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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (May 31, 1908)
f THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAXD, MAT 31, 1908. MHERKfilARip rf ( MAT. 13 - - - 2 t i y ; - . t .... " 9 mam vmi ji oipnifl Die 1 .A- K JTJsPWIl JBJZ JO I I! I! 's-TTTTTw vTTV T1 LODGE ON KLAMATH LAKE IN) ORESONS MOST MAGNIFICENT HILDS. BY FRANK IRA. WHITE. rN THE forests of pine that eklrt the I Western shore of Upper Klamath Lake big game abounds; bears roam almost unmolested, seeking and finding the sweet dainties that are relished by bruin, and herds of deer range over the mountains and through green val . leys. Great springs burst from the earth to start sparkling water courses on their way to the lakes and on toward the sea, the water but a few degrees above the freezing point, pure, clear and most alluring to speckled beauties as are the trout to the man with rod and reel. Stretching nearly 40 miles In lengh and some eight miles in width Is Upper Klamath Iake, a vast natural reservoir fed by the streams that descend from three directions and springs that flow full-fledged rivera Into Indentures along Its shore line. Pelican Bay is one of these indenta tions on the western shore-line, its waters ice-cold and so clear that schools of trout may bo seen to lt pebbled bed, while a large steamboat may turn around In the spring that feeds it. Before the coming of the white man to the Klamath region the Klamath, Modoca and Pitt River . Indians knew the great springs of Pelican Bay and gathered there annually at tile time of ripening of the wocus. Likewise they came hither to catch trout and replen ish their stoies of fish agalnet the Winter season, wherf fresh fish might not be obtainable. Along the lake shore, near Pelican Bay and in border ing lowlands the wocus, a species of 1IIY grows luxuriantly and its pods bear a bountiful harvest of the seeds that the Klamaths converted into a coarse meal with mortar and pestle, and then served as a mush, many, many moons before "Sunny Jim" be came familiar on bill-boards of the world. Every Summer some of the older members of the tribe may still be witnessed gathering the wocus as they paddle about in dug-outs. In later years, the lodge became the trading point where the Indians came to barter their basketry and beads and buckskin garments for trinkets and firearms and other articles that the white man possessed. Some Improve ments were made at the spot that was given the name, and a very comfprt able log house was erected on an at tractive spot near the spring, while a small log structure was erected be- side the spring where the lounger might watch the trout playing in the wateras it gushed up from the gravel bottom, and drink from the spring with a dipper while reclining on the rustic bench. Each year more people cam to loiter long In the enjoyment of angling for trout and stalking big game in the nearby forest, and then a Salt Lake man became its owner and elaborate plans were formulated for making It one of the widely known re sorts of the Taclflc Coast states. Prob ably these plana were somewhat In definite as to details, but the owner knew what had been accomplished with spots less desirable to the tourist than Pelican Bay and he calculated the value of Its location with Crater Lake within a few hours by automobile, big game close at hand and fish striving to get nearer the lodge than the spring permitted them to approach. ' Two years ago, when Colonel Hol lowbird returned from an investigation of the railroad possibilities of the Philippine Archipelago, whither he had gone as agent of the head of the Union Southern Pacific system, and came to Klamath County to spend a vacation, it was no surprise to people of the Klamah basin to learn that the Colonel bad bought Pelican Bay Lodge. -No man was better aware of its advan tages and attractions. He had been upon each of Its four hundred acres or so, and was a devoted worshiper at the shrine of the lodge. Each seques tered nook of its woods, each portion of the Wocus marsh nearby, and the cold waters of the spring were all In cluded In his love for the place. While it need not have been a surprise. It was one nevertheless when it became known last year that It was not Colonel Ilollowbfrd who owned'" Pelican Bay Lodge, but that it had been ac quired by that gentleman for K. H. Harrlman, master of transportation stocks and bonds In Wall street and president of the great Union-Southern Pacific system of railroads. Last year Mr. Harrlman came to Klam ath for the first time. Indeed, on that Journey he left the lines of his own rail roads in the West for the first time to Journey by