ROSEBURG NEWS REVIEW THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 5, 1925.
FIVE
Auto Trip of Austin Mires Through
State Brings to Light Many Stories
of Early Pioneer Days in Oregon
Visits to Scenes of Boyhood Bring Back Recollections of
Events of Past Days to Former Resident Bits of Personal
History Published in Travel Narrative for the First Time.
Austin Mires, of Klh'nsburR,
Washington, ont of the early resi
dents of this county, and a brother
of lUnton Mires, prominent resi
dent of Drain, took an auto
through Oregon some time
trip
ago,
and as a result of that trip, has re-
called some very interesting
events of early pioneer history in
an account of his journey through
the stute. Although the News
Keview does not make it a rule to
publish lengthy travelogues, there
are i-iu ui minwi
,a 1;:.:,;""J.;T'
1,U In h.f n.rw f
stories, published perhaps for the
first time. To the pioneers of e
,.Bty Mr. Mlr.i-.tory will recall
faces long since departed to reap
loudly of the pioneer spirit which en,een or eihleu car3-, .
has nmtle possible the Oregon of V e got started from tli.s camp
today, it may bring some interest- the early morning of Tuesday.
lng accounts of early day happen- !ay 29. and reached The UaHes at
' inns which may help to convey ; 9:3" m. over the Columbia Rlv
some of the spirit of pioneer ler Highway. The road is graveled
.. u. !.. .... hiu all the wav to within ome two
lournev as follows: '
On 'the morning of May 28,
1923. In company with my wife. I
started from our home in Ellens-
v h-i,i. . trit in
Southern Oregon. Our car Is a i and drove on to Hood River where
Chevrolet. 6 passenger touring, we stopred for our noon-day meal
1 2 model. We took along our j there In the auto park. Strawber
tent and bedding, a few cooking ,ry Beason la on-and the markets
utensils and our dog Tillicutn. and i are supplied with an abundance or
left our daughter Eve Helen Mires .the finest berries, as Ho-id Mver
and our grand son Austin Oeorge ! Is one of Oregon s best fruit .md
to look after the Home during our I berry regions. It commenced
abspnce Iralning during the noon bur and
- ',i i, ml nn Shoo-las we proceeded -Iswn ill? Colum-
shooskln Canyon and over the hill
to Wenns belter than usual and
fairly good all the way down Wen-
as to where It strikes me pave
ment, a few miles bufore reaching
Selah. Made no stop at Yakima or j road itself Is the riu;t of high en
other place on the way until we i gineering conception and it is i.nid
reached Snnnyslde, a distance of by travelers tns' the scenery is not
85 miles, w here we stopped to rest J surpassed anywhere for beauty
a little while in the auto park, and grandeur.
lake some lunch and get a supply After striking south from the
of gasoline. IVe made this run ot
sr. miles nn lust three gallons of
gasoline. Alter leaving Sunnyslde
we got on the wrong road, and
went several miles out of our way.
From Sunnyslde our road runs in
a southerly direction crossing the
Yakima River on a bridge and
r,., .uinir thrnueh Mabton, -thence
west up over the hill to Biekleton. clty nmts of Portland. We stop
From Mabton to the top of the n EB8t I'ortland only long
long hill the road was fairly good.j enough to have our battery tcst
hnvtm been graveled, but from , ed ami get a supply of gasoline
there on over the Horso Heaven.; an() proceeded on by way of 82nd.
country, we found it rutted and street to and through Oregon City,
rough. That country may have vow Era, canby and Barlow to the
been and mav still be a heaven for I village of Aurora. known as
horses, but the portion over which j "Dutch Town" In early days,
this road runs Is hell for automo- I where wc found a good place In
bile travel now, and has been ev- me new auto park where we camp
ery time I have passed over it, e( Ior nie night. We might easily
three times before this. We stop- ave gone on to Salem, but it had
ped at Biekleton for half gn hour rained all day and we felt cold
to visit Tom Williams, wife and IRni tired. Here we built a big op
famlly. Tom and wife, nee Bernlce ien fjre all(i were soon thoroughly
Hosfeldt, both attended the State jwarm; put up our tent, and had a
Normal School at Eliensburg a good supper and a good camp,
few years ago, and both followed j0ur speedometer showed S0 miles
school teaching for some time al-rom Eliensburg to East I'ortland
ter graduating. Hp Is now work- an(i 30 miles additional to Aurora,
ing in the bank at Biekleton, two Anii herP, right close to our camp,
his wife Is busy taking rare" of jwas a pig strawberry patch full of
their home and three children, two ;r,e, r,.d Btrawberrles; but my
boys and a girl. From Biekleton (youthful proclivities having about
the road runs south to the Colum- 'passed out they were not bothered,
bla River at Roosevelt. On tho Truih to say they were not dis
way we -panned through a fine iCOVered by us until after breakfast
wheat country and the crops are the next morning,
looking good. As we approached Barlow Station, some four miles
the river the descent becomes !nQrth of Aurora, Is located on the
steeper and looking ahead the road old homest-nd of William Harlow,
presents the appearance of a long son of the distinguished pioneer,
serpent winding dow n around the j Samuel Kingbtough Barlow, Ore
sleep mountain aide. In some gon emigrant of the year 1M5.
