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About The Columbia register. (Houlton, Columbia County, Or.) 1904-1906 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1904)
cjp M FOILERS OP THE COLUMBIA i By Paul Dc Lcncy i , j Ralter a "UN a 9 Nris "Orcfea aaa aBXr FactfK cnirrKR xvm cvntiao!. Sha louml U newt aad aatwd. TV basts vsea rooHr taraWfcad, aJ in by girls rari tkkr Urfrt cm sUtiocu (root thoaa waJcfc haJ mr ndi GaakaU'a Ufs tl aha m ftooustooaad to tha nharraa aaj thalr ra rUa.4 thtava tK la wad tbm. Thara vu a end firrpta aad dry driftwood, bt tha girl s.aw thai ths too thai Jen ttn la eloaa proximity and woold probably ba drlwa aahora suri sha feared to kladla a fir which would glra warning of herpraarac. Bbs rolled herself la tha diagy bed clothing of the most decant appear! bonk and attempted to go to aleep. Bhe expected to awaken before dawn when the hoped the atorn would hare subsided and iba might find Dan about the island. How long she had tain there aha had not the time to verify, bat aha wu awakened from a half dosing etata by voices from tha outside. Theee roe abof the torm which beat opon the frail strnctnre with an appalling noise. As they approached nearer and nearer aha knew that aha waa about to have visitors. Sankala had often visited tha old hack and knew of a little loft in the cook room of the structure where fish at men often stored their neta. Taking two of the old quilts with her she went into the adjoining room and climbed into the loft. The aouthriders began to enter the place from all directions. They had been driren ashore by the storm and naturally took refug in the camp. They soon had a crackling fire in the fireplace, and began discussing the days' events in loud voices. : Sankala was thus enaoled to learn what had taken place on their side of the fight. But what she wished to know above all ther things wu not spoken. The same of Dan Lapham waa not men tiooed. The storm eontinued throughout the entire night The men talked, sang and swore. Some tried to sleep, while others planned for the following day. .Morning dawned upon tha storm at 1U height. It waa nearly midday be fore it subsided. The sea did not be come calm enough for tha small fishing boats until late in the afternoon. It wu then that the men began to , leave the place for another attack upon the traps. Sankala had heard their plans. They thought they could reach the traps and destroy them before the northsiders could come to their defense. It wu then the eecond afternoon since tha war had begun, and the southsiders began their attack. The northsiders were on the alert and seeing the move-, ment of the enemy came like an ava lanche to meet them. Bankala wu compelled to remain in concealment, though she could see what wu going on through a crack in the di lapidated loof. She saw tha men scat ter on both sides and realised the plan of attack, and the manner ot defense. The southsiders had divided into squads, u they had planned to destroy the traps at one fell swoop, while the northsliders divined their purpose and met them accordingly. Strain her eyes aa she would the girl could not distinguish one from another anion her friends. They were so far away that they looked like specks upon the water. The sun went down upon the contest ants with honors divided almost equal ly. They had practically abandoned , their fire arms, and were engaged in a hand-to-hand fight with their oars. There wu murder in the hearts of only a few on either side, and but few hots were exchanged. The casualties were light in the afternoon engagement. As darkness closed in, Sankala wu about to come from her hiding place and attempt an escape from the island. But she heard a number of the south siders returning to the shack, and soon learned from their talk that they had been strongly reinforced, and that oth ers were coming. The news of the number wounded in the former days' engagement had reached the south shore and the fisher men rose up in their fury, joined by many outside friends, and