Lost in the Canon

er had a place there, for, like many other more ambitious and important cities, it has cea

en a man named Hurley-after whom the place was named-had discovered gold in a l

Hurley's Gulch had nearly a thousand inhabitants, with stores, saloons, assay o

s, Negroes and Mexicans, but the great mass of the inhabitant

Hurley's Gulch it would be impossible to find

creek on the bluff above which the camp had been established;

e could reach, was a tempest-tosse

erial for bricks, the dwellings, stores, saloons

them had seen hard service in other mining camps and "cities," th

ack of an army in the field and wolves follow up a buffalo herd to prey upon the weakest, so crowds of wel

llows, and as there was not the shadow of law there to de

lished in such camps, it is the custom of the more industrious and peaceab

y men, themselves criminals, get on such committees, and that great w

's was a ca

ch, a hard-working miner had been killed and robbed of the gold-d

gnation meeting after the poor man's funeral, and organ

ty of lighter offences, there was only one penalty

favorite with the better cl

for the sole purpose of gamb

Cave Camp by Mr. Willett, so that many who heard him declare to the co

to have left the Gulch, his past falsehoods were forgotten in view o

t very day between Mr. Willett and Tom Edwards,

t when his wound restored him, for a short time, to his senses, there can be no doubt but he

ested by the vigilance committee

to be permitted to send to his camp for papers that would prove to all t

t rest, it was decided that further action should be postponed in the c

the fidelity with which he performed the duty and the unexpected obstac

s as to the mystery surrounding Tom Edwards' death and handed over the guilty parties to the vigilantes; bu

ank Shirley and t

if Sam Willett was out of the way, the last ba

aculty of whose low mind seemed to have been c

rley and the man whom he had hired to help him in his wicke

his son must be prevented from ever meeting again, but th

employer, Badger urged that he be allowed to

, saying, for he was a coward

k Tims; they are all well-armed, and they would be stronger than u

el', an' if I don't carry it out without flinchin'

nk as usual," and loudly declaring wherever he went that Mr.

ce for which Frank Shi

to fasten the crime on Mr. Willett, a hundred stronger and braver

oment's thought of the awful crime he was about to commit, p

t, as that gentleman was arrested, Frank

. Willett had married his, Shirley's, cousin, that he had borne a bad character in Detroit,