The brother of the girl moved on into the east, satisfied with his fiendish revenge.

When he reached St. Louis he found that his brother had tried to make all amends, that he had sought and plead with the girl to marry him, but an old aunt had persuaded her to have nothing to do with him. Failing in that, he made a will giving her all his property, which was considerable, at the time of his death.

STAGE DRIVERS -- ROAD AGENTS -- PONY EXPRESS RIDERS-- CHAS. CLIFF'S

ADVENTURES -- JULES AND SLADE FEUD -- CREIGHTON'S

QUICK FORTUNE

Following the discovery of gold, and institution of stage service to the golden coast, the country filled up with road agents and white renegades, who preyed upon the pilgrims, and robbed the stages with great regularity. In this country there are said to be several caches of gold hidden by gangs that either were later exterminated, or never came back to find them. One of these is supposed to be on Kiowa creek, a certain distance from a certain cedar tree of great dimensions. And another is on the east side of Wildcat mountains. Much soil has been worked over with the hope of finding something, but the direction and the distance from the landmarks are indefinite.

The operations of the road agents became so bad that the Overland stage traffic came near being abandoned, soon after its institution.

The first Overland stage to California was put in service in 1859. and shortly after the pony express was inaugurated. The time for mail from New York to Sacramento, by the "Butterfield Stage Route," was twenty-one days, and the pony express shortened it to ten days. As early as 1851 a monthly service by stage was put on to Salt Lake City.