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Poughkeepsie Seml-Weehly Eagle, December 38,1889. ©idgiiial Written for tlib E agle . BFLLT HAYES, THE PI- EATE OF THE PACIFIC. taon, moreover, isolated him a good deal from the rest of the little conamimity. T H E STRANGE STORY OF A OOUBEB E IE E . A SLAVE TRADER AND PIRATE W HO W AS FOR YEARS REGARDED .AS SIM P L Y A RESPECTABLE SEA CAPTAIN. [Copyrighted 1889, by the Author.! CHAPTER I. THR TRAGEDY AT THE CROZELS. If a m an wished to bury himself in oblivion, while yet retaining many of the enjoyments of life, he could not find on earth a spot to suit him better than Nelson, at the head of Blind Bay, in the Middle Island of New Zealand. Sleepy Hollow is the name it goes by, from its tranquil, sunny, dreamy climate and the total indifference of its inhabitants to aH that is going on in the outside world. Nelson is divided into two distinct parts, the Town and the Port. The Town consists of two or three old-fashioned, slumbrous streets of shops, merging into TOWS of pretty houses in blooming gar dens and orchards, with a background of wooded hills and snowy peaks. The Port is a mile and a half from the Town and is, if possible, even more picturesque and slumbrous. The colors are so bright, everything is so spick and span, and drop scene above the quay, overlooking the glitter ing bay, are a number of charming Ilduses, each enclosed in a little paradise, of fiowers and fruit and all embowered in passion vines and honeysuckles and climbing roses, which blossom all the year roundi The residents of the Town are mostly favorite abode of sea captains and the nautical fraternity generally. To have a snug homp of his own at the Port of Nelson is the life’s dream of every mas ter mariner in those tempest-tossed waters. In one of the prettiest houses at the father, body knew exactly where Captain Hayes came from, but his wife was the daugh ter of a weU-to-do farmer in the prov ince, and he made himseff so pleasant to all his neighbors that they did not trouble themselves much about his ante cedents. He was a big jolly looking fellow, with rather a foolish face, and he was known everywhere for his good nature and liberality. He was always ready to oblige a friend, or even a stranger, and his simplicity in money matters was a standing joke at the Port. Just as nobody knew where he- came from, so nobody knew exactly how he got his living, though, in a little place like that, it is everybody’s business to find out everybody else’s business. He always bad plenty of money and be never had any debts, two things which allay impertinent curiosity more than anything else. Yet he was not known to be in any employment or to have an interest in any vessel trading to that port. He owned a little yacht, the lily; but she was a m ere pleasure boat, and li's excursions in her seldom extended bByond the numerous inlets and small harbors within a couple of days’ sail of Nelson, where splendid fishing is to be got. [His neighbors remarked, how ever, that the captain often went away of life at the Port, when a catastrophe occurred which woke up Sleepy Hollow as it had never been awakened before. Some thirty miles from Nelson, on the eastern shore of Blind Bay, there is a miniature harbor, dotted with lovely islets, which D’Urville, the early French navigator, named the Croixelles, univer sally pronounced Crozels by the colonists. There are no habitations in the neighbor hood except a few huts, which are only tenanted at some seasons by fishermen or by brushmen cutting spars in the surrounding forests; and it is separated from the settled districts by a barrier of rugged hills. For three parts of the year Crozels Harbor is in absolute solitude, unless for some amall craft running there for shelter,- or, at rare intervals, some yachting or picnic party from Nelson. One day towards the end of Jime, which is midwinter in that latitude, the only living creature at this lonely spot was a half-caste named Peri,—^Maori for Perry,—a whaler who had settled there away back in the savage days and taken aative wife. Peri was a fisherman, when not too lazy to work, and on this occasion he had gone 9 ,lone in his canoe from a Maori settlement near Nelson, where he lived, in the hojje of making a haul of mullet, which sometimes aboimd at the Crozels. The weather, however, was very stormy, and Peri, glad of an excuse for doing nothing, had drawn np his canoe on the.