places it passes around shoulders This Samuel K. Barlow was grant
of such dizzy height as to almost jed a charter from the Oregon l'ro
squelch ones nerves entirely, for j visional Legislature. December
there is a sheer breakoff from the ,16. 1S46, to build a wagon road and
outer edge of the road down for a , maintain a toll gate, and In pursu
distance of several hundred feet. ance thereof he built the first wa
To keep one's head at all he must igon road over the Cascade M ua
. ! tains, the same road our which
AFTER BABY
WAS BORN
Mrs. Miles Was Miserable a Long
Time Owes Final Recovery
to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege
table Compound
Dover. Ohio. "After my last baby
ven hrtrn 1 wm ud and around again,
I DutiwassicKiyaii
the time and did
not know how to
7ct my work done.
1 had washed a
heavy cairet and
1 think that was
the cause of my
troubles. 1 Went
to several doctors,
their medi-
but
cinesaionoiuoiiie
anvcood. I asked
what the trouble
inesdid not do me
was, for 1 could hariliy wsik ana ai-
iL-ut-a hA nn,-h nnms in mv left side
n.i k. n in n.c r:r.ht wiiin 1 1 ild me
I kl it.H.mn.nti.M thul raiuuid it I:
had one el" your text-liooks and was
reading it,a:i'i 1 th'r'it I would take
LvdiaE. lJmkharn's Veir-tabieCom
pound. A'terlourdays of taking it 1
began to fe-l better, so I took three
tmttles without missing a dose. Tlint
helped me more than anv other medi-
cine I had vet taken and 1 always have
it handy now. It surely did put me on
irvfeetairBln." Mrs. Jamks iliLiiS,
41i Cherry Street, Dover, Ohio.
You must helieve that a medicim)
that helps other womenwill helpyou.
For aal by drugguu varywasro.
I
(f art
fry-
look straight ahead. To add to all
this men were placing new crush
ed rock on th surface of the road
and through this loose stuff it was
i hard steering. We were glad to
'reach the bottom of the hill alive.
Here we crossed the Columbia re
er In a ferry boat at a cost of $1.25,
Three cars were ferried over on
this trip.
Enjoys Auto Camps
We drove up through the Ore
gon town of Arlington to the auto
iu.n ron..,l whUf r Btnnrut
the nteht. Here they have
ip'H i kept clean and sanitary,
,' hir' 5ft eents Der fht
' Der car It ri?nea durg the
;5" f";
rested well. Several parties cauip-
j miles of The Dalles where the j
' payment begins which reaches all
i the way to I'ortland. We tarried ,
at The Dalles just long enough to
' get a sunnly of gasoline and oil
bia River Highway it poured dawn
almost all the wav t- I-or.UnJ. V
I shall not attj.njt a cVscriplipn
of this road and sui voiinilin.T tcen
erv furher than to say that the
Columbia River wj pas-vra
through the Dig dandy countr.
This part of Oregon presented a
prosperous appearing, being
farmed to grain, rs-i, fruits and
vegetables, 'and pofOssing sub
stantial fnrm houje, barns and
outbuildings, many of them ap-
nearlne new. all the way to
the
my own parents cam- wi'h lueir
ox teams In the emig.-a;'.'n of
1853
We left this camp In the early
morning of .May 30 and reached
Salem, the capital of Oregon, at
!:30 forenoon, where we "t-jpp -d
for nn hour or so wilh Mrs.
W. H. Byars and family, and then
drove to the cemetery where my
good brother. W. H. Byars. was
burled a little over a year ago.
