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New occasions teach new duties; time makes ancient rood uncouth;
fhey must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.
.'' James Russell LowelL
SOME PHILOSOPHIC REFLECTIONS
Borne man of sufficient position to
render him Immune from sudden
death at tha hands of those ' who
mould publlo opinion, . recently ad
rancad tha theory that many of our
present social laws wars simply tha
natural outgrowth of brute conditions
to which tha human race had baeo
subjected In, tha past. "Kissing." he
said. "Is a survival and modernised
form of what we see In animals to
day. Morses, cattle, cats and dogs
rub noaas whan they meat."
All this may be true. But If it Is
true, what does It prove? Nothing!
One might as well take tha theory
that because man tat and fish eat also,
man was once a fish. The two breathe
that is another point of similarity.
Both move still another proof.
All such methods of reasoning have
foolishness as their bast, but there
is one custom of modern society
which Is a relic of past barbarism.
This Is tha banquet.
Time was, In the dim distant past.
when education was unheard of and
the finer qualities of the human mind
lay dormant. The pleasures of brute
man were meager and tha greatest of
them was to eat his full of something
which tickled his palate and rounded
out his stomach with a satisfying
fullness. He could not read, he 'could
; r v THE FELLOW SERVANT LAW.
) One Of the most Important and far reaching of tha measures passed
ty tha Legislature and approved by the Governor is tha "fellow servant
' taw.". It Is a radical departure from the old common law principle which
;tnads It Impossible for an employe who had been injured through the neg
Ject or wrongful act of a fellow employe to recover damages from tha
- temDlover. tinder the iiew law. the railroad engineer or tha factory hand
ho Is injured through the negligence or another employe Whose acts are not wrlte- cou,1 not ,n: when n"
yond his control. Is Dermitted to recover such damaa-es as tha clrcum- "Poke It was to convey a wish and not
j aatances Justify. '. ,
v Ona of the strong arguments advanced In support of the bill, while it
was under consideration by the Legislature, was that If it should become
a law It would compel corporations and other large etnployerriTo exercise
(much mora care In tha selection of their employee, in order to prevent the
Recurrence of accidents. Railroad companies. It was argued, would be far
wnore dlscrlmlnatlng'than they are now and the result would be a marked
diminution In the number of wreck and collisions which are, of almost daily neither did he buy rich Jewels or
to create a gem of rhetoric or lyric of
prose; but he could eat And eat he
did.
When the love-lorn ' swain of tha
lohg ago sought the sweet favor of
his bride-to-be, he did not cast floral
offering- at her feet, at it per cast.
occurrence.
If the new law accomplishes this result it will be hailed by the public
las one of tha most valuable enactments of recent years. The number of
rTpemons killed and injured annually In the United States Is reaching ap
rpalllng proportions. -
,v Statistics show that during tha year ending June 30, 1901, the total
, umber of persons killed on railroads, including passengers, employes,
trespassers and grade crossing victims, was 2,967. The Injured numbered
, The record for tha year ending June 30, 1902, was: Killed, 2,319; in
Wed, 34,00. . - ,'
: In .the three months ending September 80, 1902. -there were 263 killed
kind' 2,fill Injured. 'Tha series of horrible railroad -wrecks and collisions in
fajeeember and January added enormously to tha ghastly list.
. . It Is safe to say that 39 railroad disasters out. of . 100 might have been
Prevented by the exercise of proper care. Collisions; whether rear-end or
fhead-on. are due either to bad management cross carelessness or defec
tive equipment Of the many other causes of railroad . wrecks open
boxes at the opera. But if he could
have been- captured by a kodak and
brought forward into the present he
would have been, found with a bundle
of spare-ribs from an Ichthyosaurus
under his arm making headway tow
ard the tepee of his beloved.
In those days when one sought of
floe at the hands of the multitude he
did not mount the stump and with
wild harangue attempt to cast the
halo of his eloquence about them lfke
a lasso. He fed the people good
things to eat instead. In some ways
this . system might still claim superi
ority. It at least carried with it no
misrepresentation.
