Great Falls tribune. [volume], April 23, 1887, Image 7

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IN 1861-X.
A Chapter in the Life of X. Beidler.
In the latter part of November, i861, I
was camped in Washington gulch, Colo
rado, where I was engaged in mining; X.
Beidler being in camp with us, he being
engaged in running a pack train into the
gulch. I
On this trip X. proposed that we should
take a bear hunt, and accordingly we start
ed on the proposed hunt, and after an ab
sence of five days we returned, it having
proven to be a "bare" hunt, indeed. We
were confronted with a blinding snow
storm during the whole time we were
gone, and we were glad enough to return
to camp.
After our return X. came to me and said:
."Uncle George, there is a family here that
will have to be moved out before this
storm becomes any worse, as tney are en
tirely out of provisions and without means
of procuring any."
The family was known as the Jones
family, and consisted of man and wife, a
grown son by a former wife and a little
son and daughter.
* "Now," said . (who was always ready
to help others sooner than himself,) "I
want you to gqwith me anmd help them
aeross the ran to California gulch."
We formed party of ight men to as
sist them out the deep snow of the
mountains, acrossthe range, a distance of
eighty miles.
The snow was sll falling with increas
ed fury and was,'a that time, three feet
deep on the level. We started on the 3rd
of December and veled but three miles
on our journey tha day. On the fourth
we traveled to the mouth of the canon
known as Californi canon, covering a dis
tance of nine miles nd camped.
Onr the next mor g X. remarked that
we were making v slow progress, as it
was still snowing v hard, and proposed
that I should take a umber of the best
animals and procee head with the wo
man and children, ile he would bring
upithe rear with the rer animals.
I selected Henry rn's mule for the
woman and little gir o ride, and the no
ted mule, Black Bes s*hich afterward be
came famous, as con cted with some of
X's adventures in M tana, to carry the
woman's feather bed d bedding, and also
Robt. Coburn's sorr horse and a bay
mare of my own.
Jones had one cow, which we packed
a part of the househ goods; but she
proved to be an uiwo pack animal and
stampeded, scattering r burden promis
cuously over the snow.I
We got loaded and ted, leaving X.
and party behind, with nes to manage
the now.
At about three 'c ( mat uay ne
reached Dead Man's gi , (so called on
account of a party of en having been
murdered there by the Lpaches) and a
strong northwest wind wtving risen we
were forced to camp; hang no tent, we
ran some canvass around e trees in order
to protect the woman a children and
keep them from freezing hile we put in
our time building fires an hoveling snow
to obtain grass for the sto The location
of the camp was about s nty-five yards
from where the men had ln murdered.
X. and party camped ait four miles
in the rear. On the next rning, it be
ing too cold for the woman -d children
to travel, X. passed us and ke the trail,
but, our animals being str er than his,
we overtook him that even and we all
camped together on Rock c k.
We put in that night, bu: ig fires and
shoveling snow, catching a :p now and
then leaning against a tree Ihe follow
ing morning we traveled t ther for a
short distance, but X. sent a -. to me and
told-me to go ahead withou lm as his
animals were worn out and livould have
to camp or go slower. Sho fterwards
Jones, who was leading the x on which
his wife was riding gave the nal a jerk
in crossing a stream, causing animal to
throw her into the stream, an mpelling
her to travel the rest of the d a her wet
clothing. We pitched camp night in
a little park, having travele ard y all
day in a long strip of timber.
We were gladdened next ruing at
seeing the sun rise bright an .ar, and
we quickly packed up and st d. We
were about six miles from the t of the
range, where we arrived about o'clock
and concluded to try and cross range
that night. After proceeding a three
miles, Black Bess gave out and d not
proceed farther; the cow e
wearied, and we left both at th at in
charge of Jones; and Mrs. Jon ddle
mule gave out with carrying a do b'r
den,--the woman andlittle girl- 11ev
ed the mule, by Jones carrying ittle
girl, and the littleboy arrying Le y's
gun, and Hally carriedthe fea
We were comielled to take o :
around the craige to keep out o. ep
snow, and finally reached the an at
five o'clock in. the evening.
down t he her sidei of the - rang
final became- exhausted and .re
, proceed' a.ither' with their ti
Young Jones, with his little .o 4
aisterandmmaawh wecalled ?
had gone on ahead to endeavor to reach
the nearest point of timber, about three
miles distant, and provide a fire fdr us on
our arrival, if we every should get there.
I left the balance of the party with the
animals and pioceeded on foot with Mrs.
Jones. She became wearied and several
times sat down, saying she could go no
farther and begged me to leave her. I
aided her all I could and tried to encour
age her and we finally reached camp be
tween eight and nine o'clock. Kern, Hal
ly ahd Coburn came in shortly afterward
and Jones about an hour later, having left
the cow and Black Bess on the range. On
the morning of the 9th, having broke
camp, Jones went back after the cow,
knowing she would return to the last
camping place for water.
Having passed through the dangers of
being caught on the range at night I knew
what they were, and sent a note back to X.
for Jones to post up so that he would get
it, telling him not to cross the range unless
he had all day in which to do it. Fortu
nately X. got the note. Jones got his cow
and Black Bess, but had to leave the latter
at the foot of the range, where X. found
her the next day.
After traveling all the next day we
reached the Twin Lake house, and were
all thankful that our lives were spared to
see a house once more. On the following
day Coburn and I got some fresh horses,
that X..had left at the Twin Lake house,
and as we knew X. and party were short
of provisions we procured hay for the an
imals and provisions for X. and his party
.and started out to meet them, which we
succeeded in doing near the foot of the
range, finding them in great need of sup
plies.
On the 11th we reached the Twin Lake
house, where we tarried a few days and
then each took his own course and we
separated. The only one injured on this
trip, in the midst of the severest winter,
was the little girl, who had her toes fro
zen.
The miners who remained in Washing
ton gulch that winter were compelled to
dig tunnels, in order to get through the
snow from their cabins, in some cases
from twenty to thirty feet deep. In one
instance a snow slide imprisoned several
men in their cabin, and they were com
pelled to live on aos for thirty days, and
on being released in the spring they buck
ed and jumped the same as a cayuse
would after a diet of thirty days on oats
straight.
This was as courageous, true-hearted
and honorable a lot of men as I have ever
seen; and X. Beidler, in this little incident
added but one to the many noble-hearted
actions of his life.-G-. TV. Krattcer, in
Avant Courier.
Bozeman, Montana.
On the summer following X. was
throughbthe country with a U. 8. marshal,
who wondered at the trees being cut off
about thirty feet from the ground. After
joking with him and telling him it was
done by a race of giants who inhabited the
country, X. finally told him truthfully that
his party had cut them the previous win
ter on the snow.
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