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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
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. 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
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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
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