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lliidor tho inanuoniont of tlio rrinrville
Jockoy Club. J'rinrvillo Orison.
October 7. 28. . 0.:n.
MUST DAY.
Half milo danh, fur snd.lle horses
ewnod in Crook county, for a
Purse of 7 5 00
Half mile ami repeat, free for nil
fr a purse of 150,00;
SK.t'O.ND DAY.
Three eighla of A mil" ihudi. free
for nil for a purse of l(x).00
Half mile and repent hanlii'iip
race, frra for all. pur 125 (HI
Half milo dash for two year olils
f't a purse of $7500
Tllllll) DAY.
Three iuartir of n mile dash, free
On all races, an entrance fc of Im. lor cent w ill ho Purged.
All entries must h made on or Worn riht o'clock tho evening before
tho races,
In nil races, nt least livfl l.orwi must, H.ler ni.J thron '' 1 '
Club reserve, the right to hold ""lcr ,h"n J
"ducing the purse- in proportion lo Hie number of horses en re. .
l'ttciflo Coast Jockey Club ruleto govern ftlf
Win. Vn..w'.f.(i.il,rr,,i,,u,lt'
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OP RACES.
I for all for a purse of WWW
Nnveltv race; walk mile, trot i
mile, rim' mile; for Crook county
horeea only. I'urmi 75 LK)
KOritTIl JAY.
Three mil" Indian horse nice. No
rut rince fee. Not "ess than eight
oetart. Purse M.W)
lflt-'TII lAY.
tu,Mliiliuii race, five-eight of a
,Hn for a purs.M.r UX UJ
5(1.(10, Riven for base ball.
Onlv mi" ''" fri"" lVmevilln al
lowed lo enter. Other teams must
I come- from the outside.
Cburrli Directory,
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IIAI'TIMTM
rrinevillo preaching the second
and fourth Sunday.
Nubbatli school every Sunday
at 'I p. in.
I'rayer meeting every Wednea
diiy evening at 8 o'clock.
IIuj'Mtrtck jreaching every third
ftui day.
Bend preaching every first Sun
day. Rev. Triplet pastor, residence
Duplet parsonage I'rinevilie Ore.
IHKMIIVTKKIAN
l'thicviUe preaching the firet and
third Sunday.
Sabbath school every Sunday
morning ut 10 a. in.
J'rayer meeting every Wedncs
day evening at 8 o'clock.
Rev H. I,. Alter. Reaidence at
McKarland.a hotel.
M. v.. ( iii hi ii.
I'rinevilie preaching tho aecond
and fourth Sundaya at 11a. tn. and
every Sunday evening at S Vclock.
Sabbath achool every Sunday at
10 a. m.
Kpworth league every Sunday
evening at 7. p. in.
I'rayer meeting every Thursday
evening at 8 o'clock.
Willow Creek preaching first
Sunday in each month at 11 a. no.
Claypoul preaching third Sunday
in each month at 11 a. ni.
Howard preaching the Saturday
evening prvceeding the third Sun
day in each month, lie v. "II. C.
Clark pastor, reaidence M. E. par
aonage, I'rinevilie Oregon.
Christian Endeavor niecta at the
Union church every Sunday even
ing at i p. m.
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Physician and Surseon,
PR1NE VII.I.E, OREOON.
Culls promptly attended, day and night
J. H. HOSENBERC, M. D.,
PBINEVIIXl. OUIOjON.
vSiCt SrU ilmir nurta of Templtloa A Sou
lnug Mora.
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Phyalclana and Surgeons
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M. R. BICCS,
Attorney at Law and notary,
Main BtrMl, Prtnavlll. Orafon.
omo. an ilr.ct Irtitluc Coarl lUu.
A. D. MORRISON, M. 0.
PHYSICIAN AND SUREOON
Prlnavllla, Oregon
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C. A.CI.IXE.
I'KNTIST,
rillNKVIIJ.il, ORKOOS.
W. A. BELL.
Attorney-at-Law
NOTARY PUBLIC.
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PKISKVILLK. OBKt'ON.
M. E. BRINK,
ATTOKNKY AXI (Ol NSKl.OR AT LAW
A BtrMl, Between Flrat ud Saoond
PUINSVILUC, ORBUON.
J L McCULLOCH,
Abstracter of Titles
I'rinevilie, Oregon.
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LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF JOE MEEK j
iiy mkh riiAM r.n kii.i.kr vi' toii. I
KARLY DAYS
18M. In the latter p ut of Jan
uary itbicame nccetsuiy to move
to the junction of the I.rtncuf to
subsist the auimaU. The main
body ofthecamg had gone on in
advance, while soma few, with pack
horses, or women with children,
were scattered abng the trail.
