The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-24

and sternly civilization had destroyed the pr-
meval status Of the western cattle ranges, and re-
fined society turned the cold eye of disfavor upon
him and his ilH In the second place, in one of its
cyclopean moments the had arisen and showed
back its frontier thousand miles. Thus with
unconscious foresight, did mature society make room
Tor It's adolescent members. True, the territory
was mostly barren; but its thousand
square miles of frgidty least gave breathing space
70 nose VINO else would have suhoeated at home
seacoast with Iast SUE e os5 alls TOT , Ihe
possibly have explained and with nerve than
coin Of the realm, he succeeded in shipping from a
tngent miseres steerage seasicness ana steerage
grub. He was rather sallow and drawn. but stiH
beach in the spring of the year Between the cost
of two cashing governments it speedily penetrated
to his understanding that the northland any
NM RetR IN search f5 Of 6s quick aha hSr{ f
many thousands of passionate pilgrims These pill
grims Montana Kid proceeded to farm. At first he
agreeable necessity forced him to drop sudden pes
Iloo into mans life and to move on up tran Then
culated at par with legal tender, four dollar till
an unexpected consignment Of 100 barrels or broke
the market and forced him to disgorge his stock at
After that located at sheep Camp. organized the
professional packers and jumped the freight 10 cents
the packers patronzed his faro and roulette layouts
and were mulcted cheerfuliy of their earnings But
long endured they rushed him one night burned
mis- shanty divided the bank and headed him the
m-luck his running mate He engaged with
way of precarious and unknown trails, lost his In
dian guides and had the very first outfit confscated
by the mounted police Numerous misfOrtunes
tended TO make him bitter of heart wanton of
action, and he celebrated his arrival Lake Ben
nett by terrorizing the camp for twenty straight
hours Then a miners meeting took him in hand, and
commanded MIN 10 make himself scarce He had q
wholesome respect for such assembages, and he
obeyed in such haste that he inadvertently removed
himself at the tail-end another mans dog team.
This was equivalent to horse stealing a more mel
nett and down Tagish and made his first camp a
full hundred miles to the north.
II hat The break of was At
hand, and Of the principal citizens of Dawson
were travelling south last ice. These he met
and talked with. noted their names and possessions
and passed on He had good memory also fair
imagination; nor was VeTaclty one Of his virtues
Dawson; always eager for news, beheld Montana
papers; didn't know whether Durrant was hanged
10 fghtine: didn't Know 2bo 9TaPI i ,[s u gun, +
O'Brien? Hadn't they heard? O'Bren why he was
drowned in the White Horse; Sitka Charley was the
legs frozen and amputated at the Five Fingers Aud
Jack Dalton Blown up on the Sea Lion with ali
nahGs. ana BettlesE Wrecked on the Carthagina
in Seymour Narrows-twenty survivors out of 300
Lake LIE Barge with six female members Of the opera
troupe he was conveying, Governor Walsh? Lost
Devereaux? Who was Devereaux2 Oh the courerl
Shot by Indians on Lake Marsh.
So it went. The word passed along. Men
shoudered in to ask after friends and partners,
in turn were shouldered out too stunned for BIAS
Phemy. BY the time Montana Kid gained the bank
he was SURROUNDED by several hundred fur-clad min
of a procession. At the opera house he was the nu-
every side he vas baiDy iT,tad 70 5~i NS qIs Sl
fore had the Klondike thus opened its arms to A
che-cha-qua- All Dawson hummng. such a
series of catastroDhes never occurred in its his
tory. Every man who had gone south in the
spring had been wiped out. The cabins vOmted forth
lnelf occupants. Wlld-eyed men hurried down from
the creeks and guches to seek this man who had
told tale of such disaster. The haIf-breed
rocked back and forth and ever and flung white
wood ashes upon her raven hair The flag at the
barracks Topped disnally at half-mast- Dawson
Why Montana Kid did this thing no man may
know Nor beyond the fact that the truth
him can explanation be hazarded- But five whole
days he plunged the land in wailing and sorrow and
for hve whole days ne was the only man in the KIon-
bars The country gave him the best of its bed and
board Men sought him continuously. The high Of
hcials bowed down to him for further information
and he was Toasted at the barracks by Constantine
and his brother officers. day Devereally
the gold commissioners Office Dead Vbo sai5 SO
Give him steak and he'd show them how
dead he was. Why, Governor Walsh in camp on
the Little salmon, and o Brien coming in the first
water Dead? Give him moose steak he'd
forthwith Dawson hummed The barracks flag
rose TO the masthead and BEETLES wife washed her
subty signihed its desire Montana Kid obiiter-
ate himself from the landscape And Montana Kid
else's dog team. Dawson rejOiced when he headed
down the Yukon and wished him godspeed to the
ultimate destination of the case-hardened sinner.
After that the owner Of the dogs bestirred himself
made complaint 10 Constantine, and from him re-
Ceived the loan Of policeman
With Circle City in prospect and the last ice
crumbling under his runners, Montana Kid took ad-
vantage of the ienghenng days and Travelled his dogs
the owner of the dogs in question trail,
and ne wished to make American territory before
the river broke But by the afternoon of third
day it became evident that he had lost in his
with spring. The Yukon growing and strainng
at its letters Long detOurs became necessary. for
the trail had begun 10 fan through into the swift
beneath, while in
laundering apart in great gaping assures Through
these and through countless arhOles the
TO sweep across the surface of the ice, and by the
time he pulled into a wOodchOpper's cabin
point of island the dogs being rushed off
their feet and were swimming more often than not.
He greeted sOurly by the two residents, but
embarrassed and proceeded to cook
Donald DaNy We're fair specimens OF frontier
ineficents- Canadan-bOrn. city bred Scots a
foolish moment they had resigned counting house
desks. drawn upon their savings gone KlOndiI-
E ing. And now they feeling the rough OF
the country CFrubess, spiTitless. with
IN their hearts they had s---sed by the P G
company TO cut wood for its steamers with the
promise At the end Of passage home. Disregardng
the possibilities Of the ice they had fttingly
demonstrated their necency by their choice of the
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