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Show and ever went alone into the wilds with his gun. It was desperate going. Haynes! knew that when ho loft camp, and bo did everyone else, but It was a desperate des-perate case that was to be met and he was the only one who could meet it. Although it was no more than forty milcB across the low dlvido that separates the headwaters of the Kan-tlshna Kan-tlshna from those of the Kuskokin, week passod and no word was had from tho hunter. Desperate conditions in camp had become more and more so, and a prolonged pro-longed diet of salt horso meat had put several of the ablcboJIed men of the diggings In their bunks. Haynes had said that four days at the outside I would suffice to bring meat in, and until that time he had never broken schedule on the munh. 1 Another day passed, and still no Haynes; and along in the afternoon a sled was pulled down off the roadhouse roof and the two dogs left in camp made ready for a trip hard enough to kill four. Sueh medicines as wcro at hand were loaded In, with more salt meat and a half dozen salmon sides, fit only for dog feed. They wero going go-ing to hunt for Haynes, if some one died doing it, and with an outfit like that, death was an idds on favorite. And then, Just at the crack of the whip, there was' a Hurry of snow and a long, weird malamute yell from the ridge above tho camp. A moment later, down Into the Kantishna plunged Jim Haynes" dog team, driverless and sledless, and the thongs that would have fastened them to the whlffle-trees whlffle-trees had been cut with a knife. Through all the distance the dogs had traveled they had preserved their sled ' formation and they were Jaded, but they had carried no weight and an hour's rest put them in shape for the back track. Then they were put into the sled and given their head and, straight as the Alaskan crow flies, they hit for the crack In the range, high up the mountain side. As fast as the two trallsmon who were with them could make the pace, and with an almost evident knowledge of their mission of mercy, they threw tho snow behind them until at daybreak they brought up to a huge hummock of 9now on the river, from the inside of which a rifle barrel was thrust into the air. And there they found Haynes, shot through both thighs, and weak from the blood he had lost and the pain of it. Fortunately ho had been able to encase en-case himself in his blanket and burrow bur-row into the snow, and the wind had completed the white covering that had kept him from freezing to death. President Roosevelt himself Is one of those who denies to tho dog the power of reason. It is instinct, highly developed, de-veloped, says the president, but take It from Jim Haynes, It wasn't Instinct In-stinct that led' his rescuers to him when he was all but lost on the Kus-kowlm. Kus-kowlm. "If that was instinct," said Hayne3, a day or so ago In the Butler hotel lobby, "I know a whole lot of humans that could trade their intellects with my malarautes and profit by the deal. I reckon when the president passed that libel on the dog he had never seen a malamute." Since that day in the moose pasture, no dog of Haynes' string has done a tap of "work. Haynes sold out his mining min-ing ground as soon as he was able to get about again, and brought his fortune for-tune with him to the "out6ide." Also, ho brought his' dogs, -arid here they stay, except during the summer, when he sends them to a friend of his far up' on the Alaskan coast, for, with their thick pelts, they would die of the heat on even -an ordinary day during any one of the months of the warm season. To the fact that they saved his life, and that Haynes was duly grateful. It was due that the Arctic brotherhood here In Seattle was enabled to perform per-form a very pretty ceremony. At the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition, exposi-tion, which opens in Seattle in June, the Arctic brethren will have a huge log cabin In which to entertain sourdoughs sour-doughs who come this way for the fair. It is to be a glorified oahln of the Yukon, and when work was begun upon It a short time ago it was Jim Haynes' dog team that pulled the corner cor-ner log Into position and gave the finishing touch to a decidedly unusual and romantic rite. COMFORTING WORDS. Many an Ogden Household Will Find Them So. To have the pains and aches of a bad back removed; to be entirely free from annoying, dangerous urinary dla-orders dla-orders i enough to make any kidney sufforor grateful. To tell how this great change can bo brought about will prove comforting words to hundreds hun-dreds of Ogden readers. Mrs. S. Larsen. 554 27th St, Ogden. Utah, says: "My experience with Doan's Kidney Pills proved them to be a reliable remedy. 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