vehicle, launch and steamboat for nearly 100 miles to hia. new Summer home. Hia coming had been preceded by achievements in providing communication that were unheard of in Klamath, where many astonishingly rapid changes have y.:.:AV.1;.:vA . ..s.v.v , ,. IB Ej faiiniiitii.iifM-tir.iwaiiOT.wt .4,fmx..;,r,mt,M'J. 4XD 3IS 27SQ i , r: IS i r Sx!lr lis ill I I sh-Z&rrX t Jll wl If" come. The telephone line between Ash land and Klamath Falls was converted into a telegraph line, and the wires were strung from Klamath Palls to Pelican Bay around the west side of Upper Klam ath Lake, In order that the directing hand might be kept in touch with affairs even during a vacation trip and hunting ex pedition into the great game preserves of Southern Oregon. - Mr. Harriman's party was not large, in cluding his young sons, family physician and a few friends. Guides had been pro vided, likewise bear dogs (but the dogs did not prove desirous of locating Mr. Boar) and everything was in readiness for the party to have a most enjoyable outing. Necessarily the stay was short, but Mr. Harrlman devoted a half day to meeting the people of Fort Klamath, tho trading point on Wood River, near the Klamath Indian reservation, and then Journeyed to Crater Lake, to behold the greatest nat ural wonder of the Pacific Coast region. He was deeply interested in the lake and Scenic attractions of that locality. Desirous of knowing from personal ob servation something of the route to be traversed by the railroad to be built from Natron to Klamath Falls, he had ordered automobiles for the Journey over the old ttatl that ' follows closely the Surveyed rqute north o Walker's Basin.- The trip was made' successfully, and Mr. Harrl man returned East after having covered more miles away from hia railroads than he had done elsewhere in the West. It has been announced in the dispatches that Mrs. Harrlman and tbe young gentlemen of the household wHl spend several weeks at Pelican Bay Lodge this Summer. Those who met the railroad president last year and heard expressions "from him of the pleasure derived from that visit, confi dently anticipate that be will devote some time to an outing at Pelican Bay Lodge In the laie Summer of this year. Instead of a long overland trip. Mr. Harrlman can this year Journey over tha new California Northeastern Railway to 7s t the steamboat connection on the Klamath River within "80 miles, and should he de sire It, the line could probably be fin ished to Klamath Falls in time to run his special train through to that place by mid-Summer. People of the Klamath, re gion feel that the splendid progress made In building the California Northeastern Railway has been in a measure due to the visit of. Mr. Harrlman. last year, and ap preciating the traffic promise of the road that he gave' instructions for vigorous prosecution of construction work. It; Is now In operation to Dorr la and will be in operation to the steamboat connection on the Klamath River by July; accord ing to the announced' plans of the con tractors having the work in hand. r J Man is the most frivolous of animals. It is said that man is ttie only animal that can both laugh and cry. Abraham Lin coln gave full vent to his emotions. He went through life with no restraints nor manacles upon his human nature. ' He was honest in the expression of his feel ings, whether serious or otherwise, honest in their manifestation, honest with him self. It was because Abraham Lincoln was the most human of human beings that he is loved as has never been any other man that ever lived. "I Am Your Wife." Old Clipping in Heart Throb. Oh. let m lay tny head tonight upon your breast. And close my eyei against the light, I fain would reet, Tm weary, and the world looks sad:-this worldly strife " Turns me to you; and. oh, I'm (lad to be your wife! Though friends may fail or turn asld, yat I have you. And in your love I may abide. -for you are true My solace in each grief and in despair. Your tenderness Is my relief; it soothes each care. If joys of Ufa could alienate this poor weak heart From yours, then may no pleasure great j - enough to part Our sympathies fall to my Jot. I'd e're re main . Bereft of friends, thougn true or not. Just to retain Tour true regard, your presence bright, thro care and strife And. oh! I thank my God tonight, I am your wife! A Northampton family, whose five chil dren won 35 scholarship medals, recentlv set up a claim for the Vritish record in that line. Now, however, a London family report ft secured by six child pupils, of horn three also gained London County Council scholarships before any one of them was 12 years old. rs" S2Z. MASK OF T.. FROM fJCAt&W. 3 Z-CXGC:. r-i irim n ) mti i wr nn.nrMM nti nrrn iHiriiwi 1 J: i , "'jC'' ' " i,? 