Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-01-09

by one bullet after another. Later
advices state that they made the dis
tancc-just eight miles-in one hour.
The next little episode was also in
Quigley's gulch, three miles from Hal
ley, wherein three bad partners had
made it up to relocate themselves in a
claim and leave out the fourth part
ner. The latter had been previously
warned against coming upon the claim
that night, and was told by friend
that his partners were going there to
relocate it all to themselves; so he Sc
cured rifle, and after the three bad
partners had gone up to the mine he
crawled up on the shady side of the
gulch to cabin below the claim
about 100 yards, and there watched.
At IL: AS his partners started up to
stake out the ground and put up no.
tees, whereupon with fearful yell he
turned loose with his gun, and could
see the crusted snow fly at every pop
just over his partners heads. They
heard the bullets humming SO near
their ears that panic seized them,
and they fled for town. AS soon as
they were out of sight he quietly
walked up and located it all to him
self, and left his bad partners out in
the cold.
John Curtin with his partner went
to relocate claim up on Sugar Loaf
peak, the highest range or divide be-
tween Deer Creek and Bullion. In
trying to step too long pace to set
his end stake to the top Of the peak
at some groupings, his big-solcd boots
slipped upon the snow crust which by
constant exposure to the sum in the
daytime melted, and again froze in
the shade until it was sheet of ice
down the mountain side, and very
precipitous. John went head first, fol
lowing his hat to the bottom, 500 feet,
and lit in big snowdrift. His
clothes were torn and mis- finger nails
worn off by clutching at the crust.
Getting up to see if he was all there,
he heard his partner calling and hal
looed back. His partner shouted:
"What yer doing down there ?" and
John was so mad he answered: "Was
getting so cold, l came down after
wood" In fifteen minutes he lit a
fire in the grove he had arrived at so
suddenly, and was joined by his part
ner, 80 minutes later, who was ex.
hausted. John concluded that the
joke was on his pard, after all.
A party went in a two-horse sleigh
up the Deer Creek divide, to camp
out, and found, when ready to make
a fire, that they had forgotten to bring
an ak. They travelled until dark, and
discovered woodsman's cabin, and
Immediately pulled out the loose logs
and made fire. The house being
thus opened to the wind, they camped
out doors and burned tie house fol-
fuel, sitting up all nj ht to keep the
fire going. The roof vas made OF
fir boughs and dry as finder. They
dared not build the fire inside, and
therefore got to lceward of the fire te
keep warm. On the other side, while
their clothes would scorch in front
their backs would freeze. Thus it is
that one cabin less exists up that way
to-day. 1t made good fire while il
lasted.
Another party got out of theil
sleigh to walk. One of them fired al
a white rabbit, and so startled the
team it ran away, down a gulch and
upset the sleigh, blankets and grub
In getting it righted the only box Of
matches in the party got wet, and
they could not get fire and travelled
all night to get to town, having made
no locations.
A prospector started out with hi,
notices written and in his pocket. He
lost them on the way, seven miles
from town, had no pencil nor paper
and returned home while another mar
located the claim.
The entire $50 men out that nigh
had to eat their whisky and milk
Everything froze solid, and the bot
ties broke. Meat, butter, bread, ap
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