The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-30
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| ''-N-- 40 that QdN-
Private Cannon PLAYED in hard I,,ct-
saturday. About noon he mounted ono
| VI our prize burroS and started ont for
| aging, expecting to return for sumner
ne Iailed 10 show up on time and away
INTO the night we who awaited his re-
turn DeSan TO grow uneasy Lieuten-
ant hiinpall, Corporal Weatherby and
our guide started out in search of him.
put soon gave UP the job as fruitIess
Inc uncertainty as TO whether our man
had been hurt or was only lost caused
| a very unpleasant creepy feeling that
| was not relieved by our guides telling
US tnat two years ago one of a survey
ing party became separated from his
/ comrades in this same vicinity wan
! dered without food for four DAYS and
went mad before he was found Next
morning, Sunday, Cannon was still
missing and Lieutenant Kimban, Cor
/ poral Weatherby, Guide Leonard and I
\ went out on our horses looking for him
! We separated and secured the noun
tains till noon, when by previous ar
IanSement we returned to camp and
, found Cannon there. He had become
| lost and had wandered about in the
mountains with his burro all night.
having no matches to light a camp fire.
He seems none the worse off for his
long walk and fright.
Corporal Howell and Saddler Payne
ANASAAO0 I'D otttiOieiN WIFI PROVISIONS ana
that afternoon we moved towards home
to Murphy's meadow, near Lake Ten
ava. not far from the head of the IA
nous Yosemite valley, having passed
Fairview Dome, Round Meadow and
Cathedral Lake. Howell had shot a fine
buck the previous day and stopped
Sunday night to take the venisOn from
it's cache.
Monday. Sept. 49, we came into Camp
Wood. 81 miles. Our four prisoners
walked all the way over mountains and
down canyons. Our route led us by the
top of Yosemite falls, now dry. and
down through the valley, where we saw
all the magnifcence of nature that
draws hither tourists from all parts of
the globe
Thus ended the excursion of the prin-
cipal sheepherding detail of volunteer
cavalry. 1t was a fine experience for
the men and enjoyable withal Every
body in the crowd took a hand at
everything there was to do, even to
cooking. and anyone who may imagine
that We are of the starving soldiers
We read about should glance over a list
of the ViandS we devOured from day to
day, something like this:
BreahaSt-BrOok trout, liver and ca-
con, fried potatoes, porterhouse steak,
flap jacks and syrup. coffee.
Dinner-Irish stew, squirrel pie, sour
0ONSA DACeSI5 NuCCSCy tea cLlAI SOtG
water.
apprehension, biscuit, bacon and
liver, grouse. beans, baked potatoes,
coffee. tea. cocoa and soda.
Just how many of our dainties came
from the packs of sheeDmen is no
bOdy's business except the shepherds
and ours.
Altogether the details sent out by
Captain Game have arrested and
brought into camp Is trespassing shep-
herds. with their horses mules and
dogs galore. The regulations of the
park provide for no fines, the offenders
simply being held a few days and then
released. Their punishment is in the
scattering and consequent loss of their
sheep. Firearms are seized and the s
Camp Wood headquarters is now =
veritable arsenal of knives and all sorts 4
of guns. from an old Misunderstanding
Colt revolver of the 1850 pattern to the
latest Winchester magazine rifle.
All the details have returned to camp
except Sergeant Richards and four
men. Tomorrow morning Captain Game
intends leaving with four men to ac-
company Superintendent ZeVeley about
the park on q pleasure trip. PrivateS
Adams and Freed have been granted Il
four days fuTlough and will spend the
time in Yosemite valley. Adams has
an uncle, intimate with men in high
places at Washington, who has Sc
cured for him an honorable discharge.
and he will leave for home soon. Pri-
waite Estes, left in hospital at the Pre-
SidiO. is soon to be discharged on the
ground of physical disability, having
heart disease. Private Peterson was
sent home to Salina and now Private
Loveless is the only trooper at the Pre-
sidiO of those left there in hospital
when the troop moved hither. The cpl
demic of dysentery, caused by the
change of water. has passed away and
there is now no one sick at this camp.
JOHN METER