Iditarod pioneer., 1915-03-06

was at an end But not SO The priest in charge was Russian half breed with large notions of the dignity of his cloth, but with very small notions of Christian charity, and complete church bigot
 No, they could not take Kooyanna in there She did not belong to their order"
 'Yes, he would speak to the natives and see if some of them would take her on down to the Moravian mission"
 Three able bodied bucks went down to the raft and looked at Kooyanna and over hauled Daves outfit They spied the new | 3O- 4Ocalber Winchester rifle, and silver gray fox skin worth about two hundred dol lars, and very obligingly offered to take her on down for both the rife and the fox | Dave, in righteous anger, kicked one of them off on the shore side of the raft and the other two of on the river side, picked up his pole and pushed off for another one hundred and ffty-mile stretch to where hooyannas own mission and good doctor 1 were situated.
 kooyanna was welcomed at the Morovian mission, and when the doctor heard Dave's story he readily offered his services and amputated her feet without charge.
 As he had already spent so much time,
 
 make but little difference iE his affairs, so he waited until after the operation and he had seen her on far road to recovery Then he sold the slIvergray fox skin and bought light polling boat and q small out | fit. Then he bought the silk mufier and q 1 few other trifes and gave them to koo- wanna, in the same manner as he would ! have given them to a sick child Shaking 1 .Al | ,l-o tor he said goodby. ShQving his boat out into the stream, he headed its nose up the river, stuck his pole in the gravel and pushed off, heading back to the cabin | where he had found Kooyanna and had cached bis traps
 He had left his own business and made 8 trip of nearly seven hundred miles under the most adverse circumstances And his | only reward was the consciousness of having done the right thing And as far as I could learn, no one knows his name or where he went
 kooyanna found the aluminium disk among her few clothes and effects which | they brought down on the raft It had l likely fallen out of his pocket some time on the trip down do not think she has ever shown it to anyone except myself
 Kooyanna is little Eskimo squaw. But she is human. And sometimes when it Is dark and cold and she is more lonesome than usual she will light candle and take l the silk mutfler and the little bright trnket which she now knows bears his name out of the little willow basket, and huddle 1 down in her rabbit-skin robe and dream of the big, strong man who went to so much 1 trouble to save her life
 The exposure and pain of that trip, com biaed with the poor quality of the food upon which she exists, and the illy-ventl lated hovel in which she lives, have bred consumption which is rapidly doing its fatal work And some day they will carry Kooyanna down to the little picketed garden of crosses and lay her away. And the little willow basket containing her priceless treas ures will be laid away with her And that will be the end of kooyannas story
 Tt IS a fact that the girls feet were m | such putrid condition that the doctor and l hls assistant were compelled 10 wear cloths | covering their nOStrIls and mouths while l performing the amputatlon. The truth or l this statement may be verified dl the MO
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