The Beaverton Review
FRIDAY, MAY 11. 1934
Tlit Beaverton Review
IS S U E D E V E R Y F R ID A Y AT B E A ­
VERTON, OREGON
CODE OF THE NORTH
. . . Br HAROLD TITUS . . .
J. H. Hulett ........ Editor
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S t a r k e a D r a k e , w i t h hl> - . r r a a r -
Old SOB. la r a a e u a d f r o m * b i l l i a r d
by J i m F l y n n , b l c t l m b a r o p e r a t o r .
D r a k e , u n t i l bin d e a t h . l o p r « » i on
t h e bo y . S t a r « , t h e d e b t t h e y o w e
“O l d J i m " T w e n t y y e a r * l a t e r , S t e v e
m e e t a •’Y o u n g J i m " F l y n n , h i e b e n a -
t e c t o r ' a eon. S e n t b y Old J i m . I n ­
c a p a c i t a t e d t h r o u g h a n a c c i d e n t In
w h i c h K a t a , h i e d n u g h t e r . la t e m p o ­
r a rily blinded, to t a k e c h a r g e of th e
e o m p a n y ’e— t h e P o l a r l a — w o o d a o p ­
e r a t i o n s t h e y o u t h la I n d u l g i n g In n
d r u n k e n a p raa.
P o l a r l a la l a d i r e
■ t r a i t « , a n d h o p i n g t o d o e o m e l h l n g
f o r Old J i m . S l a v a h a e t e n e l o t h e
c o m p a n y 'a h e a d q u a r te r s . W o r s tin g
P ra n a, a p lo ttin g enem y of the
F l y n n a , In a flat l i g h t , t h e P o l a r l a
c r e w a a a u m e e S t e v e le F l y n n ’a eon.
nnd he ta k e s c b a r g a as "Y oung
J i m " A p h o to g ra p h of K a ta Flynn,
w hich h a flnda Im m e n sely Increase*
h i s d e s i r e t o a i d Old J i m
S tave
g a i n s th e w a r m f r ie n d s h ip of La-
Fane. q u e e r w oods scout, a n d adde
t o F r n n i ’e h a t e by d r i v i n g h i m a w a y
f r o m M a ry W o l f , y o u n g I n d i a n g i r l
whom bs has bean abusing. D raka
escape* a d e a th t r a p set fo r him
F r a n * d i s c o v e r s S t a v e ’* i m p e r s o n a ­
tion. S te v e accuse* F r a n s of s e t ti n g
th e d e a th tra p , e x h ib itin g evidence,
a n d t h e m a n d a r e n o t a c t.
S teve
s e n d s I s i F a n a t o And Y o u n g Jim
a n d s o b e r h im up.
S tev e w lna th*
f rie n d s h ip of M acD onald, o w n e r of
tim b e r land th * F ly n n s g r e a t l y need
WHO I m Sw
bend yet. A leaning cedar w as fifty
feet beyond him. He rose to one
knee, d ropped his p addle and b al­
an ced th ere, a rm s raised.
T h e c e d a r ru sh ed a t him. T he
first tw igs b rushed his h a n d s ills
rig h t closed on a sto u t, green
branch. He sn atch ed a t a n o th e r
w ith his left, m issed, aud grappled
a t a dry stub. H e gave th ese holds
his w eight, gam bling they would
b ear It, lifted his feet and let the
canoe ahoot on. W riggling, kicking,
be let It go an d g rasp ed living wood
and w ith a h eav e sw ung him self
sidew ays sn d up, u n til he lay along
th e bole, p a n tin g furiously.
He could see his canoe, tossing
like a chip, e n te r th e first w hite
w a te r and d isa p p e a r aro u u d th e
sh a rp bend.
So much accom plished I Now, he
tu rn e d his face up stream . F ra n s
w as app ro ach in g , m aking In to w ard
th e tra il landing. He leaped out as
th e bow touched rock and stopped to
g ra sp th e th w a rts and lift th e canoe
o u t an d checked all m ovem ent, then
moved slow ly Into th e tra il, s c a n ­
ning th e ro ck s and e a rth .
S tev e chuckled.
No sign w ar
th e re fo r him to see I Even at the
d ista n c e he could d etect F ra n z 's
b e w ild e rm e n t A m om ent before he
“I’m glad you're ash am ed .“
"Go to h —11“
La F an e sm oked on.