swore that they would come in sufficient numbers to sweep the river and bay of the northside fishermen and their traps. Sankala learned that they intended to renew the attack at midnight, at which time their reinforcements would arrive in larger boats, armed to com plete the work, and that it wu their determination to win at any cost of property or life. How to give the warning to her friends, was the question. The plot ters remained in the shack while run ners were sent in different directions to organize the men for the midnight ad vanoe. CHAPTER XIX. A Traitor at the Helm. Tha train pulled into Kalama short ly after dark. Itwu a special char. tared by the state. The sheriff of Pa cific county was there to meet it and had been waiting many hours. Mat ters managed by state are always de layed. . Kalim on the banks of th fin. lamo'Ia. river and also on the line of Stctdtta," Caaal Slartca tallroad that from north to south. Aa W fashioned boat wu tied np at tha decaying and tottailng wharf. A dark form sat la tha pilot house rookknf oat at tha crowd as it emerged from tha train. A danger light hung trona tha port aide, and at tha ap proach at tha train, dark smoke, In teratlagted with ' bright red sparks, shot ekjward from tha smoke-stack. "Contemptible tia-aoldlars!" mat tared tha man la tha pilot hoc, "fine lot of dad com hr to shoot down oar Aehermea. Bat they will not shoot thm tonight." Then ha tamed the pilot wheel back and forth to e that tha rudder waa in wot king order. The boat gav a larch and trembled aa If frightened at being disturbed while swinging so quietly to its moorings. "I will give theee assassins a trip for their money tonight." muttered the man at tha wheel in meditative tones. "When they find the fisher men they will be so sick of tha sea that they will do well to handl themeelvco let alone a gun." A company of tha state national guard filed off the train at the com mand of their officer, Captain Bud long. The aherlff of the county led the way to tin boat. Tha soldiers had come under indefinite orders aa to time and brought along a sufficient amount of luggage for a siege. Most of th men were clerks in stores, and some of wealthy men who had joined the guard for a good time and they were poorly drilled. It required more than an hoar to get their baggage aboard the boat. Th man in tha pilot house watched them patiently. He did not care how long the) were kept there. He wu out for delay and would just M lief hare it at one point as another. The pilot of a Columbia river boat is universally called "captain." H is acquainted with th river as one is acquainted with his own neighbor hood. He knows every snag in tha river and every point, as is required of a river pilot. When the soldiers were aboard it wu found that it only contained th pilot, engineer and one deck-hand. There waa no one to instruct the offi cers U to the point at which th fish ermen were assembled. "This is strange," remarked the sheriff to Captain Budlong. "I ex pected a man here to give us the in formation as we should proceed. We will go aloft and inquire of the cap tain." The boat wu now polling at its moorings. The steam wu np and ths captain wu trying the wheel. It wu a stern-wheeler and the great, wet thing turned over like a sea monster u the long arms from tha engine-room played on the crank at Its axis. The sheriff and military commander ascended the little iron stairway which led to the roof of the boat and ap proached the pilot house. "Sorry, gentlemen, but you can't enter," said the pilot. "But this is the commander of the militia and he wishes to direct the course of the boat when the scene of ths troable is reached," said the sher iff. "The government regulations pro hibit all persons except the captain from riding in the pilot house," said toe pilot. .Besides, mere is no necessity for it. I know where the fishermen are and will take yon to them. They are a harmless, hard working set of fellows like myself and will give yon no trouble. They will disperse as