i BON TON A SAILOR'S A Veteran’s KNOT Yarn JV b h j L BAKERY and = H E S T A >J R A N T By EDWARD N WENTWORTH The president o f the bank »nit fur me anil »aid: I'rcurlililfc every Sunday nt II a. m •‘Mr. Hemingway, we must »end $20,- unii ut 7..'(0 p. in. by Rev. A. C. Ktt (XiO to the Third National bank of Cep- h i Sumiuy »chimi at 10 a. m., A. .1 Caldwell, Hupt. , Il V I’ U at U:.')0 p. in. perton and get It there before 3 o'clock I wish you and William» to tukv It Mr». Luton, president. dividing the •mount betwi<n you. V >u will go by nn uiilomoblle. for whleh I havo sent, to lie here In teu minutes Catholic from Anderson'» garage. You and • Tit'll' II UK THE I m HAC.'U I.ATE CoNfkl'' Williams will, o f cotirae, go armed, but I .il 11 ti* k I don’t think their Is any danger sin e lion, Htavton; Itrv. A priini in cliat|2i'. li li lí 111111 -. niM'oud I aee no reason why any one should fi hi rtIt and lililí rtiunbiy» 8 30 a. in . know that you carry money.” I'ri*»t'a iililu-.«»: Sublim ity, O rejón. It was very well for the president to ! i H okikai ' k ' h C atholic C huiu . t i , my that no one would know we earrled Miliii.nlt.v, Rev A. L»im:k, w t n r ’ nmuey, but the bank was continually l.ow iiiii .» S a. in., lute It iiiiin » 10:30 lending out funds, and Williams and I .. hi , lin t it ml tliir I Hnndiiy» in Hie »•ere known ns the bank'» messenger». tu • ni 1 1 1 ; 1 1 tie it in««» lo iiti a mi , «»••• We didn't know who o f the force < in- ml, ('>11111' mui lililí Hominy» W » ployed In the bank might lie dishonest (»■ra nt eventide. and knowing when funds were taken to other places would supply Informa tion to crooks thut would eauso a role Christian bory. Si rvU-i'u will bo hold «very Sunday. 1 had curried funds no often with I 'if achina at II a. m., ami 8 p. tn. out getting Into trouble that It seemed Sunday ai-hoot nt 10 a. m., Mri. W. II. to me the pitcher thnt goe« often to Ikiliion, NU|ivrintoniloiit. V. 1*. S. C. K. the well Is at last broken. However. Wlllln/ns and 1 started, nt 7:041 p. in., Mr». It. I.. Dunn pre»i- dant. l.iulioM Aid iocii;ty moola ourh each with $ 10,000 on our persons. Otir W iH iniw U iyatSJO p.ni., Mm. <i. D. Chauffeur tve had bnd often before and hud every confidence In him. We Thomas, president. I'. I,. Dunn l'a»tor. t g-'lled out o f town and onto the road to ft I xperton. some twenty-five miles dis tant Methodist Some ten mile» o i the distance Methodist Kpinropal Church, order o f had been done, when, coming to u service»: Bible uchool at 10 a. m ., sharp bend In the road, our driver slow A. S. PancoaMt, superintendent- ed up to make the turn and a man 1‘ renrhing ¡It 11a. m. and 7:1)4) p. m. Jumped onto the fc*Hbonnf on each Midweek Prayer and Bible Study, aide, each man holding n cocked re WodneMday, 7:30 p. m. Kpworth volver nt oar heads. A third man cov League, Sunday, ft. p. m ., Clark ered the driver and ordered til in to Mace. 1‘rea. Ladies' Aid Society, Stop. Of course w c hml no time to draw Thursday afternoon, Mrs. J. K. Hard and defend ourselves, nnd the chnuf ner, Prca. Pa»tor o f the church. K. four was unarmed. The first thing Sutton Mace. the robbers, who were masked, did Baptist M eals a t all hours! C. Ullom, Proprietor I he best to eat at the handiest place to eat. Now In Stayton Hotel Oinins Room “TINWORK and PLUMBING JL' I'uhs, l.avaluriiM tind nlf I.: ry flttit.n—s*Fnrm- ern—Wc* carry u line of pumps, li atlcr water »ys- terns, etc. (iasolitu* cnirincs. JACOB SPANIOL vor Sate BRICK, C EM EN T, PLASTER A. Weddle & A GREAT MONUMENTS C lubbing O 8 k » w it Ih l ine to older a monum nt e t.m ft.-riinh brble, Granile ''"-o bu lil Ion» of A wH«*f O IK l oil’ ’ fati I«» jgrl ffer BrC! Z t Semi Weel(,y Oregon Journal, one year $ 1.50 Ie le WtilK to The Stayton Mail $ 1.50 prncu b«!orc you buy. Total L. I. THOMAS, M . . $ 3.00 . OREGON. Both Papers One year, STAYTON. J. . $ 2.00 Oregon Journal R I h U 0 1 Pulili-hi tin- latent and moat complete Undertaker a n d Emoamier i telegraphic newa o f the w orld; kivi a reliable market report», «is it is pub Third and Marion Streets lished at Portland, where the markut new» can be and is corrected to date SLAVTON. OREGON for D itch Issue. It also has a patte o f special matter for the farm and home, an entertaining story page and a page or more o f comic each week, and il , ’ i ANO CITY BAKGAINS Ajot*n to the auhscriber twice ever) week 104 timeu u year. BUY NOW There will be a rapiti increase in land val ues and nt»w is the time to The Stayton Mail B U Y . (lives all the local news and happenings ! and should be in every home in this | vicinity. • The two pa [Kirs make a splendid com- j I li nation and you save (1 t>y sending I your subscription to us. We can also give our subscribers n good i tubbing offer for the Daily and Sunday, ot Sunday Journal, in con nection with Nothing: more safe on earth than earth itself. J. T. KEARNS