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LET 'El TKXV.V East Orejopian Round -Up Souvenir Edition Pendleton, Oregon, Saturday, September 24, 1821. Negri In "One Arabian Night' v r ,v - - ! ; " " , - ...."ZT..TTX j:C0iVBQYtA?;3" WAS f OUND BY 1ATE COL: gjOSEVaT TO BE BRAVE MN i in imii h i ii ''i nit ii ' ii i ii n . i mi ii !. i. i .!. H in mi M i'i 1,1' ,l 'i i - Cfihtihnti frota page! M ' . the formless evil brings that haunt first they paid no particular heed to frtniuhted messengers at ' speed from the forest depths, and dog and way- 'them. busying themselves . with re eunp to camp, summoning all their lay the lonely wanderer who after building the lean-to, laying out their peo.i o witness the act of fierce nightfall pusses through the reg'ona beds and stores, and lighting the fire. ie!f-ijoom; Bnd aoon the entire tribe where they lurk; and it may be that While Ban man was making ready erf, Cheyenne, many of them having their faces blackened la token Of irwuimmg. moves' down and took up a position on the hillside close to the afsruey. At the appointed hour both ynling me appeared In their hand-i w'eird and elfiln traits to what was a game trail after leaving the camy. sn'me War dress galloped to the top merely, some abnormally wicked arid When the brand flickered out, he re ef the hill near the encampment, and cunning wild beast, but whether this .turned and took another, repeating his deliberately bpened fire on the troops, was so or not. no man can say. j Inspect ion of the footprints very close- Th latter merely fired a few shots to When the event occurred Bauman ly. Coming back to the fire, he stood keep the young desperadoes off, while Lieutenant Pitcher 1 and a Score of ravalrrmen left camp'te make a rlr- tile and drive them Ini they did not (from the head of Wisdom river. Notjbeen walking on two legs." Rnumnn WJ4 to hurt them, butto capture and (having had much luck, he and hisjlaughed at th!s, but his partner insist give them over to the Indians, so thsl 'partner determined to go up into ft led that lie was right, and upon again Uh latter might be forced themselves particularly w ild and lonely ' passjeraminlng the tracks with a torch, to' inflict the punishment. However, 'through which rnn a small stream said 'they certainly did seem to be made by th'T were unable- to accomplish their to contain many beaver. The- para but two paws, or feet. However, it purpose: one of the young braves went h.id an evil reputation because the jwas too dark to make sure. After dis tarairht at 'them, firing his rifle and year before a solitary hunter who had jcuaatng whether the footprint could straight at 'them, firing iwflunding the horse of one of the cay- j wandered into It was there slain, alrymen, so that, simply - In self -de- 'seemingly by a wild beast, the hnlf fenee, the fatter had to fire a volley, Je.iten remains being afterward found which laid Vow the assailant; the oth-jby some mining prospectors who had er, hi horse having been shot, was j passed his camp only tho night be killed in the brush, fighting to the f ore. ' ' . lajt All the while, from the moment the- two doomed braves appeared unl l the fell, the Cheyennes on the hillside had" been steadily singing the death ! cJSaht When the young men ad both died, and had thus averted the tM which their misdeeds would else haiy brought upon the tribe, the war- rmra took their bodies and bore them a.y for burial honors, the soldiers from thence onward impracticable for'hav linking on in silence.' Where the,horRPSi They then struck out on footjwai stein fnen were mined tne nites nev-, f knew; but all that night they lis-jln tene.1 to th. dismal Wailing of the dirges with which the tribesmen cele- brated their gloomy Meral rUea. ' I?mntiers men are not as a rule, apt to. be -ery 'wiperstitious. They lead livrfi too hard and practical, and have too little imagination la things spirit ual' and supernatural. I have heard few ghost stories while living on the frontier, and these few Were of a per fectly commonplace and conventional typ. " ' , 1 ' Creepy Goblin Story, i But once I listened to a goblin story which rather pressed me.. It was told by a grlsled, weather beaten olfi mountain hunter, named Bauman, who was bom and bad passed almost ail -of his life on the frontier. Ha ntust have believed what he said, for h could hardly repress a ahuJder at certain points of the tale; but he was of German ancestry, and In childhood had doubtless been saturated with all kinds of ghost and goblin lore, so that many Iearsome superstitions were lat ent in his mind; besides, he knew well te stories told by the Indian medi W men In their winter camps, of the i . "shaw Nralkers, and the specters, and when overcome by the horror of the fate that befell his friend, and whenipanion began to examine the tracks oppressed by the awful dread of the unknown, he grew to attribute, both at the time and more In remembrance, j was still a young man, and -was trap- .Ping with a partner among the moun- ta'ns dividing the forks of the Salmon Pass of PI Kcpnte1. The memory of this event, however, weighed very lightly with the two tranpera. who were adventurous and jimrdy as others of their kind. They t0ok their two lean mountain ponies to thc foot of tho pass, where they heft them in an open beaver meadow. tne rocky, timber-clad ground being inorses. iney men sirucK out on ioot;wara ne neard the smashing of the . i. .m.