The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-19
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This circumstance reminds me of
winter marriages" among the Bear
Lakers as | have heard them related
by Bennett, Wheeler and others in
BlacIfoot. ! am going to start for"
This was at the bottom of the third
page. The next page was tucked into
the envelope and she did not take it
out. She reached for it once, but her
hand trembled as If she were thief
and she paced up and down by the
counter till the teakettle was ready
and went home wondering what the
next line said What made him write
about that circumstance anyhow" she
thought. did he think of following
that example or did he mention II
because it was an outrage" Bought
her for a sack of -four, and sent her
home afoot in the spring! Why that
lis just reversing the doings of civil
lied sinners. If she had staid and he
had gone-and never returned-but
why contemplate the doings of sin
ners whether savage or civilized.
On the following Sunday she took
some rich cream and made chocolate
for dinner. A rich layer cake on the
table added to the delicious beverage,
tempted each member of the family
to eat to safety. After dinner Lilly
cleared up the table, and was wonder.
ing If the boys In the far north had
any good things for their Sunday din.
ner, and felt sense of pain as she
thought of camp life in rain and mud,
with beans and bacon and camp
bread. The thought chung to her per-
sistently, and she wished she could
make a bowl of chocolate and hand it
or send 1t to the one who had mailed
her that tuft of moss.
1t was Friday morning, the 18th OF
August, and the sun peeping across
the Arctic ocean at three o'clock in
the morning shone on the mountain
tops and gradually shed it's luster
along the hills till it bathed all the
creeks in golden light. The frost
melted from the moss and rocks, and
at seven o'clock feecy clouds were
carrying brisk shower over. the Neu. |
keluk river and the camps on the Elk
horn. The night shift which had been |
shoveling rocks and gravel for ten |
hours stepped aside and the day shift |
took their places. The old man Gard |
ner, the apparent owner Of the claim |
had spent a sleepless night, and rose |
to find that other troubles than those |
which had kept him awake were con-
fronting him. His attorney from |
Nome, weary of defending his claim
without receiving his fees, had walked
over three ranges of mountains and
arrived at the camp that morning af-
ter four days tramp, to demand a
thousand dollars in gold dust The
folders were about to move to Col
own, and Gardner was shrewd enough
10 know that he must make peace with
his attorney or lose possession that
lay. BY putting on more force he
might get enough in the cleanup that
night to satisfy the demand, but in
hat event the men could not get their
wages. Nv oodhams@ complained of a
anne hand caused by reaching into
he fume to pick out rocks which
we're too heavy for the current to
oil away. Gore, who had nearly lost
lis arm from that same exposure, had
o leave for Seattle 1000 miles away
or treatment. lowell wanted to 60 to
Council for supplies and the old man
skukum was lying in his tent with
aging fever. Only the day shift could
work, and in the evening the clean
lp left Gardner 5000 short of the re-
luired amount but he promised to
lave 1t by morning. Going to the
ent where Ralph and Schneider were
eating supper he asked them to re-
urn to the trenches and shovel all
light. They compromised with him
" shoveling till midnight and coming
tut again at the usual hour next morn
ng. During the day the tailings had
,iled up 50 high that none of the
light shift could shovel the gravel far
'nough to keep it from sliding back
nto the pit, and there was not time I