This is decoration day and the
beautiful cemetery whnie test
many of Oregon's distincui lif 1
.l.aH Ih soon crowded wiiu c'''ot-
,,( p,,0ple bearing floral off.-rlji..i
to be laid on the graves ot in
loved ones. After a bri'f veit
here we proceeded oil to the
south.
Streeta Too Narrow
P.ilrm Is a heautitul try. The
strews are wide and tli bull Jinn
attractive and roses are sm-n ev
erywhere, along the sire."-, nid in
all the parking strips. In mOBt
"f lhn cl,!,'s "" 'wn. "f botrs
- - .,.. i
streets are narrow, and 1'ortl.ind i
the worst of all. But it must b.
iireL'nn ami n uiiiiik,,,,,
ememhered hm IlKi-e cite
m-re laid out the nuturiobile lui
, never bee n dream
d of
We alM.d thrilUKtl Jeff
rsef
and right here rross. l !!.e Hen
turn Rivit otr a -wo n. n 1,'ei'
nhnt seemed lobe "on Its lt
l. gs." The next place o' rnnse
quenec is Albany, where we
pj (,ng enourh to get a am.ill
supply of gasoline and oil and
:,rV(, on to Hnirlsburt. wne-s w
rnr, some lunch, and here we
rrns.,.d the Willamette River on a
f,.rrvl)oat that exact" no loll. The
rnnd Is paved all the mav rom
Portland, excepting a few nitln
i just north of Harriaburi tad lor a
like distance fo Junction City after
crossing the Willamette River. We
continued von through Junction
City, Eugene and Cottage Grove,
known as "Slabtown" In the early
days, through rasa Creek Canyon
to Drain, Oregon, where my broth
er Benton Miroa. resldea and is en
gaged in general mercantile busi
ness, 475 miks from Eliensburg by
our speedometer. We were pleau
ed to find my good sister, Mrs. An
na Benham, ot Tyler, Washington,
here at my brother llenton'a.
On May 31 we all drove to Eu
gene in the forenoon and returned
in the evening. Eugene is just 32
miles from Drain, and the road ia
paved all the way.
Visits Crave of Pioneer
On June first we drove out to
Oakland cemetery where my fath
er and mother and sister Margar
et are buried. Here my wife plant
ed some flowers of a particular
variety, in fulfillment of a promise
she made my mother many years
ago. And right here in this cemo
tery, which occupies the aumniit
and grassy Blopea of this beautiful
hill, a spot to me as sacred a the
stars, wrapped in the peaceful re-
: pose of the Just, lie many of Old
i Umpqua's Bturdy pioneers. Brav
est and squares! of brave men,
jtruest and gt ptlest of true women.
IMen and women whom X knew in
imy childhood, revered In my
I youth, and In my manhood, to my
i keenest regret, I have beea so
I weak in emulation. It is with rev
jerence that I pause here for a
j brief segment of fleeting time to
recite a few of the names there
graven in marble and grnnite:
John H. Mites. Anna Deurdorf
Mires. Key. P. C. Parker, John
'llall, M.'R. Shupe. Abraham H.
IMctiee, Margaret Belli (Aunt
Margaret) Metlee, Dr. F. M. Ven
I able, Samuel Rich. William D. Mc-
Gee, Jane Metier, toward u.
Young, Pitzer Smith. I'atsy Ann
j Smith. James C. Hutchinson, A J.
Howard, (the one-eyed cowboy),
i Charley Jones, Robert Smith,
'Charles Vail, William S. Rice. P.
Eubanks, James B. Smith, Reason
i Reed. .
From here we drove out by way
of Sutherlin and up Camas Swale
I to Fair Oaks Cemetery where my
! uncle, William H. B. Deardorif,
his wife and several members of
bis family are buried. This is a
beautiful place, situated right on
ithe south bank of Calipoola Creek,
among large oak and fir trees.
Around here Ve found and picked
a gallon or more of ripe, wild
strawberries. They are plentiful
over ajl parts of southern On eon.
In the evening we returned to
: Drajn, having made a round trip of
about fifty miles.
On Saturday, June 2, we drove
lout to Wilbur in the morning,
j passing through Yoncalla, Oakland
jand Sutherlin, making no slop on
Iway, arriving at' Wilbur a( 9:30 a.
im. And here, on this day, the an
inual re-union of the Umpnua
Academy Association took place.
