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NEWBERG. YAM H ILL COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11,1910.
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hear running water and here tat man whose wife and even tile
* o t not Of it brethren, it was uous (?) life o f the city.
was an expaass o f something be guides had doubted most serioue-
done through ignorance.” Such
It is inelegant to hurry he?e.
tween tw o banks refleeting the ly whether he could make it.
a state o f plenty, prosperity aad They work from sun to sun,
fight. But what was our sur­
productiveness! Such a relief but never hurry in Massachu­ Graphic Story o f <
We enjoy the panorama,
prise when the river turned out lour pictures snapped, w rite<
Tw elve H ours, by a N ow -
from the hot, burning, useless setts,” we are told and we believe
O u r Country Contributor T ells o f
to be one o f ice rather than (names in the Mazama book
bsrv Pastor.
wastes o f barrenness, poverty it. There is an air o f quietness,
Trip A cross C ontinent.
water. Here we had a solid is kept in a metal box on the
and penury; from blistering sands a lack o f vim and bustle so
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footing on which we did not slip, summit, and is intended for the
to green meadows; from track­ noticeable in the West. While
“
All
aboard
for
Mt.
Hood!”
"Land of the Wart I m * oi tW .
less plains to golden grain; from enjoying a trolley ride some da
e hour o f 12:45 a.m. didn’t owing to the alpine-stocks and names o f those who make the
Omgon. my Oragoa,
torrid winds t o moist, life-giving ago, the car stopped out in a
ke the call any less welcome. the screws in o ix r shoes that the climb. After three quarters ot
Thy waw-wnW thorn am dnr to
Oragato my Orngon.”
breezes, that come to us refresh* pleasant country place.. Thé It’s rather hard to sleep on the guides had put there while we an hour begins the descent aad
Over and over the words o f the mg, like a drink o f cold water to motorman and conductor got ground with n o pillow other were trying to sleep. Once on also the fun. When we come t o
refrain sounded in our minds a thirsty wayfarer. Dry, dry, off, went to a wayside watering than your coat, when you’re not the ice, that’s where we stay, a convenient place, Miles, the
From our own home country again, but this time according to I place much like the “ old village used to it, especially when some with but one or tw o short excep­ guide, sits down on the snow
through California to the Golden the most advanced methods of pump, y helped themselves to a sextet o f mosquitoes are sing­ tions, during the remainder o f and has one ofthe ladies sit dow n
immediately back o f him in to ­
Gate. Through Death Valley a temperate people, whose fine cooling draught very deliberate- ing in your ears, taking turns the climb.
The broad ice fields are entered boggan style and aw ay they g o
with “ its burning sands that the homes, well tilled farms, sleek ly, resumed their positions and feasting on your blood, while the
rain drops never visit.” And the herds, educational buildings and we went on. We stopped at a solo parts are being sung. So from the river we have been fol­ down over the side ot the moun­
great desert with its blue lakes churches, spoke silently but forse- picturesque village, did some we were very ready to crawl out lowing. We refresh ourselves tain so last that we hardly know
ever beyond the parched tongue fully o f a fertile soil, a thrifty shopping, waiting some time for o f our blankets Thursday morn­ from a little spring of water, and what has happened. Soon it
and weary feet o f the luckless people, a wealthy state. And the merchant to hunt up enough ing when Elijah Coalman, the the guide doles out to us some comes the turn of one o f New-
traveler who dares to cross that Kansas City! That great net­ newspaper and string to do up Wg. good natural guide stuck pieces o f chocolate partly, pos­ berg’s most dignified preachers.
burning waste o f blistering, work of steel, a railroad center our purchase. At another place his head into our teat and in­ sibly, to keep us in a good humor He sits down, but unfortunately
burning, sandy desolation, fitly second greatest in the United we walked into quite a preten­ formed us that it was time to be but rather, as all found, to give the lady that is coupled with
inhabited by Gila' monsters, States—a great network o f com­ tious market place, only to find gfepving if we were to be enrolled us some nourishment. We were him is much larger than he, so
only s o n y the pieces weren’t that in the descent he finds her
mercialism, that vast distribut­ it vacated. A placard on a pillar among the Mazamas.
rattlesnake and homed toad.
larger.
unmanageable. By some magic
ing
center,
if
not
o
f
fruits,
o
f
admonished
us
to
“push
the
Across N ew M e x i c o an d
’ Everything superfluous was
Gradually
the
east
began
to
she flies over him and lands in
Arizona with more tre e le sa , bread and meat sufficient to feed button,” which we did. After to be left behind; even money
some waiting a lady very sedate­ ttould be o f no account on this turn gray, the stars began to be the snow while his impetus car­
waterless plains—dry, dry, in the multitude.
