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V ( ol-yi jfiit. H'j3, by U. P. Putnam's Sons. I3iil 1hi'I uni-r nrrariKoment with O. P. Putnam a Sons, New York and London. OOflY ii nil I started to Ay I limit over the Ifreat ta I tile-land, and led onr tnomitiiln-slile, by elk trullH bo had, that they hml to climb like goats. All these elk-trulls have one striking peculiarity. They lead through thick timber, but every now anil then send off short, well-worn hrnnrhcH to some cllff-edjie or Juttlns cnig. comuiaudlnK q view far and wide over the country beneath. Klk love to stand on these lookout points, mill scan the valleys and mountains round about. Hlue grouse rone from beside our path; Clarke's crows Hew past us. with a hollow, flapping sound, or lit Id the pine-tops, culling and flirting their tails; the jrray-clad whisky-Jacks, with multitudinous cries, hopped and fluttered near us. Snow-shoe rabbits scuttled awny, the big furry feet which give them their name already turning white. At Inst W'e came out on the great plateau, seamed with deep, narrow ravines. Reaches of pasture alternated with groves and open forests of varying size. Almost Immediately we heard the bugle of a bull elk, and saw a big band of cows and calves on the other side at a val ley. There were three bulls with them, one very larire, and we tried to creep up on them; but the wind was hnflllng and spoiled our stalk. So we returned to our horses, mounted them, and rode a inllo farther, toward a large open wood ou a hlll-slde. When within two hundred yards we beard directly ahead the bugle of bull, and pulled up short In a moment 1 IRRIGATED' 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. SHOO and supplies at CLEMENS rXTIM:i!S! TIMCICSS! TltHijKK I5UY YOUR TURKS FROM "Old Reliable Albany Nurseries" and you are sure of Retting just what you order. 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Catalogue free. Reference i Any luuk, any uewgpjper, auy business man la Portland. ELK HUNT AT TWO OCEAN PASS BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT saw til in walking iiuuujju a.i open glade; he had not seen us. The slight breeze brought us down his scent. Elk have a strong characteristic smell; It Is usually sweet, like that of a herd of Alderney cows; but In old bulls, while rutting. It Is rank, pungent, and lasting. We stood motionless till the bull was out of sight, thon stole to the wood, tied our horses, and trotted after hlra. He was traveling fast oc casionally calling; whereupon other In the neighborhood would answer Evidently he had been driven out of some herd by the master bull. He went faster than we did, and while we were vainly trying to over teke him we heard another very loud and snnorons challenge to our left. It came from a ridge-crest at the edge of the woods, among some scattered clumps of the northern nut-pine or plnyon a neer conifer, growing very high on the mountains. Its multlforki'il trunk and wide-spreading bronchi giving It the rounded top. and, at a distance, the general look of an oak rather than a pine. We at ouce walked toward the ridge, up-wlnd. In a min ute or two. to our chagrin, we stum bled on an outlying spike bull, evident ly kept on the outskirts of tlo herd b; the master bull. I thought he would alarm all the rest: but as we stood mo tlouless, he could not see clearly wli.r we were. He stood, run, stood again gazed at us, and trotted slowly otT We hurried forward as fast as wt dared, and with too little cure; for we suddenly came In view of two cows. As they raised their heads to look, Woody squatted down where be was. to keep their attention Axed, while I cautiously tried to slip off to one side unobserved. Favored by the neutral tint of my buckskin huntlng-shlrt, with BEN A. LOWELL iWOODVILLK. . . v. OREGON BOOKS SELLS DRUGS OF QUALITY"- ROGUE RIVER COURIER, GRANTS PASS, OREGON. OCTOBER whl''b my shoes, lefglns, and soft hat matched. I succeeded As soon as I was out of sight 1 ran hard and came up to a hillock crested with plnyons. behind which I Judged I should And the herd. As I approached the crest, their strong, sweet smell smote my nostrils. In another moment I saw the tips of a pair of mighty antlers, and 1 peered over the crest with my rifle at peered over the crest. the ready. Thirty yards off. behind clump of plnyons. stood a huce bull, bis head thrown buck us he rubbed 111 shoulders with his horns. There were several cows nrounil him. und one saw me Immediately, and took alarm. 