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THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, FEBRUARY 16, 1899. I treed BY WOLVES I I s! I —--- Huntar. By Martin 3 (JOT the outlines of the following story from De Ilertle, and send it as a companion sketch to the “Buttling Season.” However, u word about De Hertle. There was quite a romance about his being among the Indians. and at some future time I muv be tempted to write it up, for it shows how a man can sacrifice position and family itself for sublime love. When I first went to Mingan to as sume charge of that post, 1 found De Hertle. a middle-aged man, with an In dian woman for a wife, and a growing up family of French half-breeds, most beautiful and intelligent children. He was at home and fluent in French, English and Latin, and, being an ob servant man, and having read every thing he could lay his hands on, was a most amusing and instructive com panion. K. M. Ballantyne mentions him in his book, “Hudson’s Bay,” but under an other name. I think it was the first or second day after my arrival that I noticed a man of about 20, who was hobbling about in the most odd gait I ever saw, and his moccasins were of abnormal shortness. 1 said to De Ilertle, who happened to be chatting with me at the time: “What’s the trouble with that fel low? Look how he walks.’’ “That poor man,” he replied, follow ing the Indian with his eyes, “has had all his toes and fingers frozen off. He was only a youth at the time, but showed wonderful bravery and endur ance. However, if you would like to hear the story, I will come over after tea and tell you the facts as they hap pened.” I assured him it would give me great pleasure not only to see him but to hear the story. With this, he took his way and I turned my steps toward the cooper shop, to see how the work there was progressing, thanking the fates as poor Ballantyne had done in the years gone by for having such an agreeable person about the post as De Ilertle, for this is the great drawback that pre sents itself to an unmarried officer in the company’s service on outpost duty —the want of genial and suitable com panionship. According to this promise. De Ilertle turned up in the early port of the even ing, and after we had replenished the fire in the okl-fashioned chimney and filled our pipes, we drew up our chairs to the hearthstone and De Ilertle be gan: “That poor, unfortunate young man, regarding whom you questioned me to day, is a nephew’ of my wife, and the way he became crippled, as you noticed, happened years ago, when he was quite a boy. “The winter when this took place his father (my wife’s brother) and myself went from here to the Moisic, as it was likely to l>e a year of foxes on the coast, and there is no better place to hunt them than on the sands on each side of that great river. “We built ourselves a small log cabin to house our families in common, and by the time all was finished snug to our satisfaction it was time to set our traps. “Fox-trapping, when they are plenti ful, is a very pay’^g business, as the silver or black ones, as you know’, are very valuable. The intense cold of De cember began to make itself felt, and as the fish had left the shore to deep water, and partridge, rabbitsand other small game were becoming scarce, we were glad to see that the cold wave from the far north had brought down to the coast innumerable flocks of ptarmigan, and thus w*e were assured of plenty until the warm weather of early April drove them back from whence they came. “In very severe winters, such as the one I mention, the cold drives everything south—wolves from the bar ren grounds among the other animals. “Old Jerome Valois had four children -two sons and two daughters. The boys were the youngest at the time I am speaking of, being respectively nine and seven years of age. The one you saw to-day, William, was the elder. “William had had a gun for over a year, and was quite a good shot and successful hunter, young as he was. “Nearly every day he and his little brother, Mark (the latter to carry the bag and pick up the game) used to sally forth, and at night return both loaded with ptarmigan. “Along the sea coast, on the west side of the Moisic, there is only a narrow fringe of green wood, and back of this barren grounds, studded with clumps of willow’s, stretched as far as the eje could reach, here and there a few stunt ed poplar and pitchpine trees relieving the monotony of the dreary waste of country. “The boys in hunting were led far afield by the flocks of ptarmigans, and often they only reached home an hour cr two after dark, but no anxiety was every felt for their prolonged absence. “One night—it was the 6th of Jan uary. and intensely cold — the boys failed to come, even at the latest hour they had ever been absent before. Their parents now became thoroughly alarmed, and waited and watched the long night through, firing guns at in- | tcrvals, thinking to guide their toot- ( steps homeward. “An hour before dawn Jerome and I lad made our preparations to go in | search