So great a grip did appetite secure
i
Ml' V " ' "
WHAT THEN?
Suppose you gained a .dollar yesterday, ...
Or sained a aeore.
Or made your fortune by soma clever play
A million more,
And made Ufa harder for your feHowmen;
What then? '
Suppose your' plans for profit all succeed.
And you art worth, . ,
According to the reckonings of greed.
Say, half tha earth. 4
But the worth or service have no ken,
What thenf ,
Suppose, you gave a little of the wealth
Tou cannot use.
And steal Its double by some artful stealth,
" Or legal' ruse.
And man are fooled to give you chance again.
What then?
Suppoae that by and by tha people wake. '
And take their own, . . ,
Nor ask for Just a nibble at tha eake.
Nor for a bona.
And will not longer bide In hole and den,
What thant .
Suppoae tha fellows you have sneered aside '.
As fools and cranks.
The world's tomorrow with their counsels guide ''
And win world thanks,
And truth flows freely from tomorrow's pan,
What thenT
Aye. suppose there Is a realm above.
Where Right Is throned.
And men are weighed In balanoee of love.
Nor crime condoned
Becauae twas wrought among the" "upper tan,"
What thenT
. " Robert Wbltaker.
1.
witches, broken rails, unsafe bridges, defective apparatus there are few that even now. after millions of years,
ittvhich might not be detected beforehand by careful inspection,
' Experience has shown that the railroads must be supplied with some
raterlncentlve; than they now have for the protection of the lives and
fllmbs of both their passengers and' their employes. The latter are In the
(aggregate the chief sufferers. A law which removes all unjust restrictions
bipon their right to recover damages will soon compel the exercise of
'greater care on the part of the companies. They will no longer And it
t profitable to employ Incompetent and untrustworthy men, nor can they
eJTord to overwork their employes to the point of exhaustion.
' The fellow servant law should go far toward checking the killing and
" mangling of human beings, which has .come to be regarded as a mere lncl
; iflent of railroad management , .
the first thing association or lodge,
Individual or society thinks of or pro
poses when some one Is to be honored
Is a banquet.
THE SHAME OF EUROPE.
. A spectacle of surpassing wonder is presented In the attitude of the
, elf-styled Christian powers of Europe toward the rotten empire of Turkey.
. .Through the recent Joint note delivered to the Sultan In which certain
t reforms In the administration of his provinces were demanded, thektten
lion of the world Is again centered upon the historic "Situation in the Bal
Jkans.- .
. From a time so far behind us that the memory of living man runneth
?tot to the contrary, war clouds have perennially appeared in the section
of the earth upon which the Sultan looks as his own. And always It has
f been a, "demand" for reforms, a "pressure' toward toleration of Christians
; Jn the domains of the Porte that has given rise to' the expectant feeling
that at last the dogs of war were to be unleashed upon the Unspeakable
-- SJTurk. ,
. "!wlth amazing pertinacity the Christian powers of Europe. have peri-
- Laodlcally made the same demands. And, with a consistency almost sub
Mime has the Sultan continued to Ignore, the demands and gone blithely
leabout his business of slaughtering Christians in Macedonia and other sec
tions of his empire.
, i Of course, it is all buncombe.
( Of course, it is all a miserable subterfuge.
t 'England, Austria, Russia Christian powers are watching the out
rages of the Sultan's troops with half an eye; they are watching each other
With, an eye and a half.
And that Is the secret of the continued existence of that greatest of
anachronisms, the Mohammedan empire of the Turks. '
' England fears that should anything really savoring of coercion be at
tempted against the Sultan Russia would, take advantage of the resultant
disturbance to gobble slices of strategically valuable territory. '
v And Russia, ever moving, ever ambitious, ever pressing toward Occl-
(dental civilization, very frankly is prepared to do exactly what England
hfears. And. cross-eyed, so to speak, both England nnd Russia watch Aus
fitrla as something of an unknown quantity in a possible fracas.
