Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-04
FAITHFUL DOG
 GUARDS BODY
HELD HIS POST UNTIL KILLED
Canine Companion of Jack Reynolds Refused to Permit Anyone to Ap- proach Body of Master and He Had
 to Re Shot-Buried with Master.

evening from Beaver Dam, and will leave today to return home. MT. Jep. son and William Sitz are the parties who recently found the body of Jack . Reynolds. an old-time prospectOr in that section, who died. apparently while asleep on the trail.
 In speaking of the death of Mir Reynolds, Mir. Jepson stated that the evening before he and MT. Sitz met Reynolds on the trail in the early evening. They were making their way toward the Teikhell roadhouse to spend the night, and invited Rey- holds to accompany them, as they knew he was not we'll supplied with grub. After @ little urging he half way consented to do so.
 At this time Reynolds was little way off the trail on the side of the hill, and had to go short way around to get down to the trail. Jep- son and Sitz went on toward the road house. but on arriving there ordered supper for three, but Reynolds did not appear and after waiting for some time they proceeded to eat their sup per and retired for the night. In the morning they went to Reynolds cab in. but he had not been there. and they proceeded up the creek to an- other camp where Reynolds some times stopped, but he was not there.
 Being then almost certain that something had happened to the old man they proceeded on up the creek, and had gone about twenty minutes walk when Reynolds dog came run ming down the trail toward them barking savagely. showing his teeth, and threatening to attack them. They were then assured that something was wrong, and advancing cautiously they finally discovered the body of Key holds lying under the shelter of .. large windfall.
 At this time the dog became so say age that they feared to advance an. farther. They called to Reynolds a number of times, but he failed to respond, and the fear that he had passed away became conviction. They returned to Teikhell and telegraphed the news to the marshal's office hers, and later received authority to bury the body. They made their way to where the remains laid, but the faith full dog was still on guard, and they were compelled to shoot him befor" they could approach the body. The body of the old prospector lay as he had composed himself to sleep. His hat, gloves and gun lay beside him; one arm was under his head. and the easy posture indicated that the end had come peacefully as he slept.
 Messrs. Jepson and Sitz dug the grave near by and reverently laid the body in its last resting place with his faithful dog at his feet. and erected at the head of the grave a wooden tablet hewed from the trunk of a tree, bearaa9- his name, age and date of his death.
 Little is known of Reynolds ante cedents. He was of a rather unso- ciable disposition and had no confl- dants. From remarks he dropped from time to time, 1t has been learn ed that he was at one time we'll fixed financially, having inherited a con siderable sum from his parents and had also been lucky in mining ven lures at Dawson, Fairbanks and Nome. which had netted him in the vicinity of a quarter of a million dol lars, but he had gone through with it all, and prior to his death for the past two years had hard time to secure proper food.