The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 7, 1900, Page 12

12 == “Black Jack™ Draws Near The End of His Ghastly Qareer Of Bloodshed time getting to rob more offices on his B e ak e . 1 st wY he platform ¥ It was Bart the mail nz on i £ - 2 ot »ag - A ) f them . Sm! T W . * * * Hedidn i x wanted to be P He m be a . > > vy e - ¢ g of the by gt 1t have o : p horned toad which & and was lying s from Trinidad arrivea Black Jack had lain h. His blood had he was too weak to care, him what his name was vens, and when they n for being there he said ome from the Panhandle to y or get killed. “It’s all up now,” g to work to find out w who the prisoner really was. It took very Jittle investigation to convince them that Black Jack was the man in hand. What- ever he had to say about being George Stevens made no difference. He was Black Jack, the man who for years had kept the postmasgers of New Mexico squirming with revolver in hand, who had eluded of pursuit and baffled the whole Southwest. His strong-featured face, with its deep set eves, heavy brows and blue-black shadow of coming beard over the ct it was the face that had risen up before frightened men and men were not frightened. They had al- ways given up, though, until now. That conductor had spoiled everything. New Mexico is prosecuting, for New Mexico can hang a man for train-robbing. The United States began a case far the shooting of Bartlett, but gave up soon end let New Mexico carry out its venge- ence. Rilack Jack lles he jail where it every posse who THEY HAVE CAUGHT HIM AT LAST has cast him, and he is waiting for its punishment. It has many an old score to settle be- fore it will be satisfied. Arizona has scores, t0o, and all the country as far as Oklahoma, but New Mexico has the most. Its postoffices have been looted, its post- office officlals hove been overcome, Time and time again a mythical Black Jack has been captured, and always it proved that the victim was some other criminal; and always Black Jack popped up again somewhere else. Government of- ficlals, armed snd on the lookout, have been defied by him. Detectives sent by the Government have schemed and watched and moved skillfully, silently, as if he were king in a game of chess, and never during those years was there a checkmate. He played better than they. He gathered about him a little band of kindred spirits. They were recruited from the ranks of rough-and-tough cowboys, cattle thieves and murderers. These came and went from time to time, but their leader escaped storm and strategy. Bight is supposed to have been the largest num- ber of men ever enlisted at once under the rule of the outlaw. What the gang lacked santity they ‘made up in quality, for re never have been men of so desperate a kind gathered together in one band. Thelr identity has been unceriain in most cases, as has their leader’s. He has now Ketchum, again MacDonald, in somebody else, and every been nd still aga e he turned out to be none of these and proved it by performing some new Black Jackian feat, while or Ketchum cDor other substitute lay in ja e time that it to be Mac- acquired a that was sional p! pist who d to poverty for found in goid into em shoot down the It whs aside for rmed of 's to owner natural for n as to chal. of full m to tep id the latter once. One of the sto- th ito the files of how he. parted from his men, was overtaken by {welve govern mental Winchesters and he faced then: He could hardly have done less. inas- much as they faced him, but he did far more. He looked them over coolly and then took aim. The Winchesters took aim, too. One of them finished his horse. It went down urder him all at once and she feit him- self on the ground and weaponle: The only thing even then that he thought oi was how to fight on. He never had a way of thinking long about anything. for he never had time. Therefore he rolled the horse over without delay and picked up his weapon which it had fallen upon. He was armed again. Jt was a simple matter. All he had to do was to shoot back. Some people might think that twelve against one would be uncomfortable for the one. That depends. Black Jack blazea =0 fast at the twelve that they fell back astonished and he was gone when they recovered. In his flight he met a horse- man, took the horse with a polite “thank you,” and rode on to join the boy: bad really been no trouble at all—it was hardly worth mentioning. The Black Jack gang never allowed an injury to go unavenged. At the time that Sid Moore was killed in Arizona Black Jack was very angry. He stormed littla, but