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Adventures of Black Sam,
Oregon "Bull Puncher"
This Story of Historical Interest to Eastern Oregon,
An Installment to Be Printed Weekly by The
Evening Observer, Is Told by Sam
Ayotte to Jack Hunter of
The Park.
(Hy JACK HUNTRR)
(Fifth Installment)
- "Well air, very 8o)lorn do I lom
my temper, but thlH ilmo when I
naw DiIb poor helpless womun In
tli1 hftndfl of that beastly fool, my
anger it new no bounds. I made a
mad rush ut htm. Anil I nonfesH, I
never wanted to kill a imin in my
- life before, hut thta degmeruto I
didn't cure whether I did r not
"Hut he hihv me just in time and
the coward thut he wus Jumped on
hH f'it bellowing like ti imtd bull
nl mn nn he run awuy:
Von I'll get even with yo
for IhiH.'
' "He dlwtppeored through the
bruHli find boulder.
"I went at oneo to tho girl and
picked her up (n my arms, startlnK
towards camp. Hhn revived In a
lUtle while but cried till tho way
lo.emnn.
"When I got to Ihe tepee tho old
Rfjuaw hurriedly wrapped her lip
with a blanket. Tin o'd eouple had
nnmcwhat recovered from Hpi'iieer's
itinMn-iiliiHTil, but while they Heent
ed pli'iiHfd and grateful to me lor
Having their Husie, they aeleil hh If
frightfully dimnrbed.
'Flr Water" I'Htnl.
'Tho old Indian inoliuned for mo
to follow him OUlHldn. There, be
npprlfled me that young SlapleH
had died In the night In the tepee
The old fellow was sure Hint he
hud drank too miieh 'fire water.'
A.nd he wna seared that Hie white
men would believe that he hud
killed hint.
"I at oneo went Inside and found
young Hlaplea sure enough dead.
Tho old Indian was right. Hpen
rer'H corn Juire home mado rum
had killed him.
- "Back to my ramp, Hpenrer had
not returned. We, burled tho dead
hoy. A fellow named Mat Wntnon
who insisted to be railed Mr. Ma
son, religiously Inellned, took a two
Ineh auger nnd bored u hole In the
bollom of Kpeneer's barrel of rum.
"Heforo starting on our way
oguln 1 went over to sen how the
Indiana and Huslo were getting
along,
"I found them feeling pretty
good. When I bid them good-bye I
noticed Kunle's eyes were moisten
ing with tears. The. old Indian i
then told me; j
'"'Susie. Is good girl. She wants
white man. Now you tulk to Hu
sle. I
"Raying this he nnd lils old wife!
lied down face downward on the
To
Buy
La Grande National Rank Building
, , ,
buffalo sltlns. This meant that they
were not there at all as far uh
;Husle and I were concerned. The
Indians way of privacy In their
lodge.
"I faced Susie and we walked In
to each other's arms. She spoke In
very good French.
" 'Once T have dreamed Just, what
happened tho other nmrnlng. - And
from that time I have wilted for
my hero. And now you have come
Are you going to accept my love
which is the find 1 havo ever ex
perlenoed? I want at Imsfc ro Mm
you good-bye. Itul, J will hcc you
again If It 1h in my power.1
"She turni'd and raised her face
to mine and 1 kissed her and she
kissed me buck. I told her I would
be sure to meet her again. I don't
know, but I almost hated as much
to leave tier as J did my first
sweetheart, l.lzzle I'owers.
"I finally get to Spencer's home.
Mrs. Spencer told me thot she had
not seen ti in at all, bui I wax sure
that he was hid. Winn I asked
her for my pay. nlie mild, 'You will
have to wait for Spencer; I hiiv
no money.'
"Well sir, I Judged that woman
an a good true woman, but badly
treated with such a scoundrel is
Spencer. So 1 decided to wait for
my pay.
AViinled ,, vacillate.
