Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-05-16

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r. .rted His Mule into "a Cailiope.
marty of prospectors had located
q air. dry camp on the headwaters of
T. Meadow last summer and were
4 aring rather Indifferent luck, 1t is
= up country. aud its redeeming
Il sure Is the abundance of game of
4 kinds. While it may be termed
Il gD,srs paradise; it is certainly
q, iner's sheol. Flour and bacon and
Il AIMS had run low. and the boys had
Il sgun to 'cuss" the country.
a They were sitting around the fire one
Il .ght smoking when a visitor,
,Saucer with about as little ceremony
i. Poe, Raven, made his way into the
ErcIe and perched, not on bust of
Earas. bu, on busted aparahoe. For
Ebout two minutes the remarks were
Il bopt AS extended and Interesting as
H. those of the famous Forty-niner.
@nally he was induced to chew, and
Aben he gave an account of himself.
H. was as near a nobo as prospector
Hsn ever become; that is, he was max
H. no attempt to better his condition,
@Sking his way afoot from one pros
@ectors or trapper's camp to another.
Il In the course of the evening one of
H. bows happened to speak of the old
NaD's condition. The old fellow
Straightened up, adjusted one moe
|fasiaed foot under aim "luiunn fashion,
Hsnd remarked: 1t may seem a little
a0ugh to YOU fellers TO see me knockin'
hound tUjs way when ought ter be a
G4aspectaJle member OF sasSiety, holdin'
h. own with Mackey, Flood, Hearst
a11l Lucky Baldwin. used to train
A,ilh them fellers I'm Il '49er, | am,
ssnd Nigh, rjgbl now be Il millynair
Isl it WASH for a piece of hard luck !
4ruck way back in the 50's.
81 81 struck uug one spriug moruin' i'll
AaIiioruia with "A mule packed with
'qenty of grub and good prospectln
su.ht. had two dogs, cross between
B bull and shepherd, along for company.
u packed with me a tin horn that /
dalied EN- mp with when they got too
.dar away.
i Il was maxim for the Mokeleunne
bill district. which hadn't been pros
Iectcd hardly any yet. i mao burned
.good time. c0usiderin' all things till
stn the second week that gosh blamed
3mule got sick The son of a gun be-
gun to swell He got down and rolled,
AYell he kept sweIlin, and rollin' and
groanin,, and ! thought every minute
he'd bust
4 The sweat stood ont on the old mans
brow As ae related this. He paused a
while reflected and continued.
The way tggered it out was that
b. had collie. couldn't think of any
shing TO give him but the soda | used
B. cook with. I'd heard it was good fer
stomach So | fixed up a drench of
Soda and water stuck the dinner horn
|lnter his throat and commenced pour
sng the stuff inter him. 1t skeart him.
sHe ,neezei and snorted all az wunst.
.knd spit out the drench. Aud when
Oh suorted he Dlowed that ere horn,
IL seemed surprised to find that he
sNuz q musician. His ears riz, an he
alrauced round au' footed that derned
#oru. The dogs heard the tootiu',
#ad true 10 their traiuin', they come
&,ony head au' tail up. That burned
smu.a keep tootin' that ere horn all
Stae time a tootin' tie wind off'n his
sFomach and all at once, by gum. he
#r0ek oul "a tootiu' that horn like hell,
Sal the dogs foiierin'.
'I wuz Left thar 800 miles from no
S8har with no grub, mule, dogs, nor
AnoihIn, ] wandered back to the near
Besl camp and sence then I've been q
SHauteres, with no aim in life but TO
Pad my mule an dogs. For forty
SJeals I've been chasiu' the cussed var
mms. Eve seen lots of mules, but
Hn9la ur'm he'd er tin dinner horn in
Il az mouth, nor two brinde dogs fol-
lo"n him. Have any of You fellers
seen stray mule around here?'
The old mans story created a pro-
kloloI impression The bows unaui-
0y0s.E elected him Grand Patriarch
4 -40 assistant cook for as long as he
ag.a TO lay of rom his wild and
thrilling chase. -Spobdle Falis SpobeS-
I aul
A.Hw is To- DE built in Bear VALLEY,