The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-07

THE sEcoND GENERATION IS RE-
MOVED.

his private car at Kaslo Junction no one
knew just where to reach either his old
father or his young son with the news of
his death. Somewhere up the eastern slope
OF the Sierras the old man would be leading.
rs he had long chosen to lead each summer.
the lonely life of a prospector. The young
man. two years out Of Harvard, and but re-
Gently back from an extended European
tour. was at some point on the North At
lantic coast. beginning the seasons pursuit
Of happiness as he listed.
Only in a land so young that almost the
present jewellers therein nave made 1t might
We find Municipalities which SO decisiveIy
failed to blend. So little congruous was the
family of Bines in root, branch and blossom.
epic Of Western life as the romancer would
tell 1t. list of the line stands the figure of
Peter Bines. the pioneer. contemporary
with the stirring days OF Fremont, of Kit
Carson. Of Harvey and Bridger; the fearless
etrfvers toward an ever-receding West,
fascinating for it's untried dangers as for its
tabled wealth-the sturdy. grave men who
AoUBut anu lOiieu anu HOpcu, LII eoii>t
In varying measure, but who led in sober
truth a life such as the colors Of no tale
teller shall ever be high enough to repro
duce.
Next came Daniel ]. Bines. a type of the
builder and organizer who followed the trail
blazed by the earlier pioneer; the genius
who. finding the magic realm opened. forth
with became Its exploiter TO Its vast re-
nown and his own large profit, coming its
wealth of minerals, lumber, cattle and
grain. and adventurously building the rail-
roads that must always be had to drain a
new land of savagery.
Nor would there be wanting a third-a
figure Of this present day. containing In po-
tency at least. the stanch qualities OF his
two rugged forbears-the venturesome spir-
II that set his restless grandsire to rowing
westward. the power to group and co-ordi-
nate. to think three moves ahead which
had made his father a man of affairs; and,
further. he had, something modern OF his
own that neither of the others possessed.
and yet which came as the just fruit of the
parent vine: a disposition perhaps a bit less
strenuous. turning back to the risen rather
than forward to the setting sun; a tendency
to rest a little from the toll and tumult; TO
cultivate some graces subtler than those or
adventure and commercialism; to make the
most of what had been done rather than
strain to the doing of needless more: to live,
in short. like a philosopher and a gentle
man who has more golden dollars a year
than either philosophers or gentlemen are
wont TO enjoy.
And now the central figure had gone sud-
denly at the age of ffty-two. after the way
OF certain men who are quick. ardent and
generous in their living. From his luxuri-
GUS private car. lying on the sidetrack at
the dreary little station. Toler. private sec
rotary to the millionaire, had telegraphed to
the headquarters Of one important railway
company the death of its president. and to
various mining. milling and numbering COM
panies the death of their president. vice
president or managing director, as the case
might be. For the widow and only daughter
word OF the calamity had gone to a noun
tain resort not far from the family home at
Montana City.
There promised to be delay in reaching the
other two. The son would early read the
news. Toler decided. unless. perchance. he
were of at sea, since the death Of a figure
like Bines would be told by every daily
newspaper in the country. He telegraphed,
eo sO0A5 NOh
apartments and to a Newport address. on
the chance OF finding him.
Locating old Peter Bines at this season of
the year was a feat never lightly to be un-
dertaken. nor for any trivial end. 1t being
now the 10th of June, 1t could be known
with certainty only that in one of four
States he was providing through some wood
ed canyon. toiling over a windy pass. or
scaling a mountain sheerly. In his ancient
and bestowed sport of prospecting. Know
ing his habits. the rashest guesser would
not have attempted to say more definitely
where the old man might be.
The most promising plan Toler could de-
wise was to wire the superintendent of the
Zone Girl mine at Skiplap. The elder Bines,
ne knew. hac passed through Skipiap about
June I, and had left, perhaps. some inkling
OF his proposed route: IL it CHANGED, indeed,
that he had taken the trouble to propose
one.
Pangburn. the mine superintendent, on re-
ceipt of the news dispatched five men on
the search in as many different directions.
The old man was now seventy-four, and
Pangburn had noted when last they met
that he appeared to be somewhat less agile
and vigorous than he had been twenty years
before: from which 1t was fair to reason
that he might be playing his solitary game
at a l~eisurely pace. and would have tramped
no great distance in the ten days he had
been gone. The searchers. therefore, were d.
rected to beat up the nearby country. To
Billy Brue was allotted the easiest as being
the most probable route. He was to follow
up Paddle creek TO Four Forks, thence over
the Bitter Root trail 10 Eden. on to Orc
Elmo. and up over Little Pass to Holland
gone. He was TO proceed slowly. to be aler,
for signs along the way. and to make In.
quiries OF all he met.
You're likely to get track of Uncle Pc,
Ter" said Pangburn. '-over along the west
side of Horseback Ridge. just beyond Eden
When he pulled out he was talking ahou
some likely hoatrock he'd picked up ove
that way last summer. You'd ought to max,
that by Tomorrow, seeing you've got a gooS
horse and the trails been mended this
spring. Now you spread yourself out. Billy
and when you get on TO the ridge make
special look all around there"
Besides these directions and the telegram
from Toler. Billy Brue took with him a cop,
OF the Skiplap Weekly Ledge. damp from
the press and containing the death notice o
Daniel j. Bines. a notice sent out by IN,
News Association. which billy Brue reaS
with interest as he started UP the trail. Tn,
item concluded thus:
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