Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-06-14

that if captured that a death br
most horrible torture awaited hin
solved to drown himself rather tbs,1
into their hands. They ran to the /.
of the stream and, suspecting his h
place, swan out to it, and twenty 4
the trapper sank beneath the drs
grasping a sunken tree that wa,
bedded in the sand. But, thoupb
Blackfeet spent over an hour sesrs
for him and poking the drift with (
spears, they finally concluded thu
had gone farther down the river an
parted to beat the banks. Il
Heard by the wretched trapper n
spent nearly the whole day scar
for him, but returned toward evepiS
the spot where the dead chief lav
Golfer could tell by their retre,
voices as they walled that they
carrying home the body. AS soon
thought they must be out of sight
ter crawled out, so chilled by the v,
that he could scarcely use his limb,
so exhausted by the loss of blood ami
terrible race that he thought hin,
dying. But courage revived alta
time, and he started for Lisa's for
the Yellowstone.
His situation was so desperate tht
dared not let his mind dwell on It
fear that he would lose his resolls
and die of despair. The fort, the n
est place where he could hope to fall
with white man, lay full weeksia
ney from him, and he was not onlys,
naked, but without a weapon with VIII
he could kill game and SO supports
His feet were in fearful. condition
by the sharp rocks and the tholns Of
cacti over which he had run his "A
Exposed TO the heat of the sun byi
and the dews of night, and tortr
often by hunger and thirst, the tran
still pushed on, determined to
through it all.
He subsisted for days on the '
plant known as sheep sorel, and the
weeds and grasses peculiar to the '
stretch of country over which his
lay. One day he found the holeI
rabbit, in which was a litter of yoV
Having no way of cooking, and too 4
ished to wait to do it if he had had,
ter seized the little creatures and has
killing them with a sharp stone
served him for a knife, devoured d
still palpitating bodies, tearing off d
skins with his naked hands. On anO
occasion Golfer attacked a wildcat
only his stone weapon and killed
sucking the blood and eating it to
very entrails.
On the ninth day after he had esq
from the Blackfeet a party of two ira
and trapper named Mcclellan SET
from Lisa's fort for the south, and v
about six miles on their journey c
across an object lying on the plain
several buzzards lowering over it.
ing it for the carcass of calf or
the travellers were about to pass it
distance Of twenty or thirty yards, '
Mcclellan happened to see it mai
gesture, as if to fight off buzzard
had alighted near it. The movel
excited the hunters curiosity AM
rode nearer the object.
Good Godw he cried. boys, it
mani" 1t was Golfer, who, unabl
take another step, had lain down to
He was blistered from head to fox
the suns fierce heat, and had had not
to eat for over two days and no "
for twenty-four hours. With all ?
BILE care he was taken back to the
and there regained his health
strength. With his sufferings in
Golfer became an Indian scout, a
said to have killed with his own ha
hundred Blackfeet. He wore b.
which dangled the scalps of that nu
of that tribe.-Philadelphia Times