' The truth is, that through a very unchristian spirit all Europe has per
mitted the shame of the Turkish empire's existence for centuries; all
J Europe has connived at the slaughtering of Christians, the slavery, the
.( polygamy., and the, attendant horrors that have made the name of Turkey
Jraynonymous with all that Is vile. ?
I i
DO EARTHQUAKES BREED REVOLUTIONS? -
It is a curious coincidence that that portion of the -earth's surface
IWhlch Is most frequently shaken by seismic disturbances is also in a state
of 1 perpetual political unrest. The terrestrial upheavals seem to breed
revolutions, which come with the frequency If net the regularity of elec
tions under out own system of government. Has an eruption of Mount
Pelee or ah earthquake in Guatemala some subtle Influence which finds
expression In an Insurgent uprising in Colombia or a fresh outburst of
.Venezuela's Internal dissensions? ,
It is an interesting topic for speculation and the fanciful may find in
It tnoterial for the Imagination. The hard-headed student of political
economy may bcoK at such suggestion and may And ample explanation for
the .Instability of governments In the character of the population. It is true
that the Latin races, which largely predominate iu , Central and South
America, are Inclined to turmoil and change. Their excitable temperament
renders It easy for the demagogue atfd the revolutionist to arouse them to
rebellion.
Nevertheless the physical conditions under which they live doubtless
contribute to this spirit of uneasiness. A people living in the shadow of a
fitfully sleeping volcano, or subject at any moment to eviction without
notice from their homes by an earthquake, cannot have much alth In the
-permanence of things earthly, One of the most powerful of . the elements
vhlch make for the stability of our own government Is the foot that a very
- large proportion of our citizens own their owi) homes, which they occupy
with the confidence that no cataclysm of nature will disturb their posses.
ion. . ; '" ' . - y; . ' K .'
. Perhaps it is a fortunate thins; for the United Stales, from a political
, as well as a humanitarian standpoint, that the convulsions caused by Mother
Earth's internal spasms are confined to other portions of tbe ffiobc,
LESSONS OF A CRIME.
Another murder; another wife and
mother dead by the hand of one who
snouid nave made lire Its own re
ward.
The cause is the world old one
Jealousy.
There are some passions of the hu
man heart that eat away all the mer
ciful and hopeful qualities. Jealousy
Is one of these. For Jealousy la the
offspring of evil memory and a bur
dened conscience.
When a man or a woman knows
that somewhere in the past there is an
hour of betrayal 'of faith on his or her
own part, the mind can never entirely
lose the premonition that retribution
is coming.
Wife-beating is not the result of
Jealousy; Jealousy is the retribution
therefore. "I have forfeited my wife's
affection," reasons the Jealous man.
"Therefore she loves another."
When a man kills the woman who
has borne him children, one may be
certain that he himself has a memory
which he Is trying to annihilate. To
many a man his wife is memory per
sonified; tha early wooing, the tender
ness of marriage, the sanclty of
motherhood. And perhaps this con
stitutes as strong a bond as the world
knows.
But when this man in a fit of rage
murders her who stands for the best
of life, though we call It Jealousy, his
motive was simply that of Cain to
put out of his life a memory.
And the world is shocked and won
ders whethec the murderer will es
cape the penalty of his crime.
With the Lewie and Clark appropriation and the building- Of the portt
m&'Trito:tt-V'Atortx-iwo.itUotm of the State, If there be two auc
tions, have fared about equally wel at the hands of the lata Legislature
;f Oregon, - ' -r 4 ''.'.'. - - -; -
It has been predicted by a promi
nent railroad man that(when the rail
roads reach Central Oregon the sight
seers visiting that section will, soon
equal In number those visiting; the Na
tional Park. He says that the sights of
Eastern and Central Oregon rival
those of ahy country in the world.
The fossil tads of Central Oregon will
furnish study for the scientists for
years to come, and the hot springs,
lakes without outlets, rivers that dis
appear suddenly Into the earth ' and
then spring forth again, the extinot
volcanoes and mountains of rlmrocks,
are things that cannot t&eejajr,
where else In the world. The long
ride across the desert in a stage
coach now is too fatiguing for the
pleasure seeker, but with the eomlng
of the railroad all of these marvels
and hundreds of others will be Visited
by the tourist These railroads should
be built before the Lewi and Clark
Fair opens, for they would furnish the
visitors a sight that would Itself be
worth coming across the eantlnent te
sea, '
AJT CATXlOSS."