Meek, with live others, had been j
left behind to gather up some
honea that had strayed. When I
about half day's journey from
camp, he oveitoolc I mentucken,
tho Mountain Lamb, now the wife
of Milton Sublette, with her child,
on boreeback. The weather was
terribly cold, and seeming to grow
colder. Tho naked plains afforded
no shelter from the piercing winds,
snd llit air fiirly glittered with
frost. Poor I'mentucken was freez
ing, but more troubled about hei
babe than herself. The camp was
far ahead, with all the extra
blankets, and the prospect was im
minent that they would perish.!
Our gallant trapper had thought
himself very cold until this mo 1
mint, but what were his sufferings
compared to'those of tho Mountain
Lamb and her little Larokin?,
without an inctaut's hesitation, he
divested himself of his blanket ca
pote, which he wrapped round the
mother and child, and urged her to
hasten to camp. For himself, he
could not hasten, as he had the
horses in charge, but sll that fear
ful afternoon rode naked above the
waist, exposed to tho wind, and
the fine, dry, icy lull, which filled
the air as with diamond needles, to
pierce the skin ; and, probably, to
the fact that the hail was so sting
ing, was. owing to the fact that his
blood did not congeal.
"O what a day was that !'' said
Meek to tho writer; "why, the air
was thick with fine, sharp hail, and
the sun shining, too ! pot one sun
only, but three suns there were
three suns I And when night came
on, tho northern lights blazed up
the sky ! It was the most beauti-
ful right I ever saw. That is the
country for northern lights!"
When seme surprise was express- j
ed that he should have ben oblig- i
ud to exposo his naked skin to the j
weather, in order lo save men
tucken "In the mountains, he
answered, "wo do not have many
garments. Ituckin breeches, a
blanket capote, and a beaver Bkin
cap makes up our rig."
"Vou do not, need a laundress,
then? Hut with such clothing ,
how could you keep free of verm-1
in?" I
"Wt didn't always do that. Do
you want to know how we got rid
of lice in the mountains? We Just
took off our clothes and laid them
on an ant-hill, and you ought to
see bow the ants would carry off
the liee 1"
But to return to our hero, fiojcn,
or nearly so. When he reached
camp at night, so desperate was j sixteen or twenty feet square, and
his condition that the men had to j high enough to stand erect in, in
roll him and rub him in the mow ; stead of one, three bears were dis-
for some time before allowing him
to approach the fire. Hut Umen
tucked was saved, and he became
heroic in her eyes. Whether it
was the glory acquired by the gal
lant adjust recorded, or whether
our hero had now arrived at an age
when the tender passion has strong
est sway, the writer is unprepared
to affirm: for your mountain-man
is shy of revealing his past gallan
tries j but from this time on, there
are evidences of considerable sus
ceptibility to the charms of the
BEST OF ALL WHISKIES.
KOK 8ALK
IN ORKliO.W
dusky beauties of the mountains
and the plains.
The cold of thin winter was very
severe, insomucli that men and
mules were frozen to death. "The
frost," says Meek, "used to hang
from the roof of our lodgs in the
morning, on li r h t waking, in tknns
two feet long, and our blankets and
whbkers were white with it. But
we trapper laid UII, and called
the camp-keepers to innke afire,
and in our elude luJg'-a il was soon
warm snoagli." v
"The Indians suffered , very
much. Fuel was tcarSe on the
Snake River, and but little lire
could be afforded just sufiicierit
for the children and their mothers
to get warm by, for the fire was fed
only with buffalo fit torn in stripe,
which blazed up quickly and did
not last long.- M-iny a time I have
stood GIT, looking at the fire, but
not venturing to approach, when a
chief would say, 'Are you cold, my
friend? coma to the fire so kind
ore these .Nez 1 ercee ana flat-
beads.
The cold was not the only enemy J
in camp that winter, hut famine
threatened them. The buffalo had
been early driven east of the moun
taing, and other gamo was scarce.
Sometimes a party of hunters were
absent for days, even weeks, with
out finding more game than would
subwBt themselves. As the trap
pers were all hunters in the winter,
it frequently happened that Meek
and one or more of his aociates
went on a hunt in company, for the
benefit of the camp, which was
very hungry at times.
On one of these hunting expe
ditions that winter, the party con
sisted of Meek, Hawkins, Doughty,
; and Antointi Claymore, they had;
! been out nearly a fortnight without!
i killing anything of consequence,
land had clambered up the side of
the mountains on the frozen snow,
i in hopes of finding some mountain
j eheep. As they traveled along
j under a projecting ledge of rocks,
I they came to a placo where there
were the impressions in the snow of j
enormous grizzly bear feet. Close by
was an opening in the rocks, reveal-
j ins a cavern, ana 10 nils uie itulws
in the snow conducted. Evidently
the creature had come out of its
winter den, snd mndo just one cir
cuit back again. At these" signs of
game tho hunters hesitated cer-
tain it was there, but doubtful how
to obtain it.
At length Doughty proposed to
get up on the rocks abevo the
mouth of the cavern and shoot ti e
bear as he came out, if somebody
would go in and dislodgH him.
