THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY' MORNING, AUGUST 18, 1907.
); SometLmtf ' Atout W. E Isaacs of Medford WKc :
i y Skill Has Attracted tne Admiration of tKe Bc;t
Anglers of tHe WorldSome of His CatcLcs Witt Small Hies ; and Ligkt Ro ds
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TO VT. F. ISAACS of Medford be
long the honor of being th
. champion fisherman of Oregon.
Probably also (ft the Pacific
coaat, for he ha fished with all
the crack fishermen of California and
Washington and more than held his own
with the best of them. In the opinion
of many Mr. Isaacs ranks as the pre
mier fisherman of America. He has
fished wltu the best fly fishermen of
New York, Philadelphia and other east
ern cities, and his catch was more than
double the slse of any of theirs.
The biggest catch in weight made In
one day by Mr. Isaacs was that of 28
teel heads, which averaged 6 pounds '
apiece and were caught with a number
,riy ana s-ounce rod.- The largest rmn
caugnt ty Mr. Isaacs wun a ny
l-pound rainbow trout, tne Big
gest tiHnf of Its kind ever caught In
southern Oregon. Mr. Isaacs has fre
quently caught the full number allowed
by the 'law In one day; none of them
small.
A Native of Oregon.
Mr. Isaacs is a young man who was
born and raised In southern Oregon, and
for the past IS years has fished along
the Rogue river and other Oregon
streams. There Is no part , of the
was'
Rogue river- from Its source in the
mountains near Crater lake to Its mouth
that he Is not familiar with and he has
not frequently fished. He knows every
rapid, every ripple and every eddy in
the stream. Most of his fish, however,
were caught near Medford or near Trail,
some 25 miles above Medford.
The largest fish shown in the pic
tures are steelheads. The steel head Is a
true trout, though it grows to such a
large slse that It Is frequently styled
salmon, but It Is not a salmon. It la
one of the gamiest fish native to west
ern waters and puts up the hardest
kind of a fight. Young steelheads are
frequently called "salmon-trout." but
there Is no such distinct variety of fish
' as the ; "salmon trout"
j Other fish shown are "rainbow" trout,
one of the gamiest and best of native
game fish, the "cut-throat" trout, alio
a fighter, though smaller than the rain
bow, and ordinary western brook trout,
which seldom attain large slse. In
many Oregon streams these varieties
have crossed, resulting in hybrid spe
cies, -i
Outfishes Champions.
Among the crack fishermen who pay
tribute to Isaacs' skill is W. D. Mans
field of San Francisco, champion fly
caster of the United States. He fished
alongside of Mr. Isaacs several days.
MURDERING THE LANGUAGE
Cause of tke Cockneys Dropping tne "Hi
Nasal Twang of American Nationalities
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OT once, but several times I have
""heard the complaint made that
what is generally called slang
or dialect is finding its way into
the language spoken by the edu-
ibngland. The intellect without a heart
is flame without heat. Such an In
tellect becomes rapidly blase, cold, caus
tic, Bysantlne. Having reached that pet
rification it moulds itself an idiom,
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and openly expressed his admiration of
the Oregonian.
When the champion marksmen of the
world were through Medford a year ago,
they were Introduced to Rogue river
Ashing by Mr. Isaacs, and all acknowl
edged his skill. Among the marksmen
were Walter Huff, William Crosby,
William Htllis, Tom Marshall, Davfd
W. King of San Francisco, and Chaun
rry id. Powers of Decatur, Illinois, all
of them noted anglers.
Frank Ayers, and Dr. Holden. of New
York, who are both considered without
peers in the streams of the Appalachaln
region, were so delighted with Mr.
Isaacs' skill that they offered to pay
his expenses east, provided he would
enter into flly-castlng and fishing con
tests In New York and other eastern
states.
Though Mr. Isaacs has little trouble
in making phenomenal catches, an or
dinary fisherman can go over the same
ground without securing a rise. HU
secret lies In his casting; the length of
line he uses, and the way in which the
fly lights on tne water. He prefers
light tackle and small files, frequently
landing a 10-pound fish on a No. S fly
and a (-ounce rod.
Faulty Fish gadders.