On to Chicago, that “ Windy ly came down stairs, and just as trip, for as Sam Miles, the other less brilliant, and some one was ries him over her. One o f the
every respect except from a tem
peranee standpoint; where the City” o f the Great Lakes; that sedately attended to our wants. guide said, we would not find sure he saw Mt. Jefferson. Soon other very respectable gentlemen
eyes o f the traveling public were inland, midland city that binds No hurry, no bustle; nothing to ! any cigar stands or ice cream another saw the Three Sisters from Newberg starts all right
refreshed at the various towns together the East and the West, occasion it. However this is not • parlors. Those of us who had and then Diamond Peak. The with his feet down-hill, but the
and villages by a saloon on each making it one great family. always the case. Worcester, a ' ^Dats were to be as those who Blue Mountains to the east also force o f gravity showed where
com er of the straggling streets Some hours were spent visiting | short ride away, is a great Mad done, by wearing them like gradually became visible, but it his chief weight was, for his head
aud a couple in the center. Where the chief points o f interest, from 1 manufacturing center, as well as shirts with the suspenders on became evident that the smoke soon exchanged places with his
the train stopped out in the the beautiful temple o f marble, \ educational. Everything from a ! the outside. ThQse with skirts from the forest fires was going eet.
Thus we began the descent.
midst o f nowhere and the In­ sacred to the memory o f all locomotive to a rubber boot is: were to exchange them for some- to keep us from seeing Mt. Shasta
dians flocked outside with their iterary genius, the city library, made there. It is the home o f thing less bunglesome. There and the cities o f the Willamette The snow was soft now and we
inventive genius, from Elias1 was something wierd in drink- Valley. However the sun smiled didn’t need the screws in our
wares, bead work and pottery. to the Indiana lying in dock.
We saw their adobe huts on the
From Portland to Chicago we Howe down. Clarke University ing the hot coffee around the his fairest and made old Mt. shoes sd they* were taken out
cliffs, and the ovens in which the enjoyed a splendid train service, ¡is one o f the highest in the coun- samp-fire at dead o f night, es- Hood cast its wonderful shadow and we were permitted to roll
beautiful pieces o f pottery were Aluch could be said for it in every try. There are numerous other pecially with* the excitement o f o f bluish haze before us, mark­ down, slide down or walk down
baked. We looked at the natives way, from the kindly old porter schools in the vicinity.
climbing Mt. HoodL before one. ing plainly over scores -of miles ust as we chose—reaching the
Elmwood Farm, the present After the lunch had been hastily stretched out below, the outline camp from which w e had
with their stolid, swarthy fea­ who apprehended our wants, to
tures and wondered at the del­ other railroad officials who were home o f the Country Contrib- eaten, the Alpine-stock selected, o f the mountain, while the hills started in the morning after be­
icate patterns and beautiful ever ready to show the points o f utor, is bounded on all sides by* 'and the smoked glasses dis- and peaks on which the sun was ing gone just 12 hours and having
designs, and exquisite workman­ interest along the , way. But stone walls, subdivided by the tributed, the guide called us to shining were wrapped in a lad an experience that we will not
ship o f beautifhl filagree silver : rom Chicago east, we have not same, covered by grape vines, “ Fall in line, ladies first.” Thus delicate, gauzy mantle o f a soon forget.
One o f the Party.
work, home-madejewelry, dainty much to say. We will let hear- ] black berry vines and blueberries, we tiled out o f camp, eleven of wonderful orange hue.
drawn work, quaint pottery and say do for others as it did for with hedges o f wild cherries and us counting the guides—like a
On and on wc go, a little at a
far famed Mojave Indian blan­ us—wonderfully magnify at a hazel nuts, the kind we used to flock of geese so far as the order time as the hours pass, till final­
kets. We watched them work­ distance the speed, ease and com- gather in childhood. Lake Lash- of our march was concerned, ly after a steep climb with the
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ing at the historical old Albu­ ort o f the eastern rail over the onry forms an eastern boun- But not like geese in the amount aid of a rope we reach Crater
querque, New Mexico—that oasis western, which may be so some-1 dary; also furnishes good boat- o f noise made. “ Chin music,” Rock at 7:10 A.M. This station lurry L Lewis Arrested and D e­
tained on Charge o f Bigam y.
in the desert, with tufted palms, times.
I ing, swimming and fishing— as Miles called it, was to be “ cut on the w ay is made a halting
sparkling fountains and tropical Finally, through thirteen states, perch, pickerel and black bass, out.” We needed all our “ wind” place for all the pilgrims to the
flowers. With the heterogeneous after eight days traveling, we That is quite a summer resort— tor the climb. So we moved summit. We are still 1000 feet
Harry L. Lewis, alias several
mingling under one great roof
below the highest point and the other names which he has carried
o f the ancient Spanish and Indian
hardest part o f the climb is yet from time to time, was arrested
relics—the first mission bells,
to come and it becomes a con­ here yesterday afternoon and
gold, silver and copper candle
venient stopping place for those taken to McMinnville to answer
stick; the ivory cross and cruci­
whose feet are chilled with some­ a charge o f bigamy. Sheriff
fix that brought peace to the
thing more than the snow. In Henderson, in telephoning Dep­
Indians’ soul or tear to his super­
our party, however, none yield uty Gardner his instructions,
stitious mind, talisman o f the
to faint-heartedness. So after told him to hand-cuff the man
crafty Spaniard, who, with one
an hour’s rest, during which we and take no chances as he had a
hand upholding the emblem of
eat the lunches we have brought record as a bad actor.