as soon as daylight would allow i of us picking up their tracks It was useless to leave before, as we might go in a wrong direction, and, fortunately for us, the tracks were not drifted over. We therefore took up the trail from the very door. It was tedious work, how ever, following all the windings of the boys’ footsteps of the previous day. I I I I I it was likely to prove surest aud A MODERN JONAH. speediest in the «nd. “He had thus been picking our way carefully for about three hours, or, in The Yacht That I* Helen Unlit la- laud by u Man iu .Vlary ether Hords, it was then ubout ten I* nd. o’clock when the trails led toward a J. P. ALLEN, narrow cluster of trees. Up to this wi A steam launch 75 feet long, being made haste and hurried through the Proprietor- built 2l/a miles from water, is the un jpening beyond, both of us evidently usual sight which may be seen on the being moved with the same impression road from Pomona to Quaker Neck that the farther side would solve the First class accommodation Kent county. The boat is building mystery of the boys’ absence. at second class rate. within a few feet of the public road, and “And it did. many of the original timbers have “A couple of hundred yards out in rotted away during the tedious con BEST MEALS IN THE ’he plain we saw a solitary poplar,con tinuance of the work. About 15 years siderably larger than the otners there ago. says the Baltimore Sun, Capt. A CITY. about. The first thing that drew our Judson, a man who had “gone down tc attention to it were the two black ob the sea in ships” for many years, came Tillamook, Ore jects on its largest limbs. These ob to Kent and opened a store. After mer jects we speedily made out to be the chandising for a short time he bought missing children. a pretty little home near the village ol "But why were they there? And. Pomona and started a sawmill. Finally easting our eyes about for the cause, it the old sailor conceived the idea of build vas at once made manifest by seeing ing his yacht. The keel was laid, tht three large, gaunt wolves sitting n't ribs slowly assumed position, and win the base of the tree, Hutching the ter and summer the work dragged on. forms above. Years passed. The first timbers began “We both simultaneously looked at to decay, and before the completion of the priming of our rifles, and. although one part the timbers were of necessity the distance from where we stood was replaced by new. and yet the pet scheme considerable for the muzzle-loaning was not abandoned, and now the dr^ guns of those days, yet we had no op land ship is nearing completion. Tht tion but to try, as there was no other yacht is to be 75 feet in length, 11 feet point of concealment between us and beam and 6 feel bold. She will be pro pelled by steam, and, the captain says, clx the tree but the place we were in. will turn off 20 miles an hour. A cubir "Jerome selected an immense grat fellow as his mark, and 1 picked out one 45 feet in length will be built and fitted of the others—a pure white, with black up for a long cruise, the intention of the captain being to revisit many scenes t ars and muzzle. We each took careful of his eally sailor life. The puzzling aim and fired together at the word question to the casual observer is: IJow three. is this craft to be gotten to the Chester “W hen the smoke cleared away river, more than two miles away? The from our guns we had the satisfaction captain says that with one horse the of seeing both animals rolling and launch will be quickly and easily moved .napping their great jaws in the death The boat now has the deck on, and it agony, and the third disappearing in is expected that the launch will be full retreat ove, a distant knoll. made next summer. The launching day “Reloading our guns as we went, we will be made memorable, and the spon hurried on with what speed we could sor for the novel craft has already been toward the tree, the father's heart in chosen. Jerome being stirred to its depths by THE PASS-ON SHAKE. the awful dread he felt at seeing those motionless figures, which made no per ceptible move at our firing or approach. Mr. Gonsleby Makes a Fen Scatter* inObNervation« I yon a "The younger boy, Murk, was the Fresh Subject. uppermost, and tied to the tree trunk with his brother's belt, and, better to “There are various kinds of hanu- secure his safety, his brother sat astride shakes,” said Mr. Gozzleby, according ASTORIA AND of a limb lower down and clasped the to the New York Sun, “among them legs of -Mark and the trunk of the pop the pass-on shake, which is used at TILLAMOOK. lar with the same embrace. receptions and one place and another “At first, as we gazed up at the poor where there’s lots of people coming uj children, we thought they were both ill the time and where it wouldn't be dead, but when I, the lighter man and possible for the man that the people the least overcome, ascended the tree. had come to see to stop and take half 1 found the younger long since past all i day with each person. So, if the man assistance, for his body