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VOL. XII
THE DALLES, OREGON, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 4, 1900.
NO. 328
SAVED BY HIS
WILL POWER
Details of the Loss and Finding- of
Norman C. Wilson in the Mountains
of Arizona.
The Arizona Republican furnishes the
fallowing account of the loes mid finding:
of Mr. N. C. Wilson, brother of Mrs. II.
j. Huntington, of this city, who disap
peared from a hunting camp in the
muuntnitiB of Arizona eonie tlirue weeks
ago :
Tliu purlv consisting of Dr. Wylie, Mr.
Wilson, Allen James and George Lyke,
had established n camp hetween the
heudw.iterB of eaHt nnd west Clear Creeks,
two ftri'uniH HowingJn opposite direc
tions, the latter into tlio Verdo nnd the
former northward into a tributary of the
Colorado. The Flagstaff road, n broad
unci well defined road, runs between
lliein and parullel with them. The
ImnterB had made excursions in the
neighborhood, locating fishing places
nml likely hunting regions, but the
hunting had not really begun. About
3 o'clock on Wednesday, August 15,
George Lyke, tliu cook of the camp,
came in and said he bad seen a deer
ahimt a mile east or a little south of east
of the camp. Mr. Wilson picked up Ins
Kim and taking a half dozen shells set
out. He did not return ut nightfall and
even when ho had not come ut 1 1 o'clock
there was no uneasiness for bo is not us
was supposed a tenderfoot. Dr. Wylie,
who has had n great deul of experience in
limiting, said he wis as wood-wife a mui)
as he ever met, barring professional
guidcH. His companions supnoscd be
had missed Ids way and that if he bud
not wandered into one of the numerous
linr-jo, cow or hunting camps in the
vicinity, he would return in the morning.
However, they fired guns ut intervals
until midnight and were answered by
firing from u camp a mile or two away.
On Thursday morning Mr. Wilson's
friends resolved to wait until 10 o'clock
beforo beginning a search for him. They
grew impatient before that timo and set
out. The first information was brought
them by a Mexican who said he had
seen the trucliB of a man on foot follow
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southeast of camp. It was subsequent
ly discovered that the Mexican was lying.
The party set out with six bloodhounds,
hut the dogs were unable to find a trail.
On the following day the searchers dis
covered a trail in the cunyon of East
Clear creek. Thoy judged from tho fact,
that the trail led through a thick clump
of hashes when there was a path around
them, and brought up against the pre
cipitous wa'l of the canyon, though thore
was u "draw" nearby, that the trackB
had been made in the night. They could
be followed no further than the wall.
On the first day Dr. Wylie bad offered
$25 for the discovery of Mr. W ilscn ; the
third day be offered $100. Wilson stock
was rising rapidly, but hope was sinking
rapidly. The doctor took sixteen men
on horseback and stationing them 100
feet apart, directed them to search the
country thoroughly. They wore looking
for u dead or an injured man and it wa.i
necessary that every foot of the region
should be inspected. He also gave two
men $25 to mukea wide circuit in search
of a truil and to visit all the camps with
in a radius of five miles. Notwitbstandt
ing the four days of constant search and
inquiry, broken by sleepless nights, Mr.
Wilson's companions never found him,
for lie found himself.
3111. WII.SON'H HTOltY.
Mr. Wilson Bttid that when be left
camp he expected to return at nightfall.
He went to the locality where Mr. Lyke
said I e had seen a deer and found one
after traveling about two nnd a half
miles south. He shot it, wounding it
and then for the first time noticed that
night was rapidly coming on. It came
witli a rUBb and all landmarks were
quickly obscured. Mr. Wilsou remem
tiered that he had gone euBt from the
camp, but forgetting that the deer bad
druwn him south be started straight
west and pussed the camp two and a
iiulf miles south. He came to a place
where tie made a descent of eight or ten
feet ut every step and wisely concluded
to camp for the night lest bis stepB
should grow fatally long. He wus then
near the bottom of the Gun von of West
Clear creek. At daylight he perceived
his whereabouts, but was ignorant of
tho precise direction of the camp. He
had been fishing a day or two before in
the crock, farther down, be thought, be
cause there was no water where he was
then. He started down the stream and
traveled a half day, when he found him
sell uotweeu perpendicular wulle a
hundred feet high. Ho retraced his
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Bteps to bis camping place, reaching it
at night. This was Thursday night. He
had killed a deer in tho canyon, but not
being very hungry ho decided not to
waBte one of his seven matches cooking
a part of it. lie reasoned that a time
might come when he would bo hungrier.
