Show A MAN NOT EASILY KILLED the new to idaa nad many yarrow escapes in the west A tall slender man with iron gray beard and hair and piercing eyes which roved around under a pair of heavy gray eyebrows sauntered through the arlington lobby at washington the other day that is granville stuart of montana the new minister to uruguay and paraguay said an old timer to a star reporter he is on his way to his new post and this is the first time he has been east of the mississippi for a quarter of a century he has had more startling adventures and hairbreadth escapes than almost any man you ever heard of I 1 remember one of them well stuart was one of the first pioneers in the territory of montana and was quartz crazy like the rest of them he was out on a prospecting trip once and had dismounted from his horse leaving his rifle strapped to the saddle when the animal ran away it was late in the year and that night snow began falling he was miles away from any habitation in the heart of the mountains and in searching for his horse he lost his bearings he had only a small pocketknife and his fusee safe only contained two or three fire makers the first night he was out it grew very cold and he made a fire which attracted some small birds stuart caught about a dozen of them and cooked them for ten days he wandered through the mountains with nothing else to eat but those little birds one day an elk rubbed against a tree within two yards of him but ho had nothing to kill it with then a frog crossed his path but he was not strong enough to catch up with it when he was nearly dead two indians found him and took him into their camp to have fun with him they fed him up so as to get strong enough to run while they could beat him with tepee poles one night he escaped stole a horse and got away he got lost in the mountains again and doggoned if his second horse get away from himl he wandered around again for three or four days and then when he had given up completely and lain down to die some of the party who had gone out to hunt him up camo across him and carried him to camp it is devoutly believed in montana that nothing can kill granville stuart he was a mighty hunter in those days too he has the record of killing sixteen elk from one spot without getting up ho is a man of powerful mind and will uphold the stars and stripes and all that they mean in his pew position |