The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-08-31
Sees Partner FTeese
 and HimSeF Escapes,
 Tragic StOrY is Told

We kept jumping ana dancing ana
 b'u"ng our bodies with our fists as
 hard as We could. but | soon decided
 t Was no use, particularly as Parker
 Wa plainly giving oul His nose and
 thin were as white as chalk The
 roaring Of the winl thru the trees made it hard to hear: besides it was dangerous to stop exercising long enough to say anything yelled in
 h.. ear that i ,.t, golnS to hunt for
 IHl Winns caun he mad told me about, and for him to stay there and
 keep jumping until | got back. asked him the direction. He pointed south. | know now that he Was turn rd around. | pried my oyercoat off and forced il on him, and then made for the beach to get out of the deep snow and the big drifts Then head ed the way he pointed. l soon ran into little inlet and saw there could be no cabin in that direction, so l kept following the shore line. The snow was Whrling and twisting and flying so thick | could only see a little distance. Was afraid that l might lose my bearings in the storm, and when 1 found help not be able to find Parker again. My left foot in the right foot at all. | kicked it against snag but the only thing felt Was the jar to my leg above the knee It was hard tu walk and l fell several times. and every time it was harder to get up again. | couldn't feel anything at all with my fingers.
 "It was growing dark by this time, and as it Was plain had missed the direction 1 turned about and made back toward Parker. was worried about him, for tha white of his nose and chin Was spreading all over his face when | left him. He had grown weaker too, and was afraid he would not keep up the dancing and jumping and arm waving hard enough. IL seemed the distance had stretched a lot, since | left for | thot would never get back. 1 would have miss ed the place too in the half-dark if it had not been for the pieces of the wrecked boat lying far up on the beach Everything looked different. When l got into the timber l found CT was gone in a minute 1 noticed his tracks, but a# the flying snow had covered most of them and 1t was too dark to see more than a few feet, 1 was afraid | would lose him if he had gone far Worse still, l began to feel 1 had done wrong in going off and leaving him. was and falling every few steps when would lean towards the ground to see better, and could only make slow headWay. Finally 1 found him. He was inside q big hollow cottonwood log, with his legs up to his knees sticking out 1 dropped down and spoke to him inside the log, but he did not answer. tried to shake him, but my hands would not grip, so l jared his leg with my elbow. Then he mumbled some thing in q kind of choking whisper and said to get in the other end of the log and our breath would keep us warm. | asked him to get out quick, and told him we must keep moving our bodies or we would soon freeze to death He said he was warm enough Then | knew had to act quick. As my hands were use less 1 slipped an arm under his ankles and with the other hugged them against my chest and pulled him out He could not get up, so got the same kind of hold under his sitting position, but his legs were too stiff to bend. Where the log was, seemed to be q little open glade, for the wind almost got the best of me. l dragged him to a black patch tWen- ty or thirty yards away that l took to be thick timber, and getting him on his feet against a big tree l brac- ed him up the best I could. l man aged to get his hands between my arms and body and meant to pump handle them by jumping up and down myself He sort of whispered that
 his hands were hot and he wanted
 his gloves off. Then l knew for cer- tain he was gone. He tried to say something else but only chOked twice. Suddenly he got away from my sup
 port and fell like board. It took a minute to find him, as it had gotten pitch dark by this time. When l To- cated his mouth 1 put my face down against it but could feel no breath. knew he was gone. That minute | came nearer giving up than at any
 other time l had a hard time getting to my feet, but as soon as 1 did l
 began to move back and forth as fast as l could, and soon had a
 trail in the snow ten or twelve feet
 long. I had been sleepy before but now it seemed like l would go to