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ROOUR RIVER COURIER, GRANTS PASS, OREGON AUGTST 21, 1908. Ml Btf kW. 4 M .IV: tKVssl Ijy TnZODOKE IS00SEVELT- JCoprrlght, Wi, by O. r. Putnam's Sons. I'ubllnliol undur arrangement with O. P. 1'iiuuni'i Hum, Nw York and London ".VCE In September I wa I Ck I 'n"'l",l "D the shore of I I Kootenai Luke, having L A wllh me OK comnmilnris. JiiIiii Willis and an Impassive-looking Indian named Aiumul. Coming tcruHH through the dense coniferous forests of nortlieru Idaho we bad l truck the Kootenai River. Then we went down wltb tbe current as It wound in balf circle through a long alluvial valley of mixed ma run and woodlund, hemmed In by lofty moun tains. The luke ltHclf, wben we reach ed It, stretched straight away like a great flord, a hundred miles long and about three In breadth. Tbe frowning and rugged Selkirk came down sheer to the water's edge. 80 straight were tbe rock walls that It was dllllcult for as to in ml wltb our buttwiu, save at the places where the rapid mountain torrents entered the lake. Wo bad come down from a week's fruitions bunting In the mountains; a week of excessive toll. In a country where we saw no game for in our Ig norance we had wasted time, not go ing straight back to the high ranges, from which the game bad not yet de scend)!. After three or four days of rest, and of feasting on trout a wel come relief to the monotony of frying pan bread and coarnoy suit pork we were ready for another trial; and early one mornlug we made tbe start Hav ing to pack everything for a fortnight's use 011 our bucks, through an excess ively rougb country we of course traveled as light as possible, leaving almost all we bad wltb the tent and boat We walked In single file, as la nec essary In thick woods. The wblte hunter led, and I followed, each with rifle on shoulder and paok 00 back. Animal, tbe Indian, pigeon toed along behind, carrying bis pack, not as we did ours, but by belp of a forehead band, wblcb be sometime ahlfted acrosa bla breast Tbe traveling tbrougb the tangled, brush choked for est, and along tbe bowlder strewn and precipitous mountain sides, waa Incon ceivably rough and difficult An bour er two before sunset we were traveling, as usual, In Indian file, beside tbe stream, through ao open wood of great hemlock tree. There was no breexe, and we made no aound as we marched, for our feet aunk noiselessly Into tbe deep niosa. Suddenly tbe hunter, who waa lead ing, dropped down lu bla tracka, point lug upward; and some Gfty feet be yond I saw tbe bead and shoulders of a bear in lie rose to make a sweep at omo berries, lie waa In a bollow where a tall, rntik, prickly plant, with broad leaves, grow luxuriantly; and be waa gathering Its red berries, rising on his bind leg and sweeping them down Into his mouth with his paw, and was much too intent on ills work to notice us, for his bead was pointed tbe other way. The moment ho rone again I II red. meaning to shoot tbrougb tbe shoulders, but Instead, In tbe hur ry, taking him in the neck. Down be went, but whether hurt or uot we could not see, for the second be waa ou all fours ho wus uo longer visible, ltatber to my surprise he uttered no sound -for bcur wben bit or when churglng often make a great noise so I raced toward tbe edge of tbe hollow, the hunter elotso behind me, while Ani mal danced about lu the rear, very much netted, as Indiana always are In the presence of big game. The In ataut we reached the hollow and look ed down luto it from the low bank oa which we stood we saw by tbe sway ing of the tall plauta that the bear was coining our way. The hunter waa tending some ten feet distant a hem lock trunk being N't ween us; and the next moment the hear sprang clean up the bank the other side of tbe hem lock, and almost within arm's length of my compauiou. I do uot think he bad Intended to charge; he was prob ably eonl'imed by tbe bullet tbrougb Ms neck, anj bud by chance blundered out of (lie hollow In our direction; but when he saw- tbe hunter so close he turned for blm, his hair bristling and bla teeth showing. The tuau had no cartridge in his weapon, and with his pack on could not have used It any how; aud for a moment It looked as If be stood a fair chance of being hurt As the beast sprang out of tbe bollow he poised for a second on tbe edge of tbe bank to recover bla balance, giving me a beautiful shot, as he stood side ways to me; tbe bullet struck between the eye aud ear, and he fell aa If bit With a pole axe. Our piUe was a largo black bear, with two curious brown streaks down bis back, one ou each side the spine. We skinned hhu and camped by the catvasa. us It was growing late. To take the chill on the evening Mr we bnllt a huge tire, the Iocs roaring and crackling To one side of It we made our beds of balsam and hemlock boughs; we did not build a brush lean to, be- atie the nl;lit seemed likely to be clear. Then we supped on augur ies tea, frying pan bread, and quanti ties of bear meat fried or roaated and bow very good It tasted only those know who have gone tbrougb much