The Alaska citizen., 1914-07-27

Ia ,ue federal jail iu Fairbanks where he va- sent or 8 fake charge oi ya-raucy that he Misht not suffer for want of food and proper medical care .z aa Alaskan pioneer who has exhibited more braye.y and audaun,ed courage than most of the celebrated warriors one reads a5ca. For tae last few years his life has been a series Of dI-appoin' renr- and uusIorcuuts. and now he Is well aEens in years. almost sight less and minus both feet This man 1, George !. TerriIi commonly known a- Monte TeIrill
 M.uoulh te iz in jail for ID nisdeed. but only for his own welfare. M- sturdy pioneer wants ,o he released and have a chance to make his ewH lhiaG, though just how he can accomplish il in his present condition is not quite clear 10 his friends He wants to go back to lis cabin at Cinema, wlere he asserts tat he can pro- vide for himself and he declares that he Is far from helpless.
 Mr. Terrin Is d native of Indiana, He will not teH Ei- age. bat he say- that in 1>t2 inc tried to enlist in the Union army but Was not quite large euou-h. For many years he lived iu Colorado and al one time owned several thousand dollars He came 10 Alaska in 1898. and pros rocrcd OH tle stiekine river. He wandered about the Northland until 1903. when he buIt tEe first road house in the Panama valley. about l2 miles above Toloyana. A little later he built another roadhouac further up the river.
 Duriue r@e winter of 147- Nr Terrill Was prospecting on Monte creek. which derived it's name from him. The creek empties into the Tolovana river. Mr. TerriIl attempt ed 10 go across Miato lake, to his cabin on the Panama. pulling with him a sledIoad of supplies. It was q cold day, t1e thermometer regis rcrrg about q degrees below zero, and when night came on he con cIuded to leave his load and seek shelter until the next day in road house some dt sanee ahead
 It Was after leae.1g his sled, that he came 10 some thin ice in the lake. caused by hot spring be, meath. and brea1fu1 through it, he climbed out soaked to the skin, As 1e had plenty of dry clothing on his sled, be determined to return to it. but he missed il in the dark. He wandered on through the cold night until he reached the prospec- tors cabin he had left the day be fore.
 He knew his feet were frozen, and his partner, who was at the cabin hurried away for aid To the mill tary telegraph station word was brought concerning Nr. Terrils con dition, and the soldiers hurried to his assistance
 Tie feet, however, could not be saved, and Mr TerriII went to Sc attle, where one foot was amput9;- ed between the ankle and the knee, and the ether was cut off just in front of the heel He was provided however, with artificial feet, and with these le started out to face the world
 For nearly two years he wandered around in British Columbia, and fin ally he returned to Alaska, where he obtained a job on the Copper River railroad He had worked there week. when one night the man in the bunk beneath him, saw a string hanging from Terrill's bed. The man below pulled the string, and an artificial leg came with il and struck him in the face
 Until then nobody in the camp knew that MT Terrill was crippled in any way, but when the foreman was told he dischareed the unfort. unate man. who then mushed his way to Fairbanks across the trail.
 Terril has a little cabin at Cinema and there he has lived most of his time since returning here. He has earned his living by cutting wood