soon aa they see us com ing." Why have the owners of the boat which we have chartered through the state sent a southsider as a pilot" Inquired the sheriff. "Because there is not a msn on the north side of the river whom the own ers would risk with the boat," wu the quick reply. The ac cietary of state had wired a big company at Portland to supply the militia with a boat to convey it to the eeat of the trouble between the fish ermen of the two states and which the northside state chartered for an in definite time. The steamboat men all lived on the south side of the river, the seaports all being on that side. In sending out a boat under an emer gency the company had picked np a pilot who wu related to and more or less identified with the southside fish ermen. He knew of the proposed midnight attack of his friends upon the north siders and did not intend to teach the actual scene of conflict in time for in terference on the part of the militia. He had intentionally left the repre sentative of the northside fishermen, who wu to have accompanied the ex pedition as a sort of scout, on the south shore and was prepared to evade a collision with the belligerents until his friends should have the opportun ity to do all the damage they desired. The officers knew that under the government regulations they bad no right to enter the pilot house and after instructing the pilot to convey them immediately to the seat of the trouble they retired to the upper deck. The boat steamed down the river ime a tning 01 me. Tne water wu calm and the craft moved with the current without effort. Only the I swishing of the wheel that propelled the vernal brek the tikace of the eight. Whaa onee out Into tha river th pilot gradually turned th no of th craft la a southwesterly direction. Th Colablma widens her channel as the approach the ocean until sh reaches th width, of over fifteen mile, (t appeared as aw id sea to the offl tore and soldiers and th flickering tights on th north and south shores looked lik so many tars lining th ila tan t horlson. Aa hour after midnight had been reached. Th officers had ascended to th pilot house and asked impatient luesiions. "I cannot be responsible for the de layed train," replied the pilot. "My boat Is doing her best and will get you mere u soon as possiDie." lie was now to th sooth of th Mitein point ot Sand island. He bad discovered th dark outlin of th boats of bis friends lying In th shadow of the island shore. To the south he saw another line ot dark shadows which h knew wu th flotilla ot lelaforoe menta. H could not account for this sicept an nnforseen delay which often attends th organisation ot forces. On thing h did know, and that wu that ha would never take the soldiers where they could inter fare with his friends so long as he could avoid it. Suddenly a fishing boat wu discov ered in front of th veesel. The oc cupant ot the little craft wu waving an oar frantically overhead to attract the pilot. He signalled the engi neer to reverse the lever and the wheel began to pull back against the current which wu taking the boat rapidly to ward the ocean. The officers down sairs rushed upon ieck to ascertain the cause of the boat coming to a halt. They soon dlscov sred the figure in the fishing boat and went to the point where the small craft wu about to collide with the larger boat. With an eaie brought about by years it experience on th water the figure in the small boat guided the little craft alonsid th laiger vessel and the two am together without scarcely a jar. A rope ladder was thiown over th lid of th large veesel and the form left the fishing boat and glided up the (rail stairway like a shadow. "Why, it's a woman a girl!" said Captain Budlong as she stepped on the deck. "Yes, it Is Sankaia!" said tha sheriff is he recognized the girl. (To te eoDtlnaad) The Girth of Man laoreaslng. An excellent illustration of the valus of records has been afforded lately re garding the question of physical degen eracy. A firm In the north of England has compared the