The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-12-13
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murdered policeman. Quick as a FASH
little Sheridan ordered his two prisoners
to halt knocked the third Short Tail
down, dragged him over to where the
other two were meekly standing, stood
the third prisoner in line and without
further ado. drove them into the sta
! ton house.
Sheridan reached there just as the
| platoon was issuing forth. He quickly
I handed his prisoners over to the door
man, Joined the platoon, and in the
general roundup that followed took a
leading part and arrested dozen Short
Tails.
Fritz Werner was a German forester.
one day stag gored him frightfullv jim
the abdomen.
AS the Infatuated animal pulled out
his antlers, backed away and prepared
for a second charge, the injured man
propped himself on an elbow and fired
just as the stag was closing in on him.
The animal fell dead and the man
! tainted away.
When he recovered consciousness he
found that he could not attract atten-
| ton by shouting. He realized that he
was out of the beaten paths and that
unless he dragged himself to a fire.
| quented place he would surely die So
forest in the direction of his employers
house, three miles away
He started on his journey at noon: at
O'Clock the next morning the occu-
| pants of the house were aroused by the
explosion of a gun nearby. Inyestigat-
ing they found the forester in a dead
faint and nearly dead from loss of
| blood, lying on the lawn. BY his side
was a smoking gun.
~,
could speak and tell his story, his mas
! ter asked him:
But why did you drag that heavy
gun all the way?"
Il knew that 1 couldn't shout when 1
did reach an inhabitable place" wis
| the reply, so l brought it along TO
| attract attention. l didn't think of it
until L had crawled for half a mile,
then l crawled back and got it,"
DR.. T. H. Bean of the United States
fish commission, while on board the
revenue cutter Baer, off Nnalaska, wit
messed a remarka BILE case of nerve.
Whaler signaled the cutter for medi-
cal aid. Dr. Bean was taken aboard.
He found that a Kanaka sailor had
had foot smashed some weeks before
by hogshead of whale oil rolling on
it.
The injured member was in a terrible
| state and the man was evidently suffer
ing intensely, although he gave no out
ward sign.
When the captain asked the doctor
what could be done. the latter started
to tell him in confidence At that the
sailor spoke up:
Don't be afraid to tell me, doctor"
he said; Il can stand it all right
We'll, my man." responded DR.. Bean,
'amputation is the only thing that will
relieve YOU but have neither the nee
essary instruments nor anesthetics.'
The sailor smiled.
Don't mind about little things like
that" he said.
But" began DR.. Bean
The sailor smiled again.
'Oh, start in now" was all that he
said.
DR.. Bean had with him a case of
pocket instruments for dssecting birds
When he pulled this out the sailor seat
ed himself on a cask, unceremoniously
crossed his legs and held out the in
jured foot.
The doctor started to work. He first
removed the toes with the little bird
knife, which hacked more than it cut
Then he found that up under the flesh
the instep bone was affected for nearly
an inch. So he had to cut in and turn
back the flesh. Then with tweezers
for he had no saw, he shipped off the
diseased parttof the bone a little at a
time
That done he pulled the flesh down
and sewed up the wound. After eE1
hours work he announced that the job
was finished. And the sailors foot had
not quivered nor a muscle in his face
moved in pain.
Smilingly the sailor uncrossed his
legs, slid off the cask, reached for the
doctors hand, shook it heartily, roared
a grateful Il thank ye, sir" and then
hobbled off toward the fo-csle, whis-
Ting a rollicking sailors Jig