Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-21


ifornia, when the Indians attacked US We
found places where they had killed emil
grants We had one passenger with us, too
guns, and one revolver; so we ran all the lead
We had into bullets [and1 hung the guns up
in the wagon so that we could get at them in
a mint. 1t was about two O'clock in the
afternoon; droave the cattel little way;
when prairie chicken alighted a little way
from the wagon. Jerry took out one of the
guns to shoot it, and told Tom to drive the
oxen. Tom and l drove the oxen, and Jerry
and the passenger went on. Then, after
little, left Tom and caught up with Jerry
and the other man. Jerry stopped for Tom
to come up; me and the man went on and
sit down by little stream. In few min
utes we heard some noise; then three shots
they all struck poor Tom, suppose; then
they gave the war hoop, and as many as
twenty of the redskins came down-on US
The three that shot Tom was hid by the side
of the road in the bushes.
''I thought that Tom and Jerry were shotl
so told the other man that Tom and Jerry
were dead, and that we had better try to
escape, if possible. Ihad no shoes on; hav-
ing a sore foot, thought would not put
them on. The man and me run down the
road, but we was soon stopped by an Indian
on pony. We then turned the other way
and ran up the side of the mountain, and
hid behind some cedar trees and stayed tbess
tflldaEk. Tho Indians hunted aifoUer altar
rs, and very chse to-rS 50 cfuae that we
could hear their tzxnyaawaS jingle. st
dark the man and me started ON, Istnhing
my toes against sticks en3 stones We tray
eied on all night, ami next nKxnina, just as
it was getting gray We saw something in
the shape of oman. l. faEed down in the
grass Wewent up-to it, and il was Jerry.
He thought we were Indians. You can i'm
agine-how glad he wastn8ema He thought
we was all dead but him, and we thought
him and Tom was dead. He had the gun
that he took out Of the wagon to shoot this
prairie chicken; all he had was the load that
was in it.
'FWe travelled on till about eight O'clock. We
caught up with one wagon with two men
with it. We had travelled with them before
one day; we stopt and they Drove on; we
knew that they was ahead of US unless they
had been killed to. My feet was so sore when
we caught up with them that had to ride; l
could not step. We Travelled on for too days,
when the men that owned the cattle said they
would [could] not drive them another inch.
We unyol1ed the oxen; we had about seventy
pounds of flour; we took it out and divided
it into four packs. Each of the men took
about IS pounds apiece and blanket. l car
ried little bacon, dried meat, and little
Quilt; I had in all about twelve pounds.
We had one pint Of -four day for our al
lowance. Sometimes we made soup of it;
sometimes we [madel pancakes; and some
times mixed it up with cold water and eat it
that way. We Travelled twelve or fourteen
days. The time came at last when we should
have to reach some place or starve. We saw
fresh horse and cattle tracks. The morning
come, we scraped all the -four out OF the sack,
mixed IL up, and baked it into bread, and
made some soup, and eat everything we had.
We Travelled on all day without anything to
eat, and that evening we Caught up with
sheep train of eight wagons. We Travelled
with them till we arrived at the settlements;
and know am safe in California, and got to
good home, and going to school.
Jerry is working in -. 1t is good
country. You can get from so to 60 and Is
Dollars for cooking. Tell me all about the
affairs in the states, and how all the folks get
along"
And SO ends this artless narrative. The
little man was at school again, God bless him,
while his brother lay scalped upon the deserts
i: \ :.
When Iawoke next morning l was puzzled
for awhile to know if it were day or night,
for the illumination was unusual I sat up
at last, and found we were grading slowly
downward through long snow shed; and
suddenly we shot into an opening; and before
we were swallowed into the next length of
wooden tunnel, I had one glimpse of huge
pine-forested ravine upon my left, a foaming
river, and sky already colorei with thief fires
of dawn. I am usually very calm over the
displays of nature, but you will scarce be-
lieve how my heart leaped at this It was
like meeting ones wife. I had come homo
again-home from unsightly deserts, to the
green and habitable corners Of the earth.
Every spire of pine along the hilltop. every
trouty pool along that mountain river, was
more dear to me than q blood relation Few
people have praised God more happily than I
did. And henceforward, down by Blue Can
yon, Alta, Clutch flat, and all the old mining
camps, through o sea of mountain forests,
dropping thousands of feet toward the far
sea-evel as we went, not only, but all the
passengers on board, threw off their sense of
dirt and heat and WEAKNESS and bawled like
SCEOOI DONS, dllCl UllIOuS6u VIII SIllllIp eyes
upon the platform, and became new creatures
within and without. The sun no longer op-
pressed us with heat, it only shone laughingly
along the mountain side, until we were fain
to laugh ourselves for glee. At every turn
we could see further into the land and our
own happy futures. At every town the cocks
were tossing their clear notes in the golden
air, and growing for the new day and the
new country. For this was indeed our desti-
nation; this was ''the good country" we had
been going to so long.
By afternoon we were at Sacramento, the
city of gardens in plain of corn; and the
next day before the dawn we were lying-to
upon the Oakland side of San Francisco bay.
The day was breaking as we crossed the ferry;
the fog was rising over the cited hills of San
Francisco; the bay was perfect-not a ripple,
scarce a stain, upon its blue expanse; every
thing was waiting, breathless, for the sun.
a spot of cloudy gold lit first upon the head
Of TanalpaS, and then widened downward
on its shapely shoulder; the air seemed to
awaken, and began to sparkle; and suddenly
"The tall hills Titan discovered"
and the city Of San Francisco and the hay of
gold and corn, were Lit from end to end with
summer daylight.
An Odd State of Finances.