measurements for clothing made two generations ago with those of to-day, the results going to show that chest and hip measure ments are now three Inches on the av erage more than they were alxty years ago. The same conclusion Is reached by tb experience of the ready-mad clothiers. These facts, whatever may be their generality, do not quite dis pose of the question of degeneracy. They are what we should expect from the more abundant and cheaper food of the people, their better housing and improved sanitary surroundings: but the testimony regarding the unfitness of recruits and progressive lack of atamlna In town, and especially manu facturing, populations cannot be disre garded. Th girth of man may b In creasing, but like a fatting hog, Is not corpulency bringing clumsiness? Limit of Laslneee. Two darkles lay sprawled on thl levee on a hot day. Moses draw a loaa sigh and said, "Heey-a-hhl Alt wlak Ah had a hundred watermelllona!" Tom's eyes lighted dimly. "Hum- ya-h! Dat would suttenly be fine. An' ef yo had a hun'ed watermellloni would yo' gib me fifty?" "No. Ah wouldn't gib yo' no fifty watermellloni.' "Wouldn't yo' gib me twenty-fiver "No. Ah wouldn't gib yo' no twen ty-flve." "Seems ter me youse powahful stingy, Mose. Wouldn't yo'- wouldn't yo gib me one?" "No. Ah wouldn't gib yo' one. Look a hysh, nlggah, are yo' so good-fer-nuf An lazy dat yo' calhn't wish fo' yo' own watermelllona ?" Bow Celluloid la Made. Celluloid, the chemical compound which bears so close a resemblance to Ivory, is a mixture of collodion and camphor, Invented In 1855 by Perke sine, of Birmingham, whose name for a time it bore. The process of manu facture Is as follow!: Cigarette paper la soaked In a mixture of nitric and sulphuric adds until it becomes nitro cellulose. After thorough washing, to free it from the acids, this cellulose Is dried, mixed with a certain quantity of camphor, and coloring matter If re quired, and then passed through a roll er mill. It Is next formed Into thin sheets by hydraulic pressure and after ward broken up by toothed rollers and soaked for some hours In alcohol. A further pressure and a hot rolling proc ess finish It snd results In lvory-Uk sheets half an Inch thick. For Compulsory Athletics. Bev. Dr. Percy S. Grant speaking before the League for Political Edu cation, at New ,York, said that ths coming New Yorker would be 8 feet 3 Inches high and have the chest meas urement of a prize fighter. Judging from the increased standard of mo rality and intellectuality In our unl versifies since athletics became univer sal ana popular, Dr. Grant says that physical training should be an Impor tant part of the public school system. He had noticed that 25 per cent of the national guardsmen were too poor pnysicauy to pass the doctor. Ht FOOL! HtSCHICKINS. A Kevel Way Break a freaa am ta. Timothy Varney, who Mva three mile east ot La 8uur and keep 'bout 200 hens, haa been greatly trou bled, aa have moat people who kevp hens, by the persistent desire mani fested by the fowls to alt. la season and out, ea eggs, tone or doorknob or anything else that come bandy, aaya th St real Pioneer IYeee. Dut h hss got hold ot a plan now which be ha quietly tried thl season, with perfect succeaa, and which he war rants will cure th went light brahma cluck that ver vexed th heart of man of all deatr to alt and all la leas than three ho art. The cure consists of a cheap watch, with a loud and clear tick to It, In closed In a cate that la whtt and shaped Uk aa gg. Whn a ban man ifests a desire to alt out ot season h gently place this bogus egg under hsr heltertug breast and the egg does th rest It tick cheerfully away and soon th hen begins to. show eigne ef uneasiness, and stirs tha noisy egg around with her bill thinking, per haps, that it Is already tlm for It to hatch and ther Is a chlcksa In It wanting to get out She grows more and more nervous the noise keeps up, sod soon Jumps off the nest and runs around awhll to cool off, but re turns again to her self-imposed duty. It get worse