There was a large gathering of old
school mates, teachers and friends,
! something over four hundred In
number. The exercises commenced
I at 10 o'clock. Congressman Haw-
ley made the annual address. He
I w-ns a teacher In the Acdemu to.
J its later years. I delivered tho
leulogy to our departed loved ones,
the first address of this nature
that has been made before the as
sociation. After the exercises
luncheon was served in the gymna
,sium building and greatly appre
ciated by all. In the evening we
had a camp fire meeting, with old
itlme sonijs and short speeches,
nd the day was thoroughly enjoy
ed by every one. Some met who
! had not been together for fitly
I years. Late in the evening we re,
i turned to Drain.
On June 3, my brother Benton
and I took a drive through Yoncal
la and out to Roy Booth's place
!on Thief Creek. On tho way over
'Must below the road, not forty
'yards away, were two deer. They
I gracefully bounded into the brush
along the creek bank. Roy Booth
lis a son of Robert A. Booth of Eu
j gene. They own 1"0 acres of
I land here along he creek bottom.
Roy has many of the characteris
'tlcs. such as hospitality and hu
jnianilv of the old pioneers.
I The Applegate Homestead
I On our way back to Drain we
I drove by the old homestead of
Jesse Applegate, that chief of Oie
gon pioneers. Less than a quar
ter of a mile from where the old
dwelling house of Mr. Applecnle
stood, up on the spur of a llule
hl'l. Is a little cemetery; and here
!"The Sage of Yoncalla" and his
iwife, Cynthia, sleep side by side.
The spot Is marked by a humble
(sandstone monument or slab, 21
feet by 20 inches by 6 Inches In
I diameter, facing north and south.
The stone was fashioned br Jesse
; Applegate himself, assisted by his
son. l'eter Skeen Applegate. and
Iwas placed there at the time of
jhis good wife's death, some seven
years before the death of Mr. Ap
; pit-gate. The south side or flue
I now bears the following Inscrip
tion: Jesse Applegate- Iln 7 IU
J 1811 1 1 4-22 li.SS. Anil the north
face; Cvnthia Applegati Bn 8 13
1013 Dd 6-1-1RM. Anil here, too.
rest the remains .of Charles Put
nam, son-in-law of Jesse Applegate
and great grandson of 1 rael Put
nam of revolutionary fame, and
'other old pioneers, among Hu m
Ada Putnam Mires diitirhter of
f harles Putnam and wife of Bi n
ton Mlrr-s; also Oerlrude Apple
gate Fay. rinui-'hter of J. sse Apple
icate and wife of Janu s. I . I'.i v.
lawyer whom she married during
the war of the Rebellion, and was
disinherited by h'r father for mar
ry in a man thai, he d em. d a
traitor to lii country .
After reiiil.ing iH'tiie mv l,:otlier
and I drove down Ell: Creek a few
miles and then ih-os-ed over to Hie
smith srid went up Bear Crek to
;fih. Benton catuht 12 trout. I
did not get any but' In maklutr an
attempt I walked out on a pr 'j' rt
llig log, some five feet above the
water, and It broke, letting me
down on my bnek lu about a foot
of water, wetting me thoroughly
and severely injuring the little
finer of my rlnht he no. which
will probably never be well a.-u!n.
Such mishaps are enough to make
the best men swear, but I have
lever ben cli'iad among th beat
men and ao said nothing.
On Tuesday, June 6, we all atart-
ed cn a trip from Drain to Ash
land. We got away at 1:10 p. m.
passed through Yoiicalla, Oak
land. Sutherlin, Wilbur eroasing
the North Vuipqua River at the
old town site of Winchester, by
wooden bridge. Here we stopped
to rest a while and look at the new
reinforced concrete bridge that la
in course of construction, it haa
seven arches and eight concrete
piers and will probably be in use
more than a century hence.
Bridge vs. Ferry
In early days Winchester waa
the county seat ot old Douglas
County before I'mpqua County
was merged into it. The river here
was crossed by a ferry boat kept
by the old timer, John Aiken, and
it was a veritable gold mine in the
way of a money making concern.
in (he early aixtiea the Moore
'brothers, James, Anthony, Auiercy
,nnd Alex, built a wooden bridge
jacross the river to compete for
tolls with Aiken's ferry, but it was
Harried away by high water the
first winter after Its construction.
ilMU-2 1 believe, and was never re
built. At the time of this occur
anco James Moore gave Sampson
i Flench liny dollars to cut away
jthe roots of a largo tree that had
caught against the bridge a per
ilous undertaking, but it did not
i save the bridge. There was bit
jter feeling from the Aikens
;agalnst the Moore boys on account
jof the building of the bridge, and
jit is said Mrs. Aiken clapped her
hands and thanked God when the
i bridge went out.
