Our handsome sheriff, Mr…
source date: 1890
availability: public-domain

Our handsome sheriff, Mr. Whitehill, while engaged in hunting for Brock, the murderer of the Chinaman, had the misfortune to tumble into one of the many Mexican shafts on the Pacific vein openings. His rotundity alone saved him; the Mexican who timbered that shaft must have been gifted with prophetic foresight, and evidently divined that some day a large man would tumble into the opening, and whose safety depended on an extra amount of adipose, which would lap over the timbers and thus check a downward course. It required but a moment to extricate him from his uncomfortable position.