The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 20, 1913, Page 8

‘ i ‘ i ; j ' ANOTHER STORY BY ROBERT W. CHAMBERS ° 2 1898, ey ROBERT W. CHAMBERS) rthwest Carr » he was the best riverd (COPYRIGHT y who reapector re was a riversdriv Who PONT i ver on the an with a oose nor man ch let him alone until he struck an lon an’s head was damaged, and while he waited for {t to heal } Me ee enge, He the moose-warden and told 7 y many ftly concealed a ® » Hes, however, waa truth eee! Ne -_ that tnfurtated the > . oe The river-drive name was Skee ‘ed when the — moose-ward de « Rut wher head and on antlers behind a sha sh pick up ybliquely a at the ward 1 blanket and h ti 7 onto his head { away to the southward 1 snee . but Hale, who go) t im up 5 a ffair might blow | ‘a e turned lazy ani ad when Hale re | and | mons . him and hinted a moose-wardens and { Hale before the whole camp, packed se y away down the West Bra r Hale never f 6 him. Skeene star to & Henderson on t uppe Portage. heard of an at Poss if they had Jet him alone, he might have turned out as tame as a oose-bird—he was only twenty-t but Ha remen dered, and the Indian r embered, and one day a man came in to the Carry Camp with a 44 bullet in his wrist and an unserved warrant io his pocket Th 4 Was & moose warden, and the warrant wae for When the news spread that § Aw n, the guides at Greenville a sher to the shore a dle a h Ev ance, he might have surrendered A war t island that divides the West Bran den waite ta crawled in outalde the fire and asleep. What Skeene did to the warde when he awoke the official cannot reme istinetly Three weeks after that Skeene walked {nto Kineo store, handling his eo in a most alarming fashion. He suggested that they place certain provisions and am {tion tn his canoe, which lay on ¢t beach below The minutes later % complie Twenty Skeene, in his canoe, was seen making for Moose River They notified the sheriff agai People f ht shy of Moose River and the lake beyond which is ca! Lake In vate guides declared the region safe, Skeene | The Indian log-driver, however, stayed away after Ske ‘ah t a hole in bis canoe Skeene went to Canada for a year, worked at along, and sent money to Kineo store to pay anyt for his f g that ¢ k and pow That, of « won h » guides again. So when home sickness drove him bac Red Lake he expected t et alone Hale, slut in the Northwest Carry, heard he had returned, and started for Red Lake with the log-driving half-breed and six men Two days later they returned; Hale had a bullet in his leg above the knee and the half-breed carried a similar gift in his fore This incident bothered the sheriff cruelly. He went to Foxcroft, where they said unpleasant things to him; he went back to the Land: | ing and they made fun of him. The sheriff summoned his posse, boarded the steamer and left Greenville, bound for Moose River. Half a dozen c Red Deer aboard. The posse carried Winchesters, although no game was in season Off the Grey Gull, an island, the little steamboat stopped, the canoes were dropped, the posse embarked At the mouth of the Moose River two more canoes were waiting; | Hale sat in one, paddle glistening In the palo spring sunshine; tn the} other sat the Indian logdrtver, nursing the hammer of a rifle. It was" paddl for a mile to the first wing-dam, and there the sheriff, who led, flung his stern-paddle into the bottom of the canoe, flourished the setting-pole and stood up. At the same moment a jet of flame leaped from the edge of the wing-dam and a bullet passed | through the sheriffs hat The amazed official fell overboard, sank, rose, grasped the edge of the canoe and swamped it, turning the bow-paddler tnto the river. The swift current landed them on a shoal and they crawled up on a rock Nobody fired at the wingdam except Hale. He banged away as fast as he could pump the breech-lever, and Billy Sebato, the Indian | took to the bushes and lay patiently waiting for a mark, purring with | eagerness Jim Skeene, you darned thief!” them stones!” “I ain't no more thief than you be, Josh Hale!" bawled Skeeno. “T paid for them rations and cartridges and you know d—n well | did!’ The Indian Sebato fired twice. If that nigger Sebato don't quit shootin’ I'll let loose on all o'| ye!” called Skeene, shaking his rifle above the wing<dlam edge. “Git back to your dreen, Josh Hale, I tell you.” Hale started to push his canoe among the rocks where he could hold {t and fire under cover. Skeene slid suddenly to the corner of the wingdam and fired three shots through the canoe, cutting a swale| lengthwise at the water's edge It settled In two feet of water. “Now'll you let me be?” called Skeene. “I hain’t done nothin’ to! you. If that there moose-warden wants me let him come and get me. I tell ye I'll shoot to kill at the next man that fires!” | “You dasn’t,” shouted the sheriff from behind his rock; half a man, Jim Skeene “I be,” said Skeene calmly, shouted Hale, “come ont from | “you ain't “but I don't want no fu: “ You keep Best modern outside rooms in Seattle, 25c to 50c. Stewart House, 86 West Stewart (near Pike Publ | into the T Skeene Thrashed Hale Before the Whole Camp, Packed offfn this river, and you wing-dam kin’ along the woods ato! Git back there! G or I'll shoot to kill, Tell that nigger Indian to it back! Tell him quick! I see him—I Sebato's r cracked, and the shot was repeated by Hale, wading out on the sho Then a forked flame flas from the wing-dam, | there came a crash and crackle of dry twiga, heavily over the bank into the swirling riv Skeene’s pale face appeared above the dam, him You drove me to It,” said Skeene “Come down off'n that wing-dam, “Not for you, Josh Hale o' ye! An’ I won't be took, they let me He crouched and watched them as they pushed thelr canoes out main chan The sberiff and Hale advanced to the pool where Sebato lay. A slender fillet of blood hung in the water, floating like a red string Bring them settin’-poles, but He spoke huskily commanded Hale. Skee nor not I'm goin netther. said the sheriff soberly ee They Week after week econd eo dis pads of his gave Skeene little peace for two months a string of canoes passed the swift water under the first and wing-dams, disembarking a file of riflemen. Week after week t tant flash of a paddle startled the deer at sunrine among the Ii! Skeene for & moment standing tn the stern PALL BEARER AT SULLIVAN FUNERAL! cums |, 9. INSPECTOR IN MEAT CASES | Incensed by the unfriendly attl- tude of the federal meat inspector who testified in behalf of the de-| fense in the state's case against J. R. Grant & Co., state officials will [bring the matter to the attention of the federal government and se- cure, if possible, his witndrawal from Seattle. MILLMADE In a speech on “Good Citizen ship” at the Second Baptist church last night, Gov. Lister severely ‘ scored the federal officer and de- clared he would himself file a com- plaint with the department of a Mr. Renter: reulture a Strange as {t may seem,” sald| the governor, “the federal authori- ties in Seattle were on the side of the defendants, rather than assist: Have you ever noticed that home- ing us * . “The department of agriculture | like little bungalow, will be asked that the men here be instructed to assist the state of. fictals in every way. Failing this, the government will be asked to withdraw and permit us to ac the Mill Made bun- galow, out at First Avenue and Wall on plist some good without their street? e rnor spoke feelingly on the subj It was a vital matter, That ts the exhibit house he said. The guaranty of pure food and office of the Coast Con- must be preserved. The practice of struction Company. It ts built wholesalers of selling at a discount there to show you the con: , 6 : 1 Miruceion, nppearanee, ana" unfit food must be stopped at all vantages of a house of mili | Costs, he sald. made character. Fully hait the carpenter work house was dons. before ‘the lumber was hauled to the lot. | The traming was done at the mill. The walls and partitions were made at the mill fters, floor and cefiin ere cut and fitted at t Dance St. Pau! Steve Repair 4 Plumbing Co, Original tire bow 6 mill linings and repeire 6 house fteelf was oven set tor all > at the mill, and the door stoves, and window frames were fit- tur ted there. backs and cof! The best way to judge this 008 PIKE mode of construction. I Main 878, come out and look at it; and “ men aa this ts YOUR invitation to NX come pours,” nvenings an y olntment, a |For Addressing, Mailing and| Circular Work HEIDEN’S MAILING BUREAU 1407 Fifth Ave. Coast Construction Company 2500 Firat Avenue Telephone Elliott $3.00 Buys a Sewing Machine. 