"I'm your man," answered Meek.
"And 1 too," said Claymore.
"I'll bed difwe are notes
brave as you are," said Hawkins,
as he prepared to follow.
On entering the cave, which was
covered. They wero standing, the
largest one in the middle, with
their eyes staring at the entrance,
but quite quiet, greeting the hunt
era only with a low growl. Find
ing that there was a bear apiece to
be disposed of, the hunters kept
close to the wall, and out of the
stream of light from the entrance,
while they advanced a little way,
cautiously, towards their game,
which, however, seemed to take no
notice of them. After maneuver
ing a few minutes to get nearer.
ONLY BY
THE OLD
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Absolutely Pure
THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE!
Meek finally struck the large bear!
on the bead with Mb niping-slick,!
when it immediately moved and j
ran out of the cave. As it came !
out, Doughty shot, but only wound-1
ed it, and it came rushing baek,
snorting, and running around in a
circe) till ,10 weH direc,ej ots
from all three killed it on the spot.
Two mtre bears now remained to
be disposed of.
The u-ce?pful shot put Hawkins
in high spirit". He began to hallo
and laugh, dancing around, and
with the others striking the next
largest bear to make him run out,
which he soon did, and was shot
by Doughty. Li y this time their
guns were reloaded, the men grow
ing more and more eluted, and
Hawkins declaring they were "all
Daniels in the lions' den, and no
mistake." This, and similar ex
pressions, he vociferated, while
thpy drove out the third and small
est bear. As it reached the cave's
mouth,' three eiinultaneous shots
put an end to the last one, when
Hawkins' excitement knew no
bounds. ' Daniel was a burubug,"
6aid he. "Daniel in the lions'
den ! Of course it was winter, and
the lions were sucking their paws !
Tell me no more of Daniel's ex
ploits. We are as good Daniels as
he ever dared to be. Hurrah for
these Daniels!" With these ex
pressions, and playing many antics
by way of rfjoicing, the delighted
Hawking finally 'danced Limsell
out of his "lion'a den," and set to
work v,ith the others to prepare for
a return to camp.
!?leds were soon constructed out
of the branches of the mountain
. willow, and on these light vehicles
1 the fortunate find of bear meat was
"I had scrofula and
erysipelas for eight
een years, until I
heard
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soon conveyed to the hungry camp
in the plain below. And ever after
this singular exploit of (Ls party,
Hawkins continued to aver, in
language, more strong than elegant,
that the Scripture Daniel was a
humbug compared to himself, and
, and Claymore
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CHAPTER VIII:
I 1S33. In the spring the camp
was visited by a party of twenty
Blackfeet, who drove off most of
j the horses ; and among the stolen
j ones, liridger's favorite race-horse,
; Grohean, a Camancbe steed of
; great speed and endurance, To re-
take the horses, ancfr if possible
punish the thieves, a company of
the gamest trappers', thirty in num
ber, including Meek, and Kit Car
son, who not long before had join
ed the Rocky Mountain Company,
was dispatched on their trail.
They had not traveled long before
they came up with the Blackfeet,
but the horses were nowhere to b
seen, having been secreted, after
the manner of these thieves, in
some defile of the mountains, until
the skirmish was over which they
knew well enough to anticipate.
Accordiagly when the trappert
came up, the wily savages were
prepared for them. Their numbers
were inferior to that of the whites;
accordingly they assumed an inno
cent and peace-desiring air, while
their bead man advanced with the
inavitable peace pipe, to have a
"talk." But as tbeir talk was a
tissue of lies, the trappers soon lost
patience, and a quariel quickly
arose. The Indians betook them
selves to the defences which were
selected beforehand, and a fight
began, which without giving to
either party the victory of arms,
ended in the killing of two or three
of tho Blackfeet, and the wound
ing " very severely of Kit Carson.
The firing ceased 'with nightfall;
and when morning came, as usual
the Blackfeet were cone, and the
trappers returned to camp without
their horses. .. .. .m , ,t I-
The lost animals were sooq re .
placed by purchase from the, Kex
Perce, and the compan? 'divided
up into brigades, some destined for
the country east of the mountain,'
and others for the south and west.'
In this year Meek rose a grade
above the hired trapper, and be
came one of theorder denominated
skin trappers. These, like the
hired trappers depend upon the
company to furnish them an outfit ;
but do not receive regular wages,
as do the , others. They trap for
themselves, enly agreeing to sell
their beaver to ihe company whicn
furnishes the outfit, and to no
other. In this capacity, our Joe,
and a few associates, hunted this
spring, in the Snake Kiver and
Salt Lake countries; returning as
usual to the annual rendezvous,
which was appointed this summer
to meet on Green Kiver. Here
were the rocky Mountain and
American Companies ; the St. Louis
c under Capt. Wm. Sub-
lelte ,nd big lriend Campbell ; the
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