^ smooth, shelly beach and made himself comfortable in one of the deserted huts, to wait for the wind to go down. Having eaten a hearty meal of pipisi, a kind of clam for which the Maoris have the half-caste lit aed against the doorway of the\ hut, watching the siuf breaking on the rocky shore of the islets and send ing up columns of featUery spray. To his astonishment he observed a small vessel entering the harbor under a heavy spread of canvas. She looked a mere toy boat, and Peri, wondering wbat madman bad come out in such a craft in such weather, went down to the landing place and squatted on the sand to see her come in. The first thing he noticed was that the boat was being sailed in a very peculiiar yachtsman was, he carrying a great deal too much sail to beat into such a narrow entrance with safety, and Peri felt sure that he would come to grief if a squall struck him when he lost the shelter of the island at the mouth of the harbor. Suddenly the boat went about to tack past’ the island, and Peri then saw that it contained a woman and two children, besides the man who was steering. Knowing they were in ~reat danger, he ran to his canoe and auled it down to the water’s edge to he ready to render assistance. ••The onlj chance they had was to let go the shed and lower the jib before they came ou1 into the open channel where the tide was running like a sluice and the wind was lashing the troubled waters into foam. But no, they came right on with all sails full. The next moment the boat got. [His ever, that tl ^ on long journeys, sometiiyies lasting for months, and that when he returned he was mo':e sunburnt than is usual in the temperate climate of New Zealand. It was surmised from this that he was in the habit of visiting Australia, a belief which was strengthened by his common ly paying for everytliing in gold, -especially those light colored Sydney sovereigns, which were the universe medium of trade among the islands of the Pacific, hut were not often seen in New Zealand. Hlis hands were hard and rough, sho^ving that he worked at some thing; and the prevailing theory was that he had a share in a mine, and took Ids tm-n with his partners in working it, 3 iot an uncommon practice in those days. Mrs. Hayes never talked about her hus band’s affairs; but from casual remarks which she sometimes made, it was gath ered that they drew their income \from abroad, though never a shilling was Imown to come to them through the post office or the banks.] times reading the service when the cler of great assistance in the choir. Hi short, the Hayes family were looked upon as one of the most respect able in the place, and the captain, especially, had a high reputation for be nevolence and integrity. There were two people, nevertheless, who, though they never said anything ^openly, were known to dissent from the general estimate of Hayes’s character. One of these was the resident magis trate, John Poynter, an old English law yer, who, for reasons best known to him self, had settled down with a poorly paid government appointment in that remote comer of the world, and was rather a mystery to his neighbors. The other was Dr. Tweed, a young practitioner who had come to Nelson about the time of Captain Hayes’s marriage and had always attended him and his family. The doctor was on friendly terms with Hayes and was much imder his influ ence, but Mr. Poynter never had any- ■thing to do with him beyond giving him a. nod when they met in pubHc. It was known that when returning from his journeys, Hayes had sever^ times been confined to his room with serious illness for a long time, nobody being allowed to visit him but the doctor. On one of these occa3ions Mrs. Hayes and the children -were sent away on the night of his ar rival, and were not .even allowed to see Mm for some weeks. It was after this that a change was noticed in the doctor’s manner when the captain was talked of or his virtues were praised. The doetdr, however, made a rule of never gossipioig about patients, while as for Mr.- Pt^mter, he was such a strange man himself that nobody thought much of his coldness to Hayes. The iDsident magistrate’s official posi- children, and had been seen sailing out of the port in his yacht, the Lily. The harbot master at once despatched a whaleboat with eight men and a supply of blankets and restoratives, to the Crozels. They arrived there at daylight pn the following day. Not a soul was to be seen. The yacht entirely untenanted.' The conclusion, of course, was that the whole story was a fabrication of Peri’s, and some people even entertained some very unfavorable surmises regard ing him. Certain facts, however, came tp light which not only cleared the half-caste of all suspicion of foul play, but gave the worthy folks at the Port a pretty good idea of Captain Hayes’s character. The house where the family had lived was found locked up, and the authorities decided not to open it for some days, at all events, on the chance of the captain returning. On the third or fourth night after the disaster, however, the house was seen to b.e on fire. The flames were extinguished before they had got much hold of the building, and then unmis takable evidences were found_ that the fire was the work of an incendiary. Moreover, all Captain Hayes’s val uables and private effects were gone, not a single tbing being discovered in the house which could give the slightest clue to his antecedents, bis profession or any thing else connected with him. The police, thereupon, made