The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 10, 1901, Page 1

g : ; This Paper not . ¥ to be taken from arter’s Portable Dress?ng.RcomwB&"A?flfi?iEfigg% Page Page Page il l 5 e etories. He sits edge of his » 1 3 ? & . 1 h / THE WHITE r not ! ONE WONT DO . g s i Y £ ME ANY GOOD off across tha rendered, bel having the best selves to that,’ 1 ever returned th upon short he adds, with his twin ean't quite do awa v ¥ theuxht it was Just A. Rusk a romantic life, 1t octaw woman, who are living the name ast, weary and pose, and “ MY COLONEL. WAS ONE OF THE MOST TERRIBLE. _ DESPERADOES Travis &rifte€ to Arimoms sod Caes W practiced law, Not that he 2sd ever wtudied it or thousht of doing se, though hin father was a ! $ b happened to see one m: in the fnformal way t in that country, sation he remerik could clear him. “I ness that things ar and 500 was fixed. then to practies law f fore being admitted to Hs won. He cleare: mitting the crime and of the murdersr and h witnesses. “When I ter I said, ‘Gentl the power of epe witn tled Tra as he stayed In to the bar. L Rangers and at broken in health, a r tune. “I have been in diff Btate working when have done ev tng to_dishwash the point where I « thing I have to give G that Dr. MecC longer to live. Dr. McClea the time, bu only make it a litt FEs s o nfter us, o I contrived to get my shackle apart. I tled it wita a string and when , we were out sweeplng on the morning of our rescue I made my escape. I sifpped away with two gamblers, one at a time, and had wound up in New Orleans. Shs was as homely as ever; there was never any attraction about her except her money, which Texas made her heir to. *T remember & lfttle incident of the last of those days, There were two brothers in the !ine and one of them was a cripple. The other drew a black bean, but the He Just ‘Kept on he Britsh mattery the sur- gave 1n, be be landed in His surrender was 1de of the agreement d. Walker was shot in- nis body buried beside the Ahead and folded and pick ay where I saw nel Travis. came terrible times' for the Ubusters. Each morning for a calabush was passed three days RAway. /v along ‘the line of them. The gourd con- Ttaineds a lot of white beans and three bimck enes; the linedup filibusters drew lots. Edehtmorning for'three days three holders of black' beans were led out to be shot. 3 & bave o black bean. It's an easy way to get rid 6f myself. “Before the fourthlots were gver drawn the authorities interfered and: the: ar- rangement was made to send all of us off to a United States port. I dldn’t take ad- vantage of the arrangement, howeyer, for .this reasom. A “I was getting pretty tired of sweeping ,the streéts for my captors.. That's what they wers making the whole lot of us do every day. We wore shackles and we had to sweep as if the devil was { shop. Then I sneaked out and got aboard the French corvette Imperiale. It carried me to Graytown, where I was put aboard an Italian fruit vessel. I wound up at New Orieans, wheve I found my com- panions' of, the flilbustering expedition. They had arrived cnly & short time be- fore me. - “It wap while I was staying In New Or- leans.that I ran across my old school- mate, Apgeline Dickerson, the Daughter of Texas and Babe of the Alamo, She hgd been masried to, Britton, bad rig crippled hrother made him exchange. ‘The into the shop of an old Mexican wo: b Sl e - W t Sl h' white one won't do me any gocd,’ he sald, and for two days I lay between the mat- Captain mee- Martin of Houston was giothes, and some kind p en asning Tm & coipple now for life and I'd better tresses of a bed In her house back of the . the first of the gamblers and sha left him noy jet me k to go with a man named Duffield. A man named Lee cut Duflield out in the end and he made away with Babe's money and finished her career for her.™ Travis’ next advertures were with Gen- eral Robert Wheat. With him he went on the Sardinian expedition under Gari- baldl and although the fight was a win- ning one still there wers no profits for the winners. “Always I have been play- ing in bad luck,” the old man says. “No profit or glory, either one.” ‘When he returned to America he went t sent me a I Croesus to- but that won't ta see, where I w homes there for Co sold a 12 T could go there I could die among my own peopl avis opened a burean drawer and d ed his neat lttle lar- der containing a bag of crackers, a tes steeper and tea. * “I am so rich to-day that § can have & fine dinner of érackers and tea,” he sald