was frozen in front gives signs of being a stayer WILL liUN THE hard. But William’s still gave out some the man receiving shakes hands with warmth, but quite overcome with the him heartily and says: stupor that precedes death by exposure “‘Why, my dear sir. I am delighted to see you.’ lie imparts to his hand at to excessive cold. "Fortunately, before leaving the the same time, with what grace and Will make trips every five .lavs, the weather permitting, between Astoria an.l house, I had shoved into my pocket skill and tact he can command, a slight Tillamook City, carrying freight and passengers. , small flask of the very purest sidewise motion, in the direction in which the line is moving. This is tht Franch brandy, some of a small ELMORE, SANBORN & CO., ASTORIA ; or COIIN & CO., quantity given to me by the cap pass-on shake. “I got it once in church. Passing TILLAMOOK, AGENTS. tain of a Jersey vessel that had vis ited the coast the previous summer As down the aisle after the service. I was best I could I forced a portion of this met at the end by one of the officers between his clenched teeth, which who shook me cordially by the hand caused him to cough, and at the same and spoke most pleasantly, giving me time he opened his eyes for a moment however, the pass-on handshake. 1 think I didn’t quite expect it. I sori n a dazed way. “Sufficient of the liquor had found of imagine that I hod always though! it the Christian’s duty to put up with its way down his throat to create a gea- anything, bores and anybody else, al tle glow through his body, and after n ways, and wait the other man’s pleas moment or two he opened his ejes and ure and be more than patient, be agree endeavored to speak, glancing up tn a ible and polite besides. But I don’t mute and appealing way toward his think that just now. I think now, for brother. instance. that a man would have nc “Ilis fingers were frozen, interlaced, more right to block up a passage in n on the opposite side of the tree, but as ?hurch and make other folks uncom they were past all chance of being fortable there than he would have any FOLLOWING IS OUR LIST OF PRICES : saved, and especially as they gave him where else; and when such a man does no pain, I wrenched them apart without ?ome along, why, it is perfectly proper COMMCN ROUGH LUMBER at $8 00 fter thousand feet, SHIPLAP at $9.00 per thousand feet, hesitation and lowered the boy to his o give him, in due time, with firm but SIZED LUMBER at 9(10 per thousand feet, gentle kindness, the pass-on shake.” father. FLOORING. No. 2, at $12.00 per thousand feet. “As we had all we could do to carry FLOORING, No. 1, at $10.00 per thousand feet, A RED MAN’S DRINK. the frozen boy to the house before night RUSTIC, No. 2, at $12 00 per thousand feet, set in, we concluded to leave the corpse RUSTIC, No. 1, at $16,000 |>er thousand feet, Re<l Ink la n Favorite Beveraic« of little Mark secured to the tree as he No. 1, FINISH, at $15.00 per thousand feet, Among the Indiana of In MOULDINGS. Wc per foot, per inch in width. was. There, at all events, he would be dian Territory. ALL BIN. PLANKING at $7 per 1000 feet. ftee from any other wolves that might be in the vicinity. Vigilant as the deputy marshals art “While old Jerome built a fire to in Indian territory, and drastic as tht make warm drink for the boy Wili’am, application of the prohibition law by 1 ripped off the skins of the dead beasts, the courts may be, several kinds of in as they were both beautifully furred toxication safely defy all statutory pro and of uncommon size. These 1 made visions. Amazing quantities of Jamaica up in a ball and hung them up for safety ginger are consumed in the territory from destruction until we came back rhe stores handle ginger as a legiti mate drug. A teaspoonful will caust the following day. *‘A trifle more of the brandy and some choking and coughingfor several min warm gruel brought William back to utes in a throat unaccustomed to swal full consciousness, and we started for lowing the powerful stuff. But then the house, bearing him between us on are men in the territory who drink tw< or three bottles a day with apparent an improvised litter. “What a night we passed, with the satisfaction to their educated stomachs wailings and lamentations of the poor More Jamaica ginger is sold in the In mother at the loss of one son and the dian territory thaD in half a dozer states where whisky selling is licensed crippling of the other! Bed ink is another favorite territory “Having been an assistant surgeon in This is not a nickname foi my younger days, I found on examina tipple. Freight handled with pispatch and at lowest rates. Fruit delivered in good order. tion of William's frozen extremities something else. The ordinaiy red ink Best Accommodations and Cheapest Route to or from Tillamook. which the bookstores of the states sei •hat all his toes on both feet had to Every attention paid to wants and conveniences of passenger. First-class table set. come off. and all the fingers of the left for writing purposes is a beverage