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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (March 8, 1890)
WKST H1I0KK. time than any other man in itudying the tradition! and customs of the Columbia river tribe, thu writn on thi lubject: Mot of the phenomena of nature are avrihed to xn being or belngi, wltlnut the Intervention of natural Uwe. The wind are the breath of wme being. The Kutcrn Weahlngton and Oregon Indiana ay that the warm Chinook wind, and the cold eut wind, were anciently Ave brollieri each. Tle Chinook wind brother! lived down aotnewhere toward the month of the Columbia, while the cold wind brother! lived aomewhe re eat of Walla Walla. The Chinook wind anciently blew much atronger than now, tearing op tm and blowing down propVi habitationi, while the cold wind blew hard, and wu ao cold aa to free u them, ao that, between the two wind, they were coriiUntly kept In trouble. A great while ago, the cold brother! aent a challenge to the Chinook brvtHeri for a wreitllng match, the condition! of which were, that whuerrr wu thrown ihould be beheaded. Hpeolyal, the Indian gud, wai to be umpire, and to eiecute lenience by cutting off the uwracceMful partiee' headi with hla big it me knife. Agreeable to thii undentanding, the brother on earb aide met. In the contet the Chinook wind brother! were all thrown, and, aa aireed upon, rjlyai beheaded them. The el leet of tliem, however, bad an Infant aon, who, In time, grew to be a my trong young mm. Having been tld, by bla mother, of hi! lather i dVath at the hand of the cold wind brother, be owel to avenge it, and dally cultivated hie itrrnglh by inch eieniM aa pulling up trcea, beginning with very urnaJl one! when be wai very young, and IrwreMing the elie a he grew trong.fr and older. In thti way, he, like the old woman who lifted the rail every day, lram very jwwerful, ao that it wu nothing fur him to inaUh the largrit tree out by the root. When be thought he waa a match for Die cold wind brother, he tent them a challenge for a wrestle, with U lame rendi tion! a In the former conteet. The reeult waa, the fuld wind brother! were thrown, one alr anotlwr, txt ti) four were down and beheaded when Kjelyal atopped I tie coitet. laying It waa not l that there ahould be no wind, but Out hereafter the cold wlnl ihoold not be ao freeilng, nor blow with imh lo lence, but ihoutd rootlnue l blow cold in a moderate form. The Chinook wind waa tt to blow with tub vUouw aa to break lon Ute trree and dtroy jiropW'i hwri, but ihould loitleue t blow in a milder lm, for a new rare of opl wi to r!e w ho were not to he datroyed by (be w Ind. The Chi txk wind waa to blow Urungrtt at night, an J Uie rol l wind la the daytime, whl h they have continued to do until the prmU time. I here rrmairu nothing to be added on the mbjfvt. Thr origin of the nam "Chinook wind" ii full eg. plain! , and the f t that ttie wind o railed in the Columbia region ii the one to whirh th title wai firt applwd ii ritabliihed. And hevaUM the windi railed in other loralitirt rome from the lame great aourre? and rrfonn the patu- great oflice of ameliorat ing the rigori of winter, and Uau the titb? wai given to theni by thor who had firit b-arnJ the name in the trpu where it originated, it ii thein by riht of b-gitimate Inheritance. II. L Wit I . Tbat'i a vt aak lhy bate ia U teak leg a Uad (heather U cott.Ben, rQrtfcl and tVl bo ptf bream ttty ItTmi to U!1 a d.w teew. ARCHED ROCK "JUSTICE." ON the coet of the Pacific, from the owet 4nt of California to the itrait of Juan do Kua, the ihorr! are itcrji ami rorky, and tlie atrrtrhrw of pand txach are frw and "hurt, eutpt at long interval!. Many rurioua nrk fornutiom are otrrvrd ly the travilrr a hi vcumI bam nuictly whmg within cany view of the ihorr. Hut it la th" ramtd r on the U arh who ha lh Imt cirttttiltjr to and eiplorr the many curi'.ui f.-rmatln. Ilrru and th-re re outlying Ulandi of jutting inti of rki wtwfp the iwa lioni mngrrgatr, while from the ihorr lt-lf Udd, rrky headland ind dill thruot them v out into the ar to drfy id r and rmUl the in. t of It mighty brrakrr. Sime of thse have nagf through tlu m, a though I laitrd for thf entrant of a tunnel, through whi hone ran a in a lat at th Jirojrr itage of the ,t, and whire, in time of itrm, the breaker! make a ni"t ip!rnlil light in tln-lr dashing parage through tln iu. Stn h a r k a Ihli Ii the uu known a "Jutiif," on tin4 nilif &wit founty, California, an engraving of whii h i given on age .'Mil. There are othrf nu ll r ki on tn o4t, notably one nar Caj' Fotilweath r, Jut iM.rtli of Ya.juina bay; but thU one; ha, no n , len fitted by a grraUr number of U than tl oil ft, nd .( In n m uenre, Uttr known. Th l!lury Httitw makri an omlaught Uu an innoitnt tjiemlrr of the Vrr Hnnn: itaff l--4Ui thii Journal playfully u;,vlrd that tU editor of th lUh'tltumnl C(imyni't)Hi wai In tid of Jut l'l l a Journal ai h" pr j"Hd to publith, the rditr of th twopajri ling oim i ought not to f Mrh grinrtl, it an raUrn rdu atiunal Journal, iiow in u twenty third voune, !'! ui it ii'julr f r Yttn ary VK In whih the ordinary fuN of grammar am violatnl nearly a iuuh ai they were In the fWjvi. ilium. Thii limply hwi that every loan who ran barb the thre? " I:M aij "In Utin," or every I .' Lor graduate if the pulpit, (i tA romUnt toeIil a newperr in whiih the jren' Kig!ih I It I lr-at el with rrrl n Chkag'i World Kair romnltt h lU tbiitof th rijitiMfi h lk front, ltern Miih!;n avinu arl the waUr. 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