Any Injury to the historical value of a sreat cloture
la aiwaya to he regretted. The new play at the Ant'
blgu In Paris. "Lea Dernierea Cartouohea," has' indi
rectly oauaed Henri dea Houx to put several boles In
tha famous ploture of Alphonse de NeuvlUe. In tha
windows of tha picture shop of all the cities in
Europe and In this Country ooplea of "Tha Last Cart
tdges" have appeared. Long ago tha ptoture was critl-
lsed with soma severity from a historical point of
view, but tha critics were squelched by tha profile of
Commandant Lambert the hero of tha episode, leaning
gainst the old cheat
Now cornea out the true story, as it was told by the
lata General Lambert to Henri dea Houx.
I was there," said the General, batter known aa
"the commandant" "because Oaneral da Vassotgne, ef
whom I was chief of staff, ordered ma to defend Ba-
sellles as long as I poaalbly could. In order to block
tha route of. ona of the army corpa that were converg-
ng upon Sedan. I had with ma 1.100 marlnea against
0.000 Germane. We held out for two days. At the
end of the second day I was wounded In tha leg and
had to be carried by a few men back to the very last
house In the village. In It were Installed a handful of
heroes under tha orders of a captain. They placed me
open a mattress. - The advantagea of rank gave -me
tha command of thla last defense. Tha men fired for
more than an hour so well and so accurately that a bat
talion of Bavarians were unable to approach tha house.
When there was only ona cartridge left I gave it to
Lieutenant Aubyr. who was tha best shot Ha fired
and a Bavarian fclL Then, as there were no more cart'
ridges, my companions shouted that they were about
to rush out palonnette en avant and die to a man.
"Halte la!' I cried., "you can rush out If I do not come
back.' Then, supported by two soldiers, I opened the
door and stood facing tha Bavarians. About 100 rifles
were pointed at ma and about 10 sabera glittered, over
my head. But tha heroic Bavarian commandant Lus
algnolo. covered ma with his body. He saved my life,
grasped both my hands and told me to keep my sword,
and our little band had the honors of war from the
Bavarians. That Is the whole story. Anybody In my
place would have done the same.
"Lusstgnole remains my friend. He comes to see me
every time he visits Paris, and I was a witness at
the marriage of ona of hta daughters,
"Alphonse de Nenvtlle took It Into his head to
make a picture of The Last Cartridges,' but it Is not
an historical picture.' He placed here and there, evi
dently for the sake of the colors red and blue, Zouaves
and Turcos. Our marina uniform waa too dull for
him. But he did me tha honor of taking my profile, to
make ma figure aa the principal personage. Moreover,
he makes me standing, while. In reality. 1 was lying
on tha mattresa. Perhapa 1 yielded to vanity by posing
as tha hero of The Last Cartridges.' It cost, me pretty
dearly. It retarded considerably my promotion." New
Tork Sun.
rteee
'" SAYS' NO
i
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mnds of Simeon Ford, famous all
over the country as a humorist after
dinner speaker and hotel man, are try
ing to persuade him to go Into politics.
The humorous boniface, however, stead
fastly refueea to disturb hta peace ef -mind
by tha trials and tribulations of a
political career.
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LOST IN THEt LAVA BUDS.
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ooraxr rmoK WASxnroTOw.
Since tha President's "race suicide" letter, in which
be deplored tha lack of children in American families,
was printed ha has been overwhelmed by letters of
congratulation from all parts of the country.
The most convincing exhibit cama today. It was
a photograph from Bucyrus. Ohio. It showed a sturdy
man and his equally sturdy wife surrounded by 13
children, all theirs. Beneath tha picture waa written
the simple legend. "Not guilty."
A dejected man from Iowa stood In Statuary Hall.