Before the days when dams impeded
the progress of the flsh up stream, the
Rogue river was the best Ashing stream
in the state. Of lata years however,
steel head and salmon have become rare
through the dams with faulty flshways .
being built
There Is at present a dam at Grant ;
Pass which effectually , stops . th , ; .
progress of many fish up stream. Fish1 -are
unable to find the ladder and beat,
their brains out leaping against ."'the)
dam. Not one flsh in 10 succeeds In.
getting past the dam, and there arc
prospects unless something is dons to
remedy the situation, that good flsh
ins; on the Rojue river wilt be a thing
Of the past. ' '' y: "Jm r
Last week a committee of 1n!mat -fishermen
waited upon the owners of '
the Grants Pass dam and Informed them
that unless the defects wars remedied,
some morning they might find the dam
missing. The owners sent for Master
Fish warden Van Dusen. and offered "
to make the necessary alterations, but
as yet nothing has been done. But lit
tle uttempt Ha made by the local fish:
wardens to enforce the-law. and thou
sands of salmon have been illegally
taken by Grants Pass fishermen at the '
base of the dam. The wardens claim
that prosecution is not made because
evidence cannot be secured, but Attor- '
ney R. O. Smith of Grants Pass, who '
was at Ms own request, once temporar
ily appointed flsh warden, had no diffi
culty In obtaining five convictions in
as many days. .
mil JUIUII1,
nasal. chonDV. unmnilml
eated classes. This i especially and graceless.
, Tendon, as I have noticed myself .-Have . the , etym61oglsts. . those great
" ' . tuaenii nr.wnmi ann ftmBii tinHnr.
from my own experience, and I am.aio standers of language, ever inquired into
told that tne same.. m in
America.
It is not in liondon drawing-rooms
that one hears nowadays the flne-t
rhythms of that Unguaga which in po
try la full of music, and which In
prose, too, might have a. cadence as
Tha average conversation, in London Cause of Nasal Twang.
done incalculable harm to English
prose. Literary prose is a big river liv
ing on the numerous affluents of flno
Society, getting In certain layers as aucea finally the worst or all reatures private conversation. This is how
unemotional as a Chinese bronse, must iw-io : xocnuumry ui
"Hs." He mangles them as he man- water flowing from the rim of a rain-
f les polysyllables for want of ,mo- drenched hat , A
tlonal breath. . Tnis laclc of cadence in sentences pro-
room conversation. To the close student
of life there is a grim Irony in the
sight of a woman, whose dress is care
fully chosen from the latest, best, most
artistic, or would-be artistic, material
and models, and whose words are taken
from among the ragamuffins of the
East End of London. It Is not once In
a hundred cases that one is given to
hear choice vocabulary. In Paris, in
Berlin, in Rome, any man or woman
the causes of the constant mlsnlace-
ment of the "H" In Cockney talk I necessarily pay he linguistic penalty
uouoi it, yei were is nair xne psycnoi- r v-
ogy of Cockneydom. The less erao-' Pectoral voices become rare, breath
tfonal a people becomes tha more it Fets feeble. H's get discolored, G's are
talks from parts of the head Instead 'PPd off and R's tend to - become
of the breast Just as the most emu- vswels,
tional instruments are broad and pec- ' It Is, however, when we turn our lit
toral instead of long anl heady. tention from the sounds of a single let
- . . , . ter to-those of whole sentences: it is in
the cadence of jihra.es that the Cock-
i ucj lluavLiun til IUhtipiv lim:iJTII era Ilia III I 11 1.
society sounds like' the rapplngs of a In the New World, whether In tha As, language consists of sentences and
taiearanhio operator. ' From sound t tt.i- a,. b..v i not of words, so' oronunclatlon is more
becomes -thud. . ptaenomwo. and cadence of
acoustic mud. . nasal- twang may. be heard In English, the sentence than in that of v single
The .Londoner, unuico in farinan epanish .or Portuguese alike. Ift the woros. . , ;
has jysVer been known to give his Ian- New World people have inoomoaratlvelv When a Spaniard or Italian asks you Harm to English Prose.
WW t?e jleganco and pointed graje Un, '"Tl something you . know that a question -A t tt, mmA u
;t maae fris, ever since me aays or - --- -.,-- viuimWu,iu- tu, oeen asaea, even ir you aa not .:..br .
Hotel KamDouuiet, ine sea ana nom or uonajuy, u at times a mora violent unaersiana one wora oi wnat he said, ba said, that it is or aii piaoes wnere
the finest motion in Tance. in Jung ana ona than hav thc r,M.r n.flnn. n ou near irom me caaenc mat it is a nrtir aniriethln of the wealth if
XaM.-. H IK. ' . . Au.allnn KTnl In T a.Ja. ' , . . " -- ---
Frenoh ii . spoked in Touraiw." QVlla Europa.t Jf now.wa apply this fact to ?0nV doubt., isviiw.1:NU.Vi poorest in the chances- It
blague I . TO he
must hear
town where
entering a salon is expected to talk in
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tta :i -Jl ' th vU ,or ps-. By mere Up and
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a distingue manner.
nunc lat Ion and as
phrase. .
women have at all times influenced the
literary prose of their men. Cicero
himself says that the best Latin of his
time was talked by Roman matrons.
