Leaving the beach and going out on land, they traveled ten or twelve miles when they camped until the next morning. That night the men went up the Big NesTucker to fish for salmon. They made a bon-fire and left the women at the camp, but soon a call came for some of the men to come quick as they were frightened out of their wits thinking a bear was coming. It fell to Overton to go look, but he didn’t find any bear. Why they were so scared was because Jack Jackson and William Parrott, that afternoon, told them how they went in the forest hunting bear. They ran across a cabin and the men said there were plenty of bears there, but he didn’t want any of them shot as they killed his neighbors hogs and kept them from rooting up his garden.
They returned to Dundee, Oregon where they had the big prune orchards. Overton was chosen by the surveyor as a helper. They staked where each tree was to be planted and 33,000 prune trees were put out there.
Overton returned again to Kansas on May 5, 1895. He left Aunt May and baby Otho with Grandma Simmons the two years he was away and much credit is given to Aunt May for the early childhood care of her little brother.
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