1 fired Into the bull's shoulder, Inflicting a mortal wound; but he went off, and I raced after him nt top speed, firing twice into bis flank; then he stopped, very sick, and I broke his neck with u fourth bullet An elk often hesitates In the first moments of surprise and fright, and does not get really under way for two or three hundred yards; but, when once fairly started, he may go several miles, even though mortally wounded; therefore, the hunter, after nis nrst snot, snouia run rorward as I fast as he can, and shoot again and I again until the quarry drops. In this I way many animals that would other I wise be loat are obtained, especially I by the man who has a repeating rifle. I The elk I thus slew was a giant Ills body was the size of a steer's, and his antlers, though not unusually long, were very massive and heavy. He lay In a glade, on the edge of a great cliff. Standing on Its brink we overlooked a most beautiful country, the home of all homes for the elk: a wilderness of mountains, the Immense evergreen forest broken by park and glade, by meadow and pasture, by bare hlll-slde and barren table-land. Some five miles off lay the sheet of water known to the old hunters as Spotted Ijike: two or three shallow, sedgy places, and spots of geyser for mation, made pale green blotches on Its wlnd-rtppled surface. Far to the southwest. In daring beauty and maj esty, the grand domes and lofty spires of the Tetona shot into the blue ky. That night, as on more than one night afterward, a bull elk came down whistling to within two or three hun dred yards of the tents, and tried to Join the horse herd. The moon had set. so I could not go after It Elk are very restless and active throughout the night In the rutting season: but where undisturbed they feed freely in the daytime, resting for two or three hours about noon. Next day, which was rainy, we spent In getting In the antlers and meat of the two dead elk; and I shot off the heads ef two or three blue grouse on the way home. The following day 1 killed another bull elk, following him by the strong, not unpleaslng. smell, and hitting him twice as he ran, at about eighty yards. 80 far I had had good luck, killing everything I had hot at; but now the luck changed, through no fault of mine, as far as I could tee. and Ferguson had his In nings. The day after I killed thla bull he shot two fine mountain rams; and during the remainder of our hunt he killed five elk one cow, for meat, and four good bulls. The two rams were with three others, all old and with lino horns: Ferguson peeped, over a lofty precipice and saw them com ing up It only fifty yards below him. Ills two first and finest bulls were ob tained by hard running and good shooting: the herds were oa the move at the time, and only his speed of foot and soundness of wind enabled him to get near enough for a shot. One herd started before he got close, and he kllle,! the master bull bv a shot right through the heart, as It trotted past, a hundred and fifty yards dls tsnt. As for me. during the next ten days I kllle.1 nothing save one cow for meat; and this though 1 hunted bard every day from morning till night, no matter what the weather. Our HI success was lu part due to sheer Imd luck; but the chief element therein was the presence of a great hunting. party of Shoshone Indians. Split Into Iwnds of eight to ten each, they scoured the who:,, coun try on their tough, sure-fooled ponies. As they s ew whatever the c.miM, but by preference cows atul calves, and as they were very perseverinc. but also rery excitable and generally poor shots, 40 that they wasted much powder, they not only wrought havoc among the elk. but also scared the survivors out of all the country over which they bunted. Day In and day out we plodded on. In a bunting trip the days of long mo notony In getting to the ground, and the days of unrequited toll after It has leen reached, always far outnumber the red-letter days of success. But It Is Just these times of failure that really test the hunter. In the long run, common-sense and dogged perseverance avail hlra more than any other quali ties. The man who does not give up, but hunts