that stiliness came over him—a still- ness that the gang knew—and he said that James Shaw should pay for Moore's death. This was because Shaw had gone to the officials of the State and reported. to them that the gang was in his nelgh- borhood and the officials had made a raid. The raid ended in a battle and Sid Moore’s head brought $1500 to somebody, for that was what the Government judged his head worth. When his dead body was shown people were very happy for awhile, for they thought it was the body of Black Jack. They found out later that they were mistaken, for Jacx was himself or- ganizing an attack upon Shaw that was carried out with characteristic prompt- ness. His house was the first object of at- tack. When Shaw was away from It one day tje house disappeared of a sudden on account of dynamite, and a little later his horse fell under him, shot by the mern who had blown up the house. The chances are that the gang would not have stopped at shooting the horse They had no particular grudge against the horse, and his killing looked like a mere preface to hostilities. Officers in- terfered, however, before matters went any further and Shaw was saved from capture and torture such as was to be expected at the hands of the bandits. Their vengeance was only begun at that time, but later they topped it off by shoot- ing Shaw when he was riding near the Arizona line. For five years it has been going on. For five years Black Jack has held New Mex- ico and Arizona un- der his thumb and they have resisted in vain They ‘ K are how | Sl R e getting even. ST ADY man; 15 v In the New Mexico jail he waits for finalities ha ome NOW times of prosperity. for his wounds haye healed and his great, sp! sique shows to good advantage Black Jack is always good form, he speaks the speech of the man who knows the world of good breeding, the worll as he was in @ again, where men are also gentlemen. So much is the Jekyll of him. It is the Hyde that his victims have faced. s Caprices of the Young Queen of THolland. OW that she has been reigning for two years, the young, Queen of Holland doubtless may select her wardrobe according to the dictates of her own’taste. A lady who lived for some years at the court of Willlam III of Holland tells of various conflicts of opin- ion that occurred between Wilhelmina and her mother before the coronation of the former. One day a merchant brought various fabrics to the two royal ladies for their approval. The youngest cast longing glances at some of the artistic textures, which fell so casily into .graceful folds, but the elder arranged a stiff alpaca across the back of the chair and said: ““This will be our first choice. “No,” cried the daughter, “you may take it if you like, THE SUNDAY CALL The JBandit JFace but I will never wear an alpaca gown, even in the morning. I have a horror of the stuft.” . The Queen-mother paid no attent! this objection, merely saying quietly: will take it.” The young Queen sprang to her feet, and golng to the door, which she opened with a jerk, sald as she turned on the thresh- old: “Thank heaven, I shall ere long be able to choose my gowns, my friends and my husband, for you need not think that I am ignorant of the plots in wWhich you are engaged upon my account.” At ove time the Queen Regent decided that her daughter should wear nothing but white, and Wilhelmina, growing tired of the monotony of her wardrobe, deter- mined that she would have a rose-colored gown, telling one of the maids of honor to order for her a dress of coral-coloied gatin. Poor Countess Van R., who found herself between two fires, as wers all the court ladies of Holland at that time, bought the satin desired, which was of g very brjliant color, and ordered it made YOUNG man from wiii work for stars B SEANMSTRESSES ean T, JOHNSTON. Afiborn ‘Hedss, — after a design given her in secret bY Queen Wilhelmin.. Some days later, while the ladies of the court were seated on the terrace taking afternoon tea a large vastebcard box was brought out. A gleam of malice danced in the bright eves of the young Queen, but the Countess van R. complained of a sud- den indisposition and ‘mmediately effaced herself. The Queen Regent uttered a cry of mingled anger and dismay when the box was uncovered; then she said coldly to her daughter: “Is that for youreelf? Could you not have chosen a shade still more glaring and vulgar? You forget, my dear, that though you are fresh and agreeable to look at, as are all girls of your age, dis- tinction is not your forte. This gown is entirely too conspicuous.” She shook out