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U. & "DEHTIST tnan Illock TUB DALLES, OREGON Long Dlntance -Phone Ml III. SNOOK PHYSICIAN, AND-SURGEON OQlco In Drue Htore taiB unr.uun " IH. LONQ PHYSICIAN- AND SURGEON b at Fnn, on Fulrriew Road, 4 Miles Nortnvreat ol Hadraa. ILNK J. BROOKH JUSTICE OF THE PEACE bRAB OREGON m p. hea NOTARY PUBUC AND U. S. COMMISSIONER BRAB OREGON otelShaniko I JAMES MclIARQUE, Prop. Only One Price First-dass Meals & Beds All White. Help tiamlko Oregon terir Oregon Banking b. BITANIKO, OREGON era: J. W, French, Pre.: II. A. Moore, Vleo rrei.j r. i. iiunuurv, uaanier. arttl Stock, H5.000 Dfkf, $250,000 reatOH! J. W. Kfunrh. U. A. Mnnra. V. T. Irlburt, W. Lord) A. K. Hammond, J, II, Coo tto the ntfy Allen Feed Yard Wlwn In TUB DAL, LBS JSfT ATTENTION GIVEN STOCK SfcWfl Street, rmt the Diamond Mllli timi jWfifcjj TOILERS OP THE COLOMBIA By Paul De Laney Author ef "Lord ef the Bcscrf," "Oregon 9Kefcfics,M end other Pacific Coast Stories CHAPTER I. The Storm. "Dotfn she went!" "All aboard were lost." "Bhe made a gallant f gbt." "Reel Bhe comes to the surface agalnl" The foreoKinR exclamations came from a groHp of fishermen who stood Hpoa the shores of Baker's bay and watched a ship battling with, the waves on the Columbia bar. The rain fell in lonsr. slanting twist ing: sheets. ' It appeared as if the heav ens were a vast waterfall swayed and tossed by all of the gods of Jury. The wind howled and moaned like a power fill monster, making the earth and everything upon it tremble while it pursued iUwayas steady as a tide from the deep. Trees lranded thoir boughs to the ground and writhed and quivered to tho end of thoir tiniest roots.' Houses rockod and swayed like a weather vane upon their foundations. The more timid of tho men and the women and children, though accustomed to storms crouched and trembled with awed ex- pruRsiors upon their faces as thny lis tened to tho deafening din wkich was sweeping the earth. Tho waters at the broad month 01 tho Colunbia river aroso like wild steeds as tlioy mot the storm-driven waven of tho raciflcaud battled with them for supremacy., The combatting elements formed liko a mountain range along the bar, Bhowing, with the rapid ity of a kaleidoscopic view, peaks gulches and canyons as tho waters rose and clinched and then fell am) divided for another attack. Nature gave- her picture additional grandeur by the coloring. The ap proach of night through such a- storm, while there was still enough euaaeo liaht to cast a lurid hase over the scene, tho minelinst of the blood-red waters of ths river with the green and white 01 ocean streaked tho whole with a hue emblematic of contest and death r Tho tides from tho deep seemed to bo angered by tho battlo above their heads and rasa higher and iiiuiier. with a nowor thai mttdo the rock-bound shores shake, to crash out tho wild con test between river and waves. The spray dashed up even to the timber belt above- tho beach, creating a log-on the windows of the high-perched light house that made tho newly lighted lamp appear dim, and the whole moun tain ranee along the coast to the nortli quivered to its foundation while stay ing the mighty rush ol the waters iroin the ocean. A group of fishermen stood at a point en the shores of tho bay. They were drenched to the skin, but thejr did not mind this. They were more' intent upon watching an object battliug for.its life on the bar ot the river, it was these who had mode the exclamations given at tho introduction ot this chap ter. It was tho severest storm for many years. They had been partially drawn, practically thrown ashore in. their crude fishing boats by the receding waters from the conflict between ocean ana river. While anxious eyes watabed them from tho windows of the fishing ylllago In tho rear, which was- wrapped in the landstorm, they looked moro anxiously out to seat Having been handled so mercilessly by the waters which had spent their fury and were re treating from tho battleatthe bar, they trembled at the fate of an objoct which they discovered in the center of the rag- lag conflict. It tossed and leaped and rose and fell like a wounded and' bewildered animal pierced by a bullet from, some huntor's rifle. Now on a peak, which shot up like a rocket from tho depths below; bow on the brink of a deep canyon, formed In the twinkling of an eye; now ea a narrow ledge pending over a deep abvss. and then in the depths ol a gulch, whose watery walls were crash ing down upon it men it aisappearea from view) "Down Bhe went I" said one fisher fennn. "All aboard wore lost," said another. "She made a gallant light," remark: A a third. "Seel Bhe comes to the surface again!" exclaimed the man who had first spoken. Tha shin had instantly appeared again. But It writhed in the roaring turf lilra ci atricke-n seroeat. It bad been a fine riggwl sailing vessel, but aow it was a mere hull with part 01 a deck and a few stumpi ot masts leu. It had been the pride of a eoantry and, ilka a hravA noldler wounded and dis armed, it was fighting the enemy even In its dying gasps. It lunged this way aBd that. One : it careened oa its side: another it Btood on its beam; theH it reared up HFe an animal la desperation, anu witn the agility of a oat regained its position v ti 111. 