"H a w as depending on you and
you tu rn ed him down. T hink of
th a t I An old m an, laid up w ith
sm ashed bones, hla back to th e wall,
and you tu rn ed him dow n . . . I
recall how gentle he alw ay s w as
w ith k ld a
I should th in k they'd
break th e tr necks to do th in g s fur
hint."
“Shut u p l“ the boy sn ap p ed and
av erted Ms f a r *
“ No. I'U keep rem inding you of
It. and of w hat you m ight have been
ab le to do to me, and of w hat you
can do fo r him an d to me If you
um ke up y o u r m ind to do I t
A
fine man. your f a th e r ; not the klud
moat men w ould tu rn down. , . ."
Youug Jim w inced and I.aF ane'*
Ups tw itched as If he w anted to
siulle.
on," said Russel; "Ah h, wbatda tle to pay down on a thing will
w« wanta stop here for?" quoth seldom make the grade." Ami so
Aletha; "We can make It all right'' on ad infinitum .
But
that night we climbed the
quoth Die M rs., and Joy, when
asked what she thought said that Blue Mountains, It was dark, and
she "wanted to do Just what the the snow was the only light thing
really hel|>ed show
us
others wanted to do." So there visible. It
were four votea to go on and the way as we found out before
only one to sta y ,
getting to the summit.
"lies idea there
is no place to
camp here" they all chimed in for
CARD TARTY AND DANCE
we had pulled out beside the roaJ
Cedar Mill Grange Hall
to settle the question. I chucked In
the gears and seething with Im­ S a l., May 12
Admission, 25f
potence to stem the
tide of an
G R HEN WALD’S ORCHESTRA
obdurate
family I started that
climb. | suppose that in the next
thirty miles 1 did inoio beefing
and sputtering than was done on
all the rest of the trip put together.
Hut the weather did not loot good.
The time was late, too la*e for the
stranger
to attem pt
lo
negoti
ate one of the steepest, the crook-
t lest, the all »peryest forty miles
on pavement that we find on a
‘lift w av in Oregon
carrying
so
much traffic and
existing under
such meteorological conditions. Of
course the east slope that we were
climbing was slippery.
Four or five miles
out of lot
Grande there
is an auto
camp
just off the road with
the way
marked to it.
1 hadn't got the
wheel turned to enter' the drive­
way before there arose a clamor:
“I thought we were going on over
the sum m it." We went over the
summit that night, and such a
drive as it was.
For a time
we followed
the
course of the Grande Runde river,
crossing and re-crossing it at in­
tervals sometimes of a fraction of
a mile, and then at longer inter -
I vals.
By the time we left the
! course of the river, the darkness
had settled in, and almost at once
i we came to snow-covered ground',
i The tracks of
the cars we met
made black marks that we tried to Tillamook and Washington
follow. The lights were bad
We
Counties
; had never gut a new battery though
j we had expected to get one soon
Twenty-four years active
after leaving for Michigan.
But
Court practice
] expenses
were
high
there and
means were low. The payments we
PRIMARIES, MAY 18. 1934
^expected from the sale of the R e­
view failed to m aterialise. My sis-
(Paid Adv.)
| ter, Lucy, said “Aha I Didn’t I tell
I you so? A man who has so lit­
:
Elect
Fixing that leak was a short
m atter. All I had to do was to
thump the carburetor a time or 0 9
two and the thing was as good 0
C HAPTER V II
as new. That time I had some 0 0
idea of what the matter was. 0 0
OWN Into th e ru sh in g maw of
Sometimes the float valve sticks 0
th e riv er w ent Fraux. Spray
and the chamber where the float is 0
lashed h ts face, th e canoe bucked
:
runs over. Nothing at all to it.
and reared Ilka a frig h ten e d living
At Caldwell the lads and lassies :
cre a tu re .
He sh o t betw een pro­
were out on the street in consid­ :
tru d in g boulders w ith scarcely a
erable numbers; seemed to be some 1 0 0
b an d 's
b read th
to
sp a rs
and
stra ig h te n e d out fo r th e run down
sort of college town. We debated 0
a stre tc h th a t w as w hite from cliff
going west there to Vale but de­ 0 0
to cliff.
cided that the shortest way home 0
•
He w as forced to w ork fra n tic a lly
was probably preferable. So we
to keep him self In sh allo w s be­
negotiated the 22 miles between 9
es use p ro tru d in g ro ck s w ere so thick
Caldwell and New Plymouth rapid­ 9
9
o utside th a t no c ra f t could th re a d
ly, that is rapidly for us.
