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COW HOY MKT TKAG1C FATE. Attempted to I're vent SUuup^lc of Cattle nu?l floes Over Cliff. Jack showed up at Texas ferry on the Snake for the big spring roundup of 1888. His other name was O'Rorick, and lie might have come from the old sod, instead of Walla f Walla, but the chances arc that he had never known any other than the range country. Otherwise l.e would not have had time to learn all he knows of cattle and bronchos or to have so thoroughly forgot ten whatever he miglit have known of fear or caution in softer and saier surroundings. Not yet 21. tall slender and lithe as rawhide, he was the cowpuncher from his hatband to heavy spurs, the wildest rider from theSnaketo the northern border. Rarely was there anything missing from his make-up, especially when .lack had jirrivod in That round-up he joined at the ferry was the last one a vast scale held in eastern Washington. Beef cattle by the tens of thousands roamed the range then from th?. Cascade to the Coeur d'Alenes, hut settlers shacks had begun to dot * the sage and the terrible winter of 1890-91 was coming to thin the herds down to scattered, bony hands. But in 1888 the Inland empire was as live with cowboy romance and action as the John Day Valley, the country around old Tucson or the endless ranches of Te; as. The gathering camp at Texas ferry brought together the best of tlie punchers that were left on the range. They came in from Montana. l^aho and Oregon, bringing tti.l. Onn..? T ".II ?tVi, wavtU MVUJ/C LilUVU tlHU I>lll Ireland, afterward to become famed the country over as the crack broncho "buster" of Buffalo Billsshow. Bill Lewis, champion roper of the west, bossed the outfit. Their fires gleamed around the ferry for a few nights and then they pulled our. into the sage. Ten "chuck" wagons rolled along in the rear with food and bedding. The horse J wranglers had !>00 ponies to bring along. It was cowland at the best, j si-, before cowland became a vivid men. cry. Naturally, in a bunch like that Jack had to maintain liis reputaJiou for reckless riding and in the horse -vork around the big camp be * found all Lb? competition of the kind that could be brought together. They had a bunch of wild horses to break before tliey started. When they got the worst lighter of the lot sorted out Jack got on him with only a halter and ran him over a trail nobody cared to try except on a wise and seasoned cow pony. As . ... n iiuiaiiuig loucn lie jumped the crazed aniiuul ovor a (i-fout hank into leo:-e rock, held him on his feet ?aiul brought him into camp meek and uninjured. From Texas l'crry lite round-up worked down the Snake to old Ainsworth, on tlie Columbia, and turned north. Pasco happened to lie in their way. Unlike the Pasco of today, the town then consisted principally of saloons. In the absence of grand opera and libraries these attracted the cowboys' eurosity. They arrived in town on the jump, creating a noisy and smoky situation with their uplifted sixshooters. Tins preliminarj failed to satisf> Jack and after a sesaonable period at the bar he undertook to amplify it. Drifting gayly into a saloon frequented by railroad men be encouraged a general jig by shooting neatly at the feet displayed about the floor . The bartender, being new to the country, caught Jack from behind and the jig was continued largely on Jack's anatomy, everybody joining in. Eventually they jigged him into the street handily and remarked upon the circumstances happily?for about a minute. Then Jack returned and the cowboy population of the town seemed to be with him. They all wanted to get uequainted with the bartender and his friends ret in d through the back door. The cowboys went into the saloon business on a common benefit basis. When they got ready to start for I'll 11111 tl.. I?n il/t 11??? f.., merly occupied by the saloon re.mained in a fragmentary condition. The bartender never did return. The roundup went 011 up the rivv ?er until it reached Mudhcn Lake, the main beef "gather." The place was known all through cowland for its favorable location on the roundup. it offered