Reminiscences of an old timer: a recital of the actual events, incidents, trials, hardships, vicissitudes, adventures, perils, and escapes of a pioneer, hunter, miner and scout of the Pacific Northwest .., by Colonel George Hunter . steppingaside asked me, if I wished to speak with replied: Yes. Upon my arrival in this placean hour or so ago, I met Doctor Owsley, a Brother,who informed me that he had been attendingprofessionally upon a Brother who had recentlyarrived from Yreka, and that the patient diedduring the previous night, leaving his widowand three small children destitute and f
Reminiscences of an old timer: a recital of the actual events, incidents, trials, hardships, vicissitudes, adventures, perils, and escapes of a pioneer, hunter, miner and scout of the Pacific Northwest .., by Colonel George Hunter . steppingaside asked me, if I wished to speak with replied: Yes. Upon my arrival in this placean hour or so ago, I met Doctor Owsley, a Brother,who informed me that he had been attendingprofessionally upon a Brother who had recentlyarrived from Yreka, and that the patient diedduring the previous night, leaving his widowand three small children destitute and friend-less in a cabin near by. Now, the doctor andmyself are looking for Brothers, and we hopethose we find will seek for others, and meet usin some hall here, where I will institute a Lodge ofInstruction (or Investigation), when we will pro-ceed to give the deceased a decent interment, andprovide for the widow and orphans. Oldham and myself then went to a store andordered such things as were required for theimmediate use of the family. Then we inter-ested some sporting-women, who repaired to thecabin and sewed for the family, closing theirhouses till after the funeral. There were noother women near at this time, except Reminiscences of an Old Timer. 225 Owsley and the broken-down and grief-strickenwidow. For the rest of the day and night the hunt forBrothers went bravely on throughout the sur-rounding camps. There were no lodges in thesecamps as yet. The next morning at ten oclock a saloon-keeper stopped his business and gave, us the useof his house to arrange matters in. There wemet, some eighty odd Brothers, dressed in woolenshirts and patched pants. After making the necessary examinations, we clothed ourselves in white pocket handker-chiefs in lieu of the proper aprons, and repairedto the cabin. We had prepared as good a coffinas could be gotten up in such a place, and thefamily were dressed in appropriate mourning. Forming in procession, we repaired to anadjacent mou
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