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About Cloverdale courier. (Cloverdale, Tillamook County, Or.) 190?-19?? | View Entire Issue (April 20, 1916)
j those on the junk Fifteen o f them stayed on the cap tured ship, taking aboard two guns and plenty o f small arms, while the others sailed away on the junk. We white men were obliged to obey the'r ! orders or walk the plank like the others And that’s tlie crime i have to confess. For weeks, when they were overpow By DWIGHT NORWOOD ering unarmed vessels, looting and murdering, we were doing our part of There is a record o f the ship Julia the work. What else could we do? l-turdevant having been burned at sea We could have refused and given up with all on board except five o f the our lives, and it’s been troubling me crew, who were picked up in a lifeboat for more than half a century that I while the vessel was burning off the didn’t choose the better part I’m not going to name all the crimes coast o f Korea. This happened many we committed because we had to. I’m year* ago when I was a young man. 1 simply going to tell how we finally am now a ninety year old hulk, laid made our escape. After awhile we up at the Sailors' snug harbor, ready agreed that we would pretend that we for the junkheap. The Julia Sturde- were contented with our lot, ask for vaut was set a tire, and I applied the our share of the plunder and do every torch that burned her. Before sailing thing else we could to put the yellow on my eternal voyage I huve to confess j devils off their guard. One thing we this fact and tell how 1 came to do it. ' were afraid of. There was one ship There is no sin on my conscience in that we tried to capture and failed ** that burning, but there are others that We boarded her and were fighting are a hundred times worse thuu burn hand to hand with her crew when they saw us white men fighting with the ing a ship. When 1 stepped on the Julia Sturde- yellow ones. We were about to join vant I was twenty-two years old. We our own color when, fired with hatred sailed from Boston to Japun. taking against us for being part o f a Chinese out a cargo such as the little yellow pirate crew, they made a desperate men needed then, but don’t need now, dash and drove us back on to our own for that wasn't long after Commodore ship. After that we knew that If we l*erry sailed in among them and began escaped the pirates and were recognlz their civilizing. The Sturdevaut was ! ed by any o f the men ou that,ship we one o f the early steamers, having pad I would dangle at a yardarm. The next ship taken had a lot of dle wheels and sails, and her engine was a primitive one. Any well rigged liquor aboard, and every pirate got ship in a stiff breeze could outsail her. drunk. We watched our opportunity, We were plowing along through the pretending to drink nnd be drunk like China sea against a stiff uor'easter, j the others, till they were all laid out when before the wind came a Chinese When eight o f them were either asleep Junk. Before she reached us she hoist I or stupid with liquor below nnd the ed the skull and bones and tired a shot rest being in the sume condition on at us as an order to stop. We hadn’t \ deck, we elnpi>ed down the hatches ou so much as a salute caunon aboard and i rhose below. What we did to those on few small arms. There were ports deck I don't mention, except that they for four guns on each side o f the Junk, didn’t trouble us any more. We hadn’t more than fixed them all k and her decks swarmed with men. We when looking ahead we saw a ship saw it was all up with us, and our coming and made out the stars and captain surrendered with a condition stripes at her peak, for in those days that all our lives be spared. our flag was often seen on the ocean As soon as the pirates came aboard Some o f us thought that if she over they began to look the vessel over and hauled us and we told our story we concluded to divide their force, run would be believed. Others didn't think ning her as well ns their own ship. we would. Some day some o f us Without regarding the condition they might meet some o f the crew of the had made, they forced all the crew ex ship we had boarded. I made up my cept five of us to walk the plank. mind what to do and without saying What they kept us five for was to di anything got a lot of tow and oakum re t the working o f the ship, since they together and set lire to It. The wind knew nothing about the use o f steam. was high, and in fifteen minutes the Tw o o f us were tlie engineer and his whole ship was ablaze. We lowered assistant. The other three they kept one o f the boats, got into her and pull to post and help them in working the ed for the Yankee ship. chip's sails that were entirely unlike A Sailor’s Confession ( th e , b e l l boy knew IT W A S 3 A . m T ) SCUSE ME JUOqE. FER. QlTTIN ^ Y£R UP AT DIS LATE. HOUR BUT DE NIIQHT CLERK DONE SAY COULD YOU ALL SPARE HIM A LITTLE. OF DAT REAL T o b a c c o C h ew O-'l When we reached her we reported CARDS that we had been afire for three days PROFESSIONAL and if we hadn't met the Yankee in time we would have been lost. And Tillamook Abstract Company that’s how the ship Julia Sturdevaut came to be rei»ortcd burned at sea T H O S . C o A H N . PaCUIlBNT with five o f the crew saved. It was a u t r i w r ■ »KW or a h s t w a c t b o o k s never made clear what became of tbe O r T I L L A M O O K C O U N T Y . OKM UON. rest o f tbe crew. I managed that sto ry by saying that when the fire finally TILLAMOOK CITY, OREGON. got ahead of us the others were cut off from the boats. Some were burned below and some were drowned. True T.H. GOYNE, enough the pirates below were burned. I met one o f the crew o f the ship we had boarded long afterward In Hong kong. He didn’t remember me, but Conveyancing, Etc. you’d better believe I remembered him and got out of his way as quickly as Opp. Coot t House, Tillamook, Ore. possible. ATTORNEY AT LAW Tillamook Undertaking Co. fr V« iS «X« «X« •'(• »X* «X « «X* SN» 0 » «X* e R. N. HENKEL, Proprietor. Night and Day calls RELIABLE HARNESS MAKER uromptly attended. Harness and Saddlery Pullman Tires and Tubes—Best 1 Next Door to Jones-Knudson Furniture Store. M on earth. 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