The next morning beset out again
with the object of finding the Flagstaff
road. To find the camp would then be
easy. He shot a squirrel, cooked and
ate half of it, and carried the rest with
him. At length he came to a place
where be seemed to be hemmed in on
all sides by unscalable walls. He bad
traveled so long that he was afraid he
might not be able to find his way back
to the place where be had entered the
canyon ; beside, be did not want to camp
in the same place so often, fearing he
would wear out his welcome. He found
cow signs and reasoned that cattle hav
ing been there must have got out. He
followed the signs into a well developed
trail and found bis way out. He had
eaten the other half of the squirrel, and
that evening he shot another, but shot
half of it away. He ate the rest greedily.
THE SUFFERING IIEGIK3.
To this point Mr. Wilson bad been
reasonably comfortable. He had not
permitted hiniBolf to get scared. He
had water in the canyon and food,
though not in groat quantity and variety.
He would have been uncomfortable if be
had known that be would neither eat
nor drink within the next twentv-four
hours. This was Friday night. On
Saturday morning Mr. Wilson came up
on a- road which be believed was the
Flagstaff road. He traveled along it
until be came to a signboard which in
formed bim tbat it was twenty miles to
Verde. He knew then that be was not
on the Flagstaff road. He made up bis
mind to go to Verde. There were people
and water and life there. Every other
direction so far as he was concerned led
into the vast unknown, into eternity
aud death.
He was clear headed enough to doubt
whether be could reach Verde, for his
hunger and thirst had become terrific.
He tried to shoot a cow, but was so weak
he could not aim accurately. He then
started in a methodical way upon hie
doubtful journey. He resolved to save
bis strength and keep down a dangerous
longing for water by resting twenty
minutes of every hour. After a while
he loft the weight of bis useless gun, and
biding it by the roadside, he carved his
name upon a tree near by, carved under
it the word, "Gun," and an index finger
pointing to tho where it was hidden.
After a while the deadliness of bis thirst
began to oppress him. He began to see
strange things at tho roadside and wui
inclined to break into a run for some,
where, be did not know, But lse
restrained himself uud during his rest
ing spells forced himself to think of
pleasanter things than thirst on an,
Arizona desert. He resolved to waste
no time hunting for water. He bad no
timo to waste, for his hours were few
unless ho got to Verde. He suw more
and mure things and though he had no
thought of giving up, he fully under.
stood bis danger and as uceurutely as
possible counted the chances against
him. He even made provision against
tho worst. He resolved that he would
never leave the road ; if lie did not reucli
Verde, his body would be found on the
way there, lie even weut into the
ghastly detail of taking $50 from hie
pocket and putting it iuto the lining of
bis hat, Intending when the worst came
to lay his hut in tho road and crawl off
a long distance from it so that when the
coyotes or other wild beasts tore his
body and clothes to pieces, persons I
traveling that way would find the hat
aud thus learn to whom the scattered
bones and fragments of cloth had be
longed,
But Mr. Wilson's resolution and fore
thought carried him into Verde, w here
he arrived on Saturday night. The next
morning he set out on horseback for the
hunting camp under tho direction of a
guide. Ho got m on Sunday night.
His companions had had one day more
of anxiety than he.
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train from Tho Dalles to Portland on
Thursday, September 0th, to accomo
date visitors to the Elks' carnival. The
train will leave The Dalles at 8 a. m.
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Outbreak In Itohol.
Washington, Sept. 3. The war de
partment today received the following
dispatch from General MacArthur:
'Manila, Sept. 3. Adjutant-General,
Washington: General Hughes reports
an outbreak iu Boliol. First Lieutenant
Lovok, Forty-fourth Volunteer Infantry.
5eports au engagement near Carmen.
At Jiohol our loss in killed was one.
wounded six; the enemy's loss In killed
was 120. Have not received further de
tails. MacAkthuk.
liohol is an island in the southern
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Arthur fti'wall Dying,
Hath, Me., Sept, 3, Arthur Sewall
democratic cadidate for vice-president
in 1806, is in u critical condition at his
summer home nt Small Point, sixteen
miles from this city. Mr. Sewall was
seized with an attack of apoplexy at
10 o'clock last night, aud has been un
conscious most of the lime a'ueo then.
Bath, Me,, Sept. 112:30 a. m. The
condition ot Arthur Sewull was un
changed at midnight. He had not re
gained consciousness, aud it was stated
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solutely no hope for his recovery. Ilia
death is expected at uny nvjinent, and
be probably will not come out ot the
stupor in which he has lain since
stricken. The family is about the bed
side awaiting the end.
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