I The next place Is Roseburg. the
present county seat of lKiuglas
Icounty. WeSnade no stop here
but drove on through Dlllard,
Myrtle ;reek and Canyonville,
; crossing the South Umpqua River
five times on the way. Canyon
ville is an old mining town and Is
I located right at the mouth of
'what was known as the "Ulg Can
yon" In early days For many
(years, and up to the time of the
j construction of the S. JP, R. R
from Roseburg on south iu the
year 1M2, it was the trading point
for all the South I'mpqua and Cow
j Creek country south of Myrtle
' Creek. From Canyonville the road
leads up Canyon Creek, over the
! divide and down Into Cow Creek.
a distance of ten miles. The road
is good, paved all the way and the
'grade easy. Here in the Cow Creek
iVallev we pass the old homesteads
jof Hardy Elliff and John Red-
field, early Oregon pioneers, and
,at or. near the latter place we
Across Cow Creek on a concrete
bridge. And here we stopped for
a little rest and ate Borne lunch
down on tho pebbly beach of the
'cool, clear stream. trom tnis
! point the road climbs winding up
lover Cow Creek hill and descends
iln like manner down Into Wolf
Creek,, a distance of about alx
lm.Ho. This used to be something
of a placer milling district And
here my oldest sister, Kenecca uy
ars Koniune, with her husband,
Francis Romane, lived and kept
the Six Bit House for a number of
veai-s In the long ago. From here
Jthe jrosd leads over another ridge
ror a distance oi uuincuuus u,
four miles to Grave Creek.
The Historic Can.yon
We are now travelling over his
toric ground. Near the Cow Creek
crossing, back in the fifties, 1855.
I believe, the Redflelds lived.
Their place was attacked by In-
I dlans, and as they were making
their escape to Camp Smith, Mrs.
illcdfield received a bullet wound
in the knee that made her a crip
ple ever after. They were the
i parents of Tom Redfield, who was
for many years a jeweler at iaki
ma. Washington, wlmre he died.
Near Wolf Creek was fought the
battle of Hungry Hill in which
the white soldiers lost twelve
killed and twenty-seven wounaeu.
I The Indian loss waB much less. So
ifar as 1 have been nble to discov
er the historians of these Indian
wars fall to make mention of this
'battle, but my good brother, W. 11.
illvars, when a young man seven
teen years old, carried the U. S.
imall, on home back and with pack
1 horse, from Oakland. Oregon to
lYreka. California, from th early
fall of lh.-.ti to July 18.'A and he
iwas familiar with every phase of
learlv Oregon history, iu his "Nates
of His Lite" he gives an account
jof this battle. Grave ( reek re
ceived It's name from the burial
there of a voung woman by name
of Martha' Eeland Crowley in
IMC. Her family passing through
iwith the first emigrant train that
year, when she died. Her folks
were anxious that her burial place
should be hidden from all knowl
'.Klue of the Indians, who were
eager to obtain any wearing ap
parel of the white people, so ev-
orefUilHon was taken to
id.'
the grave; but the Indians disrov
icrod it and exhumed the body,
stripped it of all ra.ment and I. ft
It exposed. Afterward th" bonis
were collected and re burl' d b
'ranger. The grave gave the
'creek Its name and Eeland became
ithe name of the post oflice.
Jame, Toogood, called "Jimmy
iMox Close" by the Indians , was
'tin- first post master here. He
'' MacUoiinah llaiknima owned Hi''
'p ure. Hurkness was killed by the
Indians In is:,; at Dig M-adows on
'Rogue River, while carrying dls-
patches to General Wood, and 1m
brother Saniil'-I Hurkness and fam
ily succeeded him. Homer D.
Ha'rknen; at pn sent and for many
.vears past, a resident and mining
inan of Liberty, Kittitas Counv .
'Washington, is a son of Samuel
Harkness.