ir WILL SAIL FROM SAN FRANCISCO ABOUT OCTOBER 30th AND hand. But I managed to save the thumb □arts of this country. The ink drinker of cultivated tastes will buy bottles by EVERY 10 DAYS AFTER. end index finger on the right one. the the half dozen at a time and swallow For further particulars apply to possession of which has enabled him to the contents with relish. Essence» do many things that the want of them which sell elsewhere for flavoring pur w. ¿c co., would have prevented him from accom poses are drinks under this civilization plishing. \nything which has a basis of alroho No. 14 C alifornia S tr eft , S an F ranciho ; or to T ri ckkk I. imiier C o . "A few days after I had performed is in demand. Intoxication is cravec the operation on his hands and teet and the stomach of the Indian terri (which was quite painless to the boy) j lory drinker does not quarrel with th« he told us that the wolves had swooped | form in which it comes. Wood alcohol down on them all at once from the crest accounted poison in most parts of the cf a neighboring knoll, and in •heir i country, is consumed In conslderablf haste to scramble up the tree their gun quantities. The peddlers buy it in Okla was dropped, and the vicious beas's sat lioroa. dilute it with water, and sell It by down on their haunches to deliberately j the pint on this side of the line. YOU WANT starve them out.” Emcland C’rnsy Over Croqaet. In a thoughtful way De nertle arose Croquet, the revival of which in Eng from his chair, knocked the ashes from Higgins Salt, his pipe, and, wishing me good-night, land was announced not long ago. it said to be ma king alarm! ng st rides, and Color, Butter departed for his wigwam.—N. Y. Led- in places to threaten the sovereignty ot gtr. _________ . golf. They have made a new game of It /yien ¡¿ou^e. hMy Kingdom For a Horse." WELL, WE’VE GOT IT AND MORE TOO If 3rc-CL Want tc IDriTre ZtSToio G-erxtle Horse To a. ZSTice Easy Come to O" Sta/tole e-rxd. G-et it. The Tillamook Livery and Sale Stable. TILLAMOOK, OREGON. Reduced Fares! 6.00 ROUND TRIP. 3.50 ONE WAY. Steamer AAT. H. HARRISON or R. P. ELMORE. WHEN YOU WANT LUMBER, Remember that we keep the best of everything in Stock and at prices as low as the lowest- Lumbering Co. Tillamook STEAMER RUTH Direct From S. F. to Tillamook. DAIRYMEN—Attention ! WHEN Cream PI* Crost. Three-fourths cup sour cream, three fourths cup of cold water, one level tea spoonful soda, three cups flour, pinch of salt. This is sufficient for two pies with double crusts. Tart shells may b< made as above; and such pastry wii not injure any person’» stomach- Ilome Magazine. —three times ns difficult and scientific as the old—and the craze is cm. Cheese Color, Butter Rennet, Paper, Separators, Butter Workers. And any Other Dairy Supplies WRITE An Imlotfrion« Vnlrasn. The morrt active volcano in the work Is Mount Sangay. 17.190 feet high, situ ated on the eastern chain of the Andes South America. It has been in constan eruption since 1728. Ä STOKES Co., ASTORIA, OREGON, FOR PRICES AMO CATALOGUES. MIMMONS. IN THK CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON, FOR TILLAMOOK COUNTY. W. 1*. Hook. plaintiff. I vs Jehiel Forest. defendant. J To Jehiel Forest, the defendant above named: In the nair.e of the state of Oi egon. you are hereby required to appear and answer the com plaint filed against you iu the a ove entitled suit on or before the last day of the time pre scribed in the order for the publication of this summons, which time is six weeks, and begins to run from the dav of first publication hereof, to-wit, January 12th, 1899, and if you fail solo appear and answer, for want thereof plaintiff will apply to said court for the relief demanded in the complaint herein. The relief demanded is the foreclosure of a certain mortgage ex ecuted and delivered by you to the Aberdeen Bank, of Aberdeen. Washington, on or about November 20th. 189 a , bearing said date, to se cure the payment of a certain promissory note of yourself for $944.01, dated November 20th, I894, and payable on or before two years after date, with interest after date at the rate of ten per cent, per annum, which said mortgage conveyed unto said Aberdeen Bank for that pur pose the folio wing described real property, situated in the county of Tillamook, State of Oregon, to-wit : The North East quarter of S clton twenty-six (36) and the South East quar ter of Section twenty-three (23) in township one u) North of Range eight (8) West of the Wiliam tte Meridian : and which said note and mortgage were on or about Novernber 21st. 1894, imioised and assigned to this plaintiff, amt on which there is now due plaintiff the sum of $1234.80, with interest thereon at the rate of ten percent, per annum from December 20th, 1898, until paid ; the further sum of $58.