hardship and some little hunger, ind have worked violently for several laya without flesh food. The morn big after killing Bruin, we igaln took up our march, heading up itream, that we might go to Its sources imldst tbe mountains, where tbe snow fields fed Us springs. It was two full days' Journey thither, but we took much longer to make It, as we kept halting to bunt tbe adjoining moun tains. On such occasions Ammal was left as camp guard, while tbe wblte hunter and I would start by daybreak and return at dark utterly worn out by the excessive fatigue. We knew nothing of caribou, nor where to hunt for them; and we bad been told that thus early In the season they were above tree limit on tbe mountain sides. TJntll within a couple of days of turning our faces back towards the lake we did not come across any cari bou, and 'saw but a few old signs; and we began to be fearful lest we should have to return without getting any, for our shoes bad been cut to ribbons by the sharp rocks, we were almost out of flour, and therefore had but little to eat However, our perseverance was destined to be rewarded. The first day after reaching our final ramp, we hunted across a set of spun and hollows, but saw nothing living. Tbe next day we started early, deter mined to take a long walk and follow tbe main stream up to It head, or at least above timber line. Tbe hunter struck so brisk a pace, plunging through thicket and leaping from log to log In tbe slashes of fallen tim ber, and from boulder to boulder In crossing the rock-slides, that I could hardly keep up to him, struggle aa I would, and we each of us got several ugly tumble, saving our rifle at the expense of scraped band and bruised bodies. W went up one side of tbe stream. Intending to come down tbe other; for tbe forest belt wa narrow enough to bunt thoroughly. For two or three hour w tolled through dens growth. Then w came to a spur of open hemlock forest; and no sooner had we entered It than the hunter stopped and pointed exnltlogly to a well-marked game trail. In which It wa easy at a glance to discern the great round foot print of our quarry. We hunted care fully over the spur and found several trails, generally leading down along the ridge; we also found a number of beds, some old and aome recent usual ly placed where the animal could keep a lookout for any foe coming up from the valley. They were merely alight hollows or Identatlons In the pine needles; and, like the game trails, were placed In localities similar to those that would be chosen by black tail deer. The carilou droppings were also very plentiful; and there were signs of where they had browsed on the blueberry bushes, cropping off the over snow or bogs; hence they can 'pass through places where the long I slender hoofs of moose or deer, or the 1 round hoofs of elk, would let their I owners sink at once; and tbey are very I difficult to kill by following on snow 1 iinoes a method much In vogue among the brutal game butchers for slaughter ng the more helpless animals. Spread ing out his great hoofs, and bending bis legs till be walks almost on tbe Joints, a caribou will travel swiftly ! over a crust tbrougu wnicn a moose i breaks at every stride, or through deep 1 snow In wblcb a deer cannot flounder fifty yards. Usually be trots; but wben pressed be will spring awkward , ly along, leaving tracks In tbe snow ; almost exactly like magnified imprints j of those of a great rabbit, the long 1 marks of the two bind legs forming ! an angle with each other, while the forefeet make a large point almost be tween. Tbe caribou had wandered all over the bogs and through tbe shallow pools, but evidently only nt night or In the dusk, wben feeding or In coming to drink; and we again went on. Soon the timber disappeared almost en tirely, and thick brushwood took Its place; we were In n high, hare alpine valley, the snow lying In drifts along the sides. In places there bud been enormous rock-slides, entirely filling up the bottom, so that for a quarter of once more. He was only a hundred yards away; and though I had not In tended to shoot him (for bla bead was not good), the temptation was sore; and I was glad when, in another sec ond, the stupid beast turned again and went off up the valley at a slashing run. Special Colonist Rates in effect from Sept. 1, to October 31, 1908 SEE LOCAL AGENT TO GRANTS PASS, QBE. TK hunter crouched dou-n, tends I ran noiselessly forward. a mile at a stretch the stream ran un derground. In the rock masse of this alpine valley we, as usual, saw many conies and hoary woodchucka. Tbe caribou trails had ceased, and It waa evident that tbe beast were not ahead of us In the barren, treeless recesses between tbe mountains of rock and suow; and we turned back down the vulley, crossing over to the opposite or south side of tbe stream. We bad already eaten our scanty luncb, for It waa afternoon. For sev eral miles of bard walking, through thicket, marsh, and rock-slide, we saw no traces of the game. Then we reached the forest, which soon widen ed out, ami crept up the mountain