The Nome daily nugget., 1911-02-24

phone line which she believed led to Ti~h"u Little did she know that the Hnc was H branch which would have led her lar from her destination had ~h,. followed it to the end
 After journeying for many hours. so t seemed. Mrs Davenport encountered d large lumber pile which she recog- nizrd while journeying over the same trail some days before. Again she got her bearings and proceeded in the right direction
 Arrives at Tishou.
 Four hours after she had left West lying prone on the snow but two and a half miles beyond her destination. Mrs Davenport arrived at the Tishou road house. It had taken her exactly four hours [" cover the two and half miles
 Exhausted and covered with ice from the tip of her parka to the toes of her .uukluks. the one woman in d thousand broke the window in the storm door If the cabin with her bemitted fist. and fell into the arms of her husband. Dep uty Marshal Roy Davenport. as he opened the storm door to respond to the weird cry of distress which his wife had issued.
 That which followed. How the husky marshal tenderly layed his wife ap"n the bed near the warm fire: how Ole Johnson. who was then in charge of the roadhouse. harnessed up Daven- ports team in the short time it took the little woman to explain the awful situation and how the two men after mintstering to the wants of the depu- tvs fatigued wife. drove through the deathly blizzard to the place where Lieutenant West lay llfeless. you and may never realize.
 Johnson. who was sleeping in the same room with Deputy Davenport, when the latters wife aroused them from their slumber. rode in the .,,ei which was drawn by the deputy's team land which was lead by the famous leader Preacher, owned by Tony Nich- ols while Davenport directed the doas through The binding storm
 West Is Located.
 The two mushers found Vests body m the place where he had been lodged, when thrown from the sled. one hand was in his hip pocket. where he mad placed II when endeavoring to reach for his knife. while the other was buried in the soft and cold snow, as 1T he had placed fl there for warmth.
 silently the men toiled over the life less body and silently they drove back to the roadhouse with their gruesone burden.
 Al nine o'clock that morning, one hour after they had departed in search ."f the body. they reached Tishou ,nd deposited the remains of Lieut.. West in a loft In the roadhouse stable. out "t reach ot th" proving malamutes which shrieked and howled as they scented what they believed was right fully their prey.
 And so the story is told by Nichols and sullivan
 They Meet 6ealI.
 Upon arriving at Sinrock vesterday while ou Their vta,. ,, N.a,.- N-s, and Sullivan met George Beall and Roper, who had been dispatched from Fort Davis to bring the body of West back 10 the army post The men were 'mar"ou.d" at that camp and they deeHd II unadyisable to face the bliz- gard which continued throughout the entire day
 Nichols stated this morning that he believed that the men would not reach Tishou until tomorrow as the storm prohibited travel in the direction tn. Hushers Were bound.
 A New Theory.
 That Lieut.. West was not frozen 70 death but died as the result Of pto- maine poisoning or some other trouble Ahich might have brought around the ramps under which he labored. ;s probable There is no absolute uroof that the officer was frozen to death s IS 'h" body bears no marks or disc ,lor Si'inE evidence to such theory. Mich 'i~, the innkeeper. contends that the temperature at Tishou was two above. turing the blizzard. and as 1t could no, have been much colder but two and a half miles away. where West breathed his last, il is probable that his death Was causd hy another agency than freezing.
 An autopsy should be held and until such Is d"nle, no one win know as an absolute fact, the aiIment from which 'h. young lieutenant died