This politics game is not what lt'a cracked p to
be," he eald. "Now, listen to me. There was a young
fellow out In my state who went to the Phlltpptnea
and got consumption. He returned and put It ud to
his friends to get htm a government nlace In soma
high altitude where he could live. Six of . his eld
chuma back in the home town in Iowa wrote to me and
asked me to go to work. I hustled around and got
him a Job aa consul got It by my own efforts and
through my own pull.
The newa was carried In the home paper and each
one of thoae alx men wrote to tha alck man and told
him that the Job was secured through his own personal
influence and efforts. Then It came out that tha chao
couldn't take the Job, because tha place Isn't far enough
aoove tidewater.
Thereupon," said the Iowa man. aa he savaa-ely bit
the end off a cigar, "each of the six friends back home
wrote to me giving me bally-whack because the fellow
wouldn't take tha Job they had Individually secured for
mm. ' v
The threatened range war q East
ern. Opegon should be nipped n the
bud, When one faction gets te talking-
about shooting It shouft be re
membered that this Is a game . that
many can play at, The "shooters" an
both sides will eventually be brought
up to face the responsibilities they
assume, and the best method to pur
sue is a peaceable pue U begin, mlK
afOirzT DBxnrrsinrxsB.
It is not generally known that John W. Oulteau,
brother of Charles J. Oulteau, who shot Garfield, la in
many respects the greatest statistician in the world.
Oulteau is a veritable crank on figures, but his
crankiness is very profitable. Just now the government
is under contract to pay him $25,000 for certain tabu
lations. The big Insurance companies are his profitable
clients.
Oulteau Is the only man who has succeeded In get
ting Inside the books of Dun's and Bradstreet'a commer
cial agencies. It was he who gave out the startling
tatementa that the books of these companies con
tained but 3 per cent of the names that were there 21
years ago.
What a pathetic story or the premature deaths ana
business failures of 20 years.
But here is more of the same sort:
Oulteau says that of the men of this country who
live to be 60 years of age, 80 out of 100 are abso
lutely dependent upon others for a living.
That is an appalling revelation.
Of every 1,000 human barques that with precious
argosies set buoyant sail. 800 are wrecked on the
coasts of business failure.
Failure!
Eight of every 10 who fight in-the business arena.
bite the aawdunt. For men do fight today as they
fought in the arena at Rome and Antloch. And 80 of the
100 are carried out dead or defeated.
Why?
Because of competition. Because of extravagance,
bad habits and many other things. But largely,- because
of speculation.
Read the list of the victims of the get-rlch-qulck
ewindles at New Orleans and Bt. Louis. Men. women
and children all were trying to get something for
nothing.
And there Is gambling on the Board of Trade where
the maelstrom swallows men alive. .
The wheat pit Is only 80 feet across. But It has
swallowed whole fleets of business cargoes.
It is only a few feet deep, but it has let thousands
of souls down to Hades!
The man who Is doing well, becomes dissatisfied. He
reasons: "I work nice a slave ana save a rew aouars.
So and so makes dollars where I make cents. He runs
the risk. Wh should I not venturer' And before
he knows it he Is in deep water and unable to swim.
We are a nation of speculators, The craving for
wealth beoomes a disease. Men are money drunk.
This Is not rhetoric, It In fact Government ana
nsuranoe companies pay men like Oulteau large sums
of money for disclosing this real history. He who runs
may read it.
Invest your money, yi but don't speculate with it
Don't gamble with it Seattle, star,
Tax Commissioner MoLaughlin of Michigan eame
to the city and looked up Representative Hamilton of
the same state, who Is big. hearty and wofully lacking
in reverence lor tne great ones.
"I suppose you wlU take ma to the White House."
said tne Tax commissioner.
Hamilton affected great surprise.
"Oood heavens, no!" he said. "I can't do that."
"But whyr asked McLaughlin. "I am usually taken
mere wnen i come to Washington.
"Tee. -yes, I know." Hamilton answered, "but you
see, I am the Michigan member of i the Congressional
Union."
'I don't understand," faltered McLaughlin.