1 on a wild wave ana roae 11 who g- antvv tlmt nharmed the fsbermaa. ,..v - on inat fnr a, r.omeat it anneared gain as If it bad been discharged from oae of Neptune's greatest gtws tloaed on a moro of the deep. iinMvni'i nliniitad a flsheraiaa. "She deeervea to live," said another. I" ahriakod a'thlrd. The shattered vessel had crowed the bar and was heading straight for Haad island. Caught oa the reeedlag waters he WM dragged werciiwwly toward ker Tho Btorm grew stronger in its fury. Ata if angry at the prolonged life of the dismantled thip, it gathered over the spot where it was making its last feeble tight to live. The sheets of rain grew thicker, the steady wind grew stronger, tho waves dashed together behind her and reared high up into the air. Then they broke apart and those receding sent the vessel oa more rapidly.- The spray from the ocean andi the sheets of rain from the heavens formed a veil which obscured all for a brief time. The fishermen stood like statues for a few moments. Night was closing in. But for ono brief instant there was a glimmer from thedopartingdayandtho men ashore saw the stranded vessel standing with nose in the sand while the victorious waves wero pounding her at a rato that must soon break her to pieces. But to render aid to those aboard- the sinking ship was impossible. No earthly cralt could live in euch a sea. Slowly and sadly the tollers of tlio Colubmia wended thoir way to their homes in the viilago where they told the story of tho wreck. CHAPTER II. Age asd Infancy Drift Ashore. With tho closing in of darkness the storm, abated.. As- if rebuked by- the deep shades of night it skulked away like-a subdued trespasser. Only its rumbling, disappearing footsteps ctuld be heard in tho distance. But for the booming of old ocean's mad waves, who seemed to feel that she had conquered all within her grasp and was reaching out her arms for the sky and rocka to catch all above and about her, a stillness would baie prevailed such as only exists in a calm after a great storm. The fishermen began to emerge from their homes. The. news of the terrible fate of the ship and her crew had spread about the village. While there was none of those hardy fellows who would dare the white-capped waves. yet they could not sleep while succor might bo rendered in some manner. Beacon lights wore kindled' upotr the hills along the shore and above the safe landing places so that if any craft should havo survived the storm it might steer f6r the place whro landing did not mean certain death, though the Ixujt was hazardous. "Moro wood!" they shouted, as the tires began to die down and in every di rection spectre-like forms wero seen njoving about like nhadowa among the big trees that lined the hills near the thore. Others lined up near tho water's edge with ropos in hand, and strained their eyes and ears for a glimpse or a sound that would direct them to a place whore humanity's most charitable act could be bestowed. But it was a night of work and vigi lanccv without regard. No an object was seen, not a. sound heard save that of the receding waters as they returned to the deep from which they came. The sun shot above the horiron the following morning with a flash. The ky was as clear aa a crystal. The waters were-aa smooth on the bay as t lawn. Only out on the bar did an oc casional whitecap show its head. Tiio beach was soon lined with men, women and children. The smoldering tires on tho hillsides sent swirling streams of whito amoko, straight toward the heavens. Tho great trees above the beach had straightened thoir boughs and no evidenco remained of the battlo with the storm save the broken limbs and tho high piles of driftwood that littored tho shore. On the approach of a newcomer first glance was cast out over the bay. It was followed by a cloud of dlsap pointmont on his or her face. Band Island had claimed many victims and another disaster was, to be added to hor record. Buried deep into her sands was tho hull of another vessel. Only a few eturnpa ot masts remained abovo th wreck. Strain their eyes as they would under the shadow of their handa or throuch their strongest glasses, not a livins thing could bo discovered on or about the remains of the veesol which had made such a gallant fight: the pro vious day. Suddenly a boat shot out from the shore to tho east. An involuntary hiss escaped through the lips of the other .fishermen, It was old Seadog and his boys. They Lad slept through the night while others kept the beacon fires liurnlna. They were not now on a mis Bion of charity bent. They had gone for Blunder before. But old Beadog had other motives in view. His koen eyes had pierced deep er into the storm the previous day He had also been reading the marine news, besides letters and newspapers from a foreign land, lie thought he recognised the vessel's country, by the vessel Itself and had a motive for being first aboard should his surmise be true On they dashed, propelled by the Bkilled oarsmen, a-rowing lees and less until like young Jackals they lifted their boat oa the sands and climbed over in to the hull of the stranded vessel, The people began to break away in small groups. Ther were silent but old Seadog aad his boya were eon damned in the miud of many. BUD they did not know the r Mil, motive that nrmaantad, thalaml, mmm. beach' that they might find whether any evidenee of the' vessel or hor crew baeT drifted ashore. This, had always bcerr their custom and small boats and dead bodies had often been found even' so soon after great catastrophes. In a few hours the searchers began to retnnr to the village empty-handed. As thoy came each reported in tarn that nothing had been found. It had been a sovere Btorm, however, and everything had probably been dashed to pieces against the rocks about cape Disappointment, and the bodies of' the crew, they thought bad been sent to the bottom of the sea or were lashed to tho remnants of the vessel where U must be dead. The forward party which followed the beach toward the ocean, and had proceeded about a mile was startled by a noise whilo climbing among the drift wood In a little cove. "A wharf rati" exclaimed one "No, a weasel," said another. "It is the voico of a human being, ae sure as you livol" shouted a third, who was nearer the sound than the others-., "On then," replied the man who had first spoken. The members of the party all rushed to the place from which the sound em anatod. "Didn't I toll you?" said the maa who had proclaimed it a- human voice, when ho reached the place. "Well, I told you that it was a small human being, and it is," replied the man who bad pronounced the cry as coming from a wharf rat. it a ujniu mo uiu euuuKu iui jvii remarked one of the fishcimen. 'Yes, but he is of little use now, he M.dead," was the reply. 'Not much, seo, bo opens his eyes!" shouted one of them joyfailyv A sad picture, yet one that gave pleasure to the fishermen, presented itself. A short, stout, old man, with gray hair and whiskers, lay lashed to a broken fpar. of a ship. Ho was probably three score and ten. The spar lay upon his right leg and he could not move. Had this not been the case he could never havo relaeeed himself fiom the timber, for he was numb and dazed, more dead than liv ing and the chords had drawn deep in to his body. But in the aged man's clasp, liko that of the dead, he held close to bis heart a crying infant. CHAPTER IH. Old Seadog Rejoices. Long before the old man and' the child were found, other fishermen had' launched their ooata and had pulled oat on the bay. Somo went to the fishtraps andi oth ors made straight across to the wreck;. But old Seadog had prepared to go aboard the stranded vessel and to hold it against all comers until he should carry out his planr. Firearms had been secreted' in bis small boat before leaving shore and these were trans ferred to the wreck. One of the boyB was left on guard whilo the old man leading the others went on a searching tour of the ship. They soon found that the vessel pos sessed but little that was of value for it had discharged its cargo at San Fran cisco. and bad come to the Columbia for a return consignment. But it was not wealth of the kind that the world considers valuable that old Seadog was looking for; it was -that which would remove all cloud from the title to his own wealth. It was while thus engaged in raa sacking the unfortunate vessel that the advance guard of the fishermen arrived in their small boats. Old Seadog was always first appealed to by his sons, be fore action was taken and the one on guard called to his father and informed him of the approach of their neigh bors. The old man rushed upon deck and seizing a gun, he presented it and said "Upon your lives, come no closer, menl Stop where you are and return to your boats or I will Bbooti" "What right have you to tho craft?" askod the bolder of the party. "Tho right of salvage men, the right of salvage! We were first to board. her after she went aground,." replied the old man. "Well, we will report you to' ths law," shouted one of the fishermen as thoy left the place, some returning to the viilago and others pulling for their traps further up the bay. 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