Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-04-16

band over lrH corpse When this 90.
pr sion of giicf was over. Golfer heard
their yells for vengeance, md. knowing
tina. ~ clpturad iiat death by the
most horrible torture awaited hiin. 10.
solved TO drown himfolf rather tll1 fall
into their hands. They ram 10 the banks
of tho strom ard, suspoctine bis hiding
place, swain ont 10 II, aud twenty times
Tho tlappcr tauk beneath tho drift by
grayping u sunaou tree TINT was i'm.
bodied ia tho sand. But, though tho
Dlackfoct spent over an hour searching
for him and posinr Ia, drift with thr.r
spears they finally cuacludcd that ho
had slnc farther down The river and dc.
parted 10 boat the banks.
Heard by tho wrctohod trapper thoy
spent nearly the whole day searching
Tor him. but returned toward evening 10
the spot where tho dead chief ley, and
Golfer could ten by their rctreatiug
voices as they walled that they wore
carrying homo the body As soon o. he
thought they must b1 out Of sight, Col.
ter crnwlcl out. go chilled by the water
that mo could scarcely use his litybs. and
TO exhausted by the. a{s Of blood and bis
terrible race chat no Thought himself
dying But courage revived after u
time. and he started foy Lisns fort on
the Yellowstone
His situation was so dcspmatc that DO
! dared not let bis mind dwell on b., for
fear that he would loco his resolution
and dio Of despair. The fort, Che near.
est place vharo he could hupl 10 fall IN
with white man, lay full weeks Jour
neg from him, and hc wu5 NOT only stark
naked. but without weapon with which
he could XIII game and 20 support life.
His feet were in fearful condition, cut
ly the sharp focla aud the thors uf tha
cacti over which u, had run his race.
EzrOscd TO tho heat oi the sun by day
oud ih, dow5 ~ night, and tortured
often by hunger aud thirst, tho tralpoi
u;ill puahod GA, determined 10 ill.,,
through 10 all.
Ilo mh,istcd for days on the wild
plant known us sheep sorcl, aud the irv
weeds and grasses peculiar to the will
stretch OF country over which hi1 way
las. Ono day he found tho hole OF {
rabbit, In which was li,tor of young
nav AA'HH iNN az it A.'' INHH tANAHA W. t.NtHh
i,hcl 20 wait o. do II II ho hal lad, Col
ter suizul tho iulocruatIrca and hastily
killing them with thnrp u,ouc tina
served him fos % luiiic, duyourpd thd
N.ll FACILITATING bodies, tearing OIL thoi
skins with hi3 naked mulH ON auu;hc
occasion Golfer attacked % wildcat wit
only his stone weapon and killed II
mchiug the blood aud eating /. TO On
Very cn>aiis.
. ON tho ninth day afi,y ho had oscapc
from tho Blackioot party OF two trader
and trappgr named Mcclellan svt Ui
3 from lisas fort for the south, and whc
! about six mill5 GA thcir journey cam
across an object lying ON che plain wit
% several hugzmds lowering over 10. Tai
:, ing IL for the C1rcass Of calf or dee
the travellers were about 10 pass 70 ut
, distance Of twenty or thirty yards, who
- Mcclellan happened TO sec Il make
W gesture. ns II 90 tight of % buzaHrd cha
" had Hliphfol near IL. The moycmof
v excited tire hunters curiosity aud il
rulc nearer the object.
Good ColW ho cried. "BOys, Il IL
@ mnnm Il was Golfer who, unable I
= take another step. had lHin down 10 M
!, He was Ll.stoTod from head 80 foot y
tho suns force heat and Ind had nutEii
, To eat for over two days and no wat.
= for twcnty-four hours. with all pos.
bio care ho was takon back 10 tho ~
y and there rcgaiucd his health al
y strength. With his suifcrings In min
! Coltcr became an Indian scout, and
said 10 have killed with his own hand
y hundred Bluckfopt. 10 wore . belt
y which danglgi the agalps OF tl,atuumb'
I, Of that tribe. Philadelphia Times.