9
them F o r a long m om ent It seem ed
At New Plymouth we came into 99
a s though th e pull o f th e riv er
CHAPTER V I—Continued
9
the Idaho apple country. Here there 9
would defy his effo rts a n d th a t lb s
—17—
were apples and more apples, piles 9
canoe surely m ust capslse, but be
T h e option In his pocket wag a
of them. When we went east the 99
p u t Into tb s paddle every energy of
w arm , living w eight ag a in st his
trees had been loaded’. Now the 99
Ms splendid body, a n d be woo.
b reast, a ch arg e to keep, a tr u s t to
harvest, piled high on the ground, 9
Won by Inches. He w as in sa fe w a­
guard.
W
here
h
is
own
sa
fe
ty
w
as
was something to marvel a t. But 99
ter.
concerned be would b a re Laughed
the price, they told us, was so 9
At th e foot o f th e rap id a big
a t any m enace F ra n s m ight p resen t,
0
low that much of the crop would 0
eddy sw irled
m onotouously.
As
but m ore th a n h is p erso n al sa fe ty
never be moved but would just lie 0 9
F ra n s cam e a b re a s t th e eddy, hla
w as a t stak e, now. H e bore th e
there on the ground and rot. What 9
Jaw dropped because along Us o u t­
hopes of Old Jim Flynn In bis
0
e r edge, beside s b s lf subm erged
a pity! But we suppose that is just 0
0
pocket and nn ttl he had It safely
$
log. floated s beevlly listed, w ater-
one of those items of over-pro­ 0 9
recorded In public flies he could not
0
w eighted canoe.
duction. The trouble with the new 9
rest.
I
He a lte re d hts course an d w ent
deal, to our notion is that it con­ 99
B is canoe w as w aiting, having
I
*
close, saw th e s h a tte re d bottom
been bro u g h t d o w n s tre a m from
cerns itself with the
production 9 0
i
w here a rock bad Im paled th e w a­
i
w here he bad Ashed by one of th e
end and takes little
thought of 0
i
9
ter-w eighted c ra ft, observed the
L a ird 's Indians an d a s he lannched
distribution. It seems to me that 9
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P o larla s t a r b ran d ed on th e bow
*
for th e first sta g e of th e Journey he
distribution has as great a place 9 0
i
and
let
a
long
b
re
a
th
slip
th
rough
had a flash of a p u rsu er, ru th le ss
in the modern scheme of things as 9
i
t
h is Ups.
and d eterm ined.
D rak e w as u n ­
has the matter of production. If 00
“
S
o
l“
he
said
and
laughed,
som
e­
arm
ed
:
he
well
knew
th
a
t
th
e
0
distribution was what it should be 0
w hat u n certain ly . “ So. Young Jim
sh o u ld er h o lster b en eath th e o th e r's
I could go out and get a new 9
Flynn, or w hoever-you-nrel
Old
9
0
sh
irt
w
as
not
em
pty.
.
.
.
auto and next time I take a trip 0
$
T w enty-M ile got you, e h ? You. sn d
He
knew
th
e
c
o
u
n
try
a
n
d
th
e
0
back to the home state I’d be taking 0
y o u r d —d option I"
>
tra
ils
well
enough,
but
F
ra
n
z
knew
it in a new machine. But there 9
M eanw hile, along th e tr a il th a t
them m ore In tim ately th a n he. T he
0
is little chance of my getting it 0
led th ro u g h th e tim b e r out to the
landing above T w en ty Mile rap id
for although Ford and Chyrsler 0 9
w as th e obvious place fo r one to Down Into th # R ushing Maw of the S h oestring road. S teve D rak e cov­
and General Motors may each have 0
ered th a m iles a t s w oodsm an’s
leave th e river an d ta k e to his legs
R lv sr W ent F ranz.
produced me a car, the matter of 0 0
sw ift pace.
At daw n he en tered
for tra n sp o rt. To ru n th e w hite
distribution stands in the way of 0
In ­
w ater, of course, would cu t m iles h ad had D rak e In s ig h t T he only S h oestring sn d b re a k fa ste d .
9
my ever getting my hands on that 9
from th e jo u rn ey but th e risk of p lace he could h av e left th e riv er qu iry developed no new s of F ran s.