150 Sewing Machines, all makes, $3.00 and up. New Maghines rented, $2.00 per | month, | taker, Beoond and Cherry when her husband ° 1 drove |WHITE SEWING MACHINE CO, Pec: | Saattlo |their car into a flat car. She fet] p LOOR | 1424 Third, near Pike. Fate tempter near Rochester named his boat the Titanlc Il, it |under the wheels of the moviy:| -OURTH AND GROUND F Phone Main 1526, capsized in a squall, and @ man and woman in it were drowned, | pith ag \t Dreamland tonight.—Ady. | | | MOGRWOOD F UNDERWOOD | You Usually See Charile Murphy, Leader of Tammany Hall, Maker! and Wrecker of New York Public Men, Pictured in Cartoons. Here Is a Photograph of Him ae Chief Palibearer at the Funeral of “Big Tim’) Sullivan, the Dead Idol of the Famous East Side. Joys of Litigation—Chicago man to whom a woman jury awarded | }a verdict bought a box of candy for each one of them, and the oldest under 22 Ali were pretty, eee ee | Dry Humor—To put the “wet” town of Ramona, Col. out of busl- ness ting off the offending village's water supply, 60 @ 8 Body of a baby was sent by paro el post to a Philadelphia under- © SEATTLE STAR I “THE LITTLE MISERY” — And you stop and the Indian pitched nobody shot at for any man away to live quiet If prohibitionista of Colorado Springs are accused of cheerily cut-, TALE OF NORT ROMANCE H woops Minery, that canoe, The canoe lay at the mouth of the LAttle : ‘ 3 niretch of water and dend-fall, winding through the bow to the wouth-| ha : ‘ ward, ‘They gave chano, trailing Gkeene’n canoe by the wake bublles) | , : ‘until they ran plump into quick ster arr Pe Rut the Little Misery Iv a strange stream draining a atrange lane and there, Jn that maze of cute and channels, of i quicl 0 10 “ water, of AWamp, shoal, nedge and spectral rank trees, tow: |eamp | ited F erlag above swale and deadwood, they stood bo nee Alege ; } And #o they hunted 8h at t k of ie Jammy high noon, from the Northeast Carry thwent ¢ utoad, wate! ! the West-Dranch to Boboomook, from Portage to lily Hay, heart be 6 a hundred miles of lake and stream, up and down, up and « | © fle 1 ¥ ny August they gave up the chan r ‘ o we That evening Bke stood on a wind the depths of th and ¢ . Little Misery and watched three canoes file « discharge and er eran. Par hore > giide Into Moose River, The next morning he started a leanto on tl ar ved od flamed the ridge back of the Little Misery, and the sharp crack and thwack of / a f ¢ his ax rang out over Red Lake 0 t “ t the At noon the echoes of axstrokes died away and at South ¢ . i 1 thatched with balean ly three o'clock a aplke buck, a La ne ‘ ae her six otter It across a log on the ridge, and at four o'clock cone had sa ‘ the hunger wit f In the days that followed, Skeene lear 1 talk to himself | had wo » the When he did this he forgot that he had killed Sebato; after a while| And & ‘ « 7 he forgot It altogether the strange drained Ange ‘ When the August afternoons were ablaze with brazen sunlight | winds ; and the lake giistened like a sheet of steel, Skeeno sprawled on 5 dawn the sky ¢ t ‘ 1 jin the shade and wate the great blue herons. The great 1ae a moose roared a walvte he coming da Kingfishers knew him, the sheldrake, stringing along the creek at They awoke ed ¢ ach the ing, turned their bright eyes to bis | ie . : The wwift water of the Little Misery gave bim a trout to eve When the le-npirite 8 of 1 $500 remy ar sllet fr e eer led aw th I ere rouble in HAVE YOU BE Ha ft ote , t heritf at READING THE STAR'S ac sare atgto oea anes haere Para Ae rent ale, SERIES OF SATURDAY | ‘ead alive : a SHORT STORIES” BY [lother reasor The he t conte THE MOST FAMOUS boa she left with Jim Skeene she t Hale's bethrothal ring wi iter ner, “ AUTHORS IN AMERICA? After Skeene inelie. Witonn with mal IF YOU HAVEN'T, IT |) hs nee a ae ts aa i Jeol : Nha oled into the Lit ooked at his s WOULD PAY YOU TOF finatly into nis sombe 8 rifle, my BUY THE OLD