Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-08-28
PROF. VININC
IS INJURED
DISLOCATES ANKLE WHEN FAR
IN WILDERNESS.
ONLY THREE BOYS WITH HIM
Has Strenuous Experience When In
jured Far From CiviIization-Dr
Jarvis Went to His Rescue Sum
day.

Professor Vining and three young
comrades had pretty strenuous time
last week, and a most painful one for
Mr.. Vining. He in company with Fay
Phillips, Arthur Maxedon and Paul
Winter had penetrated to the wilds
OF Beaver creek, way over beyond
Red mountain. Just as they were
finishing camp a week ago Tuesday
evening, rope with which Mr.. Vim
ing was helping pull log out of the
creek broke and let him fall, dislo-
eating his ankle, and, as it after
wards proved, breaking one of the
small bones of the foot.
The situation was bad enough had
he been accompanied by experienced
guides and strong men and equipped
with saddle animals, but as it was,
was simply desperate. Many miles
from the nearest habitation, and that
a sheep camp on Mt. Ashland, with
only three lads to care for him, and
with only a few provisions they had
expected to secure plenty of venison
to add to their scanty packs-the
conditions would have appalled, many
a strong man. But the three boys
rose to the occasion. Professor Vim
ing is an ardent advocate and organ
1zer OF the Boy Scout movement and
they had one of the Scout guide
books with them. Acting under it's
instructions, and aided by the direc-
tions given by the professor, the
boys treated the injured member so
successfully that when DR.. Jarvis ar
rived nearly week later he found
practically everything done which he
could do.
Meantime the grub ran low and
Phillips and Maxedon made four trips
to the sheep camp, tramping over 100
miles in the four trips, and carrying
packs one way, to get provisions to
exc out the rainbow trout caught by
Paul Winter and the huckleberries
gathered by him. The boys expected
to find Fred Herrin's burros at the
camp on each trip, and to take them
in and bring Professor Vining out,
but they were not there. When they
reached the camp on the fourth trip
the man in charge refused to turn
over the animals, claiming that Mr.
Herrin wanted to use them, when in
fact the man himself wanted them
to go hunting with.
The two boys rose to the occasion
then, and young Phillips, who Pro-
fessor Vining says has an almost mar
velous instinct of directions, and
though IA years of age is small and
looks younger, piloted young Make
don to the trail down Mt. Ashland
and then returned alone to the camp.
Maxedon came to town and notified
Mr.. Granger and other relatives of
Professor Vining.
Early the next morning Sunday
DR.. Jarvis and Arthur Maxedon, with
a led horse for Professor Vining,
started for the camp. When the
other side of Mt. Ashland they got
off the trail, young Maxedon yielding
his belief in the trail to DR.. Jarvis
greater experience, where a cattle
trail led them into dep canyon in
stead of following the ridge. DR..
Jarvis horse fell and he rolled down
a 2O-foot hill, bruising him badly
and nearly knocking him senseless.
BY good fortune, however, they came
out near the Red mountain cabin,
where Fay Phillips was waiting to
pilot them into camp.
The boys had made Professor Vim
ing pair of crutches and he had got
able to hobble around and help some
about the camp cooking, but ne says
he was the gladdest to see DR.. Jar
Wis he ever was to see anyone. They
broke camp Monday morning and
with Professor Vining on an excel
lent mountain horse owned by
Smiths livery, started for home. Mr..
Vining says the intelligence of the
horse was simply wonderful. He
gave the animal its head and it
tackled up the side of a mountain
sleeper than house roof, with Mr..
Vining on its back Some places
Professor Vining had to crawl up the
mountain on crutches.
They had to travel slowly, the
camp being in a very inaccessible part
of the mountains or, Beaver creek,
where the party had blazed their own
trail in. BY the way, this blazed
trail, without any track, was all