-K n..-. v.nt n-inmv f . mnA about four han TMChi a little-! was. rushed off into the Impenetrable !,, where , rnni.initM tn'i,i.-.u. ft jeamp, as signs of game were plenty. There. was still an hour or two of) lit.vllrht left .n.i rier hnil.iino- a i. . . . . . " "r oneninir their Daeks. thev started no stream. The country was very dense i and hard to travel through, as there was much down timber, although here and there the sombre woodland was broken by small glades of mountain grass. 4 ? At dusk they again ' reached camp. (The glade in which it was pitched was not many -yards wide, the tall.- close set pines ana nrs rising around n niceitheir camp-kit and bedding, and de a wall. On one side of it was a little istroyed the shanty. The ground was stream, beyond which rose the steep jmarked by its tracks, and on leaving mountain slopes, covered with the un- the camp it had gone along the soft broken growth of the evergreen for- 'earth by the brook, where the foot es' (prints were as plain as if on snow, and Goblin's First Vis. .after a careful scrutiny of the trail, it They were surprised to find that (certainly did seem as If, whatever the during their short absence something, ,thlng was, it had walked off on but apparently a near, naa visitea camp, and had rumaged about among their things, scattering the contents of their packs and in sheer wantonness de stroying their lean-to. The footprints hi j 1 j A of the beast were quite plain,' but at supper, it being already dark, Ins com more closely, and soon took a brand .from the fire to follow them up, j where the Intruder had walked along y it a minute or two. peering out In jto the darkness, and suddenly re ! marked: "Re.uman, that bear hu: possibly tie those of a human being. and coming to tho conclusion that they could not be. the two men rolled up in their blankets, and went to sleep un der the lean-to. At midnight Bauman was awaken ed by some noise, and sat up In his .blankets.; As he did so his notsrils were struck by a strong, -wild-beast. oaor, ana no caugnt mo loom or a great body in tho darkness at the mouth of the lean-to. A Shot That Missed. Grasping his rifle, ho fired at the vague, threatening shadow, but must missed, for immediately after- Tn.4a.u - ns,.4 n . v. ,. ..,!..., i.-i tie. sitting un by the rekindled fire jvLLfr LfiiN Lite iwii mini rifiii nm iir-i w . t.....t .nihi. t- .u. " .". " . il,, few tr,n ihnT- t,A n, vious evening and to mit out new ones. ! By an unspoken ngreemcnt they kept together all day, and returned to camp toward evening. On nearlng it they saw, hardly to their astonishment, that tho lean-to had been again torn down. - The visit-'they or of the preceding day had returned. and in wanton malice had tossed about two legs, me men, thoroughly uneasy, gath-jlng ered a great heap of dead logs and I thickets they 'occasionally, heard a kept up a roaring fire throughout the'branch snap after 'they had passed; night, one or the other sitting on and now .and .then there were slight ff55 P - ' ', INCREASED MILEAGE IS BUILT INTO . Tlieir perfect construction gives them wonderful flexibility and strength Buy Federals. They cost no more and go farther. . i : i- f ' . nenJivm: DISTRIBUTORS , f J It ' ' Ait 'Trmnrnrr . ,,ninni A nm in rn ..mmi. . '. '(., ' ' Pola Xegrl w-lU soon be seen In Kight." Krnest Lubltseh directed the picture and play promltient role. Paul Wegener, ranked with LuDltsch, a the gr--ut.-t Of European directors, also has a leading role. The National 'Board of itevlew soy tho victure "will rank as one of the .exceptional photoplays ot the year." t t , L ' , ' guard most of the time. - About mid- in'Kl,t ,he thl"g camo 'ow" throuBlt the forest opposite, across the brook, .1. nour,y an ho"r'. They could hear the branches crackle as it moved aoout, ....., im it ttre.l a hnrsh iKratlng, long-drawn moan, a peculiar- ly sinister sound. Yet It did not veil-. lu,r" I To -,vn I,nco of j In the morning the two trappers. after discussing the strange events of jthe last thirty-six hours, decided that would shoulder their packs and leave the valley that afternoon. They were the more ready to do this because in 'spite of seeing a good deal of game sign they had, Caught Very little fur. However, it was necessary first to go along the lien of their traps and gath er them, and this they started out to do. " ' ' " '. All the morning they kept together, nlcklno- tin" Iran after trail, e.ich nneithe sun was getting. As he hurried to Amr.iv nn f!rt iwivimr camn thev had tho disagreeable sensation of be- . . . followed. In the dense spruce Double Cable Ease TT) n FOR UMATILLA COUNTY! another lOrebm film. "On Arabian rustling noises among the small pines to one side of them. " . "' ,. At noon they were back within a coupla of miles of vciunu. ' in the hlfih. bright sunlight tne.r tears . .... ... ... seemeo aosura 10 me two urmra men "aecnistomed as thev were, through long years of lonely wandering In the wil ilernesV, to face every kind uf danger from man,, brute or element. There were still three beaver traps to col- lied from a little pond in a wide ra vine near by. Hauman'volunteered to gather these and bring them in. white his companion went ahead to camp to make ready the packs. I ' Death Won Itact. 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