"Just then J was surprised nnd
pleased to see William Itnyle who
had just rode in. I knew Mm e,utte
well In the gold fhldH of Califor
nia. After a good shake, I told him
about Alen Spencer, He' wan nl
once for a hanging. T pointed nut
that on account of his wife and
family we better forget and let him
go, lint no, this old Vigilante wns
In an angry mood.
"Threo days after. Spencer wan
captured and we took him at the
toot of the high mountain west of
l,a Orande. And when the rope
was placed around his neck, I nev
er saw such a pitiful night -and
never heard such begging for
mercy, lie promised everything"
and tried to buy his freedom.
spoke to the gang a long time
and In such manner that they
agreed to let him loose If he would
pay me for my freight bill. We
look him hack to his place and he
pajd me In full.
Then Boyle wanted to 'hire me
with two yokes of my cattle to take;
him and three other fellows, Hob-j
bins, t'randnll nnd Wright, back t'o
I'malllla where they had left their
A PaidUp
At the ngc of 28 this client took out $10,000 in a twenty-
pnynient life insurance policy with one of the biff American com
panies. At the ajve of IS, this man hnd the policy paid up and
the premiums automatically ceased. If he died he received
? 1 0,000 without further insurance payments.
He then had $10,000 of insurance in force for the rest of his
life nnd was very happy at not being obliged to pay any further
premiums. This was his attitude until it was called to his at
tention that the cash value of his policy after the twentieth year
payment had been made was $-18(17.00. In other words, he could
surrender his policy and get .Sl.7.00 in cash which represents
the investment value of bis policy.
Life Insurance for Protection Only
Keep Your Investments Separate and At Home
I Will Analyze Your Policy FREE OF CHARGE bring your agent
FLOYD
outfits. They had been exploring
j around the Basin for location and
their two yokes of oxen had ran
jaway In the hills. They had the
meat of one big elk and two deer.
(With their camping outfit it made
a light loud for one wagon end two
! yokes. They of fored ine a good
i price and 1 took the job.
j "At I' mats Ha, I could not t resist
'Inquiring for Ip-nat-am-inoose and
( Susie. I found them and I was sure
, well received by them,
j "I stayed overnight with them
and had a good visit with Husie.
jShe uecompanled me buck to the
I Boyle cum p. And there In order to
,m.uk QW(iy from thft K,r, hu(,
to ,r r t(,,(, ni,p ,nat j was mar.
rled. Ych, sir, I could not be un
true to the girl 1 left behind and
was uniting for me In old York
State.
"Old man Boyle told me that f
was a fool for turning down a
pretty girl like that in this coun
try. "This Boyie outfit were on their
way in the spring of 'CI going hack
east after their folks to settle In
Orande Hondo Basin.
Itetiiriicd To f-n Orniide.
"When 1 returned to l.u Orunde
Fort, It wtiH really too late In thn
fall to undertake any long trip. So
I decided to wait until spring. The
winter of G1 I hauled firewood and
Ioks for building purposes, I stop
ped most of the time with Tlarvey
BhiTH-hard and ills good wife with
their two nice children, a hoy and
a girl. I always liked kids and they
generally liked me for I could tf II
stories pretiy well thnm days.
"In the first week of February
when the snow was well packed, i
1 Fa rvey Bhinehnn!, I'ele BeteiH,
Will 'Hazard and I went hunting;
elk for meat. We went east to Pow-!
der river. Coming to a plnce that
looked to me an a regular hole In
the ground, forming a level nnd
round small valley, where Powder
river flowed In between high cllffn.
We had to come right on tills val
ley before we could see It at all.
(Thief valley no doubt).
"Here we ran on tracks of nbout
one hundred elk who had left, prob
ably Ihe day before going north.
" They've gone to Klk Par,' (The
Park, southeast of Union 15 miles).
said Blanchard, who knew the
country. And he explained that
thin Klk Park wns a regular home
lor tho elk. especially In their mat
ing time ami when the cows were
taking care of their little spotted
baby elk.
"There we had no hard time In
spotting our game. My partners
all hail one elk and It remained
for me to get mine. I spotted a
great big bull und was ready to
uhnot, when Blanchard stopped me
and In u whisper told me that 'HIk
meat won't be fit to eat. Pick ou.
a young one.' ,
Knyoeil by Klk.