fturther enquiries, and one of the first to whom they applied was Dr. Tweed. The doc tor, considering himself no longer re quired by professional e tiquette to' keep silence, made tbis astounding statement: Three times he had been sent for to at- s^ering from terrible wounds, caused either by a sword cut or a pistol shot. Once he had extracted a bullet from bis neck, and it was then that the wife and children had been sent away until the wound was healed. Gn the latest of these occasions, Mrs. Hayes, who had long been very uneasy in her mind about her husband, refused to leave the house and insisted on seeing him. This re sulted in a bitter quarrel between the two, with threats of exposure on her shot out from the lee of the island, lay ovej:, until her mainsail dipped in the water, righted again, cleared the channel and was almost in safety, when, just as a squall came up, the man deliberately steered her right across the wind and over she went, not a hundred yards fr om the land. Peri jumped into his canoe and pad- died with aU his might and main, but the wind and tide were dead against him and the driving spray blinded him. He was compelled, to return, and he had hardly reached the beach vs^hen he saw a sight which riveted him to the spot. The yacht had sunk so near the land that her mast and sail were sticking up above the water. It would have been quite easy for the whole party to get ashore. Yet the man and the woman seemed to be struggling with one another in the water, while the two children were cling ing tO the rigging. The half-caste ren round the rocks till he got abreast of the boat, sprang into the water, waded out until he was lifted off bis feet and then, swimming on his side, covered the remaining distance with half a dozen vigorous strokes. The *lvoman was nowhere to he seen, and the man had already taken one of the children and started for the shore, swimming very strongly. Peri seized the other child, a boy of five or six, and holding him by the collar of his jacket with his teeth, like a Newfoundland dog, landed him without any difficulty. He found the man on the beg,ch weep ing and praying aloud and holding tin child in his arms. With an exclamation of anger he pulled him by the arm and called him to come with him and try to save the woman, but as the man seemed too stupefied or too frightened to under stand him, he returned alone. Diving beside the sunken boat, he saw a dark object swaying about in.the cur rent, and soon succeeded in bringing it to the surface. It was the woman, pale and rigid, and apparently quite lifeless. The brave half-caste, however, knowing that there is often a hope of restoring life after it seems to have fled, lost no time in getting her ashore, carrying her to the fire he had made in the hut, aind applying such means as he knew of for reviving animation. In all this he received no help from the man, who was raving as . if dement ed, sometimes kneeling down to pray and sometimes walking up and down on the sand with the two -children-in his woman was dying or dead and urged Mm to come tp her at once. He came, but still in state, and, instead of as „ caste in Ms attempts to restore life, he threw Mmself on hi? knees by the wom- alu’s side, kissing her hands and calling her by name and pra 3 dng for her. It was evident that she was past aU human help. Peri then proposed that he should go in his canoe to the nearest settlement, wMch, by keeping close in shore and taking advantage of the currents, he might have reached in a couple of hours, to send word of the accident into town and obtain assistance. To his astonishment, the man declined his offer andan^ily refused to allow Mm to go when he insisted. Peri, how ever, overcome by that superstitious feeling to wMch ^M aoris are liable, and having a strong suspicion of the man, made an opportunity to slip opt of the hut, and was soon far away feom the Crozels in his Kttle canoe. When the news reached Nelson,' en- iiiries were made, and it was learnt lat Captain Hayes had left his house the morning bef<»ewith his wife and the islands of the New Hebrides and carried off a large number of men and women after a fierce engagement and a sickening slaughter. It was one of the boldest and most brutal crimes of the kind that had yet been committed, and a loud complaint having been made by the missionaries and the respectable traders, the British commodore had sent a cruiser in search of the Karl and an indignant remonstrance to her owners. The Goddefrois were thunderstruck. They had been established at Samoa for many years and had the Mghest stand ing in the Pacific for fair dealing with both wMtes and natives. Moreover, they were in no way concerned in the labor traffic, and the masters of all their sels had instructions, not only to carry no labor on account of the firm, hut nev er to have any dealing, however profit able, with that unsavory trade. The captain of the Karl was an old and trust ed servant of the