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OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1908
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teflSMi Goods
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New An
Furniture
Stoves
Ranges
Kitchen
Utensils
Etc.
Oar $ Chairs
that we marked
down to 65c for
the Sale ate all
gone-1 25 went
in a week. We
r
nave a i e w
$J.20 Chairs
left that go at
85c. We still
have too many
Ranges and
heaters on hand
We do not ex
pect to get the
original cost oat
of them They
must be sold for
what they will
bring. $2.00
will do for oar
small heaters.
Oar Iron Beds
are about clean
ed oat bat $2.25
will bay one
while they last.
Plenty of the
bed springs that
go at $f. 75 still
on hand. Don't
pay $2.50 or
$2.75 for this
spring later bat
lay in a supply
daring oar Sale
Yoa can bay KITCHEN
UTENSILS for a song. Al
so any PICTURE we have
In stock for fust about what
yoa care to offer.
We have plenty of medium
priced ROCKERS that we
mast sell for oar ORIGINAL
COST.
DON'T DELAY too long!
Every day leaves less for yoa
to select from.
E. W. Mellien
(Ob Company
Continues!
Opposite the Court House
TW THEODQEE
ITopyrlglit, 1898, by O. P. Putnam's Iom.
Published under arrangement with Q. P.
Putnam'i Bona, New York and London.
NCB lu September I was
camped ou the shores of
Kooteual Lake, having
with me as companions,
John Willis and an im
passive - looking I ndlan
named Annual. Coming
across through the dense coniferous
forests of northern Idaho we had
struck the Kootenai Elver. Then we
went down with the current as It
wound In half circles through a long
alluvial valley of mixed marsh and
woodland, hemmed In by lofty moun
tains. The lake itself, when we reach
ed It, stretched straight away like a
great fiord, a hundred miles long and
about three in breadth. The frowning
and rugged Selklrks came down sheer
t the water's edge. So straight were
the rock walls that it was difficult fw
us to land with our batteau, save at
the places where the rapid mountain
torrents entered the lake.
We had come down from a week's
fruitless hunting in the mountains; a
week of excessive toll, in a country
where we saw no game for in our ig
norance wo had wasted time, not go
ing straight back to the high ranges,
from which the game had not yet de
scended. After three or four days of
rest, and of feasting on trout a wel
come fellef to the monotony of frying
pan bread and coarsey salt pork we
were ready for another trial; and early
one morning we made the start. Hav
ing to pack everything for a fortnight's
use on our backs, through an excess
ively rough country we of course
traveled as light as possible, leaving
almost all we had with the tent and
boat.
-We walked In single file, as. is nec
essary in thick woods. The white
hunter led, and I followed, each with
rifle on shoulder and pack on back.
Ammal, the Indian, pigeon toed along
behind, carrying his pack, not as we
did ours, but by help of a forehead
band, which he sometimes shifted
across his breast The traveling
through the tangled, brush choked for
est, and along the bowlder strewn and
precipitous mountain sides, was incon
ceivably rough and difficult.
An hour or two before sunset we
were traveling, as usual, in Indian
file, beside the stneam, through an
open wood of great hemlock trees.
There was no breeze, and we made no
sound as we marched, for our feet
sunk noiselessly luto the deep moss.
Suddenly the hunter, who was lead
ing, dropped down In his tracks, point
ing upward; and some fifty feet be
yond 1 saw the head and shoulders of
a bear as he rose to make a sweep at
some berries. lie was In a hollow
where a tall, rank, prickly plant, with
broad leaves, grew luxuriantly; and he
was gathering Its red berries, rising
on his hind legs and sweeping them
down into his mouth with his paw,
and was much too Intent on his work
to notice us, for his bead was pointed
the other way. The moment he rose
agulu I fired, meaning to shoot through
the shoulders, but Instead, in the hur
ry, taking him lu the neck. Down he
wont, but whether hurt or not we
could 'not sec, for the second he was
on all fours he was no longer visible.
Itnther to my surprise he uttered no
sound for bear when hit or when
charging often make a great noise so
I raced toward the edge of the hollow,
tho hunter close behind me, while Am
uuil danced about lu the rear, very
much excited, as Indians always are
lu the presence of big game. The In
stant we reached tho hollow and look
ed down Into It from the low bank on
which we stood we saw by the sway
ing of the tall plants that tho bear
was coming our way. The hunter waB
standing some ten feet distant, a hem
lock trunk being between us; aud the
next moment the bear sprang clean up
Hie bmik the other side of the hem
lock, and almost wlthlu arm's length
of my companion. I do not think he
hud Intended to charge; he was prob
ably confused by tho bullet through
his neck, and had by chance blundered
out of the hollow lu our direction; but
when he saw the hunter so closo he
turned for him, his hair bristling and
his teeth showing. The niuti had no
cartridge In his weapou, and with his
puck ou could not have used it any
how; aud for a moment it looked as if
he stood a fair chance of being hurt.