9
car’s wheel.
w as a t th a t tr a il ; leaving I t he He had a m om ent of w onder, of
0
tra g ic d is a ste r w as g r e a t
So the apples lay on the ground 00
H e sp ecu lated a s he speeded could not h av e failed to leave signs. d o u b t If tb s o th e r bad m et death
In th e ra p id . . . B ut ha shrugged
in Idaho and' the boys and girls of 0
along, try in g to put him self In Easy I
0
Portland go without an apple for 0
Frunz ev id en tly m ade op hts th a t off. T o p re v e n t h is a rriv a l h ers
F ra n z 's position, try in g to reason
lunch, no matter how much they 0 9
i
as F ra n z w ould reason. W hen he mind. H e step p ed Into bis canoe F ra n s w ould have sh o t Mm down
com punction.
concerned
Alt Heidelberg Beer
desire one. Distribution, looked a f­ 0
reach ed his decision he com m enced ag a in an d s ta rte d down th e c u r r e n t w ithout
0
On Itraught
ter will automatically take care 9
to sm ile w ith to ngue In cheek. He B alancing gingerly. D rak e w orked only w ith escaping suspicion for
0
of the production.
relax ed his paddling and chuckled his way to w a rd sh o re and ran such an a c t
Try us for Chicken Dinners and
Latter, he lingered In th e re g is­
All day we had been watching 0 0
an d sa t back, d riftin g w ith th e c u r­ along th e ledge to th e tra il, feeling
Barbecue Sandwiches
bis b re a st pocket to be c e rta in th a t te r 's office u n til be saw th a t th e
the weather closely. The sun shone 9 *
ren t.
e
n
try
h
ad
been
p
ro
p
erly
m
ade
and
0
th
e
precio
u
s
p
a
p
er
w
as
still
th
e
r
*
while we were in Meridian, and 0
H e could h e a r th e g rum ble of th e
FREE DANCING
then, d raw in g th e first really long
0
a
a
a
a
a
s
a
Caldwell but at New Plymouth the 0
tre a c h e ro u s w ater below, and ran
OLD HEIDELBERG PARK
0
b
re
a
th
It
seem
ed
be
bad
enjoyed
0
t
T h e su n w as sin k in g Into th e fo r­
sky had begun to overcast and it 0
his canoe Into a shallow s w here It
since be first step p ed lo ta th a sto re
locked like rain or snow. Whew, 0
w as screened by o v erh an g in g a ld e rs est beyond L a F a n e 's m eager cam p.
0
lA F a o e h im self lounged beside a t Good-Bye a n d picked a p th e
to get caught in a snow storm 0
and w aited, looking backw ard.
gage h u rled by Old Jim F ly n n 's e n ­
O f course. F ran z m ight not do th e fire, sm oking Indolently. Young
there on that road! But we shook 0 I
W. E. PEC.C,
em ies. be w alked dow n lo th e tel­
Jim
Flynn
s
a
t
w
ith
bis
back
ag
ain
st
w hat Steve expected of him, but be
the dust off and stopped only for 9 9
egraph
office.
F
ra
n
s
th
w
a
rte
d
,
m
ight
w as proceeding on th e belief th a t to a tre e , glow ering.
necessities. When we crossed the 9
U N D E R T A K E R A ND K M HA l.M KK
“Going to s ta rv e m e n ex t?" he try fo r vengeance, now, b u t all be
block th e recording of th a t all-im ­
Snake river between Payette and 9 9
could do w ould be to h arm Steve
b
lurted.
p
o
rta
n
t
docum
ent
he
w
ould
be
Huntington (you see we did not go 9
D ra k e 's body, sn d th a t w as a trifling
G ran g e Building - - - - - - B eav erto n
forced to follow. . . .
T h e o th e r shook his head. "No. co n sid eratio n .
either to Weiser or to Ontario) 0 9
I
W
h
ate
v
er
la
done
to
you,
you
do.
“R
ig
h
t
I"
D
rak
e
m
u
tte
re
d
aloud
a
a
a
a
a
e
a
we found the sun shining on the r
as a can o e shot in to sight fa r be­ W ithin lim its, th a t is. Y ou're sober,
Oregon side.
9
“ S leep w ell?" L a F a n e a sk e d th a t
hind. com ing fast.
n o w ; y ou've been sober m ost of a m orning.
