Middletown transcript., 1897-11-27


, poor beasts were most starved. They
r didn't have anything to eat the las
: five days.
"When things got to looking like that
Wright says: 'Well. there's plenty oi
grub on Healey's steamer Now that
meant tuning back and wanttdlo see
the giIl.So say ::'What do we want "a
| turn backnow for? We're getting along
fine and there's lots of grub waiting fol
us the other side Of the summit
''The country doIl't lock right,
says Reed. And il didn't. You see
not a one of us had ever seen it all
covered up like that, and suowing To
beat the band. We couldn't see any of
the landmarks, and was glad | used
TO be sailor and knew how to steer.
The Lord knows how We all got along
toward the summit, but we did sonn-
how. Now the summit Was Que of the
landmarks we all thought we knew.
just then there came along SHOW
storm and we couldn't see our hands.
We pulled the two sleighs side by side,
spread bit of Canvas over the top aud
eraWled under for shelter. We had no
fire and only one mess Of beans. Late
that day we hunted through he packs
and found five candles We didn't k ow
we had. We stuck them upright in the
snow under our bit of canvas and
heated some of those beans over
the flame. The dogs howled; they
didn't have anything at all to eat.
That night they-bsske in on US, and if
hadn't wakened up the starved things
would have eaten all We had and s,toc.
Three days we lay there with nothing
to eat but few beans, and then it
cleared.
"We could see something ahead that
l said was the summit. The others
said it was not; that we were lost, and
would die. We quarreled about that.
Finanlly started ahead by myself and
looked over the ground. satisfied my
selfthat it was really the summit, and
then l came back and told the others.
Wright came along at once, but Reed
lay back and said we were lost. He
had been Dragging all the way out of
how we'll he knew The country. Wright
and l went ahead, intending to make
it by ourselves if We had to, but after a
while Reed came along. We went to
the top of the place and looked at it.
You know there is place where you
have to lie down and just slide to the
bottom. Reed looked at it and said it
was wrong, and that we were sure lost.
Wright and decided to try it any how.
L took the sleighs and turned them
loose down the slope. Then We got
the dogs into bunch, and started the
poor brutes going, and then We lay
Down on our faces, stuck our knives
into the snow to act as brakes, and let
go. Reed didn't want to be left, so he
lay down aud swore, and then came
along.
1--WE had bad time. That place is
all right to slide down other times of
the year, but you see it had only just
begun to set in for the years snow and
there we're drop-offs and hummGcks on
that slide we knew nothing about. 1
would strike one of these hummocks
and just go straight up in the air and
land on my ear again, like as not. We
were the worst bluised-up fit youever
saw when we got to the bottom. Reed,
he gets up and shakes himself, and says,
'We're wrong anyhow. and We ought
to have stayed at the top Just then
we found some of the tree stumps the
miners had cut off. and we knew we
| were all right.
1--WE were tired and worn and we
had forgotten when wehad anything to
eat last, but we felt SO good at the
prospect of food ahead that we walked
sixty miles that night, through the
worst canyon there is on the trip. Just
at the end We had one bit of tough luck.
We had several times talked Of killing
and eating one of the dogs, but they
had been good brutes and we didn't
like to. v hen we got near Wilson's
the Indians bad traps set for beaver
and so on. The hungry dogs went for
them right away and two of them got
caught. We had to shoot two of the
dogs and pay the Indian So for his
busted traps. That was tough.
1--WE were played out when We got
to Wilson's, but we soon picked up and
/ after ten days went back to Sheep
Camp for our gold dust and robes we
cached 20 as to travel light. Then |
pulled right out for the warm country.
| got to Aspen, Col., in March and |
told my brother all about it. He
started for the Klondike and | went to
Nova Scotia and married the girl had
traved across the country to see. Then
my brother came along and followed
my example. He went-right in again
started up the Yukon prospecting. In
the spring of 1896 high water drove
him out OF the Indian river and he
went up on TO what is now called
'Gold Bottom.' That was really the
first big strike made in the upper wa
ters and it brought the crowd.
81 am going right back into the
Klondyke now and shall make my Sec
ond trip across the Chilkoot-pass in
tho depth of winter.
When your stomach begins TO trouble
you. it needs help, The helpit needs, is to
digest your food, and, until it gets it, you
won't have any peace. Stomach trouble is
very distressing. very obstinate very dam
gerous. Many of the most dangerous d.
| seases begin with simple indigestion, The