The Ki'nlrstnU' Man o f Stayton C ity M e a t (m a r k e t y h e s t a y t o n Jos. Sestak & Sc i», Props. D««ri*r« In m a i l H. A. BEAUCHAMP, M.D. rrsh, Stilt und Smoked Physician and Surgeon MEATS STAYTON Highest Market Price Paid (or Stock and Hides. ! STAYTON. O R EG O N OREGON - C. H. BREWER, M. D. i’ llYSIC1AN AND SURGEON p [«•al Estate ■ | ' soil have property to sell come B and list it with us, and we will U . | ,i buyer. We .ilready have a numtier o f choice farms listed. If .il desire to make an investment i i" it will pay to see us. I Wc Sell the Earth THOMAS & L E E 8 p.jicv next to Slayton Hotel K«vrr) I lie ter |el ns do your printing you mav find i! cheii|>er than you expert. Stayton ButchsrSliop New And up to date. Clean and Sanitary. S ta yto n . O regon G. F. KQ3INEK, V. S„ B. V. Sc. Veterinarian Treats all domestic animals, also applies the Tuberculin tost. Telephone 3x7 OUice nt S teyton Stahles STAYTON - - - - OREGCi Wilbur N. Pintler, D.M.D. DENTIST Office over IVidrich’s Store Phone 21U2 S Levton, Ore S. H. HELTZEL ATTORNEY-AT-LAW iii'l Stroci ;. Stayton MenifieiU * Casteei. Pioprietors, NOTARY PUBLIC A bilricti and Probate W ork a Specialty Office Over Stayton, ¿tale Bank By DANIEL CLAYBOURNE The veteran- o f ibe civil war ere getting old. For half a century th»y have I ecu telling stories o f their ex perience« hi the great struggle, wb’ b were literally true when the veteran* first told them, but tbe old chaps have gradually forgotten much o f them, which they have been obliged to supply by Invention. Theta Invented parti, gfter much t'dllng. hare gradually lie. Come Impressed on the minds o f the Story tellers as truth. That tho story shouldn't lose any of Its original In terest the Invented parts have been a trifle more Muncl uUNcny limn tbe real fa r t * The consequence la that now and then a pretty lively yarn is got off by some old septuagenarian which tut really believes to be true, bat wldeb bus grown up In the way I have m ej- tlined. This is one of them. "I was in nt our victory at Chick»- m-augn,” the itnlno r c e r a u begau when li* was not headed off. "I thought we «ere knocked Into • rocked lint nt «'hleknnmuga.” »aid a yuan only forty years old. “ Mobbe you was there ami I wasn’t," growled the veteran. “ Reckon yoa wasn't born then, you kid. Well, as I was saying. 1 was at Chlekamnugn. and if you don't believe me look at this stump of an arm I was first Hen- tenant o f a battery, and the eap'a being killed. I succeeded to the com mand "Sly battery was stationed with General Thomas' corji* around a hill that withstood tho whole of Bragg's •rmy. "They were pumpin’ shot and shell tnto us and we was givln’ It back to ’em when I began to be conscious o f a number o f mini* bullets singln’ about m.v ears. For a while 1 was so Intent on hammerin' the Johnnies thnt I didn’t think much about the waspy things, but suddenly It came to me that will to take away our revolvers and a sharpshooter was tryin' to pick me the neit to go through u» and relieve off. us o f the bills. Then they took u* "I tell yob that wasn't a comforting Into a thick wood tie*lde the road nnd. aural lie Not by nny means. The whipping out n strong cord, proceedod night before we had cot down all the to bind us so thoroughly that we trees In front o f us In order to give could not move hand or foot. Then »weep to our guns, and Just beyond the they put gag* In our mouths and left i clearing was tbe edge o f a wood. the three o f us to get out o f the Where the Confederates were at work scrape as licit we could. > ou us. Now% 1 hail been to sea from eight “ I looked up at these green trees Just een to twenty on a sailing vessel and In time to see a litjle puff o f smoke in knew something nliout the calling o f a the branches of one of em, and at the sailor. There was one circumstance •nnie moment a ball seemed to graze and only one thnt told me the man my ear. I put up m.v hand expectin' to who tied me had I icon a seaman feel blood, but I didn’t: the ear was When he bound tne he tied the coni •till there. la u knot thnt every sailor uses con "I had a telescopic pointer on my tinually nnd no one but a sailor would gun that had been Invent'd by • - think o f using. Fortunately for me. 1 entitle officer, and I thought Td try couldn’t talk for the gag In my mo vh nnd get thnt fellow with one o f our or I choulil have called the attention percussion shells. 