“You see that limb,” said Mr…
source date: 1888
availability: public-domain

k off his babbit metail as silver retort, and ap- proaching the judge, offered it to him. It did not look exactly right, and the judge, who was paying about $1 per ounce for good clean re- tort, informed “Arrastra” that he would have to clean it before it was purchased. “Arrastra” demurred to this proposition, stating that there was another party interested with him, and that tampering with the bullion would not be satis- factory to him. He agreed to take 75 cents per ounce for the almost worthless babbit metal, which was paid him. He went off chuckling to himself that he had worked the judge. The bullion was expressed to New York and found to be worthless. “You see that limb,” said Mr. Bell, point- ing to the projecting limb of an old scrub juni- per tree, a few feet from his 10-stamp mill. “Well, that assisted Dan Diamond into eternity. He was hanged by vigilantes for killing an old butcher named Schwartz in the early days of the camp.” From the February 3. 1888, Issue of The Enterprise Frank Lenoir, a member of the mercantile firm of Stevens, Gardner & Co., Georgetown, was killed by being precipitated 75 feet down the Naiad mine, Wednesday. His neck was broken. Deceased was a brother-in-law of Thos. B. Pheby, and had been in Georgetown two years. Prior to that he was for several

k off his babbit metail as silver retort, and ap- proaching the judge, offered it to him. It did not look exactly right, and the judge, who was paying about $1 per ounce for good clean re- tort, informed “Arrastra” that he would have to clean it before it was purchased. “Arrastra” demurred to this proposition, stating that there was another party interested with him, and that tampering with the bullion would not be satis- factory to him. He agreed to take 75 cents per ounce for the almost worthless babbit metal, which was paid him. He went off chuckling to himself that he had worked the judge. The bullion was expressed to New York and found to be worthless. “You see that limb,” said Mr. Bell, point- ing to the projecting limb of an old scrub juni- per tree, a few feet from his 10-stamp mill. “Well, that assisted Dan Diamond into eternity. He was hanged by vigilantes for killing an old butcher named Schwartz in the early days of the camp.” From the February 3. 1888, Issue of The Enterprise Frank Lenoir, a member of the mercantile firm of Stevens, Gardner & Co., Georgetown, was killed by being precipitated 75 feet down the Naiad mine, Wednesday. His neck was broken. Deceased was a brother-in-law of Thos. B. Pheby, and had been in Georgetown two years. Prior to that he was for several