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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.