The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-03-04
aud I slept for the first time ir

Leaving me thus comfortably
fixed, Jim left the next day for his
cabin to attend to matters there.
Finding that the bears had eaten
two of the moose he had killed, he
cached another one, and came back
10 M. By this time the swellir g
had gone down in my leg, but the
wound was horrible 10 look at.
The sides all fell away from the
stitches at the lower end, and left
standing like bars over hole.
I took them out, and the wound
! healed up very nicely. But by
this time knew what the matter
was-I could feel the pieces OF
bone moving among the muscles
of my leg. | did not feel sufficient
ly expert in surgery to go after them
though.
October >4th, Mike McMurray
dropped in upon Us. He couldn't t
read a note Jim had left at his cab
in. and had gone over to Lansing
to get it read, but finding no one
there was on his way back home
when he saw our, smoke, He and
Jim built raft, and we went down
the river on it to Jim's cabin, Is
miles below. Soon after this, [ got
worse agaio. Ny leg gathered,
and for two nights before it broke,
I was nutty. It broke, and then
gathered again, and still the bones
wouldn't cover. Frank had come
by this time, and the river was freez-
ing up. Frank went over to Lam
sing in the hope of getting Indians
to aid us, but there was none there.
Meantime we were running short of
dog food, and Jim and Frank went
down the river to hunt, leaving me
alone, Mike having left US before.
Frank came back IN six days to
see how I was. One piece of bone
had just come out through a hole
in the lower end of the woupd, and.
I was feeling pretty lucky. He.
went back again, expecting that |
would be we'll soon; but again my
leg turned to and swelled again in
q totally different place on one side,
three and half inches from the cut.
lin came up to take me down, but
[ couldn't go, aud in FIVE days more
Frank came. By this time, there
were more bones coming out every
day or so. Six came out of the old
place, and three worked out through
the feshy part of the calf.
It was now two mo aths aud elev-
en- days since I had been hurt, or
Nov. 25th. On that day Jim and
FRANK went over the hills to Lam
sing. Two days later the weather
was down to fifty or sixty below
zero. This time / was alone three
weeks, with my leg in about the
same condition, the leg swelling up
and then breaking out. Only one
more piece Of bone came out during
the time. Finally Jim and Frank
came back, aud then we decided to
try to get down stream SO I could
see doctor. We started Christ
mas day. There was three feet of
snow come of the way. The boys
had I'd makea trail ahead for the
toboggan on.whieh I was dragged,
and make . trip and half besides.
We were sixteen days going the
ninety miles down Canyon River,
to- the Junction of the . south
and north forks of Canyon River.
We had $50 pounds of dried meat
to start with. Frank shot all our
dogs but four, because of lack of
food. When we got to the Stewart
I made the boys leave me in q cab
in, where there was a good wood
pile. We got to this cabin January
9th, and 7 was alone, there for sew.
enteen days while Frank and Jim
went down to Duncan creek For.
the first four or five days my leg
slowly and Thought for
a while l was going to be able to
walk, but then it get worse again.
had miserable time here, most
of the time being without any food
except rolled oats of which / grew
very tired. hate the very name of roll |
ed oats My nerves got the best t5iof me
towards the last of this lonely stay,
which made things worse. Finally. how
ever, after what seemed an eternity to me
Frank came back The coldest weather
of the winter came with him, IS degrees
below and wind. After days rest, we
started again on our journey, and after
much difficulty reached Duncan Creek |
landing, II miles below Frazier Falls. |
The storekeeper there fitted me out with |
a dog team and brought me down to
Dawson in a journey of just week. Ev-
eryone, in fact, have met on my wretch |
ed journey has been most kind. got
to Dawson night before last, which was
the 9TH day of February.
DIR. Norquay was up yesterday to ex-
anime nv leg. and he is yery well salts !