"F soon luid a young animal In'
line with my bead ami us he was!
looking right square at me J nlm-i
d right In the forehead between
the eves. Now 1 ouifht to known
in '(iiWW!iiiriiVi;iiiri iirii tlii iiiiiii-i f inTii;,!
better but 1 didn't. The bull drop
ped like a bag. I ran to him and
started to cut hls-throut, And
say It right, I just started to cut It,
when that elk gave me the most
terrible butt In the stomach that
made me see forty million candle
lights.
"It was a sure enough knock
out blow. I laid sprawled out on
the snow and If It had not beert
for Crandall who planted a good
shot In the animal, I wouldn't be
telling It today.. For thut bull was
rushing onto me as tost as he cou'd
und 1 couldn't move a muscle.
"There we were now, with the
meut or four elks and no "other
meuns-Uo pack It down out of this
snow which was about to mlh to
where we could reach with wagons
or park muhs. I wasn't much of
a hunter, but my father wua u
great moose hunter buck eont. 1
told thern I knew how to -get that
meut out of there In one trip. They
were kind oieury of my proposi
tion, my trick with thn Mk had
put In their mind that I didn't
know much about hunting. W'tH
sir, I told them to go uhead ond
take all winter to pack the neat
out If they wanted lo. but for me
I was going lo haul mine nut In;
one trip.
'I at once went to work. I tool:.
tho hide of 'my elk stretched it
on tho hard snow hair down
With two small poles nbout five
feet long lengthwise on the fleshy
part or the skin about tvo feet
apart. On these I put, two cross
pleri , one at each end lushed
with buck strings. Tin. front end
of the poles I turned up fast' nlng
them with strings to the fop- itokh
bar. Then I placed my meat all
cut up nicely to tit In u smull bun
dle. Then I pulled the hide
around lacing It with row hide th'.t
I cut from the Icrh. This I made
us tight as possible. Then I made
two little poles Into Hhulves With
n plepo or rope I bad, tielng it at
the end or the shulves and over
my neck around the shoulders and
under my arms. With that the
hide being placed bend first so It
would glide with hlr running
hack. T started my load easily on
the level.
" 'Now boys' T said, In the
morning this will be frozen solid
ond it will be twice as easy to to
boggan. And when going up hill
we can double up and double back
helping one another.
" 'Well by gnd said Hazard who
was somewhat of o sport und nn
educated man, 'we can learn tricks
from a fool." And they ut once pro-;
ceeded to make toboggans of their
own. But, I had to really do all!
the work. None of them seems to
be very handy with u tomahawk j
and bowle knife when it came to
woodwork. j
"In the morning Blanchard lead
us out by going north across to a
large creek. (Catherine'.' Creek.) j
We followed it down until we
reached the snow line.
rn-n- we,
came to an old French
( anaouinii
trapper who had the nicest little
ma
ash leYest!
Insurance
Can you increase your estate this way without spending one
extra -dollar to do it? Isn't it worth investigating at once?
McKE
His name was
My partners
Msiayed with him until 1 came back
with my teams and we all went
home satisfied.
"In March 1x61 we had 4 regtt
lar hurruh for our new president
Lincoln. Mrs. Blanchard read the
speech he made against Jougiuss
on the Dred Scott deolslon and the
rights of u state to keep out slav
ery. I believe she suid thut 'this
speech wus delivered In Chicago In
185S, Anyway f got plum full of
untl-slavery spirit that day.
"Everything went along pretty
nice. We .pitched horso shoes for
a gume In the after noon. Lincoln
men pitching agulnst Douglas men
us we culled them, but they were
men for holding the skives. Wel!
sir, ,1 headed the Lim oln men und
as horse shoe pitching Is the only
game I ever cared to play I was
an expert. And we beut them sla
very men to a frazzle.
