SNIPPETS
BY LAVELDA FAULL
Reprinted
here with Lavelda’s permission, for her full list go to:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wbritonad/cornwall/snippet/lavelda.html
THE
ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, Phoenix, Arizona, 15 May 1894 - "DIED ON THE DESERT,
TWO BODIES DISCOVERED NEAR CULLEN'S WELLS" "A Memorandum Book
Contains A Thrilling Story of Burning Sands and Deadly Thirst"
"Two more prospectors have gone to swell the list of those who have
abandoned the hunt for gold to fall down on the burning sands of an Arizona
desert under the blazing sun and die. At that moment a pint of water would not
have been exchanged for all the gold in the Harqua Halas, whither the ill-fated
prospectors were journeying. The bodies were found near, that is to say, within
a dozen miles of Cullen's well, last Saturday." "A letter was
received at the sheriff's office yesterday from JOHN DREW, station keeper at
the wells notifying the authorities of the ghastly discovery. The letter also
contained a memorandum book found on one of the bodies, containing brief
information concerning the dying writer and his partner."
"It was: I am WILLIAM ROGERS, a native of CORNWALL. My father is
WM. ROGERS of Churchtown, Breage, Cornwall. Goodbye. I am
dying of thirst. My partner, BILL MCDONALD, has left me to go on to Harqua
Hala." "It was also discovered from papers in his pocket that ROGERS
was a member of the order of Sons of St. George and had recently come from
Helena, Montana. Directions were also given concerning his trunk."
"The body of MCDONALD was found four miles from the wells." "The
station keeper's letter was not profuse. It only stated that the bodies had
been found and that a man had been sent out from the wells to bury them.
Beside the memorandum book the only article mentioned in this letter as having
been found was a shaving set. Neither the appearance nor probable age of the
dead men was described nor is it stated on which side of the wells they were
found or in what direction they were probably traveling. From the condition of
the bodies it was supposed that death came last Thursday. An inquiry here
failed to discover anyone who remembered that any prospectors of those names
had lately been in Phoenix and it is supposed that they had gone from Prescott.
Cullen's Wells are about eighty miles from Prescott so that if ROGERS
and MCDONALD were on their way from the north to the Harqa Halas by the way of
Vulture, they would have reached the vicinity in which their bodies were
found."
THE
ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, Phoenix, Arizona, 8 Aug 1894 - "A BROTHER-IN-LAW'S
INQUIRY" - "A RELATIVE OF WILIAM ROGERS TURNS UP AT LAST"
- "Since the finding of the bodies of two prospectors, WILLIAM ROGERS
and FRANK MCDONALD, on the desert near Cullen's Well more than two months ago,
scores of letters of inquiry from England have been received by the county
officials and newspapers of Phoenix. In nearly all cases the writers are
persons who had relatives traveling in this country of the name of either ROGERS
or MCDONALD, but no connection could be established between the inquirers and
the dead men. MCONALD, by the way, was not a native of England." -
"Yesterday, JUSTICE KINCAID received a letter from WM. KING OF ST. BREAGE,
ALLSTON(?) (ALLESTON(?)), CORNWALL, the address which was found in ROGERS'
memorandum book. KING claims to be a brother-in-law of the dead man. Both ROGERS
and his father, KING says, were naturalized American citizens. He had
heard that there were suspicions of foul play in the death of ROGERS and
MCDONALD, and he is struck with astonishment that the bodies were buried
without the formality of an inquest." "He had written to T. J. DREW,
one of the discoverers of the bodies, but had received no reply. He is anxious
to collect all possible information concerning the manner of his
brother-in-law's death."
Daily
Universal Register, London, Middlesex, England, 6 Feb 1786 - Dividends -
"March. 1. SAMUEL LEMON the younger, of Breage,
Cornwall, dealer, at three, at the King's arms, Marazion."