| Show fEARFUl PERIL Former Salt Lakers Terri Terrible Terrible Terrible ble Experience In Alaska I II C I ATE BARK OF TREES DRANK DRA MILTED MELTED SNOW STOW Picked licked Up Hp By Government Steamer When Nearly Dead I 4 1 I San Francisco Oct 16 J B Rawlings a former Inspector of coal mines in Utah I Iwho I w who ho left Seattle for lor Alaska nearly three years ears ago was picked up by b the thc United I States steamer c Pathfinder two weeks ego ngo ngoat go I at the mouth of river Alaska Aliska I and brought to this city When picked i f up Rawlings was In an exhausted condi condition tics tion Rawlings In company compan com pan with Frank Weber We Ve Weber ber b r started out In a 3 small canoe to reach the choicer Bring Gold en route to Dutch harbor The canoe was swamped Weber was drowned Rawlings belong belongings belongings ings were lost and he himself escaping wandered for days across the wilds wilds if be f I Alaska seeking refuge r I How many miles he traveled Rawlings cannot tell For days the lost man had I nothing to eat but the soft bark of the willow trees that grow in the swampy flats along the rivers and nothing to drink but snow melted in his mouth RAWLINGS A UTAH CAREER Well Known as a Politician Took Part In Railroad Strike Very many many people in Utah will wUl remember remember remember ber James B Rawlings who filled the of office Pico fice of coal mine inspector during Gover Governor Gov Governor r nor administration just before statehood Rawlings was a conspicuous figure fl re in politics and frequently he appeared ap appeared appeared on the stump His abilities as a 3 campaign orator were of a higher grade grads than the commonplace During the railroad strike in the summer summer sum summer mer mer of IBM 1834 Rawlings affiliated with the strikers here out of sympathy on the score of his having once been a railroad telegraph operator Soon after this Rawlings left Utah under under un under der a cloud having passed it Is claimed some checks chec s when he had insufficient funds In bank to pay payout out and also of trouble with His wife Rawlings was not heard from until It itI j developed some time ago that he had gono gona t I J I to Klondike and Nome No e In n search for gold |