plenty of water and a corial roek that would hold thousands of cattle. A corral rock is 0s one of the stone projections that shoot up in the Inland Empire to a height of 100 feet or more. They are flat on top, the sides are perpendicular and a hunch of cattle, gathered 011 the rock with a mat) / to guard the one trail they weiy driven up couldn't get away withoi wings. The big round-up put se 2 ?ral thousand head of been 011 tlj^ rock at Mudhen Lake. Jack h~ the watch front dark until 1* night the first night. He sadi'1 " .a young mule for the work. A n ?t is more surefooted than even a t! range pony aud possesses keener after dark wisdom than uiost humans. They saw jaek standing by a brush tl fire in the trail when the camp h turned in. It was a hard watch for the out- b< fit had ridden hard all day and Jaek couldn't move around far 1" enough away from the trail to keep tl 1 his senses alert. The herd rested t\ easily, however, until nearl> midnight, the hour of the first relief oi when Jack could go la his blankets, n lie had snapped his watch on 11:3" and almost dropped into a nap !>' when a rumble up on the cliff at brought hint up on the jump. On the highest point of the cliff 1,1 above he could see the swaying horns and heads of friglitt in d cat- w tie. It may have been a wolf or the mysterious electric impulse in the air that sends cattle stampeding bit tirll\r . - :? >- : ? ... III 111. II ll.llll. Jack recognized the sjmptoms and the danger to the cattle, but 110th- s< ling else. !v ! To turn the herd back front the 01 rim of the rock would have been a >' ticklish job In daylight. Any move- ' nient behind them would start the I rear forward and the front would v> 'have to go over. It remained for j ? the rider to work along between v the cattle and the edge of the rock 11 Jack ought to have called the whole S1 c;ynp into the saddle. instead of 1 i that he jumped the tuule up -the trail and jammed him along the [edge. n The herd was milling and loss- c ii g by this time and they crowded " tno mule close to the rock. An un- vs accustomed noise would have seut ) tl<1 1)1 ll lo ? ?? ? ?! ? I ! ! ??,. * of living beef t<> become hamburger ;>-t il?e bottom. Jack swing along: 11 j there, but oiiiietihg a wild herd at 11 I li.iunight 15u above level ground, H ' by a tight-rope ride on i mile wis. "the sort of muse men t he most " craved. lie pushed hard for the crag where it could be most readily s turned along tbe cliff and circled v back to safety The line of the cliff curved be-.v II fore it reached t lie poin.t Jack, with his eyes anxiously on the cattle v ahead, didn't see it. The mule did,'1 a:ul stopped to feel his way. If ? prudence had been a part of Jack's i': make-up he would have noted that.!" Instead he pulled up the mule's '' | head and drove in the spur. The ^ 'Isteers yn the point were pawing, ^ f and snorting and there was no itime to lose. The mule bract d himself again in I consciousness of the danger and ; again Jack, unheeding, gave hint ' tlie spur. The animal flinched, lost \ his footing and Jack, in his headlong impatience, pulled up his head v. again and drove him sheer out in- a to the dark. The cowboys found him and his mule crushed together / on the rocks below. His presc-iirc I and voice had turned the herd on a the point and none of them fellow oil him down. $ The cowboys built ;i rude moil- t umcnt of stone whore they picked p up Jack's broken bones. From l that day Mudhen has been known : ii Dead man's Lake?Spokane Spokes- o man-Review. IIOLT HOLE t'Al'SKS DEATH. S, Tinj Hole in Wrong IMace Onuses ^ Aeroplane to Kill Aviator. ,, San Antonio, May 10.?A bolt i hole, an eighth of an inch in *1 i- ,j anieter, bored where it should not M have been in the prong of the "seat fork" in the army's Curtiss aero' plane, caused the death of Lieut j. George E. M. Kelly, Thirtieth Ini fantry, at 7::>o this morning upon t, the aviation field at the manoeuvre S( camp. Such is the verdict of a board of officers of the aero com- j; pany which investigated the aeei- ;| dent. ? j The board finds the accident was ? unavoidable, due probably to struc- J tural weakness of the aeroplane. Lieut. Kelly had made a perfect flight and was landing when the J 'shock of the contract with tlie? n'ound broke the "finger" at the ^ in:splaced bolt hole and twisted the _ machine. One of the supporting p wires caught on the engine and c threw it wide open at a speed of tl 75 milis tin hour. The aeroplane f< shot forward and headed directly for the tents of the Eleventh infantry Lieut. Kelly saw the danger ^ to the occupants of tlye tents and sought to turn the machine. One of B the plains struck an embankment f, and toppled the aeroplane over. l?