steadily and resolutely through the spells of bad luck until the luck turns, is the man who wins suc cess In the end. After a week at Two-Ocean Pass, we gathered our pack-animals one frosty morning, and again set off across the mountains. A two-days' Jaunt took us to the summit of Wolverine Pass, near I'lnyon Peak, beside a little mountain tarn; each morning we found Its sur face skimmed with black Ice. for the nights were cold. Afrr three or four days, we shifted camp tc e mouth of Wolverine Creek, to get off the hunting grounds of the Indians. We had used up our last elk-meat that morning, and when we were wlthlu a couple of hours' Journey of our Intended laltlng- place. Woody and I struck off on foot for a hunt Just lief ore sunset we came on three or four elk: a spike bull ftooj for a moment behind some tuiCK evergreens a hundred yards off. (incas ing nt his shoulder, 1 fired, 11 ml he fell dead after running a few rods. I had broken the luck, after ten days of ill success Next morning Woody and l. with the packer, rode to where this elk luy We loaded the meat on a pack-horse, ami let (he pucker take both the load ed animal and our saddle-horses back to camp, while we made ti hunt on foot. We went up the sleep, forest clad mountain-side, and before we hud walked un hour heard two elk whis tling ahead of us. The woods were open, und quite free from under growth, and we were able to advance noiselessly: there was no wind, for the weather was still, clear, and cold. Both of the elk were evidently very much excited, answering each other continually: they bad probably been master bulls, but had become so ex hausted that their rivals had driven tbcra from the herds, forcing them to remain lu seclusion until they regain ed their lost strength. As we crept stealthily forward, the calling grew louder and louder, until we could bear the grunting sounds with which the challenge of the nearest ended. He was In a large wallow, which was also a lick. When we were still sixty yards off, he heard us. and rushed out. but wheeled and stood a moment to gaze, puzzled by my buckskin suit 1 fired Into his throat, breaking bis neck, and down he went In a heap. RuBhing In nud turning. I called to Woody, "He's a twelve-pointer, but the horns are small!" As I spoke I heard the roar of the challenger of the other bull not two hundred yards abend, ns If In defiant answer to my shot. Running quietly forward, I speedily cmig'it n climpsp of his body He was behind some fir-trees about seven ty ynrds o;T, and I could not see which way he was 8tuudlug. and so fired Into the patch of tluuk which was vis ible, aiming high, to break the back. My aim was true, and the huge beast crashed down-hill through the ever greens, pulling himself on his fore legs for fifteen or twenty rods, bis hind quarters trailing. Racing for ward, 1 broke his neck His antlers "Tour REMARKABLE event in the history of automobiledom was the tour of more than thirty Tourist cars from Los Angeles to San Francisco and return, y August 12th to This tour differs radically from any previous automobile run in that practically every car was operated by its owner instead of a professional driver, thus demonstrating simplicity and ease of operation, and proving forcibly that the Tourist is an owner's car so simple in operation and mechanism as to enable the novice to negotiate the severest test to which an automobile could be put. This more-than-a-thousand-mile-run was successfully accomplished without mishap or accident, and will live long in the annals of automobiledom as a glowing testimonial to mechanical genius and constructional ability. TttunM fa. tl,. " eraea men to the p tew ytn, a a two-cyliadef ability. It, conrtmctioa u u rery acm oi ctomplnhratnU have earned Io iu renown. Tim car. beautifully fiiuihed in a choice of four colon 22 H. P. ive-paueriijer removable toooeau, $l300atL Aajela. Toutitt Can are covered by s very IiVral guarantee, and with the factory cW at hand to tcplac all part, quickly. 