his religion, with the other stole
Gardner made the arrest in the
and paint our faces and ears and
the gold, silver and precious
necks with face paint in the most office o f the Newberg Land Com­
stones of the trusting and un­
gorgeous hues to keep from sun­ pany, where Lewis was fixing
wary native. We see the latter
up some legal papers incident to
burn, we start on again.
sitting at the entrance o f this
Now there must be no talking selling his property here, and
great building with his wares,
for there over-hangs us several preparatory to leaving Newberg
giving in a low musical voice the
ton o f rock and earth that are on the evening train. F. A.
pnee, which is generally a mere
liable to fall at any minute, and Morris, who knew what was
song, or holding his baskets o f
the vibrations caused by even brewing for Lewis, delayed
apples, peaches or other fruits
the human voice may be sufficient operations as much as possible
which the Mission Fathers have
to dislodge enough to send us to with a view to detaining the
taught him to raise by the art
our doom. We soon pass that man until the order for arrest
of irrigation. Here we see the
danger and come within a few should come.
practical benefit o f the latters’
Lewis and wife No. 2 have been
feet o f where the old crater is
teaching—the com and grain
living
here tw o or three months.
still emitting its sulphur fumes,
well tended, often with the rudest
discoloring the snow all around Investigations on the part o f
Elmwood Farm , East Brookfield, M ass., new hom e o f our Country Contributor
tools. They were threshing their
and making us wonder what it wife No. 1, o f Oklahoma, led to
grain—now treading it out with
must be like inside. We pass suspicions o f the new comer soon
oxen; again, from the winnow­
along a narrow ridge o f ice-slant­ after his arrival and a watch
ing floor, tossing it up with rude
ing on one side into the crater has been kept on him while the
wooden forks to the refining crossed the line into the Old Bay parks, hotels and cottages. The comparatively silently and very while on the other is a steep negotiations for his arrest were
effects o f the ever present wind. state, one o f the original thir­ waters of this lake also help to slowly—scarcely more than a decline to hundreds o f feet below. under way. Lewis is a man o f
And we wondered if this could be teen. It is a very significant as fill the ice houses in winter and snails pace—about the gait the We hold on to the rope, however, some sixty years o f age.
Mrs. Lewis, the second, went
the twentieth century in the well as an historical fact, that furnish much sport for all by bride and groom have to take and step in the foot-holds that
United States o f America, or our forefathers landed at Ply­ way o f skating and sleighing.
when they are marching in to have been hewn out for us by up to McMinnville this morning
whether we were in a dream, and mouth Rock—and their descend­ The old farm house and build- Lohengrin. In addition the the guides, and come safely to to see what was doing with her
had gone back to the time o f our ants have been landing rock ever ings are o f the tvpical New Eng- guide would stop every little bit the big crevasse or crack in the unworthy lord, and had the op­
fathers, Abraham a n d K i n g since, judging from the miles up­ land style, plain, commodious for us to rest, even when some of ice, some eight or ten feet wide portunity o f comparing notes
David. And we trusted with on miles o f stone walls, stone and substantial, built in 1853. us thought we didn't want to and goodness knows how deep. with wife No. 1.
Paul o f old that now asthen, ‘ ‘He bridges, cellars and foundations. The timbers are o f solid oak, as rest. As we found later that A ladder is placed for us to walk
that thresheth in hope should be But like all other foundations firm as the day they were laid in was the only way most o f us on, and a rope to hold on to, W h ere to Eat During G . A - R .
partaker o f his hope," especially laid by them, they were well laid, place. The stone cellars are as could have reached the summit, and thus the crevasse is crossed.
Encampment.
in that land o f seeming un­ still standing as solid monu­ commodius as an ordinary house. I We hadn’t gone far up through Then comes the steepest and last
productiveness.
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ments to their toil, thrift and Elms and beech nuts, with pine the loose yielding laVa dust, stage of the climb, when we go
The ladies will serve dinner and
Through Colorado, into that carefulness—a thing their sons and oak, grace the streets and stumbling now and then over almost straight up by means o f supper iu the basement ot the
great, productive state o f Kan­ o f latter days avoid, hurrying by-ways, and the state puts her boulders, when it seemed in the the steps cut in the ice and with Christian church during theG. A.
sas. Never again shall we think away to the city instead, leaving seal on all well formed trees pale light o f the moon that the the help o f a rope, until finally we R. Encampment, Aug. 23 to
or say anything slightingly of the quiet, rock-bound home of along the road ways, compel- guide was taking us right down reach the very top—all o f us, in­ Aug. 27. Chicken pic dinner on.
Kansas, if we ever have. “ We their fathers for the more stren-
,'C ontinu ed oo p * ( * a.)
into a creek or river. We could cluding three ladies and a big the 24th.
I ron the PAanc <
TO THE ATLANTIC
CLIMBING MT. HOOD
ONE WIFE TOO MANY
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