St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-30
Feels Narrow Escane.

Charley Fee, general passenger agent of
the Northern Pacific road. is noted for his
pulchritude and the suavity of his manners
In the city he acts as citizen, but in the
country he throws off all conventional
restraint and proceeds to make Rome howl
with pleasant unpretentious howl He is
very fond of field sports and takes deep
interest in anything of the kind from a
game OF lawn tennis to fox chase In
the latter sport he always prefers to do his
running on horseback. He is now spend
ing few days in the Yellowstone park, in
company with Ernest Welt, of the Chicago
& Northwestern road and Welt, who is a
crack sportsman. has him in training.
A story has come back from the park in
regard to Fee. that, while not necessarily
for publication. is too good to preserve
After the second day in the park Fee
wanted to go out for an afternoons sport
with the rifle. Welt pleaded illness and
told Fee to go out alone, and no one would
interfere with him If he didn't get too far
away from the hotel. If he went too far
out among the hills he might run some
danger of meeting hostile Indians. Fee
said he thought he could steer clear of
aborigines, and shOuldering his rifle, he
went out among the extinct volcanoes and
sand hills. He had no sooner left the
hotel than Welt began to disguise himself
as an Indian and with the help of the
people in the hotel he was able to do this
perfectly and he was soon rugged out in
feather head dress. leather leggins and coat,
and ShOuldering his rifle he started off on
Fees trail telling the guests at the hotel tc
keep their eyes open for excitement.
Fee wandered aimlessly about keeping on
the lookout for game, and finding nothing
to attract his shot. 1t was a warm after
noon and he walked slowly along the base
of the hills and through the patches Of
woodland, taking but little note of the pas
sage of time 1t was little past O'clock
when looking through the clump of bushes
that grew on top of slight mound, he de
serted deer with head erect and nostriI:
distended, as though it had scented the ap
proach of danger. Fee nearly fell dowr
with excitement, but soon recovered from the
rush of blood to the head, and falling on hi.
hands and knees. crawled along the base o.
the hill towards the bushes, all the time
holding his eye on the deer. which seemed
to be rooted to the spot. At last, reaching
the bushes, Fee fell on his stomach, an(
thrusting his rifle through the branches
took deliberate aim and pulled the trig-
ger. When the smoke cleared away, mucl
to Fees SURPRISE the deer stood as it hat
before he fired. Nothing daunted he tool
longer aim and fired again, and still tn,
deer remained in its tracks.
THAT'S deuced funny" murmured Fee
''but I'll try him another" and bringin,
the gun to his face he glanced along the
barrel and drew a bead on the deer's heart
Just as he was about to pull the trigger al
| oil
he saw an Indian in full war paint rushin!
down the hill towards him. madly brandish
shing a rifle in one hand and knife il
the other. Fee dropped his rifle, and
springing to his feet, took one look at tn,
approaching savage, who was crowding tn,
atmosphere with hand-painted bowls, anc
shrieking ''helpI' helpw at the top of hi
lungs, he started in the direction of th,
hotel.
At 4:45 o'clock. as the guests of the hote
were sitting on the piazza chatting and il
various ways enjoying themselves. their at
tention was attracted by the flying figure
of man coming down the ravine, clearing
about ten feet of auriferOuS soil at every
Jump and uttering strange cries. Two
minutes later he leaped upon the piazza
and the people identified him as what was
left of Charley Fee His hair was disbev.
eled, his eyes had wild, untamed stare
about them, and he staggered as he went
I'D to the register and asked the clerk To
see if he was scalped.
When he had caught his breath he told
the guests of his wonderful escape from the
Indian. The guests had just finished con-
graduating Fee on his escape when Welt
walked in in Indian costume, trailing the
rifle Fee had abandoned. There was a
denouement. which resulted in considerable
laughter at Fees expense, especially when
it was discovered that he had tried to kill :
stuffed deer skin that had stood in the parl
year.