1 had to aim quick, o f the others to the fact. As It was, 1 for I knew he was reloading for an aisin bethought myself that a large re ward would lie paid by the bank for other shot. Fortunately one o f the the discovery »>f the robtiers nnd with guns was Just ready to be fired and, the clew I possessed I might more laying the telescope on it. I sighted easily win the rewnrd myself. So I the gun. The glass enabled me to see determined to keep my counsel and ns the man In the tree, and he had just soon ns we wore released to hunt for rammed another bullet home when I a sailor or one who had been a sailor got a hend <<n him and fired "The smoke that followed prevented who was spending money freely. The chauffeur, who had some false my seeing exactly where the shot t«H'th In his hend. by dint of working struck, but I saw my man come tum his Jaws contrived to loosen them, bling down. The tree stood apparently which loosened Uli gag also, and he unharmed. Whether the sharpshooter soon got both teeth and gag out o f his had been killed by my shot or dropped way. Fo when we heard the sound of by the concussion o f the shell striking wheels passing on the road he set up the tree. I couldn’t tell. What puzzled n shout, which brought a man Into me was that I couldn't see any smoke the wood. The chauffeur told him our from the explosion "I soon forgot all nbout tbe matter In story, nnd. taking his knife, he cut the cords thnt Imund ns. This enn the work I was doin', but after the Med me to preserve the knot that was fight 1 got curious about what hnd usisl In my case, nnd I stuffed It Into dropped the man in the tree and what hnd become of tho shell 1 had fired at m.v pocket for evidence. 1 confess 1 didn't feel nny es|>evlul him. "I couldn't go to examine the tenderness for the president of the bank, who I thought should havefouud | place, for 1 was busy till we left the hotter ways o f sending money nliout ground ou which we hml been flghtln’. than the one adopted. I not only hau But the thing troubled me. amt I took the obloquy o f having been robbed, of the first opportunity after tbe close of having some suspicion oast upon me the war to go down there and find out o f being in league with the robbers, j about It. "That was about the time when but I had run a risk o f being murdered Therefore 1 resolved ou nn effort to they were laying out the National park, nnd I met a number of ex-Uulon and get something out of the occurrence. I found I wrote or telephoned the police of Confederate soldiers there. the nelghliorliig towns to look out for the tree l wanted to examine and as I any one o f n sailor cut who was spend- approached It saw a man looking up at lug money. I was soon notified o f a Its branches. When I reached him 1 man who was ashore toni|iornrlly, who ■ asked him what he was lookin’ for. He had got a $100 bill chnnged. I slipped s.iltl that during the battle he was up away to the town where the fellow In the tree as a sharpshooter, and. see was, darkened my complexion, met ing an officer workln' a I'nlon battery him 'n n saloon, prelended to he drunk effectively, he hml tried to pick him off. and asked him to drink with me. \Ve He hnd 11 res 1 and m ined several limes had not been long together before ho and was ready for another shot when chNiigtil another hill o f Inrge denomi he felt tbe tree shake, he lost his bal nation, which I believed had been car ance and fell to the ground. Ho was ried by either Williams or mo. I left badly shaken up. but thut was all the him nt his hoarding house, hut return damage he received. 1 asked him ed when lie was asleep nnd before he where the shell struck, but he said he awakened from Ids drunken stupor didn't know. “ I hnd an idea that It had goue into hnd foii?>d flO.kjO o f the hank's money When he got righted again I prom the ground at the roots o f the tree, lie ised him light punishment If he would seemed as much Interested In the mat ter ns I, and. picking up a natty bayo peach on Id s comrades H e agreed, net lying near, bo hegnu to poke it into nnd It turned out thnt the others were ex-convicts, who had got hold of-th e the ground nt the foot o f tho tree. The sailor while ashore and led him Into |rst thing I knew I saw the ground the robbery. All the money except « rise up. nnd the man wh > was pokin' few hundred dollars was recovered, was scattered to the winds with pieces and I captured a reward o f $.3.000. As of Iron, dirt and smoke. '•‘By gum.' 1 cried, '1 guess you won't soon as 1 had received It. I left the he tryin' to pick me off nny more. I service of the hank nnd do not Intend to go hack as messenger to thnt or knew thnt shell would do Hie business, any other institution. Their methods and so It has done It at Inst.’ " “ Oh. niy good gracious” ' exclaimed of exchanging funds 1 consider out of dale nnd very dangerous. And 1 have levornl listener*. I>nt a sever* glance no desire ever again to expose myself fl'iiui tho vet prevented Hmra f'om eX'- to the temptation offered to robbers pressing the doubts that had arisen In Pi nee my retirement my wife says the their Incredulous mind* There was nn Intermission before the reusing from worry nbout me 1» de next story was told, and the teller con lightful iluded to draw It milder. THE “B ee” ' Bee tf a n d - BAILEY & BEUG. PTAprielm WINES. 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