*Ui Kc-lly was thrown L'O feet n from the wreck and landed <?ii 1>is n head. His neck was broken and his o 1 skull fractured. n Wliat Charley Host. ^ It "Charley James lost something v class of boys one Monday afternoon. f( last night," said the professor to a t< "What was it?" asked one. li "Something valuable," said the * professor gravely. P Charley James was looking up at Jj he professor with jis much curiosty as the other boys. b \ "Up by the church," answered fo |ne professor. Charley moved a lit- p i e uneasily. "What time was it?" asked a boy. "About half past eight," replied p , in professor. Charley dropppd his f ^ cad. "Was it a dollar?" ventured one i & "No." The professor shook his f-_? Led. "It was worth much in > pj tan a dollar yes. than t<'ii ? ^ ^ enty dollars." W * Can't we go hunt it?" suggested M v,, lie of the class who was always |> >ud\ t?i hunt lost things. '.j "No," replii d the professor, "Noi>dy can ever find it hut Charley, j mi it will taki hi in a long time." h The class sat puzzled for a mo- S a r "Do you want to know what it a All the hoys were looking up, I T igt i to know all * xcept Cliarh y K J his head was hung. JB "It was the good opinion of five 3 :>od men." The profeSSor spoke B riouslv. "Duiing church sot- 14 < i<'<'s last night Charley was on tin- jj ntside running aroumi. He thought 2 ' would he fun to pry a window up L J few inches and let it drop with a fl ^ ling. He did it?and of course a as seen. Somebody always finds ' lit those things. And when sericc was closed, 1 heard five or six len?good men. important men., caking about the hoy's conduct, hey wen much surprised they ; d 1 nought well of Charley, and ad believi d lie was going to grow p to be a manly, useful young Mow. Itut now- wi 11, they shook B ioir heads?that kind of conduct Bmkt ?!s a mighty bad stsirt." i?? The professor spoke regretfully ud looked disappointed loo. "Strange how some l>oys do not nderstand what is fun ami vvltal is H ot. Strange the-) forget how vain- di J hie a good name is; how much it H . : 1. to have the good opinion H f a goi.d man and how foolish it ; H j to loose the good opinion by | une little oilij triek that iv not al-lB rays real Inn at all. "Kveij right-thinking person SB ants boys to have fun. They like H n see you have a good time. Hut H whenever a boy, or a man, tries to H mve fun by wronging or disturbing H theis, it makes out a bad case for H iui, and he loses part of the good fl| 'pinion people have of him.*'- ? Wilmill 11. Hainby iu the Youths' ( 'HISl Vorld. i YOMKX AYIATOKS MAKK l>AK-t i\<; FLitiiiTs. ! A 1 run si-red and Helim-iited, Tliey l>rivo Their Aei'opiaues Over Min(- ilii l-'ield. ,. Y. American. )oiapn| ptiu p.u ?sno.ii u.nuo.w ?. v. j d in the regulation f minim- av',- > lion fashion, monopolized the field G i Mineolu yesterday >> making lights in their aeroplanes abso- _ utelj without ;;i>> masiulin- assist .11 cc. .Miss Marion Quinhy, a mysterious oung woman from Nrw York, l'iew he Lovolacc-Moisaut-lMeriot monolane early this morning, nncl Miv. Jessica Ruische made a flight late .. i the Mfternoon in the t'urliss type ' | i biplane she Iniilt herself. I Miss Quinby is young anu pretty. ?( he is staying in Garden City. For veral mornings past she has been Q] radioing by steering her 1110110latie on the ground. Yesterday lorning she lifted it twenty-five ,'et into the air and flew two hunred feet . She expects to he inak- i ig circles within a week. Qf Mrs. Haische is a veteran. 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