The Alaska citizen., 1911-02-13

SlSub III It,
 An Eastern man was operating a mine at Atlanta and had his family with him. He delayed leaving until il was too late and there was no way to get cut except on snow shoes or skis. He had plenty of supplies and got along nicely for about two months after they were showed in. Then his wife bccam ill Her condition was rapidly get ting worse and it was necessary To take her to a hospital But there was no way to get hgr out.
 Ed Myers will take her out. said some one jokingly.
 The husband took the remark ser iously and asked Myers if he could carry the sick woman to Bonn r. where the stage stopped. Myers thought a moment, and said he could.
 Myers rummaged around and found a rawhide chair. + was light but strcng. He fixed shoulder strap rigging, so that the chair would set firmly or his back. Then the chair was placed on q table. a blanket put on the seat, and the woman lifted inio the seat
 The blanket was wrapped around her and fastened and then she was lashcd to the chair Myers back ed up to the chair. slipped his arms through the shoulder straps. and then had other straps fast enod around his waist. Then he walked out to the skis kicked his et into the leops, and of he started, up over the range, with the 1Go pound Hy- ing burden on his back.
 It was a steep nine miles climb to the top of the ridge, but Myers took il as easily as if he had been packing 20 pounds of mail. On the Bonner side of the range the road dipped abruptly fer seven miles. and across the fiat. This seven mile in cline was packed many feet deep with snow and was as smooth and glassy as ballroom floor.
 Say, the people of Bonner ar. talking of the trip vet. Myers had been told to proceed with all haste 10 Bonner, and he lived up to the injunction. He felt as secure on a pair of skis as the ordinary person does in an easy chair. When he reached the top of the range he paused moment before taking the descent, adjusted the straps of the chair. inquired after his patient. and cut loose.
 He dropped down the hill like some great bird skimming over the ground. Faster and faster he tOrg along. swaying softly to one side and tEcn to the other to keep his balance He was rushing along so rapidly that the landscape was in a gray blur.
 Great pines lComed up far ahead and a second later danced by. So fast did he Whirr down the mountain side that he could not see his way but he had been over the trail go often that he knew by the feel of the skis where the trail was, and where to turn out for dead stumps. A sing gle misstep, the slightest swerye and Myers and his hdgdpn World have been dashed ip+o trees With which the slope was thickly studded
 Tn 20 minutes he made that seven miles and so great was the speed that he skinned across the two mile flat into Bonner wiCn scarcely a single stroke.
 Had not Myers been an adept he would have lost his life in snow slide at the time of the Thunder Mountain stampede. With three other companions he started fl Thunder Mountain on skis. The hills and he warned his companions to scatter lest they start snowslide and all be buried. One of the fel- lows was a chum of Myers and he stayed close by him.
 Crossing mountain side a great sheer of snow suddenly start ed to move. In an instant Myers s companion was engulfed and swept under. Myers, with the quickness of cat, jumped on his skis to face the top of the ridge. For the next three minutes he fought for his life.
 "The mass of snow shot down the slope. Myers jumped up and down like girl jumping rope to prevent the mass from drawing him under His skis were swept away, but he still kept jumping. When the slide stopped he was buried to the hips in the snow, and it was packed as if it had been tamped with a hun dred foot weight. His fingers were bloody when at last he dug himself loose. But he saved his life.
 When the two men who were up above the slide came down they found Myers searching for the body of his companicn. After digging with the camp bucket it was finally un- covered many feet below the sur