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About Cloverdale courier. (Cloverdale, Tillamook County, Or.) 190?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 11, 1917)
1 !-y / o f the barricade. The firing from the ana his men, an old woman, who min before IIow that art treasure, the windows ceased entirely. The silence. | istered to the wounded girl. A surgeon Louvre, escaped will always remain a broken only by the sharply reverberat accompanied the soldiers, and he was , wonder. While Elise Fourchet was ing drum taps, was more ominous than called in to set and bandage the bro i long remembered as one of the heroines if the drums had been deadened by a ken limb. of the commune, she never ufterward o f the Had the damage done by the com j affiliated with communists. T . fusillade. The pile of cobblestones And ns which floated the blood red flag of the mune ended with its loss of control ! for the commune leaders, she detested i commune looked ugly—more ugly be- | perhaps the wholesale slaughter of its them. cause the weapons behind it, aimed votaries which followed would not When its leaders down the narrow street, were invisible. have taken place. Captain Le Moyne halted his men for found that they were beaten, adopting PROFESSIONAL A Story o f the Paris CARDS the purpose of taking in the situation. the motto o f rule or ruin, since they Com mune He cast quick glances at the upper could not rule they resolved to min. Tillamook Abstract Company stories and roofs of the houses on each They murdered tlie archbishop of Paris and other distinguished (tersous whom side. No one was in sight, nor was a Ij: By WILLARD BLAKEMAN j T hos . C oatbs . P b x s id r n t . they held as hostages. Not content single shot fired. ClVM IM ATTIC «1 0 « or A H «TB A C "S B O O R S “ They are reserving their fire.” said i with this, they undertook to destroy the captain. “ W e shall get it from the the city. Paris was then full of beau o r TILLAM OOK COUNTY, ORBOOB. The human race lives on the edge of windows when we charge the works.” i tiful buildings. Many of those were TILLAM O O K C IT Y . OREGON, the chasm o f war. All modern wars, He strained his eyes In an endeavor destroyed, including the most interest _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ civilized people having now reached a to get sight of something stirring with- ! ing, historically considered, the palace stage where war is dreaded, may he in. Not even the flag moved, for there , of the Tuileries, the ancient abode of T. H. QOYNE, the kings o f France. referred to as stupidity. One o f the was no wind. It was these acts of vandalism that Silence before the storm is more de- j most stupid contests within the last Men ! led the government to get rid. so far as half century was the uprising of the pressing than after it breaks. Paris commune at the close o f the standing waiting for a tight to open possible, o f so dangerous a portion of Franco-Prussian war in 1871. I f ever are more unreliable than in the beat of the population o f Paris. The captured Conveyancing, Etc. Le Moyne's soldiers seemed , communists wore marched out to the a country needed peace in which to re battle. yards o f the prisons in which they restless. There was no reason for cover from its wounds France did at Tillamook, Or«. that time. And yet a number o f im them to move till they received an or- j were confined, stood up with their Opp. Coort House, practicable idealists, led by villains, der to advance, yet they changed posi- faces to the walls and shot down by for a time paralyzed the government tion constantly, casting the while scores. Doubtless many o f these be by fire and sword And when they had glances at the houses above them and lieved that they were dying in a sacred Tillamook Undertaking Co. cause. succeeded in acquiring the power to the barricade. R. N. H E N K E L , Proprietor. Captain I>e Moyne could he have Though they expected a hailstorm of j carry out their ideas their whole struc foreseen these horrors would undoubt bullets, w hen the order “ Forward” was ture fell to the ground because these Night and Day calls given they felt relieved. Suspense at edly have continued to save his pris uromptly attended. ideas were utopian. Again came the oner from the universal sacrifice, The singular feaure of all this is tiie least was ended. though he had but little time, and Next Door to Jones-Knudson Furniture sincerity and devotion to a cause under sharp tap of the drum as the little col Store. Elise Fourchet was not in a condition umu moved on without opposition. Ev- j which there was no foundation. That to avail herself o f a permitted (light. Idently the communists were reserving j T IL L A M O O K . - - OREGON the leaders were unscrupulous, as well as idealists, goes without saying. But ; their fire till the last minute. When I The only thing the captain could da many of the revolutionists undoubtedly within a hundred yards o f the barri j for her was to leave her with the wo fought and died, actuated by pure mo ’ ade Captain Le Moyne halted bis men man who was curing for her. He A. C. EVERSON again and called on the enemy to sur ! marched his men away, but the na tives. TILLAMOOK. ORE. render. Hip demand was answered by 1 tional troops were pouring into the During the period when the com a single shot. city, and when Mile. Fourchet was munists held Paris by means of barri Expecting this to be a signal for a found wounded and confessed that she cades erected upon the streets through •/ volley, the captain quickly deployed had received a bullet while defending which the national troops were attack his men so far as the narrow street a barricade she was removed to a ing them, Captain Pierre Le Moyne would permit and gave the order to prison. was ordered to take his company into fire A volley o f bullets rained upon If the communists received a trial See nie for realty