Mexico weekly ledger., 1901-03-28


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r AID after il vas ever N ss1n-
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Izt Lbsre Ezs MT q drop q Ez1er II
Tie bgZs . / PICKED spain pan
and started f9E The iver. BIZ that
EEs The f1g Ezg thick e3g9zh 70 cut
with a knife and il Ezs Gzrk a. q dun
gen. Carefully feeling my Esy down
ths E2rrJw trail between TIE b0El-
Gers raaensd TIE foot q the noun
tain and then turning % the right I
followed . steep bank a50ut hfry
yards 70 wasrs tia Suics ended and
psrng dgEn could SEE something
white thai I took 70 be a bed q white
znd and jumping from the bank
which VA about eight FEET high /
landed clear oyer ny bad 10 the 6y
water q tie Iuha When I arse %
TIE Top q fsa vigorous strokes landed
ne % The s5lre and Wben I craWled
up Tie hank, Hetter than drowned
rat ] vas ma8 al over. had read q
sh~ipwrscksd @nyrS tossing ca the
Saves Be- q small bat IN mid-ooesn,
with water al around them and not .
drUp % drink, 4uenching their burn
ing thirst b. iMmersing their bodies
10 The 81. and J thought that il was
only azlaEs yarn. but after taking
that o13d hath IN the river / knew il
% Be q fact f0r ! did not drink a drop
u WateT that night Just below
tgUn there lad been a big land slide
about loo yards wide and across this
the miners had cut d trail that in
maDy places vas not more than a foot
wide. Below this narroW trail il was
and almost sheer precipioe down TO
riyeT-ab0ut 499feet 0eioW-znd sharp
Jagged rocks stuck out ike Saw teeth
all the szy down. Below this slide
the bed q the river was fun Of great
granite b9Elden that had been car
ned down by the slide and we're too
heavy f9T the water 70 move.
A few nights after the little episode
that 1 just related, I'd came down to
our camp aO1ut 10 O'Clock and woke
us Up. He said that George had gone
% town that Afternoon to get sJme
provisions and as he had not returned
they were afraid that he had met
with an accident SaKt0n carried a
miners lantern "a beer bottle with
the bottom broken cut and q piece Of
candle stuck 10 the neck On the IN
side-and after we had Travelled about
d mile We met George coming hack.
He vas as sober A. a judge but be
looked like he had had a fight with a
grizzly bear, as his clothes we're tom
into shreds and be vas bleeding from
scratches al over his b0dy. Instead
.Of buying his goods when he got b
town be proceeded to ell himself
with whisky and when The thought
had struggled through his muddled
brain that it vas time % return TO.
camp itwss long after dark and the
whole street was hardly wide enough
70 hold him. How be got to the mid
de u the slide be did not kn0H, but
when he had reached that place be.
gave . lunch b the left and over be.
went, luckily, directly between two.
big b1Ulden 10 the river and the icy.
water s1bered him in an Instant /
% not believe that ten thousand So
Der men oJgld have taken that faIl.one.
AZ a time, and a single one escaped
alive Not long after this Thomas
HutchinsJn and myself left the dig
gingA saxtOn remained In DOWnle-
vile and tw0 months later be took the
deadly mountain fever and died. He
was p years gld-a shoemaker By trade.
and vas from Cleveland, o., where be
left a young wife and several small
children; and probably Wa a relative
q President McKinley's wife.
The fOll0ving year a duel was fought