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LONDON. (UPk Londnn -iharirA
proval and are being banned by the
management.
Killed Two Tons of Rabbit.
HERINGTON. Kan. ( UP) Dr. H.
D. Master end Frank and Hogan At
kinson, who went to Hox;e, Kan., to
hunt rabbit, reported they killed two
and half tonee of the animal In
one week on one section of land.
principal boulevard in thl city were
eurprlsed to find a boy on horseback
regularly riding down the automobile
thoroughfare. The lad ride to school
dally, stake hi horse on a vacant
lot. and order a pet dog to keep
stranger away. Etch noon nour the
boy brings oat and a bone to hi
pew.
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CLEVELAND. (UP) Paul White
man bandsmen Joshed Harry Oold
field, a trumpet player in the band,
about carrying n extra horn. An
emergency might com some time, he
kept telling hi fellow trouper. When
the band appeared here, Oold He Id's
trumpet wo stolen back stage,
sure enough. Gold field produced hi
"spare" and played on without dif
ficulties. 8. 8. Normandle Trials Bet
ST. NAZAIRE. (UP) The liner
Normandle will start It trial trip
Aplrl 30. after which It will be sta
tioned at Havre between May 8 and
10 to prepare for the maiden voyage
to New York on May 39.
axs undergoing an unofficial "clean
ing up." Questionable songs and
riqu Jokes, which have recently be
come more frequent, have not met
Dog Guanla Youth Horse.
AUSTIN. Tex. (.UP) Business men
who peed to work a!orvg one ol the
wna in puritanic Englishman's ap
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Good Ship Colonel Wright
Blazed Path 76 Years Ago;
Freight Earned $80 Peri
Ton in Boom Day Splurge;
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FLAGPOLE. Waah., March 14. ff) '
Plan for organlrlng a steamboat j
company to resume wheat freighting
on the Columbia and Snake rivers.
announced In Pendleton this week,
recalled to Whitman county old-tlnv
ere today the aaga of the good ship
Colonel Wright.
It was 76 years ago come next
month that she came rampaging up
river from her birthplace at Des
chutes, blazing the way on the north
west's two mightiest streams for In
land navigation. They still tell of
how her builders, R. R. Thompson
and E. F. Coe, cashed In on her and
made a fortune out of the 110-fot
steamer.
Freight at fHO Ton.
They had been hauling freight be
tween Fort Walla Walla and Celllo
In Indian-powered batteaux for $100
a ton. Placing the Colonel Wright,
christened for the military com
mandant at The Dalles, on the river,
they immediately out the rate to $80;
made three tripe a week to Celllo,
and loaded passenger in Portland
just 30 hours from Walla Walla, by
transferring them to lower Columbia
steamers at the falls.
The northwest was enjoying a
hangover from the Buchanan admin
istration goom of '58, and Coe and
Thompson waxed rich and ambiti
ous. They sent the steamer up the
Snake on a oO-mlle reconnolterli
trip, and made so much money that
they added the steamboat Tenlno to
the service In I860.
Conquered Clearwater.
Next spring they sent the Colonel !
Wright up the Snake, Into Idaho;,;
where she conquered the swift surge 1
of the Clearwater river to within two
miles of Its forks. The current was
so strong, she made the 300-mile trip
In less than. 34 hours, piloted by
Oapt. William B. Gray of Pasco.
Oray made the first steamboat
landing at Lewlston, Idaho.
Coe and Thompson had that ace of
pioneer navigators of uncharted
northwest rivers, Capt. Leonard White.
In charge of the Colonel Wright, and
they paid htm 9500 a month big
money even in Buchanan boom days
But it was unaer Capt. Tom Stump
that the Colonel Wright made her
last and most sensational voyage in
then parts. It was In the spring
of '65, and she was eight days bat
tling 10 miles of Snake river cur
rent In an attempt to pass the rapids
fcbove Farewell Bend in the Snake
river canyon. Disgusted. Captain
Stump turned her around and the
Snake awept her back to Lewlston
In under five hours.
Trip of No Value.
Captain Tom reported his perilous
expedition had no practical value.
But he bad taken a steamboat far
ther Into the heart of the northwest
wilderness than anyone before, and
few since.
The Oregon Steam Navigation com
pany retired the Colonel Wright that
autumn and she was torn to pieces
In a ship-breaker's yard downriver.
And Captain White and Captain
Stump?
Captain White pioneered in the
upper Willamette, took the Cay use
above Lewlston to the north of tne
Orand Ronde and opened navigation
farther north and east than ever be
fore. He died In Portland In 1870.
Captain Stump collapsed and died
In the pilothouse of the Spokane,
near Rlparla, a few miles downriver
from Flagpole, In '81.
And Captain Gray? Re lived out
his life st Pasco after pioneering on
the Stlekeen and taking the City of
nieneburg from Pasco to the mouth
of the Okanogan, first craft through
Rock Island rapids.
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SCHEDULES EAST
Several changes In train schedule
from San Frsnelsoo of Interest to
those planning trip east by way of
th. southern lines rtri announced
today by A. S. Rosenbeum. dlatnct
affent for Southern Paclfle line.
Effective April 1, the Pacific lim
ited, eaatbound. will leave San Pran
elaoo at 8:30 a. m.. arriving at Ogden,
Utah, at 6:54 a. m. and at Chicago
at 0 :25 p. ra. The shortening of thla
schedule will give daylight service !
over the Sierra Nevada mountains.
The Pacific Limited, westbound. '
will, under the new schedule, arrive
at San Pranclaco at 10:13 p m.
On the Cascade lines through
Klamath Palls, the Klamath train
Kill leave San Pranclaco st t p. m. 1 1
Instead of 8:30 p. m., arriving at i
Portlind at 8:15 p. m. Instead of at
7:35 p. m.
Th new building being erected on
North Court street by the Church of
Christ. Is nea-ly completed and wl'l
be ready for the first services March
34
Evarutelurt McCay will preach the
dedication sermon. His fublect will
be "The Two Keywords That Will
Open the Ostes of Heaven "
A basket lunch will oe enjoyed
alter the morninz service and a so
ctsl t:me In the afternoon. All are
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