deals. a narrow street and demolish a barri the stones composing the barricade | they were tried in large numbers to cade, behind which a party of com There was no response. gether. When Elise Fourchet was munists were entrenched. There was L e Moyne was puzzled. brought before a judge for one o f these but little room in which an attacking Under New Drawing up his men in two lines, to * wholesale sentences, noticing she was force could operate, the street being Management o f a different class from most o f the one behind the other, he ordered them not over thirty feet wide. Captain Le Moyne was obliged to march his men to fix bayonets and advance. A third j others, he asked her why she had en of the distance was covered, but no gaged in such nefarious work. down the narrow lane, the houses of “ I fought to build, not to destroy.” ; which rose on either side to a height volley; another third, with the same result. Captain Le Moyne, who was in wras her reply. “ I did not know that ! greater than the width of the street. advance o f bis men, went to tlie barri we were led by bad men. One o f our The distance from the beginning o f the cade, climbed it and looked down on leaders, Cluserct, fought with the Tillamook, Ore. street to the barricade was about 1,000 the other side. ! Union armies in the late war between feet. From the windows and the roofs L. S. HUSHBECK, Proprietor. There was but one living being there, the states o f North America, and I sup of the houses it was to be expected and that wa* a woman. She had been posed that a man who had risked his that the advancing troops would be wounded by a shot from the troops life iu the cause o f civil liberty must Dining Room run on Family Style picked off by the communists. be representing the same cause in and lay bleeding on the pavement. Meals ‘25c. Many a soldier, when he received the Most o f the women who fought with France.” order to march into the death trap or the commune were hags. This woman The Judge was touched by this ap- ! heard the reverberation between the was not more than twenty years old. peal and remanded the prisoner to | houses o f the first tap o f the drum She looked up at I,e Moyne w ith a pair prison for further evidence. But the which announced it. felt that there of large dark eyes. They expressed a Parisians soon tired o f the wholesale was little chance of his ever getting spirit o f martyrdom. slaughter o f the communists, and Mile. out alive. Each stroke on the drum It was all plain to I^e Moyne. The Fourchet was never again brought to head sounded sharp and loud and om Bell Phone commune was breaking down. The trial.' In time, when all danger of a Office Ground Floor ¡nous. As the little column moved on National Bid. P. O. Box 147 barricade had boon deserted except by recurrence of the outbreak had passed, ward there was a crack from a win this Maid o f Orleans, who constituted the prison doors of all communists W ith Rollie Watson dow, a faint cloud o f smoke, and one herself Its solo defender. who had not been executed were of the men fed on the pavement. An Le Moyne turned, called on a lieuten thrown open, and among those who other crack from a roof on the oppo ant to bring the men to u rest, then walked out free was Elise Fourchet site side o f the street, and another went dowu the barricade to the wo She ever afterward bad a horror o f j man plunged forward on his face man. the men who had led so many Innocent ■ “ A t this rate.’’ thought Captain Le persons into crime. Not all o f them “ Are you badly wounded?” he asked. Moyne, "b y the time we reach the bar- j were punished unless by their own j “ N o ; I have a broken leg.” ricade there will be not enough o f us consciences. A few eson|>ed. others per- i “ Who are you?” L. V. E B E R H A R D , Manager. left to take It.” isbed in the havoc they had made, Complete Met of Abstract*of the Reoorde “ Elise Fourchet.” • “Tap-tap! Tap-tap tap!" came the “ What are you doing here alone be- while others were banished from j of Tillamook Countv, Oregon. drumbeats, while at short intervals a France. Probably no body of men ever nlnd this barricade?” crack o f a weapon here and there add T IL L A M OOK. - - OREGON “ I could not get the men to stay. set in motion a revolution that involv ed to their viciousness. ed so much ruin, not only of historic But as the men advanced the shots They heard that our defenses are bro came fewer. When one-half the dis ken down in other parts, and they treasures, but o f persons they de ceived. As Paris is France, their chief tance had been covered, where there dared not remain ” devastation was In that city. Just be- j “ And you?” bad been a dozen shots a minute there fore Its capture bands o f men and wo “ I would not desert.” was now only a straggling fire, and the By’ tnis time the soldiers had climbed men—such men and women ns follow marksmanship was wiki. the barricade and were waving the ed Louis X V I to the guillotine seventy j Write for Literatur«. “ Either they are breaking down.’’ tricolor of France from its crest. Le years before—went from one historic said the captain, “ or they have concen - - OREGON trates! all their force at the barricade.” Moyne called upon them to carry Ita edifice to another, applying petroleum T IL L A M O O K . On matched the troops, reduced by a defender into a bouse beside it, going and to petroleum the torch When the ruin was completed Paris was a very Even a hungary man draws the line fifth o f their number, till, turning a with them as they did so. There was bond in the street they came in sight only pne i>erson besides the captain different cjtv from what it had been on eating hie words. iThe Defender ! Barricade I ATTORNEY AT LAW Money to Loan Real Estate Agency The Todd Hotel Rooms 50 and 75 Cents, Special Rates by the Week. J Abstracts on Short Notice by the ^ _ _ _ _ PACIFIC ABSTRACT CO. F. R. BEALS REAL ESTATE