and won with her, and ah wlgglee about and cackles, ruffles her feather and looks wild, until at last with a frensled squawk, sb abandon th nest for good and slL That Incubating fever la broken up completely. Mr. Varney finds as for half a dosen of thee noisy eggs, and claims that they pay for their cost over and over during th year, by keeping th hens at th business of laying and not permitting them to waste th golden hours In useless Incubating. SPRUNG) FROM SAME SOURCE. Whale wad Lioa Maid to Be of Identi cal Origin. As everyone knows, or oncbt to know, the whale Is not a fish, but mammal, and zoologists have long pon dered and disputed about Its family tree. In Eocene times the anceatora of mammals were beginning to take ibape somewhat like those of to-day and to lou the grotesqueness Inher ited from their reptilian progenitors. To be sure, animals were very differ ent from those of to-day. Horses were no larger than dogs and had five toes, while csttle-llk ttnoceraa. twice th six of an ox, with six horns, tokk- Ilk teeth and flv toes, cropped th heritage of Wyoming. Along with these peculiar plant feeder there dwelt some very primitive flesh eaters, to which Professor Cape gave the name of creadonta. The scene shifts to modern times. I'rofeesor Praas of Stuttgart, Ger many, is delving In the rocks near Cairo, Egypt He Is getting out bug laws bones that have been petrified. Th Jaw bone sr those of whaloa and th rocks near Cairo were, li Eocen times, the seashore. The pro fessor bss studied his whale Jawa and compared their teeth with other fos sil teeth. Now he tells us In a recent Abhandlungen that theae teeth of an cient whales are like those of the an cient carnlveroua creodonta. From this he argues that In Eocene or earlier times some primitive flesh eater took to an equating life. From these old times to the present whales have been becoming more flshllke. It Is hard to believe that the raven ous Hon and inoffensive and toothless whale of to-day had a common ances tor, yet they both have the same taste for blood, only the whale swallows bis food whole. Modern Bread Poor. I was informed a few weeks ago by a gentleman who owns large flour mills that the erase for white bread Is being carried to such extreme that many millers are putting In expensive machinery for the purpose of actually bleaching the flour, says a correspond ent of the London Times. This Is being done by ozone and nitrous acid, the object being to mak an artificially white bread and to en able grain to be used which would otherwlu give a darker color to tb flour. The development of the grading process during the last few years has been such that the old-faahloned stones have been replaced by steel roller actuated under great pres sure. The germ and other most nutritive constituents of the wheat are thus to a great extent abstracted and the val uable character of the bread greatly reduced. It la the opinion of many who can speak with authority on the subject that bread, instead of being as for merly the "staff of life," has become to a great degree an indigestible non nutritive food, and that It is responst ble, among other causes, for the want of bone and for the dental troubles In the children of the present genera tlon. It la doubtless true that the variety of food now obtainable In a measure compensates, in the case of those who can afford It for this abstraction of phosphates; but I think I am Justified In stating that every medical man, if asked, will give It a his opinion that very white bread should be avoided and that "seconds" flour, now almost unprocurable, should only be used either for bread or pastry. When a woman looks In a mirror she 1 never able to see herself as other women see her. More women weep over onions than over lov affaire. The New York Store. GENERAL UE&GHAHDISE. Mb& Dry Goods, Crocdes, Proilslosj, Fruits, Farcltw, Sioits, Etc LOWEST PRICES. H. MORGUS, St. Helens. Ore. Houlton -:- Meat -:- Market U D. WEEKS, Prop. FRESH ME ATS OF ALL KINDS Dry and Salt Pork. Shop