The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-11
IN THE WILDERNESS.
The Adventurous Journey of Young
 Chicago Widow.

Chicago Widow.
 Mrs. Marguerite Hemstreet, the
 young widow of W. K. Hemstreet, {
 Chicago sportsman, who met dtath il
 the heavy timber one hundred and if.
 ty miles north of here while on a fish.
 ing expedition last summer, has re.
 turned from the scene of the fatality
 Whither she went to personally investi-
 gate her husbands demise. On hei
 journey into the wilderness Mrs. Hem
 street met with several exciting adven-
 lures, and on one occasion nearly lost
 her own life.
 The accident which resulted in the
 death of the fisherman was somewhat
 peculiar, and suspecting that there had
 been foul play, the young woman de-
 termined to get at the facts herself.
 She therefore came n here with her
 uncle, Oliver Orvls, hired two giudes, bought camping outfit and set out by pony and canoe to reach the interior.
 She was warned that the trip would prove hazardous and that she would be forced to overcome many obstacles,
 but nothing daunted her; she set forth
 and ultimately accomplished her mis-
 sion and established to her own satis- faction that the facts regarding the
 accident were accurate
 Mrs. Hemstreet is small, we'll
 formed brunette with black eyes, and is rather pretty. She possesses an endless amount of determination, and when a half dozen guides at first re- fused to take her into the wild lands i because she appeared cidelate and una- 1 ble to withstand the rigors of the jour- ney she announced that she and her uncle would procyeed alone and by compass. This bought the guides to time and they set forth.
 1 It was necessary to provision the most part by shooting and fishing, and the men were greatly surprised to find | that Mrs. Hemstreet could handle a gun and rod with and of them. She 1 could shoot better than MT. Orvis, and once when @ lynx crouched over an uhuspecting guide, while he was pre- pairing supper she saved him from injury by her eoolness and marksman- ship. This instantly established her standing, and from that time on she was regarded with tremendous respect.
 On the trip to the interior there were few incidents to vary the monotony, but the return journey was fgraught with accident and excitement. Camp had been made in rocky ravine and close to a running stream, when one of the guides was aroused At Il p. m. by the cry of wifi The call was pres ently answered by another and another until a whole pack appeared to be sweeping down upon the camp.
 There was just time to awaken the party when a yearling deer leaped across the brook, dashed by the tent and disappeared in the forest. The next instance the pursuing wolves came to q stand directly in front of the camh
 For a moment they hesitated, and then with common assent they rushed upon the campers in a wild, furious, bowling avalanche Every one quickly sought a tree, the guides cutting loose with their repeating rifles while back ing into the timber and covering their chargers. They feared that in this strait Mrs. Hemstreet might lose her nerve, but she was admittedly much cooler than her uncle and assisted him before she swung herself into low limbed spruce. The party was kept treed until stin-up, when the wolves withdrew after killing the ponies, tear ing the tent to ribbons and devouring all the edibles except some canned goods.
 The following day one of the canoes which had been picked up thirteen days out on the return trip, sprang a leak crossing a small lake, and had 1t not been for the young woman's pres ence of mind wounld have suns,she was sitting in the prov when she heard the guide utter an exclamation and turned ito see water entering through a hole. There was no time to close the abrasion with pitch and bark, but Mrs. Hemstreet was equal to the emergency. She placed bare hand over the leak, pressed down with all her might, and although the water was so cold that her arm was soon numb to the shoulder, she prevented further leakage until the guide had padded mile and half to land.
 But while Mrs. Hemstreet was cool, 1 level-headed and equal to the exposure, there were some things about the woods she didn't know, and her lack of l information regarding hogs nearly cost | her her life. The edge of the wilder l ness had nearly been reached when the | party laid up to repair canoes and give | Q days complete rest to Mr. Orvis, I who was suffering from a wrenched | ankle.
 By this time all the canned food had been disposed of, and the only provi- sions to be had were those furnished | by the forest. The larder was particu- ylarly low this day and Mrs, Hem | street said she would take her shotgun l and kill some grouse while the guides looked after the canoes and her uncle sweat his ankle.
 Taking a compass she set off north, and little later those in camp heard her fire two shots. Nothing more was heard, and at four o'clock in the after noon the guides began to worry. MT. Orvis had fallen asleep, and, without waking him, they set off in quest of the huntress. Now and then they dis charged their rifles, but at dusk they had received no response to the signals and began to circle mile from camp, shouting and waving torches of pine knots
 At D. m., when they began to be desperate, one of the men thought he heard a faint cry, and, following the