Show T ii 1 TALES OF 11 0 0 0 THE T HE OLD 0 0 0 0 FRONTIER 0 p by ELMO SCOTT WATSON 0 0 4 44 if ila 13 western union THE prospectors RACE KACE FOR LIFE IN TN THE rail of 1808 low crandall and george Wll llama were bic prospecting on oil the Block blackfoot fout indian reservation in ili northern idaho the indians had driven theta them out twice warning them thein never neer to return but the luro luio of tile gold chase proved stronger sti than any fear of tile savages I 1 I 1 one day the two men wont went to their prospect hole without their rifle and while busy at work failed to notice a party of I 1 surrounding them until the circle was aa almost closed As the prospectors made a dash for their camp in the u quarter of a wile mile away the Ind indians latis closed in williams was ft as the slower runner and a warrior had almost overtaken him when crandall wheeled picked up a rock and hurled it at tile the head of tile the savage who barely nd time to throy throw himself to abe ground to avoid it this diversion allowed williams to reach the forest safely but it nearly tested sealed Cran dalls fate three tomahawks were ft ere thrown at him but lie he dodged them all As one indian swifter than the others sprang forward to grapple with the white nun man crandall seeing that lie ho had no weapon jerked a dead web limb from a tree and felled the savage with one blow in the woods the white men separated and brandall Ci andall never neer saw his partner again ily BY a series of tricks back trucking tracking wading in brooks and hiding in trees and on high rocks he managed to elude his enemies encini cs dut lout lie could not shake them oft off ills his trall trail entirely for three days and two HO nights the chase continued and in ell all that time the prospector had no food or sleep finally lie he came to a broad prairie and here the ceaseless strain of ills his vigilance brought tile tho feital calamity crundall crandall weilt went blind I 1 stag gerenz into a clump of sagebrush ile ho lay down doan to lo await the end but when at last he heard footsteps lie he clutched a stone and arose for a desperate blind defense dut but instead of an indian yell he heard an irish voice say MY the matter wid yo jc ile he had been found by it a detachment of soldiers from fort who were themselves lost blind as lie in Pr crandall andall guided them to the fort |