at RobitiBon'B Old Stand. Depend SHOES for VET WEATHER. We can Pit Ton In PRICE, QOEITT ud WEAR. Ladies' 8h8 $1 50 to 13 Children's Shoes 50 eta to Men's & Boy shoes 11.25 WOOD SOLR S1IOKS, 91. Agents for Gutters and the Chippewa Cruising and Driving Shoos. BARON'S SHOE STORE 330-232 Morrison St Near 2nd. XSTheMone Sav-rs In Shoe. You Have WILL CURB YOU CURES LIVER TROUBLES far roil CONSTIPATION QUARANTCCO irr an rruri ' . r I rorRala by BAILKT rilUXtt. . BAKERY! Freah Bread, . Doughnuts, Pies and Cake. MRS. OLIVER, XIOTJXiTOlT, At Eirrj 0. Ciller's Store. VERMONT HOUSE. jGILSON A LAMBERSON, Trops HOULTON, OREGON. Good acc'iraodatioiiB at rea sonable prices. Barn in con nection with hotel. THE HOULTON EXCHANGE. KELLY BROS., Proprietors! Best of Wines, Cigars and Liquors, Kept in Stock. Opposite the post office. HOULTON, - ORE JSTORIA & COLUMBIA. RIVER A RAILROAD CO. DAILY. READ Q ' RKAD DOWN STATIONS DAILY 24 22 21 28 V. M. 7:00 8 OA 8 20 8 88 8 U 860 8 68 9 08 9 19 19 87 10 00 10 08 10 20 10 HO A. M. 8:00 9 0ft 9 18 9 86 9 40 9 60 10 00 10 10 10 21 10 86 10 67 11 OA 11 18 11 80 ,0 i Lv Portland Ar A. M. A. M. 9:46 8 86 .8 20 8 00 7 64 7 46 7 88 7 28 7 17 7 02 11:10 .... uobie ....Rainier ....Pyramid ... ...Mayger .... . ...Qiilncy ...ClatHkanie .. ..Marshland .. .. Wentport.... ....Clifton .... Knappa.... . ...Bvennon .... ....John Day,.. Ar AHtorla Lv 10 06 46.H 68.6 66.9 69.8 62.8 m.4 71.2 78.7 86.6 90.8 i96.4 9 62 9 86 9 27 9 17 9 08 9 02 8 68 8 88 8 16 8 07 7 66 7 46 6 42 S 82 99.8 20 10 All Ir.ln. i . '""" S3 rn!irn, P?ln traln K and from the o"uuu Mwim. ai rortland with nil lW", On"n dapet. At ArtJJrlaVlth " i b0?t,Rnd r11 "no and Steamer T. Lint. nd 'rom Ilwaco "d North Beach nLTX til01 ?.',"?, Joints mu.t r - .-n-.-" 'uuiwii wnen coming rrom polntawettofQoble. J. O. MAYO (ien. Fa,. g)., nia.dr. 50 12 00. to $4. Ba. filarial WHITE'S Cream Vermifuge THE 6UARAITEE0 WORM REMEDY THE CHILDREN'S FAVORITE TONIC acwaac mt iHiTaTiena. tub atnuias raiPAaiD omit st Bollard-Snow Liniment Co. T, LOUIS), MO. KILL. COUCH and CURE thi LUNCO W,TH Dr. fc' A Jo;v Discovery rONSUMPTION Pries OUGHS ana 60c Ml. 00 Frst Trial. OLD Bureat and Quickest Gura for all THROAT and LUNO TROUB LES, or MONEY BA01L Portland and Astoria AND WAY LANDINGS nStOril ROIltfl BteamerLCRUNElMveaTaT lor Ht. Wharf Dally (eicept Hunday) at 7 a. m. Lcarei Ailorla dally (exevpt Sunday) at t p. m, Clone connection with boat rorChlnook Beach Deep River, Ura'i Rlrer, Knanpton, Kt. Hier. ena, art. Oanby, it. Columbia, Ilwaco, Lrwta A Clark River, Ontey A Young'i Klver, and boat and train for both beachei, Portland and Yancon.er Steamer ENPiNK leave Taylor St. Wharf dally except hunday at 10:80 a. m. and 4:30 p. m. Leaves Vancouver at 8:80 a.m. and 1 p. ra. No traiufurlng, no diiitt, no dulay. Both 'Phone: Oregon Main 613; Columbia Hi. wharf-Koot of Taylor Ht. (ienrral ortlre-ajHU Yrmhlll Bt. VANCOUVER TRANSPORTATION CO. The Steamer Iralda. Makei round trip between RAINIER and PORTLAND. Leaving Rainier at 6 ;00 a. m. and Portland at 2:80 p. m. dally except Hunday. We lollolt a ihare of the publici patronage, and in return will give quick lervice and a clean boat. Wa are here to tay and want your buslnesi. Land lng at foot of Taylor Htreet. C. I. HOoaUKIRK, Master, Steamer Sarah Dixon. Leave Portland Tuenday and Thursday at a S.m., forClaUkanleand way landing. Bun ay for Oak Point. Returning, leave ClaU kanie Wednesday and Friday at 4 p. ra., tido permitlng. Ur ve Oak Point Monday at 6 p. m. Shaver Traniportatlon Co. Str. Jseph Kellogg. Leave Portlaud Tuesday, Thursday and Sat- rmin, nairner ana koIho. Arriving at Port land, Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 2 p.m. The Hteamer Northwest leave Portland, Mon doy and Thursday for Toledo, Castle Kock, and way point at 6 a.m., re urnlng Wednesday and ??Vird57 ?J 2, P' m-. Bei,t cheapest routa tothe8t. Helon mining district. Bubjoct to thout notlca. Wharf foot of balmoa treet. II. Uolman, Agent, i t v. . ' ivBiniiin, vnrriim o i mi i - 'ITM' ' "ir