The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-07
CALLS CARLIN A COWARD.
A Writer Who Refuses to Think Col
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| A Writer Who Refuses to Think Col
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Special Dispatch to the Standard.
SPOKANE, Feb. 6.-The business men
of this city are rustiing hard to secure the
army post, the focal post as the people
of Helena would call il. At a meeting
here a committee was appointed to secure
subscription and already in cash and real
estate more than $4,000 has been sub
scribed. The fort is now almost an as
sured fact for Spokane. The plan of the
department is to have a focal post at Hell
ena, one at Spokane and another at SOME
point on the Puget sound, Tacoma is
working hard for the prize that is to be
awarded to some Pacific coast city.
The contributions here have been lib
eral. The Hypotheak bank subscribed
$4,000 in real estate and $1,000 in cash.
The only thing needed now to make the
post here a fixture is the signature of
President Cleveland to the army appro-
priatIon bill. 1t is expected that will be
given before the end of this week. Spo-
kane needs something to help her along.
The people who own property or have
business find the times very hard and
money very close.
An occasional suicide, the assignment
of business house, or a bit of scandal In
the high life of the fast fading 400, are
little incidents which serve to break the
monotony in social life here. Such trifles
as these have ceased to be regarded as
sensational, however. Nothing short of
an earthquake, such as was experienced
in Helena few days since, or a revolu-
ton, would disturb the equanimlty of the
average Spokane resident.
The recent publication of a book pur-
porting to give true history of the trip
of the Carlin party into the Clearwater
country, where the unfortunate George
Colgate of Post Falls, Idaho. was left to
an awful death by his companions. has
aroused considerable interest in the ill
fated and ill-famed expedition. The other
day w. III. Wright, the veteran guide, was
interviewed and he justified the abandon
ment of Colgate by the Carlin party. Now
a correspondent writing TO the Spokesman
Reriel0 from Lewiston, Idaho, says
Carlln was coward. He says
further that in the ethics of
pioneer hunters, trappers and prospect
ors, there is no justification for the aban-
donment of a fellow man to die, IL matters
not what the surrounding conditions may
be. The noble attributes of real mount
aineers are not often ascribed TO merce-
nary guides. but man who seeks employ
ment from sportsmen should not admit
that he would bold himself to be jus flied
In abandoning his employers under any
circumstances whatever.
The section of country in which Colgate
was abandoned TO die is well known to all
the old prospectors who have gone out
from this place year after year ever since
the discovery of gold in that region. Ii is
crossed aud recrossed by trails and by
ways, and the thought of going to or COM
ing from that so-called inaccessible cam
yon at any time of the year that duty
should call has no terrors for these griz-
zled pioneers.
The story is repeated here of n young
Scotchman by the name of Campbell and
an aged 'i9er from California who were
prospecting on tho middle fork of the
Clearwater in 81 when the latter fell and
broke his thigh. Ii was late in November
and they had only few days provisions.
The snow lay deep all over the ground,
but Bart Campbell did not desert his
friend TO die. 1t would have taken him 10
days TO go To the nearest settlement and
return. Tho helpless old man could not
travel, nor could he remain alone for that
length of time. The young friend had no
more strength and not half as many con-
venienccs as had Colgate's associates, but
he had pluck and his heart was IN the
right place. He stayed 10y the rude bed.
IN the poor shelter Of boughs and bark,
until the flour and beans we're gone AMI
ouly a small piece Of bacon remained. lie
boiled She slice Of fat and placed 10 los the
bed. with chunks Of ice 10 take the pace
OF water, and started in search of game.