COPIES. |; I only one shot. Was St a deer?” 4, muttering that he had missed; b that night IT HAS BEEN THE taking his curly head into her arms, and wept over BEST FICTION PUR- al orimac ned the world, Me CHASEABLE, WRITTEN scamed: thoes ince the éreoba: Lois, beongee oer BY MEN LIKE GOU- until her little hands were stained to VERNEUR MORRIS, O. a far an Sainte Croix, He bought ealt and pork Aan HENRY, ROBERT W. with the proceeds of Hale's ring th 1s bred in haunti fe CHAMBERS, AND iatiies nba a culated 1 sae ° rc ne nd Skeene lugged more 4 hides into hi OTHERS. The ake: fone and Sk Frramig pn dh ite the bal WATCH THE STAR] daubed it with whitelead, while Lois crep to his si FOR THE ANNOUNCE- strung snowshoes. At times she sang. He listened, lying beside canoe MENT OF THE STORY Snow fell on the frozen lake; the Little Misery was mantle, 4 : carrys choked. The deer yarded on the ridge, the moose on the TO BE PUBLISHED || ttove: the biack bear buried his feeble nose in his stomach NEXT SATURDAY. | dreamed | As for Lots, she learned that men are brutes, and that @ | was all the world to her. She learned that he went hungry that His Kit and Paddled Away. Rn | might ¢ that he shivered while sh inder skin and blanket | Sometimes they ayed togethe: e and this slender set-line, On the Little Misery deer swarm at evening, and he bad! jx. young foxes In the snow. $ often hide, too, in the holla meat for the price of a cartridge ,| of a great swamp-oak, and when came home she would call: yy of August brought that vague unrest that all) yn) forest cre As the moon waned, the forest world stirred that Skeene, laughing up at Lots fs fts attitude was expectant, it waited over his shoulder and saw six black An Impatience, almost a sadness fell upon Skeene. And with sad- the frozen lake to the southward. He said ness came fear, He covered his lean-to and built a amokehole through! tut looked into the north, There were more dots there, more which blue haze rose in the calm morning air. But the steam-hole of/ the joe In the west. For a moment he thought the east was prt & beaver’s house might be more easily located than the chim of | after a while he heard the scrape of a snow-shoe very near. heard and her face was like death as she reached down and took rifle from Skeene’s hand. When he had climbed up into the hollow tree beside her looked out from the hole above the great branch, he saw Hale peer Skeene’s hut eee When September came a hush fell over the forest. Silent and more silent the woods grew as the new moon rose in the evening sky At ita firat quarter the silence deepened, at its half the stillness was| s+ nim from # dead-fall Intense. Then one black night the Full Moon of September flashed in “Com ) Hal the sky, and a gigantic black shadow waded out tnto the lake and a| Skene claped bis OP ects -dieaec asia gogar roar shook the hills. ” | “Come dow repeated Hale from behind his dead-fall. Tho first bull-moose had bellowed, and the rutting season had/trempiing at Skeene’s fect, shrank at the somber voice from the begun Skeene bent and caressed her, muttering things she could not w Instantly the forest, the lake, the shore, the stream were alive: | stand, but she caught his hand in hers and tore off the fur m the meat-birds cried from every cedar; the deer barked from the and pressed {t to her hot If moaning and sobbing. Come down for the last time, Jim Skeene,” said Hale, Suddenly a rifle shot rang through the frozen forest. The hand fl Lots held tightened against her lips, quivered, relaxed. Something] outside fell clinking and clattering to the ground at the foot of @ tree. It was Skeene’s rifle; and Skeene sank forward, hanging out of the hole in the tree, head downward, like a dead squirrel a lynx howled and miauled ss wedge; n the second growth . Now there is a season for all things. the quaint Book Skee ne sewed porcupine quills | “Each after its kind,” says A semi-circle over the {nstep of 7 es ines of the Pol sory states | And beside him the other wild thing sobbed and whimpered aggregating about 200,0 py 4 | | moaned among the branches while below the swift axes bit into @ power mow. wee Rites fsa ge | tree from which the dead game hung, head downward. engines of 250,000 he more dertve ‘ate ecaer gost aus furnace and coke oven go. Look in the hut for the woman'” bawled Hale. The tree swayed and crackled and fell crashing into the snow. | “Whe D—n »'s that woman?’ shouted Hal | But when at last he found her he changed his mind and let bel | stay with Skeene there tn the snow. y INTHE SCHOOLS ibe, otected agaist fire? Bungalows to Be Sold va tot woes om" for Less Than a Dollar a Day fully school board, | vestigation in a number of ings, 18 of the opinion ther adequate protection | vided. He called attention to the matter at the board meeting Friday, and it was decided that the board con with Fire Marshal Harry ghurst regarding {t ein doubted the utility of a after a careful in build more must be pro- lot of hose found in many of the Untli Septembor 30 buildings. It was suggested that FROM schools be equipped with stand SEATTLE pipes, as are manufacturing places, and additional fire oxtingulshers | and automatic fire alarm systems. ODD ITEMS AGED WOMAN ATHLETE LONDON, Sept. 20.—Mme. Des. champs, 82, mother of Comptess de Salignac Fenelon, plays golf and lawn tenis every fair day, and takes other outdoor exercises And Ail Pointe In the Pactiio Northwoot Less Than | $1.00 Day ig Montreal , New York . Philadelphi Pittsburgh . Bt. Paul, Minn, Sioux City, lowa . Toronto, Ont. Washington Winnipeg Small Payment Down and $26 It includes the interes a Month Buys Them, sneheninale the extras, the as includes the new for everything and it {is all any! ever has to pay It beate rent, beats it by exactly $26! craphs of these homes exhibition in. this cog wind he buns® slves will be shown rnoon from 2 They will be on no business being t on Sunday. We shall be siad Omaha, Council! Alu 2.) 2 Ch y wil harming Homes to Be Open|!ows. These lovely homes Kaneas City and 6t. Joseph 60.00 A Star reader writes to tell us of | — for teacetGen on Sund Per pe sold for « small payment dowt Proportionately reduced fares J |a hen that hatched 14 chickens out F >, ay atever the family banker ¢@& to Many Other Pointe in the fof 13 eggs. Afternoon From 2 to spi and the balance may Fast Return may be made § | 7% 6 o'’Clock, pe the rate of $26 & eo hae at slightly | No decent hen would do a thing which is less than a dollar 8 da Going Limit 18 Days. PPR AE i gg 4 monthly is all ven FIVAL RETURN LIMIT OCTOBER SI, 199 f | AL RETUAA | ret ‘ And besides, just think if the eggs eral stopover privileges an had been put on the k choice of diverse routes offered. | you'd got jan for bronicteee. ate se 8 Two ALL-STEEL TRAINS An egg with one chicken in it Is} Pays for Everything, In- TO THE CAST DALY |bad enough, but an egg with two—| terest, Assessments and ecearel “The Olymplan”’ | Extras. No More are now or | THE FINEST TRAIN and No Less. ACROSS THE CONTINEHT | | xhil and |COP GETS INCREASE “The Columblan” | PHILADELPHIA, — Sept 20, {W hen word reached Russia that Pa Less Than a Dollar a Day Wonder If we couldn't get Mrs Pankhurst here and sic her on the |Seattle Electric company? lows ther - a8 | Sunda 4 Photos on Exhibition at Amer- ican Mortgage & Building Company's Offices at pany’s she ws. Monday acted Muwalnce Tans waver seaves | |trolman = Michael Pugusky was Fourth and Union »]to have you take the West W WILWAUNEE EMPLOTES wealthy, and that policemen here | Street. land car on Sunday and be ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE CONTINENT Jare influential, 12 relatives from eet, them, Get oft at the ont |"hack home” came here to live with LeviGUN car line, the conductors For additional: information re ff | jim, On Sunday afternoon next the| houses, they're the prettiest on a far reservados, ote cll on oF ae American Mortgage & Building| line. Or call tonight or one : eet Company will throw open for in-|and see plans and photogral Sealy OSTA WOMAN Is KILLED |spection ten new modern bunga-| the office of the company. IN AUTO ACCIDENT| SAN JOSE, automobile Gen'l Agent Passonger Dept. J... CRISWELL, City Pass. Agt. CHICAGO MILWAUKEE & ST, PAUL RAILWAY Sept. 20. tragedy {is on Another American Mortgage & | Jcar, WHITE BUILDING UNION STREET e 4 t e : 1 t 1 1 t « : t : ao