The Nevada picayune., 1885-04-23

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 suffer the justice of mining camp. The theory was that I had killed him for his dust, and thrown him down shaft. to penetrate the bottoa of which meant death from noxious gas. To convince them of my innocence, I agreed to descend to the bottom with any one oI their number they might dcsisnat.s, All stood appalled, at the proposi' ton, yet held me to account fol my missing messsaate, nntil finally a sturdy miner..whO believed in my innocence volunteered to make the descent with me for my sake. Ropes were procured taG we start cd On our pcrilOns mission. l shall never forget that awful day. I survived it, but my found friend succumbed, and when we were hauled np he could not be resusitatcd. Then 1 was held re. sponsible far his death, and had I not made a sneak out of the camp that night, l would not now be here telling you this story. left sezsic good claims in that camp, and guess the boys wanted them, but l never retuE.ed to question their title. It wasn't healthy for mo in that camp then drifted to Oregon, thence to Washington Ter ritOry, later to Idaho, and finally into Montana, where I spent seve- ral seasons looking for the Lost Cabin mine without avail. It was while 1 was on this Mission that l had the adventure of my life. l had been in the mountains for months, and given up all hopes of finding the lost nine of territorial tradition, when l set out for the Yellowstone, determined to return to the States. l had not seen any camp Hfs except my own for weeks when as neared the river I saw smoke and thought I had come upon the camp of some hunt CTS. The night was awfully dark bui I made direct for the fire, hut before l got there l was chai- lcnged in an unknown tongue, and was almost instantly seized and bound with thongs. l thought then that I was in the hands of the hostile Sioux and that my hour had come. Alter a night ot apprehensive agony was con- fronted by band of ldians whom 1 believed would burn' mo at the stake, but at sunrise I was taken to the tepee of tue chief whom l foxad to be no less a parsonage than chief Joseph of the Neg Per ces, then on that memorable march which ranks with the expc. djtion of Hannibal that bad read of when I was a boy, from Oregon to the Near Paw mountains, where you will remember he was rounded up by Geheral Miles. After ascer. taining that I was not spy from General Howard, he treated mo with the honors of war and relcas. cd me on parole with all my equip
 hSnts. Yes, he..was the noblest Indian 1 ever knew, and I regret to learn that he is held practically as prisoner of war in the Indian territory, and his people are exiled from their fair Oregon homes. We'll, after that experience I pros. pered in the Clark's Fork corntry and the other mineral districts of Montana, sold ont some promising clGms, got together all tka money I shall need for myself, for the wo- man I have never forgotten and for the children that ought te be lpino took the first train that I had seen for. .saany years, at Gus ter station, and here I am making fool of myself talking to newspaper man who will likely as not p4int these incidents of ms- spent life. But I must be off on this train for the east. think tho old girl will be glad to see me now. aN q am anxious to get there.
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