Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-06
nsn ~ ~ York Hsrald.
JIM OAKS.
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H N0RfY M1yB OK t0o Ge6G2oU1e06 OF V1ll.
1ofnja; tkerSwfs In fact, but one woman
a &c camp. She VA young, Of finc ap-
peazanos, great physical strength and en-
durnnce. and iadomitable nerve. Two
yeeu before she had left IN unhappy
hoane II Wisconiln TO become the wife Of
! RECKLESS daredevil named Jim Oaks,
With WhOm he shared the vici1itudes
IL ! ipne, allow journey across the plains.
This n1n iust mined being q rufian
thfoueh NJ wifs's influence. She loved
hnWitA . nobledsvotion, and, although
= ~ Incapable Of ! like attachment.
= l0vsd hsR, TOO, after . fashion OF his
eWn. 6he was made much OF by the
eamp; II would have been . sorry day
1or tho miner who should have shown
my disrespect to Minerva Oaks
The day before Christmas dawned
lowering. Toward the middle of the
afternoon hugs, numbering clouds began
u loom IN tho northwest. A m~ournful
wind soughed through the gulches. The
minerA kousing their picks, shovels and
pna took their axes into the neighbor-
ing bottoms and set ct wood cutting
with . vengeance. All signs portended
ons Of those fierce cold storms that occa-
aionally descend upon the border, ar
rssting torrents in chains of ice, and freez-
ing even the shaggy-coated bufialoeA
The wagons heaped with freshly
chorped sticks Of cottonwood and aspen,
had hardly distributed their loads at
uightfall when the wind, changing to the
northeast grew stronger and brought
NOV. Higher and higher it rose a.
darkness cana on; faster and faster fell
the snow. Az the cold increased the
NOV was condemned into 6ne PARTICLES
that bit Ike needles into the cheeks Of
belAted miners struggling toward their
0ahinA Still swelling In volume the
maj 81 ths tempest appeared to affect
the earth - we'll - the air; the plains
and distant mountains were shaken, and
- ground under the camp trembled
nke the h0ofB Of . dwelling in q city
when heavy trucks roll BY along the
pevemsnt; the heesens-ewirled gigan-
Hcaly overhead, and at length the tenn
pesG became ! hurricane. The volumes
az p~ulveriscd NOW in the atmosphere
VEN 9 - dsnse and piercing, and the
gusts were % violent that it was impos-
ible to - yen . lighted window at q
a1ew yards distance.
II Wa considerably past Jim Oaks
supper time. But 40 Oaks was the only
mai In the camp who didn't have tocOok
his own meals, he had lapsed into . habit
Ct coming In late to supper, for which
tault his wife, who wss not of . COM
planning or nagging dispositiOn, never
f~oproached him.
Beven o'clock. Mrs. Oaks fed the FIRE
from the ample supply Of wood which
ct the wagons had dropped at her
doofs then stepped to the pane of glass
xhich formed the only window in the
diekinA, and easyed to look out into
the night The glass WA caked inside
with frost and covered on the outside by
moWdrift. Sirhinr. the vounv wife
Fcturned % her sc bv the ar. she
~h,.s III; ~ ~ u's n. ~ ! paar 2. snunels
~ SH.x,.n1 80 iDeeniously carved
h1xthday present, and then putting her
hard into the bosom of her dress abe
drew 0nt-vhatf
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1een 40 Jssss uAto II. disciples, Il IN,
~ w sens ,l!sr ne, iet him deny him
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HevetA Is ~ shall neyer dis.
Thee paanaeesL an which M;n.,v
Oaln Va accuesomed 70 dwell. we're 4
marked II her New Testamert .r
underscored with 1 pencil. H;o
spirited and aba to handle 1 rio or
IsvOlyer on occasion. lie vssa s;rce,
Christian s. MOE resuecta. and cniet ;
As ~ with the Testament sprea