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...cappers he started a saloon in Skagway, set out to captivate that leaderless town. He did it, but it was hard going. The thugs and strong-arm men he could not control gave Skagway such a bad name that the law-&-order element grew restive. Finally, when a green prospector was robbed in Soapy's own saloon, the storm gathered. A meeting of sober citizens was called. When Soapy, singlehanded, went down to remonstrate with them, his speech was cut short by a bullet...
That was in 1905. Next year the agent of a U. S. firm, reported to be the Guggenheims, appeared with an offer to buy the Salvadora mine, which Simon Patino had acquired from a Portuguese prospector in payment for a grocery bill-a deal which cost the clerk his store job. Patino wanted to sell but his wife did not. "We will go bankrupt with Salvadora," she cried, "or you will be el gran Mirador, the greatest of tin miners." Senor Patino climbed on his mule and went back to his mine...
Thus last week was delivered the world's fourth biggest diamond, the Jonkers, found by a poor South African prospector in January and immediately sold to Sir Ernest Oppenheimer for $312,000 (TIME, Jan.29...
...years bearded old Jacobus J. Jonker got poorer, greyer and dingier washing South African gravel in the prospector's enduring hope of someday finding a diamond as big as an egg at his feet. Three miles away from his miserable diggings at Elandsfontein another prospector had found the Cullinan Diamond, big as an orange, one hot January day in 1905. A $5,000 find several years ago enabled Jacobus Jonker to hire a black Kaffir boy to do his digging. One of the Jonker sons was watching the black one day last week when the Kaffir threw...
...after carefully locking and barring all the windows and doors except the front door. There my two sons, myself and two friends kept guard with loaded revolvers until dawn. Then I handed the diamond for safekeeping to the manager of the Premier Diamond Mine." Hastily last week Prospector Jonker sold his precious find to Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, board chairman of South Africa's Diamond Corp...