Hiram Goode, the young Tagish Lake hunter and trapper who so nearly lost
his life while making the round of his traps on Little Atlin Lake in the blizzard that swept over the North in the latter part of December, left for the outside last week. Notwithstanding his terrible experience on that occasion, it is thought that an exceptionally strong and vigorous constitution will enable him in time to entirely overcome the effects of the exposure he underwent.
Young Goode, who is about 22 years of age, on the eventful trip above referred to, had fared the wintry blasts for many hours in an effort to reach some place of shelter, but the ordeal was too much, and finally, with frosted lungs and utterly exhausted physically, he lay down beside the trail in momentary expectation of death. Previous to giving up, however, he had written a note explaining his plight and placed
it in a split stick which he planted in the snow beside the trail, with the remote chance that some traveler more fortunate than himself would happen along, and find him either alive or his dead body.
And that is what did happen. Goode's father, who had been out on the same
kind of a mission as his son, was on his way home when be came across the son lying in the snow, which was crimsoned, as he supposed, by the lifeblood of the young man flowing from some wound he had received. In reality, however, the bloodstains on the snow were from hemorrhages caused, in the language of the North, from the "burning out" of the lungs from frost. When first discovered, and for many days thereafter, there appeared to be slight hope of Goode's recovery, but, as stated above, his iron constitution pulled him through so that he still has a good chance to become as strong and healthy as he was before.
