Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-01-04
HE WAS A HEATHEN BUT A HERO.
How a Chinamsn Saved Ills Master from
Death and Was Crippled for Life.

bit of valley which seemed 10 be over
hung by the peaks of a spur of ths
Bitter Root mountains. the landlord
and proprietor came out of the house
carving a Chinaman in his arms. and
with as much tenderness as a mother
would have displayed with sick child
the burden was deposited in a rude
but comfortable seat a few steps from
the door.
We saw that the Chinaman had lost
the use of his lower limbs, though he
seemed to be in tirst-rate health, while
the seat was padded and cushioned
and had evidently been constructed
especially for his use, says writer in
the N. Y. Heraid.
at wasn't so long ago that the
miners in this valley drove all the Chi
nese out" | remarked to the landlord
when the opportunity came.
"Yes, know. and | helped to DO it,"
he answered. "Durn the WALLER hided
heathens! but they orter be driv into
the Pacific ocean as food fur fish"
but You seem 10 he taking pretty
good care of the one over there"
Jim Lung? Wall. yes; but he's an
squint eyes and black hair and waller
hide aud heather brogue rs the rest of
EN-. but his soul was made after the
pattern of white mans. Yes. I'm
takin' powerful good care Of Jim Lung,
and shall keep it up AS long rs | live"
Did yo. good turn some time. l
suppose?' | questioned.
That's it exactly. and kin tell you
all about it inside of five minutes Do
you see that spot mp thar on the noun
tain side about two miles from here?"
a do. There's probably been .
landslide there"
"k'rect 1t took place four years
ago this spring. Right at the head of
it me and a pard had cabin and a
mine. We'd just got to work when
jim Lung came along. He'd bin in
hard luck and wanted a job. My pard
was goin' to fire him down the trail,
but arter good look at him | said
No While he appeared to be the
same as all the other cussed heather
on the outside, | kinder Suspected
that he was built up inside after diff
ferent pattern. Flowed that he m ght
stay and cook for us till he got some
fat on his ribs, and stay he did"
And he was all right, eh?"
Right, as 80 per cent to the hun
dred. He had bin with us about ten
days when | was throwed Hat down
with fever, and | tell YOU was
dreadful sick man. One day, when |
was about the worst, my pard had to
go over to Emmettsburg after grub. ]
was that Eighty that didn't know one
man from the tother, but it was Jim
Lung who staid behind to do what
ever he could. About 3 O'Clock in the
afternoon my fever went off and | got
my senses back, but | was dreadful
weak. jest knowed that the blamed
heather was givin' me drink and nurs-
in me mp. but didn't seem to care
whether died or got we'll. 1t had bin
rainin' purity steady fur three weeks,
and had bin well | should hev bin
leetle naryous about a landslip. Bein'
as | was the idea never worked into
my head
I'm following YOU" said as he
paused.
Wall. I'd jest got woke up. as it
war, when the heather begun To act
naryous. didn't notice it so much
then. but it cum to me afterwards
He'd run to the door and take squint
and then run back and fuss around
me, and finally the cu>s who was a
powerful teller in them davs-picked
me up, rolled me in Il rubber blanket,
and walked outdoors aud started up
the trail. was like one in dream
| sorter knowed what he was dom,
and yit | didn't struggle nor ask
question. We hadn't gone hundred
feet when Jim Lung uttered a yell
and next thing realized we seemed
to take wings and fly through the air,
while thar was roarin' in my ears
like gale makes among the pine
trees. Kin you guess what it WASP"
"A landslde?"
"Bet yer life 1t was, See 1t was
over mile broad by two miles long,
and my cabin was plumb in the mid
die. but only 80 feet below whar she
started from. Jim Lung had waited
too long The slip picked us up, and
I'm tellin' you straight as gun when
| say that that burned yaller hided son
of gun, holdin' me in his arms as
you hold p baby, was given free ride
the whole length of that slip aud
brung up in that fringe of cedars you
see strstchin' along yonder tainted
away about the time we started, and
next thing knowed it war dark and
my pard was thar beside me. So was
Jim Lung. hadn't even lost piece
of hide, but the heather had bin hurt
about the hips and back and crippled
fur life. We went down along with
powders and trees and bushes and
thousands of tons of earth. and now
we escaped is sumthin' no man kin
tell. Jim thinks he kept his feet all
the way down. but | jest imagine that
both of us played circus in a way
never witnessed by mortal man be-
fore"
Did the cabin go?"
Did it, Why, man, we never found i
. splinter as big as toothpick. A
year ago, in sinkin' a shaft up thar by
the trees, some fellers cum across
bar'l of one of our guns. Thar was
thirty-tour feet of rock and earth |
above it, If we'd bin in that cabin no.
body would hev ever seen hide or ha'r !