the folds and threw it on a chair, adding sarcastically: *“It would do very well fir Mia to wear to the kirmess.” Mia is the foster sister of Wilhelmina, a plain, awkward peasant girl g whose large ears were made still larger, it is averred, from so often having been pulled by the baby fingers of her royal play- mate. On the day of the kirmess the two Queens went to hear the national airs of their country and to watch such of their ssubjects as were swaying about in the rhythm of the waltz. As the royal car- riage drove up the dancing ceased and a strange couple detached itself from the group and approached the equipagé \ Wilhelmina hid her face behind her white fan, but her mother started with surprise. It was Mia who hurried for- ward, dragging a red-faced, clumsy youth by the hand. The girl simpered as shs waddled along in the gown of coral-col. ored satin which her Majesty Wilhelmina bad sent on the previous evening with the command that she should wear it to the kirmess as a special mark of royal favor. However proud she may have felt at the honor thus conferred upon her, poor Mia was evidently suffering physically, for the dress was much too small for her, & fact shown by the seams, which were al- most bursting, and by the absence of many of the hooks and eyes. Her tomato- colored face, rising above a ruching of rose-colored creps, wore the true expres- sion of a martyr, that of ecstacy and agony combined. “Come nearer, my dear,” sald Wilhel- mina. “How charming you ars! You must thank the Queen, for it was she who ad- vised me to give you this beautiful red dress. Mamma, this is Jan, Mia’s flance, Who is proud to see nis betrothed so well dregsed. Is it not so, Jan?"” Yan, who rather mistrust- ed the motive for this gift, mut- tered some- thing un- der his breath and then Kissed the la- dfes’ hands. But Mia at the earliest opportunity removed the few remaint and replaced them with From America to Europe, Only Four Days. To have the fastest ocean ships on the shortest ocean passage, the am- bition of Sir Sanford Fleming and the hope of all the commercial world, is much nearer realization to-day than ever before. Concessions have just been granted by the Right Hon. Sir Wiltrid Laurfer, Pre- mier of Canada. and the Hons George H. Murray, Premier of Nova Scotia, to the Cape Breton Railway Extension Com- pany, limited, to aid in the completion of a railway line between Port Hawkesbury and Louisburg, a distance of about one hundred miles. This raflroad promises to be a #mall link, but an integral one, in a vast scheme of fast European mail de- livery. Though the scene of endeavor is afar oft in the land of Longfellow's Evangeline. the motive power lies close at hand. Rob- ert J. Campbell of Boston, brother of Frank Campbell, former State Treasurer of New York, is president of the new rail- road, and with the Hon. Edmund Gurvin, Q. C., of Montreal, was instrumental in securing concessions from the Canadian governments. The raiflroad company has mads a contract with the Manhattan Con- tracting Company of this city to construct the road at a cost of about $30,000 a mile. This concern has done a great deal of government work in Porto Rico and Cuba during the last year and has millions of dollars behind it. One of its moving spirits is Dr. Seward Webb, and the Vaa- derbilt interests, it is suspected, have an eye on the prospective dsvelopment of this little spur of track. The Boston Globe is responsible for the statement that it takes the Kalser Wil- helm or any similar present malil steamer seven days, including the detention at New York, to deliver the English mails in Boston, and if shows how the same vessels could deliver their malils in five days by the Cape Breton ports. BSpeed being the prime consideration in business circles anything that lessens the gap be- tween the continents is of moment.~ The faster the travel the more popular the route. With the completion of the new road quicker connection than new ewists will be formed between the United States and Europe, as it is proposed to establish a service of fast steamers between Louls. burg and the principal Buropean ports, which will” act in conjunction with the railroad. The distance from Louisburg to England is less than 2000 miles, while from New York it is more than 3000 miles. The or- dinary time consumed in the voyage from Loulsburg to England will be three to hree and a half days. It now takes ‘he fast steamers from New York to cover the distance to England from six and a half to seven and a half days. By tak- ing a train at New York for