^0 paid for taxes on said premises, the costs and disburse nient of this suit and the sum of $10000 at torney's fees herein. It is further demanded in said complaint that said mortgaged real pro perty be sold as upon exeeu'ion and the pro ceeds of said sale be applied in payment of the said sums due plaintiff and that you be for ever barred and foreclosed of and from any and all right, title and interest in or to said mortgaged premises and every part thereof, except statu tory right of redemption, and that the pur chaser at said sale be put unto immediate pos session of said premises by the sheriff. This summons is published by order of the Hon. G. W. Sappington, County Judge of Tilla mook couuty, Oregon, made and dated at Tilla mook City, Oregon, on January 10th, 1899. the time prescribed in the order for publication being once a week for six successive weeks, and the date of first publication being Thursday. January talh, 1899. B. U EDDY. Attorney for Plaintiff. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Land Otiice at Oregon City. Ore , January 16th, 1899. Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has tiled notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the County Clerk of Tillamook co., al Tillamook, Oregon, on March 4th, 1899. vis : WILLIAM J CARVER, H. E 12313. for the H H of Ne Li »»nd E H of Nw ‘4 of Sec. 31. Tp. 1 S. It 7 W. He names the fo lowing witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, vis: George A Barton, Jeremiah Murphy, Daniel Murphy and John Murphy, of Trask, Oregon. C has . B. M oores , Register. ' NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Land Oilice at Oiego 1 City, Ore.’, Jam ary 16111, 1809. Notice is hereby given that me following- named settler has tiled notice of his intention to make filial proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the County Clerk of Tillamook county, Oregon, on March 4tli, 1899, viz : JERRY MURPHY, II. E. 12335, for the S’a of Nw and E ’a of Sw •4 of Sec 5, Tp. 2S, R. 7 W. He names the foliowit g witnesses toprove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz : William J. Carver and George A. Barton, of Trask, Oregon ; George W. Sappington, of Tilla, monk, Oregon ; Albert L. Whitten, of Trask- Oiegon. C has . B. M oorer , Register. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Land Office ul Oregon City, Ore., January 26th, 181/?. Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be marie beiore the County Clerk of Tillamook co , at Tillamook, Oregon, 011 March 10th, 1899, viz : ESI HER M BRAMMER, formerly E sther w archer ; II. E. No. 11,872 for the W % of Ne Be of Ne *4 an«! No ‘ < of Se ’4, Sec. 27, Tp. 1 S, R. 10 W. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz. Edward O. ohnson, Dryden L. Baker, Axel Nelson, John Hagney, of Tillamook, Oregon. C has . B. M oores . Register. NOTICK OF GUAKDIAN HACK. In the County Court of the Couuty of Tilla mook, State ofOregon. In tin- matter of the estate of Fredrick M. and Monlie V. Davidson, Minors. The petition of George Williams, guardian of the above named Minors, for an order to sell certain undivided interests In real property coining re.ularly on to be heard, and it appear ing to the court that it is for the best interest of the s i<l minors that their undivi ed one sev enth interest in and to the real property des cribed in said iietition be sold and the money derived from the sale thereof be placed at in terest. or otherwise invested so as to derive the most benefit therefrom for the said Illinois, it Is therefore ordered that the next of kin of said minors, to witW. W. Quick, Rlioda Johnson. Nellie Stillwell. (PC. Davidson, Maiy Downs, Jano Dean«*, Bell Pye and Anna Williams, and ail other perso s interested in said estate ap pear before this court oil the 7II1 «lay of March, A. I)., 1899. to show cause, if any, tlmy can why said »ale should not be oidered. G W HAPIINGTON. County Judge. Dated thigQth day of February, 1899. A DMIN1N I KA TOIUM NOTICE. The undersigned having been on the 3rd day of January, 1899, «inly appointed by the Hon. County Court of Tillamook county, Oregon, Administrator of the Es tate <>f NEHALEM HCfjTT. deceased, all persons having CLAIMH against the said Estat«*, ar«-hereby notified 10 present the same, «July verified to run within six months from the date hereof, at timoffice of Handley <fc Handley, at Tilllam«M>k, Oregon. Date«l this day. January 12h, 181M1. H abby M itchell . Administrator. WHERE TO INSURE. THE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON AND G1.OHE INSURANCE (0. AUKNT FOU TILLAMOOK, J. B. STEPHENS. HONE MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY. AOKNTH FOK TILLAMOOK. BIGGS It STEPHENS. SCHOOL DESKS AND SUPPLIES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. J. S. STEPHENS in «gent for die NorthwHHt School Furniture Company for Tilliuiiook co. C. A. BAILEY, DKAI.F.K IN STUDEBAKER WAGONS, OSBORNE MOWERS, UuitRi«'« liny rnktMi, plow., >uxl other ffirin nmcliiiiery. You cun »eve money by Jenloig will, me, Special Price« oil BugKie« rii <1 Spring Wngona. U. A. BAILEY, Till.mook, Or». C. «Sc E. Thayer. General Banking aud Exchange busi ness interest paid on lime de|H»sits. Exchange on England, Belgium, Ger many, Sweden, ami al! foreign countries. TILLAMOOK, ORE.