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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1887)
ROMANCE IN A BOARDING HOUSE. 901 tional marriage, and left the young con- laughingly declared he had placed under pie to their own resources for a time, bonds never to desert him, and Rachel This fact, together with the devotion of was released from her engagement, tho his pretty wife, aroused Harry to his professor's stately brido taking her po best exertions, and he developed an sition. amount of capability for which I had I can say, without fear of successful never given him credit Doting Mamma contradiction, that I have tho cosiest Winstead, however, could not hold out home and most adoroble wife in tho against her boy, especially as his bride territory, or, in fact, in tho world, was of an aristocratic family, which, to Good Mrs. Tassolton has married a her mind, was better than wealth ; and wealthy mine owner, lives in tho finest at the expiration of a year she paid them house in our now flourishing town, and a visit, and went home in raptures with sends her little daughters to Sunday her pretty daughter. school clad in satins and laces. She, Rachel and I were married at Easter- with old Joe Jeffrey, tho Maxwell broth tide. Her engagement with the school ers, and our other old friends, often officials had been for a year, but the old spend an evening at our fireside ; and it bachelor principal, understanding the is plain to bo seen that they are aa much case, took a prearranged trip to Oregon in love with my wife as ever, and for my during the Christmas holidays, and part, I do not see how they can help it brought back a lady assistant, whom ho E. Uahnaud Foote. SISKIYOU COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. EXTENDING from the mountain ridge between the Salmon and Trinity rivers on the west, to the famous Modoc lava beds on the east, and from the Sacramento divide on the south, to the Siskiyou mountains, which form the Oregon line, on the north, tho coun ty has an average length of one hundred and twenty miles and a width of fifty seven miles, the superficial area being about seven thousand square miles. This is essentially a region of mountains and valleys. The entire western end is moun tainous, while the southern and north ern borders are mountain ridges, occu pying, on the south, considerable of tho county's area, and embracing Mt Shasta, the great snow peak of the Sierra Neva das. Northerly, almost through the center of the county, runs a mountain ridge, on either sido of which lies a broad and fertile valley, through each of which flows a considerable river. Across the eastern end stretch tho Butto Creek mountains, beyond which, for a number of miles, the county breaks ia gcntlo hills to tho lava beds, through which runs the lino separating it from Modoo county. Through that section it has easy communication with the great inte rior basin between tho Cascades and the Blue mountains, extending clear to Walla Walla and Snake river, in Washington Territory. It is by this routo that tho Southern Pacific proposes to reach tho famous grain fields of Walla Walls. This region has a lyatein of water courses distinct from tho remainder of