Along In the evening, some were
pretty well ginned up on corn Juice.
und Medford rum and the discus
sions of war was quite high. Ono
old fellow, an Irishman who was
trapping In the mountains, his
name was Hnggertv and about 80
years old I believe, told to a Mr.;
Hull, a man not over thlrty-flv
I know ho wasn't any older than
me, anyway, this old Irishman who
wus a greut Lincoln man told him:
"'An' yis, if we git to folghlln
whl yez we'll turrhup ye?, t'sume e.
we did with the harse shoe t'is af
ternoon, fir yez .fellers have no
spunk lolke an doirishmun loike
Lincoln.'"
"We nil started to laugh, but V
was of a short duration. For Hall
slapped this old men right acres:;
the face knocking him down.
"I made a jump striking Hall nl
the sumo time fair one tho nose
when a big fellow named Milter hit
me over the head with a wagon
king bolt. If his blow had been
fair he would have killed me in
stantly, but It glanced on nr thick
hlr and only stunned me for a
second. '
"My man Hull was still on the
floor when 1 faced Miller. And I
lammed into him. I am not 'much
on science when it' cornea to right
ing, but I wus versed in Michigan
lumberjnek style rough and ' tum
ble. And It was the work of about
four minutes when 1 had my man
down and 1 wns walking back on
him.
"I was told later that Miller wns
one of Spencer's friends sent there
on purpose to 'fix' me. Well, he
didn't fix. In stead of that, he hud
to be carried away and four or five
ribs he had to mend for a while.
Sum of War.
"There was some more fist
fighting by others and one horse
pistol cracked once in the melee.
But we separuted thut night on
fairly good terms.
"But I was sure thot war was
coming. So I decided to close up
my mmnieMf unci prepare ior war.)
riggeu up a pacK out 1 it and
started west on the Old Oregon
cabin I ever saw.
Thomas Pa que tie.
If he invests this cash at IJo interest it will pay him $340
each year, and with this annual interest money, if he can pass
the physical examination,' lie can purchase $10,000 ordinary life
insurance in the same company.
This means that hy cashing in his policy for $1867 and in
vesting it at IJo and using the income to pay the premium on a
new $10,000 ordinary life policy in his own company, he would
if he died next year, for example receive for his estate tho
$10,000 insurance and also the $1807 cash investment, or a total
of $1-1,867.00. His estate gets this in place of just $10,000 insur
ance as would have happened if he had simply let his twenty
payment life policy run its course.
Truil collecting bills due me for
freight some of which were over
ten years old. "
"In April I was on my way. 1
passed the old Mission at I'mattlltt
not far from where Pendleton lb
situated. Theri I thought of Su
sie.: But I made up my mind that
it would be best not to renew any
anxieties. .
"I noticed that there was much
activities and Indiana were In a
greut number to compare to the
previous times I had scn this
.Mission. You see the war with
the Cay use tribe in 1M7 had al
most broke up tho two missions
here and at Wulki Walla. The
Wallet pu und the Yuwutellu as we
culled the Cayuse und the Cmutillu
Indians then, were not on friendly
ttirms. Tho Nez Percers (.Vex
Perce) tribe was alt disorganized,
us the rest of the American Indi
ans ut that time for a purpose no
doubt. So here there seemed to
be a bunch of Indians very restless.
I passed unmolested. ' .
"I made camp at the mouth of
the I'matllla lliver on the bunks of
the-Columbia. And that night I
was awakened by being taken out
of my siiKill tent by two big buck!
Indiana. I rully awoke when I saw
twenty-one picked bucks had come,
alter me. They had taken my
gun, and mnd me prepare my out
fit, which I did, and they escorted
me back to the Mission.
"There, one, big rellow who
spoke fairly good French explain
ed: 'My name is rone-Uose-Weh-Yeh
(Bine Bird) I am half broth
er to Susie. And Susie is going to
huve a papoose, You mirry her
today, right now.'
"I gave (hem my countersign
and charm word, but he answered
that he understood It, but as he was
representing the chief, pointing to
could do nothing elst thnn to fol-
an eagle feather In his hair, lie
low thn rules. T would have to f
marry her or be burnt, he said.
