The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-09-18
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ing he was going to Alaska too, she
:, stopped and said, We'll you are to
leave us tomorrow, are you?" And
when he replied in the affirmative
she continued, saying the very words
she had in mind to say to some one
else if she had the opportunity:
We'll, | hope you may have a good
safe journey and streak of good
luck when you get there. | know, OF
course, you are taking long and dan
gerOus trip, and you are doing 1t to
make some money. At this moment
she paused and Robert replied, That
is the one object of the trip Robert
stood facing the walk, and observed
Markus Mester and Hank Kiefer ap-
preaching, and for once neither of
them was talking. Ralph Strong and
, Hank. Garlets were just behind them,
and Lily did not observe who passed
| just as she went on saying, well,
take good care of yourself, whatever
happens, and if you come back empty
| handed | shall think none the less of
you, because | know you will deserve
success whether you get it or not"
Having expressed herself to some
body, she felt better, and although
she did not see Ralph, as she wished
she might, she did not know that she
had thrust an expression into his ears
that was to ring in his thoughts and
haunt him on land and sea for weeks.
She thought she might get note
from him at Portland, and, thinking
to do her part, she wrote him in care
of the Merchant Hotel, but the let
ter came back to the writer early in
June, and on the same day she read
a dispatch in the Salt Lake Tribune
giving an interview with the captain
|of the steamer Jeanne, which had
made the trip to Nome and escaped
through the ice foe, passing the
steamship Senator where it was stuck
in the ice pack hundred miles off
the mouth of the Yukon.
The next day she received a letter
from Robert Houston in which he
mentioned they had escaped from the
ice flow and put back to Dutch Harbor
to wait for the ice to melt, and also
to bury ]. H. Brown of San Francisco.
who had died on the vessel-the first
victim of pneumonia. The letter was
dated June 7th, and stated that the
st. Paul, the Nome City, the Aber-
deem, the Chas. Nelson, the jeanne
and the Valentia were lying at an
Choir there, and that the Santa Buna
had just reached port In distress.
Strangely enough he did not mention
any of the men. 1t was a straight
account of ayoptc cI,ph q
historian might send to his principals,
or gallant fellow might write when
time was precious and important
events we're following one another in
quick succession. There was a broad
sweep-a certain dgnified air and
snap to his letter which bespoke the
atmosphere in which he moved and
the excitement of the day.
/ Lily read the letter in the postoffice,
and as she was passing out she met
Mrs. Fisher and Mrs. Westland, both
anxious to get mail from their sons
in the north. She remembered that
Fred Fisher had sailed on the Santa
Anna and it had reached Dutch Har-
Dor in distress, but what did that
mean anyway. A ship in distress.
That thought was not uppermOst in
Lily's mind, and she passed on, alb
sorbed in her own reverie
The next day the Pocatello Tribune
contained the following:
Reports from Behring sea Indicate
that the gold rushers are having trou-
Bile and plenty of it. The steamer
Catherine Sudden has been crushed
and sunk, the Senator badly injured,
the Geo w. Elder barely escaped go
ing on the rocks in fog, the Nome
City broke her engine on the high
seas, the Lealandia lost her rudder
and went wild, and the Santa Anna
rarity burned up when she was a
thousand miles from port"
The Blackfoot papers did not copy