9, 1908. were the finest I ever got A couple of whisky-Jacks appeared at the first crack of the rifle with their customary astonishing familiarity and heedless ness of the hunter; they followed the wounded bull as he dragged his great carcass down the hill, and pounced with ghoulish bloodthlrstlness on the gouts of blood that were sprinkled over the green herbage. raced after Urn. These two bulls lay only a couple or hundred yards apart, on a broad game trail, which was as well beaten as a good bridle-path. We began to skin out the bends; and as we were finishing we heard another bull challenging far up the mountain. He came nearer and nearer, and as soon as we had ended our work we grasped our rifles and trotted toward him along the game trail. He was very uoisy, uttering bis loud, singing challenge every minute or two. The trull was so broad and firm that we walked In perfect silence. After going only five or six hundred yards, we got very close Indeed, and stole forward on tip-toe. listening to the roaring music. The sound came from a steep, narrow ravine, to one side of the trail, and I walked toward It with my rifle at the ready. A alight puff gave the elk my wind, and he dashed out of the rnvlne like a deer; but he was only thirty yards off, and my bullet went into his shoulder as be passed behind a clump of young spruce. I plunged Into the ravine, scrambled out of it and raced after him. la a minute I saw him standing with droop ing head, and two more shots finished him. He also bore fine antlers. It was a great piece of luck to get three such fine bulls at the cost of half a day's light work: but we bad fairly earned them, having worked bard for ten (lays, through rain, cold, hunger, and fatigue, to no purpose. That evening my home-coming to camp, with three elk-tongues and a brace of ruffed grouse hung at my belt was most bap- py. De Witt's Little Early ' Risers, pleasant little pills that are easy to take. Sold by Model Drog Store of the Tourist" 22d, 1908. carrying 94 men. .1 -. 1 II TksTyp "O" Toorut Roadster fepretents the cuU mmauoo point is two-cylinder automobile corutruction. AU the future of the sow faaioui model "K" are hen blended with the mcj, chic line of tb high-priced roadster. envublc repuuttoa, cw of KmuksbU limplkity, aoj iu makeri world-wide Nothing on the R. S. IILSON, Agl, Grants Pass, Oregon. JOSEPHINE COUNTY REALTY TRANSFER Josephine Co. and JL McColm et nx to E ll siw Etfof KEfc seo 14. twp 37Sof ft un r i 1 i 000 "cre adJ0iD" J M Foster to W W Riser, 0BS quarter interest in NE.'4' of NfiV ni seo 21. twp 83 8 of R 5. 40 acrg A M Devall to E L Wentworth et ,1 NEJi of seo 18, twp 34 S of R 6 SE of Beo 18, twp 84 S of R 6. W C Long to Ralph S Bennett, psrt of NW of aeo 8 in twp 83 S of R 5 $50. Ralph 8 Bennett to Henry W Kr choff, part of NW of the Nwu ) seo, 3 twp 85 S of R 5 W, $.-,00. B F Stevens, to Clement Bradbnrv of SE4 aodiSEi4- of SWi4' 0f , 8, twp 35 S of R 7 and NE SEW aodWofNE and NE4' of NWV 3 lota in seo 26. 50 92 acres. Sheriff of Josephine Co to M A Cheshire, NEy of NEJ of seo 8 twn 89 S of R 5 W, $4 85 for taxes. E A Edwards to Edward Howell of SEJf of the Nif of neo 4, twn 36 a of R 5, 1200. J W Aldergon et nx to R M Culp, J acres in SWJ of NW4' of SW0f aeo 8, twp 84 S of R 6. Columbus F Cardwell ret ux to L M Mitchell, 1 acre and 60 square rods in seo 18-19 on Applegate. H W Warrington et ux to Albert S Rietz of see 8, twp 37 R 61, 60 acres, $5400. H D Eismanu to C H Elsmann, undivided half interest in Eismann orchards, 5 miles below Grants Pais on Rogue River, f 18,000. H A Corliss t J Mellon Mason S of the NW of aeo 19, twp35,R, 12000. Julia Bash to Clement Bradbury NWJi of NEJi, Etf of the NWJf and the E of SW4' of the NW4' jn teco 17 twp 87 R 7 W, 1450. A M Springer to Clifton Q Briggi W of NWJi, sec 1, aleo the NEJ,' of SE of seo 20, all in twp 35 8 of R 6, $1200. Susan A Erickson to M A Penny E of SW and the NW SW and SW of NE34 of seo 22 in twp 84 8 of R S, 160 acres, $1650. B F Baker, guardian to Ann Mock, lot 14. block 9, lot 23 and 24, block 2, subdivision of block 4 in Miller and Co add to city of Grants Pass, $50. Anna Mock to J P Kenney, lot 11, block 9, Miller and Co add, $125. M A and W M Cheshire to 0 W boxie.' NWof NWI-4-, seo 8, twp 89 S of R 5, $125. Jliamberlaln's Cough Remedy the Most Popular Because it is the Best. "I have sold Clmnilxrluin's Cough Rem edy for the pat eight years and find it to be one of the Iwst selling medicines on the mar ket. For babies and young children then) is nothing better in tlie'line of cough svrupi," snys Paul Allen, Plain Deulintr, La.' 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