The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 2, 1900, Page 17

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THE DAY CALL The Ro - ¢ in a war paint of foam: claimed his £ ‘times’ bis vernable. An 1 robbed ‘his son ery Amerlcan he 1 with the crime, caped. In fact, the = murderer rush from ftuted with Duteh at hustasm on ers paled before M the Americans at b r was forgotten in e for gold. Carlos hated Charley with interest compounded, gor arley upon this man, MA m was an Ameriean N | WEL AnD 86 ~ CAI'FoRN f which v 15 A STATET thought of her last terrible scene with her father, when she begged to be released from the marriage. She had protested at first, then she flatly refused to marry this man, but a eudden gleam of insanity In her father's eye signaled the limit of his cuffering and drew consent from her lips But the word cf mouth is:often at vari- ance with the desire of the heart, and at night, when the little adobe house at Grizzl? Flat smiled In the moonlight— ithin. Claressa knelt before a shrine of mance of THangtown— 1 rights for the Virgin and prayed till night shifted into day, the something might happen to prevent the marris Now her faith in p! fnto thin air as the rer. It would take ve her now yer'a er dis: sipated itself vinous dust cloud rolled nes miracle to as the stage dashed up and drew rein in front of the hotel and the enthusi- astic Charley jumped down from °the at, she felt a flash of inspiring ariver's hope re miners would have \m, for he. wore a sthes and a white ywn, was deem- r suspicion. on Dutch Charley, the left ressa, after a hasty irned to Duteh’ Charley, ope, He had risen to the top of an empty barrel r had_rolled out for the purp He looked a splendid savage with- his 1 ch on the ac of his head and a ain of n around his neck, ean-up, Claressa’s heart beat fast as she 1ooked ed. He told the crowd of tha ship with pennants flying that had salled into San Francisco harbor, bringing the good news, and of ihe excitement that followed. The Governor happened to be in San Francisco when the news arrived. At Portsmouth Square speeches were made, and from there the crowd betook and 1 themselves to the saloons on Mor in the old -C street to celebra fashion. of the State L hood without the ship of belng a territory. rival. Long and caref “Now she's a State bhoys. < Dutch Charle 11 narrative. ““Hu slouch. hat in the air, “Haw earnest he seems,” t} essa. If he should = “Cl it Just then he turned and ca hungry look in her eyes ¢ tultive mental telegraphy orshipful love rel and mad crowd who wer Manuel, the 1 in the situation age, and just as ‘s side Ma of him. I of hatred n his he said arm i prie John prietary role his they follow old Carlos aetir No gal could Kk ik it a 1 get led away from T Jim on the porch. “And she is a fr Ramon is AH became bar-ter Hotel. He watched tt with the air of e adm taste entered and face lit up going to happen “Come,"” to Jim and —a toast to eyes blazed “I hate your State and ¥ Hang- e | ang. Charley, “w Ng th 1 F rame of Ha Then holding h “Here's to Californfa—long 1 ¥ t Pacheco smashed his glass on the ba 3 J He seemed vested with a new A * new heaven and earth were oy re g s 7 him. F d he need no lons 1w rley could hurl them in t cursed. In the silence that followed this outburst, he fell back from the bar was halted by the sight c volvers leveled at his breast. He had I do want Cla overestimated the power 3 inam great and moral code in Hangt of p There Greene was never ¢ “Make him drink the criad with the air of a took a step forward. With a cry Claressa flung herself in fair . 7 front of her father wi her dark eyes. One by one the rev s the belts as one by one heads, for a woma was a rare Hangtown. She seemed out here; like a rose in the m ral. Each thought of his sweetheart so far away, and the stage driver leaned over and whispered to Texas Jim that s was “most as purty as his Mary Ann, drank the t back In Nova Scotia.” And Then John Folsom came forward, for tained its nam the show of arms had driven hilm into the was changed to background. he and Clares n Folsom—Hangtown re- year before it EL FRASER

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