The evening times., 1896-08-25
AsTRAY mid WILD BEASTS
Baby Wandered Off Into the
Mountains of Oregon.
LOST FOR NEARLY A WEEK
Had Gone Oh Picnic With Eer
Par-nts-Miracu culously Preserved
Berries and Slept UnGer Trees.
Found by Her Father and Brother.

Pendleton, Ore, Aug 25.-For six days
four year old Emma Nelson. of SusanyilIe
wandered alone on mountain where the
roar of the bear and screams of the panther
are heard nightly. a0a six evenings, as
the sun disappeared in the west. she made
couch beneath some giant oak aud la ay
down 10 sleep- the. awful noises of the
forest sounding i'll her ears a wild lullaby
The little one is safe ut home now, found
and returued after u weary search by
scores OF men in the mountains, and that
she was spared from death is regarded
by hesiuple mountain folk as miraculous.
Verify. there is one who watches over
the weakest of His flock
Little Emma is rUsy-cheeked miss
with bright blue eyes and dimpled hauds
and chin She lives with her parents at
Susanville Her papa is the village Eost
master Not far from the little ones
humble home are the stately snow capped
Blue Mountains. From the submits of.
snow of the highest peaks the view is en-
chanting and extends into three States
IN A WILD REGION
off to the north is Washington, to the
eSs,t iuiIOs anu an aWut
tothe north the great Columbia river winds
itself like silvery thread, now through
fertile valleys and now through sandy
wastes, where sand storms strong enough
TO interfere with railroad traffic some
u mes occur.
The countryis of wild aspect, and the
mountain fastnesses hold many a secret OF
the coings OF Indians in days long passed.
OF prospectors who never returned to their
homes, and OF cattle thieves VIII were
dealt with according to the primitive law
of the land.
The people of SuSanvile gave a picnic
over Week ago in n grove in the fo1t-
hills of the Blue mountains. 1t did not diff.
fer from other picnics. There We're sports
for the children and lots of good things To
eat, and the simple mountain leopie had
merry day of it When the people Were
ready to start for, home little Emma was
nowhere to be found.
There was no trace of her from early
in the afternoon, when her 81: :-year old
brother saw her going in the direction of
Settle mountain, gathering wild flowers
5 she went. Settle usauntain!- exclaimed
the country folk in horror. 1t is the most
dangerous peak in the entire range, and is
the stamping ground for bears and cougars
AMID WILD BEASTS.
She never be found alive" was the
verdict OF the hardy mounta incers, as they
shook their heads doubtfully.
An nigh; and for several days and nights
atterward men searched the mountain fast
ncsses for the lost one. Their hearts failed
within them when the stiffness OF the night
cougar, and when in the da ytime they saw
numerous bears feeding at the berry bushes.
In the afternoon Of the sixth day the
seal arciiing party came upon clump OF
weeping willows, by which pa sscd small
stream. Not one OF the scarcfers had the
slightest idea OF finding the little one
alive. Little Willie was riding in front of
hisfather ona horse, which wasaccustomcd
to rough trips in the mountains.
Papa said the boy. '.it my little sister
isn't dead. think she is not TAR from that
stream. She loves to sit near the river and
make bouquets OF the wild flowers that she
gathers"
As the party neared the clump OF brush
Mr.. Nelson was startled to hear a voice say
Hello, papa L have been looking for Won
ever so long"
Mr.. Nelson clasped his child in his arms
and hugged her as no father ever hurgrd
child before.
SURE SHE WOULD MEET PAPA.
Il knew was lost, papa, ,'the little one
said. but 1 was SD sure would meet my
papa that kept on walking.''
Emma told the searchers that she hal
made complete circuit of Settle Mount.
ain, having Travelled nine miles. How she
escaped the cougars and bears is q mys-
terry. She slept wherever she could find u
resting place. and subsisted on berries and
the flesh of calf which had been killed
by coyote.
The little girl said she was frightened
only once wilhelm the mountains. That was
on her third day out. She awoke that morn
ing on the eGge OF precipitous cliff. The
big fir trees in the valley a thousand feet
below looked ike walking canes. Had she
made the slightest move during her sleep
she would have rolled off the cliff.