As tho beast sprang out of the hollow
he poised for a second ou tho edge of
the bank to recover his balance, giving
luo a beautiful shot, as he stood side
ways to me; the bullet struck between
the eye and ear, and lie fell as If hit
with a polo axe.
Our prize was a largo black bear,
with two curious brown streaks down
his back, one on each side the spine.
We skinned htm and camped by the
carcass, as It was growing late. To
take the chill off the evening air we
built a huge fire, the logs roaring aud
crackling. To one side of It we made
our beds of balsam and hemlock
boughs; we did not build a brush lean
to, because the night seemed likely to
be clear. Then we supped on sugar
less tea, frylng-pun bread, and quanti
ties of bear meat, filed or roasted
and how very good It tasted only
those know who have gone through
much hardship aud some Utile hunger,
and have worked violently for several
days without flesh food.
The morning after killing llruln, we
again took up our inarch, heading up
stream, that we might go to Its sources
amidst the mountains, where the snow
Holds fed Its springs. It was two full
days' Journey thither, but we took
much luuger to make It, as we kept
hulling to hunt the adjoining moun
tains. On such occasions Ammal was
left as camp guard, while the white
hunter and I would start by daybreak
and return at dark utterly worn out
by the excessive fatigue. We knew
uotlilun of caribou, nor where to hunt
y3
ROOSEVELT-
for them; and we bad been tola tnat
thus early In the season they were
above tree limit on the mountain sides.
TJntll within a couple of days of
turning our faces back towards the
lake we did not come across any cari
bou, and saw but a few old signs; and
we began to be fearful lest we should
have to return without getting any, for
our shoes had been cut to ribbons by
the sharp rocks, we were almost out
of flour, and therefore had but little
to eat However, our perseverance
was destined to be rewarded.
The first day after reaching our final
camp, we hunted across a set of spurs
and hollows, but saw nothing living.
The next day we started early, deter
mined to take a long walk and follow
the main stream up to its head, or at
least above timber line. The hunter
struck so brisk a pace, plunging
through thickets and leaping from
log to log In the slashes of fallen tim
ber, and from boulder to boulder in
crossing the rock-slides, that I could
hardly keep up to him, struggle as I
would, an4 we each of us got several
ugly tumbles, saving our rifles at the
expense of scraped hands and bruised
bodies. We went up one side of the
stream, Intending to come down the
other; for the forest belt was narrow
enough to hunt thoroughly. For two
or three hours we tolled through dense
growth.
Then we came to a spur of open
hemlock forest; and no sooner had we
entered It than the hunter stopped and
pointed exultlngly to a well-marked
game trail. In which It was easy at n
glance to discern the great round foot
prints of our quarry We hunted care
fully over the spur imd found several
trails, generally leading down along
the ridge; we also found a number of
beds, some old and some recent, usual
ly placed where the animal could keep
a lookout for any foe coming up from
the valley. They were merely slight
hollows or ldeutatliuis In the pine
needles; and. jlke the game tralU,
were placed In localities similar to
those that would be chosen by black
tall deer. The caribou droppings were
also very plentiful; and there were
signs of where they had browsed on
the blueberry bushes, cropping off the
Giving me a beautiful ihot, as he stood
sideways to me.
berries, and also apparently of where
they had here and there plucked a
mouthful of a peculiar kind of moss,
or cropped off some little mushrooms.
But the beasts themselves had evident
ly left the ridge, and we went ou.
After a little while the valley be
came so high that the large timber
ceased, aud there were only occasional
groves of spindling evergreens. Be
yond the edge of the big timber was a
largo boggy tract, studded with little
pools; and here again we found plenty
of caribou tracks. A caribou has an
enormous foot, bigger than a cow's,
und admirably adapted for traveling
over snow or bogs; hence they can
pass through places where the loyg
slender hoofs of moose or deer, or the
round hoofs of elk, would let their
owners sink at once; and they are very
difficult to kill by following ou snow
shoes a method much In vogue among
the brutal game butcben for slaughter
ing the more helpless animals. Spread
ing out his great hoofs, and bending
his legs till lie walks almost on the
Joints, a caribou will travel swiftly
over a crust through which a moose
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breaks at every stride, or through deep
snow In which a deer cannot flounder
fifty yards. Usually he trots; but
when pressed he will spring awkward
ly along, leaving tracks In the snow
almost exactly like magnified Imprints
of those of a great rabbit, the long
marks of the two hlntl legs forming
an angle with each other, while the
forefeet make a large point almost be
tween. The caribou had wandered all over
the bogs and through the shallow
pools, but evideutly only nt night or
In the dusk, when feeding or In coming
to drink; and we again went on. Soon
the timber disappeared almost en
tirely, and thick brushwood took Its
place; we were In a high, bare alpine
valley, the snow lying In drifts along
the sides. In places there had been
enormous rock-slides, entirely filling
up the bottom, ro that for a quarter of
a mile at a stretch the stream ran un
derground, lu the rock masses of this
alpine valley we, as usual, saw many
conies aud hoary woodchucks.