Well. I'll tell you. If I took you to the White
House I would be nred out of the union, for we rec
ognize that William Alden Smith of Grand Rapids has
the exclusive prerogative of taking Michigan men to
see the President"
sva&Airi) rzAsso sa wst.
"When the war came t a eloae General DeWet was
famous from end to end of the wide world, Everyone,
therefore, -has looked forward to the publication of
hut boQk in tht'hepa that the author would reveal
himself , in Its paves aa well as give hi own version
of the stirring adventures In which he played the lead
ing part Nor does he disappoint us la W respect
We have here a direst presentment both of the man
and of his wark, , , , As ana reads from chapter to
chapter, the atnaslng elsvernes of the man comas more
and mora into prominence, He Invariably seems to
have dona the right thing by a sort of Instinct , j
Ona is Inellned tQ think, that it was semawnat fortu
nate for the British armies that PWt had no inde
pendent command at the outset" Tha Daily Telegraph
(London), .
It Is reported that each night befeva retiring Presi
dent Roosevelt lies on his back and kicks his feet 60
times into the ale' Perhaps ha Js simply expressing
what he would like to da to. those Souther Republican,
eiefawon.rVenve.r (jews, (
President Roosevelt absorbed many of the likes and
dislikes of the ranchers when he was in the West One
of them was that a cattleman is a great fellow and that
a sheep rancher is of no earthly use to himself or to
anybody else.
A few days ago a Montana man waa here backing
another Montana man for an .office. The President told
him that he could do nothing for him, as .he had de
termined to appoint still another Montana man to the
place.
'Why." said the visitor, "that man Is a sheep
man."
"Now, see here." replied the President, sharply, "it
Isn't fair to appeal to my prejudices in that way."
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wsat'i xx a Trrxx.
In many parts of the Continent the father's title
Is inherited by all his children, and there are several
villages In Austria, Poland and Russia In which all the
peasants are legitimately descended from some princely
ancestor. They are legally described as "princes'; in all
official documents, and on leaving their homes many
of these peasanPfirlnces find themselves sadly hampered
by the burden of a high-sounding title...
They cannot get rid of the titles, however, as they
are purely personal ones and not marketable commodi
ties, like so many In Italy and Portugal, and by the
police regulations no employes can be engaged without
showing his papers, in which his rank, age, and occu
pation are stated. Needless to say, few people are
willing to engage a workman of legally far higher rank
than themselves. .
' The newly married French wife of a wealthy Rus
sian noble was about to engage a Russian maid at St
Petersburg, when, on seeing the papers, she discovered
that the girl was a princess and a member of a well
known but ruined family. The girl ha'd been vainly
seeking employment for months, but the lady declined
to engage her. L.
On reaching her country seat the lady discovered.
to her amazement, that the housekeeper waa a ceuntess
and the hen-wife a princess, while the -farm bailiff,
blacksmith and coachman were possessed of titles equal
ly imposing. As their homes were situated In the vicin
ity of the rich woman's estate, their real social position
as little farmers and peasants was well known,
JAFANXSB BIOSS, .
Nearly every shop In Japan tor the sale of foreign
goods is furnished with a Qign in a foreign language.
No matter whether the language, is lntelMgible; if it
ur only In foreign characters that is enough, -j
Many of these signs are a studyi 'The alt countries
Boot and Shoe Small -or Fine Wares;" "Old Curtost"
"Horse-shoe maker Instruct by French horse leech;"
"Cut Hair Shop;" "If you want sell watoh, I will buy!
If you want buy watch, I will sell, Yes, sir. we Will, '
We wi, ail wut, uome at my snop, vvaian-maaarp
'Hatter Native Country" The Hause Build for the
maaUfaoture of alt and best kind of Hats," ' .
