Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-07-03
Oruuille Dailq Butte Rtrurh.
FRIDAY MORNING. JULY Sd. 1867.
Her Last Footprints.

Before the day arrived on which we
were to renew our journey, and whilst
the hunter, true to his instinct and oc !.
cupation, with others of the company,
had gone to the mountains for day IN
pursuit of game, his wife, accompanied
by Tenn, ostensibly for the purpose Of
following in the train of the hunting
party, also left the camp, on two OF
the finest horses that money could
there procure, and took a route in tho
directions of the hunters.
1T was late at night before the par
ty came in, and when it did come,
Tenn and the wife were missing, and
they nerer came agOin!
'Stung to the hearts core by the
now certain evidence of his wife's in-
constancy, and burning with revenge,
the hunter bid adieu to his company.
and after a hasty preparation, followed
alone in the direction he supposed the
fngltives had taken. For days, with
his inferior animal had he crowded on,
and yet no tidings of the guilty ones
he was about to despair, when on the
evening of the tenth day from Salt
Lake, having made an unusually long
days journey, as he was approaching
an em,grant camp, he espied among
other objects laying around, the favor
lte saddle of his wife, for though at a
distance, he knew it by some peculiar
ity in its trappings.
Urging his animal forward, it being
twilight, he passed the camp unheed-
ed, if not unnoticed, towards camp
fire visible some distance ahead. There
he stopped, and learned that among
those who made up the company in the
rear, were stranger gentleman and
lady. who on horseback were endeavor-
ing by forced rides to overtake their
fiends whom they supposed wele then
but about two days in advance.
This was the very information the
hunter had been seeking for many "a
ary day. twas all he wished to know.
And now like demon thirsting for
revenge. did he hang upon their trail,
as dey by day they continued their
hurried fl ght. At leng'h when they
supposed pursuit had been given over.
if any had been attempted, they joined
another company What reason they
gave for not being attached to any 9TH
er company, or for avIng the one to
VIII ch they belonged, | never knew,
and again was Tenn doubtless Ingrati.
atlng h mself into the good graccs of
his newly adopted friends.
'But little did he know that there
was on lurking upon his trail, in whose
heart
zone sol. desire one passion now remains.
70 keep lire's fever still within his veins
Vengeance dire vengeance on The wretch VINO
Der him and all he loved that runous blast"
And well did he at last compass his
intentions. Days had passed, and the
hunter had aserrtained that it was the
actice of Tenn to 90 on every after
noon in advance Of the company, III
order TO seek out the best camping
ground sometimes accompanied by his
accredited wife, but not always. 1t
was upon time when from di.tancc
in the rear, the hunter discovered that
Tenn had left the train and had gone
ON alone, that he too came up and was
so passing the tra'u of eight or ten
wagons, when, just as he had reached
the foremost of them all, he heard
shrek from within it, and such shrek
but he heeuel it not, and passing Oh
only knew by casting glance behind,
that the train had STOPPED, and men,
women and children were fast gather
ing round the wagon from whence the
cry had come; but before the hunter
had lost sight of the train, it seemed
moving on again as though nothing had
o Cured.
Hours had now passed away, and
tie usual time had arrived at which
the sianal from Tenn should have been
s-er denoting the chosen camp ground,
but on they plodded, amid the dust
and neat of the upper Humboldt bot
toms; night came, but Tenn had not
been seen, and vet they could not have
pas sed him without seeing him, so on
again they went, till the growing dark
ness compelled them to stop. They