1 Indian Wl Hung
I The Six 1! t Hou-e P eeiyi d it
irmif fn.m th.- fi.lli.wms ireu-:i
iB'anec whleh l""k 1'laee right
tli-re: An Indian whose Iios'on
nam- w:i Charley, was aecus-d ot
st.-aling. He tri. d by Jm r"
l.MU-h. a rope piared around hi
,',k and the ulier end thrown
o.-i r a limb of a larre white oar.
me that stood pear by. At
juncture the 'proprietor of 11 -Mnce
came up an'l d' nianded "I
Charley six bits th'-t h owed hlci
'fur his dinner. Charley P
'"Nlka halo rhlcanun, wake ni"!-i-aloost
nika po' latch " (I have n-
money, dual bang me, 111 pa) )
But the pony was ltd from undaf
and the landlord never got hia
pay.
From Grave' Creek the road
winds up another high hill , or
mountain, and down to Jump Off
i Joe Creek, a distance of about Big
i milts, nd passe, through Jump
Off Joe Valley lu Grams Pass on
tl north bank of Rogue River.
I We reached Grants Pass at 8:30
p. m. and stopped for the night at
the Josephine Hotel. I here took
occasion to pay a visit to my good
friend. Hon. George Colvig. Away
back in lss7. while he was a State
Senator, representing Douglas'
County in the Oregon Legislature
he. throuuh Hon. John II. Mitchell,
jl nited Statea Senator, secured my
appointment as U. S. Railway Mail
jAiiit, on the route from I'ortland
jto lioseburg. Oregon. At the time
of my apiKiinunent 1 was teaching
i school en Cow Creek in the Rid
dle Settlement. 1 served in this
capacity of mail agent for three
jyea's and saved up enough money
;to take me through the law De
parunent of the I'nlveroity of
Mieliiean at Ann Arbor, lu the
full of 1SS2, after my return from
lAnn Arbor, being still in the State
Semite, he had me elected Chief
'Clerk of the Oregon Senate, and 1
served in that capacity during
thut session of the Oregon Eegis
'lature. 1 have always considered
i him one of my very best and dear
jest friends. Should I live to be a
'thousand years old I would never
! Cease to feel grateful to him. I
(visited with hlio and his good wife
,for over an hour that evening and
I we talked of old times and old
friends. We had not mot for over
thirty eight years.
The morning of June G, we got a
'fairly early start and drove to Ash
laud, distant from Grants Pass
! about fifty miles, passing along up
I Rogue River OiroUBh Gold Hill,
iCcuterville, Medford and Phoenix
jon the way. The old historic min
ing town-of Jacksonville lies off
I to ih" west of Medford four miles,
jbut we did not visit it.
Rogue River Valley bears somo
resemblance to Kittitas Valley,
Washington. It is about twice as
J large and is nearly round. It's soil
lis exceedingly productive and
(crops look well Oils season. There
jare scattering oak trees nil over It
and the surruundiug higher hills
:and mountains are covered with
jfir and pine. There are few more
I beautiful countries anyw here. Ash
'land is a thriviug city of between
four and five thousand inhtibi-
jtants. It is well located and has
lone of the finest parkB In all the
'Northwest. Here wo took our
Inoon meal, and I paid a visit to my
old L'llensburg friend Hurry Drew
"The Painter" as h ewas known
here in Eliensburg.
We stopped for a little rest at
Jackson's Sulphur Springs, two
miles north of Ashland. This ia a
beautiful place and la visited by
hundreds of people, who come to
take tho balhs offered, hot and
cold. It is well arranged, cleun,
and sanitary, and has a large
Bwimming pool, bath rooms etc.
Visit Blnger Hermann
We returned 'in the afternoon,
stopping at Gold Hill to rest and
take some lunch In the little tour
ist park, and then continued on
hack as far as Cow Creek Station,
where we stopped at 8 p. m. nnd
'put up for the night.. On the 7th.
j after a breakfast of ham and eggs,
(we got away at 7:12 a. in. The
(mountain scenery and morning air
were refreshing, putting' all in
cheerful spirit us wo drove along
up the south Bide of Big Canyon
'irivide, over and down the north
sldo toward Canyonville. I used
;the brakes too hard and about half
iway down the mountain the brake
iband on the left hind wheel took
ifire. A passing car called our at
tention to It and we Mopped and
let it cool and proceeded the bal
'ance of the way down the hill on
Intermediate gear. We passed
some tame deer In a little meadow
! by the side of the road on the
way, taking their morning meal
;froni (he dew laden grass. At Call
jyonvllle, we stopped two hours
nnd a half to get our brake bunds
repaired and then drove on to
.Roseburg where we took a breath
ing spell of twenty-five minutes to
visit with Dinger Hermann. He
came out of his house to our car
to see Sister Anna, whom he knew
when she was a girl, and to meet
'my wife and Mrs'. Benton Mires.