Faces Fiery Icntb. i
"I tried to defend myself by!
pleading my Innocence
of the J
crime, but to no avail,
' 1
"The fire was lighted and T was;!
bound solid with buckskin straps. 1
And I was slowly lead to the fire.
"Then the Cayuse chief nriivertH
on the scene. He recognized n,ei
from that time ot Warm Lake. Heji
had a talk with them and thenjj
turned to me, 'I'm sorry of this, n
But I can't very well save you, ifjl
you don't marry Susie Blue Bird.'!
And Ip-nnt-am-moosc, her grand-
father said that Susie never had;'
lied to him. So will you mnrryl(
her? For the last time I ask you. il
I have said.' jj
"I begged of him to bring then
girl und Ip-nat-am-moose before (
me, and If the girl still persisted js
that I was guilty I would marry; I
her to wive my life. j!
"He liesituted for a moment. 11
Teljn he addressed an old, old med- J
iclne man who hnd a head gear J
with two buffalo horns. He look- 1 1
ed like a devil. The old fellow re-'m
tired In a tepee. Then he soon
meet Lost
roucy
INNON
came out with a broad smile and
jargon ned to the Chief. Susie and
her grandfather wos sent after,
"Well sir, that girl cried, but she
persisted. So the Chief said, 'Then
you will mary her?''
"I had been thinking - mighty
hard. And to tell you the truth,
while 1 am not so profounded re
ligious, 1 always pray when In a
pinch. I tell you when a man Is
down and out und about helpless In
a fix as this, he certainly crawls
back. to the time when he wus on
his mother's knee. And while 1
pruyed a vision of my sweetheart
buck home came again and I de
cided right there and then. I would
not be untrue to her. And Black
Sam would die like u man before
he would plead guilty to a crime
he had not even thought of com-
mining. So, 1 -answered loud and
bold: j
" 'No! A thousand times no!'
"The Chief bit his lips hard,
looked at me and then commanded !
to proceed with the burning.
"The fire prepared for this holo
caust wus built with willows thut
would not burn fust. The bed on
which the victim Is laid was mud
of flat lava rocks.
"They placed me on these al
ready warm rocks ond began pil
ing smaller rocks uround my body.
"I could feet the heat now begin
ning to penetrnte my clothing from
these hot rocks. I closed my eyes
and I prayed to Ood, Jesus nnd
Mary nnd St. Joseph the prayer my
m oilier first taught me on her
knees.
(To he Continued)
Clubs lit London Deckle
Olicr Iteil and Board
LONDON (AP) Most of the
London clubs have decided to add
bedrooms to their (uaiiers for the
Farmers
Those of yon who
Have some sheep will
Soon have wnne wool
To sell.
liet us find you the
Ituycr.
Last year two cars
Of wool were assembled
At our warehouse
Where It was easy for
The buyer lo sample
And make up a cur
According to grade.
This yenr we want
To handle Ten cars.
La Grande
Warehouse &
Storage Co.
Phone Main 192
Own
Phone Main 250
nipnience of their guests. This
innovation hns come about gradu
ally during the lust year or so,
chiefly on uccount of the fuct-tliat
tho London hotels have been no
crowded.
Thel'nited Fnlver-sli lea, the
Fnited Services, Carlton, Keform
and Devonshire clubs, among oth
ers, have found It necessary to add
sleeping cunrters to their premie.
and the Union club in Carlton
House terrace will have Its own
bedrooms wh n it reopens nevt
summer. The old-fashioned Ath
enaeum, ulso Is on the list.
Wo Iiave, made a study of
wiring con veil ieiiees uud cor
rect lighting.
, Why not take nd vantage
of our cxpeiiencrt. It costs
you nothing lo call on us.
W will Kindly show yim
why It is worth while to
have these con iciiUmiccs aiu
bow little they will cost 31111.,
If you can't come In, jiKt
phone mid we will 'nll at
your home.
La Grande
Electric Co.
-121 LtlH Adams
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