When we left the Snake River, 9 9
STUDIO BARBER SHOP
He shoved off and bent to th e week. T h e re 's a little rifle yonder.
“N o,"—sh o rtly .
we stopped to read a “Historical 9
9
pad d le an d In a m om ent from th e In th is birch s its a grouse. If you
" I h e ard you rolling around. A boy
F IR S T CLASH W O R K
Note’’ that is printed on a big 9
tall of h is eye he saw th e o th e r w e re n 't a sh am ed to show how In y o u r shape, w bo's done to him ­
sign board where the Oregon Trail 9 9
AT R E A S O N A B L E P R IC K S
sw eep Into sig h t of him. an d th e n sh ak y you still a re you'd try to get self sn d b is fa th e r w h a t you have
leaves the Snake river. The sign 0
he w as rounding a bend w ith th e him because y o u 're hungry. W hen don«, sh o u ld n 't ex p ect to sleep
0
K. I>. V an METER. Prop.
read: “Farewell Bend, is memorable 0
voice o f shaggy old T w en ty Mile you a re a b le to ta k e y o u r living very—"
in the annals of the Old Oregon 9 9
grow ing louder In his ear«.
from th e c o u n try , w e’ll feed. N ot
"F or th e lova o f G od, LaFane,
Trail as the last camp on the 9
H e looked over his sh o u ld er Ju st before. I can sta n d It longer th an w o n 't you please let up?"
9
weary journey across the Snake 9
Beaverton Barber Shop
once. F ran z had not rounded th e you can ." A fte r a tim e h e s a id :
(To b s o o N T im ru n .)
River Plains.
Here camped the •
sssssl
following expeditions: Wilson Price C a
C. J. STKVKNM, P K O P R . T O R
Hunt, December 23, 1811; Captain
Bonneville, January 10, 1834; Na­
S A T IS F A C T IO N G U A R A N T E E D —
of lead-colored clouds. To me it
thaniel J . Wyeth, August 25, 1834; But nevertheless, one feels better past Lime.
looked
ominous.
But
there
were
driving
along
a
wider
road,
any­
L t. John C. Fremont, October 13,
We did not stop at Baker, Haines,
way where the road is so crooked. North Powder, nor Union and by those mountains to negotiate. The
1843.”
That road I’ve just been think­ the time we arrived at the last service station man told us that it BEER ON
Here we began the climb away
DRAUGHT
was clear on the summit, that it
from the Snake River. We fol­ ing about is this side of Hunting- named it had begun to sprinkle a had not rained there at all but
50 and 10? Glasses
lowed up the course of Burnt ton . The road the other side is little. Mother began to get anxious
E x p re sa O ffice H lage D e|iot
River for several hours and fin al­ splendid. At Huntington we changed for that rain must mean that that on the Pendleton slope there
had been a light snow fall the
U nion
P h o n e lOflOr»
ly decided that we would have to back to Pacific standard time. It snow was falling on the summit day before but it had all gone. W e G ste K rn
EYHOUND C O FFE E SHOP
was
just
about
noon
when
we
of
Bhie
Mounains.
stop and lunch. It must have been
B eav erto n . O regon
He further stated that two big R ossi B u ild in g
well past noon when we ate, there passed through that town.
It drizzled along for a few
From Huntington to Baker there miles and then it looked as though snow ploughs had gone up the hill
in the car pulled just off the road
from that side to the summit so
one of the poorest stretches of road is little that seems worthy of no­ it were clearing up a little. Com­ that just in case there should be HUB SERVICE STATION
we had found on U .S . 30: that tice, that you have not already ing in to LaGrande the sun was snow the road would be kept clear.
and Auto Camp
it is narrow and crooked but the read about in the beginning of this shining but it had hidden its face Not too encouraging a prospect
Richfield Oil Co. Producía
The crooked road, and before we got through the City.
pavement was good and though i series.
Yale Tires
Prompt Service
hardly room for two rigs to pass, narrow, the cement plant at Lime, It was about four o’clock, perhaps and as for me, I much desired to
Harley Taylor, Prop.
stay
there
and
wait
to
see
if
it
and
it
was
beginning
to
get
cloudy
there were few travellers so that
a trifle after. There were patches would snow. But the whole fam ­ Junction Canyon and Bertha Beav­
we did not need a wide road. by the time we had got a little of blue sky and then big blotches
erton Highways
ily- voted against me. “ I ^ t’s go
i
D
R. Frank Peters
4
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