company, and a man of excellent judgment and of unswerv ing Jb.oiiesty. The Goddefrois could only reply to the commodore that they deeply regretted what had occurred, and that they would gladly assist in bringing the culprits to justice. The only expMnation they could give of the affair was that some labor- trader, anxious to get hands at aU costs and hazards, bad made such temptir ~ crisis of some sort was approaching. He kmew that Mrs. Hayes had discovered her husband’s secret, wMch the doctor himfifilf only vaguely suspected. What was the secret?. Mr. ^ Poynter, the resident magistrate, now disclosed it. He had received, shortly after Captain Hayes came to Nelson, a private com munication from a person in the confi dence of the British admiralty, inform ing bim that a mysterious criminal, a pirate and slaver of the most desperate description, whose murders and rob beries, committed imder various names and disguises, were the terror of the Western Pacific, was believed to have a haimt somewhere in that part of Zealand, and asking him to keep a ^ and report anything that came i knowledge. The magistrate had all along believed that Hayes was the man; but his conduct had always been so ex emplary, and Ms domestic surroundings were so creditable and happy, that Mr. Poynter had never felt justified in de- nounciag him or even reporting upon Mm. The Hayes family were heard of no more in Nelson, and the common suppo sition was that the Lily had gone down at sea with all on board. It had been well for humanity if such had been the case. CHAPTER II. THE CAPTURE OF THE KARL. For some years after the events jus described, the state of affairs in Poly nesia was such a scandal to civilization that the attention of the European powers was called to it, with very im portant results. The Fiji Islands, one of the finest groups in the Pacific, had be come an Alsatia for aU the vagabonds and desperadoes in what has been called the fifth quarter of the globe. TMther resorted every fugitive from justice and every W k en adventurer from all the British colonies or the French penal set tlements, certain to find there plenty of kindred spirits among the reckless char acters who at that time carried on the island trade. Under the pretence of establishing law and order, a number of these worthies had handed themselves together tmder a native cMef named Thakombau, whom they had proclaimed king of Fiji, and established what they were pleased to call a government. The only effect of tMs was to subject honest traders to extortion tmder the form of dues and taxes, wMlst enabling the low est ruffians afloat to evade aU national responsibilities by flying the Fijian This unique piece of bunting wa _ sigedwith grim irony by a man who having been dismissed from the Royal navy for gross misconduct, and led a dis^aceful career, had coolly appointed himself minister of marine to the kin^ of Fiji. It cemsisted of a wMte flag witi a dove, carrying a palm branch in its beak, surmounted by a crown in the center. It was supposed to represent the Christian peace that prevailed under Thakombau’s b e n i^ rule-; b ut in reality, it was the symbol lor rapacity, ferocity and license, wMch put the worst vices of savages to shame. The great development of the sugar trade in Queensland and of the cotton, ^offee and copra industry inffiany of the islands, necessitating the employment of colored hands, had, about the same time, given a sudden impulse to the labor traf fic, more commoMy known as “black birding” and in many instances not dis tinguishable from slavery. The ordinary practice among the more regular traders, was to make arrangements with the tribal cMefs in the groups where the best la borers are found, to supply a certain number on a fixed scale of payment, with animdertaking to return them by a certain date, when they had completed their engagement. This was regarded as legal, if anything could be legal‘\where no defined authority of any sort existed. But there were numbers of traders, or so called traders, who cut things short by landing an armed party and capturing all the people in a village, or else enti cing them on hoard their vessel by one device or another, and having got thern down below, sailing away with them. These raids were often accompanied by blood-curdling cruelties, and the men who were guilty of them were among the most depraved and caUous- wretches that ever disgraced the human form di- Such was the position of affairs when the news reached the house of Goddefroi, the g r ^ t German trading comi«ny at Apia, in Samoa, that one of their vessels, having seen through Ms glasses on r thirty -vdllainous 1 _ lows, armed to the teeth, were posted in tving se board the Black Diamond; while some twenty or tMrty -vdllainous looking fel- Hayes’s terms. Both vessel entered the. httle harbor and the Black Diamond was moored inside the reef. She proved to be quite unseaworthy, and the condition of her hold and the bullet marks on