Jake Heffly seems to be singularly unfor-…

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number of other prisoners charged with minor offenses. From the August 23, 1889, Issue of The Enterprise ♦ Jake Heffly seems to be singularly unfor- tunate. A few years ago he made money at Georgetown faster than anybody. He then married and moved onto a ranch, when his luck changed. Nothing went right for him. Last spring he moved back to Georgetown and again opened the National hotel. Business was dull, so he let his wife run the house, while he went to work. Not long since he took a prospecting trip, and on his return found that his wife had taken his best team and wagon, sold the furni- ture and left the country. Jake took the loss very philosophically, but that was not all, for he soon discovered that his wife had contracted any number of debts, large and small, which would completely wipe up all his remaining property and leave him in debt besides. He has now a lease on some pretty good ground in a mine, and hopes soon to be able to pull out clear of the world. When last heard from his wife was in Colorado. He will not follow her.