The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-02-18

and ever went alone into the wilds
with his gun.
It was desperate going Haynes
knew that when he left camp. and
so did everyone else, but It was a des-
peratc case that was to be met and
he was the only one who could meet 1t.
Although 1t was no more than
forty miles across the low divide that
separates the headwaters of the Kan
tishna from those of the Kuskokin, a
week passed and no word was had
from the hunter.
Desperate conditions in camp had
become more and more so, and q pro-
longed diet of salt horse meat had
put several of the ableboIied men of
the diggings In their hunks. Haynes
had said that four days at the outside
would suffice to bring meat In, and
until that time he had never broken
schedule on the mush.
Another day passed. and still no
Haynes; and along in the afternoon a
sled was pulled down of the roadhouse
roof and the two dogs left In camp
made ready for a trip hard enough to
kill four Such medicines as were at
meat and half dozen salmon sides,
1T only for dog feed They were go
ing TO hunt for Haynes, II some one
died doing it, and with An outfit like
that. death was an odds on favorite.
And then, just at the crack of the
whip, there was a furry OF snow and
a long, weird malamute yell from the
ridge above the camp. A moment
later. down into the Kantishna plunged
Jim Haynes dog team, driverless and
sledless, and the thongs that would
have fastened them to the whiffle-
trees had been cut with knife.
Through all the distance the dogs
had travelled they had preserved their
sled formation and they were jadeJ.
but they had carried no weight and
an hours rest put them In shape for
the back track.
Then they were put into the sled
and given their head and, straight as
the Alaskan crow flies, they hit for
the crack In the range. high up the
mountain side. AS fast as the two
trailsmen who were with them could
make the pace, and with an almost
evident knowledge of their mission Of
mercy. they threw the snow behind
them until at daybreak they brought
up to huge hummock Of snow on the
river, from the inside Of which rifle
barrel was thrust into the air.
And there they found Haynes, shot
through both thighs. and weak from the
blood he had lost and the pain Of 1t
Fortunately he had been able to en-
case himself in his blanket and bur
row into the snow. and the wind had
completed the white covering that had
kept him from freezing TO death.
President Roosevelt himself Is one OF
those who denies to the dog the power
of reason It Ia instinct, highly de-
veloped says the president. but take
It from Jim Haynes. 1t wasn't In
stinct that led his rescuers to him
when he was all but lost on the Kus-
kowim
'If that was instinct" said Haynes,
a day or 80 ago In the Butler hotel
lobby, II know a whole lot of humans
that could trade their intellectS with
my malamutes and profit by the deal
reckon when the president passed
that libel on the dog he had never
I seen malamute"
Since that day In the moose pasture
no dog OF Haynes string has done a
tap Of work Haynes sold out his min
ing ground as soon as he was able to
get about again, and brought his for
tune with him to the outside
Also, he brought his dogs, and here
they stay, except during the summer
when he sends them to friend of his
far up' on the Alaskan coast, for. with
their thick pelts. they would die of the
heat on even an ordinary day during
any one OF the months Of the warm
season.
To the fact that they saved his life
and that Haynes was duly grateful. II
was due that the Arctic brotherhood
here In Seattle was enabled to per
form a very pretty ceremony.
At the Alaska arYukon-Pacif1c exposi
ton, which opens in Seattle in June
the Arctic brethren will have huge
| log cabin In which to entertain sour
doughs who come this way for the
fair. 1t is to be glorified cabin OF the
Yukon, and when work was begur
upon It a short time ago 1t was jim
Haynes dog team that pulled the cor
ner log into position and gave the
| finishing touch TO a decidedly unusua
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