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GUILES OF DEER
CAUSE ‘TRAGEDY1
IN IDAHO WOODS
By J. C. REYNOLDS
After working behind a drilling
machine in a mine in eastern Ore
gon for nearly eight months. I be
gan to cough and, fearing I had
contracted miner’s consumption,
went to Baker and took the lung
teat. My lungs were pronounced
all right, but I was advised to get
away from machines for awhile, as
I had been inhaling too much ar
senic dust. So I took a prospecting
trip to Idaho that summer, 1910,
and was all o-k again in a couple
of months.
Whenever I had a chance to go
somewhere I always thought of
Idaho first, for be it known that
Idaho’s placers, though shallow,
were far richer while they lasted
than anything California has ever
produced. And whenever I went
over there I was pretty sure to
pick up a few hundred dollars the
old miners had overlooked.
I went up on a little stream that
empties into the Salmon river
(never mind the name of it), which
little stream had contributed 60.-
000,000 in gold in the old days.
And it was only one of many such
streams.
I had a hunting and fishing li
cense as per usual, but it was
closed season on most of the wild
game and I had no intention of
violating the game laws. There
were rabbits and squirrels and if a
man got too hungry’ for fresh
meat, there were fool hens which
could be knocked over with a club.
Oodles of deer, too, but I had made
up my mind to let the deer strict
ly alone. But the bears were num
erous and bad that year. Several
sheep herds had to be moved away
from that district on account of
their depredations and the herders
swore that even the black bears
were on the prod and ready to put
up a scrap if disturbed, something
never heard of before.
So I thought it was good policy
to carry my rifle along on pros
pecting trips. All my life I have
carried a rifle on a strap slung
over my shoulder, which leaves
both hands free and I have sur
prised a lot of people here in the
west with the celerity with which
I can slip it off my shoulder and
into action when necessary. And as
to the sights, I never use them ex
cept for very long shots. I have
often been criticized for my meth
od of hunting, but what difference
does the method amount to just so
one brings home the meat. And I
always got my share of that, gen
erally more.
One morning after I had been in
the hills a couple of months I
started out for a trip into the
higher mountains. About a quar
ter of a mile from camp I ran
onto a yearling doe, 50 feet or so I
from the trail. She raised up her I
head and looked at me. So I stop- '
ped and began to talk to her.
"Look here, young lady,” I said, I
"Don’t you know you are doing
a very foolish thing to be feeding
so ctose to the trail ? Why don’t
you run when you see a man com
ing with a gun ? What kind of a
mama did you have to not teach
you better than that?"
She just stood and listened for
probably five minutes while I
talked, then moved slowly across
the trail and vanished into a ra
vine which ran parallel. During
this time I had not even touched
my rifle.
I had gone maybe a quarter of a |
mile farther when she came up out
of the ravine, stopped and stood
looking at me as before. I sat
down on a fallen tree beside the
trail and gave her quite a lecture.
"I have seen quite a few nitwits,”
I told her, "but you seem to be
the bead crackpot of the whole
bunch. Why don’t you behave
yourself and run away somewhere
and play? It’s a good thing for
you I am not feeling bloodthirsty
today or you would be on the way
to my frying pan right now.”
She listened soberly for a few
minutes, then trotted off in the di
rection I was going and disap
peared for the second time and I
was glad of it as she had begun
to get on my nerves a trifle.
1 had gone on some distance
when I saw her again. She had
made a revolution through the
woods and now stood squarely fac
ing me in the trail a hundred yards
away Again I stopped and this
time I bawled her out proper. "You
darned little fool,” I exploded, “are
you trying to flirt with me? Do
you think because of your sex you
can get away with all this rough
stuff? Not one man in a hundred
would take what I have taken
from you this morning. Just to
show you how close you have been
to cashing in your chips in the
last half hour, I will take this rifle
off my shoulder and point it at
you. I am in no hurry and you
have plenty of time to beat it.
Now very slowly I will take a
bead Just between your eyes and a
little above.
"Does that spell anything to
you? It don’t? Well, I will pull
back the hammer to show you
what a dangerous spot you are in
What, are you still there? Well,
I will give you a good break. I will
county twenty slowly and while I
am doing that you had better
scram. So I counted twenty and
some way my finger took a sud
den cramp from holding the rifle
so long in a strained position and
touched the hair trigger and the
doe fell with a bullet in her brain.”
Which only goes to show how it
is possible for even a well-inten
tioned man to finally succumb to
the wiles of the female sex.
Friday, July 5, 1935
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Death came as a shock to
family of Ernest Arthur Purves;
well-known resident of Ashland for
many years, on Tuesday, July 2,
at Jacksonville. He was bom on
March 8, 1870, near Ashland on
Jenny creek and had lived in or
near Aahland all bls life.
He is survived by his wife, Car
rie E., four daughter. Wanda and
Geraldine of Aahland, Mrs. Grace
Suich of Anacortes, Wash., and
Mrs. Mariea Hanna of Loo An
geles. Three sisters, Nell Purves
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Mrs. Maude Murphy, Suaanville,
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Purves of Berkeley, Calif.
mother, Mrs
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Aahland. also survives.
Services will be held at the
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at 2 p m., with Reverend Dunham
officiating. Interment will be at
Talent.
HAROLD WILLIAM BOSTWICK
The death of Harold William
Bostwick, resident of Valley View
for a number of years, came as a
surprise to friends and relatlvea
July 1. at 3:30 in the morning.
Harold Bostwick was bom on
May 15, 1901, in Jacksonville,
where he met Ketura Garle, who.
on October 28. 1930, became hia
wife
He is survived by hia wife Ke
tura. hia father, W. T. Bostwick,
Everett and Earl Bostwick, a
bi other, Henry Bostwick of Med
fold, a sister, Josephine Brown.
Funetal services were conducted
from the Stock-Litwiller chapel on
Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. with the
Rev. Sydney Hall officiating. In
terment was at the Mountain View
cemetery.
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