her jraiiad e lp lilan Fallsi Extaanstea in T e n t h M ile. P hiladelphia , Dec. 25.r— Nearly 1,000 Philadelphia, New York, Pittsburg and Baltimore sportingmen witnessed the ten-mile race a t the Elite Rink between Alexander Miller of this city and A. C. McClelland- of Pittsburg. The match was for $800 a §ide, and no less than <4,000 exchanged hands on the result. The men got the word shortly after 9 o’clock, an 1 for the first five, miles Miller maintained the lead. McClelland passed Miller on the tenth lap of the sixth mile, and, getting a lead of a lap, led his opponent to the finish. During the last mile Mil ler made several attempts to pass the Pittsburg man, but the latter was the fresher, and a good spurt kept him in the lead. In the sixth lap of the last mile Miller fell exhausted on the track and was carried to his room.* McClelland continu e d to make lap after lap until Miller’s backers gave up. Alex. McGuire and Joe Messinger started to run a mile, but the latter weakened on the fourth lap and Mc Guire won as he pleased. sci*uples and made them forget both the instructions of then* employees and the dictates of humanity. With all their experience of the island trade, they little knew what dangers and sm'prises they had to contend with. When the Karl left Apia with a cargo of copra, that is to say, dried cocoanut, for Sydney, her crew consisted of twelve men of all nationalities, three or four Samoan hoys as deck hands, the German captain and two mates. All' went well for some weeks. The brigantine sailed from group to group on the way to Sydney, picking up shipments of corpra at the various trading stations, and was already over nearly haK her voyage, when she f eU in with a small vessel fly ing the Fiji flag. She appeared to have been in very had weather, and/as the Karl approached her she hung out a sig nal of distress. As the sea was not at all rough and the two vessels were close together, the captain of the Karl sent a boat under the charge of the mate, to ask what was the matter. The mate rc» ported that the little vessel had been caught in a hurri(^ne and lost all of her crew except two men and a colored boy, and was in such a bad condition that h( r captain feared he must abandon her, unless the Karl would stand by him until- he could reach some place of. safety. There was an island at no great dis tance wMch afforded excellent shelter for small craft in a little bay within a coral reef, and the captam of the Karl undertook to convoy the stranger there. This offer was tharkfuliy accepted, and six of the Karl’s men were sent on board the Black Diamond, as the Fijian was called, to relieve the exhausted remnant of her crew and help to repair her stand ing gear. ' The two vessels then held on then- way a cable’s length or so apart, the Karl going under easy sail for the sake of her crippled companion, and also on account of her own diminished crew. The night set in dark and gusty, and nothing could be seen of the Black Dia mond but the occasional glimmeriug of a lantern hung in the fore riggiag. Ir was about three in the morning, the darkest hour of, the twenty-four, when the lookout man on the Karl sang out, “SMp on the^weather bow!” The mate, v5/hose watch it -was, ran forward and saw what he knew must be the Black Diamond apparently-bearing right ou^the Karl. He shouted to the s1 man, “Helm aport!” and hastened aft to take the wheel Mmself. The next moment he was astonished to hear the souad of oars in the row- locks, close alongside the vessel, and be fore he could recovered Mmself or the alarm below a crowd of men clambered over the side of the brigan tine, and he found Mmself overpowered and flung down on the deck. The captain, heariug the noise, rushed up the companion ladder armed with a revolver, and the second mate, followed by the whole of the crew, came running aft with boarding pikes arid handspikes. In the melee that ensued the second mate and two of the Karl’s men were killed, while the captain succeeded in disposing of several of the assailants be fore Ms revolver was knocked out of Ms hands and he himself was made fast. In a very few minutes the Karl was in the hands of the enemy. When daylight broke the captain had the mortification of seeing Ms sMp under the command of a tail, stout man, with a most amiable expression of face, whom he recognized 2 about the dema ated in the oil room. all parts of the vessel. The Black Diamond was lopping about, apparently under no sort of con trol, at a little distance on the starboard bow, and the coral island, where she was to have sought a haven, was full in sight a few miles ahead. The big man with the mild counte nance introduced himself with great po- > liteness: you have hear _ He was right. The name of Bully Hayes was already a sound of terror throughout the Pacific, and Captain Mensdorff had Jieard of it only too often. “I am sorry to put you to any incon venience, captain; but the fact is I want this smart little sMp