We passed a few pleasant minutes
.together and In reininicenl mood
.went back over the good old days,
in breaking off a visit wiili Binaer
Hermann one always feels that the
time has been loo short. We drove
on to Oakland where we took
dinner with our cousin. William L.
: lieardorff. and family, at his hie
tel. The lieardorff House. No b-t-ter
meals are served anvwhere.
In the evening we drove back to
i iralu.
On Friday morning, June R, we
bid our brother and sister and
friends goodbye and st.-uied fur
home. Stopped at. Eugene for a
Ittle while and paid a hort visit
to my old friend and srhoolniaie,
George .Melvin Miller, broiler of
Joaquin Miller, the Oregon poet.
We were seat, mates tmrelher in
chool at Christian College, Mon
mouth, Oregon, in 171 2. Came in
to Corvallis where wo ii'n'tied In
the purk at that place, nnd after a
'Irive up through the coliey,. i;iti:l"
'IS to note tile rlllinges tlilil lllive
:nken place since our children,
lohn and Eve. ninn'led college
here, crossed the Willamette River
and came en ttir"ii:ii All'itn- afid
to within six mil's of Jetf. r -eti
when we turn 'I ;nk on acie'in'
nf the daniormis coii'Iitum ot Die
'''-lee oer the Salltiam Kin r .'.l
Jefferson. We relracd our w:iy
n Albany, He me iletm.reil toward
the fast, tw n'y in les fmfiier, by
way of Fenders bridge ou r the
.-lilllli'll b'lvi r. tliei.i.e b:ick all'f
Tos.-itig the rher at. Jefferson.
Here v,e stopped for a few minutes
rtt th" linnie (.r mv cousin, .Mm
,'o-ieptiliie Iiear-lorff Looiiey nil'!
'ushanil, lien I.O'iney, and then
trove on to Sai'-ni and stopped
'here In the nutj ramp fur the
night. We leii.nd th" camp crowd
'd with loiliir.ti t so that it wai.
i.ard to find a phi'c to put up our
'ent. Oil Saturday nioltilnr, at'iT
a brlel viait with lay liur-iii .a,
I Mrs. W. H. Byars, we crossed ov
ier the Willamette River and drove
down the river road on the west
side to Portland. This road most
:-of tho way waa very ouxh. W
passed through Dayton, Dundee,
'Newberg and Taggert on the way.
iWe stopped at the Meuker ceme
tery on the way lo visit the graves
lof my wlfo'a mother, Hester E. Dat
vies, and sister June. After a
long search we found the graves,
(and I went to a nearby farm house
ami got a generous aupply of
j beautiful rosea to placii on the
resting places of our dear ones,
and then we proceeded a little way
'to Garden Home, and there stop
:Ped for our noon day meal. From
there we soon struck the paved
highway and drove on to and
through Portlnnd. I missed the
i road signs and got right down In
jto the heart of Portland, where
tin re was a perfect Jam of cars
iand pedestrians, before I was
aware, and continued clear
through to the I'nion Depot. I
'bad to turn back for several
iblorks before striking the highway
'leading west out of the city. From
,here we continued north dw n the
i Willamette and Columbia Rivers,
'over a splendid paved road, to
Rainier. 1 got through Portland
without a mishap but with highly
iovcrsiralued nerve.
Rain Encountered
At Rainier we crossed tly Co
lumbia River on a 'arge ferryboat,
lof the Long-Bell Company, which
Icarried twenty-one cars on the trip
land continued on four mile to
Kelso. Washington. Here wo found
iour son John, who is an engineer
iln the employ of Long Bell Com
Ipany. We crossed back over tut'
bridge to the West side of the Cow
litz River and found a plnce to
'camp about two miles out. It
(rained hard all night and wo re
mained fti our camp until noon of
'June 10, as John was busy on the
ulock at the cement works of tho
j company all the forenoon. After
'our noon meal we reaumed our
j Journey, John golngvwlth us and
.driving our car as fur as Centralia,
where ho caught tho railroad train
'and returned to Kelso. Our route
from Kelso was on the west side
of the Cowlitz River, detourlng by
way of Winlock and other towns.
