The daily Alaskan., 1905-06-14
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to washoe City. \ trapper saw the caravan and shook his head omlnously. Two days later Indian hunters saw it Alter thSt l, was seen by no man, or If any man saw 1t he did not live to tel or It Searching parties were sent OCt which followed the trail into the heart uS the mountains, but all finally lost it
 Mary Desne was baby when her father organized and went with this exl edition. AS the years passed and nothing was ever heard of Roger peane Mary's mother came to consider him dead and married again. Other chD drcn were born. Mary grew to woman. hood and went out from her homo made unpleasant to her by her step father and her half brothers and sis ters. Roger Deane's estate had been administered upon under the intcState law, and the stepfather and his chil' drea managed to get all there was Of It. After they had used it-and there were many mouths to fll-Mary saw that they were anxious to get rid of her. Il was then that she went to work 10 earn a living. Those who knew her father said, What a pity that he didn't leave a will beQueathing to Mary her full share of his property"
 One morning a hunter in the noun tains, becoming separated from hls companions, sat down on rock to rest. On the one hand was a narrow trail. on the other a sudden rise. It occurred to the man that the face of the country was not as nature made it The position of the powders, the small size of the trees on the rise compared with those on either side of it, the con fguration of the slopes, all told him that there had been some change with fin perhaps a century. Climbing higher, he turned and looked again. Then be saw that the ground beneath him had been valley. Turning, he cast his eye 10 a point 2,OOO feet above. A noun tain side was wanting. He saw it all At some time there had beer land. slide, breaking the continuity of the valley.
 Gradually the rains had undermined the mountain side till millions Of tons of earth and rock hung poised, waiting for some disturbance to shake them loose and send them pouring down into the valley. Perhaps it would be a clap of thunder, mighty wind. Fer haps 1t would be some Slighter cause the tread of a wild animal, the crack of a rifle, the shout of a man. What ever the cause, once the delicate bal ance was destroyed the great mass tot tered and fell with a roar Of thou sand cannon.
 The man descended to the trail at the point where it began to mount the avalanche of earth. Knecling at a spring to drink, he saw something brown protruding from the wet earth 1t was not branch. IL was something made with hands. He seized it and found it cold. It was iron. Pulling E. out, he saw a gun barrel from which the stock had been rottcd. In the hole from which he took it was horse shoe. He tried to take it out, but found that it was fixed to horses foot Then his party came up, and, digging, they found the skeletons of a horse and a man and the ironwork of a wagon.
 
 Mary Deane had come in from her work tired and, throwing herself on Q lounge, was resting and thinking John Herr!ck wanted her to marry him. She loved him, but John had lit tie or nothing on which to support 0 family, and Mary, who was level head ed. foreSaw only accumulated burdens in becoming his wife. Martin Hughes. an unculrured Storekeeper, who had a competency, also wanted her, and she was how deliberating whether Co aC cept the continued evil Of poverty au, work too hard for her delicate ply siQue or a husband she would rathe' live without.
 John Herrick wants to see you said the woman with whom she board cd. Hes in the sittin' room"
 What could John have to say to her that led him to call at that hourg A week before she had told him that their marriage would be folly. Never theless she went downstairs to see him.
 Mary" he said. "I wish you had married me before this Now N is Impossible"
 ,"why more so than bcforcy
 Because you arc rich and au poor"
 "I richy John, have ycu gone d0ttF
 "I said you arc rich, and it Is true
 "Of what do my riches coDSiSty
 "of the Gold HiL originally named the Mary Deane mme,"
 John took from his pocket yellow folded paper and handed it to her. H was her fathers will leaving an his property to her mother In trust fot her. Among the assets was claim he had bought the day before the wii