But where, as In London, talk is slip
shod, the affluents of the big river ire
drained, and the river itself is dried
up. i ,
It has been said by very prominent
men.'Of whom I have the highest opin
ion, that to overcome this, people should
read English aloud, talk French and
German, but I think that the cause of
tongue practice Dure and original Eng
lish will - not be preserved. English,
like everything great and precious, can
be preserved only by the very cause by
which it was produced.' "
Throbbing hearts and keen minds con
quered In many an anxious crusade . f
life, th holy land of the English lan-
lungs.
THE LONG ALASKA TRAIU-
In Summer a Lonely, Flowery iVay;
Vastly Different During Winter Months
Our trail still leads to the north along ane and the oats from Manitoba, both'
the great government road from White-v Pnt about 1.500 miles away,,, Both,
horse to Dawson a gold seeker writ-,-;'5Wa oJSili.rf'on this road by
in Hunter-Trader-Trapper. It Is about four droves of beef cattle of 125 heal
850 miles, well timbered all the way in- ach drove. They were shipped front
with soruce. ooislar and Cottonwood: rf,' '. v'."""u.. a ?whmv . '"n.w
some jack pine Just starting in thick
masses of many acres.
Forest fires ten years ago drove most
of the game and fur to other parts,
yet we see fresh signs of bear and fox.
In the dusty road every day for miles
and miles. Some duck, gees and swan
show up neany every aay s travel. -2 J. a .w ..A a lvv wm
This is the miaaie or May th a-rass , kiT -57 1 J' .i.Y .
is four Inches high, blue and . whit ;.Jhey f1 ! "- Fairbanks for tJS&jo
flowers along th roadside, soma straw f Th ; man who work th
berry blossoms, and yet a pan of glass .'clc "? Shovel, pays for all. Churk
frosen in our camp kettles each morn- ftea 5 cjpts; X bon steak, 0 cents;
lng.. Fruit la killed 1.000 miles south. bt t $1 per pound. - . ....
This government road ia a aolltud . n nra lost v head through the
in summer, not a person for a iviirv-i c: th next day the neat herd: lot
ArmA m 1 1 am hut ' in winter whn "th tm. nln head at the same plac. Tli"
tnn. travel on the mlsrhtv Yuknn rt, went under the ice in twelve f"t
then th road is a wide awake, thriving, Tster. - Th miner must pay t
bustling, hustling, get there runway for ,OM sJao. - The hay each n r l
th traders and miners. - Great four atS costs about. 1200 earh n
,1, HstraA iiirm m)mm tv.n,..i. .vi- tha rnad. , One herrt was '"r! H
rmil nlrht and dav from hnth .i- to drive, so th younir-r
600 ' tnllea hv rail. 1 AAA , th ;
120 miles by rail. 140 miles on foot, then ,
by : boat -260 miles to Dawson. 1.1100
miles to Fairbanks. Feed, both oats
and hay, averages 1160 per ton. -
Tho first cost of cattle la about 7
per head. They are still fed Until thre
years old and weigh from 4,(00 to t.100
each, the best in th land.- Th freight
on each is mora than 1100. the feed
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tallectual puis
. ixmdon ui
. to hear Frenen at its best one tn wnaoner we neea not wonderthAt -ousneaa, iwtteryr an and everything are offers for that purpose.
ear it spoken in Farliv in the hi. nni rnhhmA n nt' u pronounced In th same cadence of drls- k.-. ait tt,mt th
beat both th heart and In- :." ... 7,' : :': 1 7 . ""'w sling word-drons. -The wave Of the sen-
or jrrance.. ; v.-',- : miuiiiaiv tnnca hu nn rraM. no vallev. hrt
It will only be by a proper elect rlflca- "mil
never bean, tha
so, Uis haart o .
what it once was., a maiden much like
llrtn. ' wlinin on or iwo years, jn uouaon noi hauteou Crank. trmnnul hv nilrhtv
art of .torai brsath Xor . propsr. bss ot taa ins Xoam, tBo"bavz ttadulaUoat It ia la 20 xoara, Jhla, Z am conylacsd am Bom - .-
In Paris yortlon-f the underground of London so
ts contains ciety tnat jKngiish
London not
Chang horses every twenty-two" "oIa hunters went for fiv
lies, at hotels called roadhouses. The Per day. and expend
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lanauace contains ciety that English will continue to he
charges at thes roadhouses are tl.50
tof each , meai, ii tor a bed l for
handout lunch; beer etc., 25 cents per
drink, hay and oats five to ten rents
per pound. -Th bay, cma from
Mnrlon PiJi!
emtl'r fK.ih ."'I '
out fur 1 . . . tit i- :H
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