The road was very steep at sever
al places. We had a blowout
'which detained us some little time,
and at one place we were crowd
ed off the road Into some loose,
I damp ground and had to have a
' passing car pull us back onto the
road. We reached Olyinpia In the
evening and drove to the west aide
land camped In front of Edward 1).
Guorgo's place. Here our daugh
ter Anna lived for several yeara.
IWe visited with Mr. George In the
'evening and again in tho morning,
cheering him with an account of
our trip nnd talking of his boy,
Austin George, who has lived with
us for about five years, Mr. George
jlui8 heen an Invalid for ten yearB
or more, and Is gradually growing
weaker. His only earthly concern
now is his boy.
I The night hero was cold, but af
jter a good, war breakfast on the
I morning of June 11th, wo started
;for home at 7:60 a. m. Had some
rain on -the way and at Tncoma I
run onto n side walk, mistaking it
for Hie pavement, nnd hud to back
out, but finally got through nil
right. At Benlim we stopped and
got some warm lunch nnd a Bupply
of gns illne and nil, nnd then came
on over the Cnscade Mountains
by way of Snoqualntlo Pass, skirt
ing the east allure of Luke Keech
elus, down the Yakima River, Into
Kittitas Valley, the prettiest valley
'of them all, and reaching the city
'of Kllensburg and home, situated
right In tho center of the valley, at
7:30 p ,m.
j And home is the dearest place of
all. And It matters not where the
home lover haa been, nor how at
tractive the scenes through which
ho hus passed, glndnoss always
welcomes his return.
i That wonderful philosopher of
the human heart, Charles Dickens,
declared "In the love of home the
lovo of country lakes It's rla."
And everyone whose heart quick
ens at ilia touch of patriotism
knows that this Is true.
AMKKICAN KKNCK Is now sine
Insdlnttfl, a roc'HH by which 60 to
lui per cut mort? palvanlzInK In up
plicil to tin? wires than wan pocKlble
umliT the old niWliod. Wr Invito
you to trU It with any other fence
nuuie. Whiirton llros.
Tells How to End
! Night Coughing
To quickly utop hnrkinp. irritat
ing couKhinflT at night, a very sim
j.W treatment may lie haj that
jf!en iimbles you to sleep tho vholo
iiifs'ht through umliatui bed almost
it (.n.-e.
The treatmrnt Is lmse'l on a re
jnarkaMu prescript inn known 09
Ir. King's New liUeovery for
Cuueh. You pimply tako a tea
rpfKiiifii! nt nitfht before retiring,
jind huld it in your thruat for 15
r 20 jwcorwlH before flwallowinp; it,
without following with water. Tho
Jirewriptinn ba;i a doubln action,
t n-t only nootlies and relieves ir
ritatit.n uid oreie, but it (uitk
y loosens and removes tne jjhkKni
nnd coiiK'tion which are the diiorfc
rauxf. 1 i t he roiifhintf'. iSo no o:at-t'-r
whether your couj;H is dry and
tiKlit, or loose with itiuth iiueu(
tl.o rouKhii'lC soon :,tups, you can
l: .lully b-eep your oc, u-tomtd timo
, without a break, ar.d the whula
rouKh condition Koea iu a very thort
tlir.'J.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. B. Mem
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club will bp Rtven an unusual treat
tonight with the appearance at
their fashionable quartern In near
by Maryland of "Mickey" Walker,
well known welterweight cham
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bout with Jimmy Waterman, navy
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CAUL E. WIMnERLT '
Chairman. 4
yesterday by Bluff after driving a
team in one of the last relay
carrying 300,0110 nulls of dlplilherra
anti-toxin from Nenana to Nome,
showed no alans today of hard
shlps encountered on the trail. -
In 1915 Scppalla drove sixteen of
hla Siberian dogs to victory in a
412 mile Nome to Candlerace -in
7H hours, 44 minutes and 87 sec
onds, which 1 four hours. St) min-'
ules and 17 seconds slower than
a record established by Jrthn
Johnson's Siberian team In 1910.
He also won the races of 1H16 aiid,
11117, but the time waa much slow
er than hi mark In 1915. '
Beppalla's return to Nome aiUir
engaging In the trans-Alaskan re
lay race last week waa made in
oasy stages. Ills dog were ,)u
good physical condition and &isp
palla showed no outward slgnrif
hardship.
"1 was glad to aid humanity In
bringing the Benim several nrllps
nearer Nome," Seppalla aald mod
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