate. But Brigham Young's brother assured us that by traveling over the road he had mapped out we would es- cape all danger. The second morning out we were prepar- ing breakfast, when suddenly a shot from the rocks above pierced the coffee pot, spilling the coffee over the coals. We made for our wagons, the women and children tottering with fear. Then com- menced a fusillade to the accompaniment of wild Indian yells. Mrs. Baldwin put our 2-year-old baby in the safest spot in the wagon and. bravely stood out of cover and loaded guns for me. One of my shots laid low their chief and the Indians, wild with rage, came closer to the wagons. An Indian laid bands on a young girl crouched in the back of the wagon and would have escaped with her had not one of our party shot him just in time. ‘War ,whoops were now heard in the distance and the Indians retreated, evi- dently to join another bapd. They left nine of their party dead behind them, but we ourselves had several wounded. I have always belleved and still think that Brigham Young’s brother was the cause of the Indian attack, and while I have no positive proof, I am in- clined to think that he was with them disguised as an Indian, for the road that it 105 @ I gy - he had suggested was In every respect ‘Wworse than the main traveled one and had not one of the advantages he claimed for it. In fact, it was impassable, and we had to turn back to the other road. Young knew that T had several thousand dollars with me from the sale of the li- quors, teas and tobacco, and I shall al- ways believe that he incited the Indians in the hope of obtaining this money. The girl whom the Indians attempted to steal afterward married a man named Shaw and went to San Bernardino to live. She has five children, all married, with families of their own. In later years I gent the famous painter Cross to the ex- act spot in Utah where we were attacked and had him paint the scene from the de- scriptions we had given him of the scrim- mage. The survivors of the party have each a photograph of the painting, and “SHOWSHOE THOMPSON the original is the most prized canvas on Anita. ded 1 Santa Ila ranch at n the da m) San Francisco to work for ; me up to Mont- reet then, which was filled with I rented the Pacific Temper- turned it o a hotel, work- 1y and night in a few days it was the best paying house in town. I ran the hotel just two weeks and then sold out, making $7000 on the deal The next thing I went into was the RESCUESLuCcky™ e ettt ) » brickmaking b very short need bricks for catraz a stone, that to myself. I went Into par P with & man whe had a small b yard and to read up ng that I e the subject bricks. I was af ask q for fear it would t know bricks from cobbles. of two months I dissoived out At @600 G 00 LS ST IO SULITOE LD DTS DAL HTI00@ Figures Show War Is Not Deadly. e only bove ground that don't lie—that war is not de trovertible 80 man 1 b any wa g fact kills mc s still mo 1 f nounceme that ¥ n 4 from disease would By in peac The axior 1 of 1 to ki throw at to val nto Grant bean in a hat of i folded N out t showing leaves behind that to come back from the all. American newspapers pre lar joyful intelligence for our soldie the early stages of the war with Spain We showed that it took more than 3780 cartridges to kill a Johnny Reb in our Civil War, not to mer a ton and a half of lead and nearly a ton of pow- T And a r we had wiped i the map of the w hemisphere and began nce up gratified to learn that $100,000 and expended in us while Dewey, put Montejo to s Senditure of shot and shell worth $45,000 end losing no lives. So England is congr ating her: that at Majuba Hill, in the last war with ep b e Judic the Boers, only eighty-five out of the Britons »d were killed, hoping, how- ever, that such a mortality won't occur again. At Omdurman, in the Souda hes lost 10,000 of the! England lost only fif when the Derv force of 50,000, two men killed. Though no artillery ever was handled better than that of the Germans in the war of 1§70, yet when they shelled Mezieres in that year at the rate of three and a half shells a minute, and when they had dispatched 193,000 projectiles into tr town, less than 1% per cent of the inhab- ftants were killed, or it took 643 shot or shell to kill one person. At Thionville it took 15,000 shells to kill each person fall- ing, while at Lorgny 30,000 shells failed in wounding a single individual. At Belfort 99,453 German sheils killed sixty French men; a 193,722 shells found 300 Shitha o cach Pastatin hifled tn the It took 200 is from the German burg to break to a house. round wound a Compared battles ar days of regard t tal about $80,000 ¢ itis e mated that 5 per 4 m ed were killed In battle, d of their wounds or of disease, but of the 50,000 who ow: ir de to this ¢ 25,000 fell to L] of the rema g 000 who succumbed from disease %0 probably would have died in ordinary circumstances apart from the war. took 400 shots to kill each of the 77,000 Frenchmen who fell. In the Crimean campaign, including the siege of Sebastopol, 740 shots were fired for every Russian killed. Of the British lives lost in this campaign or 12 per cent, or t 2750, died in batt the remainder succumbed to disease and privation, assailants far more deadly, as a rule, than bullets. The Prussian-Austrian war of 188 and the Japanese war entailed a loss of life of less than 4 per cent of the combatants,