Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-11-11
TRAMP
. ROLE TOLOCATE
!. GIRL HE SAVED

CHEYENNE. wyo., Nov 11-Some-
where on the road, either tramping
along the dusty highway or rolling with
a freight train and headed East is a
tramp who In reality Is not tramp
and who has taken advantage Of the
present condition Of unemployment anu
the fact that there are tramps to bring
to a conclusion a picturesque romance
which started three years ago in Alaska.
His name is Jack Searles Of Yukon, his
homo Is on a big timber claim in Alaska
and he is seeking a girl whose name and
address are alike unknown to him. He
! is not even sure she is N the United
States. but he is taking a chance"
Searles told one Of the most remark
able stories ever offered while he was
eating the meal he had earned for chop
ping some irewOOd st a local residence.
I'm no tramp" he said I'm not
even out Of job. Ny home is in Alaska
own enough timber to build a town
nearly as big as this. l am trying to
find a girl I saw once. And when
learned OF the big number Of men who
are out of work and who are tramping IL
In the States the idea came to me that
by knocking around myself, by posing
as a tramp and chopping wood at peO-
Piles houses, or doing anything else that
came along. l might find her. No use
trying to get anybody else to find her,
because / have no picture, don't know
her name or her address, but III know
her IL I ever see her again.
almost seven years ago I was going
to marry a girl. The war came, and 1
enlisted in Canadian regiment. I was
overseas through the whole war. and
when I came home this girl. who had
promised go much. was married and had
two children. Ny faith in girls went out
Ike the ice on the Yukon. I went up
to my claim and was living alone Then,
three years ago this winter ] found an
other girl.
u was coming down from White Horse,
and it was showing hard. Had eight
dogs and a load Of -four, when, right
square in the trail, 1 found this girl, IN
conscious and partly frozen 1 unloaded
two sacks Of four and piled her on the
sled and mUshed on In haste for my
shack on Absorka Greek.
when we got there I took the girl In
the house. Her left arm and leg were
badly frost bitten, so / went to work on
her 70 bring her out Of 1t. All you can
do when they get nipped like that is
pack them in snow, so l took most Of her
clothing of, laid her on my bunk and
packed snow around her. l rubbed snow
on her side and wherever she was frost
bitten until I could see her coming OUT
Of it She finally came 70, but was de-
iirious. / fixed her some grub and
started out for Yukon to get a doctor.
II was fifty -four miles and the show was
light. Travelling was hard.
Il was gone for two days. When I
got back with the doctor my shack was
cleaned up like 1 had never seen It
! cleaned-dishes all washed, floor swept,
and everything very tidy-but the girl
was gone All she left me was this
and he pro 'uced a small linen handker-
chief from - inner pocket.
The suggestion that she might have
taken a husband in these years vas
waved lightly aside by Searles. That
she might be living In a hotel or apart
nent house where his clever scheme for
discovering her would fall because of the
maccessibility of these places to even
The most romantic hobo seemed to con-
eern him not 4 whit.
I'm going to knock at some door some
II these days, and that girls going to
apen IT. I feel 1t In my BONES" he de-
eiared
Searles is about twenty six years old,
tall and broad shOuldered, with the com
plexion peculiar TO men who have lived
IN the cold regions just below the Circle
In the North. His eyes are deep gray
and smile a great deal; his hair IS light,
curly and pOmpadOured, and he wears
q soft hat a mackinaw shirt, corduroy
trousers and blue serge coat.