of yours for a veiy particular purpose s - hu tu ’ -fai-r- thing by you, as y by me in distress. Exchange is no rob bery, and you shall have the Black Dia mond. To tell the truth, you have as good a right to her as I have, for the on ly part of her that’s mine is the name. I gave her that instead of her own. But you may call her what you please. You’ll find your'men all safe down in the fore hold, and I daresay you’ll manage to re fit somehow in this sunny little place you’ve brought us to.” Arrangements were at once made for Dyspepsia Makes the lives of many people miserable, and often leads to self-destruction. Distress after eating, sour stomach, sick headache, heartburn, loss of appetite, a faint, “ all gone” feeling, bad taste, coated tongue, and irregu- _ , larity of the bowels, are D i s t r e s s some of the more-common After symptoms. Dyspepsia does — - not get well of itself. It E i a i i r i g requires careful, persistent attention, and a remedy like Hood’s Sarsa parilla, which acts gently, yet surely and efficiently. It tones the stomach and other organs, regulates the digestion, creates a good appdtite, and by thus S i c k overcoming the local symp- ^ Yj i« toms •^removes the sympa-M GSdSCrlG thetic effects of the disease, banishes the headache, and refreshes the tired mind. “ I have been troubled with dyspepsia, I had but little appetite, and what I did eat > LiniaH-- distressed me, or did me r ^ a r x b u r n after eating I would expe rience a faintness, or tired, all-gone feeling, as though I had not eaten anything. My trou ble, I think, was aggravated by my business, which is that of a painter, and from being more or less shut up in a S o u r room with fresh paint. Last spring I took Hood’s Sarsa- Stomach rilla—took three bottles. It did me an Immense amount of good. It gave me an appetite, and my food relished and satisfied the craving I had previously experienced.” G eorge A. P age , Watertown, Mass. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists, gl; six for 05. Prepared only by C. L HOOl) & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mas*. lOO D osgs Ono Dollar mwf&wlydeclS Established 1830. Geo. W. Welsh, S33 G reenwich S t ., cor . B arclay S t ., NEW YORK, Invites attention of seekers for H oliday P resents to bia immense e stock. Special bargi Tied assortment of 'ains and va- [COJfCLUDED (M THIED PAGE.] WATCHES, DIAMONDS, JEWELRY, S ilv e r a n d P l a t e d W a re. EVERY ARTICLE .WARRANTED, 4Trdeo4 W hy CouGg:, X ^ H E N a few doses of Ayer^s Cherry* YY Pectoral will relievo you? Try it. Keep it in_tio house. You are liable to- have a cough at any* time, and no other* remedy is so effective-* as th is w o rld-' irenow n e d prepara-- I tiOn. No householdf [ with young children, should he without it. Scores of lives are saved every year by its timely use. Amandi B. Jenner, Northampton,, “ G ommoTi g r a t i t u d e im — Mass., writ pels me to £ fits I have derived for my c the use of Ayer’s most excellent Cherry Pectoral. 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A leading member of the local union said that there was a disposition to turn the whole affair over to the care of the In ternational Union. The “Record” has granted to it: 40 to 45 cent minion type, hut this, it is said, Avas purely voluntary, and had nothing to do with the demands of the typographi- ime, the cure was lince then I have never been i medicine. I am fifty years Of age, weigh over 180 pounds, and at tribute my good health to the use of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. ’ G.W.Y ouker, Salem, N. J. “ Last winter I contracted a severe cold, w'hich hy repeated exposure, be came quite obstinate. I was much tro.uhlea with hoarseness and bronchial irritation. After trying A’arious medi cines, without relief, I at last purchased a bottle of Ayer’s Chei jtoral. On. ral, and, in a short complete. Since the without this m( cal union. ________________ H e r L o v e r A r r e s ted for Sw indling. H er. W alpole , Mass., Deo. 25.—About a year ago Charles Metcalf came to Wal pole from California and became en gaged to Miss Sarah Nickerson, of Lynn, who was visiting here. He in terested her in a mining scheme and induced her to intrust him with $1,000 with which to purchase the stock in Chicago. Investigation, it is said, has shown Metcalf’s representations to he false, and he has been arrested on the charge of obtaining money under false pretences. ' F a t a l l y In ju r e d in a llu n a w a y A c c ident. S p r i n g f i e l d , O., Dec, 25.—Charles Kimball and several members of his family were driving from church to their home near Vienna, O., when the team ran away and the ocempante of the wagon -were thrown out against a fence. Miss Ck)ra Kimball, aged 20, had her skull fractured and will probably die. Two of her sisters were less severely i n j u r e d . _________ ^ ______ Tw o Suicides a t Salt Lake City. 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