The caribou trails bad ceased, and
It was evident that the beasts were
uot ahead of us In the barren, treeless
recesses between the mountains of
rock and snow; and we turned back
down the valley, crossing over to the
opposite or south side of the stream.
We, had already eaten our scanty
lunch, for It was afternoon. For sev
eral miles of hard walking, through
thicket, marsh, and rock-slide, we saw
no traces of the game. Then we
reached the forest, which soon widen
ed out, and crept up the mountain
sides; and we came to where apotber
stream entered the one we were follow
ing. A high, steep shoulder between
the two vallyes was covered with an
open growth of great hemlock timber,
and In this we again found the trails
and beds plentiful. There was no
breeze, and after beating through the
forest nearly to its upper edge, we be
gan to go down the ridge, or point of
the shoulder. The comparative free
dom from brushwood made It easy to
walk without noise, and we descended
the steep Incline with the utmost care,
scanning every object, and using every
caution not to slip on the hemlock
needles, nor to strike a stone or break
a stick with our feet The sign was
very fresh, and when still half a mile
or so from the bottom we at last came
on three bull caribou.
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Instantly the hunter croucnea down,
while I ran noiselessly forward be
hind the shelter of a big hemlock
trunk until within fifty yards of the
grazing and unconscious quarry.. They
were feeding with their heads up-hill,
but so greedily that they had not seen
us; and they were rather difficult to
see themselves, for their bodies har
monized well in color with the brown
tree-trunks and lichen-covered boul
ders. The largest, a big bull with a good
but by no means extraordinary bead,
was nearest As he stood fronting me
with his head down I fired into hla
neck, breaking the bone, and he turn
ed a tremendous back somersault
The other two halted a second in stun
ned terror; then one, a yearling, rush
ed past us up the valley down which
we had come, while the other, a large
bull with small antlers, crossed right
In front of me, at a canter, his neck
thrust out and his head so coarse
looking compared to the delicate out
lines of an elk's turned towards me.
His movements seemed clumsy and
awkward, utterly unlike those of
deer; but be handled his great hoofs
cleverly enough, and broke Into
headlong, rattling gallop as he went
down the hillside, crashing through
the saplings and leaping over the
fallen logs. There was a spur a little
beyond, aud up this he went at
swinging trot halting when he reached
the top, and turning to look at me
once nore. He was only a hundred
yards away; and though I had not In'
tended to shoot him (for his Dead was
not good), the temptation was sore;
and I was glad when, in another sec
ond, the stupid beast 'urned again and
went off up the valley at a slashing
run.
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If for no other reason, Chamber'
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household on aooonnt of it great
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allays the pain almost instant It, and
unless the injury is a severe one, heali
the parts without leaving a soar,
This salve is also nneqnalled for chap
ped hands, sore nipples and diseases
of the skin. Price 25 cents. For sale
by Huntley Bros, Oregon City and
Molalla.
Values
HAVE YOU DRIVEN THE
MEN folks into the practice of Econ
i'llil omyf not gnow the good
example by beginning to economize
yourself? Buy whatever you need in the
way of Coffee and Tea at thii up-to-date
store.
Finest MA J Coffee... 33c
Bast Teas 60c
Harris Grocery
OREGON CITY
Astoria Budget: Eight timber
cruisers arrived In this city last ev
ening and this morning left for the
Nehalem valley and will make their
headquarters at Medley's place. Lit
tle is known about them or In whose
employ they are except that they are
to cruise 20,000 acres of timber.
SWIFTS PRIDE SOAP
7 Bars for 25c
Makes wash day easier by cutting the
rubbing in half. Less rubbing means
less hard work and longer life for your
clothing and linens.
Swift's Pride Soap makes the white
pieces clear and snowy, even if you do
not have an opportunity to tnubleach
them on the lawn.
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Tnc Sercnth
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is due to the uniform high grade
dentistry that Is always done
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PLATE WORK
We are doing more plate work
than any three dental offices
In Oregon City. We do it for
less money and guarantee a lit.
At Crown and Bridge Work and
Fine Gold Fillings we set the
pace. Before you have your
dental work done, come and
talk it over with us. Free ex
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