Beadle's New York Dime Library No. 1003 — page 1: what you’re looking at

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+ re ~ ah AE Own Pin SE ts ae eS ct VAVVAAAAMAL AW AY Wy socerren nh hts WN Wik * | » i PUBLISHED EVERY P WEDNESDAY, — —— | Gold Dan: TALBOT IN UTAH. BY ALBERT W. AIKEN. SUTHOR OF ‘“‘ VELVET HAND,” ‘ OVERLAND KAT,” *“‘ROCKY MOUNTAIN ROB,” ‘‘ KEN- TUCK, THY SPORT,” “INJUN DICK,” ELe., ETC., ETC, CHAPTER IL. THE CHIEF OF THE DANITES. * By that lake whose gloomy shore Sky-lark never warbied o’er—”’ THE Great Salt Lake in the heart of the con- tinent: that strange body of water within whose confines tish swim not,whose bordersare incrust- ad with salty crystals, glistening, diamond-like, in the sun; whose dense, saline waters reject the | human who essays to plunge beneath the wave; | wad of this wondrous lake, so strange, so wild, | desperate fellows. ce i “ WHOOP--YOW-YOW—wWHOOP La!” 4aND THE-MAN-FROM-RED-DOG EXECUTED A WAR-DANCE IN THS MIDDLE OF = : ee EEE OF re eee. ee eee etic ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MATTER AT THE NEW BEADLE AND ADAMS, Publishers, 92 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK, we shall relate a story so terrible, so improba- ble, that even credulous man might refuse to YOrxK, N. ¥., Post Orrice. j believe such things could be, were not the pages | of history already stained with the red story of the impartial historian. We write of the days of the spring of '69, | railways were in strong force in the neighbor- hood of the town of Corinne, on Bear river, just to the north of the Great Salt Lake, It is a lovely night in the month of April, and the clear heavens above are spangled with a myriad of stars, and these peaceful watchers | looked down upon as strange a scene as they ever had beheld since the world was young. In a secluded nook on Antelope island, the largest of the little group which dot the waters of the lake, burned a camp-fire, and around the flames were gathered a motley collection of men, twelve or fifteen in number. One might search all the border, from the waters of the Missouri to the golden sands of the placid Pacific, and yet not find a dozen as —_ os rest. January 22, 1838. Vol LXXVUL - All were armed to the teeth, with one excep* tion, and he, with his plain black suit and Clerical aspect, was a strange contrast to the TEN CENTS A OOPY. 85.00 A YEAR. These armed ruffians, so fierce of face and go _ lawless in aspect, were Danites—the *‘ Destroy» when the great overland road was rapidly ap- | proaching completion, and already the grading | parties of both the Central and the Union Pacific | of the ing Angels” of the Mormon host, and the blaok~ coated man was a Mormon elder. After oe when they read the record anites, will wonder that such things could be in a Christian land, and think perhaps ’ that the story is over-wrought, when in reality the half of the dark deeds done in the gloom canyon and desolate wastes of Utah wi never be revealed until the Judgment Day, when the murdered victims rise in accusing | wrath. arly in the existence of the Salt Lake seitle- ment, the wily and unscrupulous leaders of this | Strange band of zealots saw that to crush oppo- _ sition, awe the timid and overbear the lold, ig | A sentence inf was necessary to use the sword. Genesis suggested the means: ‘‘ Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse’s heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.” = - -