5 r - ' ! J a '.- - w-- ,-tssv ' . -" '-.. f ? v. ..lrtW.": - .rtlM.-t 1 .-..V.- Am.i'S Lincoln: A Remarkable Essay BF CLARK E. CARR. . , ABRAHAM LINCOLN was the droll est man I ever saw. He could make a cat laugh. Never was another man so vivacious; never have I seen another who pro voked so much mirrti, and who entered into rollicking fun with such, glee. He was the most comical and Jocose of human beings, laughing with the same seat at his own jokes as at those of others. I did not wonder that, while actively engaged in party politics, his opponents who had seen him In these moods called Abraham Lincoln a clown and an ape. Abraham Lincoln was the most seri ous man I ever saw. When I heard him protest against blighting our new territories with the curse of human slavery, in his debates with Senator Douglas, no man could have been more- earnest, none more serious. In his analysis of legal prob lems, whether in the practice of "his profession or in the consideration of state papers, he- became wholly ab sorbed in his subject. Sometimes he lapsed imo reverie and communed with his own thoughts, noting nothing that was going on about him until aroused, when perhaps he would enter nto a discussion of the subject that had oc cupied his mind, or perhaps break out into laughter and tell a Joke or story that-set the table in a roar. When I saw him at Gettysburg as he exclaimed,. "That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that the Nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth!" when I heard him declare in his second Inaugural address, "Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that tills mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet if God wills that It continue until all the wealth piled up by the bonds man's 250 years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by an other drawn with the sword, as was said 3000 years ago, so still it must be said, the Judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether." . . . "With mal ice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right" as 1 looked upon him and heard him utter these sentiments, upon these occasions, Abraham Lincoln was the most solemn, the most dignified, the most majestic and at the same time the most benignant human being I ever saw. Rochefoucauld says that "gravity is a mystery of the body invented to conceal defects of the mind." Lord Shaftesbury says that "gravity is the very essence of imposture." Abraham Lincoln had none of this. Man is the most serious of animals. l-'lah Which Fall Aslwp. Indianapolis News. 'The British Australasian gives an In teresting account of the mysterious ap pearance of fish in large holes which had been dry for long periods, and which had suddenly been tilled by heavy rains. J. W. Kingsmlll, who has had about 40 years' experience in the far North, states that he has known waterholcs to be dry for months, and six weeks after they have been filled by rain they have been alive with fish. He has caught fish near ly half a pound in weight in a hole which had been dry for months, only six weeks after the rain filled It. The only possible explanation Mr. Kingsmlll offers is that when the water is evaporated or sinking and fast disappearing the fish burrow down in the mud and become dormant. Mexico's Sugar-Cane Land. Chicago Record-Herald. Mexican lamia tn a virgin state suit able for the growing of sugar cane, and situated in the tropical portions of th country that is, in the states of Vera Cruz, Chiapas and Tabasco range in price from $1 to $3 gold an acre. In the Tamplco section, state of Tamullapas. one finds such lands higher in price, the influx of Americans thereinto having had the effect of increasing the value of property. Tell Jler So. Heart Throbs. Amid the cares of marrk-d life. In s-p it of toil and business trife. , If you value your sweet wife f Tell her so! Prove to her you don't forget The bond to which your seal is set; ' She's of life's sweet the sweetest yet Tell her so! Whn the days are dark and deeply bluet She l.as troubles, same a you; Show her that your love is true Tell her so! In former days you praised her style. And spent much care to win her smile; 'Tis just as well now worth your while Tell hexso! There was a time you thought It bliss To get the favor of a kl; - A dozen now won't come amiss Tell her so! Your love for her is no mistake "You feel it drcaminf or awake Uon't conceal tt; for her sake Tell her so; . You'll never know what you have missed If you make love a came of whist; Lips, mean more than to be. kissed! Tell her so! The rahbit's range of vision takes in the entire horizon.
