The daily Alaskan., 1907-03-21
HOW lse REDOUBT WAS TAKEN

hero l ever knew who Uiuu knoW ne
 was a hero Anyway. be thinks his ComradeS believe he ought to have been shot for dpScrtion. To get hls sto-y you must make him mad How dy, Nfr. Paddock And the speaker in- ucduced the conner Co his friends.
 How is t. MT. Paddock" he con tluued that an your comrades In the civil war got some sort of promotion and you weren't even made cor pOralg They say you came pretty near being shot for desertion.~ "I can't never get rid O that mis- take" said Paddock ruefully. flor that's what lt was. & mistake. You see twas this way. We was down there in
 virrluuy buckln' up aC'in a long line oy Notifications at the base or tbe mountains. One night ! got a banker in tO do some scnutin' on my own ac- count. ! reclsoued the redoubt our h-i- Cadp was tryin' Co take wasn't well connected with thp one next 10 it ' had purtv ~harn eyes ln them days and thought Seer a way to git ln between 'em Ste8rn' along a ravI1n I managed ro git hy the rfckets o both armies climbed the mountains and looked right down into tho forf vvo WIS
 s-trvln to take What Rye suppose I seen Thr-o wasn't twenty men In rt and fully harf thn guns was Quaker
 "I couldn't understand how our gin. eral could No weeks huc}ln up aC.'n thlS mraglv sN9vIu' hur bed wrote lot Q hooks on tAr scfen0o O war. and ! supposed hr known3 cH about ft Anyway. ! thought T1 E7 back end tell him what I'd socn ! r0f down Co the rav.7e when waS halted hv a
 rebel picket and taken prisoner
 The JohunIrs hnp' mo three days when. scgTn' tho discipline % tho CuarI
 mighty IaN-they va> al tired out arhtiu--I stole away one night. climb. cd up the mountain au. glrrlrd around the JohnntS> loCI GanA m. our right
 flank. vas walk.n Into camp one mo-nln' fhnku bow I'd like some real United States gof1ec when [ mot some O our mou. The oafacv 'n command arrested mo for a dcscrrrr. ioIe hm vherc I'd hccu aud what I'd seen. hui hc didn't believe me
 "waaL d'y' know. they court mar. ralcd mo for scsortiOu-yCS. they did an. vosc. they sentenced me Co hc shot. Tho only blt Q luck | had was rald O rebel cavalry that shook us m up and iuterfcre5 with my shootn' The hubhuh broke the line Iu our front Zoo. was mad The idea O CCt'1' shot for diScoverin' that there want no strength in the ucdoUht, It want richt nohow. Waal taEin' advantage e the confusion. picEiu' ID a musket. ' walked right un through the ravlnc an the path I'd found on the mountain side tiu cot Co the spot where I'd looked down on tho JohunIes iu the re5onht There want as many of 'eu as there was aTorp. knowed my ad- vantage. bein' in their rear. and how could scare 'en. so | yelled al the top or my voice.
 Surrender"
 ~Y' never 500 such q frightened lot iu your lfc. One or two ot 'cm fired a; me. fired back. an the rest skeiad- died. lt happened that young off cr- or our picket line was cur'us to know what the firm meant, thinkin' Nkelv that the rebs were hghUn' among the,rsslveS. an he come cautiously, with dozen O the picket, up the slope. [ seen hIm an hollercd 10 him tO come CD: the redoubt WAS our'n. He kem. m. lt want long aforc tho United States flag was a-autteriu' over them Quaker guns.
 "'waal. I'U be goI darned" sud tho officer We've been three weeks tryln to take this fortifCaton, and you've tuk It all alone' And our gin eral one O the fust strateEists ID the army"
 Hes al right" says l. Then iu- Eineerln books O his hain't got noth.7. ln 'cm bout quaker guns says. How d'v' expect him Co know wba, his hooks -rut rc8ChT
 ~I went down the slope and met tge rluc-aI rrG.a- up with h.s srgH. Ho3 ,cgu thc tinted States flag a-Gytn' ovar ,nc redeubt and didn't know what t meant He stopped nc and asked mo 7bo [ was and where I'd come from. l | told hlm | wES the man ths' wae 70 have been shot for GCseruou when the raiders come down ou us and spoiled ! uv. execution. I was goiu' on Co tel . the rest when be rode on, ordCv.n' one O his stan 10 put me ia arrest The 1 nli wout back with me Co the guard . tent.
 "waal there was aE'in."
 The speaker was interrupted by a burst of laughter from his listeners.
 "'Tafnt TO lauchiu' matter How'd ! I know they wasn't uoin' Co carry Uat l tho sentence o' the court martalN ' didn't And 3 don't know Co this day
 why they didn't After awhile my i csp'n he come and tuk me out the l ruard tent and he says, Paddock says he you jest go about yer husi- | ness. The ciuergl isn't goin' Co shoot ! = r.a .-.z .......ag.gFg.H ,vg,Yva,F rfaEr h.Tff