sides; and we came to where another stream entered the one we were follow ing. A high, steep shoulder between the two vallyes was covered with an ' open growth of great hemlock timber, j and lu this we again found tbe trails 1 and beds plentiful. There was no ' breeze, and ufter touting through tho I forest nearly to Its upper edge, we be- I pan to go down the ridge, or point of the shoulder. The comparative free dom from brushwood made It easy to walk without noise, und we descended the steep Incllue with the utmost care, scanning every object, and uslug every, caution uot to slip on tbe hemlock, needles, nor to strike a Btone or break a stick with our feet. The slgu wa very fresh, and when still half a mile or so from the bottom we at last came on three bull carltiou. Instantly the hunter crouched down, while 1 ran noiselessly forward be hind the shelter of a big hemlock trunk until C.-IGIN OF THE UCTOPU How the Mail Order Business Had It Beginning. In view of the tight against the ma) i'.er business now being mnd uotigliout tbe country In the interest of the local merchants, u brief nrtlti' 1 1 the magazine called System ou th origin of the mall order trade Is high ly Interesting. While the founder o tbe business and others engaged there in are engaged In a perfectly legltl mate calling, there can be no doub that this constantly expanding mnl order business is a real octopus. I reaches out its millions of tentacles t' the farthest corners of tbe country seizing and raking In tbe dollars whicl should be left in circulation aroum borne. These dollars are tbe llfebloot of the community, and the mall orde: octopus sucks them out of the coininu nltj-'s system. Forty-seven years ago, says System a young man, then a clerk in a smal general store at St. Joseph, Mich., ob served with some satisfaction that res idents of many smaller towns mile: distant could be attracted from tin tradesmen of their own village to thh selling center. Four years later, as a salesman In Chicago mercantile house, be observe with Increasing attention the numb of letters that came to this estublisb meut bearing small orders from res deuts of distant towns and from farm era living miles away in the ngrlcul tural sections of southern Illinois, In dlana, Iowa and Nebraska. Another period of three years, aud having served a a buyer and then con nected with a St. Louis house, he stop ped at a town tbut stood a a country seat in southwestern Missouri. He wat In a small store which had attalnec the position, despite the limitations at to extenslvenesB Imposed by its rura location, of the smart retailing concert of the little city. The proprietor bar Just inclosed a small parcel in an en velop. "Here, Jim," the latter called to clerk; "take this over to tbe poetofflce It's for Mrs. Henderson, over at Green ridge. It' surprising." be continued turning to the visitor, "bow tbe folki over at Greenrldge one of the small town within a thirty mile radius stick to me. I have a good many cus tomer over there. Borne of 'em writ almost every week for goods. Tb storekeeper over there doesn't seem tc hold his people very well. Guess b doesn't give satisfaction." And these things, turned over In tbt mind of Montgomery Ward, gave ger ruination of the idea, then crude In Itt Imperfection, of retailing direct to the customer by mall. If these people- and the towns and the agricultural , reaches of the west were taking on j a population of vigorous, hardworking ' ambitious folk who wanted the best ! they could get for tbelr money would I buy through letter outside their own j towns, and at that without any spe- clal material Inducement being extend j ed tbem, why could not a trade b i built up if the purveyor would catet j direct to these people and offer them attractive advantages of lower prices i good service and honest goods? The young man Is now the head ol a great Chicago mall order bouse that bears his name the pioneer In a new Industry. Hems Trad Homilies. It' all very well for you to think you're doing yourself Justice by buying your supplies from the big city many miles away, but In the long run you're doing an Injustice to your descendants, who are supposed to live In the town which you are killing off by neelectlna ! j patronize nome industries. Tou may save an occasional nickel by ordering "bargains" through mall order cataioguea, but don't you lose at least UVaV on any Railroad, from Kausis City, St Joseph Omaha, St. Paul, Minneapolis; $35 50 from St! Louis; $38 00 from Chicago; $40 15 from India apolis; $44 75 from Cleveland; $47.00 from Pitts, bure; $47.15 from Brimingham; $55.00 from New York City. Proportionate rates from every city in me uimcu F r imtorniation about Grants Pass, address Grants Pass Commercial Club H. L. Andrews, Secy. 3 BUSINESS COLLEGE WASHINGTON AND TENTH STREETS PORTLAND. OREGON WRITE FOR CATALOG The School that Placet Tou in a Good Potition A live business training school. Endorsed by business men. The sched whose graduates sec ore positions and bold them. Living etpenaea lor Schi ol in continuous session. Send for