Louisburg the pas- senger will Peach that city in from two to two and A half days b making will meet v inc carry the mails to thei tions along the route and t tributed from thirts chi hours in advance of the system at pres- ent. The late Austin Corbin Long Island Railroad ar president of the d a recognized authority on ocean transit, had this to y on the su of quicker communi- ation between nd Europe: “The introduct means of rapid transit betWeen the two English speaking nations, wholly free from in- conveniences, delays and hazards due to tides, fogs and storms, encountered in rarrow and crowded waterways and along dangerous coasts, Is of the utmoss fmportance to all trans-Atlantic-travelers who look upon the voyage as a necessary means to an end. The universal demand is for the shortest possible sea passage for travelers and the quickest delivery of mails. The port of Louisburg possesses all the advantages enumerated above, and, in ad- dition, the harbor, which is said to be the finest In America, has an average depth of more than forty feet, and is open all the year around, never freezing over, ow- ing to its proximity to the Gulf Stream. One of the chief industries of Cape Breton Island is the mining of soft coal, and there are now employed in that work more than ten thousand men. The popu- lation of Sydney has grown from thirty- two hundred to eight thousand In one year. Lobster canning 1s another indus- try, and fifty factories run the entirs year. The island is thirty-one hundred miles square, or about two million acres, including inland waters, a great portion of which is covered by forests and un- reclaimed land. There is mineral wealth in abundance and all that is needed is capital to extract fortunes from the earth. There is little doubt that capital would have become invested long ago had THE TERROR OF TH SOUTHWEST Now Roolly Faces Death Behind the Bars of a ~ Jail ip To the average reader very knowa about the istand of Cape and it may sesm some of statements are sxaggerated, be stated positively that & New York capitalists has sufficient amount of meney with the concessions to insure the ing of the road. Work will be eam. menced within thirty days aad will g pushed forward rapidly by the Maahats tan Contracting Company of this «itp, which has taken the contrast te Smish the road within the specified thma The most extensive establishment the manufacture of iron and stesl I Cwte ada is the Dominion Ircn and Steel Comss pany, limited, capital 320,000,000, located on the harbor at Sydney, Cape Bretes, of the heaviest capitalists in Amer. fca, including H. M. Whitney of Bostes, The of the smett~ is directly em the are interested In ing works and plant Sydney harbor, receipt of raw mater! finished P work of cons tor somethi Really No Saf Place on Earth. Y scientists insist that it Is to live anywhere figures to pr e pole danger abounds, and fr s are 1 spot on t e that not a square mile in some Ohio and Mis: low water leve tion by fres rec neetown the fate of Jok on high places, where a broken wall w send millior g hund s. centl iter o eastern hills, u = sh h many houses stand. New Orleans levees, able ta lies below her break in any I As to earthquakes, there is ne place that has not felt t roneous and DOF tropical T kes. Even ry have been thquakes have York within this cer d to come to-d tha rapers ar n Torr \es, are liable to st e th ns, and wher es up the work e polar re not live the blizzard t scaring mankind It is a well kn entire rate all at once and W Vast tracts of Ho e of the ¢ Kkept out with the says that Holland, Bel suthern are rising. islands are b West Indies, t America and series of Jap slands rose from t waves In a comp brief tim In 1§11 200 miles of earth about New Madrid, Mo., shook con: ¢ for mon Lakes were formed drained. Mud shot out from high as the tops of the fre turbances ceased suddenly of the great earthquake on March 28, which destroyed Cara Thousands of farms no Missourt district and C again. “The Land That Swings Like a erfousty, Ham- mock” s the name given the territory about San Sa pre America. That city was utterly d by an earthquake on March 19, 1§ the people had grown alarmed and deserted it, so only 300 were killed. tlourishes to-day. But 1 pite of these terror: calmly Most men never study nature, and so do mot know thesesthings. Others read of them in their school books and forget them along with their Latin ana mythology. Only the professional seten- tists keep them ever in mind, and these are not alarmed, for they Know thers really no safe place on earth, anyhow,