The Kusko times., 1929-06-01
|kHR1LLrNG CHAPTERS IN sKID-
 INAPING' OF ALASKA TRAPPER
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Jan. 31. Calm fine weather, went ito eeast end of the island resetting ttraps. Ice all gone, lost three traps, tshousands of ducks.
 Feb, 8. Blowing. north wind, met Perry.
 Feb.327. Wind southeast, left for Warmers camp north of island.
 Mar. 8. Northeast wind, cloudy; 4 getting mild.
 April 3. Blowing west wind. am leaving for the. main camp today, [ nothing no more to east, 1 do not l know what Captain Brown will say.
 April 4. Fine day, south wind. | Could hear so mewalrus believing. - Millions of ducks, spring time coming.
 Mikes preoccupation with the yweather is not reflected in Warmers diary, which purports to give an ac- count of happenings from April 13:
 April 13. Arrived at schooner. Left j. fur about 5 miles back. Things loon very grave. The Dutchman has his eyes opened now and is very uneasy. Boat (skiff) hauled u pon banb, all !. ready for launching. Brown hauled it about 100 yards alone. Mike asked why he had. hauled it up there, and he said he was going to shoot a seal, and two or three days later told me he had not seen seal since last fall. told Mike that boat was our hearse.
 April.15.. St. Matthew Kid uneasy, restless. on boat little while, then !. in cabin, ,.then vice versa. At noon left for. his trap cabin. Arrived home 5:3O n. m. All he had was 3 joints of old stove pipe (6 in.), no use at all. l think he took his cache of grub out and cached it for his Seattle trip. There were coffee, butter, milk, pork canned, eggs; and believe 3 pounds Crisco. Took out of cache and stored away by him, to use after he had dis posed of uss and the dog. Il missed the grub the first morning l was here. .4 April 15. St. Matthew Kid fired two stones up on the boat just for a stall. Mike and are waching. Guns very close. Kid looking for chance to get them first. Stall, he came in house, reported walrus insight. Took s.telescepe, out. and climbed rigging. Mike stayed by guns and l watched :. she Kid, second next stall. asked him several ,uestions and when he went out told Mike that is all bait ito get me on the schooner and hit me !. on the head Mike very much fright ened. Thirty days ago he could see : nothing but white fox. Today he can see nothing but St. Kid with 9 gun and then he can see dead Dutchman with blood and sauerkraut flowing told Mike this afternoon that thought he had pistol and it would not he advisable to go to the schooner and try to take him. For if he had a gun some one would get killed, and < the best thing to do was to wait Intil '+bIlC 1OHOWlAS AhOA hAAi6 VAASAA aAS "SAAs out on the beach then take him wi h. ~- out bloodshed if possible, but if he showed fight then go to get him, standing or laying, but take him, for we have it to- do if we want to live. .@that is plain t., ne seen now.
 Ap,il 17. St. M. Kid builds fire. ret up |. d creas as usual. The Kid said, bringing some milk from cache so I went to cache took some hand .scuffs from my war sack, put them ill lmy hip pocket, came to house, had coffee the Kid cooked, hot cakes, we ate, everyone having smoke, Kid finally started to put on his boots to go out. I did likewise, but he5 stalled for some reason or other (gun) and l did likewise so he (Kid) stayed too long and was afraid he might catch