catalogue. SALEM, OREGON W. I. STALEY, Principal v H 'THE SCHOOL OF QUALITY"- Tenth and Morrison, Portland, Oregon A. P. Armstrong, LL.B., Priadpl We occupy two floors 65 by 100 feet, have a $20,000 equipment employ a large faculty, give individual instruction, receive more calls for office help than we can meet Our school admittedly leads ill others in quality of instruction. It pays to attend such an institution CSald a Business Man : " Keep hammering away everlastingly on thoroflri work. It will win out in the end." Said an Educator: "The quality of iwtw tion given in your school makes it the standard of its kind in the Northwest'! C.Open all the year. Students admitted at any time. Catalogue fret References : Any bank, any newspaper, any business man In Portlui IRRIGATED 1 1 Best irrigated small farm in Jackson County for $2500. 40 acres in tract. 30 acres under ditch. 20 acres under cultivation. Come and see for yourself. within fifty yards of tbe a nicker worth of yoor self respect OUHng tin a beautiful that, a h stood ttdcu-uyi to mt berries, and also apparently of where they had bore and there plucked a mouthful of a peculiar kind of mosa, ar cropped off some little mushrooms. It lit the boasts themselves hud evident ly loft the ridge, and we went ou. After a little while tho valley be came so high that the large timber ceased, and there were only occasional prove of spindling evergreen. Be yond the edge of the tile timber was a argo boggy tract, studded with little nxils; mid here again we found plenty f carllou track. A crllou Ins ail normou foot, bigger than a cow's, mj admirably adapted for trj, clUm grating and unconscious quarry. They were feeding with their heads up-hill, but so iti-eedlty that they hud uot seen us; ami they were rather difficult to see themselves, for their bodies har monlied well In color w ith the brown tree-trunks and lichen-covered boul der The InrKest. a Mr bull with a good but by no means extraordinary head, was u en rest. As he stood frouiiiiK me with his head down I fired Into his neck, breaking the bone, and be turn ed a tremendous back somersault. The other two halted a second in stun ned terror: theu oue, a yearling, rush ed past u np the valley down which we had come, while the other, a large bull with small antlers, crossed rllit In front of me, at canter, bis neck thrust out, and his head-o coarse looking compared to the delicate out lines of an elk's turned towards me. Ills movements seemed clumsy and awkward, utterly unlike those of a deer; hot he handle.! his great hoof cleverly enough, and broke Into headlong, rattling gallop as he went down the hillside, crashing through the saplings and leaping over the fallen logs. There was a spur a lltti beyond, and up this he went at a winging trot, halting when he reached when you happen to meet one of ths nome merchant whom you have known all your life and from whom you could have bought the same bar gain? Governor Johnson says one of the great issues of today has to do with the curbing of the trusts. The chances are ulnety nine to a hundred that you agree with Johnson, no matter what party you may belong to. Very well. How about the big mall order trust! which Is organized to kill off country merchants? Are you a supporter of the mall order trust? if you are a farmer and set! your produce to the local stores and then stick stamps on letters ordering ordi nary household articles from a city many miles away, wouldn't you think It the proper sort of reciprocity if tbe town merchants should quit dealing In fresh vegetables and supply only can ned goods to their customers? Throughout the country for ome months we have heard tbe cry that 'there Is no money In circulation." Times have been tight. Teopie who keep up the habit of buying mall order goods on the slightest pretext or provo cation may eect to hear It said that uire is no money In circulation aronnd nome. t a use whv? Th nnl it BEN A. LOWELL iWOODVILLE. - OREGOj "Efficiency" at applied to an automobile, means that ability in a car which enables it to go and come when and where you want it. It means speed, economy, en durance, hill climbing, and readability those thing the "Tourist" won in a string of forty-two brilliant victories out of forty-five entries. Buy the car that has proved its worth by winning all manner of tests in competition with all types of cars. These contests prove con clusively the superior ly nf ,. t the 'Pacific Coast Car" over all others. They prove positively that no car other than one built here with the sole idea of meeting Coast road and climatic conditions could have made the wonderful "Tourist" record. There are several models of Tourist Cars to meet the various models of pocketbooks. There are several styles of 2-cylinder and 4-cylinder cars from which to choose. Better buy a Tourist than wish you had. R. S. WILSON, Agent Auto VehicIe Com Gr&ni. P. A.. Factory .1 U. AnfJ Mill Ml the top. andturnlng to look at .me j side of the community. MS Mf fete Atom, Urn FrtfdK Of u Mi l "o W rl I't t tr 16 t Or p. Pa I u do Ck t 1 3 .