, " The Alaskan boapdacy. being fixed at lost It ii enly
necessary now to learn on which side of the line the
big nuggets may be found. Sioux City Tribune,
Rnmatimea a man has la work BO hard to rat Into
the ynited fitatas Senate that.he seems too tired. tQ do
JLW WtuMttef hi SWPStoft8
L B. Rirfehaft ef thlen. Oraron. la ens a the
Oldest pioneers of Oregon and still remembers mint '
of the v tneideafra of aerly daya One ef the -most
impressive to his memory was art .Indian-raid .upott
a packers' train In which ha waa Interested, whereby
be leaf all of hia earthly posseeslons frt on. night - '
it waa while old Vmatuie Landing was tha mala
supply point for all ef the Interior eottutry, and at a
time when the Indians were raiding tha lOeatera Ore
goq belt from: the California te the Idaho Unas. Mr,
BJnahart with hie b as King train eonaiatine' of 10 man
and 39 mules area making the return trip from Boise '
City, el that time aa army poet and had reached a
point ee the Bnake River between whets Huntlnrton.
vrwmvn, mna rreiaer, luuno, now aiana. . i ne nacaera
had camped for tha night and tha mulea were hoppled
and turned loose In a little valley near the camo. Tha
river, which circled the camp en the north, prevented
tea enimaia rrom straying rar away on that side,
and a mountain covered with large boulders Jsy te
the south. The man. tired out with the day's travel
through the duet and heat had tone to bad earlr. ob
livious of the fact that many ayes were watching theny
front behind the bouldera above.
; A Wight 3UldV
Aa soon aa quiet prevailed In camt in tha earl
part ef the night a band ef Piute Indiana atola down '
from the rocks, un hoppled the mules and drove them
eut through a gulch on to the level plain lying to the
south, Tha fact that the bell on the "belt mule" ceased
w ring sxoiiea me eurioaity or aome or the men who
remained awake and these Want out to investigate.
They found that tha Indiana ware ia possession of the
mulea and were leisurely driving them away, but the
whole country seemed to be swarming with them, and
tha packers did not care to attack many times their
number, especially whea the Indiana might be lying
la ambush.
A reothaety JTcar.
The next moraine found the 1 men . afoot many
milea from any human habitation.. They' still bad their
Saddles and provtelona. aad a few ef them war armed.
but a trip oa foot te Umatilla iMtng, mora than 10
milea e.way and the Blue Mount lea te arose ea the
way, did not took etioouragrnc, , Fortunately, another
pack train 'had arrived later the eame Right from.
Umatilla Landing, aad struck camp farther down the.
river.' and had not been sees by the Indiana. Thav not 1
ealy had supplies and. arms, bat had a few surplus
corses. They at oaoe agreed to take the stranded party
back with them to BaUe City. But four of the, Rlne.
hart party declared they would follow the Indiana and
recover the atolea mulear- In spite of the argument
against ths trip on tha Dart of their rrlenda thav ora.
Pared for tha purault Mounted and well provisioned,
and armed to tha teeth, they took aa oath that-they
would overtake thoae Indians or leava their own
bodies on tha deaert . . . :
Alans About the Men:
Aa tha pack train moved away to tha east tha four
men rode away toward the aoutH In tha direction the
Indians had gone with the ' mules. The back. InJn
was delayed In reaching Boise City. It made a round-'
about trip by old Stiver City and other points before
reaching Ita destination, and when It reached Boise !
City several weeks later tha members of tha train were '
astonished to find that tha four packers had not report-
ed. They were to meat their friends at this nolnt after
their pursuit of tha Indiana. An appeal waa made i
to the commander of the military forces at Boise City
to eand a detachment of aoldlere- In search of tha men.
This requeat waa granted, and a well-provlaloned de
tachment was despatched to the point on Snake River
where the packera' mules were stolen, with orders te
strike tha trail and follow It until the men ware found
or the cause of their delay discovered. -
Oa the Vreil.
The detachment of soldiers had no trouble In finding
and following the trail at first A few miles out from
tha starting point tha Indiana had butchered a mule
and the bones and the aahea of the fire atlll ahowad
where they had held their feaat The tracks of the
ahod horaea ridden by tha paxtcera were also In evidence) t
and showed that the men had coma upon the Indians.1
here and had hidden back behind the rocks on the
mountain while the Indiana held their feast on tha plain
below. Then the white men had taken a circuitous
route down a canyon,' evidently following tha In
dians at a distance and with caution. Thua. for sev
eral days, tha soldiers followed the trail, the camping
places of the Indians being marked with regularity
by tha carcass of ona of the packers' mules which
had served them as a meal. From tha large number
of these carcasses that were found tha soldiers' con
cluded that the band was composed of a large number
of Indians, and the trail bore out this conclusion, for
It indicated that there were at least 10 warriors in the
party.
In the Lava Bads..
The soldiers followed the trial until it reached
the lava beds. The' packers had followed It also to
this point, but here all evidence of the trail of both
parties disappeared. , Not even the shod horses of the
packers made any Indenture upon those glssed and
fllnt'y. fire-burned obstacles which occupied every .Inch
of the surface of the earth for miles In every dlrec- .
tlon. The lava beds lie In broken order. At one point
they rise up many feet forming little basins of less
than an acre. When once out In these lava beds .
tha country all looka alike. It looks like a sea of
waves and swells. The sameness of tha surface of
the earth and the absence of any trait or continuous
hill or valley makes It necessary to travel by course
entirely. It was In a place like this that Captain Jack
and SB warriors stood 1.000 soldiers at bay and killed
many of themywhile his men did not receive a scratch.
Abandoned AU. Hope.
After traveling over thla section of country at ran
dom for two days and finding no trace of the Indians
or the packers the soldiers gave up the search, - Their 1
provisions had run low and they and their animals :
were suffering for water. In fact, the animals were!
suffering for want of both feed and water, and many!
of them were almost past traveling. The rocks had ;
out tha ahoea from their feet and It waa neceaaarv
to abandon the lava bede to save their own lives and
those of the animals. They changed their course to
ward the neareat mountain range, hoping here to find
water for themselves and their animals and grass for '
ths tatter.
a X.acky rind.
At the end of one day's travel, the soldiers came,
upon the rour packers ana wnat remained or tneir
equipment They found them lying under the shadows ;
of tha rocks completely given up and ready to die. j
Deep lines marked their faces, their clothing was torn 1
to shreds and their sore and bleeding feet were wrapped
In what remained of their blankets. They had thrown j
away their firearms and ammunition and had nothing I
left except a little meat, a part 01 the remains of one
of their horses. The .small amount of water ehared
from tha canteens of the soldiers and a light lunch
from their haversacks were hailed with Joy by tha
starving mea
t A Pitiful Story.
The four packers had followed the Indians at a ,
safe distance, watching night and day for an oppor- j -tunlty
to make a raid on the mules, hoping thus to.
leave the Indiana afoot on the desert. But the watch
fulness of the red men had been such that the oppor- j
tunlty was not presented. When they reached the lava j
beds they thought of turning back, but one more dar- (
Infe" than the others chlded them, reminding them of
ttfeir oath, i They followed on, but soon lost sight of
the Indians and became lost themselves. Their horses'
feet were cut by the lava rocks until they were Unable
to travel and had 'to be abandoned one by one and
killed.- Their provisions had run out and they had been
sustained for weeks on the flesh of their slain animals.
Then they had attempted to attract the attention of
the Indians that they might surrender themselves to
theWi but Were unable, te do so, though they discharged
their uns and butit signal Area of the sagebrush.
They had worn out their shoes and-had used up,
all of the blankets to wrap their feet which were being ;
out to ptaoes by tha sharp corners of the lava rocks, j
- Finally, when 11 hope looked as If It had passed,;
ihey laid themselves down among the rocks to -die. By
mere accident the soldiers came upon thenv They alt
returned to Boise City, but Mr. Rlnehart says that
none of them ever had any desire to follow an India
trail afterwards.
- LAV S80VX9 HATB BSBV JrAtMMBB,
HUQEsffl, Ora, Fab, 8ft, 1301, .
-- To tha Editor! I have lust finished reading; the
leading editorial ia fast night's Journal headed WhH
No nat eaiary Lwr Ti. r snouiq nave uaen
passed, and If the referendum Is to he, anything but
a farce, now, is a good time to bring it lata PlAK If
the people ere 1jfH ft .chance.. rote. H
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